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Chapter 13: Home!
Last time: "Marin," Sam said, forcing herself to sit up and biting back the bile that rose to her throat. "Is something wrong?"
The elder man shook his head violently. "No," he panted. "But…I found…your stargate."
Sam felt the blood drain from her face. "Teal'c!" she cried, raising her voice to call her friend from his room and kel-no-ream session. "Daniel!" Her other friend was absorbed in his books, only to be bothered if it was an emergency. "Jack!" her husband was just…sleeping in, as usual.
After a few moments, the three men each appeared in their own fashion, each equally worried that something had happened. When they saw the man kneeling infront of their friend and, in O'Neill's case, wife, their fear increased. Jack was instantly next to his wife, glaring down at the man in front of them. "What's wrong?" he asked softly.
Sam's voice was shaky as she said the next words, "He," she gestured to Marin. "Found the Stargate."
The reactions of her friends were different. Daniel's eyes widened considerably, and he worked his jaw a few times before looking to his friends to confirm that he was hearing the correct things; Teal'c raised both his eyebrows, and other than that, still showed no emotion, and Jack leapt off the couch and headed for the door. "Show me," he said.
After a few hours of walking under the comfortable sun, SG-1 found themselves at a remote digsite. As Sam looked behind her, she could see no traces of the village, or any signs of life. She looked back to the stargate in awe. It was being chipped out of the rock a few hundred feet away, the men who were digging being locals from the village, eager to help their lost friends. Off to the right, positioned neatly under a rock overhang, was the DHD.
A tear escaped out of her lips as she pulled herself into Colonel O'Neill. He wrapped his arms around her for a moment, until she wiggled out to grab Daniel's hand, and then Teal's, making sure she had all of her friends around her as she said, "We're going home."
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It was a week after the gate had been found when SG-1 was led back to it, a few posessions in hand. Sam tucked the only possession she had wanted to keep inside her shirt pocket…it was the box O'Neill had made for her as their wedding posession. The others brought scant things too, as they had been instructed.
When they reached the gate, Sam lovingly caressed the DHD with her hand, as though it was the most precious thing in the world. Gently, she pressed down the symbols to open the gate to Earth, holding her breath as she pressed the red bulb in the center. When the wormhole formed, she breathed a sigh of relief and looked back to see her team members grinning like youngsters.
She walked back to her companions, watching Jack dial the IDC code, (the traders had never taken the GDO away, seeing it as no threat, and the precious item had remained tucked under a floorbed beneath her and Jack's bed.) and turned to face Marin. "Thank you for your hospitality," she said.
The elder man nodded. "Think nothing of it," he replied. He held out a small leaf to her. "Place this on your tongue for me," he said. "As a last gift from our world."
Sam plucked the leaf from him warily, but placed it on her tongue. She was surprised to taste the bitter sweetness of it. She nodded at him in her thanks and turned back to her friends, only to see them sucking on a leaf too.
The four of them walked up to the gate together. Before they walked through the wormhole, Jack slipped his hands out of Carters, and whispered in her ear, "I'll get your six."
Sam nodded, he was going to take a last look at the home that had been theirs for seven months, and instead slipped her hands into that of her two friends. With only a slight hesitation they stepped through the gate and…
Sam's eyes flew open and she sucked in the air around her with gumption; acting as though she had never tasted the oxygen before. O'Neill's head came up with the sound, and he shoved the chair away from the bed as he stood up and leaned over her.
"Carter?" he whispered, looking into her sparkling blue eyes.
Sam reached up and laid her hand gently on O'Neill's cheek for a moment. "I know what happened while we were missing," she whispered.
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yey. Anyway, heres the deal guys. Right now I'm not feeling so great. I think it's cause I just woke up and that it probably will change later today. Three options might happen.
1.) I might not update twice, if I dont feel great.
2.) I will update twice, but I wont get around to review responding.
3.) I will feel better and you will forget I ever suggested these things.
let me know what you think about the chapter. She finally woke up! Yey!
