Authors Notes
- Oo, yay! I was really looking forward to this! Finally some off world action… well not for Sam and Jack but it is the start of something!
- I am quite glad because I get to bring another decent character in – Jacob, hopefully I have written him in character…hopefully everyone is in character – or as much as they can be given the circumstances
- I can confirm that there will be a sequel! I got a positive response to the question last chapter and even though we are just close to hitting the half way marker on this fic there is a plan for the sequel almost finished with some Daniel/Vala in it, I think I am on a roll with this romantic babble! Lmao
- Thanks for all the offers for Betas btw but I have finally decided to settle with just one (anymore than that and I would probably get confused) Caroline O'Neill…I think I mentioned her before…anyway she is the official beta for this fic. I might accept another to help with the sequel.
-Thankyou to Sokkora Lewis for the most amazing review! I screamed with delight when I saw it! It was huge! It had me smiling all day!
Chapter 9: Off World
'Dad,' Sam greeted her father with a smile and a hug, the others in SG1 followed her closely, the wormhole shutting down when Teal'c was descending from the platform to the sand that stretched across the baron planet
'It's nice to see you again Sam,' Jacob returned the smile, his outstretched hand guiding the human team towards the location of the rings 'It's a shame that it isn't under more pleasant circumstances,' Jacob dismissed a titter from O'Neill, it was widely know to all those around him that he didn't like the Tok'ra and did not warrant any visit to them a pleasant circumstance
'What is it dad?' Sam pressed on; Jack was bound to say something insulting if the group held silence for too long
'Well it appears we have some kind of saboteur lurking in the base, this saboteur has been going around the base unseen, killing Tok'ra and trying to make it look like an accident,' Jacob solemnly shared the details 'As you know our numbers are thinning so when the 6th Tok'ra operative was killed and we could not find the assassin we decided to call in some help,'
'Is it one of those weird Goa'ouldy guys floating around like at the Alpha site?' Jack asked, remembering back to the mission when SG1, Jacob and Bre'tac had been the only thing standing between a full blown shoot out between the Free Jaffa and the Tok'ra
'No, we have already ruled that possibility out, the work is way to sloppy and there is no pattern to the killings or the damage that has been caused to much Tok'ra machinery,' Jacob slashed a line through the first possibility on their enemies list
'Nirrti,' Sam's mind instantly jumped to the renegade Goa'ould 'She has stealth technology and she has pulled the same trick on the SGC…although fortunately there was no bloodshed,'
'That is what we think, we have tried to track her down but so far have had little success, and we thought you could help having had a similar experience,'
The rings transported them to a small facility scattered with Tok'ra who greeted them with warm smiles and verbal welcomes on their ways to other chambers, usually they were oblivious to the presence of SG1 but they had obviously been instructed to be friendly to the people who had saved their asses many times and were just about to again.
'So how many of the council are still around? Doncha just love those guys?' Jack's sarcasm gained a raised eyebrow from both Teal'c and Jacob; Sam had to quickly hide her amusement, Selmak was the one to answer his question this time
'There aren't many of the council left, in battle their lives are priority but many do not wish to be viewed any higher than any fellow Tok'ra and stay to fight alongside old friends. Because of the sudden attack that wiped many of us out the council has been accepting a couple of the more experienced into their ranks, Jacob and I being one of them,'
'Yeah okay, creeping me out, you and Jacob, even though you share the same body aren't one person, please distinguish between,' noticing Sam's shut-up-now expression he added 'Sorry…it's just a snake thing…'
Selmak graciously accepted his poor excuse for an apology
'It is okay, I understand that you have had previous bad experiences O'Neill, I will refrain from naming Jacob and myself as one again,'
'Thanks,' thankfully Jack was cut off from any further insults as they entered the council room, Selmak swept past them taking a seat at the head table and invited SG1 to take seats on a circular one that sat just ahead of the row of councilors.
'Well that was boring…do we get to shoot something now?' Jack sighed exiting the chamber with the rest of SG1
'Sir, I think they want Nirrti alive,' Sam responded, not disagreeing with the tedium of the meeting
'We could just shoot her and say it was an accident,' Jack cast a look over to Daniel who was still engrossed in the details of their mission and seemed oblivious to the conversation that was playing out between his fellow team members
'That is not advisable O'Neill, she could prove to be a great source of information,' Teal'c drew Jack's attention away from the archeologist
'Yeah, you're probably right,' he agreed glumly 'where we headed next?'
'Well there are a couple of us here to show you to your accommodations,' Jacob joined SG1, flanked by three fellow Tok'ra 'Kai'ran shall take Daniel, U'tak can Take Teal'c, Feshray to Jack and Sam gets me of course,'
'I'll give you a trade,' Sam joked, looking at the reluctance of Jack to be sent alone with a Tok'ra he knew nothing about, he was bound to say something discourteous. The group laughed and as the others were escorted in different directions, Jacob led Sam along the right corridor of a forked path. Awkward smiles came nowhere near to speech until they entered guest quarters; the room was almost bare apart from a bed, couch, dresser and pathetic looking plant, it was much like the rooms at the SGC except more crystalline
'Sorry, it's pretty much the best we have got, we haven't been here long enough to work on guest quarters and Jack got the nicest because he is most prone to complaining,' Jacob chuckled, wondering if Selmak was also aware of the nervousness which emanated off of Sam or if he was just being worrying father again. Sam mutely agreed with her father's comment about Jack, settling herself on the couch and casting around. Pausing to let Sam get comfortable Jacob decided to take a shot
'Look…Sam,' he approached his daughter and sat next to her, he wasn't just being over-worried, the conflicting feelings that came from Sam could have labeled her as a beacon 'Is there something up? You just seem a little…uneasy,'
Sam did not think before the statement slipped from her mouth, if she had thought for a second, common sense would have told her that the time they were supposed to be ringing in a renegade system lord wasn't the time to release such a big thing on a man whose concentration needed to be elsewhere
'Dad, I'm pregnant,' There was silence for a long while in which it seemed Jacob was having a silent conversation with himself…or Selmak
'Wow…Sam, this is…this is amazing,' He beamed, a happy grandfather 'How far along are you? How's the baby? …Who's the father?'
Sam was happy for his positive reaction but there was still one more blow to come – the answer to the third question
'I am about 2 months along, give or take. The baby is fine, Janet is keeping an eye out for us… as for the father…Dad you might not like this, maybe you shouldn't know' Sam bit her lip, avoiding looking into her father's eyes
'What? You plan on keeping the father of my grandchild a secret from me?' Jacob was almost incredulous; he knew it couldn't be that bad, he just wanted to know. Sam battled with herself for a minute before deciding – what the hell;
'Jack…Jack's the father,' Sam flinched in advance, prepared for the wave she knew was just about to hit
'WHAT! You… and Jack…you and Jack, you?' Sam could swear by the time Jacob had stopped mumbling he had been through every combination of the words "you and Jack"
'We aren't together…It was just one night…we should have restrained ourselves I know but now, now we have this – this baby…and we want to see it through,' pauses seemed more common than words in Sam's explanation
'But how about the regs? What if you get caught? Sam you could be demoted or even loose your position at the SGC, what did you hope to gain by this?' his temper flashed red
'Dad! I didn't mean for this to happen. I…I love Jack. I tried to stop myself but… we were under some kind of influence…'
'What, you were drunk?' Sam's explanation seemed to turn from making her father understand to digging a very large hole
'No, we had been on a planet, the atmosphere made us addicted to things, Jack got addicted to Jell-O, Teal'c to the television show "The Simpsons" and I…I got addicted to Jack,' she rushed forward with the explanation, trying not to give Jacob too much time to think about what exactly she was saying 'It was a hormone imbalance, Janet put us on medication but the effects of the atmosphere didn't wear off straight away, he came into my quarters and well, it kinda went from there,' she shifted slightly, her father definitely didn't need a lecture on the birds and the bees and she was starting to feel increasingly uncomfortable discussing her "personal life" with the last person she ever thought she would have to explain this kind of thing too, actually he was making her wish she was trying to explain it to General Hammond.
'So you had a hormone imbalance, you became addicted to your CO, you slept with him in the middle of a military complex and now you're pregnant,' Sam cringed, the way he had phrased it, Jacob could have been cracking a joke
'Yes,' she answered reluctantly, wishing there was at least something she could have corrected in that sentence but her father had just recounted the basic scenario.
'Jacob is quite angry at this moment in time,' the deep tones of Selmak continued the conversation 'He asks that you give him time. He does not quite know what to make of this news,' annoyance bubbled inside of Sam and surfaced in an almost adolescent response
'Oh yeah dad, just because you can't deal with the truth and just because you can't boss me around anymore you bring out Selmak to speak for you. Why can't you just understand for once? You were the same when Mom died except you hid behind your work instead of your symbiote. When you actually get a backbone you should be able to find me in Daniel's quarters!' she stormed out of her accommodation leaving her father/Selmak looking extremely pissed, her anger overrode her guilt as she asked a random Tok'ra where she could find Daniel's quarters, it had been a very low blow bringing her mom into the conversation but once again Jacob had twisted the situation onto the negative and once again was only concerned about work and pushing Sam as far up the military ladder as possible.
She was still seething when a zat gun shot struck her from behind. Her muscles spasmed and she fell to the floor, vaguely registering a robed figure before darkness clouded her vision and she lost consciousness.
Okay, you are probably thinking that Sam is very unlucky! I have to agree but you could say the same for SG1 in general looking back on all the messes they have gotten into. Her good Karma should pull her through in the end though… at least for this fic (mwah ha ha ha!) lmao
I was thinking wouldn't it be cool if the cast of Stargate actually read fanfictions? They might and we would never know…Shame they probs don't have time, I think I would like Amanda Tapping to read mine the most, she ROX! (okay back from dream world now, there are much better fics for them to read then this one! I wouldn't recommend it to Christopher Judge anyway because Teal'c really isn't in it much… I could just tell him that if it was an episode he would be directing it! lol!)
Next Chapter: Sam finds out why she got more than she bargained for, Can she trust the word of a Goa'ould though?