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Chapter 4

SG1 stepped through the gate to the coordinates Dalton had shown them. They found themselves in the centre of a large building with a lot of people staring at them.

"Hi folks, I'm Colonel Jack O'Neill, this is Major Carter and Teal'c"

"Greetings" a middle aged man said as he approached them "You come through the great circle, what is it that you want here?"

"A friend of ours is sick and we think that the chemical which is causing her illness comes from here" Sam said.

"Why would you think that?"

Sam looked at Jack as if to ask how much she should tell him.

"Because the person who exposed her to the chemical came from this planet" Jack said.

"Of whom do you speak?"

"A woman named Emani" Jack said after a moments hesitation.

"You know of Emani?"

"Yeah we do"

"Are you SG1?"

Jack and Sam exchanged a look "Yeah we are"

"Then I think you should come with me"

"Get away from me!" Janet screamed as she once again jumped from the bed and ran to crouch in the corner.

"Janet you're hallucinating" Dr Warner tried to explain but he already knew it wouldn't help.

"Janet, it's not real" Daniel said as he once again approached her slowly.

"Please, stay away from me, please" Janet begged the air.

"Janet listen to me" Janet looked at him, her eyes filled with terror "That's it focus on me, what you're seeing isn't real, its an hallucination"

Janet closed her eyes and relaxed against the wall, Daniel moved to sit beside her again and pulled her into his arms.

"Make it stop Daniel, please make it stop"

Jack, Sam and Teal'c had been brought before what they had been told was the city council.

"You are SG1"

"Yes we are"

"Then you are the ones responsible for the deaths of Professor Tempson and Emani"

"We were defending ourselves"

"Your reasons matter not, you are responsible for their deaths"

"They tried to kill us"

"Save your excuses for the trial"

The five men stood up and left the room without another word and Jack looked at the rest of his team.

"A trial, we don't have time for this" Jack said and six men who looked to be guards walked into the room.

"I don't think we have a choice"

"You will come with us" one of the men said.

Four of the men grabbed Teal'c and Jack and a fifth man grabbed hold of Sam as the three of them were dragged through the building into a large room. There were rows of seating and a glass cage in font of them. At the far end of the room there was a long table elevated above everything else.

"Guess this is the court room" Jack said as they were all pushed into the glass cage.

"Your trial will begin soon"

Daniel stood just outside Janet's isolation room talking to Dr Warner and General Hammond.

"According to my tests the chemical is affecting more than just her brain, it has begun to attack her other major organs"

"So what's going to happen to her?" Daniel asked fearfully.

"Over the next few hour her body will become weaker and weaker and eventually her major organs will start shutting down, including her heart"

Daniel closed his eyes for a brief moment as he tried to reign in his emotions.

"SG1 made contact twenty minutes ago, they said they were able to get the coordinates of Emani's and Professor Tempsons home world from Dalton, they went through to see if they could find anything"

"Colonel Jack O'Neill, Major Samantha Carter, Teal'c, you stand accused of the murder of Professor Tempson and Emani. You have admitted your part in their deaths, we now offer you the chance to defend your actions"

"Professor Tempson was conducting medical experiments on the population of a planet that we visited through the stargate" Sam explained "Through the course of these experiments he created a virus which was wiping out the population which we were exposed to"

"We were unaware of the Professors actions until after his death, whilst we do not condone his methods his intentions were good. He should not have been killed for it"

"Major Carter and another member of team Daniel Jackson were infected with the virus and would have died if our doctor, Janet Frasier hadn't found a cure" Jack said

"Professor Tempson became enraged when he realised he could no longer continue his experiments on the virus. He attempted to murder Major Carter and make it look as though the treatment had done so" Teal'c added.

"We followed him into the woods to capture him and he fired at us. He shot Teal'c and was about to shoot Dr Frasier, I got behind him and told him to drop his weapon, he didn't list. He tried to shoot Janet so I shot him before he could kill her"

"And that is your account of Professor Tempsons death?"

"Yes"

"And what of Emani?"

"She set up a trap for myself and my team in which Major Carter and Dr Frasier were transported to some underground tunnels full of death traps and vicious creatures"

"Dr Frasier and I were nearly killed several times and we came within a few seconds of drowning before the rest of our team were able to get to us"

"We went home and Emani was captured by one of the teams we left behind to clear out the tunnels and make sure no one else ever got trapped down there. She was brought through to earth where she admitted to us what she had done. She escaped the room we were holding her in and took Dr Frasier hostage. We managed to get her away from Emani but Emani started firing the weapon she had stolen. Our people were forced to return fire and she was killed"

"And that is your account of Emani's death"

"It is"

"Then the defence is concluded, we now bring in prosecution, Valeran"

A man in the crowd stood up and approached the front of the room staring with a cold, hate full expression at SG1 who were still stuck in their glass prison.

"My name is Valeran, I am Tempson's and Emani's father"

TBC

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