Author Notes: The first part of this chapter involving Vala is done while she's unconscious so it's all in her head. Hence only the memory is in italics. Hopefully letting you know ahead of time will make the formating a little less confusing.

Thanks again to my beta:)

Chapter Four:

Vala found herself once again hiding in the dead alkesh. She sighed as she felt herself relive yet another memory, although this one was a good one if you thought about it. She just didn't know why she was reliving this one. Up to now she had only relived her time as Qetesh.

She saw the members of the alien military team walk out of the ring platform, surveying the room trying to find whoever had send the distress signal. She smiled as they moved far enough away that she was able to get the rings to activate without them noticing till it was too late.

Once onboard the larger ship, she began to zat the first defense teams and round up the rest of the crew. She was surprised by the low level of technology they had, and wondered if she had gotten a good ship. However it was the size that she needed and they hadn't specified that they needed one technologically advanced so they would get what they got. Or at least think they would.

She sent the reminding crew to the alkesh and proceeded to go to the bridge, trying to find the navigation controls. She paused as she heard steps faintly in the hall. They would not have been heard except that she had been listening just in case and one side effect of being a host was that all your senses got kicked up a notch.

She felt his bolt hit her and she turned around and zated him without really looking, annoyed that he had been faster then her. Walking over she took the strange looking weapon off him and slid it far enough away he could not get it if he suddenly came to. There was no way of telling what a person's resistance level to zat blasts were and she had been surprised by a few who had high tolerances.

He was attractive looking, and for a second she felt bad she had to zat him, but the moment was fleeting. Besides, she had no time for that right now anyway. She dragged him over to the chair she had the easiest access to and managed to find a few things to tie him to it. Strange ties, but useful.

"This is interesting."

Vala frowned. What was this? There was another voice in her head. One that sounded familiar, but she couldn't get the name into her mind.

She turned around and began to mess with the controls, listening intently to hear him waking up. This technology was indeed primitive and she soon had all the minor systems at her command. She could not however figure out how to get into the communications or the hyperdrive because it had been coded for special command codes to be entered in first.

She paused as she heard the sounds of him waking up, deciding not to turn around at look at him, and letting him believe she was unaware of his being a wake.

"Hey, how's it going?" She didn't respond. It was sometimes better to let an enemy talk away. "Guess it's just you and me, huh? It's a little strange, isn't it? See, that weapon I shot you with should have killed you. What's even stranger is you guys usually don't take prisoners, either. I mean, it's, uh, kinda kill first and ..." he paused in his sentence slightly before continuing. "No, that's generally just about it – just the killing. I'm just gonna talk to myself here for a while, 'cos you're not gonna talk to me and ... Not that you guys are very talkative, but, uh ..." She rolled her eyes and turned towards him which broke of his annoying little ramble.

"You could prove useful."

"OK, now we're gettin' somewhere. Where's everybody else?" She paused not quite understanding why he was concerned. He had obviously seen her before and knew she had only zatted his crewmates. If he hadn't seen her he wouldn't have been able to figure out to use the strange weapon.

"You know, he's not all that attractive. You should have kept the bald man."

"Shut up. You don't know what you're taking about. Get out of my head."

"Oh, please. After all those years together you think I don't know what I am talking about when it comes to attractive males?"

Vala nearly screamed at that point. Qetesh. That bitch was back. But the Tok'ra had removed her. Selmak had promised her it was gone!

"Ah, but Selmak wasn't the one who did the actual removal, it was Lirtia. And he just made me sleep."

"Why are you back? Why now? Why are you doing this to me?"

"I want to understand," the symbiote said with a sad tone to its voice. "I want to know what has happened while I was….away. As for the timing, I did not do this myself. I wish no harm on anyone."

Vala growled. Yeah right.

"I transported them onto the al'kesh."

"Well, you kept the wrong guy, 'cos I don't know anything about the ship." She doubted that. Despite the lack of technology and the quickness in which the members of the crew had been taken down, they seemed to be quite efficient. She didn't think they would have someone on board who didn't know anything about the ship. She walked towards him, smiling despite the fact he couldn't see her face. It was time to use another tatic.


"But you are very attractive." She laughed at the look on his face. Half pure horror at attracting the being he thought she was. But it was a true statement. He was quite attractive.

"Arg! I disagree with you there. Although I suppose he is adequate."

"Shut up."

"What?!" She walked closer, trying to intimidate him more. It appeared to work. "Hey, big guy, I'm-I'm flattered, really I am, it's just that, uh, you're not my type. And I'm more than a little disturbed that I might be yours." She nearly burst out laughing then and decided to have some mercy on the man. She leaned down and unattached the helmet. "Woah, no, don't! You don't have to do that! Don't! Don't! Oh!" She took it off, ignoring his pleas not to. She smiled at his expression when he finally opened his eyes and looked at her. He didn't seem too disappointed.

"Don't worry. I'm not gonna hurt you."

"Thank God," he replied, still slightly shocked that she wasn't a kull warrior. She was going to have much fun with him.

"Much ... I hope."

Jack found Daniel sitting in the briefing room, staring out at the gate. It had been a rough night for all of them, especially Daniel and everyone had been concerned when he had suddenly disappeared from the infirmary entrance. He had Sam and Teal'c continue to watch over Vala while Cameron went in search of their allies the Tok'ra to get an answer from them. He made himself in charge of finding Daniel.

Hearing your girlfriend was still processing a symbiote and that she was pregnant at the same time was not a pleasant experience he could guess. And for Daniel this was the second time he would have to go through something like this. Granted, it was pretty much assured that the child was at least his this time but it didn't matter all that much. He pulled a chair away from the table and sat down next to Daniel, not talking. Like he expected, after about five minutes of silence Daniel started to talk.

"She didn't tell me. She knew and didn't tell me."

"About Qetesh? I'm pretty sure she didn't know about that." Carolyn had done a tox-screen on Vala and had found a strange hormone that seemed to be fading away with the hormones released during pregnancy. The theory was that Qetesh had been put to sleep some how and had a low enough brain wave that it wasn't detected by any of the previous scans. Cameron was supposed to find out if that was possible and also bring someone to help them remove Qetesh.

"No, no. I don't think she did either. She never told me about the baby. She had to have known this morning. She told me it was a migraine that had been making her sick. A migraine caused by the dreams she's been having." Jack could hear the worry peak through the anger that was clearly there. "Why wouldn't she tell me about something like that?"

"Daniel, I have never expressed knowledge into the depth of a woman's mind and even less so for an alien one. I leave that up to you. But you two did have that fight the other day, perhaps she was just waiting till things cooled down a bit and you had put the fight behind you."

Daniel nodded slowly as if trying to convince himself of that being a plausible reason. Jack remained silent as his friends gathered his thoughts.

"Did Carolyn have anything to say after I left?"

"Nothing really. Just that Vala seemed to have calmed down a bit and was sleeping. They are monitoring her and the baby and so far except for a few mental episodes there appears to be nothing different then before."

"Did you hear what that dolt wants to do?" Jack grimaced. He didn't need to know what dolt Daniel was referring to, it was all too obvious. The latest NID representative had been at the SGC when Vala had been brought in. He was more inapt then any other rep they had been sent and almost made Jack wish for Maybourne again. The Rep had raised questions about Vala's loyalty to Earth and had labeled her a security risk and was trying to get her sent to NID headquarters. No one at the SGC had actually been concerned about it, feeling that if Vala had been Qetesh all this time then she would have had ample time to betray them but she hadn't. Apparently the President and Joint Chiefs (for the most part) believed the same and had decided to keep her in isolation at the base till the symbiote was removed. And they were to get as much information out of the symbiote as they could. That was to compromise with the NID. Bastards.

"Landry has found a way out of that situation," he commented. "So, your about to become a Dad," He continued, trying to turn to more happy and hopeful topics of conversation.

"Yeah," Daniel said with a half hearted laugh. "Apparently, I am." Jack nodded. Well that wasn't going to work because that particular side of Daniel was still pissed he had to find out with the rest of them that Vala was almost four months pregnant.

Which meant she had probably had a good idea she was pregnant two months ago given how early she had managed to figure out her pregnancy with Adria. Or maybe it was just the mystical factor of the first pregnancy. After all, this baby wasn't created by another alien race. Hopefully.

"Vala didn't want any more children," Daniel continued. "I think she was afraid it would turn out to be another Adria."

"Well, I suppose that's a reasonable fear." Daniel absently nodded.

"I'm going to go down and see her," he said finally. Jack nodded.

"I'll come with you. We can relieve Teal'c and Sam."

"How's Sam doing?" Daniel asked at the mention of his friend. "This must be stressful for her."

"She's doing ok, although I think Vala's scream is still getting to her. The girl has some lungs." He paused. "Sam thinks we should have noticed sooner that something was up. Especially since Vala's dreams were so frequent and tied into her memories." The two men discussed the signs that had been there as the made their way down to the infirmary.

Author Notes pt 2: Well, this is chapter four. Chapter 5 will have more Adria, Cameron and the Tok'ra and Daniel and Vala finally talking about things. I personally don't really like this chapter, think it's kinda weak as far as the story goes but it's getting things set up.

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