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Chapter 9

"Not a chance" Jack said as he listened to Hannah's plan.

"There's no other way, the portal between the realities is being kept open by the device, if the device is already in this reality the portal can't exist and it'll shut down" Hannah explained.

"How do you know this?" Sam asked curiously.

"I'm a scientist; you have to let me go"

"Then we'll go with you" Jack stated.

"You can't the portal is only big enough to let one person through, all I have to do is grab the device and come back through"

"How do you know you'll be able to bring the device through the portal?" Sam asked.

"I don't but I have to try"

Everyone fell quiet; they knew she was right and that this was going to be a risky mission. From what Danielle had told them there reality was swarming with Goa'uld and she'd be lucky if she didn't get captured the second she stepped through the portal.

"You have permission to try" Hammond stated.

"Thank you" Hannah said as she looked at the radiation reading "In about one minute the portal should become visible and about thirty seconds later it should be big enough for me to step through it"

They all nodded their heads in acknowledgement and waited for a minute until there was a small white light in the corridor. Hannah watched the light intently waiting for the moment she would be able to step through it.

"Give me your gun" Hannah told Jack and he reluctantly handed it over.

"I hope you know how to use that"

"Of course I do, I grew up in war zone"

"Try not to need it"

"Just in case, take care of Danny" Hannah said as the white light continued to increase in size.

"Hannah!" Danny's voice shouted from down the corridor.

Hannah turned to look at her sister briefly before she stepped into the portal and was gone. Danny came running down the corridor towards the portal but Jack grabbed her around the waist to stop her.

"Let me go!" Danny shouted as she tried to struggle free.

"She knows what she's doing Danny, this was her choice and she told us not to let you get involved" Jack explained and Danny stopped struggling and watched the portal.

- - -

Hannah appeared in the lab she and Danny had left only hours ago, there were blast marks all over the room from the Jaffa who had been trying to shoot them as they'd left. The device was still sitting on the table in front of her and she moved toward it.

As she picked it up a Jaffa walked into the room and Hannah recognised him immediately as the one who had shot her parents. He had his staff weapon pointed at her and she knew she couldn't make it back across the room to the portal. The table was between them blocking the Jaffa's view of the gun in her hand; before he had a chance to react Hannah lifted the gun and fired it three times at the Jaffa who collapsed to the ground dead.

She had no time to take any kind of satisfaction form his death she knew the gunshots would have alerted any nearby Jaffa. She quickly grabbed the device from the table and ran toward the portal, she heard the Jaffe enter the room and yell at her to stop but she kept on running and practically dived into the portal. A second before she hit the portal she felt a sharp, burning pain in her back.

- - -

Hannah came flying out of the portal and hit the ground with a thud. The device and Jack's weapon hit the ground as well and the portal closed. It took only a moment for them all to realise that she had been hit. Smoke was coming from what looked like a serious staff blast.

Daniel knelt down next to Hannah as Jack continued to hold Danny back, Daniel tentatively turned the girl over and they all knew the truth before Daniel said it.

"She's dead"

Janet came rushing over but Jack had a sinking feeling there was nothing she could do to save her. Hannah was dead.

TBC