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Chapter Seven,

The door swung open and Mitchell exchanged a look with Donna.

"That's odd…" Sam wondered if it was a trap but didn't voice her thoughts.

"We had better leave now if we want a chance to leave." Mitchell said, leading the way. They made their way into the main room and were assaulted by the scene of a bloody Vala being held up by a worried Daniel. An angered Adria was taking step after step closer to the master who was shoved against the wall by her brain powers.

Too soon though, Adria's mind was being filled with memories. She glared at SG-1 "I know all of you, and I don't know why I'm helping you, but leave before I change my mind."

SG-1 was ready to go, Daniel was ready to get Vala to the SGC's infirmary, and Mitchell, Sam, and Teal'c were all ready to go. Even Donna was. But The Doctor refused to leave. "Go, Donna, you go with the team. I'll be right behind you."

"Doctor, don't be ridiculous! I'm not leaving you alone here with them!" Donna argued.

"Go with them Donna!" The Doctor commanded, usually Donna wouldn't listen to these commands. But something in his voice made her follow SG-1 back to the gate.

The gate had not been working because of the master. But now that he had no power over it because he was preoccupied with Adria, the gate was working again.

~*~*~*~

Later, they were sitting in the briefing room.

"Why did your friend stay behind?" The General asked Donna.

"Sir...He...The Doctor isn't...He isn't human. He's part of a race called the Time Lords. They were all killed. All of them except for the Master and the Doctor. I think that even though the Master is evil, the Doctor can't leave him there. Not the only other one of his race that is still alive."

"But that pair doesn't seem like a good idea. Too many bad things could happen. They are both power thirsty. They would probably kill each other. But we still don't know why Adria is even here. I thought she was ascended." Mitchell said.

"Daniel was, once, too." Sam pointed out.

Donna really didn't have any idea what any of this meant.

"So what, the ancients kicked her out of ascension?" Mitchell questioned.

"We can't be sure. If they thought she wasn't… good enough they could very well have kicked her our." Sam responded looking from Cam to the General.

Daniel shifted uncomfortably in his seat, but it had nothing to do with the current conversation. He'd been dragged from Vala's side --not literally-- to come to this briefing, and he was eager to make sure she was all right. It had been horrible to watch his friend suffer. He still felt sick just thinking about it.

"Should we go after them? I would imagine it's pretty dangerous there. We just about didn't make it out, and well, Vala…" Sam trailed off. They all knew good and well that Vala wasn't doing too well. She couldn't really walk and he body was covered in bruises and cuts. Her arm was broken and Sam was sure she had many sprains.

The General thought for a moment. "Give him 48 hours, if he's not back, we'll go after him. Dismissed." He said, getting out of his seat.

"You couldn't think of leaving my friend for two days!" Donna exclaimed, getting to her feet.

"I'm afraid we don't have many other options."

Everyone was already getting out of their seats and Daniel was already leaving the room to go check on Vala.

Donna stood there unhappily. But she knew they didn't have any other options.

~*~*~*~

Vala lay in the infirmary letting the nurses bandage her up. She was almost asleep. When Vala had been rushed into the infirmary, Doctor Lam had given her morphine for the pain. Which was why she was now almost asleep.

Daniel stood in the doorway of the infirmary, but he didn't say anything, he didn't want to wake her up. So he didn't come to sit by her. He just stood there.

But she sensed him there and opened her eyes, as best she could, fighting the sleep that wanted to overtake her.

"How is she?" He asked Doctor Lam.

"We're not sure yet, her injuries are pretty extensive. But it shouldn't be anything too dangerous, though. She might be a bit...scarred." Doctor Lam said, softly so she wouldn't wake Vala.

"Just a bit?" He questioned.

"She won't be on active duty anytime soon, Doctor Jackson."

~*~*~*~

"He took it pretty hard, didn't he?" Donna asked Mitchell.

"Yeah, Jackson might be a mess for a while."

"Who wouldn't be? They were having a much needed conversation and then the Master comes in and does that to her." Donna said. The two stood at the infirmary door.

"She won't be happy about being off active duty either. You'll want to be far away when she is well enough to complain." Mitchell said.

"I bet. She'll realize that she wants the time off though." Donna said. She had been trying to distract herself from thinking about the Doctor. If he was okay, he would have been right behind them. He could travel time. On the other hand, she tried to remind herself that his driving wasn't always the best.

"You're friend will be alright. Look," Mitchell looked at his watch. "Only forty---Okay so a while. But he'll be fine."

"Thanks." She said, appreciatively. Then her voice turned sad, "I shouldn't have left him there. What was I thinking?"

"He seems the kind of person who can take care of himself." Mitchell said, hoping to make her feel better.

"Maybe. Maybe not." She said, sadly. "If he dies..."

"He's not going to." Mitchell said, before she could finish.

"Yeah, I s'pose your right." She said. They were watching Daniel sit next to Vala, her hand in his, while she slept. He had yet to leave. He was hoping she would wake up. "But if I end up doing what he's doing except to the Doctor, I'm not going to be happy."

~*~*~*~

"I'm not leaving." The Doctor declared.

Adria shook her head, then flung out another arm and held The Doctor against the same wall she was holding the Master. "You did not have to become involved in this." She said, shaking her head.

"Let him go! It doesn't do anything for your mother to kill him now!" The Doctor told her.

"Like this is even about my mother anymore! He suppressed my memories!"

"So he did. Everyone deserves a little mercy. That's something he never learned." The Doctor replied sadly.

"If you think I'm going to give him mercy, then you are horribly wrong." Adria said, glaring at the both of them.

"That's really too bad." The Doctor said, "What's also too bad, is that you managed to pin me against the wall after I managed to retrieve this." He managed to pull his hand out with the sonic screwdriver. He pointed it at the wall behind Adria where there was a large control system and it exploded.

Adria's fury grew and she yelled, "What have you done?" While trying to inspect the control systems se let go of The Doctor and The Master.

"And you're coming with me." The Doctor grabbed the Master, and they ran to the Tardis. Of course once there, the Master didn't want to listen to The Doctor. Which just caused more problems.

The Doctor was flipping switches but the Master was trying to take over controlling the Tardis. The Doctor smacked at his hands whenever he tried to touch something. Finally he grabbed him by the arm and handcuffed him to the wall of the Tardis. Because, of course, he just had them in his pocket. "STOP IT!" He said, annoyed and in a hurry to get away from Adria. Finally they were flying away from her, leaving her stranded on the planet, though she still had access to the Stargate.

~*~*~*~

Vala awoke to a shooting pain in her leg. She shifted her position to relieve the pain and noticed that Daniel was asleep in the uncomfortable infirmary chair next to her, with his hand holding hers. The infirmary was dark except for a few lights and Vala assumed that it must be sometime in the late night or early morning.

Daniel woke up, startled and sore from falling asleep in a chair, when he heard her stirring. "Oh...Hey..." He took his hand from hers and rubbed his eyes. He hadn't meant to fall asleep there, but he'd been exhausted. "How do you feel?"

"I can't say I feel the best that I ever have in my life. I think the morphine is wearing off and… I'm hungry…" She muttered rolling slightly onto her side and cringing at the pain.

"I'll go get you something," He offered, getting to his feet. He was sore all over. The metal chair he had fallen asleep in was not the most comfortable chair in the world.

"Thanks." She said, with a grateful half-smile. About two minutes after he left, Dr. Lam approached her.

"How do you feel?" Doctor Lam asked her.

"Eh…" She trailed off. "Could feel better. Just told Daniel the same thing. HE went to get me some food. I'm famished." She said.

"Well, I've been waiting for you to wake up. I hate to tell you this, but you're not doing too great. You've got a broken arm, two cracked ribs, a cracked tibia, lots of bruises and sprains and you have a six inch slice down your arm." Dr. Lam informed her, holding a clipboard in front of her.

"Ouch." Vala said.

"Vala…" She said slowly. "You're still under heavy morphine. I can't administer anymore for another two hours."

Vala groaned. She couldn't wait two hours for more pain medication. However, just as she was about to respond there was a 'whooshing' noise and the Tardis appeared in the infirmary. There was loud shouting coming from who Vala assumed to be the Master. She shrunk back under the sheets of the infirmary bed because she didn't want to be noticed by him. She had a few words she wanted to tell him…

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