NOTE: It took a bit longer than expected to get this out but here it is.

Chapter 11: What?!

A zat blast sailed from Teal'c's hand, right through the woman's chest and into the wall on the other side of the room. Cam took a step backwards drawing his 9mm and pointing it towards the woman.

"Do you really think that's going to work?" she asked raising an eyebrow in almost a challenge but then she gave a small, tired sort of sigh.

Cam's eyes flicked around the room. "What about now?" he turned his gun to the gurney where the woman lay with her eyes closed as if she were sleeping, despite the fact that somehow she was also standing right next to the bed. There was two of her!

The one standing next to the bed bit gently down on her bottom lip. "It wouldn't kill me but I'd really rather you didn't."

The door of the room flew open and several heavily armed marines rushed in.

"Cover the one on the bed." Cam ordered and they surrounded the unconscious figure lying on the gurney, joined by Teal'c.

"Colonel Mitchell?" said General Landry as he walked in.

"Yes sir, forgive me if I don't salute." Cam didn't take his eyes off the woman standing.

"That's fine Mitchell," replied the General, "but I suggest that you," he looked to the woman, "start giving us answers or I will order these men to open fire."

She looked at the general as he spoke but then she spotted who had walked in behind him. "Daniel?" she sighed in relief and took a step towards him only to be stopped at the sound of several weapons being cocked. She immediately raised her hands in a show of peace. "Daniel, tell them to put down the weapons. You know it will do no good." She said slowly.

Daniel's face was as cold as stone.

"Jackson, you know this…thing?!" Cam said catching a vicious glance from the woman.

Daniel didn't seem to hear Cam. "Who are you?" he said in a flat voice.

The woman's face fell. "I guess you don't remember. I should have known but I had hoped…"

"Who are you?" Daniel asked again. He had feared for this woman who had pleaded to him again and again every night. Now that he had seen that she had hurt his friend he couldn't help but notice every single threat that she posed to them.

"Daniel, you knew me once, I guess now you don't. I can see that I've got a lot of explaining to do." Her face looked strained and her voice was dejected and defeated.

"Okay," said Daniel, his face was still perfectly set and still in his cold expression, "what's your name?"

The woman fidgeted uncomfortably under his stare, "My name?" she shut her eyes and let out another tinny sigh. He didn't know her know her at all. How much had she managed to get through? "It's Giya."

Daniel frowned, puzzled, "Gaea?"

"It's Giya. I was named for Gaea."

"Okay." put in Cam, still very angry, "how about now you tell us why there are," he pointed rapidly from one Giya on the bed to the other one next to it, "two are you!"

Giya shifted uncomfortably again, taking a slight step backwards. This is probably the worst at this could have worked out. Oh well, bad first impressions weren't exactly new to her. "It's sort of a long story."

"Give us the short version." Said Cam curtly, "You're not in a position to be holding back on us."

"Okay." Giya said quickly as she glanced to all the guns pointed at her, the other her at least. "To put it way too simply I have two bodies and I transferred my consciousness between them. That body," she pointed to herself on the gurney, "is flesh and bone and blood. At the moment there is no person inside it, running automatically, staying alive until I return."

Giya didn't seem to notice that everyone in the room was looking more and more confused by the minute but she charged on through her explanation. All she wanted to do was get those guns away from her, she hated weapons, no mater how many times she had been forced to use them.

"This body is not like that one. It's not physical, it's," she indicated Daniel, "ascended."

The silence was roaring.

Cam was trying to sort all of this out in his head when he had perfect light bulb moment. "Ah ha ha," he took a step forward wagging his finger at Giya who took up a reflexive defensive stance. "You say that you're ascended. Ascended beings can't interfere with us mere mortals; we sure as heck know that. I'm pretty sure that this," he spread his arms and looked around the room, "counts as interfering."

Giya thought hard, "I have…" she fished for the best word to explain it "… an arrangement."

"An arrangement?" Cam said almost accusingly.

"People please," Landry half bellowed, "before we continue this continue this conversation I want to have this situation diffused into something with fewer weapons pointed at people." He turned to Giya and addressed her directly, "Return to you…solid body," he couldn't quite believe what he was saying, "and we will remove the weapons currently trained on you and place you under guard until we reach a decision as to what will be done with you."

"Okay…" she replied. She wasn't sure of herself at all, "but how do I know I'm not going to be shot the moment that I change. I don't know you so to me your word means nothing at the moment, mostly due to the fact that you don't trust me."

"We don't work that way." said Cam flatly.

Giya shrugged helplessly. "How can I know that for sure?"

It was then that she spotted Daniel staring at her dead pan like the rest of them. "But I do know Daniel. I know you're a good person. I know that I can trust you when you say something."

"Fine," he said quietly.

"Also," Giya didn't want to push her luck too far but she didn't have much to lose, she never did. "I wasn't the restraints taken away. I've told you that they're not necessary."

"Like you said," said Landry, his voice as strong and forceful as ever, "we don't know each other."

"Sir?" it was Daniel again. He turned around so that he was just talking to the general in his hushed voice. "If she's under guard…"

"Fine," Landry said to Giya as he stepped forward. "Now we have an agreement, would you be so kind as to honour your part."

Giya thought nervously, "The guns first."

"All right, you understand that you're our prisoner and if you try anything funny…" Cam was still beyond suspicious.

Giya nodded a bit dejectedly, "Of course."

"Of course." Landry repeated and then nodded at Cam, "Colonel, if you please."

Cam grinded his teeth for a moment before he spoke, "Airmen, dismissed." At this all of the guards lowered their weapons and filed out of the room with many odd looks to one another. This only left Landry, Cam, Teal'c, Daniel and her. If it wasn't for the fact that the body she currently inhabited didn't need to breath she would have let out a held breath.

"Now, Giya," Said Cam, weighing her name with spite, "your turn."

"Okay." She said nervously. She closed her eyes and she seemed to throb with a silent glow for an instant and then she faded into nothing.

"Where'd she go?" said Cam, tightening his grip on his 9mm.

"Don't worry," came a slightly horse voice from the gurney. "I'm haven't gone far. Can I get up now?"

Teal'c silently undid the straps holding her down. As soon as she could she discreetly tucked a pendent on a thin chain under her cloths as she rubbed where the bindings had cut in.

"Thankyou." She said quietly to Teal'c as the last strap around her leg came away.

Teal'c looked at her for a moment in shock and then nodded politely.

"SG-1," said Landry, "we need to talk. I want Vala and Colonel Carter in on this as well.

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