NOTE: Exciting, there's a new character in this chapter. Also a flashback.

Chapter 15 – Scan

Giya was sitting on the gurney in the middle of the isolation room, hugging her knees against her chest. As SG-1 and General Landry filed into the observation room they took a moment to actually take in her appearance.

Her hair was now a bit of a mess but she had made an effort to brush her fingers through it and tucking it behind her ears and off her face. She had a roundish face sith a straight nose and just a hint of check bones. Her skin was clear and fare, looking like it had never seen a tough day in her life.

At the moment her bark brows where pulled in tight over her green-grey eyes as she gently bit her lip. I looked a bit like she was thinking hard.

She looked young but could have pulled off any age between eighteen and thirty. She didn't look particularly athletic but she was clearly deceptively strong judging by Vala's arm and neck. Her almost delicate looking form had broad shoulders and was capable of holding a commanding presence.

Her clothing looked particularly off in this environment. There were quite simple trousers that weren't too baggy as to in the way of anything. Her was dark brown and reached just below her elbows where the sleaves opened up reviling a tight undershirt of a lighter colour that went all the way to her knuckles. Over those she wore a sleeveless coat that went fell to the backs of her knees and was fastened just bellow her sternum by a broad metal clasp.

Over all it looked quite simple but there were hints of regalness about it. Small amounts of intricate embroidery around the cuffs and hems. Delicate inlays adorned metal clasps and buckles.

"Who are you sending in there?" asked Sam.

"One Doctor Pental," said Landry, "she's new and I'm told that she's good at striking up chat with her patients."

*****

What had happened? For goodness sake why couldn't she remember?

Giya racked her brains trying to think. She had found Jas'ak in the sanctuary right after the Jaffa had come through the gate. That was right. They had heard something the Jaffa at the door. But what had happened then?

Was Jas'ak alright? Was he even alive? No, he had to be. She wouldn't even going think that he was… He couldn't have been taken from her as well. But if she had been in the sarcophagus for too long he may have died anyway. She let out a little sigh. She would have thought she'd be used to it at this stage.

The door opened and in came one of those blasted men with weapons and a woman in a white coat who was wheeling a machine of sorts on a metal trolley. Giya quickly swung her legs over the side of the bed, sitting up straight and proud.

"Hello there." said the woman cheerily. "Don't mind him," she nodded towards the man with the gun, "he's just here to make sure you don't try to kill me. So if you don't you'll be fine. My name's Dr Pental." She smiled broadly. Dr Pental was young with a shock of black hair cut short and messy and large brown eyes with a constant sparkle in them.

"Doctor…" said Giya slowly. She thought that it was an odd name.

"Oh," said Pental quickly. "It's a title. It means that I'm a healer."

Giya started at her for a bit. "I was missing blood." She said quietly.

"How on Earth did you know that?" Pental didn't sound surprised or shocked, more delighted at learning something new. "We took it for testing."

"You take blood to test?" She didn't know quite what to think of this woman but she just nodded. "Seems off." Giya mumbled half to herself.

"Okay now," said Pental, almost bouncing as she clapped her hands together, "time to get to business. I've been told to take an ultrasound of your neck to look for a goa'uld symbiode." She indicated the machine. "This is an ultrasound; it's something that we use to get an image of what we can't see inside someone." Pental was still smiling at Giya as if she were talking to a small child. If only she'd know how much older than her Giya was, and how much more she'd gone through.

"What do I have to do"? asked Giya still a bit disturbed by this chatty woman.

"Just sit there. Don't worry, it doesn't hurt at all." Pental walked up beside Giya and put her hands on the back of the alien's neck as if she were any other patient and not one that had already landed one person in the infirmary and was now under armed guard.

She gently pulled back the collar of Giya's coat and shirts to reveal the nobly bones of her neck. She saw the fine chain of a necklace running across Giya's pale skin and she gently pulled that away as well. Doing this pulled the pendant out from under Giya's shirt. "Oh, now what a pretty little thing."

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The chubby little hands of a child reached up to grasp the pendant that her father dangled playfully above her head.

"Do you know what this is my little Giya?" he asked with his voice full of love.

The child's laughter rang out like a bell as she tried to catch the dancing pendant, her mind far away from her father's words.

"This is no normal little trinket." He said, letting his daughter take hold of it. "You know that we're not like the others. They all strive through the universe, exploring. We have a home where we truly belong and that," he pointed at the pendent, "is our way home."

The child deftly turned it over in her fingers. It was made of a strange reddish metal that was twisted into an intricate design of tangled twigs. Half a dozen or so blossoms were nestled in it, each inlayed with a tiny red jewel.

"One day I'll take you there." He ran his fingers through Giya's dark hair. "You'd like it I think. I went there once, just once, long ago. Maybe one day we can go there for good. It's a wonderful place. Our's are a good people, they are kind. The capital is beautiful, there's no crime, no poverty, no war… One day…I'll take our little family away from here."

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Giya quickly tucked the pendant back under her shirt. "It's just a trinket, silly thing…" her voice trailed off.

"Okay," said Pental who'd already moved on, "this is going to be a bit cold." She grabbed the gel off the trolley and spread some on the back of Giya's neck.

Giya was puzzled. "Aren't you scared of me?"

Pental shook her head calmly as she set up the ultrasound. "No, I've got my friend here with the gun in case you go at me but I don't think you will. You seem nice enough. I tell you what; I would have given anything to have had an armed airman when I was doing night shifts at the clinic, now that's scary." She pressed the ultrasound against Giya's neck and started adjusting the machine in ways that Giya didn't understand.

"Most people seem to be scared of me."

"Well that's what flashy eyes and a weird voice will do sometimes." said Pentel nonchalantly.

Was this woman insane? Sometimes Giya couldn't understand humans. "You know what happened?"

"Yeah," she said, "Vala told me. She was going a bit insane in the infirmary and needed a bit of a chat, a lot of the patients do. This lot aren't very used to sitting still for too long you see."

Giya choked a little but not enough to see. "That woman, I hurt her?"

"Not badly," Pental didn't seem to sense the gravity in anything, "she's out now but won't be going off world for a week or so. Well," she examined a monitor that Giya couldn't see closely, "it looks like you were telling the truth. No symbiode." She handed Giya a piece of paper towel and started to pack away the ultrasound.

*****

On the other side of the one way mirror Cam leaned over to Daniel and whispered, "I'll tell you what Jackson, I really wasn't expecting you to be right on this one."

"Does this mean that I'll actually get to talk to you Daniel?"

Looking through the glass he could swear that she was staring right at him again. He really should stop expecting things in this job to be predictable.

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