Kinsah walked into Jack's office hesitantly. "Need talk to you."
"Okay." He said, looking at the young man. "Have a seat."
Sitting down, Kinsah looked at Jack earnestly. "Need go back to planet."
"Kinsah," Jack said, looking at the young man in earnest sympathy. "I'm sorry that you've just lost your wife. I understand the need to make that better, but...I can't let you go back."
"Have to try one last time to make people see..."
"Kinsah, I'm sorry. But I have to count your people lost. At least until I can make contact with my superiors and tell them about the situation."
"Are my people." Kinsah said, getting to his feet. Pegging Jack with a fierce glare, he added softly, "I thought as leader you understand that never give up on people."
"Kinsah, I do understand. But I'm the leader of this base too. I can't just send them into a situation that I know could be a massacre. I know it sounds harsh and calloused, but I have to keep my command's best interest in mind. And right now, it's to keep them home."
"Then I go alone."
"I'm sorry, I can't let you do that. You know too much about this base."
Throwing his hands up, Kinsah stalked out of the room fuming.
Jack sighed. The young man was impetuous, and he prayed that Kinsah wouldn't do anything stupid...like get himself killed.
Walking down to the gate room, Kinsah looked around carefully before sitting down at the computer that he'd watched be used. Using the keys carefully, he began punching in the coordinates.
"I'm sorry, sir, but General O'Neill made it very clear that you weren't allowed to touch the dialing computer." One of the airmen said, walking over to him.
"Oh...I sorry." Kinsah said meekly. As the man turned away, Kinsah smacked him in the back of the head and he dropped to the ground. Finishing his input, Kinsah pressed the button and high tailed it down to the gate room itself.
Sam, who was just walking into the Control room at the time reached for the microphone. "KINSAH! STAND DOWN!"
As the 7th Chevron locked into place, he looked up at her coldly and waved as he jogged up the ramp and disappeared into the event horizon.
"Jack!" Sam called, running up the stairs as fast as she could, hand on her stomach. "Jack! He's gone!"
"What?!"
"Kinsah is gone." She repeated.
"Damn his hide!" Jack roared.
She looked at him. "We have to get him." Her tone was respectful to her commanding officer, but her eyes were full of fire.
"I know."
"Who do you want me to call?"
"Teal'c, Daniel and Nick. I think that's all that it would take to extract him."
She nodded. "They'll be up as soon as I get ahold of them."
"Like I needed this today."
"We'll worry about what you need today after we get him back." She said with an assuring smile.
"Yeah..."
"I'll be right back."
"Okay." Jack replied wearily.
It was only a few minutes before Teal'c, Daniel and Nick were in the briefing room. "What happened?" Nick asked, instantly. "I heard it had something to do with Kinsah."
"He hijacked the gate and went back to his planet."
"WHAT?!" The Australian demanded. "Doesn't he know what Aten is capable of?!"
"You're preaching to the choir on this one, Nicholas."
"We have to get him!" Daniel said, earnestly.
"I know, Daniel...why do you think I called you guys up here? For a tea party?"
"When do we depart, O'Neill?" Teal'c asked, stoically.
"As soon as you guys suit up and get some weapons."
"Let's go." Nick said, heading out.
Daniel and Teal'c followed closely behind him.
Within only a few minutes they were awaiting the dialing of the Gate.
"Nick, I only sent you because I knew you knew the base." Jack explained in his last minute instructions. "I don't want you doing anything stupid."
"Yes Dad."
Jack the dancer a look that explained just how unamused he really was.
"All right people...let's go." Daniel said as soon as the gate was open. The three of them walked up the ramp briskly and through the shimmering pool to begin their journey.
Kinsah moved through the brush carefully so as not to alert anyone to his presence.
"He's heading back to the village." Nick said, knowing the young alien the best. "If we take a hidden pathway to the village, we'll find him."
"Okay...Teal'c and I will cover you. Lead on."
Nick crept behind the brush on his way to the village, watching for his young friend.
Kinsah heard something from behind him and turned warily to see what it was.
Nick held up his hands as Kinsah turned a sharp gaze toward him. "It's just us." He whispered.
"Go back." Kinsah hissed angrily.
"We're not going anywhere!" Daniel returned, his voice sounding hoarse as he whispered loudly.
Kinsah growled low in his throat before turning and moving swiftly toward his village.
Thinking on his own, Teal'c raised his zat gun and shot the young alien, fully prepared to carry him back to the base.
A cry went up from in front of them and Nick swore. "Somebody saw us!"
"Dammit!" Daniel whispered.
Arrows whizzed past them. "You and Teal'c draw them off...I'll get Kinsah." Nick said as he ducked behind a tree.
Daniel nodded.
Nick picked Kinsah up, but knew he wouldn't be able to outrun the pursuing villagers and Jaffa that were sure to join them. What am I going to do?" he asked himself.
Just then, an arrow ricocheted off a tree and buried itself in Kinsah's back. Nick's eyes widened with horror and he quickly laid the alien out behind some bushes and a pile of leaves. "Come on Kin..." he said softly as he tried to stop the bleeding.
The alien had just gained consciousness from Teal'c's stunning, and a look of pain was frozen on his face as he held his breath in surprise from the pain. "What...happen?" He asked weakly as his breathing began again.
"You got hit with an arrow. Just hang on." Nick said, trying to be cheerful. Kinsah was losing a lot of blood though and he didn't know how to stop it.
Kinsah's breathing became more and more shallow as his body began to give into the blood loss.
"Nik...las..." He said, mustering the strength to talk. "Tell...son...stay...with...r...ana..." He said, fading quickly.
"No, Kin, come on! Stay with me." Nick pleaded, his hands stained with the alien's blood.
His eyes fluttered open for a second before they rolled back into his head.
"Nick...open his mouth." Iandrum ordered.
"What?"
"Open his mouth. If we're going to save him, I'm going to have to leave you and go to him."
"Okay...but I ain't kissing him!"
"NOW!"
Nick opened Kinsah's mouth and leaned down.
The symbiote leapt from Nick's mouth and into Kinsah's, causing Nick to fall, unconsciously, landing on a rock that cut the flesh on his temple badly.
Burrowing inside Kinsah, Iandrum set to work healing the young man's wound.
Daniel turned to Teal'c. "Where are Nick and Kinsah?!" He asked, panicked as he shot another Jaffa only seconds from the Gate.
"I do not see them, Daniel Jackson."
"Something must have happened. We've got to get to them."
"I will provide cover fire."
Daniel set down his gun and ran toward where they'd last seen the two men.
Teal'c followed, taking out enemies as they came into his sights.
When they reached the clearing where they'd left Nick and Kinsah, Daniel swore. "Teal'c we gotta get them to the Gate. NOW!"
"I agree Daniel Jackson." Teal'c replied, picking up Nick, who was the heavier of the two and slinging him over his broad shoulders.
Daniel mimicked the movement as he picked up the younger man and followed Teal'c.
Once the gate was dialed, Teal'c and Daniel emerged on the other side with their injured charges.
"We need a medical team!" Sam announced over the intercom.
Kinsah groaned and his eyes fluttered open. "Where am I?" he asked in perfect English.
"Kinsah?" Sam asked, stopping the medics as she leaned over him. "Is that you?"
"Yeah...why?" the alien asked, then his own eyes widened.
"Dingo on a stick!" Kinsah said, stunned.
Sam's eyes widened as Jack appeared. "What's going on?"
"I have Iandrum now..." Kinsah told them slowly, his voice eerily having some of Nick's accent.
"Then Nick's fighting this on his own..." Janet said, looking up from where she was attending the bloody Australian.
Almost immediately upon her realization, she turned to the medics who had attended her. "Get him to surgery. Stat!"
"I'm afraid so." Kinsah replied, looking at his friend with a sad expression.
"I'll call Lena." Sam said, hurrying away.
Sighing, Kinsah watched them take Nick away. "Why did you do this, Nick?" he wondered.
"Kinsah, I'd like you to come into the infirmary. Just to make sure you're all right." Janet said, addressing the alien.
"Certainly, Doctor." he replied respectfully.
Janet looked at him for a moment, the strangeness of the sensation creeping her out before she ran the other way to tend to Nick's wounds.
Walking slowly into the infirmary, Kinsah took a seat on an empty cot.
One of the nurses took care of his wound while Janet and Dr. Warner, the chief surgeon, took Nick into an operating room to get a closer look at his wounds and possibly even attempt to repair the damage that had been done.
It was while he sat on this cot that Kinsah saw Lena hurry into the room, panic written on her face. "Lena," he breathed.
She looked at him in surprise and he cursed himself for the slip. "Get a grip on this, Ian."
Her eyes widened as she realized he'd spoken the name of Nick's symbiote almost identically to the way that Nick would have said it. "Where's my husband?" She asked, the blood draining from her face.
"Over there." he said, pointing.
The door was open, and Lena could barely see nurses and doctors running around the operating room in a panic. Lena began to walk toward the room, her heart beating in anxiety with each step.
Before she could reach the door, a nurse walked by and closed it, giving Lena an apologetic smile. Lena turned back, releasing the breath trapped in her lungs. "My husband's in there." She managed, weakly.
"I'm sorry ma'am, but you can't go in there...germs and all those lovely things."
She nodded numbly as she walked unconsciously to a chair. Seating herself down as she waited for the results of her husband's diagnosis. Not being a woman for any particular religion under normal circumstances, she was somewhat surprised by her sudden desire to pray...to whatever god was out there. To whichever god could save her husband.
Meanwhile, Kinsah was declared in fine health and released from the infirmary. Not knowing where to go, he decided to go get something to eat.
"Lena?" He asked as he passed her, placing a hand on her shoulder.
"I'm fine, Kin."
"I was just headed up to the commissary and wondered if you'd eaten. You know Nick would kill me if I didn't take care of you..."
Lena stiffened. "I'm fine." She repeated.
"Right." he replied, drawing his hand away like he'd been burned. "I'll be going, then."
She watched him go, her gaze confused, but steely as he left.
Sam walked in. "Hi, Lena." She said, sympathetically. "Any news on Nick yet?"
"Not yet."
"Something wrong?" She asked, sitting beside her friend.
Lena sighed. "Kinsah's got Iandrum now."
Sam's eyes widened. "Hoo boy..."
"Talk about ackward." Lena said dryly.