Found - part 11

After looking at my stats I realised that last chapter was unusually short, so I thought I'd get this one posted a little earlier to make up for it. Enjoy!

Jase leapt in the air in shock as Tally and her parents vanished in a flash of light.

"Tally!" He yelled, looking around wildly, half expecting them to reappear in the room. He stumbled outside and rushed frantically through the village, calling for Tally, Sam or Jack. The villagers gathered outside, watching in alarm as the young man darted around as though mad. Jase reached Karelle, and skidded to a stop.

"Karelle, Tally . . . Sam and Jack . . ." he panted. The wizened old woman gazed at him in concern.

"Slow down, child. What is it?"

"They're gone!" Jase exclaimed. "They just . . . vanished!"

Karelle considered him. She knew what this meant – she had seen the outsiders beam to and from the surface in a flash of white light. "They have gone to the Tau'ri ship." She told him. "It is nothing to be concerned with."

"But – but they were taken! I was just talking to them, and then they were gone!" He spluttered.

Karelle frowned. "You were talking to them? They did not go to the special area in the woods?"

"No! They didn't know they were going to be transported! They were taken without warning!"

Karelle's frown deepened. This was a problem. She knew little of the outsiders, except that three of them were friends of Sam and Jack, and one wasn't. The one was the leader. He also wished to take them back to the Tau'ri.

"You are sure?" Karelle asked Jase.

"Positive. They had no idea."

Karelle sighed. "Then the leader of the outsiders is most likely taking them back to the Tau'ri against their will. I am sorry, Jase. I know what Tally means to you, but there is nothing we can do."

Jase stared at her for a long moment, shocked, not only at what she had said, but that she knew about his relationship with Tally. "But – there must be something." He protested quietly.

"I am sorry." Karelle repeated. Jase sat down heavily. He couldn't believe there was nothing to be done.

"She's carrying my child." He whispered. Karelle looked down at him in shock.

"What did you say?"

"Tally is pregnant." Jase repeated.

Once out of the bridge, Teal'c strode purposefully onwards, Daniel and Haley scurrying after him.

"Where are we going?" Daniel asked.

"The guest quarters." Teal'c responded, keeping perfect pace.

They moved quickly through the halls to the elevator, and reached deck 5. Teal'c got out of the elevator and walked straight to the room he knew had been prepared for the O'Neill's. He knocked. On hearing no response he opened the door. The room was empty.

"We should check the other rooms." Haley suggested.

They opened every door. The family was nowhere to be seen.

"What now?" Daniel asked. "Are they even on the ship?"

"I believe so. Major Kennedy would not leave without them." Teal'c said.

"And he sure looked happy when he said he'd got them." Haley said uneasily.

"So where . . ."

They considered the possibilities for a moment.

"Holding cell." They said in unison.

Sam groaned and kicked the wall in frustration. "Why won't you open?!"

Tally was sitting on the floor with her eyes closed. Jack was leaning against the wall next to her. He looked up at Sam, silently asking for a status report. She sighed and leaned against the door.

"I don't know, Jack. I just can't get it to work. I've never seen anything like this."

Jack sighed and looked at Tally, who was resting her head on her knees, eyes still closed. "We have to get out of this cell." He whispered. Sam felt like crying. "I know." She whispered back, and gazed despairingly at the panel.

It lit up.

Sam jumped upright in surprise, only to leap backwards when the door suddenly opened.

On the threshold stood Daniel, grinning. "Found them!" He called to the other two, who were checking the other cells.

Tally jumped up. "Daniel! I could kiss you! If I weren't already pregnant with another man's child." She added. Daniel visibly jumped in surprise. "What?"

"Teal'c! Daniel!" Jack exclaimed, patting his friends on the back. "Nicely done."

"I'm sorry about this Colonel, Major." Haley apologized. "I swear I didn't know he was going to do this."

"It's okay." Sam assured her, one arm around Tally. "I know you wouldn't have taken us against our will."

"So you decided to stay?" Daniel asked.

"We didn't get the chance to decide anything!" Jack retorted angrily. "That little rat-bastard just scooped us up out of our living room! We might have come of our own accord if he'd just waited!"

"Why? I thought you were happy here?"

Sam and Jack had a silent conversation over the top of Tally's head. "We might as well tell them." Sam said eventually.

"We decided to go back to Earth for two reasons." Jack started, rubbing his forehead tiredly. "One was Tally. As you no doubt just heard, she's pregnant, and the villagers are unlikely to be too happy with that, so we figured we'd probably end up taking her and Jase, the baby's father, back to Earth so that they could have a decent life together, rather than be exiled or publicly shamed."

Tally looked down at her hands, not wanting to see the reactions of her father's friends.

"The main reason though, is our son, Luke." Sam continued. Daniel gawped at her.

"Your … your son?"

"Luke Daniel O'Neill." Jack smiled at him.

"He was kidnapped when the goa'uld attacked." Sam said, her voice strained with the still-fresh pain of losing her child.

"He was fifteen, so he was supposed to be hiding in a safe place with the children, the sick and the elderly." Tally told them quietly. "But he wanted to fight, with the rest of us."

"He's too much like me for his own good." Jack added soberly.

"He got caught, but we didn't realize until after Mom had set the mothership's computer to fly away on autopilot. We all just assumed that he was safe with the other kids. We were watching the jaffa run for the ship as the engines fired up, when we saw him, being carried over one of their shoulders unconscious." Tally told them.

"I was closest. I ran after them, but I couldn't catch up. They shut the doors and … and took off." Sam finished.

Daniel put a hand on Sam's shoulder supportively, and he and Teal'c exchanged saddened looks.

"We have to get back to Amdra." Jack said, breaking the silence. "We shouldn't leave Jase behind, and we can't leave the planet with its electro-magnetic field turned off."

"That may prove difficult." Teal'c told him. "Major Kennedy is in control of the ship, and he obviously wishes to return you to Earth."

"So? Six of us – one of him. I don't see a problem." Jack argued.

"He is on the bridge. He has access to all kinds of security systems that would make us unable to reach him."

"We don't need to reach him. We need to turn this boat around!" Jack said, exasperated.

"There's got to be a way of getting to him. He can't keep an eye on all of us at once." Sam reasoned.

"Not if we split up . . ." Haley added thoughtfully.

"How many entrances are there to the bridge?" Jack asked.

"Four." Haley replied.

Jack waved his hand for Haley to elaborate.

"There's the main entrance from the elevator, there's a door adjoining to the main office of whoever's in command, there's a door to the corridor outside, and . . . I don't see a fourth." Daniel filled Jack in, finishing on a frown.

"There is an access tube." Teal'c supplied.

"Alright, here's the plan." Jack began. "We split into pairs. Teal'c, you and Tally approach from the corridor. Daniel and Sam take the access tube. Haley and I will try the elevator. Hopefully, we'll all meet at the bridge. Teal'c, is there a weapons locker around anywhere?"

"One level up." The jaffa replied.

"Then up we go."

Lots of Lukey exposition in this chappie ... really anxious to know what you think of this one. Please review and let me know!

Beka :-)