CHAPTER 29
EPISODE WITH OSIRIS manipulating Daniels dreams. Carter was going out with some cop as well, but in this story he is not there or ever going to be since she has been going out with Ford.
Daniel was at home doing his usual stuff. Studying. He was looking at some paper's and old artifacts as he talked into his tape recorder. He was still talking into it about some item he had being a gift for a special occasion when a lady behind him, long blonde, slightly curly hair in a long yellow dress spoke saying it was a gift for the kings to hope that the rivers would rise making crops plentiful.
"Doctor Jordan sent me a picture a few weeks ago, so I guess I've have a little more time to study it. I'm Sarah Gardner." she said shaking his hand.
Daniel was actually sleeping not knowing that it was someone manipulating his dreams.
He tossed and turned on his bed while a small device attached to his head blinked a blue light. The same lady was sitting next to him with a device on her head watching him sleep while manipulating his dreams.
Carter was sitting in a coffee shop when Ford walked over and sat down surprising her. She was wearing a dress which went around the neck to hold it on. It was a pretty light blue with blue flowers.
"You should have woke me earlier and we could have had more time to talk or something instead of a quick cup then off we go to save the planet."
"I was thinking." she said looking at him then at her cup of coffee.
"Anything I can help with?"
"No it's just work and recent events. We need to get going."
"I'll have to go with you unless you have a problem with it."
"Why?" she asked picking up her coffee.
"I walked over here. Ran really. Something's wrong with the General and I haven't had time to check it out."
"General Hammond?" she asked worried.
"No, the car."
"Oh. Any idea's?"
"Probably out of gas." he said paying for his and her drink. She tried to say she would pay but he didn't let her.
At the SGC…..
Carter was explaining something to Daniel technically. Daniel was listening but very tired. They were leaving her lab as she spoke.
"It jams the frequencies the Goa'uld use for communications, and the remote control devices they use for ring transporters, and we're trying to make it portable enough to…" she stopped seeing Daniel covering a yawn and failing.
"At least pretend that it is interesting. Ford always listens. Only reason I know is, is he will repeat or add to what I say, helping me out if I ask. He's been a great help on this project."
Daniel waved his hand still yawning. "It was very interesting. Please go on."
"Are you tired?"
"I had the weirdest dream last night." he said covering another yawn.
"About what?" she asked curious about what could cause him to be this restless.
He explained the dream he had with Sarah and her helping him out in Chicago before the Stargate program.
"How is that weird?"
"Things were all mixed up, my hair was different, you know."
"No offense Daniel. But maybe you have some issues to work out." she said pulling her card out and activating the elevator.
"Oh yeah."
"Maybe you should talk to someone."
"I thought I was." he said. Sam smiled as the door opened. Jack was there leaning against the wall and messing with his left ear.
"Colonel." she said.
Daniel yawned and pointed off behind him.
"I'll talk to you later okay." she said stepping in. Daniel nodded and walked off covering another yawn.
She pushed a button and then started humming moments later.
Jack looked at her strange. He knew that tune to, but couldn't place it.
"You're humming?"
"I am?" she said turning to him.
She turned back away. Jack made a few faces showing he was thinking but she never noticed.
"Ford and you getting closer I take it."
"Why would…."
"Humming."
"Yes sir." she said smiling.
"Look it's none of my business, I'm just happy you're happy and not about…..quarks." he said like he plucked it out of the air. His hand make a gesture as though he did have to.
"Not bad with quarks." he said moments later.
"Excellent."
"He isn't doing anything he shouldn't is he, harmful, inflicting bodily or verbal…"
"No." she said smiling. "He's more like the perfect gentleman. I've never met anyone like him before. He's sweet, charming, knows all the right things to say and actually means it. It's like he's the ideal man for women. Besides, I could kick his ass if he tried anything since he's mentioned he wouldn't fight back."
"And the fact he is…joined?"
"Actually sir, I sometimes forget that he has a symbiont. I know the feeling, or I did once, so that's probably why I'm not bothered by it."
"Yes, well, Hercules doesn't talk much does he?"
"Not really sir." she said shaking her head. "I'm not really sure why."
"I know this is none of my business, but how close have you two actually gotten?"
"Sir, that's none of your business." she snapped.
"I know, I'm just looking out for you Carter. I don't want to see you get hurt." he said sympathetically.
"Thanks for the thought sir, but I am doing fine." she said seeing he was looking out for her.
Jack got off at level 28 and said see ya later. She said the same and pushed a button for a different level, humming again as the door closed.
Ford was upstairs in the parking garage for vehicle maintenance looking his car over. Carter didn't know it was at the SGC and since she didn't ask, Ford never said anything when she brought him to work. Luck was with him in some ways. It was out of gas. Worse was he had no oil. It was drained and he figured it was a prank or something.
"It's got to be Jack. Or wait. He wouldn't go this far." he said getting out from under the car. A quick dusting off of his clothes and he packed up his tools.
"Gotta talk to the General about this. Unless Jack…..no…maybe it's payback for that prank on him last week, hmm." he said shaking his head as he headed back into the base.
The day was rather uneventful letting everyone just get backed up work done. Jack finished paper work that took him most of the day, which Carter and Ford thought strange being as who he really was. Daniel looked over his artifacts and other objects and notes while Carter kept working on her jamming device and other things. Ford had been given the duty of helping give self defense lessons to recruits or anyone who was at the base. Only a few times had all of the SG-1 team participated. Teal'c always thought it was an interesting and informative experience. Hammond had given him that job quite awhile ago since he was trained in several martial arts and other tactics. Sometimes he taught others how to shoot right since some people had trouble shooting straight or at all. Other than that they didn't have to go through the gate that day. Once he was finished with the training, he was back helping her.
That night as Daniel lay in his bed, on it actually, a hand with a Goa'uld device activated over his head making him stay asleep as she placed the small device on the side of his head and the side of hers. Daniels dream instantly went back to where he was studying and taking or reading notes while Sarah talked to him again. This went on for a good hour maybe, half an hour at least then she stopped the device and took it off his head. She stood up and touched a unit on her hand that beamed her away. Daniel woke up woke up feeling tired and breathless and extremely confused.
The next day Ford and Sam watched a old movie together seeing as they had time for themselves and didn't have to be at work. She was wearing that dress that covered her shoulders this time but left her arms showing while Ford was in jeans and a button up shirt with a leather jacket. They were walking along outside through a park talking.
"That was great."
"It was good for being an old movie. The company was better." he said holding her hand. They had their arms linked together.
"Old movie? That's all you can say? It was Singing in the Rain, a classic."
"I agree."
"It was romantic too." she said still surprised at him agreeing but somewhat disagreeing.
"I'm more used to the others I've seen and I'm not used to movies with singing in them, but I did like it."
"What are you used to? Action packed gun fighting movies with martial arts and car chases?"
"I like those, but I was saying more to like that Robert Redford movie with Michelle Pfeiffer…..ah…Up Close and Personal. I know there was a few others like that. Now this may surprise you, but I like an occasional movie like those that make me cry."
"Really?" she said almost shocked. "You're pulling my leg."
"No. First time I watched Forrest Gump it did the same thing. The Green Mile did that too. I saw a cartoon that made me cry once but it eludes me at the moment." he said scratching his head with the other hand in thought. He shook his head not remembering which one it was.
They were still walking but the look on her face made Ford laugh.
"I'm serious. I really like those movies. I like a few chick flicks."
"We are going to have to see a few of those then. Just so I can see how much of a tear jerker you can be."
"In front of you, I don't mind. As long as Jack never find out. He'd never let me live it down."
They spent the rest of the day which wasn't much left, walking and talking. He walked her home when it was getting near 7:00.
"I've got to be at work early."
"I know Sam. I work there with you." he said tapping her nose. "I'll see you there."
They had a quick kiss then he walked away.
Daniel was working on his notes when Sarah walked up giving him a coffee. He was tired and had worked all night. Sarah handed over a strange tablet that caught his attention. She said it was over ten thousand years old and he realized he recognized the writing on the black tablet. It was impossible to be that old despite what she said the carbon dating said. She was surprised he could possibly read it and he didn't know why he could.
"How could you possibly know that?"
"I don't know. I just do."
Lunch time came around, the next day and Daniel was face down at the table with his arms crossed in front of him as Sam, Teal'c and Ford sat down.
"This makes no sense." Daniel said still not getting up.
Sam was sitting on his right and Ford was on his left. Teal'c sat across from Carter.
"Maybe you should eat something." she said rubbing his shoulder.
He looked up at her. "Did I mention that in the dream that the table was written in Ancient and that in the dream I could read Ancient."
"Well it's not so odd considering you can also do that when you are awake." Carter said taking a drink of her orange juice. He looked at her scrutinizingly the whole time.
"Perhaps you are attempting to reveal something to yourself." Teal'c said.
"Like?"
"Maybe it's something from being ascended." Ford suggested.
Daniel looked over at him a moment then back at Teal'c and Carter. Ford noticed Daniel wasn't wearing his glasses which was happening more often.
"The tablet sounds like the one you found on Abydos." Carter said.
"The one that was said to led to the lost city of the Ancients." Teal'c said.
"But didn't. You think that somehow I know the location of the lost city of the Ancients and somehow I just don't remember." Daniel said.
"If you have the dream again, perhaps you should translate the tablet." Teal'c said.
Daniel grunted lightly and put his head back down.
"Do you have anything pressing today Daniel?" Ford asked.
"Why?" he muttered not looking up.
"If you
didn't you could go home or at least go sleep in better
accommodations on the base so if an emergency comes up you might
actually be rested. Don't want Jack coming down on you in an
emergency. Bad enough he comes down on you and Carter when you never
stop to eat. Why don't you try some of the that coffee flavored
sugar."
"Tried my coffee, didn't work. But good point and
better idea." he said. He got up and walked out.
"Good work Mr. Primus." Teal'c said.
"I know that Daniel has had some troubles in his past that normal people would have nightmares about for a long time or longer. Something's up."
"What makes you think that?" Carter asked as Ford scooted over.
"Just a thought. I've never seen Daniel like this before and that was well before I became part of the team. He's never seemed so lost, except when he lost Shari."
Sarah had a small table set in the library set up for the two of them with food. Daniel thanked her and it wasn't two minutes and he was explaining the tablet and its meaning. He said it led to a city of great power. She smiled with him.
Ford and Carter managed to have dinner together the next day in town. He had given her a dozen red roses and a very nice, and she knew to be expensive, necklace to go with it. She dressed up in a very nice black dress with red lacing around the neck area that hugged her beautiful frame. Needless to say Ford never really took his eyes off her and had a blush most of the time. They also danced. Carter really enjoyed the night out. It wasn't often anymore that she was able to act, but be treated like a woman and Ford made her feel those feelings again. When he brought her home in a rental, a Saturn since his car was still being checked over, she asked if he wanted to come in. Ford really thought about it but said something that caught her off guard. He was gripping the steering wheel on and off as he spoke.
"I've…ah…never went beyond this point Sam. I had a few….dates in the past, very far past, before I got here, but…I never….did more than a nice night out. Only a couple of times ended with a kiss, but beyond that…" he said obviously flustered as she looked at him stumble over words.
She was still listening getting an idea of where this was going but had to hear it to believe it, if it was true.
"I've……ah…what's the best way of saying this? I've….never made it past first base." he said looking at his steering wheel. He just couldn't look at her and say it for some reason. "Or I think that is the saying."
You're kidding me right?
No Herc.
Okay. That explains the fact you have very few if any dreams that are involved with sex. With me….
I don't want to know.
"You mean you've never been…" she asked slowly seeing he was really embarrassed.
"No." he said slowly as he kept looking at his steering wheel. "Not yet."
"So…I would be your first?"
"Uh…that's….putting it lightly."
"Whoa." she said surprised then looked at him again. "Why?"
He shifted uncomfortably.
"Really, I'd say upbringing. Always got nervous around women in that regard. I've been asked, but always turned them down. Working with them was never really a problem. It was going beyond that that….I guess I just wanted to wait till I found the right woman. Make it special."
"32 years though."
"Well, give or take a few months." he said with a small smile as he drummed his fingers on the steering wheel. "This is really awkward."
She just sat there thinking as she looked out the window rubbing her forehead.
"I understand if I've surprised you. Or shocked by the looks of it." he said finally looking at her. "You're the only one that know this."
"So what do you want to do?" she asked looking back at him.
"Really? Ah…" he said nervously.
"I've never seen you so, embarrassed. It's not something about me is it?"
"No, no way. You're perfect. It's me. I'm…..just not ready and I don't know why. I want to, but…." he said taking a deep breath.
"I can wait." she said patting his arm. "Though this does explain why you've never made that sort of advance on me, in that way."
"Or asked." he muttered.
"Yeah. I was thinking….something was wrong since you never asked after all this time, but then I figured that you wanted me to ask…."
"I'm not even sure if I ever would have asked, at least not until….well." he said stopping suddenly.
She didn't ask anything else so he walked with her to her door.
"Thanks for listening. I actually feel a lot better."
"That's what friends are for. Thanks for a great time. I won't tell anyone." she said smiling.
"I had fun. More than any other time in my life. And I never thought for one second you would say anything." he said giving her a smile and a kiss.
He walked back to the car with her watching. After he left she closed the door and went to bed thinking.
That night while Carter and Ford were out, Daniel was inside the SGC weight room pumping arm weights and talking to Teal'c who was on the bench with the bar weights. Teal'c had a lot of weight on the bar. Possibly near or over two hundred pounds on each side. Ford usually did that, or more.
"See, I know what the tablet is suppose to say, I just can't finish translating it." he said pumping both arms.
"Perhaps the location of the lost city is not what you had in your mind after all. Since I require sleep, I have required an interest in the concept of dreams." Teal'c said sitting up. Daniel kept pumping away. "There is much research to study on this matter."
Daniel stopped and set down the weights. He turned from his seated position.
"Okay Sigmund, what are my dreams about?" he said to Teal'c.
"Since your friend Sarah has been taken as a host for Osiris, you have been unable to save her. Perhaps that is the focus of your subconscious desires."
"Think something I knew when I was ascended could help?"
"Most often dreams are the minds way of dealing with desires that cannot be fulfilled."
"So basically I'm destined to never get a goodnight's sleep again." he grumbled.
"Knowing your past experiences Daniel Jackson, I do not know how you have slept before now."
"Thank you Teal'c. This conversation has been disturbing on many levels." Daniel said grabbing his towel and glasses then walking away.
Teal'c was needless to say, confused.
"I can't do this." Daniel said looking over the tablet and notes.
He tossed the tablet aside on the table showing the obvious frustration that was building. He was standing over a very cluttered desk of papers and books.
"What's the matter?" Sarah asked.
"I'm just going around in circles. I can't find any references related to this passage."
"Doorways."
"What?"
"The Origin of Doorways." she said. "It makes sense doesn't it?"
"Yeah, but how do you know that?" he asked looking at the tablet with her.
"It's all there, you just need to relax." she said kissing him.
"Oh no." he said moaning.
"What?"
"We were suppose to have dinner tonight. Two months right. I'm so sorry. I totally forgot." he said as she backed away some. She was smiling though.
"Why didn't you remind me?"
"It's all right."
"It's too late now." he said looking at his watch.
"If it was that important to me I would have said something."
"You don't mind?"
"Of course not." she said looking back at the table.
"You're suppose to leave."
"What are you talking about, I'm not going anywhere. Daniel your research is going to change the world. You have a brilliant mind, I don't want to stand in the way of that. I am however going to order us a pizza." she said kissing him again. "Get back to work."
The next day……
"The only thing I don't have is a gate address. There's still a few passages that I haven't been able to translate." Daniel said from his seat in his office.
Carter was there as was Teal'c and Ford. They were standing while Carter was leaning over onto the table with both elbows. It was night time when they got a chance to discuss Daniel's dream.
"Do you think you can?" Carter asked.
"I don't know. It's like I'm not in control, like I'm just along for the ride. Watching the whole thing unfold. The strange thing is none of it's right."
"Please elaborate Daniel Jackson." Teal'c said.
"I was an idiot. Sarah was in love with me and I had feelings for her too, but my obsession with my research destroyed our relationship. She finally broke it off with me when I worked through our anniversary." he said then pausing before going on. "But the Sarah I'm dreaming about is totally different. It like she's care's about my work as much as I do, like she wants me to find the lost city as much as I do."
"Sounds like a normal male fantasy to me." Carter said.
"Ouch." Ford said sounding offended.
"It's true, for most men." she said smiling as she looked up at him. "Not you though."
"Thank you." he said smiling with a small bow.
"Did you not say that Sarah introduced you to the tablet in one of your dreams?" Teal'c asked.
"Yeah." Daniel said looking at Teal'c seriously.
"And you feel like you have no control in the dreams?"
"Teal'c?" Carter asked.
"The Goa'uld posses the technology to explore one's memory."
"I should have known. Remember the other day when I said something seemed wrong when suggested that Daniel find another place to sleep other than the mess hall."
"Yeah." Carter said.
"You did indeed say something seemed wrong."
"Right Teal'c. I'm only sorry I didn't act on it sooner. Something about that just seemed….well wrong. If it was only that night, maybe it would have been nothing, but the same dream the last couple of nights. That's not normal. I wish that it was, then I'd get a good nights rest every night."
"And…what is it that you wish you could dream about?" Daniel asked vaguely.
"Not what you might be thinking. Usually I wish I was dreaming about driving. Don't get to drive the way I want to."
"You're a speed demon in disguise then."
"Yeah. I'd be doing it like I want to, but our job would really complicate things when I got arrested. So far, I just get tickets when caught."
"Anyway, we need to inform Hammond of this development before it's to late." Carter said interrupting them.
"Indeed." Teal'c said walking out with them following.
"You're suggesting that Osiris is here on Earth, manipulation Doctor Jackson's dreams?" Hammond asked. They were all situated around the briefing table.
"We think it's possible sir." Carter said.
"Kinky." Jack said.
He looked around the room as Daniel spoke. Ford shook his head while barely keeping a straight face and Jack just looked at him funny.
"You
need to get out more Jack." Ford muttered. "Fishing don't
count."
Jack shrugged.
"Doctor." Hammond said gesturing for him to continue.
"She's looking for the location of the lost city in my subconscious. I'm sure of it now. She's using the implanted image of an Ancient tablet to help me figure it out."
"Osiris can access Sarah's memories to use them to more easily gain Doctor Jackson's trust." Teal'c said.
"How's she doing it?" Hammond asked.
"We're speculating that she is sneaking into Daniels house at night and using some sort of modified memory device." Carter said.
"Anubis once probed Thor's mind and in doing so they would have gained access to Asguard beaming technology." Teal'c stated.
"Transporter technology." Ford said.
"Wish we had it." Jack said hearing Ford's statement.
"That would allow her to come and go undetected." Daniel said.
"Why go through all that trouble? Why not snatch up Doctor Jackson and use a mind probe the way they did with Thor?" Hammond said.
"It's possible that Anubis's mind probe will not work on the subconscious." Carter said.
"It might have something to do with how Oma erased my memories of when I was ascended." Daniel said.
"This may be the best way to get Daniel Jackson to unknowingly help them learn what they wish to know." Teal'c stated.
"So what do we do?" Jack asked.
"The Goa'uld are scavengers of alien technology. Most like to interface any Asguard technology with their own command device."
"We're hoping the jamming device we have been working on will prevent Osiris from using her transport device making it so she can't escape Daniels room." Carter said.
"And you want to set a trap?" Hammond asked.
"Yes, be we don't want to spring it until she has helped me find the location of the lost city." Daniel said.
"What?" Jack said. He leaned in more with a curious look on his face.
"Look, no one wants to save Sarah more than I do, but I could, you know. It could be there. Somewhere in my subconscious. We have to let her think that she's still operating without our knowledge at least until I've had a chance to try and finish this." he said pointing at his head.
"And how are we suppose to know, when you know, when it's all in your head while you're sleeping?" Jack said.
He was leaning farther over the table now, but still sitting. He did that eye movement thing.
"I don't know." Daniel said after a long pause from Jack's question.
"We can't risk letting Osiris get away with that kind of information." Hammond said.
"We could stake out his house." Ford suggested.
"Stakeout! Yes, that's a great idea!" Jack said perking up. "Install a few camera's, watch from the road."
"You have a go Colonel."
"What have we got?" Jack said coming into Carter's office. Ford was there with her and was looking at some papers Daniel gave him.
"Daniels at his house with a team setting up video surveillance." she said as Jack picked up some object off her desk.
"Teal'cs picking out his donuts." Jack said.
Carter looked up with a smile like she was laughing.
"Teal'c loves a good stakeout."
"Now that's the funniest thing I've heard all day." Ford said with a chuckle. "Wait a minute, I don't remember seeing any stakes out with you guys."
"You weren't with us yet." Jack said.
"I know that, but I never saw them anyway. You'll have to tell me sometime."
"Remind me on the next fishing trip. So, van ready Carter?"
"The jamming device has been installed in the surveillance van, it should prevent Osiris from beaming out." Carter said nodding.
Jack pulled out a dart. Ford then realized Jack had picked up the cartridge of darts to hopefully knock her out to take her alive.
"We're taking her out with these?" he said waving one in the air.
"She's likely to have a personal shield, but we know a tranquilizer dart can get through. At that point, hopefully the Tok'ra can removed the symbiont and save Sarah."
"What about this whole lost city deal?" Jack asked.
"We watch and see. Once in his room, Osiris won't be able to leave. It's just a question of us getting to her before she realizes she has been made."
"Backup?"
"Local authorities have been notified. But we don't want to do anything to alert Osiris." she said closing a case after Jack put the darts back. "Not that we really will need the backup though."
Ford smiled lightly as she looked him as she said that last statement.
"How are you two doing?"
They both looked at each other a moment then at him.
"Why the sudden invested interest sir?"
"Just seeing if things were going well. After that Prometheus incident I didn't know if you two got closer or if after four days…."
"We're fine."
"Ford?"
"Everything's going great." he said looking up from some paper of Sam's. "We went dancing the other night. Or was it last night? Anyway, we had a lot of fun."
"Really." Jack said seeing surprised. "You dance Carter?"
"Yes sir. Quite good at it too."
"You really need to get out more. I rarely see you out of the mountain unless it's when you're fishing." Ford said.
"Well….things get busy here. I'll leave you two be." he said leaving a little too quickly.
"Did I say something wrong?" Ford asked.
"Don't think so. He was being nosy."
"Maybe that's a good thing, until he ask the wrong questions."
You already know why he's asking.
I'm not telling her that Jack wishes he was with her instead of me.
They were in the van near Daniels house looking at the monitors and listening in. Daniel was just lying on his bed.
"Hey Daniel?" Jack said through a small headset. He looked over at the other three then back at the screen. "Daniel you sleeping yet?"
"Yes Jack. I'm fast asleep." Daniel said annoyed.
Ford didn't have a headset on but by their expressions Daniel said something sarcastic. Teal'c opened the donuts and handed the box over to Jack.
"What have you got there?" Jack said looking them over. "I'll pass."
Ford said no thank you when Teal'c offered them to him. Carter didn't seem to want one either.
How about that chocolate one?
WE, have had enough chocolate for one day.
WE, as you say, cannot be hurt by overloading on sugary food.
Maybe later Herc.
As Teal'c started getting one for himself, a light appeared in Daniels house. Osiris was there.
"Here we go." Jack said.
Osiris sat down on the bed and placed the mind device on the side of his head again.
"Activating frequency jamming." Carter said flipping a few switches.
"Let's do it." Jack said getting up.
Teal'c followed after. Carter and Ford stayed in the van. He offered to go, but Daniel said no. A little forcefully at the time to. He didn't want his house damaged or Sarah hurt. Ford said he'd be careful and not hurt her, but Daniel said no. He was more afraid of his house being damaged. Jack and Teal'c went into the house quietly getting into a hidden position as Carter and Ford watched.
"If it weren't for the information we need from Daniels brain and other things I could stop her quickly." Ford said.
"That thought had crossed my mind, but this is a friend of Daniels that we don't want the symbiont to kill."
"That's why I'm not there. That and Daniel didn't want his house damaged. I could take her, but she might kill herself to keep from being taken."
The rest of the night passed quietly even until the early morning. Ford told her to catch some rest since he could watch what was going on. She leaned over and slept on his lap until midmorning. He woke her up just as the sun was beginning to come up. She had a cup of coffee as she got back up and put the head set on.
"Carter?" Jack asked sometime later.
"She's still there sir." Carter said after Jack radioed in.
"How long do we wait?"
"I don't know. Daniel must be getting close."
In Daniels mind he was looking over the tablet with a magnifying lens.
"Progress?" Sarah asked hugging him from behind.
"Not really." he said. He picked up the tablet again as he spoke. "I'm still convinced that these symbols represent the location of the city."
"Like an address?"
"Yeah cause there are seven of them. They don't translate into anything specific."
"You're so close."
"No I am not."
"Don't say that Daniel." she said moving over in front and sitting down on the tables edge.
"They mean nothing to me."
"You've worked to hard to give up now." she said trying to coax him.
"I don't know. I never knew."
He woke up looking at Osiris. She looked unhappy to say the least.
"How unfortunate for you." she said.
The Goa'uld voice was there as she brought her hand up and activated her hand device. On the screen in the van they saw what she was doing.
"Move in! Move in!" Carter said.
Ford left the van quickly as she started to follow.
Jack ran in trying to hit her with a dart. She turned using a force blast that stopped the dart and knocked him into the wall. He grunted as he slammed into it and was instantly dazed. Osiris tried to beam out quickly before another attack happened as she touched her arm, but it didn't work. She started leaving the room when Teal'c came into view so she quickly brought up her right hand and fired a energy weapon. Teal'c ducked out of the way as blast hit the wall and she left the house fast. Sam came out of the van with a zat gun and Ford brought her down quickly as a blast caught the front of it. Sam fired the zat gun a few times as she stood back up from behind another vehicle while Osiris kept shooting the van. Carter's blast had no effect as they hit the shield though.
Teal'c checked on Jack who waved him away toward Daniel. Daniel was pulling the device off his head as he entered the room.
"Will you be alright Daniel Jackson?"
"Yeah. Go, go, go." he said rubbing his temples.
Osiris blasted a few more times as Ford got his personal cannon out, while blocking her shots at him and started putting a specialized dart round clip into it. She flashed her eyes as she looked at the van then at him smiling. Carter noticed and yelled look out while tackling him to the ground. He rolled over on top of her as the van erupted into a ball of fire. A couple things on fire hit him but nothing serious at first.
"Ow." he growled when what felt like a tire bounced off his back.
Osiris looked at what she did smiling wickedly and then jumped slightly as something hit her. She turned to see Jack and Teal'c standing there with their guns pointed at her. She pulled a dart out of her side and then looked at them sneeringly. Teal'c started raising his rifle when Osiris collapsed.
"Clear!" Jack yelled.
Ford rolled off slowly letting her up.
"I thought I was saving you."
"You did, but I returned the favor." he said smiling. "Besides, something hit me, which figures so…."
"Carter! Ford!"
"We're fine sir." she said as they got up.
"Ah man. I wanted one of those donuts." Jack said walking up to them and looking at the burning van as they heard sirens in the distance. Teal'c was currently looking after Osiris as Daniel came out of his house.
"Jack, you need to have something other than a….donut for breakfast. I'll make something later."
"I'll look forward to that. Let's go before we have to answer unnecessary questions."
They packed up what they could and got back to base as quickly as they could. Osiris was tied up well and being watched very carefully the entire time back to the SGC. The Tok'ra came within an hour and removed the Goa'uld.
Sarah awoke sometime later in the SGC infirmary seeing Daniel.
"It's all right. You're safe." he said as she started getting up fast.
"I'm here. It's all over." he said hugging her as she moved closer. "You're free."
"I'm so sorry." she said crying into his shoulder as she held him close.
"It's not your fault."
"I couldn't stop it."
"We'll get through this." he said trying to comfort her.
Ford and Carter were back in her lab talking. Hammond had told her about a off planet site she was being sent to where her father and her and some others were going to develop a new weapon to fight the super soldiers that Anubis had made. She was to leave the next day so she had time to get whatever she needed ready for the couple of week trip. Ford instantly said he was going and helped get things together. Carter said she did need him to go, if only to help carry the heavy stuff.
"What?!" he said looking up from a box he just lifted. She looked serious, but a smile broke on her quickly.
"I'm just kidding. I need you for more than that." she said coming around the table.
"You had me going there."
"I did?" she said picking up a smaller box.
"You sounded serious." he said now playing along.
"That was the point." she said setting the smaller box on the one he was holding. They were in the middle of a kiss when Jack walked in.
He cleared his throat after a moment.
"Yes Jack?"
"Sir?" she said breaking it off after being startled. She turned around quickly.
"You're still getting ready I see."
"Yes sir."
"Need any help?"
"I think Ford's got it sir."
Ford heard it in her voice that she was being serious and playful at the same time.
Jack didn't hear the playful part and figured she was being serious.
"Alright then Major. Carry on." he said with a smile they both could tell was him seeing he was happy to see Carter was happy, and not over some new technology or techno idea.
They got the rest of the equipment and brought it to the gate room. The gate was opened and they sent the stuff through on those equipment and supply carrying M.A.L.P.s. Carter was tired since she only got some sleep that night for that stakeout so they just had dinner in the mess hall together and then went home for the night. Someone had sabotaged the General as Ford thought, but he was fixed by the base mechanic and deemed drivable again. He would have done it himself, but he was busy with other things. Seeing as she was really tired, he drove her home this time and said he'd be back to get her in the morning.
