Rodney awoke the next morning to a knock at the door and blinked, rubbing the crusts from his eyes. He had to think a moment before realizing where he was, and what was about to happen. When he did, he sighed.

'Damn… I meant to stay up and think of something…' he thought, before going to the door and opening it. There was a guard and one of the men who had brought clothing yesterday. He had another set of clothes, these were a rich black color with teal trim though.

"So, guess it's time to get ready?" he asked, his face falling as the man nodded and moved into the room.

Little did he know, Kait had already gotten herself ready, and had been dressed in a gold and teal skirt with a top that wrapped around her chest and torso. Her hair was the same as yesterday, but her hair had beads added to it. Unseen were the daggers laced with the viral toxin from the lab, and a venom deadly to Wraith that were tucked into her skirt. She left her quarters, and walked to Rodney's, waiting as he stepped out.

Rodney blinked at her, taken aback by how calm and collected she was. They were about to be taken hostage, basically, by two crazy Goa'uld/Wraith hybrids, and she was cool as a cucumber…

"Rodney…"

He turned his head to look at her, as she walked down the hall with him.

"No matter what happens… trust me?"

What did that even mean?! He had no choice but to nod, as she took a breath. They walked into a ceremonial room, and they were brought before Ozymandias and Ankhesenamun… this time, the king and queen, as one might call them, were dressed the same as they were.

"Let the ceremony begin!" Ozymandias said, as the doors were closed and locked, the guards in the room stepping back.

'Now is our chance!' Nefirtiti thought, as Kait's head dipped forward and she allowed the Tok'ra to take over her body. In an instant, her eyes glowed, and the daggers at her waist flew, one striking Ozymandias, others hitting the guards, and one narrowly missing Ankhesenamun. Ankhesenamun glared, and went to attack, as Ozymandias, along with the guards, fell and began to seize. She cradled him, speaking loving words to him…

Rodney just stared, then turned to Kait. "The hell did you do?" he asked, as she looked at him and made him gasp. Her eyes were glowing. "You… who are you?! Why are you in Kait's body?"

"I am Nefirtiti… I am Tok'ra, I want to get you both to safety."

"You…"

Ankhesenamun stood and walked down to Kait, well, Nefirtiti, and glared. "You are that pesky girl… I remember you. Your family, we killed them in a Tok'ra village years ago. Hundreds of years ago, infact… how did you get into our palace?"

"I tracked you, waited in the shadows as a faithful servant girl, until the time was right for me to exact my revenge. You will not take the humans down in your quest for power. You alone killed my family. I watched the day you met and wooed Ozymandias, the day you became a queen and not a Lady. You snuck onto this planet,took one of them as a host, pretended to be one of them, a prisoner of the Ancients, but you are not. You are Goa'uld through and through. And it is well past time for me to show you that you are not a God… you are mortal and you can and will die!"

Ankhesenamun lunged forward, her fingers outstretched, nails trying to scratch at Nefirtiti, her face contorted in pure rage. Her eyes glowed a bright white, as Nefirtiti dodged and moved back, swiftly grabbing the ceremonial weaponry on the walls and advancing. Ankhesenamun quickly donned her own pair of sais, and the two began to circle one another like panthers, as Rodney, well…

Maybe he was better to stay back on this one.

Ankhesenamun bared her teeth to Nefirtiti. "You will rue the day you followed me here."

Nefirtiti grinned. "I've been waiting for this for over a hundred years…"

The two women went after each other with the ferocity of a category 5 hurricane. The weapons sliced and clanged together, each woman being wounded in the process, even slightly with cuts and scratches. They clanged together, weapons locked, darkness on their faces.

Rodney backed up, as a pounding began at the door. His eyes looked at the door, then back, as he heard a voice call them.

"McKay! It's Sheppard! What's going on in there?"

Rodney's face turned into a face of pure relief. "SHEPPARD! Look, get this door open! They're going to kill each other!"

They could be heard outside the door with tools, attempting to open the doors. Nefirtiti whipped her head to take a glance, and in that moment, Ankhesenamun slashed her in the stomach and arm. Nefirtiti hissed, the wound dripping, and moved to get behind her, every move she made being countered by Ankhesenamun. Nefirtiti rolled towards Ozymandias, and grabbed the dagger in him, as Ankhesenamun followed behind her. As Ankhesenamun bore down on her, Nefirtiti ripped the dagger from the dead Goa'uld and slammed it into Ankhesenamun's chest.

Shocked, Ankhesenamun stumbled back, as Nefirtiti grasped the dagger and gave it a firm twist. As she glared at the dying Goa'uld, the door flew open. Nefirtiti pulled Ankhesenamun closer, and hissed into her ear. "Your time is done, dark one. You are no Goddess. You are merely a dying parasite who has been in this world far too long. I shall see you in hell…" She then let go of Ankhesenamun, letting her hit the floor, motionless.

She turned to Rodney and nodded, before the glow in her eyes left and she bent over, wincing. "Ow ow ow ow ow f%^*ing ow…"

"Kait…?" Rodney asked cautiously, as she nodded. Swiftly then, he moved over to her and pulled her to him. "Were you ever going to tell me you had made a deal with a Tok'ra?"

She at least had the decency to look sheepish. "Would it make you feel better to hear that it was kind of spur of the moment?" He shook his head at that, and she gave a small sigh, then another hiss of pain. "Morphine. Lidocaine. Stitches. Preferably in that order." She said, as he nodded, motioning at a med team that was starting to make their way in. Beckett moved over to them and began to get to work, speaking as he did so.

"The SG teams are clearing this place out as we speak. Those who surrender will be sent to the Tok'ra." He said, as he filled a syringe with fluid and grabbed Kait's arm. "This'll burn for a minute, lass." He said, as she nodded. He injected the liquid and she sucked in air at the fire that flowed in her muscle, followed by a sense of relief. She lay her head back, and that's all it took… she passed out.

"Speaking of Tok'ra…" Rodney started, as Beckett nodded.

"I noticed as we came in the room. I'll contact them as soon as we're out of here. This one seems to have willingly gone dormant… why did they want to help so badly? Do you know?"

"Revenge." Rodney simply said, as Beckett sighed, then went back to his task. As soon as they got the all-clear, a stretcher was brought in, and they headed back for the Gate.

As they walked, Rodney thought for a moment, then looked to Sheppard. "So… SG-1?"

"Helping with the clean out and then heading back to Earth. They needed some treatment but they insisted on helping out with this, something about owing us one."

He nodded, then glanced up. "Thanks."

Sheppard shrugged. "You'd have done it for us. Whether you'll admit it or not."

Rodney snorted, then looked up at the gate in front of them. Home. He took a deep breath, then stepped into the event horizon, ready to leave this hell hole behind him.

When Kait came to, she groggily looked around and took in her surroundings… she recognized the spires of Atlantis, the ancient lighting and the tech that was being used currently to keep her fluids up. She went to sit up, rubbing at her eyes, when she felt a heaviness on her legs. Glancing down, she smiled and ran a hand through his hair.

'Rodney…'

"Lass, if you want, we can get a forklift and carry him out of here. I know that can't be comfortable." the Scottsman quipped at her as he came over to check her vitals.

"Carson, be nice." She said, before putting her hand on his arm. "Seriously, let him sleep. He's been through hell."

He nodded, as she sat back. Giving him a look, she put her hand to her stomach, the area she had allowed Nefirtiti to take hold of her. "Is the Tok'ra…?" she trailed off, as he nodded.

"She's gone, I'm afraid… the strain of keeping you alive and using her powers took its toll. She was not well off in the first place from what she managed to tell us. She gladly sacrificed herself to keep you alive."

"Alive?"

"You had some internal damage from your fight. I believe one of the blows that Ankhesenamun dealt ruptured a kidney, causing some internal bleeding. Nefirtiti used her power to keep you from bleeding out internally, and gave us the time to get you into surgery and get you patched up. You should be right as rain in a few more days."

She nodded, running her fingers through Rodney's hair some more while he slept. That Tok'ra had sacrificed so much so they could escape, and to stop Ankhesenamun… She was gone. All of them were gone…

As Carson left, she heard a mutter from the bed. Glancing down, she grinned after a moment.

"I thought he'd never leave. You know he can get rather clingy…"

She poked the shoulder on her leg, and he sat up and stretched before looking at her with a small smirk. "Feeling better?"

She nodded. "Yep, tons, in fact you'd never guess I had been a host to an alien being. Aside from the collateral damage, I'm great." She grinned at him as he took the moment to cock his eyebrow at her.

"Good, we've got things to do."

She tilted her head at him, curious now. "Such as?"

"Well…" he trailed off, snaking one hand behind her head and neck and rubbing the sore, tight muscles. "First we have something that we need to do in a non-death impending circumstance… then dinner, maybe take a small vacation on Earth… and then more of that other thing we need to do in non-death impending circumstances."

She giggled lightly. "Well… I'm game for that."

Smirking, he used his hand to pull her close and kiss her.

EPILOGUE

"Rodney! Come ON! Hurry up, we're going to be late!"

She smoothed out the pale blue satin on her form, grinning down at him as she fingered the small, white plastic in her hands. He really did need to hurry, he was supposed to be receiving an award for one of his theories that he had put out last month tonight, but at this rate he'd be receiving it from home, delivered with a pizza… She missed Atlantis, but they needed this every year.

It had been 2 years since they had been taken by the Goa'uld on Sokra, and they made it a point to go away from Atlantis every single year to regroup and spend time together. They had survived the Wraith, they had survived the second rise of the Replicators. Now, they needed to figure out if they could survive the next thing thrown at them.

Parenthood.

She pulled the positive test from behind her back as she smiled, then took a steadying breath. As Rodney came up from the basement of the house they were renting, she gave him a kiss on the cheek. Better now than later.

"You look great." He said, smiling at her as she fidgeted, nervous. "What's wrong? Do you not want to go, because I'm perfectly happy not going, you're the one who wants to go Kait…" he went on, until she stopped him.

"No, it's fine. I promise. We need to go on and go, because II give it about nine months before we can't go out and do stuff like this anymore."

It took him a moment to process that line, as she slipped the plastic into his hands. He took one look at it before his eyes rolled back into his head and he hit the floor.

She put her hands on her hips as she nudged him with one high heeled shoe.

Well. That was Rodney for you. She wouldn't be so in love with him otherwise.

FIN!

**AUTHOR'S NOTE! - I'm SO SORRY it took so long to finish this! I've been super busy with Dr. Appts for my 17 month old and getting her hearing straight, that I've had no time to finish this! I finally found the time while on vacation! I really hope you liked this story, and I will be doing little one shot add ons, and maybe a sequel involving their child and a race similar to the Goa'uld. I have ideas. I promise I do. I will post any updates to the Kaitlyn and Rodney fic world that I've made whenever I add new one shots or the sequel gets started (which will be when I finish my Once Upon a Time fic), so check in every so often! Thank you all so so much!