Sitting on the plane Kya, sighed. She was quickly becoming irritated with the present company and her pain was starting to become unbearable. She'd managed to grab some pain medication before she left base, but with that, meant going to the bathroom and having the colonel on one side and the major on the other, it was fast becoming a horrible nightmare.
"I have to go to the bathroom," she whispered looking at Jack, as he was on her right, and next to the aisle.
"Can't you hold it?" He grumbled.
"No!" She hissed.
"Gees!" He sighed, and got up. Once in the bathroom, Kya sighed and sat on the small toilet seat. Pulling out the syringe of morphine, she rolled up her sleeve and carefully found a vein and injected herself. Sighing she sat there for a few minutes, before putting it in the special syringe waste bin. Rolling her sleeve back down she moved back towards her seat.
"I can climb over you, but in a skirt it's not highly recommended." She stated looking at him, leaning over the empty seat and whispering to Carter. Looking up he sighed and got up, for her.
"Feeling better?"
"Yes," she muttered, and closed her eyes, "how much longer?"
"We should touch down at about twenty-three, thirty."
"And… How much longer?" She repeated rolling her eyes under her eyelids.
"Just under two hours."
"Whoopee," she sighed. "And in the mean time lets just sit here like squashed sardines and do nothing!"
"Was that sarcasm lieutenant?"
"You tell me colonel; I'm still new to the field remember? I don't know my left from my right! I can't even wipe my own arse without someone holding my hand. I would have been able to however if you'd decided to come oh say in two weeks, after my promotion to captain!" She huffed, turning to look out the window.
"Well if you want to behave like that," he stated.
"Behave like you, you mean?"
"That was out of line lieutenant!"
"Then sue me!" She sighed. Turning back to him she lowered her voice and moved closer to him slightly. "I'm sick of your smart ass comments just as much as your sick of mine! You mention to anyone that we're related and I promise you, a court martial and life in gaol will be what I'd get…"
"And if it comes out via someone else?"
"You won't want to know… You have no idea what I am capable of colonel, and I promise you, if you betray me or reject any input I give you will find out, just how brutal I can be,"
"I'll look forward to it then," he retorted.
"I'm sure you would!"
Leaning back in the chair, Kya had run out of morphine a few hours ago now. She'd been sitting in the one chair for just over two hours, and was getting pretty tired of just being told to sit there and wait for General Hammond. Rolling her eyes she closed them, and sighed.
"You know he'll be here soon, so you better not go to sleep,"
"Bit me!"
"I would but you're a bit far away," Jack countered, which got her to open on eye and glare at him.
"No offense colonel but I'd rather someone else that close," opening his mouth to reply he heard a door open and as he turned he saw Hammond walk into the room. Sighing Kya forced herself to sit up higher in her chair.
"As you were," he stated looking at her.
"With all due respect general, I would be standing but the amount of pain that's coursing through my body at the moment that is preventing me from moving is much more great than, no offense, but your stars…"
"What sort of pain lieutenant?"
"Oh just the usual sir, ran out of morphine a few hours ago, haven't been taken for my medical yet, so haven't said anything, but…"
"Colonel?"
"Had no idea sir,"
"Right, lieutenant I want you to go to the infirmary right now!"
"Yes sir," she sighed, pushing her self up. "Oh shit," she muttered, swaying slightly, and Jack grabbed her.
"Come on," he whispered. Looking up at him, he glared at her. Sighing she nodded and he took her to the infirmary.
"So what can I do for you colonel?"
"Well doc it's the lieutenant actually."
"Lieutenant what's wrong?"
"Well nothing really, just need a bit of morphine…"
"What for?"
"Had an accident and never fully recovered, was shipped out before my doctor actually discharged me,"
"What sort of accident?" Sighing Kya shifted and lay on the bed covering her eyes.
"Well I took my squad into enemy grounds and blew up a few things… On the way back something hit the canopy and I took a pretty nasty hit to the head, and doc's had me on morphine to help with the pain, and to keep me going. I got enough out of him, for the last few days. I ran out about two hours ago or something," she sighed.
"Well if you don't mind I'd like to examine you, my self and then see what I think is going on?"
"Sure knock you're self out! Although if you haven't got my medical file yet, there are some anomalies in my blood work,"
"I'll take a look at those as well," she smiled gently.
"Alright, Lieutenant Rhodes is it?"
"Yes ma'am,"
"Alright, I'm going to have to take your blood and send it away to find out what's going on. As well as the physical I'm sure you're used to by now," she smiled.
"Yes ma'am," Kya sighed, as she was sitting on the edge of the bed, Jack watching from the end of the bed, and the doctor in front of her.
"Is there something wrong lieutenant?"
"No, just thinking…"
"About?" Jack asked watching her.
"Flying sir."
"Flying?"
"Yes sir! Flying,"
"What about flying?"
"How can I fly if I'm stuck working in a mountain?"
"Well there's a few things you haven't been told yet lieutenant, so just co-operate with doctor Fraiser here, and afterwards you'll be told what you need to know…"
"Great! A need to know basis operation! How the hell did I get involved in that?" She sighed staring at the doctor, who was smirking, trying not to laugh. "It's alright doc, you can laugh, and it wasn't directed at you,"
"I'm aware of that lieutenant," she smiled. "Ok, now however, we need to get this all done, so the colonel can take you back to General Hammond."
"Oh yeah forgot about that guy! Not used to reporting to a general anymore," she smiled gently, as Doctor Fraiser, started with the physical.
"Why's that?"
"Because at base the colonel was our commanding officer and the dude who ran the place," she smiled gently, as Fraiser pressed her fingers to either side of Kya's neck checking her glands.
"Really?"
"Yep, the guy wasn't half bad either! Picked on me a bit, but you get that," she smiled.
"Why'd he pick on you?"
"Oh because he knew my mother, actually the colonel was my uncle, which not even Goose knew about!" She laughed gently, as Fraiser pressed her stethoscope to her chest.
"Take a deep breath for me," taking a deep breath she smiled. "Must have been pretty hard to take orders from him then,"
"Nah he was cool! The colonel only ever did things for the greater good of the squad."
"And again," she smiled moving it to her back. "Well that's good that he had your best interests at heart,"
"Oh I doubt that!" Kya smirked. "I mean he was sweet and all, but sometimes what he expected and what we gave him were so far in the opposite directions that it was like we were on different planets!" Kya laughed. Smiling Fraiser nodded.
"Well you seem alright, apart from this pain you're experiencing, so I'll take that blood sample and hopefully the results will be back by tomorrow morning," she smiled. Nodding Kya grinned.
"So I'm sweet to go?" Laughing she nodded.
"Yes lieutenant your fine to go,"
"Sweet!" She grinned, jumping off the bed she looked at Jack, before back to Fraiser. "Ah you mind if I get something for the pain before this briefing?"
"Sure," she smiled. "I'm not going to give you morphine as I don't know your history, but I'll give you some pain killers," she smiled before walking off. Sighing Kya rolled her eyes.
"She has a point!"
"Well she knows you; can't you ask her for some and then give it to me?"
"It doesn't work like that, and you know it!"
"Yeah what ever!" She sighed.
"Alright here you go," she smiled handing Kya two tablets and a glass of water. Taking them, she smiled gently.
"Thanks,"
"Not a problem lieutenant!" And with that she was gone.
"You know that's not going to do anything! Can't you tell her something?"
"I'm sorry Kylana, but if something was to happen I'd be…"
"Alright forget I asked!" She hissed, moving past him.
"Hey!" He called jogging after her, and grabbing her arm. Spinning her around Jack glared at her. "I know you hate me and you don't want to be here, but if something was to happen to you I'd be in the shit!"
"So that's it? You're just worried that you'll be caught out?"
"Kya!" He hissed.
"No, it's alright! Forget it! I'll just suffer in silence!" She hissed, glaring at him.
"Now you listen to me damn it!" He whispered, "What goes on here is way more than some squad taking out targets! The world depends on us!"
"Well sor-rey!"
"Kya you have to understand if something was to happen to anyone here, you'd take their place! Nothing can happen to you! You were chosen because of your genes not because of your flying capabilities!"
"What?" She frowned.
"Listen, no one here but the general knows who you are. You are Lieutenant Rhodes to everyone else, and that's how it's going to stay, but your genetic makeup changes you! I've got a different gene network to the `average' human, and you inherited it. Your mother was different as well, the abnormalities that are in your blood work is because of us, because of what you inherited not because something happened when you were a baby!"
"What the hell are you trying to tell me?" She frowned totally confused and terrified.
"Kya, I need you to trust me, I need you to understand that what your mother died from, you can as well! That I put in a favour to have you transferred here to stop that from happening. We can stop you from dying. You have a lot of knowledge about different places in you mind, all those pictures you showed me that you used to draw, I've been there, they really exist! The words you write when you don't think about it, they are real!
"I spoke that language for a few days, it's all real Kya! Every last bit! Everything from the planets and the city's to the inhabitants and the little grey aliens with those big black eyes, it's all real!"
"It can't be," she whispered.
"It is, and you need to be here, we need you! You're the missing link!"
"But…"
"General Hammond will explain it a bit more, but you will have to look over things and tell us what you see and what they mean," he whispered squeezing her hand gently. "I know this is a lot to take in, but…"
"No it's not, I understand what you're saying it's just… Wow," she whispered. Smiling he nodded. "What are these aliens and people called?"
"Well…" He smiled wrapping his arm around her shoulders as they walked to the briefing room.
"Ok, question time!" Kya stated once everyone was seated. Opening his mouth, the general frowned when she raised her hand. "MY question time," she added watching everyone.
"What do you mean lieutenant?"
"With all due respect general, I have a hell of a lot to ask! Firstly, why is it that this has come around now? Why is it that I was put through shrink after shrink, as I was told there was something wrong with me! And WHY is it that you suddenly NEED me?" She huffed glaring at everyone in the room.
"They will be answered in due time lieu…"
"No general they will be answered now or I won't do what ever it is that you want me to do!"
"Ah general I said a few things to her, on the way from the infirmary." Jack sighed glaring at Kya.
"Look I know you don't know me, and I know you probably don't trust me, but right now I need to know why all of a sudden things that I drew and said as a toddler are so damn important to you all!"
"We have reason to believe that you're the missing link,"
"I've already heard that general Hammond,"
"What is it that you want us to tell you?"
"Why?" She exclaimed, looking at him. "Why general?"
"We can't answer that lieutenant, things just happen."
"And I'm just supposed to buy that?"
"It's all we have at the moment,"
"It's not good enough general! I could be at home, with my squad defending…"
"Stop it!" Jack hissed glaring at her. "Just deal with the information you have and the rest will be provided at a later date!"
"Hey I'm all for this need to know basis crap, but this is a bit more than a need to know, when you're all USING me!" She hissed glaring back at him, before turning to the others around the table.
"How about we all just calm down?" The guy with glasses said.
"Hey four eyes, it's not me who has to calm down!" She hissed glaring at him.
"What did you just call him?" Jack spat.
"What? You have a problem all of a sudden, with someone else hating geeks?"
"Daniel is not a geek!"
"Oh well sor-rey Mr I'm the best!" She mocked.
"Ah, Kya is it?" Daniel questioned.
"Yeah," she huffed, glaring at him.
"I was just wondering if you knew what this means?" He asked gently, passing her a sheet of paper. Frowning she sighed and rolled her eyes before she took it. Reading it, she frowned.
"Nope," she stated handing it back.
"You didn't even read it!"
"Yes I did,"
"Then what's it say?" Jack frowned.
"Don't know,"
"Kya!" Glaring at him she snatched it back, and read it a loud.
"Who ever may come across this, beware. For those of you that are left you will be next…" Sighing she frowned as she struggled to read on. "Ah… This will lead you to your destiny. You will need to shield your self and continue to protect the galaxy as we created. You will not be able to join us, as we are being threatened once again. You will be safer where you are, and will be able to do much more in order to help the lowers of this galaxy…" Drifting off, she sighed looking at Jack.
"That's it?" Shaking her head she held his gaze. Raising his eye brows he gave her a slight shrug.
"It goes on to say that they will be destroyed and that the galaxy as we know it will be eradicated. The lowers, humans, will be converted to following a cult called the `ori' or `origin', and that they will…" Swallowing, she tore her gaze from his.
"They will what lieutenant?" Hammond stated, as she stared at the page.
"That they will start with the human called…" Stopping she looked back to Jack as tears swam in her eyes.
"Called who?" Daniel asked, sitting on the edge of his seat, as though he was watching some thriller.
"Jonathon O'Neill," she whispered.
"Jack?" Daniel gasped. "Why Jack?"
"Because they believe without him, humans will be at a loss and will crumble and follow the ori," she whispered.
"Ok, so we don't let them get to him, easy right?" Daniel smiled gently. Shaking her head Kya watched him, closely.
"They've already gotten to him, they've already started to break him," she stated.
"What?" Jack and Daniel exclaimed.
"We haven't met these Ori," Sam added with a frown.
"They have ways, and only…" Taking a deep breath she stood. "There's only one place that can reverse what is done,"
"Where's that?" Shrugging Kya looked away.
"Draw it," Jack stated. Looking up she frowned.
"What?"
"Draw it. Draw the place, the planet, the country. Draw it,"
"I can't,"
"Why not?" Daniel frowned.
"Because it's not a planet, its not a place, it's a person," she stated staring at Jack as she slowly moved around the table.
"Don't you even think about it," he hissed.
"There is only one person that can stop it, that can keep him alive. Only one person that can give their life for his…" She stated, stopping in front of him as he'd turned his chair to follow her movements.
"Ky…" He whispered, but she moved quicker then he expected, and had her right hand over his heart and her left over her own. Watching in utter amazement, as a bright light formed around the duo, the other four occupants in the room sat stunned.
Falling to the ground ten minutes later, Kya gasped for air, as she slowly let her eyes close. Struggling him self Jack suddenly looked around as he heard someone calling out to him.
"Colonel?" Seeing her, his eyes widened, before he turned back to see Kya lying on the floor by his feet.
"Ky!" He exclaimed, jumping up he knelt by her side checking her pulse and breathing. "Get Fraiser!" He stated, as the other occupants in the room just sat there in utter shock. "Ky, honey, come on..." He whispered.