Author's Note: This chapter has some dicey things regarding Sam's capture. It's not any worse than what's come before though it is more directly graphic as it's happening in the moment rather than in retrospect. It was interesting to write as I was writing Sam, for the first time in a long time, before she was broken.
Anyway, we're finally into the happy emotions (after this chapter, because clearly this one can't be happy)! I've got to admit, I'm really excited about that. We've got eleven chapters left and while it's not all wine and roses, we're certainly coming down the other side of the mountain now.
Part IV: Surprise
She licks her lips as her gaze flickers between his eyes and mouth. After the year – not to mention the mission – they've had he shouldn't be so surprised to see interest on her face, but he is. So he deflects with, "You ready for this, Major?" accompanied by a waggle of his eyebrows.
"Yes, sir," she says with a breathier quality to her voice than he's comfortable with considering the uniforms.
He takes a hesitant step towards her. "Okay?" he asks as he settles a hand on her hip and cups her cheek with the other.
"Yes, sir," she says and he swears her voice has gone breathier still.
He takes another step into her and then leans down and suddenly he's speaking against her lips, "If you don't touch me too this probably isn't going to be very convincing."
Then she slides her hands around him across his ribcage and she closes the slight gap between their mouths. She sighs and he pulls her tighter to him.
He's so wrapped up in the feeling of her hands on his shoulder blades, her hips pressed against him, her lips on his that he's momentarily befuddled when she's wrenched from his grip. But behind him Daniel is gasping and Teal'c has shifted into an offensive stance and the combination makes his skin crawl like it does just before he leaps into the fray.
Just as his palms start to itch from missing the feeling of the fabric of her uniform under his hands, he realizes that Votan's First Prime has her in a half nelson. His first instinct is to lunge for her but he's learned a thing or two over the years. "Daniel, what the hell's going on?"
Daniel is blubbering behind him in a way that makes him very uneasy. "I…well…I don't know, Jack. We've done something wrong."
"Ya think?!" he throws over his shoulder before addressing the First Prime. "What now?"
"This woman is not yours."
"Like hell she isn't!" Jack returns with confidence he doesn't possess.
"She is not. You touch her as if you require permission."
"That's how it's done on our world," he tries to reason while simultaneously calculating the number of times Jaffa have responded to reason.
"You lie to me! You lie to our God."
Jack looks past the enormous man to see Votan with a smirk on his face that sets Jack's blood to boil. "You have been warned about lying to your God," Votan says. Jack shudders at the slime in his voice.
"Major Carter belongs to me," Jack reasserts. In front of him Carter's eyes are wide and frightened and the First Prime slides his hand across her flat belly and pulls her back into his tree-trunk of a body. He watches as she tenses up and he can see a defensive maneuver itch its way across her shoulders. "Easy there, Carter," he soothes more with his eyes than his voice.
"Your Major Carter now belongs to me," Votan says. "I am sure I will enjoy her much more than you have."
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It takes longer than it should to realize she's been ripped out of the Colonel's embrace. She goes through the motions of other emotions but it's not until a wall of Jaffa step between her and the rest of her team that she realizes this is why the frat regs exist in the first place. She's already a prisoner before she really realizes what's happening.
It's not until she can't see the guys anymore that she screams for them. It's about that time, coincidentally, that the First Prime slides his hand down her stomach until he's touching her in places she hasn't been touched in a damn long time. That's when she realizes this is going to get very, very bad. "Colonel," she shrieks in a voice she'd be embarrassed about if a Jaffa didn't have his hand down her pants.
"Carter!" his ragged voice breaks through the scuffle of armor as he and the others are detained. She kicks at the First Prime's shins and she realizes that the giant man has hauled her completely off the ground. It should be awkward, she finds herself contemplating, how he's got her suspended with an arm wrapped beneath hers with his hand grasping the back of her neck while his other hand cups her groin, but he seems to manage it with little effort.
Then the crowd parts and she can see the rest of her team subdued and on their knees and she flushes with color knowing they can see that the Jaffa has his hand inside the material of her uniform pants. Though, why she's bothering with embarrassment when she's in a frighteningly bad situation is beyond her. Maybe, perhaps, because just moments ago she'd been flooded with desire for her commanding officer, now she's sure that evidence is plain to her captor and it feels very, very wrong to have another man's hand in wetness he didn't cause while the cause looks on in horror.
She locks eyes with the Colonel at the exact moment the Jaffa plunges a thick, and what she can only imagine is dirty, finger inside of her. She cries out then slams her eyes closed and bites her lip to prevent any further sound. "You are a whore who belongs to no mere man, Major Carter. But do not be mistaken, you will be used."
"Sam!" she hears Daniel's anguished voice call out, thick with tears.
"Carter," the Colonel calls and his voice cracks. "You fight them all the way, you hear me?"
So that's that, then, she supposes while she tries to disassociate from the feeling of the Jaffa's jagged fingernail catching against her softest flesh; they're letting her go. They're just letting her be taken away by a man who spent less than thirty seconds holding her prisoner before he began violating her.
"Carter?" the Colonel calls out again.
Does he really expect her to answer? She refuses to open her eyes to see the look on his face. She just turns in on herself as the Jaffa hauls her away.
"Carter!"
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"We've got to go back for her, Jack."
"I know that, Daniel."
"God! Did you see what he—"
"Yes, Daniel." Jack hisses in a way that makes Daniel think he'd be wise to shut the hell up already.
"That should have worked," he mutters to himself but Jack's not in the right frame of mind for curiosity.
"Well it didn't fucking work, did it, Daniel?"
"I'm sorry. I—"
"Don't apologize to me. You apologize to her when we get her back," Jack punctuates his sentence with a stiff finger poked into Daniel's chest.
"I will," he assures Jack.
"Teal'c?"
"Yes, O'Neill?"
"They're going to do to her what it looks like they were going to do to her, right?"
"Yes," Daniel shudders at the finality of Teal'c's voice. "And more."
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She finds herself at first thrown into a cell that's really just a large shower. Lukewarm water pummels her until it begins to hurt.
After that a young Jaffa who is still nearly twice her size comes and takes her boots, belt and vest. She's curious for a few minutes about why they'd leave her with clothes at all, and then another Jaffa comes in with a gauzy pair of pants and a short tank top and cuts her clothes off her while she struggles. She gets two long slices along her legs for her efforts and when it's over she's still dressed in the Goa'uld version of lingerie.
The first Jaffa – the one who has already claimed the inside of her – comes back after a while and she gets a black eye when she spits in his face.
It only takes a day to realize she's like a new feature in a two-screen town and she discovers they all get their jollies in different ways. Some wear armor, some don't, some bring weapons…some bring other kinds of weapons. Later it's clear she sees them all before she starts seeing them all over again and the only one who gets to jump the line is the first one; the one whose name she's come to discover is Tar'ayn.
It's five days later when she realizes SG-1 isn't coming back.
Many thanks to all the readers and reviewers. I'm very behind on replies, but I'm going to go do that now. I figured you all wouldn't mind waiting a little longer in lieu of a new chapter. ;-)