Chapter IV
“So we’re alright?” Sam was sat upon the edge of a bed in the infirmary, she watched as Janet an evaluation on some papers then sign her name “are we cleared to go back through the Stargate?”
Janet set down her pen on the
desk and sat down in the chair before regarding Carter and O’Neill “I can’t
find anything wrong with you…and that’s confusing me because I can’t explain
your earlier behaviour.” She looked
from one to the other, hoping they could indulge her.
“We just got a little cranky Doc, we’d just walked through snow and ice for seven hours after spending the night in the tiny home of the one occupant of P…something…help me out here Carter” he looked to his teammate.
“P4X 698” she offered.
“Exactly, we just wanted to get
back here, rest up maybe get something edible then head on back to the planet
with a stretcher and something to dull Danny’s pain” O’Neill explained.
Sam nodded her agreement “and
Daniel really isn’t that badly hurt, it’s nothing to worry about Janet. Things just got blown way out of proportion,
we’re sorry” she apologised and looked at the Doctor meekly.
Janet sighed. “Okay…” she put what she had seen in the
changing rooms down to a lapse in judgement, then again she was tired maybe she
just imagined it. “I will tell General
Hammond but I want you two to rest up, okay?” the Doctor waited for them to
agree with her and to comply.
Jack grinned. “Scouts honour…see, we’re resting already”
he closed his eyes and pretended to snore.
The Doctor laughed “okay” she
stood and made her way to the door “I want to be seeing zee’s by the time I get back” with that she left
them both alone in the Infirmary, something still didn’t sit right with her
about their behaviour but she put it down to lack of sleep.
“That was easy” Sam spoke up once
Janet was out of earshot, breaking the silence “she has a point though, I think
I do need rest. Must be one of the
after effects.”
O’Neill nodded his agreement. “And by this time tomorrow we’ll be back on
that planet, get Daniel and Teal’c then find out where this Dimat is hiding
out.”
Sam lay back on the bed, her hands
linked by and supporting her head “I thought you didn’t want to see him again.”
He smirked, a glint in his brown
eyes “that was before I realised he has something we want…”
*
Teal’c’s eyes widened in shock at
seeing Daniel holding his own weapon at him, his eyes then narrowed dangerously
“you do not want to do that Daniel Jackson” his voice sounded deeper,
dangerous. The Jaffa stood and waited
for his friend to shoot again.
“Oh come on Teal’c!” Daniel
laughed. “You really think that I’m
afraid of you? I’m going to prove to
you that I am just as competent in a fight as you or Jack” Daniel felt stronger
somehow, and Teal’c was standing in between him and the canteen. He wanted it, craved it. The contents, whatever they were, made him
feel bolder, as though he could do anything at all.
Teal’c’s face showed no emotion
whatsoever. “You will not get the
water” he promised “Dimat gave it to me.”
Daniel raised the Zat again
“famous last words” even as he spoke he faltered slightly, he could feel the
effects of the water fading…he needed more of the stuff. He didn’t hear the footsteps behind him but
seeing Teal’c look past him made Daniel to turn around curiously “what are you
doing here?” he asked in confusion.
The woman was a little older but
she was still clearly recognisable to Daniel, she stepped forward and lowered
his arm, taking the Zat from his hand.
She walked towards Teal’c and he moved back and grabbed the canteen and
held it protectively “you will not take it!” he yelled peevishly.
“I don’t want to” Miasa replied
with a nonchalant shrug.
“You will leave this place, the
both of you. We cannot all drink the
water or it will run out” The Jaffa replied with a stoic expression on his
face..
Miasa nodded “we will” of course
what she would really do was get away from the cabin and find that fool Dimat
and try and set things right for the second time. She took Daniel by the arm and began to pull him back towards the
door “we need to leave.”
The archaeologist followed her
then paused in mid step, his face suddenly as unreadable as his Jaffa friends
“no.” He turned back “I want that” he
raised his arm to the canteen “and I will get it!”
Teal’c threw the canteen to the
back of the room and the contents within sloshed. “I do not think that would be wise Daniel Jackson” he warned
before suddenly hurrying forward before Daniel could react; he grabbed the smaller
man by his neck and lifted him high into the air, his head almost touching the
wooden ceiling. “It is not yours to
take,” he chided. Daniel’s face began
to turn a deep shade of red as the air was steadily squeezed out of him and he
fought to breathe. He attempted to pry
the Jaffa’s firm grip from his neck but to no avail, Teal’c was too
strong. Jackson closed his eyes and the
next thing he knew he was landing on the floor was a loud and painful bump, the
pain that had subsided earlier shot through his leg.
Teal’c was on the floor,
momentarily dazed and a now broken chair beside him. “Now will you leave?” Miasa stood beside him, her hand out in an
offering to help him stand. “You do not
need to walk far,” she told him as she kept an eye on Teal’c. The calming effect that he had felt years
before upon first meeting Miasa returned, he looked to the canteen “now” she
ordered. Daniel nodded once and with a
medium amount of effort he was able to stand.
“Where are we going?”
She spoke one name “Dimat.”
*
SG-1 you have a go” Hammond loud voice sounded throughout the Gate room as he spoke through the microphone. O’Neill turned and nodded, and waited for Carter and Captain Gordon to go past him, between them they carried a stretcher for Daniel. From the control room Janet watched them leave, at least their other team member was going with them, everything would be fine.
*
“Damn it’s cold here” Gordon was
the first to speak upon reaching the ice planet” he set the stretcher down
beside the Stargate as the wormhole disengaged.
Jack just walked past him “you’ll
get used to it” he walked down the steps, walking along the same path that he
had walked before. He stepped outside
and surveyed the area, he could see the remains of the houses and in the
distance he saw the sled and the dogs… “He’s here.”
Gordon looked from Carter to Jack
then back again “who are you guys talking about?” he asked with a puzzled
expression on his face.
Sam ignored him as she made her
way to where O’Neill stood “good.”