By Demon
Faith, Meloko and Stephali
AUTHORS: Demon Faith,
Meloko and Stephali
EMAIL: rosabeth@hotmail.com , meloko8@hotmail.com and stephalij@hotmail.com
CATEGORY: S/D,
Action/Adventure, Drama, Angst, H/C
SPOILERS: A few minor
dotted about: but a general knowledge is all that’s needed.
SEASON/SEQUEL: Set
after Season 4.
RATING: PG-13
CONTENT WARNINGS:
injury, sexual situations, torture, (evil) character death
SUMMARY: SG-1 are
trapped off-world – and another SG-1 have taken their place…
DISCLAIMER: The
original SG-1 belongs to MGM/Showtime/Viacom. The ‘other’ SG1 kinda belong to
us: anything original – looking is the property of the authors. Not to be
archived without the authors permission.
AUTHOR’S NOTES: There
is only one thing I have to say – we survived! We have not been committed to
mental health – yet. Anything you don’t understand, just e-mail us!
DF/xx
Daniel stared at the vast
landscape in front of him; it was perfect in every way. The sun hit the leaves
at just the right point and reflected beautifully. The birds were singing and
for once he’d had a good long sleep. They were all happy, actually, Sam was
more than happy she was ecstatic, as the natives had given her what she
believed to be a miracle drug, everything couldn’t be better.
“It’s too perfect, ” he thought. “Or
maybe I’m just being cynical, I should just enjoy it for how it is, as we only
have a short time left”. As much as all of them liked it, they had to go
home; they’d already stayed longer than they needed to. Jack had told them if
they didn’t go soon they would be tempted to stay forever, and he was right…
but that feeling wouldn’t go away, it just lingered in the air and no matter
how hard he tried to forget it, he just couldn’t.
“Daniel? Daniel, where
are you?”
“Over here, Sam.”
Sam moved towards his
voice, passing through the dense bush to reach the cliff edge and the view
beyond.
“I thought you hated
heights.”
Daniel turned around,
just as Sam stepped through the last metres of scrub.
“But the view is worth
the trouble.”
Sam turned to look, and
gasped with wonder. The sky was filled with orange light and there was an
ambient glow coming from the hills. The fiery red sun had just risen and was
throwing the whole spectre in a blood red light.
“It’s beautiful,” she
whispered.
“Yep, it sure is. Come
on, Jack’ll be looking for us.”
Sam nodded slowly, but
didn’t move from the spot. Daniel sighed, took her arm and began to drag her
backwards.
“Hey! Stop it!”
Sam turned towards him,
trying to look annoyed. Daniel just laughed. She chased him towards the bushes
but suddenly stopped, as the ground began to quake.
“Daniel…”
The archaeologist stopped,
grabbing onto her arm again.
“What’s happening Sam?”
Before she could
answer, the ground beneath split and they fell into the dark chasm below.
~
“Where the hell are
they?”
“I know not, O’Neill.”
Teal’c stopped to consider this. “However, I do believe that they would most
likely be in a close proximity to the tremor we just felt.”
“That would be just
about typical, I suppose. Well, come on. Let’s go look for the little lost
sheep.”
They trudged up the
path, alert for any sight or sound of their missing team-mates. Even if he didn’t want to admit it, Jack was
getting worried, it was unlike Sam to miss a deadline, and the fact she was
responding to her radio either meant that something was almost definitely
wrong. They had finally reached the spot that Daniel and Sam had been admiring,
but any sense of beauty or wonder was lost on them, as their feelings of
anxiety and concern took over.
Teal’c began
unconsciously retracing the steps that his friends had taken only a few minutes
before. He strode towards the bushes, until he saw a strange sight. A small
hole, no larger than an elevator, was cut square into the ground. It looked
cold and black, and seemed to disappear downwards forever.
“O’Neill!” he called
and within seconds, Jack was standing by his side.
“You don’t think
they….?” He didn’t need to finish the question; in his mind there was no doubt
where his colleagues were. “So how are we going to get down there?”
Whatever Teal’c was
about to say was lost in a terrific rumbling sound, like thunder, but coming
from below. Jack shot a glance at him and nodded once. They both stood their
ground, even though it seemed that the planet itself was trying to move them
from this place. In a few seconds it was all over. It was as if nothing ever
happened.
“So what do we do now?”
Jack asked, a rescue plan forming in his mind.
There was no need for
that plan. The ground splintered, as before, shards of rock falling away like
melting snow. Jack lunged for the seemingly unaffected tree, standing only a
few metres away. But it was too late. They were swallowed by the darkness, and
not a trace of their presence remained.
~
“Any report of SG1”
asked the General.
“No, there has been no
contact from them for days” the technician told him.
“Tell me as soon as they
do” the General insisted. “Are any teams on Earth now?”
“SG3 and” he quickly
looked through the files. “They’re the only team here, General”
“Get me SG3 at once and
tell them to be ready immediately”
“Will…” he stopped as a
signal appeared. “It’s …SG1’s signal, Sir”
The General now glad
but a little confused ordered “Open the iris”
The wormhole gushed out
and with it came SG1, with a serious tan.
Hammond walked down to
see them; but this was no greeting.
“Colonel O’Neill you
were due back days ago”
“Sorry, Sir we lost
track of time but Carter did find something which the doc might be interested
in seeing”
Sam reached into her
bag and pulled out a small green herb like plant.
“I’d liked to run some
tests on them Sir”
“Of course Major”
Sam went to her lab to
uncover the mystery.
~
Daniel coughed and
opened his eyes; where was he?
“Sam” he called in
worry.
“I’m here Daniel” she
managed to reply through her splitting headache.
Daniel looked around
him and tried to figure out where they were. A shiver went down his spine. Well it’s cold for a start but it’s lit, by
what? He tried to stand up and fell back down. He looked back up and saw a
friendly face.
“Need any help Daniel”
Sam asked, swaying slightly.
“Are you alright?”
Typical Daniel; caring by nature.
“Yes, but I think I
have a migraine. Give me your hand”
Sam helped Daniel up.
“How do you think it’s lit?” he asked the expert.
“I don….” She stopped
as she saw two people lying on the floor a few feet away.
“Sir! Are you alright?”
Sam took two hurried
steps forward, then stopped when her headache overtook her. Daniel took her
waist and arm, gently helping her lean against the wall…ah, there was a wall!
Daniel’s mind quickly jumped to the conclusion of intelligence. An intelligent earthquake? Jack’s gonna
really hate this…Remembering his friend, Daniel left Sam and went over to
Jack, who was moving to sit up.
“You just had to
wander, didn’t you? I can’t leave you alone for one minute…”
Satisfied that Jack was
his normal self, Daniel glanced over to Teal’c, who was already on his feet.
“Daniel Jackson, you
are injured.”
Daniel frowned, and
then noticed the pain in his side. He looked down and winced. There was a large
gash in his side that had, up to now, dulled its protests because of Daniel’s
worry and guilt. Now, that he was assured everyone was safe, albeit also sorry,
the pain could take over. He just shrugged and made his way back to Sam, who
was looking far worse than he did. He slid slowly down the wall and touched her
arm gently.
“Hey, you okay?”
Sam looked up at him,
and blinked at him rapidly.
“Um…I have a huge
headache. I think I’ve been out for a while.”
“Well, I think we all
have major concussions! No thanks to you two wanderers, who just had to stumble into an earthquake!”
Sam tried to smile and
laugh, but she suddenly saw black creeping across her vision. She tightened her
grip on Daniel’s arm.
“Daniel, help me.
Please, Daniel…”
Sam collapsed to the
floor, completely unconscious.
~
Jack strolled into
Sam’s lab – well, his Sam anyway – and smiled at her.
“How’s it going,
Carter?”
She looked up and
smiled at him. She walked over, pointed to a piece of paper and wrote a
passage:
NO ONE SUSPECTS US.
WE’RE CLEAR FOR NOW. THE PROTOTYPES WILL NEVER ESCAPE. WE ARE PERFECT COPIES.
Jack smiled and picked
up the pen, writing back:
I KNOW. WE WILL SOON
TAKE OVER THIS WORLD AND ADD IT TO THE VAST EMPIRE OF APOPHIS.
She nodded and then
spoke aloud. “Have you seen Daniel recently, sir? I think he was going to go
and look for you.”
“No I haven’t seen him,
but thanks, I’ll go and look for him now.” He went out the door, into the wider
SGC.
~
“Dr. Jackson?” Daniel
turned and scowled, but quickly covered it up. It was one of those really
annoying military linguists who only spoke a few languages and expected him to
translate for them on the spot, it wasn’t as if he had anything better to do
than help them was it?
“Yes,” was all he
answered.
“I was just wondering
if you’d take a look at these markings. Now they seem to be hieroglyphics, but
the word patterns are more compatible with the structure of modern day
Italian…”
Now didn’t that seem
absolutely stupid? Of course this Daniel knew all of these languages and could
easily point out where this young officer was going wrong, but he found it so
absolutely boring. At least the rest of them got interesting jobs.
At the turn of one of
the off-shooting corridors, he saw the form of Jack. He decided to make his
escape.
“Well, you’re doing
fine on your own.”
“I am?”
“Yes. You’ll soon have
this sorted. If you’ll excuse me, I have to talk to Colonel O’Neill.”
He hurried off, glad to
be rid of the linguist and also glad to get the chance to talk to Jack, to see
if their plan had developed any further.
~
Sam opened her heavy
eyes and let the light return to them.
“Sam” said a caring
voice.
Daniel she realised, he was sitting next to
her and a sigh of relief had cast through him, as she had awoken.
“Ah, Carter, you’ve
returned” the Colonel joked.
“Are you alright?”
Daniel’s voice was of pure concern.
“I’m still not a
hundred percent but I’ll manage, thank for asking Sir”
“What?” he defended.
Just as Sam was about
to reply with a snide remark, the Jaffa returned.
“Any luck?”
“Yes I found a hole,
but it’s only big enough for one person to fit through, but not of my size”
Teal’c informed.
They all looked at Sam.
“What?” then she
realised. “I’m not going through there…..suddenly I’m feeling faint again”
“Strange that isn’t
it?” Jack commented.
“Well I took a sudden
turn”
“Major, by the sounds
of it, you’re our only hope” Jack explained in a melodramatic voice.
“But Jack, she’s just
woken up” Daniel reasoned.
“What if I get stuck?”
she asked in attempt to discourage Jack.
“Carter, you’re going through whether you like it or not, even if I
have to physically push you”
Sam agreed, though not
through choice.
“If I do get stuck, be
it on your head, and you better be able to get me out of here” she threatened
him.
She looked at the hole
and saw what Teal’c meant, there was a pretty small gap which no-one else could
have fitted through. “But what if I can’t get through?” she worried
as she reluctantly placed her head in the gap and pushed herself through.
“You alright Carter?”
“So far” she answered
as half her body was in and the rest was still at their end; had it not been so
serious, it would have almost been comical.
She grabbed onto a rock
to help her go forward and felt the ground shake.
“Jack” she cried as the
rocks tumbled around her.
~
Daniel woke up, feeling
ten times worse than when he fell asleep. Oh, that might be because he was
buried under a huge rock! Daniel stared at the massive boulder in horror, as it
sat on his protesting legs. His arms were spread-eagled under quite a few
rocks, and obviously pinned to the ground. It seemed the wall had fallen on
him.
To make matters worse,
Sam, who had been in the wall, was lying unconscious beside him. He heard
someone stir nearby, and, seeing as Teal’c didn’t curse in quite that language (who was he kidding? Teal’c didn’t swear at
all!), it had to be Jack. He tried to call, but the rocks made breathing
difficult. Damn, he always got himself into these stupid situations! So, he
tried another way…
Jack could hear
something. A slow and steady tapping noise drew his attention to rather large
pile of rocks. He moved over to them and gasped.
“Daniel! Are you okay?”
Daniel glared at him,
and Jack grinned sheepishly.
“Okay, so I can see
you’re not. Um…what do you want me to do?”
Daniel was getting
frustrated now. Jack wasn’t quite that thick, was he? Then, Sam woke up.
“What the hell
happened?”
She stood up, clutching
her head. She glanced at Jack and then followed his eyes to Daniel.
“Daniel! Oh, let me
help you out!”
Then, Jack caught on.
Together, they started to move the smaller rocks from Daniel’s chest, Sam
apologising profusely every time Daniel yelled.
“ O’Neill, Major
Carter; do you require assistance?”
Teal’c bounded up and
took over Sam’s position, meaning she could try and make Daniel more
comfortable as the pain got worse.
“Carter, we’ll need
your help with this boulder.”
Sam nodded, squeezed
Daniel’s hand, and then helped them try and shift the boulder. Daniel fully
screamed, but the boulder was gone. Sam sat back beside him, and cradled him
gently in her arms.
~
Sam was typing, Jack
looking anxiously over her shoulder. He wasn’t sure that their plan would work
and if didn’t: he knew he would be the one blamed for it.
“Are you there yet?” he
asked impatiently.
“Not yet. But I will
be. And soon.” He lay his hand firmly on her shoulder, gripping it tightly.
“Good. We wouldn’t want
to keep the General waiting.”
Finally, she brought up
the computer program from which she could assess all the iris codes and disable
them. It had taken her a long time to get into them, as they had been very well
protected. Unfortunately for the SGC, Sam Carter had protected them, and as she
was the one breaking in, it was inevitable that she’d get there in the end.
“Now, we know what
we’re doing, right?” Jack said slowly.
“Of course we do.”
Suddenly they heard a
loud sneeze, followed by the sound of someone falling violently to the floor.
“Damn it!” said Jack, “If that’s Daniel…”
It did indeed turn out
to be Daniel. Surprisingly though, he was not the one slumped on the floor, or
the one staring in horrified shock. He was the one laughing at the scene, in a
rather evil kind of way.
“Daniel! What the hell
is going on?” Well Jack thought, have to stay in character.
“Sergeant Rogers was
fixing those fiddly control panels things…. And then Dr. Frasier came up behind
him to tell him something, but instead she sneezed…. And he was a bit shocked,
so he turned round really fast…. And hit her.”
Sam burst out into the
corridor. “Oh my God! Janet?”
The well-trained
medical response team was already there, attending to her. “Excuse me Major
Carter, but could we use your office for a moment, since it’s just over there?”
Sam could think of no
reason to say no. “Of course,” she said, winking at Jack. He understood and
rushed in, flicking off the power to her computer and shutting it down.
“We’ll only be a few
minutes, then we’ll move her to the infirmary.”
“As long as she’s all
right.” Sam said that with the sweetest voice she could muster, but inside she
was feeling as bitter and evil as a vampire, she could almost taste the
blood…..
Perhaps this wasn’t
going to be that bad after all.
~
Daniel winced as he
attempted to stand up with Sam’s help, as he gripped tightly on her shoulder,
he decided pain did have it’s perks after all! But that feeling didn’t last……
“Daniel I’m sorry, but
I can’t keep this up, my head still spinning, Jack can you take over?” Sam
asked.
“What take hold of that
lump!”
“Excuse me” Daniel
protested. “I’m not that heavy!”
“Well I didn’t mean
that” he paused. “Well actually I did, I should think about……”
Daniel glared at Jack
with a thanks-a-lot look.
So it was the strong
Jaffa that carried Daniel to the…
“Er, Jack, remember how
our only escape route got blocked up” she reminded him.
“Then how exactly are
we meant to get out of here?”
As much as Jack wanted
to have the solution, he didn’t have a clue. They were stuck and there wasn’t
anything they could do about it.
~
Daniel was feeling
powerful. He strolled through the corridor, until he came to Jack’s office. He
opened the door, and saw Sam sitting in the middle, deep in meditation. Jack
and Teal’c were nowhere to be seen, so Daniel locked the door and sat down
beside Sam. Colonel’s offices have no
video cameras…he thought gleefully.
“Daniel, you wanted
something?”
Daniel leaned close to
her, so that his breath was warm on her neck.
“You need me to answer
that?”
Sam opened one eye
lazily, before stretching out her legs and leaning back on one hand.
“And have you thought
about what I want?”
Daniel mimicked her
position, and raised an eyebrow.
“What you’ve always
wanted…”
Sam threw herself at
her Daniel, sending him to the floor, as she lolled on top.
“Wants are dangerous
things…”
“Who cares?”
Sam kissed her Daniel
deeply, before the outside world was lost to them.
~
Teal’c laid Daniel
gently on a nearby piece of flat ground. Sam sat down next to him, and he
looked up in concern.
“Are you okay?”
Sam eyed him
sceptically.
“Shouldn’t I be the one
asking that?”
“You know it’s really
not so bad.”
Sam studied him.
“Really?”
He tried to lie but it
didn’t work. “Yes… no.”
“Do not worry Daniel
Jackson, we will find a way out of here soon.”
“Thanks Teal’c. I hope
so.”
~
Teal’c headed up to the
briefing room; he needed to speak to Hammond to confirm something. Something
important.
“Ah Teal’c! What can I
do for you?”
“General Hammond, are
there currently any teams off world?”
“No I don’t think so.
SG6 got back two hours ago and no one is scheduled to leave until your mission
tomorrow. Is there a problem?”
“No General Hammond, I
was wondering if the Stargate would be activated again today. Sometimes its
vibrations disturb my meditation.”
“Well you’ve got
nothing to worry about. No one will be coming through that gate while I’m
around.”
“The same goes for me.”
Teal’c turned away, he
had to find Jack and tell him that the coast was clear. Any time they wanted
they could use the Stargate. And now the iris was temporarily deactivated, who
knew who would be paying Earth a visit.
~
Jack paced for the
hundredth time. “I can’t stand doing nothing,
there must be some way out”
“In theory, no-one
would build a place without an entrance…” she stopped and the obvious came to
her. “What am I saying, there has to be an entrance otherwise they couldn’t
have got out, or in”
“Maybe it got covered
with the constant earthquakes,” Daniel suggested.
“How are you feeling?”
asked Sam, how many times had she said those words? Each time they left earth,
she feared for his safety, oh Daniel………
“My chest still hurts a
bit…………”
“Do you want me to
check to see if you’re okay?” Sam asked quickly: what if he was really hurt?
“I’ll be fine, I just
don’t think I’ll be going to the gym for a week…………”
Jack burst out laughing
and couldn’t control himself.
“What’s so funny?”
Daniel asked.
“Nothing” Jack replied
calming himself down. “You made a joke”. “Gym…” Jack muttered.
“You’re ok then?” Sam
clarified.
“I’m fine…”
“Carter, Danny been in
a lot worse situations than this, anyway we have more important matters to deal
with, like the fact we’re stuck with no food, nothing” Jack reminded everyone.
“We need to find the exit, now, as I don’t think this place will ever grow on me”
“Ok Sir, what do you think we should do?”
“Ok, then Major, you go down there, don’t go to
far, cause Danny here’s pretty helpless, if anyone tries to attack……….” Jack
ordered but was cut off by Sam.
“Who?”
“I don’t know, just
because we haven’t met the natives, doesn’t mean there aren’t any” Jack
reminded them. “Teal’c you go that way and I’ll go down here, are we clear?”
“As day” Sam muttered.
“Right come back here”
he looked at his watch. “In about half an hour, if you find anything, you come
back here, you don’t go on, Ok?” Jack checked.
“Definitely” Sam
commented. “See you soon Daniel”
“Bye”. Daniel watched
her and everyone go; so what was he going to do?
Sam walked slowly down;
what seemed to be a never-ending path. “Everything’s
the same, haven’t they heard of decorating? Oh I wonder what I’m going to find
down here?” she wondered as she turned the corner. “More stone, how exciting!” She stopped. A faint dripping sound, she
sped up her pace; the sound got louder.
“Water” Sam said in
glee. She bent down and swept the cool water on her face, the water dripping
into her mouth. “It’s fresh”. She
scooped another handful into her hand and drank. “What am I doing? This is what we wanted, our way out. If I follow the
water, in theory, it should lead us out of here”
She turned round to return to the others when a hard object hit her
head. Sam slumped to the floor and fell in to unconsciousness.
~
“Sam?”
Sam lazily opened her
eyes and smiled.
“Daniel.”
He smiled back, fingers
trailing down her chin.
“You don’t know how
long I’ve wanted to do that…”
“The prototype, not you. You’re the replica,
aren’t you? Hang on, if we’re the replicas…”
“Then, how come we can
do this?”
Sam stared deeply into
her Daniel’s eyes, knowing that somewhere there was another, with another Sam,
possibly doing exactly what they were doing. However, not in Jack’s office.
Prototype Jack’s office. For the first time, Sam had an overwhelming feeling of
unease: this wasn’t her world, this wasn’t even her time. She was living
someone else’s life, and for what? To please a Goa’uld. The thought made her
sick. This wasn’t what the Amalai were for: they were peaceful, loving people.
Now, Apophis had found them after many centuries of searching, and had
harnessed their shape-shifting abilities for his own use. However, she wasn’t
going to think about it. The act was everything: she was Samantha Carter and he was Daniel Jackson. And the act must
continue…
~
Daniel woke up to
beating drums, wondering what the hell was going on. And found himself hanging
from the ceiling. Upside down. And it hurt.
“You are awake,
stranger.”
Daniel hissed with the
pain, wondering just why someone felt like stringing him up on the ceiling.
“Who the hell are you?
Where are my friends?”
“Your friends? The
others in the caves? Why, you are one of them?”
The alien was suddenly
very frustrated, and Daniel rolled his eyes. Well, at least the others are okay.
“Yes I am. Um… we’re
peaceful explorers from another planet, we didn’t mean you any harm.”
“We could see that from
the others, but you? We will not be so easily fooled.”
“What?! Sorry, let me rephrase
that. You think I’m here to hurt you and the others aren’t?”
“We have no reason to
believe your story. Those such as yourself are accomplished liars.”
This was going nowhere
fast. An expression more suited to Jack sprang into Daniel’s mind. Oh for cryin’ out loud…
“What have I done? Why
do you not believe me?”
The alien poked its
finger into Daniel’s wound, causing him to yell out. “That is proof enough. I
will leave you to your torture.”
~
“How you feeling
Carter?”
Sam lifted her head up.
“Like someone’s continually beating my head, as if it’s a drum”
“That bad”
“I gather aspirins are
out of the question” Sam joked
“I’m afraid so”
Sam opened her eyes
fully, and looked around her. “Jack where are...” there was someone missing.
“Where’s Daniel?”
Jack looked at the
floor.
“Where is he?” she
insisted.
“They, have him”
“Who
exactly are they?” she demanded.
“An alien” Teal’c
explained.
“So why Daniel, and not
us?”
“We’re not sure either,
maybe they didn’t like his face!” Jack remarked.
Sam gave Jack an evil
look.
“Ok, maybe now isn’t
the best time for jokes, but the fact of the matter is, we’re stuck”
“Right, they have
Daniel...somewhere, and we are where exactly?” she asked.
“Somewhere in this
cave, they don’t believe we’re threats but they’re still wary”
“Which is why we’re in
a...prison, and Daniel’s not?” Sam said in frustration; the situation was
hopeless.
“O’Neill, they seemed
to look suspiciously at Daniel Jackson’s injuries” Teal’c told him.
“Really” Jack responded
as he hadn’t noticed it, actually the fact was these, alien species were hardly
nice to look at, he wanted to spend as little time as possible looking at them.
“What’s so fascinating
about injuries?”
“Maybe, their race
doesn’t injure easily and they’re fascinated or even wary of it?” Sam
suggested.
“Ok so they’ve got
some, thing for injuries” Jack
searched his mind for any way this could possibly help them but found nothing.
“Which doesn’t help us at all, and we’re basing this all on one suspicious
glance, we are doing well,” he added with a sarcastic tone.
“There must be some way
out of here,” Sam reasoned.
“Sam, its rock, there’s
no way out, unless you have an idea”
“No, I don’t ” she
admitted.
“This is just how I
wanted to spend my day...”
~
Daniel felt very sick.
His head was throbbing, and the steady drip of blood wasn’t helping much
either. Oh, why is life so unfair? No
one felt like answering.
Suddenly, a young woman, the same sickly mottled green as the rest, walked in. She carried a bowl of water and a cloth and looked as if she was afraid of being seen. She had a jagged scar just above her eye