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so_out_of_ideas) wrote2006-06-06 11:36 pm
so_out_of_ideas) wrote2006-06-06 11:36 pm
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...I didn't have to get up early...
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Then we have the meme icons. No teasers because I want the people playing the game to be surprised.
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Then the rest of this week's fic, which is three installments of Rediscovered Hearts. The first two were written for
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sg_challenges and the third for scifi_five, since everyone there is on my flist atm and so has presumably read the story. *hopes*Thanks go to Profsilverback and
stargatefangurl for being my betas at various points for any or all of these.Title: Chances
Author: Lionchilde
Summary: AU Rescuing Vala becomes complicated...
Rating: G
Length: 444 words
Category: angst, drama
Pairing:Daniel/Vala implied
A/N Rediscovered Hearts Part 19. Takes place a few days after Aftermath Written for
sg_challenges"So, what am I supposed to do," Daniel demanded. "Just--just lie here while SG-1 goes to rescue my wife?"
"Yes, Dr. Jackson," Lam replied implacably. "Unless you want me to sedate you, that's exactly what you're going to do--"
She broke off suddenly as Walter Harriman's voice came over the intercom and a claxon began. "Unscheduled off world activation! Medical team to the Embarkation Room!"
"Let's move!" Lam spun around, heading for the door as her people mobilized. They were followed by the other members of SG-1, who had been gathered around Daniel's bed again.
"SG-6?" Nick asked uncertainly beside him.
"It has to be," Daniel groaned softly, covering his face with his hands. If the recon team was coming back early, coming back hot, the odds of a rescue being deployed had just plummeted.
He sank back on the pillows, despair closing in around him, a heavy, choking darkness he hadn't felt since the day he'd cradled her lifeless body against his chest in Celestus. He felt leathery, warm fingers close supportively around his wrist, but didn't open his eyes.
We don't leave our people behind. Jack had coined the phrase in a discussion with the Tok'ra, but since then it had been picked up by everyone involved with Stargate Command, chanted almost as a mantra, a prayer against the inevitable loss that came with what they did.
"We're going to have to ask you to leave, Mr. Ballard," one of the nurses said quietly.
Nick's hand tightened for a moment, then slipped away, and Daniel's heart sank further. It was probably only a precaution, he told himself. Even if there were only minor injuries, the medical team would need room to work. Visitors crowding the infirmary would be an unwelcome encumbrance.
When the stretchers rushed noisily up the hall, though, he watched in horror as all four members of SG-6 were hurried past him into pre-op. Major Carleson and Lieutenant Eddings didn't survive. He gathered that much from the snatches of conversation he picked up that night. Colonel Roberts came out of surgery around midnight, but he didn't see Dr. Lam again until the following morning.
Roberts and the team linguist, Dr. Talbot, were both still unconscious, and Lam dropped exhaustedly into a chair between Daniel's bed and the two on his left, where the recon team survivors now lay. Neither spoke for a few moments, their gazes both firmly settled on what was left of SG-6.
"I have to report to Landry," she said finally, and Daniel winced at the hesitancy and regret in her tone. "But if they don't come through, chances are he won't authorize a rescue mission."
Title: Holding Hope
Author: Lionchilde
Summary: AU You can't expect me to abandon her...
Rating: G
Length: 907 words
Category: angst, drama
Pairing:Daniel/Vala implied
A/N Rediscovered Hearts Part 20. Takes place a few days after Chances, posted above. Written for
sg_challenges"What about the Tok'ra?" Daniel asked several days later. Roberts and Talbot were finally awake, and Landry had convened a meeting in the infirmary. "Brannen still has the symbiote poison, right? We--we don't know where it came from or what he's planning. At the very least it needs to be dealt with."
"Yes it does," replied Jacob, glancing wearily back at Jade and Martouf. "But if our people are going to get pegged off before they can even get inside, it's not going to happen. At least not now. Not while he knows we're coming. I'm sorry, Daniel."
Daniel closed his eyes for a moment, then shook his head stubbornly. "All right, you said there were at least a hundred men patrolling the preserve?" he asked, turning with more than a little desperation toward Colonel Roberts.
"Yeah, and staff cannons mounted outside the fortress. Nobody said anything about those," the rough necked Marine added, with a pointed look at their Tok'ra allies.
//"They were not there a few days ago,"// Simone replied flatly.
"Right, isn't that the point?" Daniel persisted. "Don't we need to know where they came from? Or how he managed to deploy so many patrol units so quickly?"
//"His position in the Lucian Alliance affords him access to military resources, Dr. Jackson,"// Simone said.
"I'm aware of that," Daniel nodded. "But that much? That quickly? You were undercover what? Half a year? Presumably, you would have known if that many men were hanging around the fortress."
Simone opened her mouth to reply and frowned, nodding a little in reluctant agreement. She turned a bit uncertainly toward Jacob, whose head bowed. The older man looked up again as Selmak took control.
"It's still doubtful that the Council will authorize a large scale operation to extract Vala now," the Tok'ra told him. "Under the circumstances, it would be counterproductive."
"And I can't order people into a situation like that," Landry added.
"Then consider me volunteering," Cam spoke up from where he stood on one side of Daniel's bed.
"Me too, sir," Sam added.
"And I," echoed Teal'c.
"No," Landry shook his head. "I'm sorry, I can't authorize it. Not for one person."
"Vala's not just anyone!" Daniel protested urgently.
Landry let out a slight sigh. "Look, Daniel, I understand that you love her--"
"No." Daniel stopped, closing his eyes again when he realized how that sounded. Beside him, his teammates raised a collective eyebrow. "Yes. Yes, I love her. But that's not all that's at stake here. Laying aside the very real debt this entire galaxy owes her for what she did at the Ori beachhead five years ago, you can't deny that her own connections in the Lucian Alliance have proven invaluable to Stargate Command since then."
"On occasion, she's been able to provide us with useful lintel," Landry allowed. "But I still can't justify--"
"What about her ability to use Goa'uld technology?" Daniel persisted, casting about for anything that could tip the scales in Vala's favor.
"Colonel Carter possesses that same ability," Landry reminded him.
"Not as well," Sam attempted. "General, my experiences as Jolinar's host were very brief. I do have residual amounts of Naquada in my blood that allows me to use Goa'uld devices, but Vala spent years as a host to Qetesh. She has a mastery over the technology that I've never been able to achieve. Not to mention her access to the Goa'uld genetic memory. I happen to know that Mr. Woolsey has approached her several times--"
"I'll just bet he has," Landry sighed again. "Look, people. I'm sorry. There isn't going to be a rescue mission at this time."
"General, please…" Daniel's voice broke. "You can't expect me to abandon her."
"We have given our word of returning," Teal'c rumbled.
"No one's talking about abandoning Vala," Landry promised. "But until someone can present me with a viable way of getting her out of there, we're going to have to wait."
Daniel hung his head, the fingers of his right hand clenching into a frustrated fist around the bunched bed sheet over him. More was discussed; he didn't know what because their voices began to pass over and around him in dissonant waves. Vaguely, he was aware of SG-1 continuing to protest, until Landry finally ended the meeting.
He and the Tok'ra left, and Lam tried to bustle SG-1 out as well to let her patients rest, but the team lingered. For a while, they simply waited, probably hoping Daniel would say something, but finally, it was Teal'c who broke the tense silence.
"If the Tok'ra and the Tau'ri cannot be persuaded to attempt a rescue, perhaps the Jaffa Council would prove more amenable to the risk," he suggested quietly.
Daniel's head shot up, eyes widening with new, unexpected hope. "Would they?"
"The Jaffa have not forgotten the debt this galaxy owes your wife, DanielJackson," Teal'c replied with a slight bow as he started out of the room. "I will request General Landry's permission to leave for Dekara."
"I'll come with ya," Cam decided, clapping Daniel's shoulder reassuringly on his way out after Teal'c.
"I can't stop thinking about it, Sam," he said softly as their steps faded around the corner. "After everything she's been through to get away from him…"
Sam reached out, gently loosening his fingers from the bunched sheet he still held. Clasping them in her own, she urged, "Don't give up, Daniel. Vala won't."
Title: Survival
Author: Lionchilde
Summary: AU This wasn't about survival. It was about revenge...
Rating: G
Length: 520 words
Category: angst, drama
Pairing:Daniel/Vala implied
A/N Rediscovered Hearts Part 21. Takes place a few days after Holding Hope, posted above. Written for
scifi_fiveThat's what it was--a matter of survival, Daniel had repeated to her as she wept. Vala rarely allowed herself to cry, and the emotion overwhelmed her. He had cradled her head gently to his chest and murmured soft, soothing nonsense until she felt better. Even when the crying finally stopped, she had clung to him, feeling small and lost and afraid and needing him in a way she couldn't voice.
I knew what she was, her own voice came raggedly in her memory. I knew what Qetesh was, Daniel, I could have let her die there.
Vala, Brannen wouldn't have just killed you, Daniel's reply echoed back as well. He would've destroyed you. He was destroying you. You didn't choose to be a Goa'uld. You chose to live.
She had believed him--or tried to believe him--but some part of her had always known that what he said was a lover's rationalization. Whether it was or not didn't matter now, though. This wasn't about survival. This was about revenge.
She hurried through the empty halls, glad that even Brannen would be asleep at this time of night. Her sandled feet shuffled along the cold stone floor, the dry, whispering sound of it making her feel exposed and vulnerable. She missed her boots and the gratifying pound of their carefully selected heels. Brannen liked her in delicate, femine attire, though, and she knew fully well that he had chosen her current attire with the same purposeful mindset with which she picked her own wardrobe.
Finally, though, she reached the door to the room where he stored the real records and pressed her forehead to the door, listening for a moment. No one should be inside; no one but Brannen even had the security code, but a bit of extra caution couldn't do anything but help her now. Hearing nothing, she quickly tapped out the code and slid inside, hurring to the computer as the lights came up.
His reasons for wanting the symbiote poison wouldn't be here of course, but Vala didn't care about that. She slid into the chair in front of the terminal with single-minded intent. Whatever he wanted with it, he would have records of where he'd hidden it here. She was going to take it, and use the resources she could trade it for to come back here and finally be rid of him.
It wouldn't change anything, she realized as the screen came to life in front of her. If Brannen had told the truth, it wouldn't bring Daniel back. It wouldn't give her back the life she'd actually began to believe they could build together or…
"Damn," she muttered, raising a finger to flick a tear hurriedly from her face. The computer screen had begun to flash, demanding a password, and she grit her teeth. She made several attempts, but no matter how she tried to hack the system, the display remained frozen. Finally, Vala slammed both hands flat against the console in frustration. The password dialogue winked off, and Brannen's business records came up.
"There we go," Vala smiled, allowing herself to breathe again.
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*feels special*
♥
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and I love all the ripple effect batch too ;)
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Anyway... Love the fics. They remind me that I have to go and write mine. *huge sigh* I have ideas for the
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Thanks! Cya later.
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You even posted a story in the same post as the icons! This is the best post ever! LOL!
I loved the stories! Super good! Poor Daniel just laying there unable to help....and Jacob! *sigh* He has to help! LOL! Teal'c is so great, he is the man with the plan! LOL! Great post!! Good times!!
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I think Teal'c so often gets neglected in the fandom, and I'm guilty of it myself, being mainly a Daniel fangirl, I'm trying to find ways to give him more prominent roles in my fic. I have *no* idea yet what's going to happen with him and Cameron on Dekara. lol.
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BTW, I can't remember what we decided Jade looked like. Do you have any idea? I've kinda been picturing her as Nicole Kidman, but I don't know where that came from.
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Lets see, maybe Jacob and bra'tac could have a little pow pow and they convince the Jaffa into a small truce and then they agree that the poison should be destroyed and since they know the team and the other tokra are there trying to help Vala they decide to go to the rescue and kill two birds with one stone. This also gives us the chance for Martouf and Jade to interact together without Jacob as a buffer. LOL!
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