Fic, Returns, PG-13, 1/?

[hathor_girl]

Title: Returns
Summary: SG-1 goes to examine another planet with alien ruins, but this time they bring back something unexpected. What happens when someone long dead is suddenly alive again? Sam/Jolinar/Martouf/Lantash. First attempt at writing Jolinar, so any kind help and comments are appreciated!
Category: Angst/Adventure
Rating: PG-13
A/N: Takes place in mid season 4. The Tok'ra are still on Vorash

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We are on a mission to P2X-367, where some well preserved ruins from an unknown alien civilization has been found. I am in a bad mood. I have heard from my dad not long ago, that they're considering cutting open Martouf and removing Lantash. I know they're in stasis since they were shot as zatarcs, but I thought the idea was to try and heal them?

Apparently the Tok'ra scientists wants to see if they can get some more information about the way the zatarc programming is done, by doing an autopsy on Martouf. Lantash will heal everything if he's allowed to - and succeeds - so there would be nothing to study.

I suspect they also don't want to risk a symbiotes life on the chance he might save a human. The symbiote can get a new host. Yeah, I know, that's not how the Tok'ra normally think, but some of the current leaders of the Council - and some of their scientists - are a bit too cynical, especially when comes to hosts.

I tell myself that dad said they probably wouldn't reach a decision anytime soon - maybe not for a year. The Council aren't known to move quickly, so perhaps that's true.

"Any idea what it is?" Daniel wonders.

I go closer, staring at the odd device. "Not really." I study the thing. It is round, and has a sleek metal surface, with three antenna coming out of it. It literally floats in free air in this huge room. "Better not touch it, though." I say quickly as Daniel reached for it.

He nods and step back. We both turn as we hear someone entering the room.

"Have you figured it out?" O'Neill asks, limping into the room, supported by Teal'c. "Because if you haven't, we're going back now!"

"No, we haven't. What's happened to your foot, sir?" I ask.

"Stepped on some sort of plant! It immediately stung me with some kind of long spear like thingie!"

Alarmed, Daniel and I run to them. "Are you OK? It didn't inject anything, did it?"

"Nah, don't think so. I'm feeling OK - it just hurts in my foot! Well, that's it! Time to go back - I hate aggressive plant life."

"We can go back tomorrow, can't we? I'd really like to take a look at this thing again." Daniel says. "Perhaps it contains knowledge, like the device at Heliopolis."

"Maybe." I agree. "We really should check it out some more, sir."

"Whatever."

"Someone's coming." Teal'c suddenly announces and quickly puts down O'Neill and turns towards the entrance, weapon at the ready.

Trusting Teal'c to detect things like that before the rest of us, I grab for my P90, I see O'Neill do the same, and Daniel prepares himself as well.

Seconds later somethings enters the room very fast, and almost invisible, firing some sort of small darts at us. They are painful and we fall to the ground. Unable to hit the aliens in any way, they continue firing at us until we all pass out. Just before that happens, I imagine seeing something green and plant-like - or perhaps it is some sort of camuflage. In any case, it is safe to assume it is the same kind of 'beings'? that O'Neill happened to step on. Clearly, this is revenge - or defence, perhaps. No way to know how they think of us.

We come to later - longer or shorter, we do not know. We are badly injured, but seemingly not poisoned, except the initial effect that made us pass out.

"What in the world was that?" O'Neill demands weakly.

"Presumable more of those creatures you had the misfortune of stepping on earlier, O'Neill." Teal'c says.

"Sounds likely." He grumbles.

Daniel sits up beside me. "What happened?"

"Revenge of the plants." O'Neill says, groaning.

"Plants?" Daniel look confused. He has been lucky and is less injured than the rest of us. He manages to get up. "I'll just get the radio..." He turns around to pick up the radio he had dropped when we were fired at. "Then I'll go call for help through the gate." He stumbles.

"Whoa, careful!"

He almost falls, but supports himself with a hand against the flying alien device. A sound as if from electricity crackles all around us and Daniel jumps back.

The whole air around us starts humming and lightning suddenly flies around the room. Electrical bolts - or whatever they are - grab all of us and suspend us in the air. It feels as if the whole body is vibrating and almost on fire. I don't know how long it continues, since I black out at some point, but finally I wake up, lying on the floor.

I slowly open my eyes and try to remember what has happened. I can hear my friends groan and moan around me, so I know they're alive. I feel as if I have been through some kind of grinder, but there is no longer any acute pain. I raise a hand and look at it. Suddenly I gasp as there is a short, intense pain up through my neck into the back of my head.

I have a strange sensation in my eyes - as if they they tickle ever so slightly - and suddenly I know my eyes just flashed! I don't call out because I also don't have control over my body. I feel myself panicking.

Suddenly, a calming voice speaks in my head. A voice I recognize. Jolinar!

~Samantha...do not fear. I am Jolinar of the Tok'ra...~ she is quiet for a moment. ~I have already told you this...~ I have the vague feeling of someone rummaging through my memories.

~Hey, stop that! And what the hell are you doing back in my head? Weren't you supposed to have been killed by the ashrak?~

~I apologize, but I needed to learn what has been going on...I must admit I am somewhat confused. It would seem you are correct and I am dead...was dead, because quite obviously I'm not any more...~

I feel a wiggling sensation along my spine, neck, up in my head. ~What are you doing?~

~Examining if I am actually, physically here, or if it was some weird...mental sideeffect...of that alien device you remember hitting us.~

~And you're finding your physical body is there.~ It's not a question. I felt her move.

~Yes. I am alive - and corporeal. I have somehow been...resurrected?~

~Can I have control?~ I feel slightly edgy, but part of me are strangely happy to have her back. I must be insane. Especially after all the problems she has caused me, with confused feelings about Martouf and Lantash. I suddenly feel a new strong fear for them. Grief, because if what dad said is true, they will soon truly be gone.

Jolinar latches onto my thoughts and I feel her speed through my memories of recent year - at least regarding the Tok'ra and her mates.

~You met the Tok'ra. Allied with them...my sweet beloveds...shot! Dying? Dead? Noooooooooooooooooo!~

I feel a grief stronger than anything I have ever felt before. It is overpowering. It is probably a good thing Jolinar has not given me control, as I would have cried out and my friends would come running - and I would already be on my merry way to a holding cell again.

Someone is shaking us, but Jolinar is oblivious to anything but her sorrow. At some point I feel control given back to me and I gasp loudly. I can barely see or think through the haze of the strength of my symbiote's feelings. I decide now is not the time to explain anything to my team-mates and I make the insane decision to keep Jolinar's resurrection a secret.

"Sam!" Daniel yells.

"Yes!" I mumbles. "Don't yell so loudly. Jesus. I'm not deaf!"

"Sorry, Sam. We just got worried when you didn't react - and just made a weird moaining noise."

"Well, I was a bit confused after this - whatever it was. You guys were making pretty konked out noises too!" I say, harsher than I mean to. I need something else to take my mind of the fact that I suddenly have a preciously dead, emotionally devasted symbiote in my head!

I slowly sit up, touching my head gently.

"Yeah, wauw. What was that!" O'Neill complains.

"I do not believe we should complain. It seems to have saved out lives. Healed us from otherwise fatal injuries, after the attack." Teal'c points out.

"Oh, yeah. Those plant-things, or whatever they were. We better get out before they return!" O'Neill stand up, a bit too quickly and almost falls.

"i don't think they'll be coming back." I tell him, wincing as I stand. They may have healed us, but there is a small amount of lingering soreness and some grogginess. "They think we're dead and we didn't see them until you stepped on one of them, so as long as we stay to the tracks we should be just fine."

"Oh, so now all this is my fault!" O'Neill grumbles. "Back to base, campers!"

"Uh, shouldn't we study this thing? If it could heal us just like that, it could be valuable?" I say, not mentioning it has even resurrected Jolinar who died more than 2 1/2 years ago.

"We'll have SGC send someone else to check it out - we're leaving!"

Following O'Neill, we all return. Not really unhappy since it will be nice to get back and relax for some time. We're all feeling dizzy still.