07 - Survival of the Fittest by Sabine C. Bauer - (ebook by Undead)

Author:Sabine C. Bauer - (ebook by Undead)
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-05-24T07:00:00+00:00

For the first time in days Sam Carter wasn’t in pain or immediate fear for her life, and the morphine was trying to suck her into a blurry, wooly headspace. Maybe she should have taken the stuff from the start. Things really were a lot more pleasant this way. She refused to concede that this absurd sense of wellbeing had anything to do with her current mode of transport.

No way.

“Stop fidgeting, Carter,” he muttered. “You’re not helping.”

“How about piggyback?” she offered and tried to straighten up.

“Major! If you don’t keep still, I’ll sling you over my shoulder, caveman-fashion, I swear!”

Worth thinking about. She’d have a nice view of his ass. And he did have a great ass. For a commanding officer. Sam giggled.

“For cryin’ out loud!”

“You okay, Jack?” Soft and concerned, Daniel’s voice came drifting through the halo of his flashlight.

“Yeah. Except Carter’s contracted ADD on top of everything else.”

The beam of the flashlight froze in place, allowing them to catch up. “Want me to carry her for a while?” asked Daniel.

No.

“No. I’m fine.”

Thanks, sir. Not that Daniel doesn’t have a cute butt, but—

“We need to keep moving.” Janet, cold and impatient, not like Janet at all.

Sam remembered now. This was why she had to stay alert. “Something’s wrong,” she murmured.

“Everything’s okay, Carter,” the Colonel said immediately. “Doc’s gonna look after you.”

The way she’d done earlier? With cold hands, colder eyes, unaware or uncaring that she didn’t heal but hurt? Not like Janet at all.

“No,” Sam rasped.

He wasn’t listening. “How much further?”

“About five minutes, tops,” the Dr. Fraiser dybbuk replied, trying to sound soothing.

“You gave us the five minutes spiel half an hour ago,” snapped Colonel O’Neill. “Mind telling me where we’re going, Fraiser?”

Janet pointed up. Same walls, same statues, same treetops silhouetted against an indigo sky full of alien stars. The stars looked cool and clean, as far away from this planet as you could get, and Sam wanted to be there. Maybe it was she who was wrong, not Janet. Couldn’t tell anything for sure, not with that goddamn drug in her system. Next time she’d do it the way people did in the movies—bite down on a leather strap.

They climbed an alley of stairs and the ruins below fell away into darkness. No animal calls, and it felt like the forest was brooding, hatching something. Whatever it was, you could bet your six that it wouldn’t be good for either your health or your sanity. After all, just look at them. Her. Janet. And what about Teal’c? Where—

Tripping on a step, Colonel O’Neill nearly lost his balance. After that there was a distinct seesaw to his step. Sam looked up, saw his mouth compressed to a tight line, muscles in his jaw working.

“Sir, I could try to—”

“Don’t say it, Carter,” he gasped.

“Levitate?”

He barked a brief laugh. “You’re high, but you’re not that high, Major.” Up ahead, the flashlight had stopped rising. “Keep going, Daniel!”

“Wouldn’t know where. I’m at the top.”

“Jacob’s Ladder has an end?”

By the time they

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