STARGATE SG-1 Permafrost by Permafrost (SGX-02)

Author:Permafrost (SGX-02) [Retail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fandemonium Books
Published: 2020-06-26T15:16:47+00:00

Chapter Six

It was too cold to sleep, which was lucky because sleeping was not top of Jack’s agenda. He was too busy worrying about his team and second-guessing his decision to split them up.

The dead guy had done nothing but lay there, stinking. Meanwhile, Jack had no idea of half his team’s status. He knew — logically — that they were fine. But he was a practical guy, and he liked evidence to support his logic. Until he made contact with Carter and Daniel, he was going to worry. It came with the job.

These people, this team… He’d served in close units before, but there was something about SG-1 that went beyond the usual bonds of loyalty and friendship. They were family, in a way. Not replacing the family he’d lost — that was impossible — but starting to fill the void left behind. Hammond might worry that the bonds were becoming too close, that Jack was compromising his objectivity, but Jack was convinced that, without that closeness, none of them would be able to handle the job they were doing, not if they wanted to hold on to their sanity. They were sharing things no one else in the world could understand. It was inevitable that they’d grow close, that his need to protect his people would feel this urgent, this visceral. He was their CO; it was his role to protect them. He wasn’t crossing any lines.

He glanced over at Teal’c, who sat kel’no’reeming cross-legged on the counter. If he was worried about the others he wasn’t letting on, but Jack knew that —

A gunshot, distant but clear.

Teal’c opened his eyes and for a moment they just stared at each other.

Two more measured shots from a Beretta.

“Crap,” Jack hissed, and hit his radio. “Carter, Daniel — report.”

Nothing but static, then another two gunshots.

Teal’c was on his feet. “We must assist them.”

Jack wasn’t arguing with that, pulling on his gloves and watch cap. “What the hell’s going on over there?”

Teal’c didn’t try to answer the impossible question, simply pulled on his own gloves and moved to the door. Outside the wind had dropped, but it was still snowing hard. “It will not be easy to return in darkness,” Teal’c warned. “There is a danger we will become disoriented and lose our way.”

“Yup,” Jack said, grimacing at the blast of icy air. “Let’s not do that.”

Another gunshot rang out, and Jack felt it like a knot in the pit of his stomach. He wanted to be there, to help them, more than he wanted to draw his next breath. He reached for his skis at the exact moment something hit him, hard, on the back of his head and he fell face first into snowy oblivion.

“We have to drive it outside!” Sam yelled, reloading her weapon as the creature advanced.

It had its dead eyes on her, peering blankly through the bloody remains of its face. Perhaps she was the target because the gun made her the biggest threat? She could use that, she could work with that.

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