pit stop through a wormhole
Mar. 22nd, 2005 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanter1944Er, looong story. Forgive me, as I write this I'm way spacey and doing twenty zillion things all at once. I dreamed this when I curled up and fell asleep shortly before the amazing race. I guess it influenced me, as did the night's earlier news broadcast and the enterprise fanfiction I read last night.
I was in a hallway, lockers lining both sides and a rather steep set of stairs descending into who knows what straight ahead of me. And I could see as well as feel that the floor was entirely earthy, literally made of mud and clay that hadn't entirely hardened but somehow kept its shape. Springy, sticks-to-your-shoes flooring. And I'm standing at one red locker in a row of about thirty, and for some reason there's a crystal in my left hand, oddly-shaped and slightly narrow at one end. And I know it's about two minutes until the first bell's going to ring, and I turn to the girl in the pink sweater standing at the locker next to mine and I say "Hey Cassandra! Look at what Daniel gave me."
And she and I start babbling about ooh that's so cool and isn't Daniel cute, and both of us wonder just what that swimmy fishy tadpole-ish thing is swimming around inside the crystal. for the record, I know canopic jars aren't small enough to match lengths with two of my tiny fingers, but heck, this's dreamscape AU. If you want to call it AU, which I don't and you'll see why in a minute.
Obviously my character in this dreamscape didn't have a clue, because quite randomly as Cassandra in the pink sweater and dark hair and I are grabbing books, pens, backpacks and aiming for a class down those earthy stairs somewhere, I quietly press this crystally thingie, narrow end first, to the pad of one of the fingers of my left hand. And I *know* a symbiote doesn't enter through your hand, but I already said, dreamscape.
I get swirly black spots in front of my eyes just as the bell rings, and I'm going down the stairs and I *know* that there's a symbiote inside me just as the crystal Daniel supposedly gave me smashes to the floor and gets stepped on by the guy walking just behind Cassandra and me. I start to stumble and say something to warn her, and then the scene *entirely* changes.
It changes to a desert world, Egyptian type scenery go figure, and I'm with the entire SG-1 team and Janet, and we're strung out in this traveling line walking through the dunes with Jack and Sam leading, Teal'c somewhere in the middle, Janet off slightly to one side and Daniel just in front of me as I'm bringing up the rear. I must have been a cadet of some type asked to go on a mission via the SGC... was the school I was previously in an air force academy? that's one of the things I don't know. And I keep getting swirly spots in front of my eyes, and I'm literally having worse and worse of a time fighting the symbiote that's trying to control me. I swear it spoke in my voice at least once, doing that weird distorted thingie they do, but luckily no one heard me. and finally I can't take it anymore and I *run* to catch up to Daniel and I'm almost hysterical when I throw my arms out in front of me and just about fall facefirst into him... about that time I notice Daniel's all in royal blue, which is darn cute on him. anyway. And I /shriek/ "Daniel! that crystal you gave me, I know what was in it... get it out of me. Get *her* out of me." Of course he understands, and in a very un-Daniel sort of way he gets completely flustered and nervous and he acts more like some hidebound somebody than himself. And he asks "Did you tell anyone?" To which I answer, "I told Cassandra. Please, get her out of me!" Daniel promptly turns around and shouts--since we've let the majority of the SG-1 team get *way* ahead of us, and instinctively I know that we shouldn't have (lordy but that felt like a field trip mentality)-- "Janet! Please, take responsibility for this!"
Yes, he actually said that. and loudly, too. For the record, this must have been set after season seven since there was an obvious relationship between Daniel and Janet that I somehow *knew* since I dreamed it developed after she survived the events of Heroes. See why I didn't want it to be AU?
As Janet's walking over, I'm trying valiantly to get words out that aren't motivated by an alien borrowing my tongue. And I'm frantic to tell her something and finally get out "My Cassandra, not yours." Meaning who I told wasn't Janet's daughter... why I was concerned about that I have no idea.
Things are one heck of a blurr from then on, though one scene stands out. I'm obviously back in the SGC, obviously in the infirmary, but seeing through symbiote-clouded eyes. Janet and probably Warner must have been working to remove the symbiote from me and yes I *know* that didn't work when it was tried before, dreamscape, yada yada. And the voice that comes out of me even though my human self is quite blissfully under anesthesia is half alien and half my own. They say nothing of the host remains, but apparently they're wrong. And even though my symbiote is seeing the interior of the infirmary, I'm seeing its memories. *Her* memories. This symbiote is decidedly female. and whoever she is, she has committed atrocities... icky. And when that half-and-half voice comes out of me, it's saying "You did this, *you* caused this suffering!" accusing the host more than the alien. The last thing my dreamself remembers, symbiote or otherwise, is a very human me shouting "No!" Don't know how I did that, since I was under.
The next thing I hear is beep, beep, beep. I wake up, and I'm lying in what I assume is recovery, and I'm conscious but I can't talk. When I finally do get words out, they're too soft to disturb Janet and Warner talking somewhere behind me. "Jia," I say, and that's a translation I've used before when alien cultures assign names to visiting SGC personel and a certain doctor is along. "Jia, Jia! Is it out of me? Did it work?" She turns around, comes over and answers me. "yes, it worked. There's no trace of the symbiote in your system as of now. Congratulations, you're the first." The only thing I can think to ask, and this proves I must have been affected by some sedative something or other, is "No more losses of control?" to which she answers "No, no more losses of control." Humoring me, obviously.
Seemingly at random, Warner comes up and asks me "What's her name? We've kept her in stasis for now, she's alive even though she's out of you. What did she call herself?" And it's the sedative talking or maybe more that makes me answer, groggily indeed, "Sha're."
Really, Sha're! How weird is that?
Janet doesn't believe me and asks me to say it again. And this time I get it right and make my tongue behave and mumble, "Shalica." her name was shalica. Kinda pretty, that.
About that moment I hear O'Niel and Teal'c running past the infirmary and Jack shouts "Hurry up T, we've gotta get to the next pit stop!" I told you the amazing race would factor in here somewhere. Then my sister's shouting up the stairs for me that the real amazing race's on, so...
Then I wake up.
Crazy, no? Sha're indeed.
I was in a hallway, lockers lining both sides and a rather steep set of stairs descending into who knows what straight ahead of me. And I could see as well as feel that the floor was entirely earthy, literally made of mud and clay that hadn't entirely hardened but somehow kept its shape. Springy, sticks-to-your-shoes flooring. And I'm standing at one red locker in a row of about thirty, and for some reason there's a crystal in my left hand, oddly-shaped and slightly narrow at one end. And I know it's about two minutes until the first bell's going to ring, and I turn to the girl in the pink sweater standing at the locker next to mine and I say "Hey Cassandra! Look at what Daniel gave me."
And she and I start babbling about ooh that's so cool and isn't Daniel cute, and both of us wonder just what that swimmy fishy tadpole-ish thing is swimming around inside the crystal. for the record, I know canopic jars aren't small enough to match lengths with two of my tiny fingers, but heck, this's dreamscape AU. If you want to call it AU, which I don't and you'll see why in a minute.
Obviously my character in this dreamscape didn't have a clue, because quite randomly as Cassandra in the pink sweater and dark hair and I are grabbing books, pens, backpacks and aiming for a class down those earthy stairs somewhere, I quietly press this crystally thingie, narrow end first, to the pad of one of the fingers of my left hand. And I *know* a symbiote doesn't enter through your hand, but I already said, dreamscape.
I get swirly black spots in front of my eyes just as the bell rings, and I'm going down the stairs and I *know* that there's a symbiote inside me just as the crystal Daniel supposedly gave me smashes to the floor and gets stepped on by the guy walking just behind Cassandra and me. I start to stumble and say something to warn her, and then the scene *entirely* changes.
It changes to a desert world, Egyptian type scenery go figure, and I'm with the entire SG-1 team and Janet, and we're strung out in this traveling line walking through the dunes with Jack and Sam leading, Teal'c somewhere in the middle, Janet off slightly to one side and Daniel just in front of me as I'm bringing up the rear. I must have been a cadet of some type asked to go on a mission via the SGC... was the school I was previously in an air force academy? that's one of the things I don't know. And I keep getting swirly spots in front of my eyes, and I'm literally having worse and worse of a time fighting the symbiote that's trying to control me. I swear it spoke in my voice at least once, doing that weird distorted thingie they do, but luckily no one heard me. and finally I can't take it anymore and I *run* to catch up to Daniel and I'm almost hysterical when I throw my arms out in front of me and just about fall facefirst into him... about that time I notice Daniel's all in royal blue, which is darn cute on him. anyway. And I /shriek/ "Daniel! that crystal you gave me, I know what was in it... get it out of me. Get *her* out of me." Of course he understands, and in a very un-Daniel sort of way he gets completely flustered and nervous and he acts more like some hidebound somebody than himself. And he asks "Did you tell anyone?" To which I answer, "I told Cassandra. Please, get her out of me!" Daniel promptly turns around and shouts--since we've let the majority of the SG-1 team get *way* ahead of us, and instinctively I know that we shouldn't have (lordy but that felt like a field trip mentality)-- "Janet! Please, take responsibility for this!"
Yes, he actually said that. and loudly, too. For the record, this must have been set after season seven since there was an obvious relationship between Daniel and Janet that I somehow *knew* since I dreamed it developed after she survived the events of Heroes. See why I didn't want it to be AU?
As Janet's walking over, I'm trying valiantly to get words out that aren't motivated by an alien borrowing my tongue. And I'm frantic to tell her something and finally get out "My Cassandra, not yours." Meaning who I told wasn't Janet's daughter... why I was concerned about that I have no idea.
Things are one heck of a blurr from then on, though one scene stands out. I'm obviously back in the SGC, obviously in the infirmary, but seeing through symbiote-clouded eyes. Janet and probably Warner must have been working to remove the symbiote from me and yes I *know* that didn't work when it was tried before, dreamscape, yada yada. And the voice that comes out of me even though my human self is quite blissfully under anesthesia is half alien and half my own. They say nothing of the host remains, but apparently they're wrong. And even though my symbiote is seeing the interior of the infirmary, I'm seeing its memories. *Her* memories. This symbiote is decidedly female. and whoever she is, she has committed atrocities... icky. And when that half-and-half voice comes out of me, it's saying "You did this, *you* caused this suffering!" accusing the host more than the alien. The last thing my dreamself remembers, symbiote or otherwise, is a very human me shouting "No!" Don't know how I did that, since I was under.
The next thing I hear is beep, beep, beep. I wake up, and I'm lying in what I assume is recovery, and I'm conscious but I can't talk. When I finally do get words out, they're too soft to disturb Janet and Warner talking somewhere behind me. "Jia," I say, and that's a translation I've used before when alien cultures assign names to visiting SGC personel and a certain doctor is along. "Jia, Jia! Is it out of me? Did it work?" She turns around, comes over and answers me. "yes, it worked. There's no trace of the symbiote in your system as of now. Congratulations, you're the first." The only thing I can think to ask, and this proves I must have been affected by some sedative something or other, is "No more losses of control?" to which she answers "No, no more losses of control." Humoring me, obviously.
Seemingly at random, Warner comes up and asks me "What's her name? We've kept her in stasis for now, she's alive even though she's out of you. What did she call herself?" And it's the sedative talking or maybe more that makes me answer, groggily indeed, "Sha're."
Really, Sha're! How weird is that?
Janet doesn't believe me and asks me to say it again. And this time I get it right and make my tongue behave and mumble, "Shalica." her name was shalica. Kinda pretty, that.
About that moment I hear O'Niel and Teal'c running past the infirmary and Jack shouts "Hurry up T, we've gotta get to the next pit stop!" I told you the amazing race would factor in here somewhere. Then my sister's shouting up the stairs for me that the real amazing race's on, so...
Then I wake up.
Crazy, no? Sha're indeed.
