Short Stories 6

Near Miss

by BlueLotus

URL: http://www.stargateslash.com/asb/blotus/shorts06.php
Summary: All hell breaks loose as the team try to make it home
Info: This is an SSD challenge entry. Thanks to Marah for her fast beta!

"Daniel! Get to the 'gate!" I shout as loud as I can, but above the deafening din he can't hear me. Shit!

We have to leave, right now! But the Stargate is some fifty yards away across land that's wide open. Double shit!

I turn to see Carter fire off another volley of P90 rounds at the laser pistol wielding lunatics of this god-forsaken fucking planet, screaming to Teal'c as she does so. The big guy is in the open, blasting away with his staff weapon and diving for cover.

"Carter!" I fling my own P90 towards our attackers and fire. "Carter!"

"Sir?" she screams back. Thank god! She's closer to Daniel than I am. I urgently motion to where Daniel is and my eyes widen as I see a number of natives flank his position.

"Oh my god... Daniel," I hear her scream. He hears her and looks up from firing his gun. "The 'gate! Get to the 'gate! NOW!"

Daniel doesn't waste time and nods. His eyes find mine and blink confused for a second when my face drains of colour and I start shouting at him to move now, god damnit!

It's too late though, and that fucking brute is on him.

I break my cover, firing my gun as I go, and high tail it over to Daniel. Laser fire whistles past me, the heat almost singing my hair, but I don't care. I have to get to Daniel!

"Teal'c," I shout out mid run, "Get to the 'gate, dial it up!" He's closest now, and we need a fucking miracle! God, please! Give us a miracle!

Carter moves too and fires round after round at the bastards closing in on my archaeologist; I see her in my peripheral vision and silently thank her.

My heart starts thumping in my ears when I reach Daniel, there's so much blood, and no movement. No! God, no!

Wasting no time, I drop to my knees and heave off the huge attacker, no, strike that - the huge dead attacker, and Daniel whooshes out a loud gasp as the weight lets up on his chest.

"Thank fuck for that!" he laughs hysterically. I grin widely. He's alive!

"You okay?" I ask, doing a quick once over of his body. He's covered in blood and I can't really tell if any of it is his. The sounds of gunfire and that odd shrill noise of those laser weapons fills the air and Daniel nods, pinning me with a determined stare.

"I'm fine," he says, already moving. "Let's get out of here!"

And I'm all for that!

Teal'c has somehow dialed the 'gate and is covering himself behind the DHD, laying down covering fire for us as best he can. I see Carter running full speed towards him, her P90 aimed behind her and still firing... My breath freezes in my throat when I see how close those fucking laser shots are to her, but she makes it and joins Teal'c and immediately starts shouting to me to haul ass!

I grab Daniel and we both weave and dodge our way to the 'gate platform relatively unscathed and then all four of us dive through the event horizon of the Stargate without a second backward glance.

Landing on our butts back on Earth has the 'Gate room personnel gaping at us, until I yell at them for the Iris to be closed just as several laser blasts emerge from the 'gate and hit the grey walls.

"Medical personnel to the gate room!" Hammond's loud urgent voice sounds over the base intercom, and then he's right there at the bottom of the ramp looking very concerned.

"Colonel O'Neill! What the hell happened?" he asks, eyes wide when he sees Daniel soaked in blood.

"Ambush, sir, we didn't stand a chance. Barely got out of there with our lives," I report. "I suggest P8B 554 be taken of the safe list, sir."

Hammond looks at Daniel again and winces. "Already done, Colonel. Now take our boy to the infirmary and get checked out," he orders and turns to go after adding, "Welcome back, SG1"

Teal'c and Carter both head off to the infirmary as Doc Frasier quickly enters the gate room, sees Daniel and makes a bee-line for him. His eyes widen and he immediately starts telling her that he's fine... The blood's not his, well not all his... What?

"What?" My mouth hangs open. "What do you mean it's not all yours, Daniel?"

My lover and pain in the ass has the decency to look contrite and smiles apologetically as he unfastens his pants and pulls them down a fraction.

"Oh my god, Danny," I say, all of a sudden scared that the wound is worse than it looks. It's a small laceration on his thigh, too close to some very important arteries!

"I think the guy had a knife," Daniel needlessly explains, "But I'm fine. It's not deep - just a band aid will do it."

Janet's eye brows rise to her hairline. "Oh? And just when did you get your medical degree, Daniel?" she says sarcastically and Daniel flushes a lovely shade of pink. She motions for a gurney to be brought over and takes no nonsense from Daniel as he's made to lay on it as punishment for trying to weasel out of a trip to her infirmary.

"Colonel! Infirmary, now!" she snaps at me as I smirk at my lover pouting on the gurney.

I smile all the way up to level 21. The mission could have ended a lot worse, but I thank whatever god that it didn't, and I still have my lover alive and well. One more near miss, and for now, I can live with that...

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