End Synopsis

There has not been an update on this story for a long time. I regret to say that it is likely to stay that way. I make no secret of the fact that my favorite part of Stargate was Jack O’Neill. Season 8 was difficult enough for me to maintain my interest in the show with Richard Dean Anderson’s reduced role, but I was able to muster enough interest to keep this story alive. With RDA’s departure; however (for which I hold no ill will against him, make no mistake), my affinity for Stargate has well and fully died on the vine. With it, sadly, went the motivation to finish this story. I am truly sorry for the dead end, because I have been on the other side and watched fics I was following just stop with the ending untold. I know how frustrating it can be, and I regret becoming one of those authors that leaves a WIP chronically undone.

I won’t say that KT will never be finished. Someday I might return to Stargate; I’ve found that old favorite shows tend to have a renaissance period where I relive old passions. KT may well find its end when and if that nostalgic period strikes me. For now, it’s a treasured past love and I’ve moved on.

KT was planned out to the last scene. I knew where it was going to go, I just never got there. For those of you who may want to know what was going to happen, even if it’s not quite as the story you hoped it would be, I have decided to post the synopsis of the ending at my homepage. Some people might prefer to leave it at the cliffhanger rather than read the cliff’s notes version of the end. It’s up to you. Also there is a link to my LJ which I plan to use as a forum for questions and answers concerning my fanfic if there happen to be any. And if there were any questions about the story’s end that don’t show up in the synopsis feel free to ask. Chances are I’ll know.

Again, I apologize profusely for the rude cut-off.

MissAnnThropic

The Goa'uld who kidnapped Sam (whom I had not yet gotten around to naming) was a scientist. The Goa'uld symbiote itself was a scientifically-oriented beasty before, but then it took as host the woman who used to be Ma'chello's lab assistant and lover (Ma'chello's only instance of being unfaithful to his wife). This host knew almost as much as Ma'chello about science and engineering. Intellectually, she is perhaps the most dangerous Goa'uld alive.

She has not been a prominent threat, however, but she recognized the danger posed by the Replicators and sequestered herself away and worked on way to defeat the Replicators.

When she caught wind that the Asgard were working on their cloning problem, and might actually solve it, she took action. She has been counting on the Asgard race dying out on their own, and once she discovered the means to destroy the Replicators, the path would be open before her for large-scale domination of the remaining Goa'uld. So that the Asgard are coming close to a fix for their genetic problem was unacceptable.

She went after Heimdol and the research ship. She staged the distraction that got the Biliskner away from Earth and the Valkyrie. Her intent was to capture Heimdol, to both learn exactly how the Asgard were going to solve their problem and also to deprive the Asgard of the lead scientist. She stormed the ship in the last chapter of KT. When her Jaffa seemingly killed Heimdol she was forced to kidnap Sam, whom she presumed was the Asgard's Tau'ri assistant. In my fic, I was going to say that Asgard physiology could not be repaired via the sarcafogus, so taking a dead Heimdol would earn her nothing in the sense of information.

Meanwhile, satellite survelliance witnesses the attack on the Biliskner, and Jack about has a fit. Thor comes charging back, beams in long enough to make sure Meghan's safe, then beams back out before Jack can ask after Sam. Finally, Thor gets in touch with SG command. Jack is ready to throw a clot. Thor didn't realize Sam hadn't returned to earth with Jack and Meghan, so he sadly reveals Sam could only have been taken by this Goa'uld.

The Asgard are well aware of the threat this particular Goa'uld posed, but because she was putting forth such a concerted effort toward defeating the Replicators they turned a blind eye and let her work, because her gain in that endeavor would be their gain. Jack is mightly unhappy. Heimdol's body is recovered (she was severely injured, but not killed) and the process is begun to put her consciousness in a new body so she might continue her work.

Jack flat-out refuses to let them sample so much as a hair on Meghan's head if they won't go after Sam. A deal is struck. Thor will put forth all his resources and effort on the Biliskner to tracking down Sam and rescuing her. Jack will go with him. Daniel and Kaegan blow off their trip to Egypt to keep Meghan while Jack is gone.

Meanwhile, on the Goa'uld ship where Sam's been taken, she is being interogated. The Goa'uld is demanding to know the work being done to resolve the Asgard cloning problem. Sam doesn't say a thing... if she betrays the steps made in the Asgard project, she turns her daughter into a prime Goa'uld target.

The Goa'uld uses a modified ribbon device on her. Rather than inflicting pain, it uses an adapted form of the memory device to break into a person's mind and extract information. Sam is tortured with this device and very nearly breaks. Then her subconscious, the part of her that would sooner die than see her daughter harmed, steps in. She fugues. Her personality slips. She becomes, in her mind, Thera, because Thera knew nothing of Asgard or cloning projects and Thera is incapable of endangering Meghan.

The Goa'uld continues to torture Sam, who has become for all intents and purposes Thera who remembers only that she worked in the mines on machines. In their sessions, Thera is taken into places in her mind so real, the caves of P3R-233, and lives moments as though it were actually happening but suddenly a companion, a stranger, anyone, will suddenly ask about the Asgard, the Goa'uld's presence and attempt to break Thera.

Jack and Thor are searching the galaxy for Sam. Jack angsts, Thor is sorry.

Thera takes over more and more of Sam, and Sam is further and further lost, and it becomes hard for her to distinguish reality and hallucination. But in the other world of the mines where she's taken in the torture sessions, Jonah is still there, and he is as stubbornly unwilling to turn against Thera as in real life, so it does not seem so incredibly unbelievable when Thera's pregnancy begins to show. Unknown to Sam or Jack, when Sam was kidnapped she was in the early stages of pregnancy.

Jack and Thor hunt relentlessly for Sam, but as the months wear on they have to acknowledge that a quick extraction is no longer feasible. Jack is desperate to find her, but he misses Meghan. When word reaches them that Heimdol has been put in a new body and is ready to resume work on the project, Thor diverts the ship long enough to stop by earth. Jack takes the opportunity to drop in and see his daughter. Meghan seems to have grown at light speed to Jack's eyes, Daniel and Kaegan are good and loving care-takers. When Jack first picks up Meghan again, after months away from her, Meghan doesn't recognize him, cries, and reaches for Daniel. Jack is heartbroken, weary, but filled with renewed resolve to get Sam back so they can be a family again and Meghan might never again have cause to look at Jack like a stranger.

Thera continues her constant battle against the Goa'uld and her buried psyche. As the child inside her grows, her mind is beginning to feel the strain of the constant efforts to break her. Thera's not doing so good, but Sam the mom within her will not put Meghan in danger.

More searching, more torture, much angst.

Finally, in the latter part of her pregnancy, at the edge of her physical endurance, Thera's mind begins to break. In a final torture session, in a hallucination of the cave, Thera is surrounded and beset by people demanding to know about the Asgard project. Carlin, Brenna, Cauldrin, Kaegan, other workers... everyone is surrounding her. She is huddled against Jonah, clinging to him for anchor and safety, and he looks down at her and says "why don't you just give them what they want, Thera?" And then it all stops. Thera's back on the ship, and an unfamiliar alien creature is before her. She screams and suddenly Jonah is there, looking different because it's Jack, and gaping at her because she's heavy with child, but at last they've found her. Jack and Thor found the Goa'uld's ship, snuck aboard, and killed the Goa'uld as she tortured Sam.

Jack and Thor wisk Sam back to the SGC, but it's not so easy as that. Months ingrained to understand only that she must not remember some perilous truth, Sam is not so easily drawn out of Thera. She is still Thera, and Jack is Jonah to her. She mistrusts everyone but Jack, because everyone else will ask about that unspeakable secret concerning the Asgard.

With Sam in such a state, Jack decides it is best Meghan not see her mother at the moment... it might only further upset them both. And there is the health of Sam and her unborn child to consider. Janet does her best, but Sam isn't keen on having Janet anywhere near her. In the end, Janet prescribes rest, food, and time for Jack to calm her down and talk to her. They take quarters on base.

Sam goes into premature labor. Being Sam's second birth, it progesses frighteningly fast and because she is so certain that no one can know of her baby, Sam ends up delivering in the quarters bathroom because she makes every effort to hide it. Jack barely wakes from an exhausted sleep (he'd barely slept while they were searching for Sam) to see his new baby into the world... but it's unmoving and blue, and Sam hemorrhages and starts bleeding profusely.

Both are rushed to the infirmary. Janet is able to get the baby breathing and Sam is stabilized, but it's touch and go for both mother and child for a while. Jack is a mess, Daniel leaves Meghan in Kaegan's care so he can stay with Jack and try and help him.

After an unbearably long time to Jack, Sam is at last on the road to recovery. The baby is growing stronger every day, aided by the naquadah-laced blood that helped boost Meghan's health in much the same way in infancy.

When Sam finally regains consciousness Jack is there. As she is calm at the time (mostly due to weakness), he introduces Sam to their newborn son. The baby boy finally makes it click. When it's not a girl, when it's not Meghan, the child Sam knew would come forth, she has to realize that she's been believing a falsehood. On meeting her son, the walls holding back Sam come down, and she is given the chance at last to remember Jack and her daughter.

Resolution ensues. Meghan is reunited with her parents, gets to meet her baby brother, Sam recovers enough to go home, the O'Neills finally settle back into their home one big happy family. The end.