LeapGate! - A Stargate Comment Ficathon
Chevron seven is locked and LeapGate is open for business. Sam and Rodney agree that some magic of science will allow the 'gate to be open much longer than the usual 38 minutes and you have until March 3rd to write comment!fic.
1) The (incredibly long - thanks everyone!) prompt list can be found at this post. Go there to pick a prompt to write ( ( Read more... )
1) The (incredibly long - thanks everyone!) prompt list can be found at this post. Go there to pick a prompt to write ( ( Read more... )
She will break soon Rosha whispers to Jolinar in a thought full of amused viciousness.
Jolinar silently agrees. The Goa'uld have little tolerance for the pain they are all too eager to dish out. She extends the Goa'uld painstick, stamping down memories of the fire it has sent through her own veins more than once, and lets it burn a trail down the back of Qetesh's host. When she reaches the base of the spine her whole body convulses.
"...please..." The voice is barely audible and lacks the distortion of the Goa'uld, which means Qetesh has managed to draw back and her host - the dark-haired woman with the haunted eyes - has come forth. "...please..." she says again as Jolinar shakes away the momentary sympathy that flashes through her - a weakness she long ago learned was unaffordable.
War has casualties Rosha reminds her, reaching forward with the syringe that will prevent Qetesh from withdrawing from the sensations of the host's body. Her eyes flash gold as the drug, designed by the Goa'uld for their own petty infighting and now used against them, reaches the symbiote.
There are Tok'ra who mutter about how hard Jolinar rides her hosts, but if she does it is only because she has seen those casualties too many times herself, understands how desperate the battle has become. And she has always been honest with each new host. Rosha is the first in a long time who entirely understands the need. There are times when Jolinar is almost frightened by her ruthlessness.
"You should kill me know," Qetesh sneers but the confidence in her voice is a farce. "I will never help filth who betray their own kind."
Rosha stalks around the shivering woman, letting a single fingernail trail across Qetesh's shoulders before she bends over to whisper in her ear. "You can tell us now and end this," she says before backing off and moving to the other ear. "But I would be more than happy to continue." She slowly brings the painstick forward, watching the body before her flinch in anticipation as she traces it between shoulderblades, but does not allow the fire to burn.
Jolinar pulls them back abruptly, shoving Qetesh forward to collapse on the stone floor. She wants revenge against Qetesh almost as much as Rosha does, but wishes for the host to survive. They walk out without looking back, letting the door slam behind them to bathe the cell in darkness.
I had her Rosha says in frustration. Just a little more.
Rosha had been a servant on one of Qetesh's planets when Jolinar had come to incite rebellion. After so many years of enforced slavery it had taken little convincing for Rosha to aid her in a fast, bloody, brutal rebellion and when Jolinar had found herself needing a new host, Rosha had happily offered her then-broken body for the chance to strike hard at the System Lords.
Patience Jolinar thinks back. Rosha burns hot for quick revenge, but Jolinar has been waiting enough centuries to know when to savor a victory. We leave her alone. What she imagines will get us further than anything we can do.
The host has spirit Rosha thinks back. It is a shame Qetesh - she mentally spits the name - has ruined her. She could have been good for you when I am gone.
I fear when we are done, she will want little to do with Goa'uld or Tok'ra Jolinar answers, letting herself picture, for a minute, the fine-boned face, the dark hair, the fragile frame which has proven stronger than it looks.
Sam wakes with a gasp. Her dreams of Jolinar have almost stopped over the years, and she is ill-prepared to handle this newest revelation.
"...wha? okay?" Vala's sleepy murmur beside her barely overpowers the wind outside their tent. "Sam?"
"It's nothing. Go back to sleep," Sam says, laying down to stare at the ceiling, wishing she hadn't remembered what Vala will never forget.
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That is all.
Just wow.
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I'm a little disturbed that comment!ficathons seem to bring out the darker side of my writing...
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(And in another timeline I can see Vala ending up as Jolinar's next host, and wouldn't that be interesting too ...)
Oh, Vala. Oh, Sam.
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We never knew much about Rosha, but Jolinar seems to be one of the more ruthless, daring, "ends justify means" Tok'ra and if the host and symbiote really do have a partnership rather than a dominance....
Oh, Vala. Oh, Sam.
Yes.
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thanks!
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Ouch, ouch, ouch.
Utterly fascinating look at Jolinar and her willingness to do whatever it takes. And yow, that last line.
Good stuff.
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The little we've seen of Jolinar, she is definitely of the "whatever it takes" variety - with taking Sam and what she did on Netu. It really is fascinating.
Glad you liked it. Thanks!
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Very interesting what you've done with Rosha. I admit that gabolange's Rosha has made such a strong impression on me that I have a hard time imagining her like this, but it's something really interesting to poke at--what if she were the more vicious here, and what if any enmity Vala feels toward the Tok'ra is, whether she knows it or not, more due to host than symbiote.
I'm so in love with this prompt!!!!!!!!!
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Me too. By S9 the show seems to have mostly forgotten about Jolinar, so I don't know if Vala even knows Sam had her once, much less her name, and I don't know if Vala/Qetesh would have known the name of her interrogator or not. And...I have trouble seeing Sam bring this up, "oh, by the way...." but I could *maybe* see Sam telling Daniel and Daniel telling Vala and BOOM.
Yeah, it kinda sidelined me when it popped into my head. Definitely an interesting prompt.
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And whew.
Poor Sam. Poor Vala.
Does Vala ever find out that Sam's Tok'ra symbiote was Jolinar, and did she ever know the name...?
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Does Vala ever find out that Sam's Tok'ra symbiote was Jolinar, and did she ever know the name...?
I don't know! You write it and tell me? I don't remember the show ever remembering Jolinar in S9 or S10, so while I've read fic where they connect over it, I don't think canonically we know if Vala even knows.
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Really fascinating character study on all three (four?...wait, five?) of them.
*shudders* *hugs Sam* *hugs Vala*
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