Come Dreamwalk With Me 2 (Open Log)

[curious_copycat]

Who: Polly (curious_copycat) and anyone who feels like it.
What: Nocturnal Telepathic Shenanigans, Random CR, Drama, Exposition, Crack, Surreal Shite, Whatever you want.
Where: In Your Head
When: Tonight, during Polly's break. (But latecomers are always welcome.)
Warnings: A few of Polly's memories might come with her, and there are monsters in that thar head.

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[stargatejackson]

Daniel had laid down in bed, his first night in the new living quarters. He lay on his back, his hands under his head, staring at the ceiling...even after lights out.

He was pretty sure he wouldn't be able to sleep. Everything had been too weird, too fast...and way too traumatic for him to ever sleep...after such...a day...Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz......

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He opened his eyes and saw the desert. Abydos. The three moons hovering over the great pyramid. There was someone standing a distance away....Sha'uri! Daniel started moving towards her, hoping beyond hope and calling to her as he broke into a run. "Sha'uri! Kree! Niss trah!" Translation: Look! I am here!

[curious_copycat]

She found herself standing on a sand dune, entranced by the triple moons overhead and the huge structure they crowned, when she heard a voice. The girl who turned toward Daniel's shouted greeting was not the dusky beauty of his dreams, but a petite redhead. By the fairness of her skin, it was quite likely that she had never seen a desert in her life. (This was, in fact, true.)

Polly watched the approaching man with curiosity, not recognizing him. Between Luke's murder and resurrection, Shinji's hospitalization, school, her job and the innumerable other things that happened on the Thor each day, it was hard to keep track of the ship's population. Perhaps he was new...

She made her way toward him, her steps unsteady in the unfamiliar sand.

[stargatejackson]

He fairly leapt over sand dunes towards her, not realizing yet that she didn't look quite right. All that mattered was getting to her. In his mind's eye, she was still Sha'uri, he didn't want it to be anyone else.
Daniel threw his arms around her when he reached her, hugging her as if he was afraid to let go. "Oh how I've missed you," he slipped back into English without realizing it.

[curious_copycat]

Well, that was... unexpected. Polly was an affectionate person by nature, but generally that was with people she... knew.

"Um..."

Reaching up, the girl returned the hug, patting him on the back in a way that she hoped was comforting. The poor man probably needed it. Especially if he really was new. She'd been here almost four months, now. While she didn't altogether miss her own home, she had enough friends who did for her to have a certain amount of sympathy.

"Um... I think we haven't met, actually... My name's Polly."

[stargatejackson]

...there was something wrong. The hug wasn't right, it wasn't how he remembered. Daniel let her go, pulling back to look at her face, confused. He blinked as if seeing her for who she really was for the first time and let her go. "But...I thought..." He takes a few steps backward, putting a hand through his hair, not knowing what to make of it. "I'm...I'm sorry, I thought you were...."
Now he's feeling more lost than ever.

[curious_copycat]

"Someone else?" said the girl helpfully, taking a step back, herself. "Don't worry, it..." A pause. "Actually, nothing like this has ever happened before. But I'm sure I'm me."

That was something, at least.

"If it helps, though, I'm not sure who you are, either." She turned and looked around the desert. It was pretty, in a way... "Or where this place is. I think I've seen pictures of buildings like that, though, last month in school. Only, I thought Earth was only supposed to have one moon..."

[stargatejackson]

He nods, turning away as if he needs to figure out where he is once more. Pyramid: check. Three moons: check. "This....this is Abydos. I thought I was home..."

Daniel looks back at her. "Polly, right? How did you get here? I mean, I don't even know how I got here." But there isn't time for her to answer, they're suddenly being shot at. There's three of Ra's guards, their heads in the shape of a dogs head on a human body, running across the sand and shooting blips of energy that pummel the sand around them.
Daniel grabs her arm to pull her along with him. "Run!" They're heading for the pyramid, it being the only shelter out here.

[curious_copycat]

Polly opened her mouth to reply, but was cut off by the sudden barrage of laser-fire.

"Hey, who are those--Ulp!" And then she was being tugged along by the arm. She'd never run on sand before, and it slipped and slid beneath her feet, making the going clumsy at best. "Who are they?" she panted, trying to keep up.

[stargatejackson]

"The Goa'uld! Hurry, come on!" Daniel runs along behind her, urging her forward over the more slippery parts. He could almost swear at times she continued to look like Sha'uri...but now was not the time to wonder about that.

They reached the pyramid's doorway soon, still dodging weapons fire from the guards chasing them. Daniel ran down the length of corridor straight for the gateroom. "We might be able to gate back to Earth..." he pulls up at the large circular dialing device and starts hitting buttons....and again...they aren't lighting up. "Something's wrong, it doesn't have any power."

And the sounds of the guards are getting closer...

[curious_copycat]

Polly looked from him, to the doorway with the sound of the guards, and back again. This wasn't good. Not at all. Pursing her lips, she straightened her shoulders.

Approaching the doorway, she took a moment to examine the surrounding stone, her too-sharp, blue eyes honing in until she could see the very atoms making it up. Raising her hands, she willed the atoms in the air to gather, convert, congeal, and a moment later, there was a wall of that same stone blocking off the doorway.

From the sounds coming from the other side, the guards seemed none too pleased about it.

The girl turned to the man--whose name she still did not, in fact, know. Time for that later.

"Is there another way out of here..?"

[stargatejackson]

Daniel wants to pull her away from the danger but stops....

He couldn't be seeing what he was seeing. "How did...? What was...? What was that??" He points at the wall that wasn't there before, barely believing his eyes.

There's the sound of the guards firing at the wall with some success, they will probably be through it in about 10 minutes or so at their rate of speed.

"Uh...well, no, not unless we get the Stargate working..." But Daniel's having trouble thinking about that, staring instead at the woman next to him. "Who are you?" And he doesn't mean her name.

[curious_copycat]

Polly tilted her head, eyebrow raised. "That," she replied quite seriously to his first question, also pointing at the wall, "was a wall. Well, is one, really, but it sounds like it'll be was soon enough."

The girl frowned. She had no idea what a Stargate was, but there was an easier solution. "We'll have to go into my mind, then." She blinked. "I told you, I'm Polly." she said, holding out her hand as if to shake his. "Polymnia Terpschore Aino Perdita Zyanya, of the Eternals. Who are you?"

[stargatejackson]

"Me? I'm Daniel...Daniel Jackson..."
"What's an Eternal?"

The wall is starting to smoke slightly, they were almost through. Daniel stabs at the buttons on the dialing device to no avail and bends down to take off the panel. He almost laughs at the uselessness of it, he doesn't know anything about rewiring this stuff. He might as well have not taken the panel off.

[curious_copycat]

"Pleased to meet you." said Polly, glancing at the wall and frowning slightly. Time to go, then.

Taking a step toward him, she placed a hand on his shoulder and thought of home. The room around them shimmered, and suddenly they found themselves on a rooftop, in the midst of a vast, crumbling metropolis spreading out below a pale, sunless sky.

"Eternals are people from the dimension of Calabi-Yau. Which is where we are, now."

[stargatejackson]

Daniel's eyes get about twice their normal size behind his glasses as the scene changes as if it was never there. He does about three turns around, trying to figure out where they are and what just happened. Breathlessly he asks, "How did you do that???? Wasn't it....was it all never there?" This is getting really weird, though it is a good thing they aren't anywhere near Ra's guards now...at least not that he can tell.

[curious_copycat]

"It's a dream." said Polly, simply. "I brought you from yours into my memories." She looked out over the ruins, the coloured stone like shards of softly-glowing stained glass. "I don't have real dreams of my own."

Turning, she walked away, toward the stairway that led down into the building. "This was where I lived before I ended up on the Thor."