A Different Kind of Door – Janet, Versus

~ crossovercreativechaos

Her infirmary door still vibrating from her unwelcome visitors’ departure, Janet finally broke down and snickered. Oh, the look on DiZ’s face….

Honestly. You’d think she’d turned Roxas loose with a staff weapon and a satchel of grenades, instead of Naminé, a couple MPs, and a Hollow Bastion-style teenager’s outfit, courtesy of one twitchy Keyblade wielder.

Riku, you are one sneaky kid, Janet thought, lifting a cup of water in a silent toast. One thing for the Tok’ra to barge in and walk off with a hostile alien enemy. Quite another for the SGC’s sometimes-slippery allies to walk into the mass of soldiers and civilians getting dinner in the cafeteria and haul out a shy, quiet blond “refugee”.

Memory manipulation. Not sure I like that. Actually, Janet was sure she didn’t like it. But what else can we do? We’re dealing with a Goa’uld who’s been instrumental in attacking a dozen worlds. A parasite we can’t kill. Hitting it with a case of amnesia’s letting it get off light.

Still. Even if Naminé did need Roxas aware and conscious so she could untangle fragments of Sora’s identity… having the blond walk around like just another waif the SGC had rescued was creepy.

Put it down for the night, and go home, Janet told herself resolutely. Cassie was waiting for her-

An odd, soft sound echoed out from by the patient beds; like the first downdraft of storm, brushing through a far-off wind-chime. Something lingered in the air, wafted past her nose with a faint breath of cinnamon and ashes.

That’s not supposed to be here.

The tall, thin figure in black by an empty bed – too tall to be almost anyone on this base – was almost an afterthought. Janet lunged for one of the SGC’s many alarm buttons-

Inhuman strength caught her, one black-gloved hand clamping over her lips like a vise.

Oh no you don’t, you parasitic alien sonova– Janet lashed out with every bit of self-defense training she’d practiced with Sam, targeting joints, solar plexus, and any other nerves she could get near. Goa’uld might be inhumanly strong, but they felt pain just like anyone else. And unlike Jaffa, Goa’uld usually didn’t have a clue what to do in a close-in grapple.

Only this one did.

18 thoughts on “A Different Kind of Door – Janet, Versus”

  2. Aw, crud. Janet, you’re outmatched. Dang it.

    Whatever you do, Axel, don’t hurt the doc. NO ONE will forgive you for it, no matter how accidental it is. Janet, when he does let your mouth go, talk. *Fast.* Don’t scream.

    :sits down and prays:

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  3. Re: paranoia, apparently some fanfics are being ripped from Royal Road and other sites, and then sold on Amazon by persons other than the author.

    For example, Lee Duckett’s Penumbral Path is on both Kindle Unlimited and offered for sale. Since February. So yeah, probably something to run Amazon searches for.

    This has been your Paranoia PSA.

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      1. You’d think that with all this fancy schmancy AI around someone would have thought to build a “run this against writing sites and forums for large sections of identical text” feature into Amazon… Sheesh.

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      6. So far they haven’t, no.

        It’s that gray area of fanfic. You wrote that specific piece of work, so you created it. You may not own it to make profit off it – but you can report it as something someone else can’t profit off of!

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  5. Interesting that Axel teleported into the infirmary (right next to Sora’s bed?), rather than directly to where Roxas is now. Lag effect, or has Roxas&Sora’s “signature” sort of “collected” most strongly in the spot where they spent the most time so far?

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    2. My original reaction was ‘yeah, that makes sense’.

      Thought again, and after way too much thinking, I remember that relative motion might be relevant in this universe for interstellar teleports.

      IIRC, it is supposed to matter for gates, but that gets taken care of behind the scenes by the implementation of the netowrk.

      The is probably not automatically handled for a blind jump. Implying five variables per location on a planet. (Planet rotation, height above center of rotation, orbit rate, oribit height, stellar motion.) If Demyx (sp?) did all that, and ‘only’ put Axel in the infirmatory, he is very good.

      The advanced technology for jumping seems to handle that stuff automatically if a user has been there before. Psionics?

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