No matter how tempting it was, Malek couldn't bring himself to kill Lucy. She was only following orders.
Orders that came directly from the Tok'ra high council.
Malek wasn't on the council, and Jacob had long since fallen out of the loop, so neither of them was aware of the animosity that had developed against Sam over the past few years. It turned out that the council was tired of her 'meddling', and they wanted her out of the equation. When they learned that SG1 would be traveling to Lucy's home world they saw the perfect opportunity to get rid of her, and no one would be the wiser.
At least that was the plan.
The people of the cave colony were all too willing to help. They were plagued by a mysterious and contagious disease, spread by the water, and the tok'ra promised to provide an antidote if they would send people to assist Anise.
It was supposed to look like Sam caught the water disease and died from it before the antidote was developed, but Anise wasn't able to slow Malek's progress with the drug, so she had to resort to sabotage...
As Malek allowed this information to sink in he lowered his zat and glared at Lucy.
How could they do something like this? Cade asked, his fury echoed by Malek's.
Looking at Jacob, Malek knew that the council would regret the day they made that decision. If Jacob every got his hands on them, he'd rip them to pieces and Malek was liable to help him.
"Jacob, there is something I need to tell you," said Malek.
"I heard everything."
Malek shivered slightly as Jacob's voice came out a harsh icy whisper.
"I'll kill every single one of them with my bare hands. Damn snakes! They will regret this, I promise you that."
Malek shook his head, fully understanding the anger that was emanating from Jacob. Jacob was out for blood, and had it been him and his daughter in Jacob's position, Malek new that he would be out for blood too.
"Let me see your face," said Malek kneeling beside Sam.
She slowly took her blood stained hand away from her face and tilted it upwards so Malek could see her nose better. It was defiantly broken. Malek picked up the healing device and slid it onto his hand.
"Be still while I heal you," he said.
After he healed her nose he also healed a few other wound that Anise had inflicted. Then he ran the scanner over her body to check for the disease but the cure had worked; it was gone.
"How are you feeling?"
Sam smiled as Cade took control.
"I feel a lot better now. Thank you, I owe you two my life."
Cade smiled as he finished his scan, "It's what we do, but you're welcome all the same."
He offered her his hand to help her stand.
"Ready to go home Carter," asked Jack as he helped Daniel up.
"Yes sir," she said walking toward the entrance with Cade.
Jack nodded towards Lucy and the others, "You can go now."
"But, aren't you going to punish us?"
"No, it's not your fault. The tok'ra play dirty and they should never have pulled you into this mess…"
They just stood there, looking dumfounded.
"Go home before I change my mind," said Jack.
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"So that's it?"
Jacob nodded. He had just finished telling Jack about how he had dealt with the council and severed all ties. He was currently still sitting in the infirmary with a bloody forehead and a broken collar bone.
"No more tok'ra. That's hard to imagine. Well except for Malek of course. We'll still have dealings with his base but he's the exception."
Jacob shook his head again.
"I can't believe it either. I never thought that it would come to this," he said.
"What about Selmak," asked Jack.
"Oh she wants to stay. The council wasn't very happy about that, but we didn't give them the chance to object."
Jack smiled, "I can tell."
A small laughed escaped Jacob, "Well, maybe I went a little overboard with the whole revenge thing, but no one died…unfortunately."
"I'm surprised."
"Me too," said Jacob, "Malek stopped me before I did any permanent damage. I'm kinda glad he did."
Jack laughed, "So this means that you are permanently moving back to earth?"
"Yep, I was thinking of taking a nice long vacation. You know show Sel what Earth is really like."
"I'm sure you could do that, and we'll have something for you to when you get back. I mean we can't let the oldest and wisest get complacent in his, er, her old age."
Jacob grinned, "I'd like that."
FIN
A/N Finally finished! A big thank you to everyone who read and reviewed! waves Thanks guys! I hope you enjoyed it.