Children of the Chappa’ai 2: The Best Laid Plans
an unfinished sequel to Children of the Chappa’ai, a Stargate SG-1 AU
story by Setcheti
Jack O’Neill stood atop the
sand dune and looked out at…
Nothing,
really. More sand dunes. Two suns. His life.
His second
life. Or was it his third? He really wasn’t sure. The loose over-robe flapped around his ankles
as a gust of wind flung sand up in the air, and he smiled. The winds of
Ironically enough, that
pretty much summed up his situation. But
Jack wasn’t complaining, no sir. Being
the commander in chief of an entire planet’s military forces sure as hell beat
being an Air Force colonel back on Earth.
There were things he missed about Earth, sure, but he wasn’t going to
unbury the Stargate just because a cup of coffee
would be nice in the mornings or because he was curious about how his favorite
hockey team was doing. Jack had no
illusions about his birth planet’s intentions toward his new home, not after
the events of just over two years ago.
And if he ever started having
illusions again, in a small pouch hanging around his neck rested the warped
carcass of a used bullet that served to remind him of just what kind of people
they’d left behind.
Another gust of wind tugged
at him, just a little more forcefully than before, and successfully shook him
out of his introspection. Being able to
read the winds was a very necessary survival skill on Abydos,
something he, Kawalski and Ferretti
had found out the hard way a few months after they’d first ‘relocated’ to the
desert settlement, and right now the wind was warning him that a sandstorm
might just be in his future. Wrapping
his robes a little more tightly around him to keep them from flapping, Jack
headed back to the safety of the selbarta’s sheltering walls.
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