Family Bonds.
My take on The Problem Child Challenge.
I don't own Stargate or Buffy the vampire slayer please don't sue I have no money anyways and am not making anything except hopefully a good review perhaps? : ) I also changed things a little from the challenge. Hope that Buffycharmed doesn't mind. Also this has not ben beta read all mistakes are mine.
Sam woke with tears streaming down her face, It had been a very long time since she had even thought about her little sister. Getting up she made her way blindly through the mountain with no particular destination in mind.
"Carter!" Jacks familiar voice interrupted her mindless wandering.
Turning she snapped to attention seeing her commanding officer walking her way.
"At ease Carter geeze." Stepping forward Jack did a second take of his second in command. "Sam what is wrong?" He asked his voice much more comforting than before.
"Wrong sir?"
"You have obviously been crying what is wrong? He asked motioning to her red rimmed swollen eyes. Without waiting for an answer he pulled her into the empty office next to where they were standing.
"It was just a dream, a nightmare really but it was about my sister and it got me to thinking about the last time I saw her."
"I didn't even know you had a sister Carter." Jack stated in surprise.
"Dad sent her off to live with my mothers sister when my mother died. Elizabeth was so young, and Dad didn't feel like he could handle her."
"Tell me about her." Jack asked with a smile.
"She and I were very close even though she was so much younger than I was and she was so different from me. Yet, she used to follow me around, she said she wanted to be just like me." Sam stated and started crying again.
"Sam, talk to me what is wrong?" Jack asked instinctively knowing there was something else bothering her.
"It's just a dream I had really of the last time I saw her. When she was in high school she suffered some kind of mental break and she ended up burning down her high school gym and ending up in a mental institution. She said that she had to burn the gym to save everyone from an army of vampires."
Jack visibly flinched at these words.
"Sir?" She asked wanting clarification of why he flinched when she said vampires. Could it be that her nightmare was based on reality? That Buffy really hadn't been crazy and the vampires Buffy had burned in the gym were really aliens?
"Not now Carter. For now just tell me what has you so upset." Jack commanded.
"I remember when Dad and I went to visit her in the hospital, she looked so desperate for us to believe her. She kept insisting that she could prove it if we would just give her a chance to do so. Dad told her that if she believed that then she belonged in the mental hospital and that he thought she was better off there. She looked at me with so much hope and trust and she seemed to shatter when it became obvious that I didn't believe her. Tonight I had a nightmare that the Goa'uld were in the gym and that she killed aliens thinking they were vampires. She said she had been called as the new Slayer and that meant it was her sacred duty to kill vampires.
"Sir after everything I have seen I can't help but wonder what if she was telling the truth? At least the truth as she saw it. I turned my back on her, she stopped writing to me after that and refused to come home for visits. She returned all my letters unopened. She even changed her name from Elizabeth Carter to Buffy Summers. What if she was telling the truth and I just turned my back on her?" Sam cried.
Jack ground his teeth wondering how he was ever going to tell Sam that her sister Elizabeth had been telling the truth. Only it wasn't aliens it was actual vampires she had killed.
"You know something. Jack you have to tell me. Please." Sam pleaded picking up on the tension in his body she knew it wasn't good.
Jack winced knowing that the scientist inside of her wouldn't be able to accept it. "What happened after you didn't believe her? Is she still there?" He asked.
"No she eventually recanted and said that she now knew that vampires weren't real. She was released. Joyce, (my mothers sister) divorced her husband and moved with Buffy to a small town called Sunnydale. For a few years we got letters from Joyce about Buffy but they stopped coming a couple years ago. What with everything going on here the last few years I just haven't had the time to go find out why." Sam explained.
Jack sighed, at least the poor girl wasn't still in the nut house. Now how the hell was he going to tell Carter that Buffy had been telling the truth and there was such a thing as vampires in this world.
"Jack, what is it?" Sam asked.
Jack sighed. Sam needed to know. "I can't tell you about the circumstances that lead to what I know, it is classified. However, I did run into creatures once before I joined Stargate Command. They...crap Carter, they were vampires. Vampires are real. I was very nearly killed by one once on a mission."
Sam turned a whiter shade of pale. "Jack, you can't be serious."
"Carter would I lie to you about this? I'll admit it sounds like some horrid practical joke but the truth is they exist." Jack exclaimed.
"So...you are telling me that...that I did turn my back on my sister?" Sam asked not wanting to believe the truth.
"I'm afraid so Carter."
"But, the government would surely know about it..."
"I have heard rumors about something called the Initiative going back to before the 1940's. If the rumors I have heard are correct they are as secret as we are and we really shouldn't be talking about it." Jack explained.
"I, I have to find her and apologize. I have to go to Sunnydale. How on Earth will I get her to listen to me. What on Earth am I going to say?" Sam asked.
"How about you start with an I'm Sorry," Jack suggested. "Do you want some backup? I'd be willing to go with you."
"Thank you sir I would really appreciate it." Sam admitted. Truthfully she was afraid to face Buffy now. Especially since she was in the wrong. Silently she wished she could have all of SG-1 with her when she went there but she would take as many of them as would come with her.
General Hammond sat in stunned silence for a long moment. "Could you repeat that last part?" He asked.
"I need some personal time to visit my sister ." Sam repeated.
"No, the other part, what was your sisters name again?" General Hammond asked.
"Buffy Summers Sir." "Sam repeated.
"Buffy Summers in Sunnydale?" General George Hammond asked.
"Why, yes sir. but How did you know she was in Sunnydale? I never mentioned that.
"Major, I will need some time before I can answer your request. Report back to my office in two hours."
"Yes, sir." Sam replied though she was confused. She had plenty of time accrued and things at the SGC were unusually quiet. Figuring that there might be something coming up that she knew nothing about Sam walked out to find the rest of SG-1 waiting for her.
"Hey Sam, Jack said we were going with you to visit your sister. I didn't even know you had a sister. How soon are we leaving?" Daniel asked.
"Actually I am not sure. I have to report back to General Hammond's office in two hours. Sir, do you know of anything coming up as to why we wouldn't be granted leave?" Sam asked Jack.
Jacks eyes scrunched up as he considered the question. He wasn't aware of anything but what if there was a memo on his computer he hadn't read yet. "I don't think so Sam. Let's get some chow while we wait to find out we can pack and be ready to go . No matter what ,this is just a delay, we will deal with whatever we have to deal with then we will go with you to Sunnydale to see Buffy." Jack tried to be encouraging.
Sam smiled in reply and together the four team members walked together to the Commissary for some food.
Meanwhile General Hammond picked up his red phone and called the President.
