Changes in Time
Children of the Gods
AN: Hey everyone! So this is my first attempt at a massive fanfiction and this will be massive because I will be covering all 10 seasons of Stargate as well as massive portions of Atlantis and some of my source material comes from my best friend who is my sounding board. I will be attempting to maintain the ratings appropriate for each episode. That being said this first chapter will be rated M, but basically unless stated otherwise will be rated T to be safe because Oriana (the main character) is 18 and tends to let her mouth get away with her. This is a crossover which will not be fully explained for a while, but it will be hinted at if you pay close enough attention. If you figure out why private it to me because that won't spoil it for the slow pokes.
*X*X*
Oriana giggled as she saw the men and single woman gathered around the card table. "If there isn't a seat left for me I won't be very happy!" She crossed her arms and pretended to pout.
"Oh man, this hand's as lousy as this detail. Alright, everybody, ante up." Said the semi-cute dealer as he looked at Oriana smirking and motioned for the guys to move over and open up a spot for her. "That's the both of you as well." He added chuckling dealing the cards as everyone but Oriana anted in. "You're not in?"
"Not 21." Oriana added sarcastically, "Unless of course you'd like to explain to grandpa why he's eighteen year old favorite granddaughter is gambling illegally in a top secret facility with you lot." She said trying to pull out a twenty.
The dealer ignores the comment about her age and passes her by while calling out the other hands, "Seven to the deuce, nothing there. Boss and the eight, nothing happening. Queen to the king, possible straight going there. Eight on the eight, and the jack gets a boss. Eights open."
Oriana watched the dealer and made a face which brought to light her age. "If the detail is so horrible then don't play cards with us and go back to your watch so it'll be over before you know it."
"Aren't you guys afraid of an officer coming down here or something?" The not-so-pretty blond woman asked.
"Trust me, nobody ever comes down here but us."
"Besides, my name is Oriana Hammond. That makes me an insurance policy." Oriana said shrugging. "If grandpa thought this was dangerous I wouldn't be allowed within ten miles of here let alone hanging out with people under his command." She watched the woman and rolled her eyes, "Whose idea was it to bring the new chick? And if she reports this imma let it fall on ya'll."
"Does it always do that?" The annoying woman who wouldn't stop drawing attention to herself continued.
"You're paying too much damn attention to a moot point. Just drop it and play the damn game." Oriana was losing her patience with the attention seeker.
"Whatever is under that tarp, I just…it just move or something." The woman added exasperated.
"Probably the only thing it ever did was cost money. But it looks like they even ran out of that. They've been shipping people out of her for months. It's the only reason little Ori has the run of the place."
"I'm telling you, the thing is moving!"
"And we're telling you that's impossible. If you don't have the straight just fold and stop with the bs. I have to leave soon or grandpa will get suspicious and if we get caught I won't save anyone's ass that is denying me a good time."
The woman rolled her eyes at the little girl and moved her way towards the covered object.
"Can we take that as a fold?" the semi-cute dealer asked agitated.
"Just finish the hand. She got up from the table and she's making everyone miserable. She's out. And next time you think it's funny to bring someone new you'll know better." Oriana growled throwing in the woman's hand frustrated at the situation.
"Guys, I'm serious." The even more annoying women stated again.
Oriana made faces to the group at the table mimicking her.
The area around the covered object began to rumble, the woman panicked and began to back away. Each of the military personal went for their weapon and surround Oriana out of instinct to protect the civilian. "Has this never happened before?" the panicing woman asked as the tarp fell to the ground revealing the beautifully engraved circle.
"It's beautiful." Oriana whispered weaving through the protective circle the older men had created around her as the beautiful waterfall disappeared back into the water. She moved closer and up the ramp almost touching the impossibly wavy water. "How?"
"What are you doing?" The semi-cute but protective dealer asked as the attention seeking woman moved closer to the object and stood next to Oriana.
"I'm observing an unnatural phenomenon. Do you have a problem with that?" Oriana reached the top of the ramp and reached out to touch the water, but a strange orb fell from it and landed at her feet distracting her. "Curious and Curiouser. Like Alice in Through the Looking Glass." Oriana bends down after it scans her and the now annoyingly protective woman and pushes her aside so that she might pick it up instead of G.I Jane.
"What are you doing?"
"Will you shut up, please? I told you. I never get to have any fun." Oriana glared back at the group of testosterone filled protectors.
"Seriously, don't touch that you aren't qualify—"
Oriana ignored the mans uneducated comment and continued to examine the ball oblivious to the two snake looking guards coming through the 'looking glass'. Oriana stops and lets out a small yelp as she feels the cold arms wrap around her neck.
"Jaffa! Kree!" The gold figure shouts causing the guard holding Oriana to reveal his face. "Teal'c, Kree!" Teal'c studies the gun that was taken from the annoying female, drops it and roughly passes Oriana to only golden snake looking guy.
Oriana struggles and tries to fight against her captor to free herself, "Let me go." She continues to struggle until a golden light shines in her face and everything goes blank.
"Let her go!"
Oriana stands motionless as the whizzing of lasers and gunfire passes her by practically unnoticed as the older military men fall like toy soldiers. One by One all the while she is protected by the fierce unknown assumed enemy and pawns in a game of chess.
"Hold your fire!" The words of her grandfather echoed through what Oriana had thought a storage room and brought her partially to herself. She locked eyes with him in fear as she felt herself being dragged back through the impossible looking glass.
*X*X*
Oriana looked around the room uncomfortably. The people around her like a herd of cattle for the slaughter. They eyed her and the woman whose name she had yet to learn as if they were alien and she assumed that in this state of dress it made sense. She was awkward and huddled nervously in the corner. "What's your name?" she asked quietly.
"Viviana" She said quietly observing the frightened child.
"I'm sorry, about earlier. I didn't mean to—"
"No, you did. I'm used to it. When you get dropped off in a top secret facility because of a fuck up you're used to being misunderstood. How did you end up there anyway? Surely your parents wouldn't allow you to wander off with your grandpa to a top secret facility."
"I'm adopted. Dad's dead. Never had a mother and I don't know anything about my life before my sixteenth birthday. Grandpa Hammond was the only one who could take me in and the government was quick to approve my security clearance, who knows why, so there I was bored and needing to be entertained. Found a couple of guys screwing around told them to set up a card game. I never realized this would happen. I read the security reports when no one was looking, but who would have thought it was like Area 51. I thought it was a prank." Oriana rambled on because of her nerves and was again oblivious to her surroundings until she was grabbed by her arm and dragged unceremoniously towards to entrance.
Oriana watched as Viviana was dragged in one direction and her in another. The men dropped her in a bath and walked out the door when she was swarmed by woman who began pulling at her jeans and button down shirt. "Stop!" She whimpered trying to pull away from them backing into the wall of the massive tub. "I can wash myself." She continued to try to cover herself wishing for once that she wasn't so shy about her budding sexuality.
"We will wash you. You will be cleansed." The repeated as they began to pull down her hair and wash it vigorously. "Please, do not struggle or they will kill you." A smaller voice said emerging from the shadowy corner pulling down Oriana's shirt and finishing up undressing her kindly.
Oriana stopped struggling out of fear and allowed the women to primp her in the way they found acceptable. When all was said and done she was wearing a haram outfit that reminded her of Aladdin. Her hair was pulled straight and a beaded headband was carefully placed in her hair. When the attendants went to remove her necklace Oriana gripped at the woman's hand. "Please, not this." The tears in her eyes were enough for the woman to feel pity on the woman child.
"We will allow you to keep it, but you must obey what the others command of you or they will not be so kind." The older woman said as she pushed her gently into the Haram where she found Viviana huddled alone in the corner. "Go to your friend. She was behaved you will learn from her."
Oriana wanted to glare at the woman, but was to grateful to be allowed her necklace that she said nothing and carefully huddled next to Viviana realizing that her age was becoming more apparent. In her state of dress she looked like a woman child that was no older then fifteen and that bothered her, but at the same time wondered if it would save her in the end. All of these woman looked like they were to be made wives or other unmentionable things, but she looked innocent and untouchable. Like an angel. "I'm scared."
"You are a child. They are more likely to avoid corrupting innocence. At least that is my hope. If you behave perhaps we will go unnoticed. Until help can arrive." Viviana said watching her and hugging the girl. "You need to be calm. Everything will be fine and I'm sure that your grandfather already ha—" Viviana stoped talking when she noticed Teal'c and other guards enter with him causing the room to go silent.
Teal'c looks around and watches Viviana holding the girl that interested his master, but choose the blond over the innocent looking child. "You!" The guards pull Viviana away from the screaming Oriana. "Leave her alone!" She cries out as the woman hold her back.
"Where are you taking me? I'm a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. I demand to know where you're taking me! Let go!" Viviana fought and shouted as they pulled her from the haram leaving Oriana alone in the corner surrounded by the older woman who began mothering her.
"Don't touch me." She pronounced each word as she pulled away from the women retreating further and further into the dark corners of the haram.
"Did that woman say Air force? Like from Earth like my Daniel?" A beautiful woman with dark curly hair asked as she sat down next to Oriana.
"I am from Earth, but I don't know a Daniel?" Oriana said sadly clutching her knees to her chest.
"I am Sha're. You can trust me." She hugged the girl close petting the young girl's hair. "I have a brother about your age, you are very young. We can hope that he doesn't think to pick you." She sang softly to the girl.
"Is this what having a mother is like?" she asked. The feeling of rocking a child or being rocked seemed familiar to her even if she had no memories of the event.
"Don't you have a mother?" Sha're asked looking at the girl with pity.
"I have been orphaned twice." Oriana said sadly holding the locket in her hands. "This is all I have of the life before my father adopted me. I don't have much from that life left since the fire." She nibbled on her lip only to feel Sha're lightly hit her leg.
"You do not bite on your lip like that. It is unattractive and not fit for a young woman. We may be stuck her, but that is no reason to become uncivilized. You will be a proper and fine young woman like the woman O'Neill and my Daniel spoke of from earth." Sha're held the girl close as she whispered to her.
*X*X*
"Colonel I'd like to remind you that rescuing Doctor Daniel's wife is a secondary objective. In the even you fail to notify base camp within 24 hours, SG-2 will scrub the mission and return without you." Samuals continued as kept pace with Colonel O'Neill and his team down the corridors.
"Understood." O'Neill said looking over at the rest of his team noticing Hammond from the corner of his eye, "General?"
"A word, O'Neill, in private." Hammond motioned for the others to continue to the gate room as O'Neill stepped to the side to speak with him. "I'm aware that Samuals is reminding you that Doctor Jackson's wife is second priority, but there is another matter I'd like to discuss with you that is of the upmost importance," he paused looking around, "To me."
"Sir?"
"My granddaughter was one of the two hostages taken through the gate. She's all that I have left of my son. I know you have only twenty four hours and she shouldn't be priority, but as a grandfather I feel the need to ask you from one father to another to help me." Hammond said seriously his eyes conveying an emotion that he was trying to contain. "This was supposed to be a cake command. She's only eighteen years old with about as much security clearance as yourself. She's a vital part of history and for now that's all you need to know. Bring her back Colonel" Hammond looked at the man and motioned for his dismissal.
"I understand, sir. We'll find her and bring her home in one piece." O'Neill saluted as he went back and joined the rest of his team in the gate room.
"SG-1, SG-2, if you do not return in 24 hours your remote transmitter codes will be locked out, and the iris will be sealed permanently. At that point there will be no return. Is that understood?" Hammond's voice echoed through the gate room, but his eyes were fixed on Jack O'Neill.
*X*X*
Oriana sniffled as she woke up cuddled next to the woman who had taken to protecting her. "Sha're? They're back." She whimpered holding onto the woman scared. "Don't let them take you." Oriana was reverting to her childhood.
Teal'c looked around the room and his focus fell back on the little one. "You." He said pointing to Sha're.
"No!" Oriana cried as the guards started pulling apart.
"Take the child back with the others. She should never have been brought here." Teal'c said stiffly pushing Oriana back into the arms of one the guards. The guards nodded and pulled Oriana in another direction depositing her with the others.
"No! Sha're! Leave her alone! Take me!" Oriana screamed as the doors slammed locking her with the others.
"Sha're? You know my sister?" a boy with long messy black hair asked.
Oriana looked around and held her knees to her chest. "She was helping me and they took her. They kept saying I looked like a woman child and brought me back here. She was so nice to me. She told me about you. Said you were brave like her Daniel and a man named O'Neil." She sat and listened as everyone crowed around her. "Why was I taken there? If I was too young?"
"To be chosen, but they took pity on your age and brought you here. O'Neil would know how to escape." The boy said softly, "I'm Skaara." He hugged the girl. "I'll protect you."
Oriana nodded and hid behind him as the door opened again this time people were brought in. "Are they here to take more of us. No one's come back."
"Stay behind me." Skaara said as he moved around realizing that he recognized the voices. "O'Neil! Daniel!"
O'Neill turned around and saw the boy and sighed in relief. "Skaara, have you stayed out of trouble? Do you know what happened to Sha're?" O'Neill asked as if tip-toeing around the subject.
"She was taken with this girl, but they brought her back calling her a woman-child. She is from earth I think. She came with the blond they took with her." Skaara said motioning to Oriana that it was safe. "They are friends."
"Friends? How are you supposed to save us if you're trapped here as well?" Oriana asked a bit of her nerve surfacing through her fear.
"What's your name?" O'Neill asked looking at the girl carefully.
"Oriana Hammond, who are you?" Oriana looked the man up and down the uniform was familiar, so familiar that she wanted to hug him and beg him to take her home, but she wasn't going to assume anything not when everything felt so foreign around her.
"Thank the Gods. I'm Jack O'Neill and I'm here to save you, among other things, but your grandfather was sure to mention that you were to be my unofficial main priority." Jack said releavd.
"No offense, but unless you have a brilliant plan of escape the two people who have tried to help me have disappeared. Viviana included and I don't think she's coming back the way that man looked at me with pity makes me think I'm alone, or the last." Oriana rambled on clinging to Skaara as Daniel began to wake.
"Well if there's way out of here I haven't found it yet. But look what I did find." Jack motioned for Skaara and Oriana to come into Daniel's field of vision.
"Daniel you're okay!" Skaara smiled as if trying to hide something from Oriana.
"I think so." Daniel said groaning as Skaara hugged him tight.
"Easy big guy. Welcome back to the land of the conscious. This is Oriana Hammond; apparently the little miss doesn't know the meaning of off-limits." Jack said trying to lift the mood as Skaara looked sadly at Daniel.
"O'Neill told me about Sha're." Skaara said cryptically.
"What about Sha're? What are you hiding from me?"
"Don't worry about it, kid." Jack said seriously more focused on Daniel.
"Jack, help me. We can find her again"
"Daniel…don't. If we can't find our way out of here, the mission's a bust anyway. They seal the 'gate in just over 90 minutes. C'mon, Skaara, let's find a way out of here." Jack motioned for the only woman in the group of Soldiers to take care of Oriana.
Oriana cringes as she see'sa guard approaching them and cowers back as he grips Jack's arm, "What is this?" The guard asks still hiding behind his serpent mask.
"A watch?" Jack says in discomfort watching the alien uncomfortably.
The alien reveals his face to be Teal'c. "This is not Goa'uld technology. Where are you from?"
"Earth. Chicago if you want to be more specific." Jack says seriously watching the man curiously.
"You're words mean nothing. Where are you from?" Teal'c continues to ask as if they were avoiding his question by twisting their words.
"Uh, excuse me," Daniel interrupts drawing the symbol for earth in the sand. "This is where we are from."
Teal'c scrapes a line through the symbol and walks away from the group.
"We need to find a way out of here and have less than 90 minutes to do so, Daniel. Start thinking and thinking fast, because we cannot stay here."
*X*X*
"So Ra isn't dead after all?" The woman asked as Jack tested yet another set of bars.
"No, it wasn't Ra. It was Apophis." Daniel said watching Oriana from the corner of his eye. "She's awful young to be part of the Star Gate Program don't you think Carter?"
"I heard about her once. She's got brains, top scores in everything, but after her father died in the fire she just locked herself away with her grandfather. I assume she's spent the time exploring the home base. Military tried recruiting her a few time, but she's always denied them. She always said something about not wanting her grandpa to be her superior." Carter said watching the girl. "Who?"
"Um, it's from Egyptian mythology. Ra was the sun god who ruled the day. Apophis was the serpent guard, Ra's rival who ruled the night. It's right out of The Book of the Dead. They're living it." Daniel sighed as Jack moved away from the windows and watched as he moved around with Skaara. "Oriana will never forget the things that have happened here and I'm starting to wonder if Skaara will ever forgive himself for Sha're being taken." Daniel added as he moved closer to the group when the doors began to open.
"Shaka ha! Kree hol mel, Goa'uld!" Teal'c said followed by a royal box.
"What'd he say?" Jack asked pulling everyone into a tight knit group ready to do what they could to protect those around them.
"They're going to choose." Skaara said eyeing Oriana and the box in front of them.
"Choose what?" Carter asked.
"Who will be the children of the gods." Skaara said as he watched Apophis emerge from the beautifully decorated box.
"Jaffa!" Apophis called as he helped his queen, Sha're, from the same decorated box.
"Sha're. Jack, help me please." Daniel begged as he saw his wife decorated as a queen acting like a doting queen to man who was not physically her husband. He lunges forward, but Carter and Jack pull him back trying to calm him.
"Daniel, don't. Don't." Jack begs quietly trying to protect the scientist from himself.
Teal'c speaks again, "Benna! Ya wan, ya daru! Kneel before your masters!" he looks around as the rest of the guards move to force the others to kneel and tells them with his eyes.
Jack understands and kneels, but realizes that Skaara has not. "Skaara," He says in a tone that he would have used on his son. Skaara looks at Jack and kneels for Jack's sake.
Teal'c calls out again, "Benna, ya wan ya daru! Choose!" And watches as prisioners are helplessly pushed around and choosen from. Watching as a couple approaches the team from earth.
Daniel lunges and takes hold of one of the couples arms while the guards hold Jack and Carter back from interfearing.
"This one is passionate." The couple says amused by Daniel's reaction.
"How much would I remember if you chose me?"
"Daniel, what are you doing?" Jack asked watching the guards nervously.
"Something of the host must survive." Daniel begs clinging to that small hope that some part of Sha're might still be alive.
Jack notices Teal'c shaking his head negatively and his heart breaks along with Daniels.
"We choose him." The Goa'uld points to Skaara as the guards grab him and begin to drag him away..
"No!" Oriana reacts violently trying to fight for her hold on her friend. "Leave him alone!" She cries out attracting the attention of all the guards.
"O'Neill!" Skaara cries out as they continued to drag him away from his brother in law and friends.
Jack tries to fight to get a hold on Skaara but the guards hit him in the nose and his is pushed back out of reach to listen to Skaara calling for him over and over again.
"Kill the rest!" Apophis' voice echoed through the room causing panic and disarray.
"I can save this people! Help me! Help me!" Jack screamed making eye contact with Teal'c.
"Many have said that." Teal'c said firing on his own people before thowing Jack a weapon of his own, "But you are the first I believe could do it!" He nods and begins to help Jack protect the other prisoners.
"Get out of the way!" Jack screams as he points the Jaffa weapon at the wall and fires it creating an opening for everyone to escape from. "Alright, let's move!" He motions for everyone to move to the opening allowing carter to help him get everyone out safly. "Come on Oriana."
Oriana stares at Jack for a moment and back to where Skaara had been dragged. "They were my friends. I can't…"
"You can and you will. Your grandfather tasked me in bringing you home and that's what I'm going to do. Don't make me carry you like a baby. You are eighteen years old and on our planet that's barely legal, but legal all the same. That means you need to buck up and act like a grown up right now no matter how scared you are." Jack said shepherding Oriana to the opening.
Oriana observes Jack from the opening confused, but understanding of the man's reaction.
"Are you going to be okay?" Jack asks Daniel as he's moving through the opening.
Daniel pauses nods and motions for Oriana to move along with him.
"Hey, c'mon!" Jack says to Teal'c as he stands there not knowing what to do with himself.
"I have nowhere to go." Teal'c says as he looks at his fallen brethren. Jaffa that he helped slay jumbled in a mess of prisoners.
"For this you can stay at my place. Let's go!" Jack says lightening the mood slightly.
Teal'c pauses for a moment, but decides that he believes the man.
"what's your name?" Jack asks as they reach the outdoors and begin to breath freshair.
"Teal'c"
"Teal'c, where will they take Skaara?" Jack asks hopeful.
"To the Stargate, after they've selected hosts for their children they will return home." Teal'c says firmly unphased by the situation because of the many times he has seen it happen.
*X*X*
"We've got less than an hour, how we doing?" Jack asked looking around the area.
"We lost a few when we got to the forest. Miss over here is great with the kids, but it's not easy keeping a big group like this safe out in the open, Sir." Carter said pointing to Oriana who was trying to pay as much attention to what was being said about her as well as the situation around her.
Teal'c looked sad and unsure of his position as he spoke, "They will be hunted down and killed. Anyone who does not exist to serve the gods is their enemy."
"and that makes you…" O'Neill asked watching his new team mate.
"I am a Jaffa. Bred to serve, that they may live." Teal'c said as if he'd been rehearsing the line all of his life.
"I don't understand?" Daniel said looking at the Alien curiously.
Teal'c stops and reveals his pouch and the small snake like creature slithers a bit from his stomach. The prisoners screaming cause him to cover himself again.
"What the hell is that?" O'Neill asks semi-grossed out by what he's just witnessed.
"It is an infant Goa'uld, the larval form of the gods, I have carried one since I was a child, as all Jaffa carry one." Teal'c said as the continued to walk.
"Get it out of there." O'Neill says still grossed out by the larva growing in his new allies stomach.
"In exchange for carrying the infant Goa'uld until maturity, a Jaffa receives perfect health and long life. If I were to remove it, I would eventually die." Teal'c adds aware that for an outsider this would be more of a shock then for someone bred to do only this.
"Yeah, well if I were you, I'd take my chances." O'Neill said dropping the subject. He knew how things worked on Earth and had no intention of forcing the issue at the present moment if ever. They owed this man their lives.
"It is his own choice, Jack O'Neill and you will not deprive him of that. If it will cost him his life what right do any of us have to tell him what to do with it. Thank you, Teal'c for saving me from the haram. I was frightened that I might be next." Oriana felt safest next to the alien and continued to stand next to him as they walked to the beautifully engraved circle she had yet to learn much about.
"You were little one, but you are much too young to be chosen as the queen for Apophis I would not allow it." Teal'c said still standing stiffly in a makeshift military march.
"Tell me about that beautiful circle? The one with the water it in?" She said hoping that one of them would give a little more then they should.
"It's the Chapaa'ai. The gate way of the Gods." Teal'c said.
Jack held his hand up, "She's not briefed in the subject and is not to be asking questions her grandfather doesn't want her knowing the answers to. All you need to know, nosy, is that you go through the event horizon freeze your little butt off and go to college when we get back." He pointed for Oriana to move ahead of the group. "She doesn't need to know anything that might make it difficult for her to live her life away from this detail, understood?" He stated his order to both Carter and Daniel.
"I believe if she is risking her life to go home that she should be allowed to know the vessel from which she will travel. She has grown in wisdom with her captivity and will never settle for a life that does not involve stopping the Goa'uld" Teal'c said wisely watching the young woman walk away frustrated.
*X*X*
"Is it working?" Daniel asked as the event horizon stabilized and watched as Carter was putting in her codes.
"Oh, let's hope so. If not, I'll be the first to know." Carter said running through the shimmering gate.
"Oriana, if this works you'll go through with me with O'Neill." Daniel said motioning for the refugees to go through. Daniel calls for cover and motions for the last of the refugees to go through as well as himself.
Oriana watches as everyone falls back to the gate and clings to O'Neill as they push through the gate. The next thing she hears is hold your fire and her mind flashes to the moment she was taken. She watches Carter take Teal'c's weapon and her blood boils. "He just saved our lives and you're treating him like he's an enemy!"
"Calm, little one. I need the others to understand I am not a threat." Teal'c says to her as he moves off the ramp causing Oriana to move closer to Jack and the head of SG-2.
"Worm hole disengaged!" A technician calls over the intercom.
Hammond pushes through the crowd and let's out an almost inaudible sigh of relief. "Colonel O'Neill. Care to explain?"
"Um, we can use the Stargate to send these people home, sir" Carter interrupts watching the interaction between the senior and junior Hammond.
"What's he doing here?" Hammond asks looking at the proximity of the alien to his granddaughter.
"General Hammond, this is Teal'c. He can help us." Jack says firmly moving closer to their savior.
"Do you know what he is?" Hammond asks staring the man up and down.
"He's the man who saved our lives, grandpa." Oriana interjects as Jack goes to defend Teal'c. "He saved my life and the life of every one of those refugees. Isn't that enough for you?"
"And if you accept my recommendation, sir…he'll join SG-1." Jack added looking at Oriana like she was insane for speaking out of turn.
"That decision may not be up to you." Hammond says backing off the ramp still watching his granddaughter out of the corner of his eyes.
Jack checks on the rest of SG-1 and 2 and waits for Hammonds composure to return.
"Colonel O'Neill, Major Kawalsky, this sure-to-be-very-interesting debriefing for SG units 1 and 2 will be at 0730. O'Neill, I'd like to talk to you and Miss Hammond in private after you've settled, understood?" He says stiffly walking from the room and returning to his office.
"Yes, sir." Jack and Oriana echoed watching the chaos around them.
"She's out there somewhere, Jack." Daniel says looking at the gate longingly.
"I know. So's Skaara" Jack adds looking at the sadness in Oriana's face.
"so what do we do?" Daniel asks as they turn away from the gate.
"We find them," Jack and Oriana echo again.
*X*X*
"Grandpa?" Oriana calls into General Hammond's office with Jack hot on her tail. She pokes her head in nervously expecting an angry look on her grandfather's face. "I'm so sorry grandpa." She says seeing him she stands at his desk in military formation.
General Hammond sits there looking at his granddaughter and for a moment appears as if he's going to yell at her for breaking the rules, but before she knows what's happened General Hammond has enveloped his granddaughter in a hug. "Stupid, stupid girl, how can you think that after almost losing you I'd be mad at you?" He asks holding her close rubbing her back like he did when he first met her and she'd been afraid that they wouldn't accept an outsider as family.
"I was bored and, it's my fault those men are dead. It's my fault that Viviana is dead. I should be the one to tell her family that she died in line of duty protecting me. She kept them from taking me." Oriana rambled on and on the tears she had held back finally flowing freely from her face.
"Oriana, Ori... stop." General Hammond pulled out of his hug and held her at arms distance looking her in the eyes. "No one blames you. If you hadn't suggested they play cards in the gate room someone else would have. This was meant to be a cake command. The money was gone and we were not prepared for the gate to be reactivated. If I had known it would have been I wouldn't have allowed you to wander around freely. As it is you'll have to be de-breifed before you leave."
"Leave?"
"Yes leave, to go to college in the fall like you promised your grandmother and I." Hammond said moving back to his desk bringing his attention back to Jack. "I want to thank you for bringing her back in one piece. She seems to have developed a bit of a bond with that alien you say saved your lives. I don't know how I feel about that."
"I'm not leaving, grandpa. I want to stay and help. There is going to have to be a full gate program and I'm smart enough to do something around here. I've seen what's out there you can't expect me to go live a mundane life where I can't learn about these things." Oriana said passionately moving around the room.
"Right now, you're going to be de-briefed. You're going to go home apply to the local community college and start there. If you still want to work here then we'll see about getting you a desk job till you're qualified to do anything. High school diploma doesn't mean anything in a field like this. Now go shower and get out of that…thing." Hammond pointed to the door and one of the attendants led Oriana away.
"She'll be a handful when she's older." Jack joked. "When are you going to brief me about why she was allowed near the gate in the first place, Sir?"
"When I think it's necessary, Colonel, for now I'll plant her butt in a desk and keep her as far away from Jackson, Carter and the Gate as possible; because believe it or not she's always been a handful. It turns out that the money is back and we'll be doing a little bit more than originally planned. Sorry that you won't be going back into retirement?"
"No sir, I'm going to find Daniel's wife and brother in law. This isn't over just yet."
A/N2: Can you believe it 6,015 words later and we're finally done with episode 1 and 2(because they broke up Children of the Gods, but I didn't) of Stargate: SG-1! I'm so excited that it's done and I'm glad that you've taken the time to read it. I hope you take the time to review it as well, because it would mean the world to me. This has a lot already planned out, but because I'm in school I can promise updated every week. It is what I'm aiming for since I have such a legacy to follow and so much to work with, but if I don't think something is ready I'm not going to give you it. I'm also searching for a beta reader. I know that I can reread this six million times and still miss mistakes. So if you're a beta reader who's willing to work with me send me a message. Night everyone and remember reviews=love.