I just want to take a moment to thank everyone for reading my stories and leaving nice messages and reviews :)
I've missed having Alisana in my stories but she's back with us once again as we start a new adventure.
Action, adventure, fun and mischief await SG-1 as we kick off a whole new story.
I hope you enjoy it.
- BREADCRUMBS -
Jack is sleeping peacefully in his bed, laying on his stomach on top of the crumpled white sheets in his boxers and Homer Simpson t-shirt, snoring and slightly drooling from the side of his mouth, he got home only a few hours ago after working 24 hours at the SGC, he wasn't on an off-world mission getting in to life or death fire fights with the Goa'uld, Ori or Replicators, if only, no this was far worse than that, it was just boring paperwork, months of putting off filing mission reports and team evaluations had finally caught up with him and he was ordered to do them by Landry who had been getting it in the neck from the IOA for letting him delay it for so long.
His body suddenly jumps and he's awoken by the loud beeping of the alarm clock sitting on the bedside table, as the sound vibrates through his ears he shuffles over his bed and leans out his arm, bashing the top of the clock repeatedly until the alarm turns off and knocks it on to the floor.
A few minutes after burying his head firmly back in to his pillow, the alarm goes off again, he wakes and once again reaches out to turn it off but as he feels around the top of the table he realises it's not there, irritated by the loud beeping he swings around on to his back and moves around to a seated position on the edge of his bed, he reaches down and picks up the clock and turns off the alarm before placing it back on the table.
He badly wants to become one with his pillow and sleep, but he can't, he has a briefing to get too, after a few minutes of sitting on the side of the bed with his head in his hands, he yawns and briefly scratches various parts of his body before sluggishly getting up and walking to his bedroom door on his way to the bathroom.
Opening the bathroom door and stepping inside, he instantly steps back and slams it shut after being screamed at.
"Get out!" screams Alisana, standing in the shower and quickly wrapping the shower curtain around herself.
"Sorry." shouts Jack, now feeling fully awake and slightly embarrassed, "Yikes!" he says, shaking off what he just saw.
Alisana has been living at Jack's house for a couple of weeks, up until now she had been living in a converted room on base at Stargate Command but she was feeling lonely and tired of having to be on base 24 hours a day, the IOA refused to give funding for her to get her own place so Jack stepped in and offered her his spare room, he's still adjusting to having the teenager living in his house.
"Morning." says Alisana, walking in to the kitchen with a wet towel wrapped around her and drying her hair with another.
"Morning." replies Jack, sitting at the kitchen table sipping a pot of coffee, "Coffee?." he asks.
"Sure." says Alisana.
They're both clearly feeling a little awkward after the embarrassing incident.
Jack places a freshly poured cup of coffee on to the table, "Listen, sorry about uhm...I didn't know you were in there." he says.
"It's all right. You should get a lock put on the door." says Alisana.
"Excellent idea, I'll do that. Later." replies Jack, "Right now I need a cold shower." he adds, walking away towards the bathroom.
"I'll get dressed and make breakfast." says Alisana.
"Great." replies Jack, unenthusiastically, closing the bathroom door and remembering the old shoes he had for breakfast yesterday, at least they tasted like old shoes, they were meant to be pancakes.
After taking a long shower while whistling the theme tune to The Simpson's, Jack gets out and wraps a towel around his waist and walks over to the sink to get a shave, after looking at himself handsomely in the mirror he looks down and is mortified to see feminine products spread messily around the edges of the sink and a bra hanging off the faucet.
Stargate Command
After getting dressed and eating breakfast, Jack and Alisana headed to the SGC and arrived just a few minutes before the scheduled briefing, they're due to go on a diplomatic mission to P8J-212, a planet they sent a MALP to a few weeks ago and found an industrial civilisation and a people called the Falrein, they've been in communication with them for a couple of weeks via the Stargate while arrangements were made to meet in person.
"Good morning." says Daniel, sitting at the table with his pile of notes.
"Is it." replies Jack, taking a seat.
"What?." asks Daniel.
"Good." replies Jack.
"What?!." asks Daniel.
"Nothing, never mind." says Jack.
Daniel noticed the bags under Jack's eyes, "Are you all right, you look really worn out." he says.
"Yeah I'm fine, just didn't get much sleep. I was here for most of the night filling in forms." says Jack.
"Well you knew we had a briefing this morning, why didn't you just sleep here?." asks Vala.
Jack doesn't respond, he just glares at her knowing she's right and wondering why he didn't just do that, too late now, "Shut up, Vala." he thinks to himself.
General Landry comes out of his office with another man walking beside him, "Morning SG-1." he says, placing a file on the table and taking a seat, "This is Mr Carl Godfrey, he's been appointed by the IOA to help build relations with the Falrein." he adds.
"Appointed, Sir?." asks Jack.
"He'll be joining you on your mission to P8J-212, Colonel." replies Landry.
Mitchell looks at him from across the table with distrust, "You don't have any secret orders or anything do you?." he asks.
Carl shakes his head, "Uhm..none that I'm aware of." he says.
"It's just the last guy the IOA sent to tag along with us ended up manufacturing a Replicator and almost got us all killed. I'm still pulling the splinters out of my back." says Mitchell.
"Ah, you're talking about James Marrick. The IOA members who were involved in the incident in the Ori galaxy have been replaced, that'll never happen again. I have no secret orders I assure you, I'm just..tagging along..to help build an alliance with these people." says Carl.
"Fair enough." says Mitchell, accepting his response but still not completely trusting him, "Glad to have you on board, Carl." he adds.
"If there are no more question, Dr Jackson will take us through the meet and greet ceremony." says Landry.
"There's a ceremony?" asks Jack, this is the first he's heard of it.
Daniel has spent a few days communicating with an assistant to the Falrein leaders, she's been explaining various aspects of their culture, what's fine to say and do, what is considered rude or unacceptable, generally explaining the best way to make a good first impression.
"Okay, when we arrive on P8J-212 the leaders, their equivalent of a President or Prime Minister will be there to meet us. Everyone will need to keep their arms at their sides, crossing arms is considered an act of aggression on their world..." says Daniel.
"Huh." sounds Alisana, leaning forward with her arms crossed on the table, "Really?." she asks.
"Yes. We'll each also need to carry a flower, they have a rare flower on their world called a Falloneriota, it's considered sacred to them and is used as a symbol of peace on their world. I've seen a depiction of the flower and it closely resembles the Sunflower that we have here on Earth, so we'll each have to take one with us as a peaceful offering." says Daniel.
"So give them a flower and don't make any sudden hand movements. Sounds like a few dates I've been on." jokes Mitchell, to the amusement of the others.
Suddenly the base alarms begin to sound, "Off-world gate activation." announces Walter over the coms, everyone stands from their chairs and head down to the control room.
Control Room
General Landry, Mr Godfrey and SG-1 get down to the control room and gather behind the consoles looking out in to the gate room a few moments after the gate connects.
"Walter?" asks Landry, wanting information.
"I'm not picking anything..oh..wait...incoming transmission." replies Walter.
- "Hello, Earth?, hello is anyone there."
The transmission comes through with a little static, Sam takes the seat next to Walter to respond, "We hear you, who is this?." she asks.
"I am Duan (Dwayne) of the Terion, please we are in need of your help, we're under attack."
"Sir, SG-8 were there last month, the Terion are simple villagers." says Sam, turning to Landry.
"He said something about an attack?." enquires Jack.
Sam turns back to the mic, "Whose attacking you?." she asks.
- "A beast." replies Duan.
General Landry realises the transmission is coming through via a MALP that was left on the planet when SG-8 returned, "Can you get a video feed?" he asks.
"Yes Sir." replies Sam, accessing the MALP systems and activating the camera remotely.
When the image comes through to the screens in the control room they see a young man kneeling by the MALP and staring over his shoulder with the tree line behind him, "Duan we can see you, did you say you were under attack from a beast?." asks Sam.
- "Yes, a large beast attacked our village, many have been killed, please, please help us..." replies Duan, then he's distracted by a loud roar and bending trees behind him.
Everyone in the control room heard the roar and can see the trees moving as Duan turns his back and presses himself against the MALP.
"Duan what's happening?." asks Sam.
Duan suddenly screams in fear and rushes away from the MALP and runs out of view, moments later another loud roar followed by what looked like a really large pair of legs running past the camera, they knock over the MALP and the transmission ends followed by the gate disconnecting.
"What in big honkin' hell was that..." asks Jack, after seeing what he knows he saw on camera, "I'm pretty tired but..we all saw that right?" he adds.