Well here's chapter two, I know its been awhile but life came up on me every time I tried to post. And the rest of the time I was just lazy.

Thanks to PatriciaS, and AmandaTappingfan for the reviews, and everyone who added to story alert. I will try and get chapter three up faster this time.

-H.S.O.

Chapter 2

8:07 pm Friday

It had been a long day for the team, but they had pulled through and completed their mission, Seth was dead. It was a team tradition to go to O'Malley's after defeating a high-ranking Goa'uld and while Seth hadn't been a System Lord for a long time, it was still a kill worthy of celebration.

As he pulled his truck into the parking lot, Selmac was explaining in more detail how the Goa'uld hand device worked. Resisting the urge to correct him on the frequency, Jack said instead, "We're here boys and girls, everyone out."

As they headed in, O'Neill couldn't help the feeling they were being watched. Looking around he saw nothing to make him nervous.

Deciding it was just from the day's mission he pushed the feeling to the back of his mind, and tried to enjoy the food.

About a hour later Jack was still nervous, he could almost swear he could see Murdoc sitting in a corner booth, but that wasn't possible was it, he was supposed to be dead, right? That'll be the day.

As the team got ready to go Jack saw someone limping out the door in a hurry. 'That's odd' he thought as the guy who resembled Murdoc hurried out behind him.

As SG1 and Jacob Carter made there way to Jack's truck, he heard a car door slam. Looking around he saw movement inside a black hummer, but then nothing.

"Is all well with you, O'Neill?"

"Yeah, Teal'c. Just peachy." The others were already in the truck and didn't hear, but Teal'c was concerned about his friend.

As Jack pulled onto the street, he watched the exit to see if anyone followed them out. As he suspected the hummer pulled out behind him a little ways back. As Jack drove towards Daniel's apartment he kept an eye on the hummer. This guy was a real professional, even with all his experience Jack probably wouldn't have spotted the guy.

He decided to let the others know. "We're being followed." He said, interrupting Carter as she was explaining a saying to Teal'c.

"What?" from Daniel.

"Where, Sir?" Sam asked turning around.

"The black hummer two cars back." Jack replied as he made a sudden turn to the left, the others watched as the two cars passed and the hummer followed them.

"Carter, get his license plate number, I want to know who this guy is."

Jack made three more turns as Sam copied the number.

"Got it, Carter?"

"Yes, Sir."

"Good." With that Jack floored the accelerator and the pickup flew through a red light. Hearing tires screeching, he looked back to see a semi truck blocking the intersection.

They decided that they should go back to the base, and try and figure out who it was that was following them.

When they had made it through security Jacob said he had some arrangements to make, and would see them tomorrow, and Daniel and Teal'c went to check on something in Daniel's office, so Jack and Sam went to Sam's office (it had the fastest computer on the base).

As Carter worked on finding out who had been following them, Jack looked around at her various projects lying around. Leaning against a counter he looked at some equations scribbled in a notebook. Looking it over he realized it was the power source for that device SG-3 brought back from P3X-293. Looking at it Jack saw what the problem was. After peeking over his shoulder to make sure Carter wasn't looking, he grabbed a sticky note, and quickly wrote out the solution.

"Gotcha!"

Jack spun around and was relieved to see that Carter was still looking at the computer screen. "Found him?"

"Yes, sir. He's Jim Michel, he lives in an apartment not too far from Daniel's, his record is clean but incomplete, seems there was a fire in the courthouse in the town where he grew up, destroyed all his records."

"Arson?"

"Accident. The staff was working on transferring all the records to computer, they went on break and someone left their glasses on a desk by a window, and the sun came through the window and hit the glasses which focused the sun on a stack of old letters that caught on fire. The sprinkler system was down for repairs and no one noticed until it was too late. That side of the courthouse was turned to ashes."

"Wow, that's quite an accident."

"Yeah, well that's not all. I did a search on an interagency site we have, well something did come up and I tried to open it but as soon as it came up it was gone again."

"That's strange. Anything else?"

"Yeah, he was in a car crash half an hour ago, with a Dr…" she looked up the name "…Muddrok."

"Murdoc!" Jack said with a start.

"No, Muddrok." Sam corrected with a smile at his strange behavior.

"What's all this about rocks?" Daniel asked as he entered the room followed by Teal'c.

"No, Dr. Muddrok." Sam stated yet again, trying to keep the amusement out of her voice.

"Oh, was he the guy following us?" Daniel asked as he sat down next to Jack.

"No, that was Jim Michel." Sam said knowing what Daniel would ask next.

"Then who's this guy Muddrok?" Daniel inquired.

"He was in a car crash with Michel about half an hour ago."

"Oh."

"So, did you get his address?" Jack asked.

"Yes Sir"

"Then what are we waiting for?"

"Um Jack, shouldn't we tell the General what we're doing?" Daniel asked, as everyone stood up.

"Nah, I checked, and Hammond's already left for home. We should be fine."

"OK." Daniel replied as they left Sam's office.

"Oh, Carter, did you get a picture of the guy?" Jack asked suddenly.

"Um, no there wasn't any" She replied.

"Not even a driver's license photo?" Daniel asked.

"No, the information had been damaged, all it gave me was ones and zeros. I tried running it through a program to reconstruct it but all I got was an error message." Sam answered.

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Five minutes later they were climbing back Jack's truck. Fifteen minutes after that they climbed back out.

It was a fairly nice neighborhood, although the buildings were a little run down.

As everyone got out Jack asked "So, where's the apartment?"

"Um…" Sam looked down at the printout she was holding "…apartment 317, right there." As Carter pointed a rocket streaked overhead and broke the apartment window, a second later an explosion came from within the building and SG1 took cover as the front of the apartment came crashing down.