It's 7:41 AM in the Thompson household and Alisana is getting ready for her first day of High School, she's nervous but a little excited at the same time.
Downstairs O'Neill is sitting at the breakfast table reading the comics section of the newspaper, Carter is in the kitchen making breakfast, they're having bacon, eggs and toast...a smell of burning is coming from the kitchen.
Smoke and small flames start coming out of the toaster, "Darn it" shouts Carter, hitting it repeatedly with a tea towel.
O'Neill remains seated reading his paper, "Everything OK in there?" he asks, not even turning around to look.
Carter ejects the chard toast from the toaster and switches it off, "Fine." she says in a moody tone, wafting away the smoke with the tea towel and then tossing it in the sink, she then walks over to the stove and empties the bacon and eggs out of the pans and on to the plates.
Alisana comes down the stairs and in to the kitchen, she's wearing pumps, jeans and a white sweater, "Morning." she says as she takes a seat at the table.
"Good morning." says Carter, as she comes over and puts the plates of food on the table and takes a seat.
Alisana picks up a fork, "This looks great." she says, tucking in to her eggs.
"Thank you." replies Carter.
O'Neill folds his paper and places it on the table off to the side, he looks down and sees two burnt objects on the side of his plate, "What's this?" he asks.
"Breakfast." says Carter.
"Really?" says O'Neill, he looks at Carter who doesn't look very happy, "Just how I like it." he says cautiously.
"Eat up." says Carter, she looks at the clock on the wall by the door, "Oh God, we're going to be late." she says, "Come on get your stuff." she adds as she stands up.
Carter grabs her car keys off the table and she and Alisana head out, "Wait a second." shouts O'Neill as he rushes to the front door to catch them.
"You remember your cover?" he says.
"Yes." replies Alisana.
"Get to know as many kids as you can, talk to them and see if they know anything but don't let on what it's about. Keep your eyes and ears open." says O'Neill, "If you find out anything let us know and if there's any trouble you know where we are." he adds.
"I know. I can do this don't worry." replies Alisana and they head out of the house and get in the car.
Carter pulls up at the curb behind a bus by the main entrance of the school, kids are hanging around talking, sitting on the railings and the stairs, it's your typical High School environment, "Well this is it." says Alisana.
"Yep. Are you ready for this?" asks Carter.
Alisana glances out of the window then takes a deep breath, "I guess. See you later." she says, then she opens the door and steps out, closing the door behind her.
Carter leans over, "See you at home." she says, "Don't worry you'll be fine." she says encouragingly.
Alisana holds a book close to her chest and adjusts her shoulder bag, she waves as Carter pulls out and drives away, then she turns to face the school and after taking another deep breath she heads for the entrance. She keeps her head lowered a little feeling nervous and looking a little shy, she lightly smiles at the other kids as she passes them, they look at her strangely as if already judging her and talking about her.
The school bell sounds and all the kids outside start running it, they all charge up the stairs to the entrance and as they pass Alisana her book is knocked from her hands and tumbles back down the stairs, once the 'stampede' has stopped and all the kids are inside, she goes down and picks up her book and heads inside.
The halls are empty so she heads to the reception desk, she sees an elderly lady sitting behind it, "Hi, I'm Alisana I'm starting here today." she says as she puts her book on the counter.
"Oh yes." says the lady as she grabs a sheet of paper, "Welcome to Sunny Springs High School. This is your schedule and your teacher is expecting you, your first class is just down the hall and it's the forth door on your left." she adds while pointing down the hall.
Alisana looks at the schedule then nods, "OK. Thank you." she says, and heads down the hall.
"You're welcome Dear." says the lady.
As she passes a corridor going the other way, she looks down it and sees Teal'c dressed in grey overalls and wearing a grey cap, he's mopping the floor, Teal'c notices Alisana and she raises her arm and gives him a little wave, Teal'c nods back at her.
Two boys laughing and joking come running out of the toilets passed Teal'c, "There is no running allowed in the halls" he says.
"Yeah whatever dude." shouts one of the boys.
Teal'c looks displeased but continues mopping the floor.
Alisana continues down the hall feeling a little better after seeing someone she knows, she gets to the classroom door and knocks then opens it and walks inside.
A teacher was standing at the front of the room teaching his class when he sees her come in, "Come in, come in." he says.
"I'm Mr Mathews." he says.
"Alisana." replies Alisana, as she joins Mr Mathews at the front of the room.
"Class, we have a new student joining us today. This is Alisana." says Mr Mathews, he looks at the other students, "Hello Alisana." he says trying to get a response from them.
"Hello Alisana" say the other students reluctantly.
"Take a seat." says Mr Mathews, pointing at a vacant chair near the back of the room.
Alisana walks over to it still clutching her book, she puts her bag on the floor and sits down, she looks around and everyone is staring at her, she smiles and they all turn around.
Mr Mathews is the head of Maths at the school and is having a test asking random questions to see what his students have learnt, "OK, what's 197 x 20...Mr...Roberts?" he says as he points to a student in class.
"Err...482." replies Roberts.
"No. Way off." says Mr Mathews, everyone in the class laughs.
"What's...17 x 309...Miss...Lawrence?" he says.
"5243" replies Lawrence.
"Oooooh so close, it's actually 5253." says Mr Mathews, "But that's good, you're getting better." he adds.
"What's 7368 x 1,927,999?" asks Mr Mathews Jokingly.
Everyone laughs, "Good one Sir." says Lawrence.
"14205496632" says Alisana in a low voice from the back of the room, Mr Mathews turns, "What did you say?" he asks.
"14205496632...Sir." she replies.
Mr Mathews walks over to his desk and pulls out a calculator, he enters the numbers to check her answer, he hits the equals key and sees that Alisana is correct, "That's right." he says as he looks up.
Everyone in class turns and stares at Alisana with bemused expressions, the bell goes indicating class is finished and everyone gathers their books and leaves the room.
"How did you know the answer to that question?" asks Mr Mathews as Alisana is leaving, trailing behind the others.
Alisana shrugs her shoulders, "I don't know, I just knew." she says.
"Well it was very good, I think you have a gift. I'd like to give you a test to do later...if that's OK?" says Mr Mathews.
"Sure." replies Alisana, nodding her head.
"We'll talk about it later." says Mr Mathews, "Don't be late for your next class." he says and Alisana leaves.
Mitchell is out in the football field with the Coach training the team, the Coach isn't happy that his original assistant has left him in the middle of the season and appears to be taking it out on Mitchell by using him as some sort of lackey to do all the rubbish jobs.
"*Whistle*...HEY...tighten it up..tighten it up." shouts the Coach to the players.
They stand at the side watching the players, "This is a team game, stop hogging the football." shouts Mitchell.
"Let me handle this will you." says the Coach.
"Just trying to help." says Mitchell.
"Well I'll handle it." says the Coach, "Why don't you take that equipment back inside and clean it." he adds, pointing over to the benches at a large pile of helmets and shoulder pads.
"Well go ahead, it ain't going to clean itself." says the Coach, "*Whistle*...Alright, line up." he shouts as he heads out in to the field.
Mitchell walks over to the benches and picks up the equipment and walks off in a huff towards the locker room.
Mitchell makes it back to the locker room and after dropping the equipment on the floor he takes a quick look out of the door to ensure no one is around, he then starts checking the teams bags and lockers looking for anything suspicious, he checks several bags and lockers but finds nothing, the only suspicious items he found were a bag of illegal substances and a Cindy doll in one of the lockers, which he thought was quite strange but nothing that could explain what happened to the kids.
He checks the coaches office and eventually finds a computer memory drive taped under the desk, he turns on the computer on the desk and inserts the drive, checking it he sees loads of photo's from various football games and then he sees pictures of the school and some of the kids, including two of the kids currently laying in hospital beds, he removes the drive and pockets it.
The bell goes again indicating it's now lunch time, Mitchell ensures everything is put back so no one knows he was there, he then grabs the equipment off the floor and moves it as the players start returning to the locker room.
