author's note: okay, here's the next chapter. Again, I warn you that once it gets past the part with just SG-1 the updates will come slowly, but hopefully not too slowly. Um, anyway, I think that's all I really have to say, so read and review please, and enjoy!
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Dark Foreigner
Chapter 1
7 years later. . .
"Daniel, let's go," Jack O'Neill called to the archeologist.
"But, Jack-,"
"Ah. Don't even start," Jack said cutting the younger man off. "I'm pretty sure Hammond might agree to letting you come back, but he's never going to know about. . . this," he gestured to indicate the ruins in which they stood, "unless we go back and tell him."
Daniel stood there for a minute looking torn. Then he nodded and sighed, "Okay, I'm coming."
"Good."
Once back on Earth and after being cleared by Dr. Fraiser, SG-1 sat in the briefing room waiting for General Hammond. They didn't have to wait long.
"As you were," the general said noticing Jack and Sam in the process of standing when he walked into the room a file in his hand. He took his seat at the head of the table and turning to face Jack said, "I take it your mission was successful, Colonel."
"As successful as it can be, sir," Jack replied. "The intel we received seems to have been correct, for once. The planet was uninhabited and Daniel was in heaven in the ruins."
"Dr. Jackson, what can you tell me about the ruins?" Hammond asked turning to look at the younger man, a slight smile on his face.
"Well, sir the ruins appear to be Ancient. I didn't really have the chance to study them that well, but from what I was able to translate I think it may talk about, well, I wouldn't really call it a weapon, but it was technology of some sort. And that is why I would like to request that I be allowed to go back with a team."
"Request denied."
"What?"
"I'm sorry Dr. Jackson, but a situation has come up that we need your expertise on. A team will be sent back, but you won't be accompanying them."
"Yes, sir," Daniel replied obviously not happy with the General's decision."
"What's the situation, sir?" Jack asked.
"The program Major Carter set up a couple of years ago to detect when other government agencies were researching anything that is not recognizable by the data bases has finally gotten a hit."
"Really, sir?" Sam asked, leaning forward slightly.
Hammond nodded and then launched into the explanation. "Apparently, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service recovered a dead body recently."
"What's so strange about that, sir," Jack interrupted. "Isn't that what they do?"
"Yes, but this body had a symbol drawn on the right ankle that no one has been able to decipher."
"What was the symbol?" Daniel asked.
"This is what it looked like," Hammond answered pulling a photo out of the file in front of him. He then passed it to Daniel.
The instant Daniel saw the symbol he recognized it, but luckily his training kept his surprise from showing. The symbol was a pair of black wings with a halo over them. Daniel's first thought was that Dark Angel was back in the game, that was until what Hammond said finally registered.
"You said this was found on the right ankle?" He asked looking up.
"Yes," Hammond answered.
"Do you recognize the symbol, Daniel Jackson?" Teal'c asked.
"No, I've never seen it before, but it looks like it could be Mayan in origin," Daniel replied once again thankful that he had been trained to lie convincingly. He could tell that they all believed him, even Jack.
"Do what you need to Doctor, to get that figured out. We need to find out of that symbol is in any way connected to the stargate. In the meantime, SG-1 will be on stand-down, dismissed," Hammond ordered. He then got up and walked to his office.
"I'll go get started on this," Daniel said as he stood to leave.
"You do that," Jack said, and then he turned toward the rest of his team and asked, "Teal'c you wanna spar?"
The jaffa only inclined his head. Then the two of them got up and followed Daniel out of the room leaving Sam alone.
"I guess I'll go find something to do," she said to the empty room before leaving as well.