Elizabeth quickly made her way to her office. She had little doubt that Teal'c would be there waiting on her. He probably expected her to have already been there herself. As she figured, he was standing outside her office waiting on her. "Teal'c, are you okay. Suzi said she broke your nose and chipped a tooth and split your lip. I feel so bad. Let me take you to the infirmary." In her rush, she failed to really look him over.

"I am uninjured, ElizabethO'Neill."

"W… what?" She looked him over then, noting he was not hurt as her aunt had said.

"RearAdmiralKing did not injure me. We did not spar. I held the bag while she worked out on it."

"Dammit! I was so worried. I felt so guilty because you keeping her busy was my idea." She cursed her aunt under her breath.

"She told you she injured me?" Teal'c was not that surprised. The two women were very unpredictable.

"Yes."

"Why?"

"I think to get me riled up. I happened to mention that I didn't want some other idiot guarding me."

"You consider me an idiot?" He stopped the smirk that started at the look on her face.

"No, I feel safe with you, and I trust you. Anyone else would be an idiot." He nodded at that and opened her office door for her.

"I believe you have work to see to."

"Yeah, well, I could use a nap. Fighting is hard work."

"Fighting?" He looked slightly concerned.

"Yes. Not physical, but I think I got my point across." She seemed proud of that.

"That is good?"

"Well, this day is pretty much shot. How much trouble do you think I'd get into if I took a nap on someone's couch, like dad's? I hear he's never in his office anyway."

"If you wish to nap, there is a bed in my quarters. However, I do not advise you not doing your work."

"I… um… Well, I am tired. Bed sounds good. Would you mind? Let them yell. I'm use to it by now." She yawned to keep the blush rising on her cheeks down.

"I do not mind." He started to lead her to his quarters. Neither noticed Suzanna, who had come to thank Elizabeth for whatever she had said to Daniel. She had a smirk on her face. Things had worked out somewhat the way she wanted them to as well. In thinking about that, she did not notice Jack until he spoke.

"Where is she? She's suppose to be working," he demanded as he noticed Elizabeth was not in her office.

"Who?" Suzanna asked offhandedly as she looked at him.

"Who the hell do you think? Your niece."

"She's gone to take a nap… in Teal'c's quarters."

"What? And don't you dare repeat yourself." He scowled, but not directly at her.

"Why would I repeat myself when you heard what I said? And, seeing as you heard what I said, why do you ask?" She put her hands on her hips and waited.

"It's a Teal'c thing. I ask because I want to know why she's there instead of working, which is what she is paid to do."

"Since when has she been paid? And, she is a little overtaxed right now. Rest will do her well."

"She was at the park all day! How can she be overtaxed? As for the pay, Hammond is pushing it through."

Suzanna rolled her eyes. Jack could be a real pain in the ass. "Not physically, idiot. Mentally."

"Again, I point you to my last statement. She was at the park all day. How can she be overtaxed mentally?"

"She had a fight with Daniel, alright!" She glared at him.

"What did she do to him?"

"Nothing that I am aware of. She's still quite upset about yesterday."

"Well, she's gonna have to get over it because she has to work along side everyone. The reason I'm here is because I have two federal agents in my office wishing to speak with her. So you had better go get her up." Suzanna nodded and started down the hall. She had wanted to smack Jack for not just spitting that out at the start.

She sighed as she knocked on Teal'c's door. He came to the door quietly so as to not disturb Elizabeth. "RearAdmiralKing, what can I do for you?"

"Elizabeth needs to come to her father's office. Two federal agents wish to speak to her about what she saw."

"Son of a…" Elizabeth had over heard them. "I was just about to fall asleep."

Teal'c opened the door farther to allow Suzanna inside. She walked over to Elizabeth. "I know, Liz, but you have to do this."

"Can I not and say I did?" She looked hopeful.

"If only this could go away so easily. Jack and I will be there with you. I may even know the agents. I've spent a lot of time in Quantico. I've worked with the feds on more than a few occasions."

"Good for you. You can pretend to be me and tell them what happened then." Elizabeth was grumpy, to say the least. She was just about to doze off and did not want to get up and talk to anyone, let alone federal agents.

"I'm afraid I cannot. Do you want Teal'c to go as well?" Suzanna figured that would at least help.

"If he wants to." Elizabeth tried to play it cool, but she really wanted him there.

"I will accompany you. Curiosity compels me."

Suzanna nodded and took Elizabeth's arm. "Come on, Liz. Hopefully this will be over soon."

"Yeah." She did not sound convinced.

"I will be there, and as your guard shall let nothing happen to you."

Elizabeth nodded to him. "That's nice, but I hope you would not have to guard me from federal agents." They made their way to Jack's office. Sam and Daniel stood outside. They gave her reassuring smiles. She barely returned them as she was led inside. Hammond sat with Jack talking to the agents. The male agent was tall and middle-aged. He had stubble on his chin and a cigarette behind his left ear. His short sandy blond hair was spiked slightly, seemingly from repetitively passing his hand through it. He wore a dark blue suit but did not look at home in it. The other agent was young. She looked about her early to mid twenties. He black hair was pulled back into a tight ponytail. She wore a nice suit and looked very serious.

Hammond stood and motioned everyone to sit. "Elizabeth, this is Special Agent Chiefly and Agent Valentinion."

Elizabeth made no move to take the hands the agents offered her. "Miss O'Neill, we are sorry ta bother ya on such short notice." Special Agent Chiefly nodded to Suzanna who nodded back and took his hand. "Suzanna, a pleasure as always."

"Struggling with formalities, Cid?"

"As always," he repeated. They shared a smile.

"Okay, so want to tell me what's going on?" Elizabeth was impatient to get it over with and out of there.

"We are here to learn exactly what it was you saw." Agent Valentinion's voice was as clip and serious as she was.

"I saw a man murdered."

"We need you to be a little more elaborate, Miss O'Neill." Agent Valentinion was not making a good impression on Elizabeth.

"I saw a man shot in the face by his car."

Cid chuckled. "An' what kind of gun did the car use?" He was trying to lighten the tension. Elizabeth took it the wrong way.

"Ass."

"Elizabeth!" Suzanna could not believe she had just said that.

"It's alright, Suzanna, but we need ta know if ya saw the gun or the person who shot 'im." Cid brushed Elizabeth's mood off. Agent Valentinion did not.

"I would hope I saw them since they decided to chase me for three blocks till I came to a crowded diner."

Cid sighed and looked at Suzanna, who was not too pleased herself. Elizabeth could be very petulant when she wanted. "What did this person or persons look like?" Agent Valentinion asked coolly.

"Tall, dark hair, dark eyes, kind of skinny, and rat like."

"Did you hear any of them say anything?"

"The other was blond with a beard and a flat top. No, I didn't."

"Nothing before they shot Agent Mathers?"

"No, I told you I just saw him get shot in the face. I didn't even know he was an agent."

"Why did you not report this sooner?"

"Fear of my life comes to mind," Elizabeth snapped to the female agent.

Suzanna sighed. "Elizabeth, do you think you could describe these men to an artist?" She knew the agents would want to know and figured she may have a better chance of getting a positive answer.

"I'm not good with descriptions. I would be able to recognize them in a picture though."

"We can have several photo arrays set up so she can look at them, but right now she is safest where she is," Cid told them.

"Good, cause I wasn't moving anyway."

"We never considered you moving. The odds of these people locating you this far west is slim, but you will have to return to the east for the trial."

"Fine." She crossed her arms, not pleased with that.

"There are more questions we would like answered, but you do not seem taken with answering them." Agent Valentinion did not look pleased by that.

"What are they?"

"We need to know the time you saw the crime, why you were there, and if you saw anything else before or after the shooting."

"It had to be after 9:30 because I was walking home from work. All I know is that I saw three guys by a dark colored car. I guess they were talking. Then, there was a gun shot and the dead man fell to the ground. One of them saw me and I had to run."

"Thank you, Miss O'Neill." Agent Valentinion made some notes. "We will be in touch."

"I'll be sittin on the phone," Elizabeth drawled sarcastically.

"Elizabeth Ann!" Suzanna looked at her crossly.

"What?"

"We will speak of it later. Go take your damn nap."

"No. I was here, what, two months, and now they show up. One of their agents died and they act as if it wasn't very important. I can see how upset they would be if the murderers found me and did me in, too."

"Elizabeth Ann O'Neill. I happened to have known Agent Mathers personally, and I do not like your tone or insinuation." Suzanna was getting more angry with every word that was spoken.

"I'm glad it's all about you. Did I say you didn't care? The answer would be no. My problem is that someone was murdered, and they took two friggin months after dad contacted them to show up!"

"We happen to have a very busy schedule and Agent Mathers has not been our only casualty in the last few months. Times are rough right now, and we do what we can." Agent Valentinion looked almost upset as Suzanna.

"Ain't no snot nose kid gonna tell us we are doin' our jobs wrong! We do what we can when we can, and it is mighty hard to get on this fuckin' base!" Cid was getting riled, too. Suzanna smirked, glad to see he was not hiding himself behind the cool agent façade any longer. Cid had quite the temper.

Teal'c moved closer to Elizabeth. "Well then, gentlemen, or should that be agents, I suppose. You know your way of this base." Elizabeth glared at them.

"I'll walk you out, Cid. We haven't talked in a while." Suzanna began leading them out.

"Oh, have a pleasant day." Elizabeth called sarcastically. Cid grumbled something to Suzanna as the door shut.

"What was that about young lady?" Jack demanded. Hammond frowned at her, deeply.

"They interrupted my nap, and I don't like them."

"RearAdmiralKing seemed to like SpecialAgentChiefly." Teal'c pointed out to her.

"I know. I just don't like new people. The put me on edge. I don't trust them."

"You will still show respect to outsider while working for Stargate Command. That is until they warrant otherwise. We are federally funded and they, like us, answer to the President." Hammond made his displeasure known.

"As you wish."

"That was not a wish, Miss O'Neill. That was an order."

"As you wish."

"Elizabeth Ann O'Neill, I don't know what has gotten into you, but that is enough. You will apologize, now."

"I'm sorry that you took my compliance as being smartassed."

"Elizabeth Ann," Jack said in a warning tone.

"I believe it would be best for all involved if ElizabethO'Neill was put down for a nap."

"Fine. I'm sorry that I am not as military as everyone else on this base. I'm sorry to have offended you, General Hammond." The general nodded but said nothing further. She turned to Teal'c and mocked his raised brow. "Put down for a nap? And I thought you didn't know what sarcasm meant."

"I was not being sarcastic."

"Sure you weren't. I'll go find a couch." She hauled ass out of there to the outside. Teal'c followed. "I suppose you are disappointed in my actions?"

"You are better than you behaved."

"I don't like new people."

"Why do you dislike them?"

"It didn't feel like they were here to help. I guess I just don't trust people much, specially now."

"Do you think it best to be so distrusting?"

"I really don't know, but how can you change what's part of you."

"I do not know. I meditate for such things."

"Then you are a better person than I. I guess I'm too old and set in my ways to change."

"Too old? I am much older than you."

"You know. I think the part that irritated me is I think they wanted me to cry and be distraught, a basket case. You can't be that much older. You're what, maybe 35, 36?"

He smiled slightly. "I am much older than that."

"How much older?" She looked at him intently.

"I am three times as old as you believe me to be."

"You've got to be kidding me!" She could not believe that.

He arched a brow. "No."

"Well, you look pretty good for a guy who's over a hundred years old. Bet the girls chase you around all the time." He did not answer. "Come on. I would like to think we are friends. I see the looks the women around here give you, like you're a dessert and they wanna eat you up."

"I would not go into a relationship that was not based on something more."

"Well, you're better than most. I was just saying that I'm surprised you don't have a fan club that follows you around everywhere and girls trying to sneak into your room."

"That would be… unwelcome."

"I didn't say it wouldn't be, just that I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet. You're kind of nice looking for an old guy." She gave him a devilish smile. He did not respond. "What? Can't take a joke?"

"I do not understand your humor."

"What is it about my humor that you don't understand. I'll try to explain." He have her a blank look. "Well, it's a mental image I have of some crazed woman sneaking into your room at night with you in bed, going over to you, slipping under the covers, and just then you wake up this horrified look on your face and yanking the covers up to your chin. Of course, like so many other things, it's probably only funny in my head."

"I would not react so."

"Just out of morbid curiosity, how would you react? And, that was the point. It was a not you reaction. That's why it made it funny."

"I would demand she leave and should she not, I would remove her."

"I'm sure you would. Like I said, only funny in my head."

"Your father would find the humor."

"He may, if he's cooled down about the way I acted earlier." She thought a moment. "What do you find humorous/"

"I do not know."

"Nothing makes you laugh?"

"I do not understand the ways of this planet enough to find humor where most do."

"Did you laugh before coming to this planet?"

"I was in the service of Apophis. We fought wars and killed. We kidnapped peoples and divided families."

"That would be a no then. That is sad. Do you regret what you did in his service?"

"it was what I was raised to do, trained to carry out. I did what I thought was best. I cannot regret being who I was anymore than I regret being who I am."

"So, you would not change it if you could?"

"No."

"I'm just sad for you that you haven't had much happiness in your life."

"I find happiness in my son and in the friends I now have."

"That's cool. Wanna know what makes me happy?"

"If you wish to speak of it."

"A really good video game." He just looked at her. "I'll explain later. I spy with my little eye an unhappy Aunt Suzi coming this way. Can you protect me from her?"

Teal'c looked at her blankly. "You must take that which she gives as you did disrespect a man that seems to be her friend."

Elizabeth stuck her tongue out at him. "Yeah, I'll remember that." She watched as Suzanna walked up to them. She looked at Elizabeth with a very unhappy expression. "Yes?"

"Why must you always give people the wrong impression?"

"There's a right one?"

"Don't get smart."

"Yes, ma'am."

"They are doing their jobs, Liz. You have to understand that. Do you think they enjoy investigating the death of another agent?" She crossed her arms and scowled at her.

"I wouldn't know. They seemed to expect me to be grateful for them taking time out of their busy day to come talk to the only person who say the other agent get killed. I'm not, you know. Wanna know who I am grateful to? Teal'c, dad, Hammond, Sam, Daniel, and you for putting up with me and protecting me."

Suzanna sighed. "Liz, you do not have to be. We do this because we love you, especially your father. He tries day in and out to do everything he can to make sure nothing happens to you, not matter how small that thing is. Cid did not want you to be grateful. Terentia is trying to get a name for herself at the moment and should be mostly ignored."

"You think I don't know that? I love all of you, too. I'm just not a people person I suppose." She shrugged.

Suzanna laughed heartily at that. "Neither am I, Liz. You must have gotten that from me. Course, your father knows how to piss people off real fast, so I guess you got that from him."

"Well, you know. The best of both worlds." She smiled at her aunt.

"As trying as you can be, don't ever change." Suzanna placed a hand on Elizabeth's shoulder.

"I don't plan on it. So, you wanna go out to dinner?" Elizabeth began fishing for information. She wanted to know if Daniel had asked yet, and if Suzanna had said yes.

"Well, I could squeeze in a short bit before nine."

"What's at nine?" Elizabeth asked anxiously.

"Nothing to concern yourself with." Suzanna smiled back knowingly.

"Cool! Well, I gotta do SOME work today so I'm heading back in." She rushed off so neither Teal'c or Suzanna could keep up. They shared a glance before going inside at a casual pace. Suzanna figured she knew what Elizabeth was up to.