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Ghosts in the Machine
Kya was distracted the entire briefing that evening. Everyone noticed it seemed. She hoped there were notes to read over. It was a standard update, followed by mission briefings, followed by discussion of recent findings… nothing particularly relevant to their reason for being here… Rodney McKay had yet to arrive back so there was no plan to go to the new interface that evening, but Kya had already had an idea of her own. She would put that plan into action as soon as possible.
Cam watched Kya closely, she was not herself. She was on edge, like he would get before a big flight… Her mannerisms were automatic, she was doing everything right but she wasn't really present, her mind was elsewhere.
Daniel noticed Kya's behavior had altered, he wondered if Sam had said anything to her, but he was pretty sure she wouldn't have. He kept an eye on her throughout the briefing, his feeling that there was more to her apparent ancient genes than she had let on, but he still could not figure it out… All he could think was that it must be part of a memory from his time ascended, most of those memories where taken or suppressed so he had a feeling he may have heard of her before… perhaps even been in contact with her…
The briefing came to a close and Cam, Daniel and Sam headed to Weir's office. Vala and Teal'C left to go eat and Kya made her excuses of needing an early night.
"Truth is Sam, I want to go home and you would be perfect for this role…" Elizabeth says as the sit around her desk.
"I don't know Liz, I mean, it's a lot… babies on the way etc…" Sam takes a sip of tea.
"I know, when I first thought of you it was pre-pregnancy, so how about you overseeing for a couple of months, I'll go have a rest at home and if I don't find someone else then by the time you hit six months I will come back…" She asks.
"I'll consider it… but honestly I feel that Daniel would be better for this role at this time…" Sam gestures to him.
Daniel isn't even paying attention. "Daniel… what do you think?"
"Hmmm?" "Would you be willing to head the Atlantis mission for a while…?"
"I guess so… I mean… if I am not needed on Earth…"
"What about you Cam?" Elizabeth asks.
"Oh No! Too boss-like for me… I prefer to be heading up SG-1…" He says simply.
"OK, well I will leave it with you Daniel, Sam… Think about it."
"Thank you, we will." Sam answers for both of them as Daniel is back in his own thoughts.
Cam stands up and thanks Liz. "I am gonna head off and see if I can catch up with my girl." He says and they nod.
Kya lay on her bed, she projected her energy field out into the environment, searching for thoughts, memories, feelings… Seeing if she could trace the echo of the Atlantean residents as far back as the Ancients who were no longer there. A place had echoes, memories, it could tell stories. She intended to find the stories and let them lead her to where she needed to go.
Cam approached Kya's quarters. He knocked and at first there was no answer. After a few moments Kya came to the door, she looked far away.
"Hey… I was hoping we could talk…" He said and she nodded, stepping to one side.
"I am sorry Cam, I was feeling out of sorts, I didn't mean to push you away like that…"
"What's up?" He asked and she looked at him evaluating the situation. She needed to make a choice.
"OK… Cam come in and sit for a minute." She said and went to fetch the photo that she kept hidden.
She sat beside him on the bed and placed the photo in front of him.
"Kya, who are these women with you, they look a lot like you…"
"They are my sisters… We are non-identical triplets, we are very similar but there are subtle differences… Cecily is the oldest is what we were told… although I think that was just a story made up to make us feel more normal, we don't know for sure… Persephone is the younger again we don't know for sure, but I have always been the middle one…"
"You were all adopted?"
"Yes…"
"All lived at the MI9 institute?"
"Yes…"
"All have abilities beyond ordinary…?"
"Yes… I am afraid there may be more than one of me wandering the planet… All three of us may have the same genes…"
"OK so that's something…" He says. "Why didn't you mention this before?"
"Because there are other things…"
"What other things?" He frowns.
"Well for one, we aren't just good psychics… We are telepaths, empaths and powerful psychic soldiers…"
"What?"
"We communicate with our minds and at distance… We can read minds, we can read emotions and we can influence peoples' energy to find information and such…"
"Whoa! You What?!" He stands up moving away.
"Cam please…" She moves to go to him.
"Wait right there… How much of my feeling for you is real…?"
"All of it, I hope, I didn't mess with you, I would never!"
"How do I know…?"
"My strongest gift was the telepathy and mind reading… I am good at hearing your loud thoughts… I don't pry into people it's not something I like, I am not proud that it was my job either… Cam you must understand…"
"You know what the team have been discussing, don't you?" He asks.
"I know parts of it... like they don't trust me… They think I am hiding something…"
"You are…"
"Well technically I was merely leaving out some bits… I didn't lie seeing as nobody asked me…"
"What were you doing when I knocked earlier…? It took a while for you to answer... were you using your abilities...?"
"I was psychic travelling through the base, to see what imprints or echoes I could find… I didn't get far as you knocked."
"So you can read places as well as people…?"
"Well I can read places where people have been… It is difficult but a place stores memories of every energy that ever touched it…" She explained. "If you can find the key to that flow of energy then you can unlock the information from it…"
"Kya this is huge… I am still a bit concerned about the mind reading…" He said.
"If it makes you feel better you can use an anti-prior device…"
"Are you saying that your power is the same as the Orii…" His brows went up.
"No, I have no idea what the source of my abilities is… but I wonder if the block will work regardless." She offered mildly.
"No I think we need to just trust each other…" Cam stated. "But Kya we are going to have to do something about this situation. We need to tell the others."
That was what she had been concerned he may say.
