Chapter 8

Chloe was at her third coffee when Clark entered the Talon. He was with a cute little brunette.

- "Great, why couldn't he come alone." thought Chloe. "And what's with that girl? Look at her she's just a spy, probably here to check on us. That O'Neill probably sent her for me. What am I saying? She's barely 15 years old. She could not be a spy. I'm probably overreacting. Look at the way Clark take care of her, you little witch what have you done to my Clark?"

Cassie, as she wanted to be called, was looking every where, making comments about the decoration, comments that Lana heard when she went to them.

- "Cassie, this is Lana Lang, part owner of the Talon, the decoration is her idea. Lana, this is Cassie, the niece of Dr Carter." Said Clark

- "Enchanted" said Lana looking at the girl named Cassie.

- "Sorry, but who's that Dr Carter?" Lana asked.

- "The blonde women we saw yesterday." answered Clark.

- "Yes, I remember. Well, welcome to the Talon. If you'll excuse me, I must get back to work, see you later Clark. Cassie" then Lana left.

- "Cassie, I'll present you to another friend of mine." said Clark walking to Chloe's table.

- "Hi Chloe! I wish to present you Cassie, she's Dr Carter niece. Cassie, Chloe." finished Clark.

Clark looked at Chloe, she was visibly tense.

- "Hey, I'm glad to meet you, so what are you doing here?"

- "Well, Sam have some study to do here and I kind of want to see a little of what she does. But I don't want to be in her way. I'll go see what she does a bit then Clark promise me some good time…"

- "He promises you that. Wonder what he has in mind." Chloe added looking at Clark suggestively.

Clark was furiously blushing. When Cassie saw him so uncomfortable, she started to laugh. Soon every one at the table was laughing. But Clark noticed that Chloe was faking amusement a little.

- "I'll go fetch something to drink. Anyone wants something?" asked Cassie but she was more looking at Clark than Chloe.

- "I'm all set here." answered Chloe showing her half-full coffee cup.

- "I'm fine for the moment." said Clark.

Cassie let them together but it took a few second before Clark turned his head back to Chloe.

- "I've seen this look on you, Clark. But it always has been for Lana. So what's her story?"

- "I barely know her, it's not the same."

- "You had barely talked three times to Lana and you were looking at her this way, you just spend three hour with Cassie…"

- "Ok, I find her attractive." Said Clark, then he finished for himself "If only I could know why I'm so attracted to her."

- "I knew it, Clark." Chloe said in triumph. But inside she was not so happy. "Great now I have another girl between me and Clark."

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- "Carter, what are you doing?" asked Jack.

- "I'm looking to my mail, sir."

- "How come you have mail and me none?"

- "Sir, if in the beginning you had read your mail, maybe people would have continued to write to you."

- "Yeah, right!" Jack looked around. "It's so damned boring,"

Minute passed with Jack looking at the Simpson on television while Carter continued to work on her laptop.

- "Sir, you might want to look at this?" said Sam turning the computer for Jack. "I asked people to monitor Sullivan mail as you've request. She received an anonymous mail at 1500 hours."

O'Neill looked quickly at the mail then jump out of the couch.

- "Who the hell send it to her?" picking up the phone he called Hammond. "Sir, we have a leak. Someone send a mail to the girl telling her to search for the Stargate program… Yes… No… Yes, general, I think we can handle this part of the situation." Then he hanged out the phone.

Jack looked at Samantha not saying anything and returned to finish the Simpson. Sam looked at him.

- "Well?"

- "Ho! He wants us to continue monitoring her activities, and if she becomes a threat, we have to deal with it."

- "Sir? What do you mean by handling the threat?"

- "We have to bring her back with us at the SGC or silence her by any mean necessary."

- "We're talking about a kid."

- "I know, that's why we won't do anything harsh and we'll try to speak her out of this."

Carter didn't answer but returned to snoop around Chloe's mail.

- "That's weird!"

- "What now?"

- "She has contacted someone going by the nickname "Uncle Sam" asking for more information."

- "So"

- "I backtrack the mail and it seem she send it to a military officer."

- "Maybe that's our leak."

- "I don't think so, he wrote back telling to keep distance."

- "She should have listened to him."

- "Anyway, I'll try to find who's the officer and I'm also trying to backtrack the anonymous mail she received but it like it doesn't even exist."

- "Continue your work." said Jack turning off the Television. "I'll go try to find Teal'C and Daniel. And I'll try to bring back Cassie without breaking any hearth."

- "Yes, sir." Sam said smiling.

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- "Chapman, you moron, what have you done?" angrily shout McCarty.

- "But, you told me to activate the thing, that's what I did."

- "Yes, but have you ever seen me starting it when people where looking at us? NO, because we don't want people to see us vanish in thin air. Now those two persons will be asking question and starting rumors."

- "But you said to bring the gizmo and put it on. That's what I did, if your not happy about the result, blame your self." stubbornly said Chapman.

- "That's it, give me that." McCarty said pointing to the device.

- "What are you going to do?"

- "I SAID GIVE IT TO ME"

- "No need to shout, here take it."

McCarty picked the T.A.D. and turned it off, then he quickly stepped ten foot away of Chapman and making sure no one see him, it turned it on again, leaving Chapman alone in the street.

- "That's not funny McCarty."

Chapman looked around and he saw two peoples he didn't want to see, the Dr. Jackson and the big black alien. Getting his gun out, he aimed at one of them and fired three times.