I could not post anything in the weekend so today I will post twice. Hope you enjoy it.


The other lost city

Chapter IX

"Well, Daniel, why don't you tell us what you find out?"

"Why us? Sam, you were the one that wanted to return to the base."

"Dr. Jackson I believe Samantha wants to be sure her theory is correct by hearing what we discover"

"Right" Sam said smiling brightly to her father, well, Selmak in this case.

"Ok" Daniel said and started giving his lecture "as I pointed out some hours ago, the board talks about a city" Jack rolled his eyes, "but this isn't a lost city Jack, it's a city who's name is The Lost something City. We don't know what this symbols mean" Daniel showed them one part of the text.

"Don't know" Jack said not even reading it or trying to read it.

"How is it that you're so sure you don't know if you don't see the board, uncle Jack?"

"Because it's in Ancient, Cass, and I can't read Ancient"

Teal'c's eyebrow rized up, "O'Neill.."

"No, Teal'c, I don't read Ancient" Jack said glaring at him. Teal'c looked at him again but said nothing.

"We know you don't underastand Ancient Jack. I was only showing it to you to be polite"

"Well thanks Danny but you don't have to do that" he said smiling.

"Please continue Daniel"

"Yes Jacob. As I was saying we don't know the complete name of the city, but we might be able to get there"

"Really?" Hammond asked.

"Yes General," Jonas said "here" he pointed another part of the passage "says something about a quest."

"A quest?" now Jack was interested.

"Yes Jack, a quest and we know where's the start" Jacob said smiling.

"Really?" Sam asked, and then suddenly the klaxons sounded.

"Unschedual off world activation"

"What now?" Jack said standing up and going to the control room. The others went behind him.

"Close the iris"

"It's the Tok'ra sir"

"Crap, open the iris" Jack said and went to the gate room with the rest of the troop to receive the visitors.

"I told you it wasn't going to be easy Jack"

"I know Jake but….. oh God! Why, tell me why? What did I do to deserve this?" Jack said stopping and grabbing Daniel's shoulders. Daniel saw who came trough the gate and rolled his eyes.

"Jack, please behave"

"Hello guys, what bring you here?" Jack said coming into the room with what anyone can see was a "politic" smile. "Malek, Anise, Terrin was your name if I'm correct and I saw you here before" he looked at the fourth Tok'ra but didn't say his name.

"Garshaw, Jack" Jacob said.

"oh, yes! One of the members of the High Council" Jack said with a small smile. He knew who the Tok'ra was but as always chose not to show that he knew who he was.

"General O'Neill" Garshaw said

"General it's good to see you" Anise said smiling "a long time has pass since the last time we met"

"Yeah, time has pass but things haven't change" Jack said wryly.

"Selmak, why did you come to EaRth" Malek asked Jacob while they were going to the briefing room.

"We have to come to Samantha's wedding Malek, she is our daughter"

All the Tok'ra looked at him (Her?)

"Your daughter" said Garshaw surprised by that answer "I understand but your first commintment is towards the Tok'ra, Selmak"

"My first commintment is towards my host, Garshaw. And Jacob wanted to come. Though we weren't going to until General O'Neill came looking for us" all the Tok'ra stared at Jack.

"Every father has the responsibility of giving away his daughter" was the only thing he said.

Selmak smiled at him "The General did the right thing because Jacob and I wanted to talk to Dr. Jackson and Jonas Quinn about our discovery"

"You showed them what you found?" Terrin inquired.

"Doctor Jackson is Earth's specialist in the Ancients with his and Jonas Quinn's help we found out what the board says" Selmak said.

"You know what it say?" Malek asked. "You didn' know yesterday"

"Yes, we were starting the briefing about what we found, Malek" Jacob said, sitting in his chair.

Jack showed them the chairs around the table and all the people present sat. The situation was awkward, the Tok'ra weren't happy with Selmak and Jacob. They considered that this information should not be known by the Tauri.

- They are going to punish us, Sel.

- We knew they wouldn't like what we did but it was worth it Jacob. Only Samantha and O'Neill are able to make the spheres glow.

- They aren't the only ones, Selmak, there are others that can do it.

- Yes, but not with the same results. I don't think that the spheres could shine so much in other hands. There's something about them that no one else has.

- Yeah, they are members of SG-1, their bodies had been modified through the years.

- That's right, they are not entirely human anymore.

- So you think that's why the balls shine so much?

- We should see how much the spheres shine in other humans hands, but yes I believe so.

"Why don't you start telling our visitors what we find out Daniel, Jonas?"

"Yes Jack" Daniel started again his sermon "As I said before we know that the board talks about a city, The Lost something City. We can't find the meaning for this world, perhaps you, Anise, can tell us" Daniel gave the board to Anise.

"I don't know, I've never seen this word before" Anise said "what else did you learn?" she said while looking with interest the text.

"Well, we think that to find the city we have to play some sort of game" Jonas answered Anise's question.

"Play a game?" Malek asked looking at Jacob as if the humans might be playing with them.

"That's correct" Jacob told him " It's a kind of finding the treasure game"

"Finding the treasure?" Garshaw asked.

"There's a game that human kids play that consist in finding and following some clues that will lead them to the hidden treasure" Cassie explained.

All the Tok'ra looked at her. They hadn't notice her before.

"You are?" Anise asked.

"She is my kid" Jack said. All the people in the room looked at him astounded.

"You're kid?" Anise asked, again.

"Yes, she's Cassie, mine and Carter's kid, any problem?" Jack asked with an evil smile. He wasn't lying to Anise, they were Cassie's legal guardians.

"We didn't know you have a daughter" Freya said looking from Jack to Sam.

"There are a lot of things you don't know" Jack couldn't hide his amusement.

"Indeed" Teal'c said with a smile. He was finding the situation really entertaining.

"So, you think we will have to play that game to find the city?" Malek was the first one to react.

"Yes," Jonas said looking at Jack puzzle "we also think that the spheres are important in the quest."

"This sphere?" Garshaw asked holding one. Anise caught the other and nothing happened.

"We believe they are some sort of key"

"Of course only the ones that can activate them can use them."

"Activate?"

"Jack, Sam, please" Jacob spoke.

Jack extended his hand and Anise gave him the ball she was holding. Garshaw gave Sam his sphere and the instant both held them the globes started shining, again.

"Wow" said Terrin.

"Do you know why is that happening?" Malek asked.

"We have an idea" Cassie answered.

"Which is?" Anise asked looking at her in a scrutinizing way.

"Carter was going to explain that to us" Jack told them with a wide smile.

"It's just a theory, sir, I'm not sure" Sam said, she didn't want to talk, her idea was really a crazy one. One that could mean a lot. One that could cause a lot of hurt.

"Come on Carter. It's time to face reality. We need to know what you think about this."

Sam had the feeling that Jack knew what she had thought and that wasn't good.


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