Chapter 11
Isabelle woke up and got herself dressed in her child's SG uniform. She went to get her breakfast on her own. She remembered the dream as if it was real. The pancakes tasted real to her but her tummy grumbled telling her she was hungry. She decided she didn't want more pancakes after eating two platefuls at the diner so she grabbed a bowl of oatmeal from the buffet that she had to stretch to reach and then brought her tray to an empty table. She began to eat all by herself when Sam walked up to her carrying a tray of food.
Sam grinned as she slid a plate of chocolate chip pancakes before her. "I got you something special!" she cheered figuring Izzy would much rather have the pancakes than oatmeal.
The child glanced at the plate and seemed unenthused, "Pancakes?"
"Chocolate chip pancakes," she sat down across from her. "I had the cook make them just for you."
"I'll just have oatmeal," she told her and ate another spoonful.
Sam sat baffled, "You love chocolate chip pancakes. You're been asking for them for days."
"I had my fill," was all she could say.
"You want to save it for later then?" She wondered if the child didn't feel very well.
"Later," she agreed.
Sam put the plate aside and began to eat her waffle. She glanced at Izzy who simply ate. "I have an extra room in my house and I was thinking we could decorate it together. It will be your room when you are with me."
She asked, "Aren't you going to marry Jack?"
She tried to explained, "Colonel O'Neill is my commanding officer. If I were to marry him it could cost us our jobs."
She disagreed, "No it won't!"
"Yes it will," she argued. "He's in charge of SG-1."
She spoke baffled, "My daddy was a SEAL! I remember that my mommy was in the Navy too. She operated the radios. I think daddy and mommy were on the same ship."
"They may have met on the same ship," she told her "but your daddy commanded SEAL teams and your mommy ran all the radio stations. They both reported the ship's Capitan. He wasn't her commanding officer on the ship. The Captain was their commanding officer." She then sat thinking how the SGC had a similar structure. She then admitted, "Of course I send all my reports to General Hammond directly…" she began to wonder if she was wrong about the command structure for SG-1 was not a normal team and women were not allowed in combat.
Isabelle asked, "Isn't General Hammond in charge?"
"He is," she nodded. "Janet is next in line after him." She cocked her head and bit her lip in thought, "Is Jack my CO or is General Hammond my CO?"
Izzy recalled, "My daddy said that mommy was his CO after they got married."
She smirked, "Your daddy was a smart man."
Daniel came to the table next carrying his breakfast tray. He sat down with his toast and scrambled eggs and noticed the child was eating oatmeal and not the chocolate chip pancake that was right next to her. He assumed, "Being a little hard on her, Sam?" He figured Sam wanted the girl to eat oatmeal before the pancake.
"What?" she asked confused.
He motioned, "Looks like a nice thick, fluffy pancake." He then chuckled to himself.
"I had the cook make it for her but she wanted oatmeal instead." she shrugged.
Isabelle stated, "I had pancakes last night when I went to your diner in my dream."
"My diner?" he asked unsure what she was talking about.
She nodded, "The one you built when you were ascended. Oma said it was the diner your grandpa took you to after your parents died."
He gasped, "Oma! You saw Oma?"
"I dreamed about her," she nodded and figured it must have been a dream.
Daniel wasn't sure what happened but knew Oma was real and the only way Isabelle could know about Oma is if she met her. He leaned closer, "What did Oma say?"
"She said Anubis is half ascended and they were not able to send him back because he fought the other ascended. She thinks we can put him in a magic lamp and that will be jail for him." she reported.
Daniel leaned closer, "Lamp?"
"The one the genie was stuck in from the story." she mentioned.
Sam gasped, "Aladdin's Lamp!"
"That's the one," she nodded. She finished her cereal put the spoon down.
Daniel asked, "Did Oma say where we could find it?"
"It's on Atlantis," she child told them.
"Atlantis!" he gasped and looked at Sam. "We need to get to Atlantis."
Sam figured, "We can use the ZPM from Izzy's island to dial Atlantis and bring the full ZPM that SG-3 found so we can dial back."
Daniel shot up, "Let's go tell, General Hammond."
"Right," Sam agreed rising to her feet leaving her breakfast behind. She told the girl, "Go to your rec room when you are finished eating, Iz." She and Daniel then quickly left.
Izzy sat alone, "SG-3 found? I charged it!" she told herself. The recreation Room was getting rather boring for the child as she spent so much time there. She wanted to go off world and see her friends. She rose to her feet and left the commissary heading back to her room so she could get her "invisible ball" as she named it.
An Hour Later
General Hammond agreed to dial Atlantis and at very least send the ZPM to the expedition. The island was to be powered by a naquadah generator. Reaching Atlantis became a pressing matter upon Daniel figuring that Aladdin's Lamp was some kind of containment field for ascended beings.
SG-1 stood in full gear along with two other SG teams to bring supplies and reinforcements to the city. SG-1 planned on being back within twenty-four hours thus Isabelle was to stay on base under Major Frasier's care. Little did they know that the girl was shadowing them and hidden by the dimension switching ball. She was going with them upon finding out they were dialing Atlantis without her. She wasn't about to stand for such an idea but being a child and having no real authority she determined she was going to sneak away to Atlantis.
Sam told Jack, "Izzy is gonna be upset when she finds out we went to Atlantis and didn't take her."
He shrugged, "She's a kid. She'll get over it."
Daniel felt bad and added, "We should have least told her we were going."
Jack disagreed, "Then she would want to come and we don't need to be babysitting."
He sighed, "She could assist us with what she knows."
"She's a kid, Daniel. We do not take kids on dangerous missions." He put his foot down figuratively. Jack wanted Isabelle safe and sound with Janet Frasier and not following them off world where she could get hurt or killed.
Izzy stood by listening to the argument.
The Gate came to life before them with an erupting of the event horizon that settled into place like a pool of shimmering water. General Hammond's voice came over the speakers. "We have contact with Atlantis. SG teams: One, four and seven…You are a go. God speed." he wished them luck.
The teams walked up the ramp and single file disappeared into the event horizon. Izzy knew she had to cover her tracks and needed to enter immediately behind another body. She walked directly behind Daniel as he stepped through the event horizon. Upon arriving on the other side Daniel had stopped and Isabelle bumped into his behind.
He jumped and looked back, "What just bumped into me." He only got a quick glimpse at the Atlantis Gate before he felt the bump. He looked back but saw nothing at first.
Something happened to Isabelle's invisible ball as the wormhole had affected the field. It shifted in and out of dimension and then broke once more leaving her exposed. She was suddenly in full view and standing right behind Daniel and holding the ball in plain sight.
"Isabelle!" he called surprised. "How did you…" he noticed the ball, "What is that?"
She quickly hid it behind her back and looked as innocent as possible, "Nothing."
Sam gasped, "Izzy! How did you get here?"
"You were going without me," she started to complain.
Jack asked, "How did the kid get here?"
Daniel told them, "She hiding something behind her back."
Sam held out a hand, "Let's have it young lady."
Miffed she handed Sam the ball but figured she should be quiet about the wand.
Dr. Elizabeth Weir, Major Sheppard and Rodney McKay all gathered around to greet the teams. Dr. Weir was grateful they came for they were vulnerable to the Wraith but was also shocked to see a child.
"I can't tell you how glad I am you are here," she then looked at the girl. "I'm a bit confused as to why you brought a child."
"We didn't!" Jack huffed. "She snuck through the Gate after us."
"This is a dimension changing device," Sam reported. "Have you been playing with this, Isabelle?"
"Um…" she had no recourse and had to play innocent. "I didn't know what it was." She battered her eyes and though her memory was better she knew she was in deep trouble. "I…ah…got stuck in this invisible ball and I was running after you…for help." She absolutely lied.
Sam dropped to her knees before her feeling sorry for girl. She must have been scared that no one could see her and was trying to get help. Her heart sank, "Next time you need to be careful playing with things. This is not a toy."
"Right," she nodded relieved they believed the lie. "I'm sorry."
Jack asked, "She got stuck in one of those dimension things?"
"Yes," Sam figured.
"Hey that happened to us, kid. It was kind of weird! You can see everyone else but they can't see you." he recalled.
Sam figured, "When she ran after us for help the Gate must have shut down the field." She looked at the ball and repeated sternly, "Don't play with things like this. Okay?"
"Okay," she nodded.
Teal'c just did not believe her story for he knew the child too well. He knew she was making much of it up. He wondered how long she had the device and how many times she enacted the field. He stood with a cocked eyebrow and amazed at how gullible Sam seemed to be.
Sam hugged her, "I'm just glad you are okay." She then looked to the Atlantis team. "She accidentally came with us. This is Isabelle. She found the outpost in the Pacific when she was shipwrecked. She made it possible for us to dial you."
She knew to not admit she also charged the ZPM for that would expose the wand and she was not about to lose that Ancient toy for the grownups would confiscate it from her. She decided to play shy. She gave her cutest impression of innocents, "Hi!" she waved to them.
McKay found himself waving back, "Hi!"
