Chapter 12 – Stargate and Constellations

Jack sat on Daniel's bad and bandaged up his aching leg, he swore once or twice when he moved his ankle. Daniel and Sam lied on the thick rough carpet and studded the copied pages. They jockeyed themselves so Jack could see the prints as well, not that the wonder twins thought their older brother would be interested in their discovery, but they felt it was the right thing to do.

Daniel studied the pictures with delight; he did not see Egyptian writing now about a year ago. His blue gaze run over the writing and snored.

"I don't know who was the fool who translate it but he get it all wrong." He exclaimed, Jack looked up from his work and arched an eyebrow at the sudden outburst. Last time he heard Daniel get so worked up, he was argued about one of the Egyptian pharaohs and his cultural imprint of the ancient civilization, it was interesting, for a shouting mach.

"Look at this; you can see the degree of this man incompetence." Jack could not phantom what his young friend was talking for him they looked just pictures but when Daniel looked up at him, as he want Jack impute on his observation. Jack looked knowing at the page and nodded his agreement, when Daniel turned away from him, Jack looked questioning at Sam, and spread his hand to show he have no idea what Daniel talking, but Sam shrugged as well. "Closed and buried into the sky forever, Ra, the God of Sun." Daniel watched the page with delight his whole face lit up, as he read the hieroglyphs. "Jack, you see it as well." Jack just gave him a weird look; Jack clearly didn't understand why Daniel thought he had a sightless clue what he was talking, ohm reading. Oh What ever!! "And look at this, it's not Gate to the Heaven, it's Stargate."

"It is all fascinating Daniel as we all see." Said the last part sarcastically, Sam tried to hide her giggle at his comment and Daniel's confused gaze "But pretend we don't understand what you are talking." Daniel pushed up his glass and stared down the paper before him, before he spoke again.

"It is a Stargate," he pointed out the one of the hieroglyph group, "I think it is a gate, something they used on funerals or travel."

"Yeah, the two things so much alike." Sniped in Jack, he got a death glare a la Daniel. The kid looked ridicules but it was not the right time to wind him up, so he just smiled "By all mean Daniel continue."

"Thanks Jack, as I said it's not clear that way I need to see what was under the cover stone."

"Cover stone?" asked Sam with a surprised expression on her face. Jack calmed a bit down he was not the only one who didn't how got there a cover stone thing.

"Daniel?"

"Its here somewhere," Daniel searched out the right picture, it show a round stone with pictures, what Jack guessed was hieroglyphs. "That's it, but there are symbols I don't understand they sure not hieroglyphs, they are pictographs of some kind."

"If you say so Danny boy." Supplied Jack while he turned back his bandaged ankle, to test how much pressure he could put on it, leaving the other two to their quiz.

------------------------- Two days later -------------------------

"I don't get it. It did not make sense." screamed Daniel in his frustration.

"Daniel, will you shout up. If Jacob catches us with this staff, we will be grounded for our all life." Hissed Jack, he did not fancied to get caught, not now, when they had a week until the junior hockey league finial match, and Jack was on the team, he would heat to miss it.

Sam, - who camped in the boys' room the last few days, but she gave up to help for Daniel some times ago - glanced up from her book. "We should made copy from the symbols, and hide the pictures that way we won't be get caught red hand."

"Say something the girl." said Jack with a smile, and ducked down hurriedly to get out the flying books way what Sam throw at him. "Ata girl." He smirked at her and Sam glared back at him playfully.

"But I can't draw them done. I am not good enough at drawing." whined Daniel

"But Jack is." Sam gave an evil eye at Jack, who held up his hands to avert her suggestion and declared loud.

"No!" Jack's gaze moved between the other two occupants of the room, both smiling at him like the Cat that ate the Canary. Jack saw he could not win an argument so he vouched for the quick escape and tried to get off the bed to run out the room, but his movement was aborted. Daniel was closer to him and he jumped at Jack, pressing him down to the bed. Jack tried to get the younger boy off his bed when Sam arrived and started to tickle him. Jack laughed so hard his tears started to fall.

"Good, good I give up." Jack huffed, when the wonder kids stopped tickling him. He tried to get back his breath. He sight and sat up on the bed "Get me papers and a pencil then show me what you need me for."

As Jack sat at the Daniel's desk and copied down the pictures, he had the feeling that the symbols looked slightly familiar to him, but how ever hard he tried he could not place from where. It was not an easy work, Daniel lounged beside him and commented if he draw something deferent then it was, Jack gave up after the time to snap something rude back and just glared at the younger boy. The sky was dark outside when he finished with the last one.

He stretched out his sore muscle while Daniel put away the copied pages in his drawer. Sam said her goodbye sometimes ago and went to her own room.

"Boys it is time for bed, turn down the light and go to sleep." Ellison called in their room

"Yes, Mom" called back Daniel, yawing. Ellison smiled at them and left them to get ready for bed. Jack envied Daniel for his capacity to be able to adapt so easily. Daniel called both of their adopted parents, Mom and Dad. Jack knew the younger boy loved both of them like his own parents, Jack was not sure he would be able to do it for a long time or maybe never.

------------ Next morning -----------------

Jack opened a sleepy eye, he could hear low whispers from somewhere near him. He rubbed his eyes to be able to wake up fully. He did not say anything yet just stared down from his bed. He could see Sam sitting on the table with his drawing in her hand, while Daniel was at his back toward Jack and he as well studded one of the symbols. Daniel slowly turned the picture again and again. It called back a faint memory for Jack, he remember as he turned Sam's star map again and again as he linked together the spots, it was not exactly like that but it looked close.

"Sam." He called out, his voice was raspy from sleep. Sam looked up at him questioning. "Come up here." Sam changed a quick glance with Daniel before she walked up to the bunk bed and climbed up. "Look. " Jack nodded with his head toward Daniel and the picture he was holding. Sam watched the symbol for a moment, and then her eyes widen and break out a big grin on her face.

"Why I don't thought of it before." She jumped down from the bed and raced out of the room.

"What was that about? What she did not think before?"

"Well it depend if she did not think about what I think then I know what she did not think about but if not…" Jack let his sentence trail out; then his gaze met with Daniel confused eyes and asked. "It did not make much sense did it?"

"Nop"

"Never mind. It is too early."

Sam rushed back in the room with her believed star map in her hand. Placed her book on the desk and started to search thought it, before stopped suddenly, and smiled at them.

"Daniel looks. This constellation look like this symbol." She moved the drawing over the map to show them to what she means. "You knew what it mean, if the symbols are star constellations it could be a road description, like how to get for a point's place. Of course with to knew what this symbols mean. How to translate them, to find the correct place and I think we missing one symbol."

"Missing on?" asked Daniel

"Why need the translation as well, Sam?" added Jack his own question.

Sam rolled her eyes and answered patiently. "To get the correct place we need the starting point from where we see the road."

"Like a pirate map." sniped in Jack.

"Yes Jack." Came the sarcastic answer from Sam, Shi, the girl spend far too much time with me thought Jack grinning.

"Hey just asking." Jack pouted good-naturally.

"Can we get back to the questions?"

"Sure, the translation is needed because if we use this constellation we maximum can find this something in the space."

"Wow, it is awesome. I have a new question thought." said Jack.

"Me too." Said Jacob Carter from the doorway, all three kids turned toward the angry voice and looked guiltily in the Colonel's dark eyes.