Chapter 14
Isabelle found herself sitting on the floor of a pink painted bedroom and playing a game with Cassie Frasier. The two girls got along well and Cassie was told that Izzy knew all about the Gate and had also gone off world and knew about the Goa'uld.
Cassie rolled the dice, "I got six." She moved her token six spaces on the board. She then asked, "What planet are you from?"
Izzy replied, "I'm from Minnesota. My daddy and Jack are cousins."
She asked, "You are from Earth and let you go off world?"
"My daddy and me were sailing and our boat sunk in a storm. He didn't make it off the boat. Oma told me she put my raft on the island. I found a Star Gate and the thing with hands that grabs your head." she explained.
"That would be an Ancient Depository," she told her. "Jack got trapped by one of those things too." She handed Izzy the dice, "Your turn." She waited as the player rolled. "I lost my mom and dad too. The Goa'uld killed them. They planted a bomb in me. Sam saved me. Janet became my new mom. I can't tell the other kids in school about that. It's top secret."
"I used to go to school," she remembered. "Then mommy got sick. She died and daddy was going to teach me when we were sailing. I did like sailing better than school…Until the boat sank." she moved her token on the board. She sat back, "I'm bored!"
"We just started the game," Cassie rebutted.
"It's not as much fun as my magic wand," she sighed.
"Magic wand?" Cassie asked.
"I went through the Gate to another planet and I found a wand that controls tiny robots that Sam called 'nanites' in the air." she nodded.
She gasped, "Seriously! What did you do with it?"
"I got myself chocolate milk, a shake, food, candy and I fixed some broken stuff and cleaned up a big mess on Atlantis." she recalled.
Cassie complained, "The grownups would never let me do anything that cool."
"I had an invisible ball too but they took it away from me," she miffed. "They didn't know I was there."
"Ah' man," Cassie whined. "I can't go back off world. I can't tell the other kids in school where I am from. It just sucks! Where is your wand?" she wondered.
"They took it from me," she pouted.
Cassie rolled her head back, "First rule when dealing with grownups…Don't tell'em anything. Too bad you can't make one."
The information to make a wand soon came to mind. Isabelle stated, "I can! I know how. It's all in here!" she pointed the side of her head.
Cassie asked, "How would you make a magic wand?"
Izzy looked about the room and found small transistor radio by the bed. She picked it up and realized the wand was more like a radio than a magical device. "I can use this radio!" she figured.
In the realm of kiddom there was no such thing as a bad idea. There were only fun ideas and not so fun ideas. Cassie stood up eager to make a magic wand, "Cool! I'll get mom's tools."
The girls then snuck out the doorway and down the hall. As they got to the living room they found Janet sitting on the sofa with her feet up and on the phone. She spoke, "The girls got along great, Sam. They are playing board games in Cassie's bedroom now."
The two continued to sneak past her and to the cabinet where the tools were stored. They got a tool bag and started back down the hallway to the bedroom. As they passed the sofa they could hear the conversation, "I got it all planned out for tomorrow. We go to the zoo in the afternoon; then grab a pizza and then a movie!" She paused for a minute, "Sure you can come! We can all meet up for pizza." The two continued back to the room.
Cassie shut the door behind her and then sat crossed leg on the floor. She then watched as Izzy took apart the radio and started to retool the inside. She didn't need to worry about a biological lock on the radio; she just wanted to use it as a controller. She worked a good twenty minutes and then put the contraption back together. She stowed the tools away. "This should work. The nanites respond to commands in Ancient and motions with the wand." She pulled out the collapsible antenna, "This should work!"
Cassie grew excited, "Let's test it!"
"What should we do first?" Izzy wondered.
"How about a big bowl of ice cream?" she suggested.
"Glacie crepitos!" she gave a command. Before them a large bowl of vanilla ice cream appeared.
Cassie sat wide-eyed, "Holy shit! It worked!"
Izzy stated, "You used a naughty word. My daddy said he would ground me if I used a naughty word."
She gave her a look, "All the kids swear in school. We just don't swear in front of grownups. Now, we need two spoons."
Izzy gave a command for spoons and two spoons from the kitchen appeared.
Cassie grinned, "You are the coolest friend ever! Can I try it?"
Izzy handed her the radio, "You need to think about what you want. It helps if you can see it in your head. Then motion where you want it and say the command."
"I want some topping for the ice cream." she told her. "How do you say hot fudge?"
"Calidum fudge," she replied.
Cassie tried, "Calidum fudge." Before her, hot fudge appeared on the ice cream. She grinned, "This is so cool! I have a magic radio."
"We have to keep this top secret!" Izzy warned her. "The grownups will take the radio away if they find it."
"This is top secret!" Cassie agreed. "We should be our own top secret team like SG-1."
Izzy looked baffled, "Huh?"
The girl figured, "We should have code words and be our own club."
"Like what?" Izzy wondered.
"I don't know," Cassie shrugged, "Maybe the magic girls?" She made a face, "Oh' the grownup will be onto us with that one." She then suggested, "Magic Girls One. MG-1! The grownup won't know what it means."
"Okay!" Isabelle agreed. Cassie was the coolest friend she ever had. She knew all about the Gate, was from another planet, was orphan like her and above all understood that grownups could not be trusted in the realm of kiddom.
Cassie figured, "We need some walkie talkies so we can contact each other when you go back."
Izzy stated excited, "I know just the thing!" She waved radio like the wand and gave a command to the nanites. Before them were two identical wrist watches with a black screen. She handed one to Cassie, "These are communication links I saw on Atlantis. They are linked directly to each other. Rodney said the radios can go through a mountain."
Cassie put the watch on, "How does it work?" It didn't immediately work for her for she lacked any gene. She glanced over at the watch lit up as Izzy placed it on. "Mine is broke?" she asked.
Izzy waved the radio once more and gave a command, "Reserare."
Cassie's watch then came to life. "You fixed it!"
"I unlocked it," she told her. She then pondered, "Sam said the tiny robots have…" she squinted recalling the term, "'quantum capabilities' and we should be able to use them to go places."
Cassie beamed, "Cool! We can go places! Can we go to Disney World?"
She nodded, "We could! Sam said the tiny robots could bring Atlantis back to Earth. We could move through space like with a Star Gate but without a Star Gate."
Cassie wondered, "Can it make us invisible?"
She thought about the answer, "We could slip into another…'dimension' and no one would see us….Like my invisible ball."
Cassie gasped, "That's so cool! Let's try it!"
Izzy gave a command, "Momento ratioes."
Cassie didn't feel any different. "Did it work?" she wondered.
The door of the room swung open with a rap, "Girls!" Janet looked about but didn't see them. She found the bowl of ice cream on the floor. She leaned over the picked it up, "They must have snuck into the kitchen and got ice cream." She closed the door figuring they were playing hide and seek.
Izzy complained, "Why do adults always take things on us? We weren't done."
Cassie gasped, "She didn't see us!" She told her friend, "We're invisible!" She then asked, "You can take us off world with that radio?"
She nodded as the command came to mind. "I think so."
"Cool!" she stated. "Let's go to another planet?"
"Which one?" she asked.
"Mine is gone," she stated sad.
Izzy gave a heavy sigh, "If the grownups find us on another planet we will be in so much trouble."
Cassie agreed, "We will be grounded forever!" She then figured, "We should only use the magic radio for really important things…Like ice cream!"
"And cake!" Izzy agreed.
Meanwhile
Sam had just gotten off the phone with Janet upon hearing her front doorbell ring. She gathered herself off the couch and straightened out her Air Force sweat shirt and blue jeans. She got the door and opened it figuring it could be her brother but found Jack instead. He was out of uniform and wearing jeans and a Navy t-shirt. She asked confused, "Sir?"
He pointed to the shirt, "I got this in Dave's things. I thought I would wear it for him."
"Oh," she gave a nod understanding. "You got the packages."
"I did!" he smiled at her.
She instructed, "Come on in." She opened the door for him.
He walked inside the nicely furnished home. He glanced about the decorations, "Nice place ya got here, Carter."
"Thanks," she pleasantly replied. "I just got off the phone with Janet. The girls are playing board games in Cassie's room. They are fine."
"Cassie would make a good friend." he figured. "They both know about the Gate and all."
Sam led him to the kitchen and asked, "You want something to drink?"
"Got any beer?" he asked hoping for a drink. His nerves were getting to him as his mind churned. He adored Sam but he had yet to confess his true feelings for her.
She opened the fridge and removed a can and then handed it to him. "Here!"
He asked surprised, "You keep beer in your house?"
"My brother occasionally visits." she informed. "I'm not sure how I will tell him about Izzy." She grabbed a can of beer for herself and then led Jack to the living room couch. She eased herself down and opened the beer. She took a swig as Jack sat down on the other end of the sofa with his beer. They sat in awkward silence for a moment.
Jack stated, "The kid wants us to be her parents."
"I know," she agreed. "We would be the best choice for her. We know of her abilities, the download, what to look out for, what to expect. We can't put her in a foster home or even with any other relatives."
"I'm not sure I can take care of her by myself." he admitted.
She assured him, "You won't be by yourself. I will be there too."
He debated, "Ya think the kid would be okay going from house to house and to the base and all?"
"She will adjust," she figured and then bit her lip in thought. It would be more stress on the child having two homes plus staying on base.
Jack took a swig and gathered his gumption, "Be better on her if we were under one roof."
She asked curiously, "You going to resign your commission?"
His face wrinkled in jest, "I'll just join the Navy and become a SEAL."
She shook her head, "You would still be commanding SG-1." she told him.
"Unless I take another team," he figured.
Sam cocked her head, "If you took command of another team then we would be in the clear." She started to giggle to herself, "Maybe Izzy was right after all?"
He wondered, "What?"
"She thinks that you are not my CO because I am the head of my department." she told him.
Jack's mouth dropped as his mind started to churn. "Wait!" He pondered, "You don't report to me. You make your reports to Hammond and my job title is security for the team."
Sam placed her beer down on the nearby table and wondered, "You think she might be right?"
He shrugged, "My job is to secure the team and counter any threats." He puckered in thought, "You don't give me any reports from the field. All of your reports go to Hammond directly…Same with Daniel. Huh…" he bit his bottom lip as he considered the notion.
She scooted closer to him on the sofa and gave a warm smile. "If Hammond is my actual CO then why am I calling you 'sir' all the time and taking orders from you."
"You argue with me more than you take orders from me," he smirked at her.
Her eyes locked with his. She couldn't help but ask, "Can we really do this?"
"Maybe," he agreed and placed his free arm around her. He put his beer on the end table as Sam snuggled closer. It felt so good having her in his arms. He relished in the moment. "Come here," he pulled her even closer and then his lips met hers. He found himself in a kiss that grew deeper with each passing moment.
She pulled back slightly to catch her breath. A grinned crept across her face as she looked him in the eye and asked, "Navy huh?"
"I almost did join the Navy," he admitted pulling her back for another kiss.