Chapter 24

- "Major, I did tell the Colonel he could leave the base with the Kent's. Under one condition, there must be at least two officers with them."

- "Thank you, sir. I wasn't sure about the Colonel, since he's been acting strangely all afternoon."

- "Don't worry about him. He's acting on his instincts and I've approved of his decision. Have a nice evening."

-"Thank you sir." Sam said and hung the phone. "The colonel is acting on his instincts! Wonder what the general meant by that…"

On her way out, she stopped by the infirmary.

- "Hi Janet!"

- "Hey Sam, what can I do for you?"

- "Jack invited the Kents for dinner. Do you want to join us?"

- "Sure, I'll call Cassie!"

- "I think she had something planned with Daniel."

- "Isn't he coming with you?" Janet asked with a hint of regret in her voice.

- "Maybe if you asked him, he would come."

- "SAM!"

- "What? Bring Cassie and Daniel won't have any good excuse not to come with us…"

She made her way to the parking, still smiling at Janet reaction.

- "So,Carter, how's the general?" O'Neill asked her.

- "I… I don't understand."

- "Come-on Carter, we've known each other long enough to know that there wasn't anything you needed in that lab of yours. You had to see if it was true that the General agreed to us going to the restaurant."

Jack looked at Carter, she didn't answer she was too busy looking at her hand.

- "Don't worry, I would have done the same thing."

- "Thank you sir. Go ahead, I'll take my car, Janet, Cassie and possibly Daniel will be coming with us."

- "Great, Ok every body, as of now, and until we're back at the base. My name is Jack. That includes you Carter."

Martha and Jonathan smiled at the man.

- "Then you'll have to call us by our names too." Jonathan said.

When they arrived at the restaurant, they asked for a quiet place. Since Jack was well known in the place, they had been seated in a little room. Only Teal'c didn't come to the restaurant.

- "…So Daniel was like walking so fast that I didn't have time to warn him. There were books, papers, and god knows what else flying around him when he entered in direct collision with the poor airman." Jack had passed almost all the dinner speaking of his teams bad luck.

Every body was laughing at Jack's imitation of Daniel. Suddenly Clark fell on the ground, his hand on his head.

- "Son! What's wrong?" Jonathan asked getting to Clark rapidly.

- "Carter, call the base we're going back." Jack ordered.

Janet was at Clark's side before Jonathan.

- "Clark tells me what's going on. How may we help you?" Janet asked him.

Clark didn't answer but stood up, he had an empty look. He started to walk toward the door without a word.

- "Clark?" Jonathan asked then turned to his wife. "Martha, he has that look. The one of that cave calling him…" he whispered.

Jack and Daniel were following Clark closely with a questioning look in their eyes.

- "Where are you going?" Jack asked.

- "He looks like he's in trance or something. Like the people of P3Y-786" Daniel said.

- "Yes, but they didn't fall on the ground in pain just before." Carter replied as she came back to them.

As they walked outside of the restaurant, Clark looked at them.

- "My father is calling me, I must go." He said then vanished in super-speed.

- "Has he talked about his father?" Daniel asked.

Jonathan and Martha came outside.

- "Where's Clark?"

- "He said that you called him!" Jack said.

- "No, sir, he said that his father called him."

- "Oh god! Not again" Martha exclaimed.

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Goldberg knew what to do and how to do it but the problem was the Luthor's kid.

- "What can I do with him?" he asked himself trying to remember what major Carter had told him of the device.

As often happened during a scientific briefing, Goldberg was barely awake, playing with his pen trying to make it stay up on its tip.

- "Major Goldberg!"

Every one was looking at him now. He hadn't realised that he had dozed off.

- "I'm sorry sir, I didn't sleep well last night. I was looking forward to going to a town called Smallville."

People around the table laughed for a while, even colonel O'Neill.

- "Major, this might save your life." Major Carter had said "If you're brought in that time bubble, you must never go out of the ten feet boundaries."

- "What would happen if I did?"

- "We don't know. You would probably only be sent back to your original time line but there's a chance that you could be stuck there for all the rest of you life. Major, if my calculations are correct, even if we had a time machine, we would have to stop the time at exactly the same moment that you left to get you out of the time freeze."

- "If I understand, what you're saying… In fact, I don't understand, what would happen if I step out of the ten feet boundaries while the device is working?"

- "We don't know, that part of the text that we brought back with the device wasn't readable." Daniel told them.

- "Let's just say that we don't want to try it." O'Neill had added.

Goldberg decided to save Luthor's life by doing a quick out of and back in the time bubble.

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Clark stopped running at the entrance of the cave and walked to the wall, pulling out the key he had retrieved from the barn. As soon as the key was in his lock, a bright white light came out of it. Not far from there a hidden door slowly opened leaving a place large enough for Clark to enter.

- "Kal-El my son, I have received a message from the last survivor of our planet, you must help them…"

- "I received it too. Loud and clear, what do you want me to do?"

- "The voice message was only a misdirection, have you seen the hidden message?"

- "Hidden message?"

- "I'll show you…"

A bright white beam of light knocked Clark of the ground and soon he was in total darkness listening to his biological father telling the story of his people.

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- "Mr Sullivan, Miss Sullivan, would you come with me, there's someone who wishes to speak with you."

The Sullivans followed the airman to a large room.

- "You may sit, the generals will be here soon."

Looking at each other Chloe and her father decide to take a place at one end of the table. A little while later Sam Lane entered the room and without a word he sat at the other end of the table. Another General entered the room and sat with General Lane.

- "Hello I'm General Hammond. And I think we have thing to discuss."