N/A: I want to thank Alisa for Betaing my chapter. It is really appreciate.
Chapter 37
"I'm glad you're here, Colonel..." Hammond said to the woman in front of him.
An airman knocked at the door and gave some papers to the General. He then returned his attention to the Colonel.
"Sorry, things are a little busy."
"From what I hear, things never settle down around here."
"You're right. So why are you here? I've read your mission orders but I want you to tell me."
"Sir? I'm not sure I understand."
"Those orders are fakes." Hammond simply said quickly looking at the paper. "There's no way the president would have signed those papers without calling me. So Colonel, tell me, who has sent you here?"
The woman was startled by the General's assertion. The best people of the organization had worked on them. They hadn't counted on the fact that this General was on such good terms with the president.
"Sir, I've been sent from the Pentagon to take the position of Chief Scientist of Technology. If you have a problem with my orders, I would suggest you call my own superior."
"Don't get me wrong Colonel; I would be glad to have you, your resume is astounding but I already have someone in that position that I think deserves it even more than you…"
"Sir, she's only a Major."
"I don't care about her rank; she more dedicated to this job than anyone on this base and that includes you. It is as simple as that. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a briefing to attend to. Go back to the Pentagon and tell your superior that I'm the one in charge here and that I am the one who chooses who will be in charge and who's going to work here."
"I'm sorry to hear that sir. I'll be on my way then."
"Someone will escort you outside. We wouldn't want you to get lost in this base…"
"Yes, sir," the woman said.
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"Clark, you're back!" Lana exclaimed when she saw him.
"Hi Lana. Yes, I haven't gone off world yet. I guess with everything that has happened to Cassie…"
"Cassie?" Lana asked innocently.
"You know, Dr. Frasier's girl, she was with me at the Talon."
"Oh yes, I remember…" Lana said in a monotone voice.
In fact it had been really difficult for Lana not to remember her; for the last two hours she had been with the girl in the infirmary. She hadn't stopped talking about Clark; "Clark this" and "Clark that".
"You don't seem to like her."
"No, she seemed to be a nice girl."
"I'm glad you said that, I was wondering if you would like to keep her company while I'm gone. She has been through some traumatic events and…"
"Clark, she's not the only one…" Lana said with a little more anger in her voice that she would have liked to. "I've almost been rape… But did you even care? No… You were all over that girl. You almost haven't spoken a word to me since the beginning of all this. And when I told you that I had finally found something worth doing, all you had to say was that you were going to go to another planet, like you don't even care about what's going on in my life." Lana finished, almost in tears.
"Lana, I do care about you, you're one of my best friends. I don't know what to say, I'm sorry that you felt so left out."
Lana looked at Clark and let out a sigh.
"You know what Clark, don't bother. It's been one long painful day. I'll go back to my room and go to bed. I hope we'll see each other before you leave."
"Sure Lana, good night," Clark said, not finding anything else to say. He then walked away, heading to the infirmary.
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"General, you want me to baby-sit that girl while you're doing a check up on Clark?" Daniel said almost spitting out his coffee.
"Daniel, relax, she's only sixteen," Jack said with a grin.
"Wouldn't Sam be better than me for that assignment?"
"Major Carter and Colonel O'Neill will be waiting for Clark in the briefing room. It's time we prepared that mission."
"What about Teal'c?" Daniel tentatively asked.
Teal'c raised an eyebrow.
"I do not think I could entertain the teenagers of your world, and I will be attending the briefing myself."
"What about me, I should be in the briefing room too. I'll go on this mission."
"Daniel, for crying out loud, she's just a teen, not some human eating alien from outer space." Jack said.
"Jack, you told me yourself that she was a …" Daniel didn't finish his sentence as Clark entered the room.
"You asked to see me?"
The General smiled.
"Clark, come in…"
Clark came and sat on a chair near Sam.
"Daniel, you know what you have to do; besides we told her aunt that we would take care of her education…" Jack said still smiling.
"What's that all about?" Clark asked in a whisper to Carter.
"We need to go to the infirmary for the normal check up and Daniel got to keep Lana out you know…"
"Oh… and why Daniel?"
"He lost." Sam said with a small grin "But don't tell him…"
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The airman escorted the Colonel to the elevator then pushed a button.
"It shouldn't be long ma'am."
"Don't worry; I'm not in a hurry."
The elevator door opened and they both entered it. Soon the elevator was moving towards the exit. The woman quickly turned to face the airman and knocked the man unconscious. Taking a needle in her pocket, she put the contents in the airman's body.
"That should keep you out for a few hours…" She said to the unconscious man.
She then opened the roof trap of the elevator and managed to push the airman on the roof. She closed the door and pushed another button. The elevator stopped and she quickly got out of it.
"I'm in, but in a sneaky way," She said to a hidden microphone.
"Be car… We're having… the transmission." came the garbled answer.
"Damn it, ok. I need a map. Do you copy?" She said pulling a pair of shade glasses.
"A map is on the way…unsure. Over."
Soon after a map of the facilities was superimposed on her special glasses and she started her mission in the base.
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The first prime of Anhur was looking at his master.
"So you didn't find them anywhere?"
"No, my lord!"
"And what did I tell you to do?"
"Find them and not come back before I find them."
"Then tell me, why are you here?"
"My lord…" the first prime began but he couldn't finish as a hand grabbed his neck making him unable to breathe.
Anhur looked at the man then a smile crept into his face.
"If you can't obey orders, then I have no use for you."
A quick twist of his hand and the first prime's neck broke. Tossing the corpse away Anhur called for a guard to dispose of the body, then appointed a new first prime.
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"Miss Lang."
Lana turned her head and saw Daniel walking quickly towards her.
"Dr. Jackson, I've told you that you can call me Lana," Lana said with a smile on her face.
"Lana, may I have a few words with you?"
"I'm already late to the infirmary."
"Don't worry, I've called Janet… I mean, Dr. Frasier."
"In that case…"
"Did you have time to take a meal? We could go to the cantina."
"Good idea, let's go. What do you want to talk to me about?"
Daniel smiled and pushed back his glasses on his nose.
"Well, you see, your friend Clark told us about some things that happened around Smallville, and I would like to see your point of view on the subject."
"You mean the Meteor Freaks?"
"Yep… After that, you will have your first lesson on archaeology."
"My what?" Lana exclaimed.
"You know, I'll be the teacher and you the student. It's my specialty. Did you really think you could stay here without going to school?"
"Well no, but I thought…what about Clark?"
"He won't be there. Major Carter will teach him… hummm, something about computers…" Daniel lied uncomfortably.
"Let's go then…" Lana said with a smile.
TBC...