A/N: this one is a little slow, but things will move forward.

Chapter 51

"Yes. Lana, yes I love her, like I never thought it would be possible to love but I won't tell her, I won't let my feeling shattered our friendship. I care too much for her for that." Clark voice had echo through the corridor loud enough for to the two girls sitting in the infirmary to understand it.

"Was that Clark?" Cassie asked.

"I think, yes." Chloe said unsure of what she just heard.

"Who do you think he was talking about?"

"I don't know." Chloe answered but in her head she knew Clark was talking about her.

At the thought Chloe hearth start to race in her chest. A sharp pain reminded her of her wound. Her pain must have shown on her face because the next thing she knew there was a nurse near her and Cassie was looking frightened.

"I'm ok." Chloe said in a weak voice.

Then it hit Cassie.

"It's you isn't it?" She asked.

Chloe didn't answer the question. But Cassie could read Chloe's face.

"Don't worry Chlo. I'm the new girl, I may have dreamed, well may still be having dream… about him, but I know when to back off. I like him a lot, but we don't know each other, we kind of connected because of similar situation we leaved. So tell me, I've been told by yourself that you had dated him once. How is it you let him go?"

Chloe smiled to Cassie.

"One word, Lana. She's a nice girl, once you know her. We've become very good friend. But Clark always had that thing for her. I don't know what make him change his mind."

"We're growing up." Cassie said full of wisdom.

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Hammond looked at the stargate and waited for the Tok'ra to arrive. Nothing was ever simple at the SGC. But when Jacob Carter stepped through the gate, he felt relief.

"Jacob, glad you could finally come. We were told you were occupied." Hammond said to the man in the gate room.

"Something came up and we were freed sooner than I thought." He bowed letting Selmak took control of his body.

"General Hammond, I was very intrigued that you asked for me, how may I be of service?" Selmak asked.

"We'll continue in the briefing room. Major Carter and Colonel O'Neill will be joining us. Selmak tell me, what do you know of a Tok'ra name Gallia?"

Selmak looked at Hammond unable to hide his surprise.

"What did you hear of her?"

"Our source told us she escaped one of your bases. Is she any threat for you or us?"

"You are well informed General. Gallia is a very young symbiote. She was at her second blending. She's no threat to Earth, but she could pose a problem if she got captured by the goa'uld." Selmak said letting Jacob take control of the body.

"Understood." Hammond said.

They both went their way up to the briefing room. Colonel O'Neill was already at the table and rose when the general entered.

"Sir, Carter will be delayed, Dr. Frasier want to do some more check up."

"Is she alright?" Jacob asked.

"She's fine, there had been a little situation and we wish to discuss of it with Selmak." Hammond answered.

"George, she's my daughter."

"And she's fine."

Jacob closed his eyes for a brief moment.

"Forgive Jacob, he become agitated as soon as family matters occur."

"Understandable. Selmak, you remember Clark Kent.?"

"Yes I do, and we've keep his presence on the base a secret as we promise."

"Glad to hear it. Now, Jacob told us he could feel Clark wasn't human. Would you care to tell us how it happened?"

"I'm not sure I understand but when we were close to him, I was overwhelmed by a strange feeling of uneasiness. The Tok'ra tries not to give up on ancient hatred but when I was close to him, I felt uneasy, on the edge, ready to jump at him."

"You hated him on sight." Jack said.

"I hadn't seen him, I just felt his presence. It's hard to explain, it's like we know when someone have been a host or when a jaffa his near."

"Can you feel what human feel or just kryptonian and goa'uld?" Hammond asked

"We cannot feel other. We say we felt the presence, but we could say we know there is someone. For the kryptonian it's in our gene, to hate them all, the will to destroy them. Once again it's hard to explain. We do not discuss this with other. It is because of Jacob that I'm telling you this."

"I understand." Hammond said.

"Has this something to do with Major Carter?" Selmak asked.

Carter entered the room at this point. Jacob quickly took back the control of his boy.

"Sam!" He cheerfully said.

"Dad, I'm glad you came."

"So am I, how are you? What were those tests for?"

Jacob looked carefully at his daughter,

"Sam you seem tired. George, you should let them sleep sometime." He said looking at the general with a frown.

"Dad, I'm fine."

"What happen?" Jacob asked.

After a brief sign from Hammond, Jack started to talk.

"There was an incident in Smallville where a civilian got shot. That civilian was close to Clark, and some kind of link was established between Carter and Clark. The entire emotional overflow went from Clark to Carter. Carter was in an emotional shock or something."

"Are you all right Sam." Jacob asked.

"Like the colonel said, it was only a shock. My brain wasn't ready for the information that came all at once."

"And you thought that it had something to do with the symbiote she once carried?" Jacob asked smiling.

"It was one possibility and since you had sense the alien origin of Clark." Hammond said

"I'm sorry to disappoint you about the symbiote but as Sam's father I might still be of help, I can tell you that she had this unique talent to read people emotion long before she entered the Air Force."

"She did?" Jack asked confuse.

"I did?" Sam asked at the same time and also very confuse.

"You were very young, your mother and I didn't want to believe it. And one day it stops."

"It stopped, like that and I don't even remember it."

"You always have been a very logical girl, you didn't want to cloud your judgment with emotion and other weakness as you once said. Since it wasn't something you could explain and it was making your life difficult. You shut it out of your life."

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Clark looked at the television with blank eye. Asked what he was listening to, he wouldn't have been able to answer. In fact, he was thinking about Lana's reaction. She had smile. Her smiled was warm and it was the kind of smile that made him melt.

"I'm glad you told me, Clark. I'm sorry you don't want to tell her but I'll respect that." She had said.

Clark wasn't sure of this Lana. He would have understood if she had start crying again. But no, she had smiled to him. The kind of smile that made his hearth melts.

Rising to his feet, Clark decided to return at the infirmary. Walking in the corridor he wandered for a while not decided to follow his present state of mind. He heard voice coming from behind a closed door.

"I sense him since we arrive. Do you think, they're aware of what he is?" A woman said

A man answered something to the woman but Clark couldn't hear it since a guard came toward him.

"Mr. Kent, you're not supposed to be in this section. Please follow us, quickly." The guard said.

"The door behind him opened as he walked with the guard."

Janice took a look at the teen walking beside a guard. She heard Gallia told her it was him.

"Ma'am , are you alright?" A guard asked her from the other side of the corridor.

"Yes, could tell me who this boy is?" Janice asked

"Some Smallville farmer's son who helped SG1, I don't know only that he impressed enough the colonel to be brought on a special mission."

"I would like to speak with the general, quickly." Janice said.

"I'm sorry madam, but we have order not to bring you to the general for the moment."

"You don't understand you have an alien on the base, a very dangerous alien." Janice said.

"Follow me madam."

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"What can we do? If Clark has decided he won't talk about something, he won't talk about it. One thing I've learn with Clark his that he do what he really believe is right." Chloe said to Cassie.

"But, I know you love Clark and we've heard what he thinks about you."

"We don't know for sure that it's me he was talking about."

"Common Chlo, do you really think that he was talking about me? Honestly."

"I'm sorry. I know and since he was speaking to Lana, it's not Lana either." Chloe added.

"Can you see anyone else?"

"No. What is all this commotion about?" Chloe asked.

"Don't know, but it seem urgent. That's the blonde they asked Clark to leave for."

"Those guards seem to be worried about something."

"The general is coming." Cassie said seeing Hammond through the windows.

Hammond wasn't very happy to have been call out of the briefing room but he didn't show it.

"What is this commotion all about?" Hammond asked

"Sir, Janice says that the Kent's boy is an alien."

"You make me leave the briefing room to tell me that Clark is not human."

"Sir, if it's true it's a security risk."

Janice made a step

"General, I sense him, and Gallia told me that there people were not very kind. Gallia is trying to control her emotion but I can feel how much she hates them."

"Janice, there are thing you don't yet understand. Come with me. It will be all" Hammond add to the guard escorting Janice.

"But sir." One of them objected.

"Do I have to repeat myself, Clark Kent is a guest in this base, he has proof himself trustworthy and that all."

"I understand sir." The man said before leaving.

"Janice, we know of Clark Kent origins, and we know why Gallia hate him. But he was raise on Earth by Earth people. He's no threat to this base. Now, we have a guess that would likely want to see you. He will understand the reason you're here if you tell him. And he may also help you. But for that I need you to come with me."

"Who is he?"

"Selmak"

"General, Selmak is very well known among the Tok'ra and is respected. I cannot show myself to Selmak." Janice said with panicked in her voice.

"Calm down. I don't think you know Selmak as well as you thought. Trust me on this."

"Do I have a choice?" Janice asked.

"At this point, I think it's your best shot."

Hammond smiled and show Janice the way to the briefing room.

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"There's a briefing going on in that room. You cannot go in." the sergeant said.

"Oh, ok. I was trying to get a glimpse at the stargate." Clark said looking disappointedly at the door of the briefing room.

"I can show you to the embarkation room."

"That would be great."

"Follow me."

Clark wasn't sure why he wanted to see the stargate. Probably he was trying to delay the moment where he would have to go back to the infirmary.

"We don't have any incoming traveler schedule today, so there shouldn't be any problem. Siller is doing some maintenance, if I was you I would try to stay as far away from him as possible."

Clark smiled, Siller bad luck has reached even him. When the door opened and he saw the stargate, he smiled in wonder.

"Quite something isn't it." A familiar voice came from behind him.

"Dr Jackson, I thought you would be in the briefing with the rest of SG1." Clark said with a smile.

"It just finishes and I saw you down here."

"I was just looking."

"I don't blame you, the first time I saw it, I was overwhelmed by the meaning of it."

Clark walked to the big circle.

"This technology is quite something."

"The goa'uld stole it from the gate builder.

"From what I've saw, it's not the first thing they stole." Clark said casually

"What do you mean?" Daniel asked unsure.

"Well from what I can tell you, Kryptonian technology was base on crystal…"

"And goa'uld has crystal base technology. Do you realize that mean that goa'uld as intelligent they thought they are have not really invent anything. They just developed from existing technology." Daniel said exited by the possibility it open for him.

"A little like we're doing with what you bring back from the stargate." Clark said.

Daniel looked a little stunned getting what he was saying.

"Like we do…"

Daniel looked at the gate with Clark then he remembered something.

"Clark, we have another visitor in the base and she sense that you were not from Earth and she told a few guard. I'm sorry but I think your secret won't stay very long a secret in the base."

"I should have known." Clark said hiding his discomfort of the situation.