Hannah and O'Neill took fishing trip up to Minnesota. They spent two weeks at O'Neill's cabin by a lake, there was no fish in his lake but that wasn't the point of the holiday. It was just to relax and not think about any of their problems and just take a breather from well everything. It gave them a chance to mainly drink a lot of beer and not talk while sitting chairs looking at the lake.
When they returned to civilisation Hannah stopped by Sam's house to see how she was and catch up on the news but for the last two days she found Sam not home. She finished her morning run and showered heading straight into the SGC to get herself cleared for active duty.
She pressed the button to go down and Sam joined her at the Elevator. "Hey Hannah how was your trip?" she asked
"Good" Hannah told her, Sam seemed to be in better spirits than when Hannah left. The doors opened and they stepped in, Sam pressed the button for the level 21 and 19 the doors closed. "So how are you doing Mom?" she asked Sam.
Sam smiled "Better, I'm sorry I cold shouldered you when Janet died I just.." Sam shook her head unable to finish.
"It's ok, you don't have to explain yourself to me" Hannah told her, she cleared her throat "So did I ever tell you Dad has no fish in the pond up in Minnesota ?"
"No you haven't" Sam said with a smile
"Yeah I don't get it. We sit there and throw out a line to… well nothing" Hannah said with a shrug of her shoulders. "But Dad likes it and the scenery is beautiful" Hannah added.
The doors opened on Level 19 and Sam stepped out "Oh hey you want to have lunch today?" she asked Hannah.
"Sure" Hannah said with a smile, Sam nodded and stepped back letting the doors close. Hannah waited as the elevator sunk down to Level 21, the doors opened and Hannah headed down to the infirmary for her Medical check up to be cleared for duty.
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After her check up, for which she was given a clean bill of health Hannah headed up to Daniel's lab. She would have sparred with Teal'c but figured it would be better to keep her good health for at least one more day before getting her ass kicked.
She ducked her head in and saw Daniel sitting at his desk, pen in hand, with books piled up around him, and his laptop open. "Hey, whatcha doin?" Hannah asked only showing her head visible in the doorway.
Daniel looked up "I think SG2 found something" he said waving her in, Hannah walked into his office and stood behind him looking at the ancient notes. Daniel handed her SG2's report to read. "How are you?" he asked
"A clean bill of health, and well rested" Hannah said as she read the report.
"Good, I translated the colonnade from ruins SG2 found last week" he said handing her his notes next as she put the report down.
"Library of Knowledge… interesting" Hannah said
"Yeah I was about to call Jack and let the others know" he said, Hannah gave a short laugh "What?" he asked her.
"Oh I think Dad is a little preoccupied with the Sunday cryptic" Hannah told him "Ever since Mom made the bet that he couldn't finish … the last three days no joke it's all he's been doing and annoying me for answers"
Daniel gave her an amused smile "Well I'm still going to call" he told her. he picked up the phone and dialled O'Neill's number.
Daniel waited until O'Neill picked up "Jack, I've been translating the ancient writing on the colonnade SG-2 discovered on P3X-439." Daniel said, Hannah hit the speaker button and Daniel put the handset down. She smiled and gave Daniel the 'you'll see' look as she listened in.
"Daniel, I'll be there in half an hour." O'Neill said over the phone
"It talks about a library of knowledge, Jack. I think the monument contains a repository of the ancients." Daniel told O'Neill, Hannah tried to smother her smile at O'Neill's tone.
"Repository you say."
"Yeah, you know, that thing that grabbed your head, made you talk crazy, nearly killed you." Daniel said to jog O'Neill's memory
"Well, sounds like we should stay away from it"
"Well, considering what we know now, we should be able to find another way to access the information. Sam's been able to use Tok'ra crystals to, to find a way to transfer all kinds of different energies, I mean…" Daniel continued to talk as Hannah listened as it sounded like O'Neill was near running water "…We should go there as soon as possible." Daniel finished
"Yeah?" O'Neill asked
"So?" Daniel asked waiting for O'Neill's opinion on the matter
"I'll be there in half an hour." O'Neill said his tone saying he was definitely not going to give an answer to the mission Daniel was proposing until he was at the SGC.
Hannah looked at Daniel with a raised eyebrow, Daniel nodded in defeat "Okay, bye." Daniel said he was about to hang up but O'Neill spoke up
"No, no, no, wait, don't hang up. I need a seven letter word." O'Neill said
Hannah stood up and pointed to the phone, Daniel shook his head.
"I told Sam I wouldn't help you." He said to O'Neill
"Well then this will be the one thing she doesn't know. Up, down, charmed, blank." O'Neill said
"Strange." Daniel offered when Hannah shrugged not knowing the answer.
"N-yeah. Well, thanks anyway." O'Neill said he sounded unimpressed as though the word was wrong.
"No, the word you're looking for—" Daniel stopped when O'Neill's end of the phone died.
"Told you" Hannah said smugly "Obsessed with the crossword"
"Is there a reason you are here?" Daniel asked her, Hannah shrugged.
"Nope I just didn't want to get my butt whooped by Teal'c and Mom is in a meeting with Hammond and I was bored so I figured I'd drop in and see what you doing"
"So I'm your go to person when bored?"
"No" Hannah said shaking her head emphatically "I also come here to hide, and to be lazy it's like my hang out point… if I hung out in Teal'c's quarters I'd have to meditate" she pulled a face "If I was with Mom well we'd be doing some science project which is fun… don't get me wrong but it's all mathematics and sometimes I just don't want to think"
"I'm hoping there's a compliment in there somewhere or I'll have to start locking the door" Daniel joked.
"Shouldn't you be calling General Hammond, Teal'c and Mom?" Hannah asked tongue in cheek "I'm going to get breakfast" she said with a playful smile she turned and left Daniel to call the others.
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40 minutes later or so, Hannah joined Teal'c, Sam and Daniel in the corridor by the elevator waiting for O'Neill on level 28. The doors opened and O'Neill stepped out with an Airman. Daniel tapped his watch as O'Neill emerged from the elevator. O'Neill stopped and looked at them.
"How long have you been waiting there?" He asked
"You said half an hour an hour ago." Daniel said to him,
"General Hammond's waiting." Sam added, Hannah snatched the crossword from O'Neill before he could hand it to Sam. He wore a smug expression and Hannah showed Sam.
"Excuse me." O'Neill said to Hannah and Sam, he walked towards the briefing room. Daniel and Teal'c followed as did Sam and Hannah who looked at the answers O'Neill had written in.
"The fate of the world is hanging in the balance, and you've been sitting in your truck, finishing this?" Sam asked pointing to the crossword. They all stopped just outside the briefing room O'Neill turned to Sam.
"I believe it was double or nothing." O'Neill told Sam with a smile, Sam returned the smile.
"Okay, 23 across, the atomic weight of boron. The answer is ten." Sam told him
"Yes." O'Neill said
"You wrote the word 'fat'." Hannah said as she read the rest of the crossword smiling, Sam nodded and took the crossword from Hannah and folded it up before handing it back to O'Neill.
"Your point?" O'Neill asked, he snatched the crossword back as they entered the briefing room SG3 were already waiting.
"Harper, Reynolds." O'Neill greeted them
"Jack." Reynolds said with a bemused smile, the stood by their seats as they waited for General Hammond.
"SG-3 spotted a Goa'uld reconnaissance drone while on the planet where they found the colonnade. Since that obviously means the Goa'uld were aware of its existence, SG's 3 and 5 will be providing back-up. If General Hammond approves the mission..." Sam said, O'Neill was distracted by the crossword folded in his hand.
"What mission?" O'Neill asked, Hammond entered the room from his office before anyone could answer.
"Good morning, SG-1." Hammond said to them "Nice of you to join us." He said specifically at O'Neill.
"Good morning, Sir." O'Neill said with a smile, Hammond took his seat at the head of the table. SG1 and SG3 took their seats.
"I've read Doctor Jackson's report on his translation. Given what happened the last time you encountered something like this, I'm surprised you're so willing to take on this mission." Hammond said to O'Neill
"So am I, Sir." O'Neill said it was obvious he hadn't paid attention when Daniel called him earlier.
"Jack." Daniel prompted
"Daniel?" O'Neill asked
"Why wouldn't we want to gain access to the greatest repository of knowledge in the known universe, once and for all finding the lost city of the Ancients, and use their technology to save the entire galaxy from the evil oppression of the Goa'uld?" Daniel asked
"Well, there's that." O'Neill said, Hannah covered her mouth with her hand and kept a straight face.
"From the mission file I've read, it's one of those things that whips up from the wall, grabs your head and rearranges your brain, right?" Colonel Reynolds said
"Sort of." Daniel answered
"Sort of?" Reynolds asked wanting clarification
"It basically downloads the entire library of Ancient knowledge into a person's mind. That massive amount of data then slowly unspools into your brain, eventually taking over your consciousness completely." Hannah answered
"Except it wasn't meant for a physiology as primitive as ours." Daniel added
"Easy fella." O'Neill warned, Daniel mouthed 'sorry' to O'Neill.
"I thought the report said you almost died last time, Sir." Harper commented, O'Neill looked surprised that Harper knew that tid bit of information.
"The Asgard removed the information from O'Neill's before he was lost to us." Teal'c stated
"So, why don't we just shoot Thor a call, get him standing by as back up." O'Neill suggested
"We tried Sir, he's not responding." Sam said
"None of our alien allies have been particularly reliable of late. Should something happen again—" Hammond drawled, Daniel put up his hand and interrupted Hammond
"General, no one's saying anyone should directly interface with the device, we're suggesting we extract it and bring it home for study." Daniel told him
"The engineering team, that studied the last one of these devices you found determined nothing, after six months of research." Hammond said
"We believe that that device's power source was depleted after Colonel O'Neill activated it." Sam said. Hammond turned to O'Neill.
"Recent intel suggests that Anubis has become a serious threat to dominate the rest of the Goa'uld in a very short time. We have to consider Earth is at risk now, more than ever. If the knowledge contained within this device can lead us to technologies we can use to defend ourselves, we must pursue it." Hammond said
"Why didn't you just say that?" O'Neill said to Daniel who shrugged
"Sorry." Daniel said
"You have a go. And be careful people." Hammond told them, they all nodded and stood as he left the room.
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"I think this is my favourite part of the day" Hannah said to Teal'c, he raised an eyebrow as they waited with the rest of SG1, SG5 and SG3 at the end of the ramp the Stargate was dialling.
"Chevron 7 locked." Harriman said over the intercom, Hannah counted in her head the two seconds before the wormhole established like clockwork. She watched the formation of the wormhole.
Hammond stood with them to give his final orders. "SG teams 1, 3, and 5, good luck. God speed." He said to them, he stepped to the side.
"Thank you Sir." O'Neill said he turned to everyone else "Let's move out!" he ordered with a wave of hand they walked up the ramp and through the wormhole, followed by SG3 and SG5.
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SG1 exited the wormhole and raised their weapons, it was a clear and sunny day, there were no other signs of life except for an Ancient structure that stood in the distance on a hill, the rest of the planet was like all the others.
The other two teams joined them exiting the wormhole.
"Reynolds." O'Neill said getting SG3's Leader's attention Reynolds turned at his name.
"Set up a defense perimeter as you see fit. Hold the gate 'till we get back." O'Neill told him
"You got it." Reynolds said.
"SG-1, move out" O'Neill said pointing towards the structure.
SG-1 approached the colonnade. The structure looked to have once been a great statue, with a figure that sat on a seat. His head and part of one shoulder had crumbled to the ground over the years from erosion and age.
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After an hour.
O'Neill sat, looking at his watch. While Daniel and Hannah were under one of the walkways, Hannah was looking at the walls reading while Daniel wrote in his notebook. Teal'c stood guard, looking out over the terrain while Sam took energy readouts.
"You know, we've searched this place, up and down." O'Neill said dryly
"I know." Daniel said to him
"We could have Goa'uld on our collective asses any minute now." O'Neill added his tone was light and casual but it was obvious he was getting antsy about being here too long. He walked towards them and joined them from behind looking at the same wall as Hannah.
"I know." Daniel said, he paused for a moment and looked from his book to the wall "According to the text on this column it's inside." Daniel said.
"Inside you say." O'Neill said dryly "There is no "inside". There's just a whole lotta outside." He said aggravated he waved his arms around gesturing his point with the scenery and the lack of doors to an interior.
Hannah smothered a smile at O'Neill's impatience as Daniel ignored O'Neill's outburst and kept reading his notes.
"I know." He said
Hannah pushed several markings on the wall just out of curiosity. She knew it was a combination of certain words.
"I'm getting some strange readings coming from here." Sam said as she was scanning a part of the wall completely devoid of writing. Hannah pressed the last markings, and the repository device formed out of the wall. Sam jumped back from the wall.
"Look out." O'Neill said jumping himself "How did you do that?" he asked Hannah
She shrugged "I don't know…but it worked"
It was good enough for O'Neill, Daniel looked at the wall she had touched "I was just about to do that" he commented
"Uhuh" O'Neill said "Can we get to the getting out of here with a whole lotta knowledge"
They all turned and moved to the repository. O'Neill radioed Reynolds asking for an update and letting him know they were going to be a little longer and to keep an eye out.
Hannah, Sam and Daniel studied the Repository, they were wary not to get too close.
"Now we just have to figure out how to get this thing out of the wall." Sam said, Daniel stepped forward and the device sensed the movement, and started to grow out of the wall.
"Careful" Sam cautioned, as they moved around it.
"Alright, one more time, why are we doing this, why?" O'Neill asked, not liking the feeling he was getting about this.
"I don't think we can remove it" Hannah said looking at the device but keeping her distance.
"Is this you talking or the ancient stuff in you talking?" O'Neill asked
"Me. Look at it, it's a part of the wall there are no seams to pry it out or –" Hannah stopped
"SG-1, we have incoming." Reynolds radioed in.
They all moved to the columns and saw death gliders speeding towards and firing towards their location, several explosions erupted as their weapons hit the ground coming closer to the structure. SG1 pulled back behind the columns and took cover as dirt and debris flew up from the last explosion.
"That was close" Hannah commented
"Indeed" Teal'c said
"Alright, lets go." O'Neill said
"Jack, we can't just leave." Daniel said, as they packed up their gear, Hannah and Sam looked up into the sky watching the death gliders do a fly by the structure and fire upon the SG teams by the gate.
O'Neill sighed "Daniel—"
"We must not let this fall into the hands of Anubis." Teal'c said, Hannah and Sam pulled back into the walkway with the others. Teal'c took up position and continued to watch the progress outside. O'Neill opened his arms in frustration.
"Fine." He said, O'Neill pulled C4 from his vest and slapped it next to the repository.
"JACK!" Daniel exclaimed
"Sir, he's right, if we destroy it we lose our only chance of finding the location of the Lost City." Sam told O'Neill,
"O'Neill." Teal'c said, he gestured to an Al'kesh that was slowly descending from the sky.
"Oh crap. Alright, then what?" O'Neill asked looking for other options.
Hannah had nothing, she couldn't take the knowledge of the ancients it would kill her instantaneously.
Daniel looked at the ground for a moment as if having the same idea he rushed at the repository but O'Neill grabbed him before he could get close enough for the repository to activate. O'Neill shoved Daniel up against the wall.
"No, no, no, no, no!" he shouted at Daniel
"Jack, someone has to do it. The answer is in there" Daniel said he pointed at the repository "If we don't find the Lost City we're as good as dead. Let me do it!" Daniel pleaded
"And who does the translating when you go Ancient?" O'Neill asked
"Hannah" Daniel offered, O'Neill didn't look impressed by that answer.
Explosions very close sounded and interrupted them. They all duck down to take cover. The Al'kesh loomed large over the colonnade, and a bomb dropped by only a few yards from SG-1's position.
O'Neill took his cap off and shoved it into Daniel's chest, he then turned and rushed at the Repository. The repository grabbed him by the head and began to download.
"JACK!" Daniel shouted over the last explosion
"Sir!" Sam exclaimed
They watched helplessly as O'Neill was trapped by the repository. The repository finished its download and released O'Neill before retreating back into the wall. O'Neill fell to the floor
"Dad" Hannah exclaimed she and the others rushed to O'Neill, with looks of concern
"SG-1? Where the hell are you guys, we can't hold out for long." Reynolds shouted into his radio,
O'Neill was barely conscious, Teal'c and Daniel helped him from the colonnade. Sam took point as Hannah brought up the rear. Sam communicated with Reynolds, as they made their way. Weapons raised and ready.
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