Tiahuanaco
Part 6
Notes:
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The room was drowning in silence as Kaitlyn stared at Sam, silent tears rushing down her cheeks. Sam was focussed on the table in shock as everyone else stared at either her or Kaitlyn.
Unable to bare it any longer, Kaitlyn fled from the room, the door bouncing in its frame after her quickly retreating back. Snapping back to reality, General Hammond and Daniel exchanged glances.
"Son, perhaps you should go after her." Daniel nodded and slowly moved to the door, staring at Sam once again before heading off in the direction Kaitlyn had fled.
"Does someone want to fill me in?" Jack barely glanced at the General before staring at Sam again, "Because as far as I'm aware, Carter's never had a child, never mind one that appears to be in her early twenties."
"There are a few things that you should be informed of."
"Finally." Jack turned to look at the General.
"As you know, Kaitlyn arrived in possession of an SG1 transmitter and she knew all of us by name. When she asked to speak to Doctor Jackson and myself, she informed us that she was from the year 2018 and the reason that she had the code was simply because she was a member of SG1. In an effort not to disrupt the timeline, she requested that we ask no more of her and in return she would not interfere either."
"I don't know about you, but I'd consider that an interference." He turned to look at Sam, who was still staring at the table in shock, "Not that we aren't grateful." Noting that the attention of the room was now on her, Jack nudged her slightly. Jerking to attention, Sam looked around the room.
"It can't be true."
General Hammond sighed, "She has evidence, including a photograph of herself and Doctor Jackson."
"But I've never had a child!"
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"Kaitlyn?" Daniel peered cautiously into the room. He had searched her quarters, the labs and the infirmary. Opening the door to the gym, he saw her furiously pounding the punch bag and, as he approached her, he could see that she was crying.
"Kaitlyn."
Without stopping, she spoke in a low voice, "Daniel. Go back to your lab."
"You need to come to the debriefing room. We need some answers."
"Don't you think I want answers too?" She yelled, her hand reaching out to steady the punch bag, or perhaps herself, Daniel wasn't sure.
"You're close, Danny." She took a deep breath and wiped her eyes, "And I can't tell you anything until you get there." Giving him a small smile, she turned back to the bag, her actions moving at a much slower pace.
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Daniel grunted in frustration...again. He had been reviewing the footage from 'Tiahuanaco' for over three hours and he still wasn't sure what Kaitlyn wanted him to discover.
"Space Monkey. How's it goin'?" Daniel turned to Jack giving him a tight smile.
"I don't know. I've deciphered many of the passages but nothing related to time travel or anything I can think of that might be what Kaitlyn wants me to find."
"Ah, the wonderful Colonel Kait. Couldn't we just beat it out of her?" Jack asked, smiling tightly. Daniel rolled his eyes and turned back to the screen.
"Daniel, why's that written in Gaelic?"
"What?" Daniel turned to Jack, frowning.
"That passage," he said pointing to the top of the frozen image on the screen, "it's written in Scottish Gaelic."
"What...eh, what does it – since when did you speak Gaelic?"
Jack grinned at Daniel's expression, "Sarah was part Scottish. Her grandparents spoke Gaelic. I wanted to make a good impression." He replied sheepishly.
"Oh." Daniel cleared his throat and turned back to the screen, "So what does it say?"
"Well, I'm a little rusty but I think it says, 'The mirror of change and the tunnel...no, gate of the stars will together change the universe of destiny...no wait destination and put in... no... inject? ...a cure for the being of two.' I think there's a name here too. A signature of some kind, next to a ...tree? A...rian...rhod?"
"Arianrhod?" Daniel asked surprised. He skidded across the room on his chair to the bookcase and removed a large book, "Arianrhod, the Mother Goddess of Celtic Aryans, Keeper of the endlessly circling Silver Wheel of the Stars, symbol of Time. Silver Wheel That Descends into the Sea. Welsh Sorceress Goddess of the Silver Wheel. Beautiful and pale of complexion, She was the most powerful of the mythic children of the Mother Goddess Don. Willow is her tree."
"Well that explains the tree, but what the hell did I just translate?"
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Kaitlyn stared at the table, her gaze refusing to deviate from its current position. She could almost feel the eyes of the others boring holes into her. Breathing a small sigh of relief as the General entered and took his seat, she waited patiently until Daniel began to describe his findings.
"Well, the passage that Jack translated..."
"Jack?" Every person in the room, including Kaitlyn looked at the Colonel as he smiled smugly.
"Er...yes. Turns out he can speak Scottish Gaelic."
"How many languages are on that thing, Daniel?" Sam asked frowning.
"I have no idea, but I certainly wouldn't want to count them."
"Three hundred and fifty six."
"What?" Sam asked as they looked at Kaitlyn. She smiled a little at them.
"I got bored easily as a child."
Daniel laughed before continuing, "Well, anyway, the crude translation..."
"Hey, it wasn't that crude!"
Daniel frowned at Jack and continued, "...was 'The mirror of change and the gate of the stars will together change the universe of destination and inject a cure for the being of two.' It was also signed by someone claiming to be Arianrhod. Now Arianrhod was the 'Mother Goddess of Celtic Aryans, Keeper of the endlessly circling Silver Wheel of the Stars, symbol of Time.'"
"What exactly does that mean Doctor Jackson?"
"Well, Sir, I think it's talking about the quantum mirror and the Stargate being used together but I'm not sure. I believe whoever took on the persona of Arianrhod protected the Stargate on Tiahuanaco. I believe that she is the one that has been keeping everything up to date."
"But how?" Sam asked.
"I have no idea." A silence surrounded them as Daniel leaned back in his chair, "You ready to talk to us yet?" he asked quietly.
"Okay. But first I need you to give me my HD back."
"Your what?"
Kaitlyn looked up at Jack before turning and addressing the General, "My Hand device. The machine that was attached to my arm when I arrived." General Hammond nodded to the airman at the door who disappeared.
"If it's worn on your arm, shouldn't it be called an arm device?"
Kaitlyn rolled her eyes, "Some things never change." she muttered quietly.
After a few moments, the airman returned and handed the device to Kaitlyn. After entering a code she began to access it in the form of a computer as the others watched with curiosity.
"I was right."
"So you can tell us everything now." Kaitlyn nodded and Jack sighed, "Thank you!"
"So where are you from?" Sam asked quietly.
"I'm from the future."
"We know that." Jack interrupted, "But you implied that you were Sam's daughter and I don't really see how that could have happened if you think she's about to be killed on a mission and she hasn't had a child yet." Narrowing her eyes at Jack, Kaitlyn turned to face Sam, but quickly found that she couldn't maintain eye contact.
"What's your interpretation of the passage?"
"Well, it would appear that the Quantum mirror and the Stargate...oh my god. You're from an alternate universe."
"Yes. But I didn't know that for sure till now." She held up the HD. "My team and I were on P6Z 835. We were sent to check that it was a safe place for another colony. However, the Goul'd had already arrived there. My team were chased to the gate. I barely made it out alive." she finished quietly, the loss of her team cracking through her voice. "I dialed my HD too quickly, without really paying attention. That's why I'm here."
"I'm still not sure I understand." Sam said, "There was a mirror connected to the gate on this planet?"
"No. My HD is connected to the SGC gate, well now it's connected to the Alpha site gate. Whenever a gate is dialed up, the wormhole is controlled by the Alpha gate which is controlled by my HD."
"Okay. Two questions." Kaitlyn turned to Jack, obviously impatient already, "One, what did the ninth chevron do? And two, since when were we colonising other worlds?"
"Define a wormhole."
"What, me?" Jack raised his eyebrows.
"Well you've asked my mom to explain it to you so often surely you know what it is by now."
Sam smirked and raised her eyebrows expectantly, "Sir?"
"I..." he shrugged and sighed, "A wormhole is a tunnel through the fabric of space-time."
"Exactly. Space-time. The eighth chevron adds distance and the ninth..."
"...adds or subtracts time." Sam finished. "Wow."
"Yeah, wow." Kaitlyn looked back at Jack, "And we've been colonising other worlds since last year, 2017, when the Goul'd took over the Earth."
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END OF PART 6
