Cheyenne Mountain Entrance
Jack looked down at his watch for about the tenth time. "What the heck is taking them so long?" he asked as he let out an exasperated huff.
"Perhaps it is the fact the Captain Fox and Dr. Star have never navigated their way through the halls of the SGC before that is taking them so long. One could easily get lost ," Teal'c replied.
"Well, Carter is late too and I know that she wouldn't get lost."
"Perhaps Major Carter went to retrieve Captain Fox and Dr. Star," Teal'c suggested.
Just as the words were out of his mouth, the three women walked up.
"Thanks for showing up on time!" he exclaimed as he glared at each of the women. As he did so, he noticed that Sam was wearing black pants, a light blue blouse, and a black leather jacket, Riley was wearing beige pants, a black tank top, and a beige leather jacket, and Chrislyn was wearing dark blue flared jeans, teal 3/4 length shirt, and a knee length jean jacket. He had to admit, they all looked great, but he wasn't going to say anything. He was having to much fun playing the 'mean colonel'.
"Sorry sir, I had to go get the Captain and the Doctor. I was actually on my way topside when I remembered that they didn't know their way around. So, I went back and got them," Sam explained.
"That's great. Now, if you don't mind, I'm starving," Jack stated as he turned and started walking toward his truck.
Sam, Riley, and Chrislyn looked at each other. Shrugging, they followed the colonel to his truck and Teal'c followed them.
The three women squeezed into the back while Jack and Teal'c rode in the front.
Pulling out of the parking lot, Jack glanced back at the women, asking, "So, where do you all want to eat?"
"I don't mind, Sir, " Sam replied.
"Nor do I, Sir," was Riley's answer.
Chrislyn looked up at Jack. "When we were driving through town to get to Cheyenne Mountain, I saw I steak place called O'Malley's. What about that?" she suggested.
Jack and Sam seemed to cringe at the idea. "Um…no. The colonel and I have been…well, kinda…banned from there for life," Sam told her, slightly embarrassed.
Both Riley and Chrislyn looked at her in question.
"What did you two do, Ma'am?" Riley asked.
"We got into a little scuffle with some men. Let's just say the owner of O'Malley's wasn't too pleased with all the broken…things that had piled up during our brawl," Sam replied.
"Yeah well, anyway…we're not going to O'Malley's. So, where else do you want to go?" Jack asked impatiently.
There was a silence throughout the truck. Finally, Jack gave up with asking where everyone wanted to eat and took them to a small restaurant that he used to go to a lot before he joined the SGC.
After everyone got out of the truck, they all walked inside. Sam, Riley, and Chrislyn sat down while Jack and Teal'c waited by the hostess' podium. Soon, a woman came up, "Hi and welcome. How many please?"
"Five," Jack said.
"Okay, and the name?"
"Jack."
"Okay, it's going to be about five minutes. Please have a seat."
"Thanks," Jack said, he then plopped himself down next to Chrislyn and then looked up at Teal'c. "She said sit."
"I do not wish to sit at the moment," Teal'c replied.
"Hey, Teal'c you wanna see the stuff about your symbol?" Chrislyn asked as she pulled out her palm pilot.
"I would be most interested."
"Then you have to sit down."
"I see," Teal'c said as he sat down next to Jack.
"Okay, just a sec. I gotta turn it on and then get a signal…" Chrislyn turned on the palm pilot and a picture came up on the screen for a few seconds and then went away and was replaced by a security password box.
"What was that picture?" Jack asked.
"My cousin, Chris, and me when we were in Dublin and we were showing off our dancing at the Dublin Luna Foundation House."
"Dancing?"
"You know like Riverdance? We can do that."
"Really?" Jack asked and Chrislyn just nodded. "Why?"
Chrislyn laughed, "Because we're Irish and it's part of our heritage!"
"If you say so."
"Okay, we're at the start up screen," Chrislyn announced as a face of a woman came up. She had tan skin, long black straight hair, and green eyes.
"Who's that?" Riley asked.
Chrislyn turned to see that everyone was trying to see the palm pilot. "Greetings Chrislyn Star," the woman said.
"Good evening Helen," Chrislyn said.
"You're talking to the computer?" Jack asked.
"I am Helen, an artificial intelligence system," the woman announced. "Helen, which stands for Humanoid Electronic Life-like Engineered Nano-technology."
"She's an AI?" Sam said.
"Excuse me," came a voice and they all looked up to see the hostess. "Your table is ready. If you'll just follow me, please?"
"Of course," Sam said as she and the others got up and followed the hostess to their table. They were seated at a large round table in the back of the restaurant. Sam, Jack, and Teal'c sat on one side of it while Riley and Chrislyn sat on the other side.
It was then that a waiter walked up. "Hi, I'm Liam and I'm going to be you server tonight. Can I get you something to dr—" he suddenly stopped when he saw Jack sitting there. "Jack?" he questioned.
Jack looked up at him and smiled. "Hey Liam, long time no see," he said.
"Yeah, you got that right! How have you been?" he asked returning Jack's grin.
"Pretty good. You?"
"I've been great!" Liam replied. "So, who are your friends?"
"Oh, this is Sam Carter, Riley Fox, Chrislyn Star, and Teal'c," he told Liam, pointing to each person as he went around the table.
"Teal'c? That's a cool name," Liam commented. "Well, anyway. I'm sure you all came here to eat so what can I get you to drink?" he asked.
"I'll have a beer," Jack replied with a grin.
"I'll have a beer and a diet coke," Sam said.
"I'll just have a diet coke, please," was Riley's answer.
Chrislyn looked up at him, saying, "Cherry coke, if ya have it."
"Yeah, we do," Liam stated with a smile.
"And I shall have a water," Teal'c said.
Liam nodded. "Ok, I'll have those drinks right out for you," he told them as he turned and walked away.
"So Colonel, you seem to know him well," Sam said as she looked at him.
"Yeah, well as I said in the truck, I used to come here a lot. Liam co-owns this place with a guy named Connor Davison who I once served with back in the day. I would come here because the guys would give me free beer," Jack explained with a big smile.
Sam chuckled. "That sounds like you, sir."
"Hey! So, back to the cool little computer thingy!" Jack said noticing that Chrislyn was still messing with the palm pilot.
"It's called a palm pilot!" Chrislyn corrected. "Well mine is totally different compared to any other palm pilot, but whatever!...let's see," she said lightly tapping the screen with a black plastic pen-like object.
"This isn't fair, I can't see!" Jack complained.
"I'd set up the mini projector so it displays on top of the table, but I thought that that might get too much attention," Chrislyn explained.
"What can I do for you today, Miss Star?" Helen asked.
"Bring up the most recent pictures from the Foundation's digs in Egypt, please."
"Searching…"
"Oh, and don't call me Miss Star, did your program get reset or something?"
"No, and 2,098 digital pictures found from Foundation digs in Egypt. Time frame, in the last 3 months."
"Advanced Search. Foundation digs conducted by Montreal Luna Foundation members, from Cairo and Giza only, time frame…ah…in the last 3 months…"
"Searching…"
"Here you go," Liam said returning with their drinks. "I'll be back in a few minutes to get your order."
"Thanks," Riley said.
"1,998 digital pictures found," Helen reported.
"Limit search to pictures taken by Chrislyn Star and Christopher Iyce."
"Searching…78 digital pictures found, 11 of which are Chrislyn Star's and 67 of which are Christopher Iyce's."
"78 is much better than 2,098," Chrislyn said. "Search through the 78 found for any mentioning to Apophis and/or any of the Gods…"
"11 digital pictures found."
"Please display the pictures from the last search," Chrislyn said and Helen displayed the 11 photos from the digs. Chrislyn quickly scanned through them and then stopped, she had found it! "Here it is! The sign of the serpent…we found it on a pretty much blank wall in the main chamber. I remember thinking that it was really strange. There was no other reference to Apophis or a serpent at all in that chamber let alone anywhere else in the pyramid! Here," Chrislyn said handing the palm pilot around for everyone to see.
Soon Liam came back to the table and took their food orders. They all chatted about this and that for a little while. Then they ate their dinner and headed back to the base.
SGC
Jack and Teal'c said their goodnights to the girls and then disappeared to go do 'other stuff'. Usually that meant going to watch TV or going to play a game.
Sam walked Riley and Chrislyn to their room.
"Well, I'll see you both in the morning," she said with a smile.
"What are we going to do tomorrow?" Chrislyn asked before Sam could walk away.
"Well, you'll probably end up having to read our mission reports so that you can get an idea of what exactly we do. We might take you through the stargate to an uninhabited world and we'll go through a little training, but I'm not one hundred percent sure. We'll have to ask the general in the morning," Sam replied. "But right now you both should get some rest."
"Ok."
Sam smiled again. "Goodnight girls."
"G'night."
"Goodnight ma'am."
With that, Sam disappeared down the hallway and the two girls walked into their room.
"What time is it exactly?" Chrislyn asked as she plopped down on the couch.
"It's 2200 hundred hours," Riley replied as she climbed up on the top bunk and leaned up against the wall.
Chrislyn looked up at her and frowned. "In normal people time, please? Not military."
"Oh yeah, sorry," Riley said as she took a second to work out the time from military to regular. "It's uh…ten o'clock."
"Yeah, well I'm beat. I mean, if it's ten here, it's four o'clock in the morning in Cairo. Not to mention all that flying I did to get here. So, you can kind of guess that I'm tired."
"Yeah, I would think so. I've been up since about 0400…uh, four o'clock in the morning. So, I'm tired too. Why don't we both just go to bed?" Riley suggested.
"Good idea," Chrislyn replied as she let out a yawn.
They both grabbed their tooth brushes and stuff like that; then headed down to the bathrooms. When they were done in there, they went back to their room and put on their pajamas.
Chrislyn was wearing a little white tank top and light blue pajama pants with little stars all over them while Riley was wearing an olive green tank top and a pair of black shorts.
Riley took her hair out of the braid and brushed it through before climbing up onto the top bunk. Grabbing a book entitled, Once Upon a Wormhole by Emily Piatt, she turned on the little light that was attached to the rail of the bunk bed and began to read.
Chrislyn, on the other hand, just climbed under the covers of her bunk and closed her eyes. "G'night Riley," she murmured sleepily.
"'Night Chrislyn," Riley replied.
Soon Chrislyn was asleep and after Riley had read a little bit of her book, she put it down, turned off the light, and drifted off to sleep as well.
TO BE CONTINUED!
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