Alex walked along the university's corridor, having transferred from oxford
just a few weeks ago there was still difficulty in figuring the way around
the maze that was the campus. Having uprooted through job reasons, it was
a necessary measure to situate Alex in a lecturing position at a nearby
university. The fact that being a famous and respected archaeologist and
anthropologist meant there was little trouble in attaining the position.
Nearing the lecture hall the sound of argument assailed the ears of all within a 30-mile radius; preparing for the worst Alex entered the hall. Scanning the room eye's met scattered paper, pens, and course books, finally they rested on the front end of the hall near what used to be a desk.
"Do you generally welcome your lecturers with the same courtesy, or is it just for my benefit?" the statement seemed to echo around the enclosed area.
While most stopped their raucous the two fighting seemed to be so caught up in themselves that they carried on pummelling each other.
Sighing Alex started down the steps towards the two boys who seemed to have degenerated into the ancestors they were now studying.
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"Daniel, could we not just of e- mailed this Alex Fella, did we really have to traipse all the way to his university" moaned a certain colonel.
"It's very important I see him in person not only has he continued some of my earlier research but he has been on several important digs in Egypt, some that have retrieved artefacts which give us a greater understanding of the gual'ds. And Jack it would be nice just once if I could meet someone who actually believes some of my wilder idea's"
"Ok, Ok, I get the message we go see this Alex fella, but then can we please go, we are due back on base in four hours, and I don't want to have to explain to the General why, he had to postpone an important mission, because you had to have a chin wag with a fellow archaeologist."
A frustrated, hot and sticky Sam already annoyed because of the heat decided it was time to snap
"Look, Daniel will be as quick as he can, and you Jack will put up with it because you're his friend and you have no appreciation or desire for a black eye"
"Is that an order Carter? Or just a suggestion?" Jack replied.
"Take it in whatever way you like sir"
With that statement Sam smiled and continued on up the corridor.
Following Sam's retreating figure both men ceased their quarrelling and continued walking towards lecture room 2b.
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Having finally restored order to the room Alex was now handing out the homework assignments, the two fighters had been given another particularly hard question on evolution. Hearing the final bell ring out she noticed the students scrape their chairs as they prepared to leave.
"Those bell's are as loud as I remember them " Daniel muttered.
Remembering his graduation from university he reminisced on how complicated life had seemed to him then, but in comparison to now it wasn't even on the first rung of any ladder.
"Hay I think they are leaving"
"Stating the obvious aren't you Jack" Sam quipped
"Major if you want to continue speaking to me like that then I can quiet happily arrange a reprimand for you" an already bored Jack replied
"No sir that wont be necessary",
"O'Neill we are infact on downtime, therefore you are at this point in time not a superior officer to the major but an equal a reprimand would not be an appropriate measure" Teal'c interjected.
As Teal'c noticed a very particular look from O'neil he decided it was best to stop this line of reasoning.
Having reached the doors to the hall Daniel decided to wait until the class had exited, SGC 1 remained stationary outside as a voice echoed from inside the lecture room.
"Did I give you permission to leave? The bell is a signal to me not to you. If I ever enter this class again and find the disruption I did today an extra assignment will be the least of your worries. I will personally supervise your washing of the entire collection of artefacts from the university's archaeological unit. Am I understood"
Seeing the bent heads and guilt racked expressions of the class Alex dismissed them after collecting the homework due in this lesson.
Picking up her paper's Alex prepared to leave.
"I thought you said this Alex bloke would be here" Jack whispered
"Well that's what I was told, maybe she's a cover teacher or something"
Alex heard the door open and looking up she noticed four people enter through the top door. One an attractive woman with short blond hair was preceded by a man of about Alex's age he had an energetic aura about him, he also had glasses perched upon his nose, the years hadn't changed him greatly but he had lost the look of cherubic innocence that he had when she had seen him last. She had expected to see him again but perhaps not quite so soon! That left two other men one a little older than the man with glasses looked rough around the edges but with a bored expression it was clear he didn't want to be here. Lastly a man of taller stature than the two others he seemed quiet and a curious expression pervaded his face.
Resting her books in the crook of one arm Alex waited for them to reach the front of the hall.
Walking through the door Daniel saw a young woman; straight dark hair rolled over her shoulders, laying a path that rested in waves over her shoulders. A blaze of green rested around her pupils, a slim build accompanied the fine clear features that seemed to light a flame in his memory.
Jack reached the woman first, close up he could see her eyes eye's that seemed a little tired. She then proceeded to speak
"Can I help you?"
" Yeah were looking for Professor Alex Hemmings he was supposed to be here, obviously he's not." Jack replied
"Obviously" Alex replied with what may have appeared to be a small smile shadowed her face for a mere moment.
By now Jack was irritated bordering on irate, Daniel had brought them out here to meet someone who might have been able to assist him In a particularly difficult translation, only to find said doctor wasn't here, just some slip of a girl with an amused expression on her face
"Look lady, can you or can you not tell us where this bloke Alex is?"
Annoyed herself now Alex replied with a short and decidedly sharp
"No"
"Come on then guy's lets go, she can't help us, and Daniel next time you decide you need some help with a translation write a letter and actually arrange a meeting, save us all wasting our time
As Jack reached the door Daniel spoke again
"Look Jack she may still be able to help us she is still a lecturer here and obviously she is qualified in translation"
With a long stare then a huff, Jack agreed and turning around to signal the woman they discovered her retreating figure exit the door to their right.
With a smile and a shake of her head Alex exited the lecture hall, it was still suprising for others to find that not only was Prof. A Hemmings young but more amazingly a woman. She remembered how on her first dig it had taken a while for the locals and older colleagues to accept her authority. Even now in her present career not suprisingly there was a faction that did not accept her as an equal, it had been a long time since she had let it bother her though.
"Hay, lady you wanna wait up a minuet?"
Shaking her head she decided that she didn't particularly want to 'wait up'.
Still hearing the footsteps echoing behind her and the loud bellowing she turned on her heel and stopped.
"Hay lady maybe you can help us if you don't know were this Alex fellow is?"
It was the older, ruder man that was at this point shouting after her.
Seeing a stony look on the woman's face Daniel decided it was time to intervene before Jack muddied waters any more.
"Er sorry, it's just we travelled a few hundred miles to see the Professor and it was for a very important matter, a translation which I can't seem to decipher and a friend recommend his name to me and his work is regarded highly in this field and maybe as your teaching his class you can help me?" after a large breath in Daniel fell silent and regarded the women with what he hoped was a forlorn look.
Observing a very needy look Alex decided that after such a speech she couldn't help smiling, Daniel hadn't changed at all, whereas she had changed beyond all recognition.
"I'm afraid Alex isn't here, He never has been, but I would be pleased to help you. I'm Prof. Elizabeth 'Alexandria' Hemmings"
Gazing at three shocked and one amused face Alex turned and continued walking towards the swing doors which lined the end of the corridor.
Without glancing around She spoke once more
"I know a great office just around the corner, you can let me have a look at the inscriptions then Dr Jackson"
" How did the Professor know your name Daniel?" The rich tones of Teal'c voice echoed around the corridor
"Yeah Daniel how?" Jack repeated
Sam noticed that Daniel just looked stumped.
Then whispered between his lips came a phrase not many people have heard Daniel utter: -
"Oh shit!"
Three faces just looked in stupefied silence and watched as he went from pale to green then back to pale.
With a voice that was unlike his normal tones he answered their questions
"She is erm well I suppose she kind of is erm .my wife"
Nearing the lecture hall the sound of argument assailed the ears of all within a 30-mile radius; preparing for the worst Alex entered the hall. Scanning the room eye's met scattered paper, pens, and course books, finally they rested on the front end of the hall near what used to be a desk.
"Do you generally welcome your lecturers with the same courtesy, or is it just for my benefit?" the statement seemed to echo around the enclosed area.
While most stopped their raucous the two fighting seemed to be so caught up in themselves that they carried on pummelling each other.
Sighing Alex started down the steps towards the two boys who seemed to have degenerated into the ancestors they were now studying.
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"Daniel, could we not just of e- mailed this Alex Fella, did we really have to traipse all the way to his university" moaned a certain colonel.
"It's very important I see him in person not only has he continued some of my earlier research but he has been on several important digs in Egypt, some that have retrieved artefacts which give us a greater understanding of the gual'ds. And Jack it would be nice just once if I could meet someone who actually believes some of my wilder idea's"
"Ok, Ok, I get the message we go see this Alex fella, but then can we please go, we are due back on base in four hours, and I don't want to have to explain to the General why, he had to postpone an important mission, because you had to have a chin wag with a fellow archaeologist."
A frustrated, hot and sticky Sam already annoyed because of the heat decided it was time to snap
"Look, Daniel will be as quick as he can, and you Jack will put up with it because you're his friend and you have no appreciation or desire for a black eye"
"Is that an order Carter? Or just a suggestion?" Jack replied.
"Take it in whatever way you like sir"
With that statement Sam smiled and continued on up the corridor.
Following Sam's retreating figure both men ceased their quarrelling and continued walking towards lecture room 2b.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Having finally restored order to the room Alex was now handing out the homework assignments, the two fighters had been given another particularly hard question on evolution. Hearing the final bell ring out she noticed the students scrape their chairs as they prepared to leave.
"Those bell's are as loud as I remember them " Daniel muttered.
Remembering his graduation from university he reminisced on how complicated life had seemed to him then, but in comparison to now it wasn't even on the first rung of any ladder.
"Hay I think they are leaving"
"Stating the obvious aren't you Jack" Sam quipped
"Major if you want to continue speaking to me like that then I can quiet happily arrange a reprimand for you" an already bored Jack replied
"No sir that wont be necessary",
"O'Neill we are infact on downtime, therefore you are at this point in time not a superior officer to the major but an equal a reprimand would not be an appropriate measure" Teal'c interjected.
As Teal'c noticed a very particular look from O'neil he decided it was best to stop this line of reasoning.
Having reached the doors to the hall Daniel decided to wait until the class had exited, SGC 1 remained stationary outside as a voice echoed from inside the lecture room.
"Did I give you permission to leave? The bell is a signal to me not to you. If I ever enter this class again and find the disruption I did today an extra assignment will be the least of your worries. I will personally supervise your washing of the entire collection of artefacts from the university's archaeological unit. Am I understood"
Seeing the bent heads and guilt racked expressions of the class Alex dismissed them after collecting the homework due in this lesson.
Picking up her paper's Alex prepared to leave.
"I thought you said this Alex bloke would be here" Jack whispered
"Well that's what I was told, maybe she's a cover teacher or something"
Alex heard the door open and looking up she noticed four people enter through the top door. One an attractive woman with short blond hair was preceded by a man of about Alex's age he had an energetic aura about him, he also had glasses perched upon his nose, the years hadn't changed him greatly but he had lost the look of cherubic innocence that he had when she had seen him last. She had expected to see him again but perhaps not quite so soon! That left two other men one a little older than the man with glasses looked rough around the edges but with a bored expression it was clear he didn't want to be here. Lastly a man of taller stature than the two others he seemed quiet and a curious expression pervaded his face.
Resting her books in the crook of one arm Alex waited for them to reach the front of the hall.
Walking through the door Daniel saw a young woman; straight dark hair rolled over her shoulders, laying a path that rested in waves over her shoulders. A blaze of green rested around her pupils, a slim build accompanied the fine clear features that seemed to light a flame in his memory.
Jack reached the woman first, close up he could see her eyes eye's that seemed a little tired. She then proceeded to speak
"Can I help you?"
" Yeah were looking for Professor Alex Hemmings he was supposed to be here, obviously he's not." Jack replied
"Obviously" Alex replied with what may have appeared to be a small smile shadowed her face for a mere moment.
By now Jack was irritated bordering on irate, Daniel had brought them out here to meet someone who might have been able to assist him In a particularly difficult translation, only to find said doctor wasn't here, just some slip of a girl with an amused expression on her face
"Look lady, can you or can you not tell us where this bloke Alex is?"
Annoyed herself now Alex replied with a short and decidedly sharp
"No"
"Come on then guy's lets go, she can't help us, and Daniel next time you decide you need some help with a translation write a letter and actually arrange a meeting, save us all wasting our time
As Jack reached the door Daniel spoke again
"Look Jack she may still be able to help us she is still a lecturer here and obviously she is qualified in translation"
With a long stare then a huff, Jack agreed and turning around to signal the woman they discovered her retreating figure exit the door to their right.
With a smile and a shake of her head Alex exited the lecture hall, it was still suprising for others to find that not only was Prof. A Hemmings young but more amazingly a woman. She remembered how on her first dig it had taken a while for the locals and older colleagues to accept her authority. Even now in her present career not suprisingly there was a faction that did not accept her as an equal, it had been a long time since she had let it bother her though.
"Hay, lady you wanna wait up a minuet?"
Shaking her head she decided that she didn't particularly want to 'wait up'.
Still hearing the footsteps echoing behind her and the loud bellowing she turned on her heel and stopped.
"Hay lady maybe you can help us if you don't know were this Alex fellow is?"
It was the older, ruder man that was at this point shouting after her.
Seeing a stony look on the woman's face Daniel decided it was time to intervene before Jack muddied waters any more.
"Er sorry, it's just we travelled a few hundred miles to see the Professor and it was for a very important matter, a translation which I can't seem to decipher and a friend recommend his name to me and his work is regarded highly in this field and maybe as your teaching his class you can help me?" after a large breath in Daniel fell silent and regarded the women with what he hoped was a forlorn look.
Observing a very needy look Alex decided that after such a speech she couldn't help smiling, Daniel hadn't changed at all, whereas she had changed beyond all recognition.
"I'm afraid Alex isn't here, He never has been, but I would be pleased to help you. I'm Prof. Elizabeth 'Alexandria' Hemmings"
Gazing at three shocked and one amused face Alex turned and continued walking towards the swing doors which lined the end of the corridor.
Without glancing around She spoke once more
"I know a great office just around the corner, you can let me have a look at the inscriptions then Dr Jackson"
" How did the Professor know your name Daniel?" The rich tones of Teal'c voice echoed around the corridor
"Yeah Daniel how?" Jack repeated
Sam noticed that Daniel just looked stumped.
Then whispered between his lips came a phrase not many people have heard Daniel utter: -
"Oh shit!"
Three faces just looked in stupefied silence and watched as he went from pale to green then back to pale.
With a voice that was unlike his normal tones he answered their questions
"She is erm well I suppose she kind of is erm .my wife"