"She never showed!" The man barked as everyone left.
"If she never shows that means she got caught and if she got caught then I'm really sorry. Ellie rarely gets caught, give her a break." Adam defended Ellie.
"Her getting caught is even worse than her just not showing," The man's anger was rising.
"If you're saying that Ellie's going to talk, think again 'cause Ellie never talks. She'd rather be tortured than talk. She knows that if she talks there's a lot more people that are going to get in trouble than just you and her." Adam
"If she wants to talk or not these people are going to get the information out of her,"
"If there's so much at stake then why'd you come to us and not a professional?"
"I didn't make the decision; I'm working for someone else," said the man as he picked up his cell phone.
He talked for a few moments explaining that Ellie hadn't shown up and that Adam figured that she had been caught and then began to listen intently. He grabbed Adam's arm as Adam began to leave indicating that he wanted Adam to stay.
"I want to show you something." The man said as he hung up his cell phone, "this way." He led Adam out and around the building to a small alley where a van waited for them. Once there two men hopped out of the van and pulled Adam in.
* * *
Ellie told them almost the whole story, 'accidentally' leaving out important details such as she volunteered to do it, there were a lot more than four (she couldn't leave out Ryan's lovely commentary) people at the meeting, Adam's only purpose wasn't to just to make the exchange, she'd been told not to go the 28th level and that the amount of money was a quarter of a million instead of 25 thousand. There was enough truth in it so that they only played a game of twenty questions.
"I don't really understand, what you meant by you don't need a witness protection program." Ellie asked Jack.
"If we have to use it then, we'll tell you," he explained.
Ellie growled; (yes growled, not just grrr-ed but actually growled. Some people growl instead of grrr-ing, such as myself. It does start to hurt your throat after a while though) she hated being left in the dark. How are you supposed know things if know no will tell you. They pretty much hadn't told her anything except that if the zat guns were released to the public the number of missing people would double, but they wouldn't tell her why.
Since they wouldn't tell her anything she had taken to annoying them. Her favorite to annoy was Colonel Jack O'Neal. This was what she was doing at the moment. He usually reacted which made it four times as much fun.
He had started to ignore her and just eat his fruit loops. This made it no fun so she resorted to annoyance phase two; speaking Russian, or more formally known to the public as poking someone till they A. give up and pay attention to you or B. start yelling at you to stop. Both prove equally fun.
Jack did nether, he started poking her back.
"No ones ever started poking me back." She stared at him.
"You've never poked me before." Jack replied. "Why don't you go bug someone else?"
"Cause you're the most fun to annoy and I have a few more questions. Why don't Jonas and Teal'c have ranks like you and Sam?"
"They're really squirrels in disguise," Jack replied between bites.
"Thank you," Ellie replied sarcastically. "I'm going to go ask someone who'll answer my questions seriously."
With that she left to go find Carter, Jonas and, or Teal'c. After an hour of wandering the halls of the SGC, O'Neal was supposed to be accompanying her; she wandered back to level 28. 'Might as well see what I'm not supposed to see' she thought with a smile to herself. Suddenly a loud beeping noise and a red flashing light went off, causing her to scream quite loudly.
"Unauthorized warm hole, all personal on stand by," came over the intercom.
Everyone around Ellie went hurriedly past her. She smirked and followed them. Eventually some went up a flight of stairs and other went into a large room. In the center, of the large room, was a giant stone circle standing up right with what appeared to be water in it.
"Receiving Tok'ra IDC, stand down" came over the intercom.
The armed soldiers dropped their weapons, but stayed where they were. After a second two people walked through the big circle water thing. One a young women wearing a particularly slutty outfit (Anise), the other an older man who was balding, they walked forward slowly.
Sam came running down, straight past Ellie without noticing her.
"Dad!" she exclaimed wrapping her arms around the man.
A second later the rest of SG1 came down stopping when they noticed Ellie. Hammond glared at O'Neal, and motioned towards Ellie. She smiled and winked.
"What's that," Ellie asked motioning towards the Star Gate.
"That would be our witness protection program," Jack replied.
"If she never shows that means she got caught and if she got caught then I'm really sorry. Ellie rarely gets caught, give her a break." Adam defended Ellie.
"Her getting caught is even worse than her just not showing," The man's anger was rising.
"If you're saying that Ellie's going to talk, think again 'cause Ellie never talks. She'd rather be tortured than talk. She knows that if she talks there's a lot more people that are going to get in trouble than just you and her." Adam
"If she wants to talk or not these people are going to get the information out of her,"
"If there's so much at stake then why'd you come to us and not a professional?"
"I didn't make the decision; I'm working for someone else," said the man as he picked up his cell phone.
He talked for a few moments explaining that Ellie hadn't shown up and that Adam figured that she had been caught and then began to listen intently. He grabbed Adam's arm as Adam began to leave indicating that he wanted Adam to stay.
"I want to show you something." The man said as he hung up his cell phone, "this way." He led Adam out and around the building to a small alley where a van waited for them. Once there two men hopped out of the van and pulled Adam in.
* * *
Ellie told them almost the whole story, 'accidentally' leaving out important details such as she volunteered to do it, there were a lot more than four (she couldn't leave out Ryan's lovely commentary) people at the meeting, Adam's only purpose wasn't to just to make the exchange, she'd been told not to go the 28th level and that the amount of money was a quarter of a million instead of 25 thousand. There was enough truth in it so that they only played a game of twenty questions.
"I don't really understand, what you meant by you don't need a witness protection program." Ellie asked Jack.
"If we have to use it then, we'll tell you," he explained.
Ellie growled; (yes growled, not just grrr-ed but actually growled. Some people growl instead of grrr-ing, such as myself. It does start to hurt your throat after a while though) she hated being left in the dark. How are you supposed know things if know no will tell you. They pretty much hadn't told her anything except that if the zat guns were released to the public the number of missing people would double, but they wouldn't tell her why.
Since they wouldn't tell her anything she had taken to annoying them. Her favorite to annoy was Colonel Jack O'Neal. This was what she was doing at the moment. He usually reacted which made it four times as much fun.
He had started to ignore her and just eat his fruit loops. This made it no fun so she resorted to annoyance phase two; speaking Russian, or more formally known to the public as poking someone till they A. give up and pay attention to you or B. start yelling at you to stop. Both prove equally fun.
Jack did nether, he started poking her back.
"No ones ever started poking me back." She stared at him.
"You've never poked me before." Jack replied. "Why don't you go bug someone else?"
"Cause you're the most fun to annoy and I have a few more questions. Why don't Jonas and Teal'c have ranks like you and Sam?"
"They're really squirrels in disguise," Jack replied between bites.
"Thank you," Ellie replied sarcastically. "I'm going to go ask someone who'll answer my questions seriously."
With that she left to go find Carter, Jonas and, or Teal'c. After an hour of wandering the halls of the SGC, O'Neal was supposed to be accompanying her; she wandered back to level 28. 'Might as well see what I'm not supposed to see' she thought with a smile to herself. Suddenly a loud beeping noise and a red flashing light went off, causing her to scream quite loudly.
"Unauthorized warm hole, all personal on stand by," came over the intercom.
Everyone around Ellie went hurriedly past her. She smirked and followed them. Eventually some went up a flight of stairs and other went into a large room. In the center, of the large room, was a giant stone circle standing up right with what appeared to be water in it.
"Receiving Tok'ra IDC, stand down" came over the intercom.
The armed soldiers dropped their weapons, but stayed where they were. After a second two people walked through the big circle water thing. One a young women wearing a particularly slutty outfit (Anise), the other an older man who was balding, they walked forward slowly.
Sam came running down, straight past Ellie without noticing her.
"Dad!" she exclaimed wrapping her arms around the man.
A second later the rest of SG1 came down stopping when they noticed Ellie. Hammond glared at O'Neal, and motioned towards Ellie. She smiled and winked.
"What's that," Ellie asked motioning towards the Star Gate.
"That would be our witness protection program," Jack replied.