A/N: *Looks guilty* Yes, yes I know it's been a while since I last posted something!! But there's good reasons for it!! I had work experience last week and that was tiring, didn't feel like fan fic *looks innocent* and then over the weekend I had to read Harry Potter…and the past week has been the normal hectic last week of term before the winter holidays!! So now I'm on holidays and I have NO reason not to post more chapters!! So just tell me off if I take forever to post another chapter k?
I'm watching Window of Opp @ the same time lol! Anywayz hope you enjoy!!
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Jack looked up from his travel magazine to see Harry walking over to them. The few teenagers that had been hanging around the empty shopping centre were now gone and it was already 1am.
"We haven't been able to get through," Harry admitted, sitting down next to Jack on the seat.
"It's probably not safe to answer," Jack said, convincing himself more than anyone.
Harry seemed to study him for a long moment. Jack finally turned to look at him.
"What?" Jack asked.
"She's more than a second-in-command to you isn't she?" Harry stated, rather than asked.
"What?" Jack repeated, taking on a completely different tone.
Why was everyone suddenly asking him that? Was it that obvious? No, there was nothing to be obvious about. Right?
"Major Carter…she means a lot to you, doesn't she?" Harry repeated the question in a different form.
"We're good friends," Jack replied, looking back at his magazine.
"No, you're more than that, aren't ya mate?" Harry said.
Jack could've told him to mind his own business, or to leave him alone. But something about Harry told him he was trustworthy. Someone nice, who actually cared, wasn't just asking out of curiosity.
"It's complicated," Jack sighed.
"I understand," Harry said.
Jack looked at him. "You do?" he asked bluntly.
"I've been in forbidden love," Harry said.
Jack tried to ignore that statement, forbidden love wasn't exactly how he thought of his relationship with Sam. It was just different…right? It wasn't love…right?
"I've been in love with my best friend's wife since I was twenty-one," Harry admitted.
Jack looked at him. He was definitely a lot older than twenty-one now. Was he going to end up like that? Loosing Sam before he could ever…no, he couldn't be thinking like that. He had to find Sam and deal with that Tutankhamen Goa'uld.
"I don't know why I just told you that," Harry said, truthfully.
"Don't worry, Harry, I won't tell anyone!" Jack said, standing up, ready to leave.
"Do you love her?" Harry asked.
Jack stopped dead still. "I can't."
"But that doesn't mean you don't," Harry said.
Jack knew he was right. No matter how hard he tried not to, the damage was done. He couldn't just stop feeling how he felt because he wasn't allowed to. Even if he wanted to – he could never stop…
"Yes," he whispered, walking away as fast as he could.
"Wait – Jack!" Harry called.
Jack turned around. "Yeah?"
"Get some sleep, we'll call you when we find something," Harry said.
Jack nodded and headed for the exit.
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Sam's eyes clicked open and the roof came into view, even if it was a twisted and contorted version of it. "Ow…" she muttered.
She rolled over and looked around the room. It was empty and light was starting to seep through the cracks in the wooden barn. She'd been knocked unconscious for a few hours. She looked around to make sure no one could see her and reached into her pocket to pull out her cell phone.
It was gone.
So much for ringing Daniel again.
"For crying out loud…" she muttered, without realising what she had just said.
An image of Colonel O'Neill popped into her mind. Would she ever see him again? Of course she'd see him again. She had to stop thinking negative thoughts. She pulled herself up and walked slowly over to one of the cracks in the wall, peering through it to see her surroundings.
She seemed to be on top of a mountain…well more of a very big hill. She could see a view of a city and as far as she knew it was Melbourne. She didn't know Australia that well but she was pretty sure that she couldn't have been transported to any other big city within the time she'd been missing.
"What are you doing?" a man with an English accent asked her.
She spun around to see Jason Blank standing there, surrounded by buff looking men…probably some form of Jaffa.
"That's what I'd like to know…what am I doing here?" Sam replied.
"That's not what I asked you," Jason said, his eyes glowing.
Sam tried to act surprised. "How'd you that?"
"You know perfectly well how I do that," Jason said. "I can sense the Goa'uld in you."
"I don't have any gold in me," Sam replied.
Jason let out a laugh. "Don't think I'm going to fall for your 'I have no idea what you're talking about' trick Sholvah!"
Sam gave up. "And what makes you think I'm a traitor?"
"So you do know what I'm talking about," Jason snarled. "Tok'ra. Yes that's right I did my research. Major Samantha Carter of the US Air Force, I know you were infested with the Tok'ra Jolinar and I know she died, leaving a protein marker in your system."
"How did you find that out?" Sam asked.
"You had ID in your pocket…although I knew who you were from the minute I saw you," Jason's eyes glowed again. "You are feared among the System Lords."
"I thought you were banished on Earth because you never reached the rank of the Systems Lords?" Sam questioned, hoping to get as much out of him as possible.
"I recently made contact with the god Osiris and I am taking orders from him," Jason grinned in a very sinister way.
"Last time I looked Osiris was in a female body," Sam retorted, only to be hit in the face again by one of the Jaffa.
"Jaffa Kree," Jason said, glaring at the Jaffa.
"Sorry my lord," the Jaffa said, stepping away again.
Sam opened her mouth to ask something else but Jason got in first.
"Enough questions from you sholvah," Jason said.
"Why are you holding me here?" Sam asked anyway.
The Jaffa who had hit her before moved forward but Jason held a hand out in front of him.
"So you can be my new queen," Jason grinned. "And when everyone sees you by my side I will once again return to the popular world and gain more followers! I am just waiting upon Osiris' arrival. She will carry with her a Goa'uld named Ankhesenamun, my wife."
Sam stared back at him. That was never a good sign.
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Daniel looked up from the computer screen as Jack walked into the room, looking extremely tired after only three hours sleep.
"Morning," Daniel said.
Jack said something that sounded like "Morning" while he was yawning but it came out more like "Mawn."
Daniel turned back to his computer screen and kept scrolling down the screen.
"Found anything yet?" Jack asked, yawning again.
"Considering Tutankhamen was discovered in his tomb, Goa'uldless, I'm guessing that the Goa'uld inside of him left and took over another leader…probably Nerfertiti's father, Ay, who looked over boy king's burial and then took over afterwards. Both Tutankhamen and Ay married Ankhesenamun, which is what makes me think the Goa'uld Tutankhamen went into Ay afterwards. Although no one knows how Tutankhamen died in the first place…" Daniel said.
"Daniel," Jack cut him off.
"Yes Jack?" Daniel asked, still reading off the screen.
"That's nice, really…but how does it help us find Carter?" Jack asked.
"Well, it doesn't…" Daniel said.
"Well find something that does," Jack said, walking away.
Daniel looked at Teal'c who was sitting quietly nearby. Teal'c was staring at Jack's retreating back.
"He is worried," Teal'c stated.
"Yeah…poor Jack," Daniel said. "If anything happened to Sam…"
He left it hanging. They both knew quite well what would happen if something happened to Sam. They just had to pray that nothing would. Daniel turned back to his computer screen and continued reading in hope of finding something helpful.
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A/N: Sorry its not that long…or is it? Lol…anywayz if the Egyptian history stuff is off – that's not my fault – I'm not archaeologist I just did a very small amount of research of the Internet and it works for the purpose of this fic!!
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