Thank you all very much for reviewing, please keep it up-I need the moral
support. I'm not sure if they would be able to hack into the NID from where
they try to, but it fits all right?
Set in Season 7 somewhere; use your imaginations!
Chapter 4.
Briefing room.
"Tell me again, you want me to find files linking Vice-President Kinsey to the NID?" Paige Asked looking out of the large windows, down at the Stargate.
"Precisely."
"Okay, do you know how heavy the firewall is, or how many they have?"
"I managed to get past one of them." Sam said.
"So that's a no." She rubbed her nails over her lip in silence for a few seconds before turning to face the occupants of the room who were seated around the table. "Okay, there are a few conditions that you have to comply to."
"Go on." Hammond was intrigued.
"Well, I want to go through the Stargate, just once." She put on her best puppy dog eyes. "Please?"
"We'll see, don't get your hopes up."
"Yey!" The teenager did a little jump in the air and grinned like a Cheshire cat.
"Hey, you heard the man; hopes down, hopes down!" Ordered Jack.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lets get started." She walked out of the room then poked her head around the doorframe. "Which way is it?"
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Jack strolled out of Cheyenne Mountain after signing out at the guard post. He took the path up behind the complex, which ran through the woods and out into a clearing overlooking Colorado Springs. As he wandered across the clearing, he could make out a blonde woman lying on her back in the grass near where a smaller brunette was sitting against a boulder with a laptop in her lap.
He plonked himself down next to his Second in Command and watched the girls' fingers whiz across the keyboard with skill that could only be learnt.
Paige was staring at the small screen and biting her lower lip. Her long hair was tied in a loose ponytail at the back of her head. She reminded Jack of someone, he just couldn't quite put his finger on it.
"Urgh!"
"What's up?"
"I can't do it," She sighed and hugged her self. "Well at least not from here."
Closing the laptop, she got up and started walking back to the base.
"If I got closer to the NID building then I might be able to break down that firewall, failing that I would have to get into one of their computers somehow." She mused to her self. "There should only be one more code to break after that and that one will be the worst. It took me quarter of an hour to do that much, so if I get into the building I can plug in my laptop and finish it off in about five minutes, give or take a few seconds."
"Sounds like a plan." Sam said walking beside her.
"What? Oh, yeah. We could probably pull it off; they'd be able to track the hack quicker if I'm linked to their systems. They would need about five minutes once I'm linked to realise that they are being done, then about three minutes to isolate the station I'm at. Doesn't leave me very long to find and download the files onto disk."
"I'm sure you'll manage. We'll be there anyway to stop the guards."
"No you won't."
"What do you mean?"
"Hacking is highly illegal, I am the one doing the actual hacking so I am the only one who goes into the building and gets caught, if it comes to it."
"No way," Jack stopped walking. "You are not going in there to get caught. We are going with you."
"No you are not. Let me tell you a few rules in the hacking world: The only person who goes down is the hacker, we live in a world of risks and they govern us. To put that risk onto anyone else is, well stupid. You don't take the gig if you can't please the crowd, the hacker only takes the job if they know what they are doing and can get results. If anyone gets the blame it's a minor, they can only take away your computer and lock you up for awhile if you are underage. It's generally the parents or lack thereof that gets the blame anyway. Adults on the other hand get it much worse off. I don't work with anyone else on stuff like this, okay I can get people into places they need to be but this is just pure computer stuff. I passed braking and entering with flying colours; I don't need your help. I will however need you to stay out side the building inconspicuously and take the disk off me if there is any trouble."
"NO!"
"Jack, I have to do this on my own, if you get caught then the whole of the SGC will be bought into question."
"I don't like it, but I'll talk to Hammond."
"Thank you." She said and started to walk down the path to the SGC.
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Hammond's office.
"Colonel, I know you don't agree with this, but I think that if Paige wants to do this alone then we should let her."
"Sir, she's still just a kid!"
"Colonel, she knows what she is doing, she is the expert after all. I can't risk compromising the SGC to someone like Kinsey, you of all people should know that Jack."
"Yes Sir. I still don't feel right about this."
"You may never feel right about sending a teenage to do your dirty work, I certainly don't, but there's nothing that can be done about it now. The only thing that we can do is wait for the files, if she gets caught we deny everything."
"I'll tell her."
"Thank you Colonel, I will arrange the tickets to D.C. Dismissed."
---------------------- This chapter is a bit longer than chapter 3 so I hope you enjoyed. I will be posting more soon so keep reviewing.
Set in Season 7 somewhere; use your imaginations!
Chapter 4.
Briefing room.
"Tell me again, you want me to find files linking Vice-President Kinsey to the NID?" Paige Asked looking out of the large windows, down at the Stargate.
"Precisely."
"Okay, do you know how heavy the firewall is, or how many they have?"
"I managed to get past one of them." Sam said.
"So that's a no." She rubbed her nails over her lip in silence for a few seconds before turning to face the occupants of the room who were seated around the table. "Okay, there are a few conditions that you have to comply to."
"Go on." Hammond was intrigued.
"Well, I want to go through the Stargate, just once." She put on her best puppy dog eyes. "Please?"
"We'll see, don't get your hopes up."
"Yey!" The teenager did a little jump in the air and grinned like a Cheshire cat.
"Hey, you heard the man; hopes down, hopes down!" Ordered Jack.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lets get started." She walked out of the room then poked her head around the doorframe. "Which way is it?"
---------------------
Jack strolled out of Cheyenne Mountain after signing out at the guard post. He took the path up behind the complex, which ran through the woods and out into a clearing overlooking Colorado Springs. As he wandered across the clearing, he could make out a blonde woman lying on her back in the grass near where a smaller brunette was sitting against a boulder with a laptop in her lap.
He plonked himself down next to his Second in Command and watched the girls' fingers whiz across the keyboard with skill that could only be learnt.
Paige was staring at the small screen and biting her lower lip. Her long hair was tied in a loose ponytail at the back of her head. She reminded Jack of someone, he just couldn't quite put his finger on it.
"Urgh!"
"What's up?"
"I can't do it," She sighed and hugged her self. "Well at least not from here."
Closing the laptop, she got up and started walking back to the base.
"If I got closer to the NID building then I might be able to break down that firewall, failing that I would have to get into one of their computers somehow." She mused to her self. "There should only be one more code to break after that and that one will be the worst. It took me quarter of an hour to do that much, so if I get into the building I can plug in my laptop and finish it off in about five minutes, give or take a few seconds."
"Sounds like a plan." Sam said walking beside her.
"What? Oh, yeah. We could probably pull it off; they'd be able to track the hack quicker if I'm linked to their systems. They would need about five minutes once I'm linked to realise that they are being done, then about three minutes to isolate the station I'm at. Doesn't leave me very long to find and download the files onto disk."
"I'm sure you'll manage. We'll be there anyway to stop the guards."
"No you won't."
"What do you mean?"
"Hacking is highly illegal, I am the one doing the actual hacking so I am the only one who goes into the building and gets caught, if it comes to it."
"No way," Jack stopped walking. "You are not going in there to get caught. We are going with you."
"No you are not. Let me tell you a few rules in the hacking world: The only person who goes down is the hacker, we live in a world of risks and they govern us. To put that risk onto anyone else is, well stupid. You don't take the gig if you can't please the crowd, the hacker only takes the job if they know what they are doing and can get results. If anyone gets the blame it's a minor, they can only take away your computer and lock you up for awhile if you are underage. It's generally the parents or lack thereof that gets the blame anyway. Adults on the other hand get it much worse off. I don't work with anyone else on stuff like this, okay I can get people into places they need to be but this is just pure computer stuff. I passed braking and entering with flying colours; I don't need your help. I will however need you to stay out side the building inconspicuously and take the disk off me if there is any trouble."
"NO!"
"Jack, I have to do this on my own, if you get caught then the whole of the SGC will be bought into question."
"I don't like it, but I'll talk to Hammond."
"Thank you." She said and started to walk down the path to the SGC.
----------------------------
Hammond's office.
"Colonel, I know you don't agree with this, but I think that if Paige wants to do this alone then we should let her."
"Sir, she's still just a kid!"
"Colonel, she knows what she is doing, she is the expert after all. I can't risk compromising the SGC to someone like Kinsey, you of all people should know that Jack."
"Yes Sir. I still don't feel right about this."
"You may never feel right about sending a teenage to do your dirty work, I certainly don't, but there's nothing that can be done about it now. The only thing that we can do is wait for the files, if she gets caught we deny everything."
"I'll tell her."
"Thank you Colonel, I will arrange the tickets to D.C. Dismissed."
---------------------- This chapter is a bit longer than chapter 3 so I hope you enjoyed. I will be posting more soon so keep reviewing.
