The Colonel's Sister
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To borrow a phrase: Stargate SG-1 no mine......no money, no sue, please? AN: I couldn't get this to format correctly! Erg, but sorry!
Daniel sneezed. Jackie handed him a tissue, silently. Her gaze was fixed on the forest. Half of it had been burned into smoldering ashes, still smoking. The ground in front of the Gate was muddy, so a heavy downpour must've been the fire's end. It was stopped before it could eat everything in sight.
"The ship crashed in that direction" Sam nodded toward the east. They headed off as a group, silently, most of them still skeptical about their entire reason for being there. Actually, though Daniel and Sam had supported the trip, Jackie remained the only person completely positive that they weren't wasting their time.
They passed through a charcoal forest. Everything was blackened and crumbling to pieces. The smell was horrible, incorporating not only foliage and underbrush, but also the remains of small animals. Daniel cleared his throat, trying to rid himself of the accompanying taste, but it did little good. Jackie was in front of them all, staring straight ahead, almost without blinking, and quickening with every step her race toward whatever may be left of the ship that she had, supposedly, spent the last eighteen years on. Jack was wary of her alien implanted determination. Who knew what those Ferlings put in her head, or why? For all he knew, she could be leading them into a trap. Which is why he was slightly surprised when she came up short in front of a huge clearing, just as black and smelly and smoky as the rest of the forest, but with the infrastructure of what even he could tell had once been a space faring vehicle occupying most of the space. "The fire couldn't have done this" Sam reported, looking over, from just behind her CO, the remains of the great ship. "The crash?" Daniel asked. "I don't think so" Sam replied, "I don't know what could've..." "It destroyed itself" Jackie interrupted, still staring at the heap of melded metal. "How did you determine this?" Teal'c asked. Everybody was interested in that answer. "It was programmed to" Jackie answered. She was still staring. Sam gave Jack a look. "All right, this is getting spooky" he said, "Jackie, what are we doing here?" She blinked and looked back at him. "Looking for something" she answered in a very Jack like manner, and then turned back. "Well, I don't think much could have survived this" Sam told them. "Whatever it is, it's going to be hard to find" Daniel added, though he wasn't too distressed about it. He was, after all, used to digging around, looking for small objects in the dirt. "It's over there" Jackie said calmly, raising her arm and pointing toward the far side of the vessel, "It was in that part of the ship" "All right campers, into the rabbit hole" Jack gestured toward the section of the ship his sister had indicated. They all picked carefully over the wreckage, watching out for still bubbling patches of metal, shafts of snapped structure beams and the small pits of fire that were still burning themselves out. Jackie marked out an area about 12 feet by 12 feet for them to look over. They all bent to the work, but there wasn't much to see. Carter surmised that the ship had used a small explosion to destroy itself, and then the fire had done the rest of the work, melting much of the metal together. "The odd thing is, sir," she told him, "I don't know of any metal that would be strong enough to survive in space, but weak enough to be melted by a forest fire" Jack looked over to his sister, who, with Teal'c, was turning over a large metal hunk. "Oh, Jackie?" Jackie looked up. "Huh?" "Care to explain?" The Colonel asked. Jackie paused. "No" she answered and went back to her work. "Jackie!" "Huh?" Jack just gave her one of his looks, one with which she was familiar enough with. She rolled her eyes, dusted off her hands, and joined them. "What?" "I'm trying to figure out what material this ship was made from" Sam told her. "Oh" Jackie replied, "Let me know if you figure it out" She turned to go. "Jackie" Sam was noticing how many different ways he could say that one word. "I don't know, Jack" she sighed in exasperation, "I can't just call up information when I want it. It only comes to me as needed." "But it sticks after you remember it, right?" Sam asked. Jackie nodded. "So, how did you know where to look for...whatever it is we're looking for?"
"I seem to have the entire floor plans stuck in my head" she answered, "It makes sense if you think about it. I knew where...the thing...was, but I would have to know where that area of the ship was located in relation to the rest of the ship to figure out where that section was, wouldn't I? I'm not quite sure what I used to determine the orientation of the ship, but who cares as long as we don't have to search this entire area, right?" She looked at Jack for confirmation. He just raised his eyebrows, looking for the same thing from Carter. "She's right, sir" his 2IC answered. "Okay" he said, "So we keep looking" "It sure would help if we knew what we were looking for," Sam commented, "Even just an idea" Jackie shrugged. "Wish I could tell you" she said. "Uh, Jackie?" Daniel's call grabbed their attention and they all turned to see him holding a small oval object suspended on a chain, "Could it be this?" Jackie's face lit up and she hopped over a small mountain of twisted, smoldering metal to get to him. He gave it up willingly as she held it up in front of her face. Everybody made their way over. Jack lowered his sunglasses and squinted at it. "I found it under this piece of metal" Daniel gestured to his feet, "Pretty much imbedded in the ground like a rock fossil" "What is it?" Jack inquired. "I have no idea" Jackie answered, her eyes still filled with delight. "It's a necklace" Carter supplied, and then shrugged at the "duh" looks she got from her companions. The object was indeed a necklace. The ornament was an oval, about three inches long and two inches wide. It looked like a perfect piece of turquoise set in a silver frame. It was suspended between two flat pieces of a coppery colored metal, each about an inch wide and engraved with small symbols. "I think this is writing" Daniel said, pointing to the symbols, "Jackie can you read that?" Jackie held the pieces closer to her face. "It's too small" she admitted with a small frown. "Do you know what it says?" Sam asked. "How would she know that, Major Carter?" Teal'c asked. "She seems to know a lot of other things" Sam replied. Teal'c nodded his acknowledgement. "So, how bout it, sis?" Jack asked. "It's instructions" Jackie answered, getting a kind of glazed look in her eyes that she tended to get when this new, alien information was making itself known. "Instructions to what?" Jack inquired. She shook her head. "I don't know" she replied. "Great" Jack said, "Well, now that we have Jackie's little toy, can we please go back to Earth?" "Yeah" Jackie replied happily, unclasping the necklace and starting to put it around her own neck. "Whoa!" Daniel reached out and stopped her, "What're you doing?" "Putting it on" Jackie answered, sounding confused. "Daniel?" Jack asked. "Jack, I just don't think she should be putting that on until we know what it does, or at least what it is" Daniel answered. "Oh, don't be ridiculous, Daniel" Jackie smiled and before anyone could stop her, she had clasped the necklace around her neck. As the oval fell against her chest, it lit up with an inner light and glowed brightly. A sudden force pushed out of it and through them all, causing some of the still standing trees behind them to snap and fall to the ground. Nobody was hurt, and in fact it hadn't felt like anything more than a strong wind. "What the hell was that?" Jack screamed as soon as it had passed. Jackie knew she was in for it. How many times had she heard that exact same tone in her childhood? Especially in the past two years. "Well, nobody's hurt, so let's just go back to Earth" she started walking, hopefully, past her older brother but he caught her by the arm. "We're not going anywhere until you take that thing off" he told her. Her eyes got big. She was still intimidated by her big brother, despite the fact that she was now twice as old as she had been a few days ago. "Okay!" she agreed and reached up to unclasp the necklace. "Hey, where's the clasp?" she asked, using her hands to search the back of her neck. It wasn't a chain, so it wasn't as if the clasp could slip down her throat. Sam got behind her and moved her hands away. "It's gone" she reported. "What?" Daniel joined her. "It's...melded into a solid ring around her neck, sir" Sam said. "How is that possible?" Teal'c asked. Sam just shook her head. "Great, just great, Jackie!" Jack muttered. "Hey! It's not like this is my fault! I didn't know it was going to get stuck there!" she yelled back at him. "Well why'd you have to go and put it on for in the first place?!" Jack yelled back. "I don't know!" Jackie replied, every bit as loud as he was, "I just did!" "Jack, this isn't helping" Daniel said calmly. "We should return to the SGC, O'Neill" Teal'c added. Jack and Jackie ignored them. "Maybe you shouldn't follow your impulses so wildly!" Jack lowered his voice but his tone was menacing enough to make up for it. "Maybe you shouldn't follow orders so blindly!" Jackie returned. Now the rest of SG-1 was slightly taken back by this. Jack usually did whatever he thought was best, orders or not. They were all aware that Jack and Jackie hadn't parted so well, and now they all wondered if this had been the argument between them. Overhead, a familiar whooshing sound passed over them. The three heads not involved in an old argument raised and saw what it was. "Uh, Jack" Daniel said, "Jackie?" The siblings turned to him with angry expressions. "What?" they demanded at the same time. Another death glider whooshed over head. Jackie looked up. "That sounded like a...." A blaze of yellow energy blasted away a piece of ground next to them and they all ducked for cover, what little of it there was. "They've made us!" Jack yelled. In the burnt part of the forest, they were sitting ducks. The mountains would make a lovely strong hold, but they were too far away, close as they were. They'd have to head for the forest, the part that was still alive. All of this ran through his head as he helped Jackie to her feet and pushed her in front of him. She started running toward the fresh forest, and Jack noted that she was running faster and more efficiently than he'd ever seen her run. Perhaps it was the necklace.
To borrow a phrase: Stargate SG-1 no mine......no money, no sue, please? AN: I couldn't get this to format correctly! Erg, but sorry!
Daniel sneezed. Jackie handed him a tissue, silently. Her gaze was fixed on the forest. Half of it had been burned into smoldering ashes, still smoking. The ground in front of the Gate was muddy, so a heavy downpour must've been the fire's end. It was stopped before it could eat everything in sight.
"The ship crashed in that direction" Sam nodded toward the east. They headed off as a group, silently, most of them still skeptical about their entire reason for being there. Actually, though Daniel and Sam had supported the trip, Jackie remained the only person completely positive that they weren't wasting their time.
They passed through a charcoal forest. Everything was blackened and crumbling to pieces. The smell was horrible, incorporating not only foliage and underbrush, but also the remains of small animals. Daniel cleared his throat, trying to rid himself of the accompanying taste, but it did little good. Jackie was in front of them all, staring straight ahead, almost without blinking, and quickening with every step her race toward whatever may be left of the ship that she had, supposedly, spent the last eighteen years on. Jack was wary of her alien implanted determination. Who knew what those Ferlings put in her head, or why? For all he knew, she could be leading them into a trap. Which is why he was slightly surprised when she came up short in front of a huge clearing, just as black and smelly and smoky as the rest of the forest, but with the infrastructure of what even he could tell had once been a space faring vehicle occupying most of the space. "The fire couldn't have done this" Sam reported, looking over, from just behind her CO, the remains of the great ship. "The crash?" Daniel asked. "I don't think so" Sam replied, "I don't know what could've..." "It destroyed itself" Jackie interrupted, still staring at the heap of melded metal. "How did you determine this?" Teal'c asked. Everybody was interested in that answer. "It was programmed to" Jackie answered. She was still staring. Sam gave Jack a look. "All right, this is getting spooky" he said, "Jackie, what are we doing here?" She blinked and looked back at him. "Looking for something" she answered in a very Jack like manner, and then turned back. "Well, I don't think much could have survived this" Sam told them. "Whatever it is, it's going to be hard to find" Daniel added, though he wasn't too distressed about it. He was, after all, used to digging around, looking for small objects in the dirt. "It's over there" Jackie said calmly, raising her arm and pointing toward the far side of the vessel, "It was in that part of the ship" "All right campers, into the rabbit hole" Jack gestured toward the section of the ship his sister had indicated. They all picked carefully over the wreckage, watching out for still bubbling patches of metal, shafts of snapped structure beams and the small pits of fire that were still burning themselves out. Jackie marked out an area about 12 feet by 12 feet for them to look over. They all bent to the work, but there wasn't much to see. Carter surmised that the ship had used a small explosion to destroy itself, and then the fire had done the rest of the work, melting much of the metal together. "The odd thing is, sir," she told him, "I don't know of any metal that would be strong enough to survive in space, but weak enough to be melted by a forest fire" Jack looked over to his sister, who, with Teal'c, was turning over a large metal hunk. "Oh, Jackie?" Jackie looked up. "Huh?" "Care to explain?" The Colonel asked. Jackie paused. "No" she answered and went back to her work. "Jackie!" "Huh?" Jack just gave her one of his looks, one with which she was familiar enough with. She rolled her eyes, dusted off her hands, and joined them. "What?" "I'm trying to figure out what material this ship was made from" Sam told her. "Oh" Jackie replied, "Let me know if you figure it out" She turned to go. "Jackie" Sam was noticing how many different ways he could say that one word. "I don't know, Jack" she sighed in exasperation, "I can't just call up information when I want it. It only comes to me as needed." "But it sticks after you remember it, right?" Sam asked. Jackie nodded. "So, how did you know where to look for...whatever it is we're looking for?"
"I seem to have the entire floor plans stuck in my head" she answered, "It makes sense if you think about it. I knew where...the thing...was, but I would have to know where that area of the ship was located in relation to the rest of the ship to figure out where that section was, wouldn't I? I'm not quite sure what I used to determine the orientation of the ship, but who cares as long as we don't have to search this entire area, right?" She looked at Jack for confirmation. He just raised his eyebrows, looking for the same thing from Carter. "She's right, sir" his 2IC answered. "Okay" he said, "So we keep looking" "It sure would help if we knew what we were looking for," Sam commented, "Even just an idea" Jackie shrugged. "Wish I could tell you" she said. "Uh, Jackie?" Daniel's call grabbed their attention and they all turned to see him holding a small oval object suspended on a chain, "Could it be this?" Jackie's face lit up and she hopped over a small mountain of twisted, smoldering metal to get to him. He gave it up willingly as she held it up in front of her face. Everybody made their way over. Jack lowered his sunglasses and squinted at it. "I found it under this piece of metal" Daniel gestured to his feet, "Pretty much imbedded in the ground like a rock fossil" "What is it?" Jack inquired. "I have no idea" Jackie answered, her eyes still filled with delight. "It's a necklace" Carter supplied, and then shrugged at the "duh" looks she got from her companions. The object was indeed a necklace. The ornament was an oval, about three inches long and two inches wide. It looked like a perfect piece of turquoise set in a silver frame. It was suspended between two flat pieces of a coppery colored metal, each about an inch wide and engraved with small symbols. "I think this is writing" Daniel said, pointing to the symbols, "Jackie can you read that?" Jackie held the pieces closer to her face. "It's too small" she admitted with a small frown. "Do you know what it says?" Sam asked. "How would she know that, Major Carter?" Teal'c asked. "She seems to know a lot of other things" Sam replied. Teal'c nodded his acknowledgement. "So, how bout it, sis?" Jack asked. "It's instructions" Jackie answered, getting a kind of glazed look in her eyes that she tended to get when this new, alien information was making itself known. "Instructions to what?" Jack inquired. She shook her head. "I don't know" she replied. "Great" Jack said, "Well, now that we have Jackie's little toy, can we please go back to Earth?" "Yeah" Jackie replied happily, unclasping the necklace and starting to put it around her own neck. "Whoa!" Daniel reached out and stopped her, "What're you doing?" "Putting it on" Jackie answered, sounding confused. "Daniel?" Jack asked. "Jack, I just don't think she should be putting that on until we know what it does, or at least what it is" Daniel answered. "Oh, don't be ridiculous, Daniel" Jackie smiled and before anyone could stop her, she had clasped the necklace around her neck. As the oval fell against her chest, it lit up with an inner light and glowed brightly. A sudden force pushed out of it and through them all, causing some of the still standing trees behind them to snap and fall to the ground. Nobody was hurt, and in fact it hadn't felt like anything more than a strong wind. "What the hell was that?" Jack screamed as soon as it had passed. Jackie knew she was in for it. How many times had she heard that exact same tone in her childhood? Especially in the past two years. "Well, nobody's hurt, so let's just go back to Earth" she started walking, hopefully, past her older brother but he caught her by the arm. "We're not going anywhere until you take that thing off" he told her. Her eyes got big. She was still intimidated by her big brother, despite the fact that she was now twice as old as she had been a few days ago. "Okay!" she agreed and reached up to unclasp the necklace. "Hey, where's the clasp?" she asked, using her hands to search the back of her neck. It wasn't a chain, so it wasn't as if the clasp could slip down her throat. Sam got behind her and moved her hands away. "It's gone" she reported. "What?" Daniel joined her. "It's...melded into a solid ring around her neck, sir" Sam said. "How is that possible?" Teal'c asked. Sam just shook her head. "Great, just great, Jackie!" Jack muttered. "Hey! It's not like this is my fault! I didn't know it was going to get stuck there!" she yelled back at him. "Well why'd you have to go and put it on for in the first place?!" Jack yelled back. "I don't know!" Jackie replied, every bit as loud as he was, "I just did!" "Jack, this isn't helping" Daniel said calmly. "We should return to the SGC, O'Neill" Teal'c added. Jack and Jackie ignored them. "Maybe you shouldn't follow your impulses so wildly!" Jack lowered his voice but his tone was menacing enough to make up for it. "Maybe you shouldn't follow orders so blindly!" Jackie returned. Now the rest of SG-1 was slightly taken back by this. Jack usually did whatever he thought was best, orders or not. They were all aware that Jack and Jackie hadn't parted so well, and now they all wondered if this had been the argument between them. Overhead, a familiar whooshing sound passed over them. The three heads not involved in an old argument raised and saw what it was. "Uh, Jack" Daniel said, "Jackie?" The siblings turned to him with angry expressions. "What?" they demanded at the same time. Another death glider whooshed over head. Jackie looked up. "That sounded like a...." A blaze of yellow energy blasted away a piece of ground next to them and they all ducked for cover, what little of it there was. "They've made us!" Jack yelled. In the burnt part of the forest, they were sitting ducks. The mountains would make a lovely strong hold, but they were too far away, close as they were. They'd have to head for the forest, the part that was still alive. All of this ran through his head as he helped Jackie to her feet and pushed her in front of him. She started running toward the fresh forest, and Jack noted that she was running faster and more efficiently than he'd ever seen her run. Perhaps it was the necklace.