"He did WHAT?"
"Apparently he told Andrew everything – well, maybe not everything – about the Stargate program while the two of them were stuck under the snow waiting for Teal'c to bring help."
"You've got to be kidding." Daniel looked as floored as everyone else had, and Sam understood completely. She handed the archeologist the journal that Teal'c had given her to hold, and Daniel flipped through it.
"My God, he knows about the Asgard?"
"He knows EVERYTHING, Daniel." Sam said. "Keep looking."
The two of them were sitting in the commissary talking over a cup of coffee. Daniel had just arrived in response to Sam's summons, and they were waiting for Janet to arrive before Hammond called them all back together – minus Jack, who was sound asleep and wouldn't wake for hours, if the instructions on the bottle the medication came in were correct.
"The Stargate. The NOX?" Daniel's eyes widened. "My God..."
"I know..."
"How are we going to explain this one?"
Sam shrugged.
"What does Jack have to say?"
"He's pretty out of it, Daniel." Sam said, shrugging again. "That's why General Hammond is calling in Janet, I think. To see what she thinks might have happened, and if it's possible he did get all this from the Colonel."
"What other way could he have found out?"
Sam looked speculative. "The Asgard already have one young person they're working with... maybe they're not satisfied with Shawn alone?"
"You think-"
"No, not really." She shook her head. "But it's a possibility. And we can't ignore any possibility at this point."
"Could you imagine how Teal'c would react if he found out the Asgard were screwing with Andrew?" Daniel said, taking a sip of his coffee. "You think Jack was angry..."
"Teal'c has more control than Colonel O'Neill does..." Sam said, but she wasn't all that sure. Not when it was Andrew. Teal'c was easily a protective of Andrew as Jack was of Shawn, and there was no mistaking that. And Teal'c's sense of priority sometimes was far more skewed than O'Neill's – AND he didn't really answer to anyone. It would be very bad for the Asgard if they were messing with Andrew, and the Jaffa found out.
"Teal'c has more muscles than Jack does, Sam," Daniel mused, his own thoughts following the same line of thinking as Carter's. "And a nasty temper when he lets it loose."
Which was probably why he and Jack got along so well in the first place.
"Really," Sam said, changing the subject, "I'm more worried about what we do about it than where the information came from."
"Yeah..." Daniel looked speculative. "At the risk of sounding like I'm all for it... has anyone mentioned asking the Asgard if they want another pupil?"
"You mean let the Asgard have Andrew as well as Shawn?"
"Yeah."
"I don't know, Daniel..." Sam was very leery about that idea, although she'd thought of it, as well. Teal'c aside, it seemed like a good way to risk losing the secrecy of the SGC, following the old adage that the more people who know a secret, the more chance there is of someone telling it. Look at what had happened already.
"It's a thought, nothing more."
Sam was going to say something, but the intercom interrupted her before she could.
"Daniel Jackson, Major Carter to the debriefing room, please. Daniel Jackson, Major Carter to the debriefing room."
"Janet must be here."
They took their cups and put them in the drain thing, and headed for the briefing room, Daniel carrying the journal, and thumbing through it as they walked.
"He definitely could have said-"Janet Fraiser stopped speaking when Daniel and Sam walked through the door, and Hammond motioned the two of them to take their seats. Teal'c was there already, and the General and the Jaffa were obviously already discussing the problem with the Doctor.
"Go ahead, Doctor," Hammond said, once Sam and Daniel sat down, nodding a greeting to Janet, who didn't look at all like she'd been pulled from her bed in the middle of the night.
"Like I was saying, Sir," Janet said, reaching for the journal Daniel handed her. "When we pulled Colonel O'Neill out of that snow pack, he was completely unconscious, but he had a head injury, and as badly hurt as he was..." She shrugged. "It wouldn't surprise me. Not really."
"Would he speak so clearly, though?" Daniel asked. "There's really a LOT of information in that book. For Andrew to have remembered it, Jack had to have said it more than once..."
"Not if he's dreaming about it." Fraiser said. "I'm not a psychologist, but I do know that if the event he's dreaming about is traumatic enough – and that avalanche definitely counts as traumatic enough – then yes, he's probably remembering it all very clearly."
"That's awful." Sam said. She remembered how badly broken the boy's legs had been. If he was remembering that pain in the form of nightmares, it was almost a relief that some of the dreams were of Jack talking to him instead.
Janet nodded, and was quiet for a moment, while she looked through the journal, her eyes just as surprised as everyone else's had been the first time they'd seen it.
"He knows about Cassandra?"
"He knows everything, Doctor Fraiser." Teal'c said.
"So." General Hammond said. "I suppose the next thing we do is talk to the boy and see how much he knows about what he knows, and how much is guess work from what Colonel O'Neill has told him.
"Where is Colonel O'Neill?" Fraiser asked, wondering at his absence.
"We pulled him out of bed after he'd taken his medication," Sam said. "He wasn't... much help to the conversation, so we put him to bed here."
"Oh, I'll bet he wasn't," Fraiser said. "Those are strong painkillers. I made sure of it. I'm surprised you even managed to get him to speak."
"Who's going to talk to Andrew?" Daniel asked.
"Teal'c and O'Neill can go out tomorrow – make plans with the boys parents, Teal'c," Hammond said. "See if they'll let you have him for the weekend, since tomorrow's Friday, and there won't be any school. That way we don't have to worry about how long the conversation takes."
Teal'c nodded.
"Take him someplace, and ..." Hammond cut himself off. "I'll give the orders tomorrow, when Jack's awake to hear them as well." He turned to Fraiser. "When will that be?"
"It depends on Colonel O'Neill, Sir.
"Fine. When he wakes up, we'll go from there." He turned to the others. "You all might as well get some sleep, too. We have an interesting weekend ahead of us."
Nothing new there.
"Apparently he told Andrew everything – well, maybe not everything – about the Stargate program while the two of them were stuck under the snow waiting for Teal'c to bring help."
"You've got to be kidding." Daniel looked as floored as everyone else had, and Sam understood completely. She handed the archeologist the journal that Teal'c had given her to hold, and Daniel flipped through it.
"My God, he knows about the Asgard?"
"He knows EVERYTHING, Daniel." Sam said. "Keep looking."
The two of them were sitting in the commissary talking over a cup of coffee. Daniel had just arrived in response to Sam's summons, and they were waiting for Janet to arrive before Hammond called them all back together – minus Jack, who was sound asleep and wouldn't wake for hours, if the instructions on the bottle the medication came in were correct.
"The Stargate. The NOX?" Daniel's eyes widened. "My God..."
"I know..."
"How are we going to explain this one?"
Sam shrugged.
"What does Jack have to say?"
"He's pretty out of it, Daniel." Sam said, shrugging again. "That's why General Hammond is calling in Janet, I think. To see what she thinks might have happened, and if it's possible he did get all this from the Colonel."
"What other way could he have found out?"
Sam looked speculative. "The Asgard already have one young person they're working with... maybe they're not satisfied with Shawn alone?"
"You think-"
"No, not really." She shook her head. "But it's a possibility. And we can't ignore any possibility at this point."
"Could you imagine how Teal'c would react if he found out the Asgard were screwing with Andrew?" Daniel said, taking a sip of his coffee. "You think Jack was angry..."
"Teal'c has more control than Colonel O'Neill does..." Sam said, but she wasn't all that sure. Not when it was Andrew. Teal'c was easily a protective of Andrew as Jack was of Shawn, and there was no mistaking that. And Teal'c's sense of priority sometimes was far more skewed than O'Neill's – AND he didn't really answer to anyone. It would be very bad for the Asgard if they were messing with Andrew, and the Jaffa found out.
"Teal'c has more muscles than Jack does, Sam," Daniel mused, his own thoughts following the same line of thinking as Carter's. "And a nasty temper when he lets it loose."
Which was probably why he and Jack got along so well in the first place.
"Really," Sam said, changing the subject, "I'm more worried about what we do about it than where the information came from."
"Yeah..." Daniel looked speculative. "At the risk of sounding like I'm all for it... has anyone mentioned asking the Asgard if they want another pupil?"
"You mean let the Asgard have Andrew as well as Shawn?"
"Yeah."
"I don't know, Daniel..." Sam was very leery about that idea, although she'd thought of it, as well. Teal'c aside, it seemed like a good way to risk losing the secrecy of the SGC, following the old adage that the more people who know a secret, the more chance there is of someone telling it. Look at what had happened already.
"It's a thought, nothing more."
Sam was going to say something, but the intercom interrupted her before she could.
"Daniel Jackson, Major Carter to the debriefing room, please. Daniel Jackson, Major Carter to the debriefing room."
"Janet must be here."
They took their cups and put them in the drain thing, and headed for the briefing room, Daniel carrying the journal, and thumbing through it as they walked.
"He definitely could have said-"Janet Fraiser stopped speaking when Daniel and Sam walked through the door, and Hammond motioned the two of them to take their seats. Teal'c was there already, and the General and the Jaffa were obviously already discussing the problem with the Doctor.
"Go ahead, Doctor," Hammond said, once Sam and Daniel sat down, nodding a greeting to Janet, who didn't look at all like she'd been pulled from her bed in the middle of the night.
"Like I was saying, Sir," Janet said, reaching for the journal Daniel handed her. "When we pulled Colonel O'Neill out of that snow pack, he was completely unconscious, but he had a head injury, and as badly hurt as he was..." She shrugged. "It wouldn't surprise me. Not really."
"Would he speak so clearly, though?" Daniel asked. "There's really a LOT of information in that book. For Andrew to have remembered it, Jack had to have said it more than once..."
"Not if he's dreaming about it." Fraiser said. "I'm not a psychologist, but I do know that if the event he's dreaming about is traumatic enough – and that avalanche definitely counts as traumatic enough – then yes, he's probably remembering it all very clearly."
"That's awful." Sam said. She remembered how badly broken the boy's legs had been. If he was remembering that pain in the form of nightmares, it was almost a relief that some of the dreams were of Jack talking to him instead.
Janet nodded, and was quiet for a moment, while she looked through the journal, her eyes just as surprised as everyone else's had been the first time they'd seen it.
"He knows about Cassandra?"
"He knows everything, Doctor Fraiser." Teal'c said.
"So." General Hammond said. "I suppose the next thing we do is talk to the boy and see how much he knows about what he knows, and how much is guess work from what Colonel O'Neill has told him.
"Where is Colonel O'Neill?" Fraiser asked, wondering at his absence.
"We pulled him out of bed after he'd taken his medication," Sam said. "He wasn't... much help to the conversation, so we put him to bed here."
"Oh, I'll bet he wasn't," Fraiser said. "Those are strong painkillers. I made sure of it. I'm surprised you even managed to get him to speak."
"Who's going to talk to Andrew?" Daniel asked.
"Teal'c and O'Neill can go out tomorrow – make plans with the boys parents, Teal'c," Hammond said. "See if they'll let you have him for the weekend, since tomorrow's Friday, and there won't be any school. That way we don't have to worry about how long the conversation takes."
Teal'c nodded.
"Take him someplace, and ..." Hammond cut himself off. "I'll give the orders tomorrow, when Jack's awake to hear them as well." He turned to Fraiser. "When will that be?"
"It depends on Colonel O'Neill, Sir.
"Fine. When he wakes up, we'll go from there." He turned to the others. "You all might as well get some sleep, too. We have an interesting weekend ahead of us."
Nothing new there.