Epilogue
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"Wow..."
"Yeah, it's pretty cool, huh?"
Andrew and Shawn were both standing at the entrance to the little room off the main corridor of the bridge of Thor's Asgard battle cruiser. They were looking at the simulator that Thor had taught Shawn to use the first time he'd been on the Asgard ship.
"What's it do?" Andrew asked.
"Come on, I'll teach you."
Jack watched as the two boys vanished into the room, and shook his head as he turned and headed back onto the bridge.
"Are they settled?" Sam asked him, smiling as he walked over to stand beside her. She was standing at the view screen, watching the Earth rotate slowly below them, knowing as soon as Thor got the ship going they wouldn't see anything but streaking colors and lights.
"Oh, yeah." He put his arm around her and grinned. "They'll probably be on the simulator the entire trip."
"That is fine, O'Neill," Thor said from his command chair. He remembered quite clearly how Shawn had passed his time the last time they'd taken a trip of any significant distance. The questions the boy had asked had been something Thor did NOT want to deal with again. "They cannot get into any trouble in the simulator room."
"Uh huh." Jack wasn't so sure, but he didn't say anything else.
It was almost a month after the day that Andrew had found out by accident that the biggest secret on Earth was real, and Jack was finally allowing Thor to take that field trip with the boys that Thor had originally asked him to allow. With a couple of stipulations of his own. He had no intention of letting Thor take the boys to Othala without an escort, and there was no one he trusted ore than himself to go. So, Thor had agreed that Jack and Sam could come – mainly because it was agree to that or no one was going. Besides, Jack had been there before, and as he recalled, there wasn't all that much to do there, and he'd pointed out to Thor that he'd be able to control the boys far better than Thor could if they started getting bored and restless. Which was definitely true.
Andrew had taken to the lessons as smoothly as Shawn had. Without telling Jack or anyone else at the SGC, Thor had placed the language of the Goa'uld into the boy's mind, along with his own native English. This made lessons go a lot smoother, as they'd learned from experience with Shawn. It wasn't so much that the Asgard wanted to keep that technology of language giving a secret from O'Neill and the Tau'ri, it was more that they knew if the humans knew about it, they'd want it done to them – especially Daniel Jackson – and it'd most likely kill them. It only worked with developing minds – which meant children. Not adults. So the lessons continued, and Andrew proved to be easily as intelligent as Shawn. The Asgard had high hopes that the boys would prove to be as valuable to them as they would eventually be to their own kind – although they had yet to explain to either boy what the problem was that they'd eventually be asked to tackle. Time enough for that later.
For now it was lessons during the week, sometimes together, sometimes networked with the computers – in a special way the Asgard had developed so the boys' parents wouldn't have any idea what was going on – and sometimes it was singularly. Whatever way they were teaching, the boys were learning, and they were doing so under the watchful eyes of Jack and Teal'c, who couldn't find anything to complain about. They weren't learning faster than they could handle, and they were getting plenty of time to themselves to be kids. All was going well. Well enough that Jack had allowed the boys to convince him that they should go on the field trip.
He'd called their parents, gathered them, and a mountain of supplies that they'd never use in just a weekend, and they'd all went to the SGC where Thor had beamed them up. Teal'c and Daniel had expressed an interest in going, but Teal'c wasn't able to get away, and Daniel had some last minute translations that he'd been required to do, so this particular trip was Jack and Sam and the boys only. Along with one more addition that Jack had refused to leave home.
"O'Neill?"
Jack turned to look at Thor, who was looking down at Jaffer. The black lab puppy was staring up at Thor, as he had been since he'd materialized on the bridge and had seen the Asgard sitting there.
"Yeah?"
"Why is he looking at me like that?"
"Don't worry Thor," Jack said, smiling, "He's probably just waiting for you to move out of the chair so he can drive."
The End!
Author's note: Okay, there it is! Now you all know how Andrew came to join the SGC as well. I might mention him in further stories, of course, and I probably will, since he's a fun guy to write, but at least you know how I envisioned him coming in on the secret. Let me know what you liked about this story... what you didn't like, too, if you want. And maybe what you want to see next, since I now am officially without a work in progress...
.................
"Wow..."
"Yeah, it's pretty cool, huh?"
Andrew and Shawn were both standing at the entrance to the little room off the main corridor of the bridge of Thor's Asgard battle cruiser. They were looking at the simulator that Thor had taught Shawn to use the first time he'd been on the Asgard ship.
"What's it do?" Andrew asked.
"Come on, I'll teach you."
Jack watched as the two boys vanished into the room, and shook his head as he turned and headed back onto the bridge.
"Are they settled?" Sam asked him, smiling as he walked over to stand beside her. She was standing at the view screen, watching the Earth rotate slowly below them, knowing as soon as Thor got the ship going they wouldn't see anything but streaking colors and lights.
"Oh, yeah." He put his arm around her and grinned. "They'll probably be on the simulator the entire trip."
"That is fine, O'Neill," Thor said from his command chair. He remembered quite clearly how Shawn had passed his time the last time they'd taken a trip of any significant distance. The questions the boy had asked had been something Thor did NOT want to deal with again. "They cannot get into any trouble in the simulator room."
"Uh huh." Jack wasn't so sure, but he didn't say anything else.
It was almost a month after the day that Andrew had found out by accident that the biggest secret on Earth was real, and Jack was finally allowing Thor to take that field trip with the boys that Thor had originally asked him to allow. With a couple of stipulations of his own. He had no intention of letting Thor take the boys to Othala without an escort, and there was no one he trusted ore than himself to go. So, Thor had agreed that Jack and Sam could come – mainly because it was agree to that or no one was going. Besides, Jack had been there before, and as he recalled, there wasn't all that much to do there, and he'd pointed out to Thor that he'd be able to control the boys far better than Thor could if they started getting bored and restless. Which was definitely true.
Andrew had taken to the lessons as smoothly as Shawn had. Without telling Jack or anyone else at the SGC, Thor had placed the language of the Goa'uld into the boy's mind, along with his own native English. This made lessons go a lot smoother, as they'd learned from experience with Shawn. It wasn't so much that the Asgard wanted to keep that technology of language giving a secret from O'Neill and the Tau'ri, it was more that they knew if the humans knew about it, they'd want it done to them – especially Daniel Jackson – and it'd most likely kill them. It only worked with developing minds – which meant children. Not adults. So the lessons continued, and Andrew proved to be easily as intelligent as Shawn. The Asgard had high hopes that the boys would prove to be as valuable to them as they would eventually be to their own kind – although they had yet to explain to either boy what the problem was that they'd eventually be asked to tackle. Time enough for that later.
For now it was lessons during the week, sometimes together, sometimes networked with the computers – in a special way the Asgard had developed so the boys' parents wouldn't have any idea what was going on – and sometimes it was singularly. Whatever way they were teaching, the boys were learning, and they were doing so under the watchful eyes of Jack and Teal'c, who couldn't find anything to complain about. They weren't learning faster than they could handle, and they were getting plenty of time to themselves to be kids. All was going well. Well enough that Jack had allowed the boys to convince him that they should go on the field trip.
He'd called their parents, gathered them, and a mountain of supplies that they'd never use in just a weekend, and they'd all went to the SGC where Thor had beamed them up. Teal'c and Daniel had expressed an interest in going, but Teal'c wasn't able to get away, and Daniel had some last minute translations that he'd been required to do, so this particular trip was Jack and Sam and the boys only. Along with one more addition that Jack had refused to leave home.
"O'Neill?"
Jack turned to look at Thor, who was looking down at Jaffer. The black lab puppy was staring up at Thor, as he had been since he'd materialized on the bridge and had seen the Asgard sitting there.
"Yeah?"
"Why is he looking at me like that?"
"Don't worry Thor," Jack said, smiling, "He's probably just waiting for you to move out of the chair so he can drive."
The End!
Author's note: Okay, there it is! Now you all know how Andrew came to join the SGC as well. I might mention him in further stories, of course, and I probably will, since he's a fun guy to write, but at least you know how I envisioned him coming in on the secret. Let me know what you liked about this story... what you didn't like, too, if you want. And maybe what you want to see next, since I now am officially without a work in progress...