Blood Ties
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Chaper 7: Hunted
Everyone in the gate room just stared at the two agents. It was O'Neill who first broke the silence.
"A federal fugitive? A 18-year-old girl?" He stepped behind Sam. A move the general took in.
"Yes. She is wanted for aiding and abetting her father. On more than one occasion she has helped him. We're bringing the charges against her."
"What? Why?" Carter demanded.
"Because she has to be punished for what she's done we can't just let her get away with it now can we?"
"The hunt for her father is over! Why start on her!" She knew she had slipped the moment the words left her mouth. Despite the fact the temperature was controlled Sam could have sworn that the temperature dropped a few degrees.
Everyone now looked at her.
"And how prey tell would you know that?" One of them questioned with a look of victory in his eyes.
For once in her life Sam was left at a loss for words. "I told her." All eyes now turned to Jack O'Neill. "Yeah the General told me and I told Saman- Carter during our conversation earlier, remember Carter?"
Sam thought back to the conversation they had earlier it hadn't had anything to do with Andy it had been to do with- she fought the blush that was coming on. "Yeah now I remember."
However much she tired to hide it a slight tinge of pink came to her cheeks. It went un-noticed by all but one in the room.
Both the men looked at them, everyone present knew that everything said by both parties had been an out and out lie but neither had the proof. Until Andy had been found on the base there was nothing the government could do and until the SGC found evidence that the government was something else than they said to be their hands were tied.
"Alright SG-1, debriefing in 30 min. Major, Col. I would like to see you both in my office now."
"Sir." They replied.
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"Andy? Andy answer me!" Frasier turned to one of the airmen that had joined a group that was surrounding them "Help me take her to the infirmary now!" A few moments before Andy had just stopped talking and collapsed in her arms. Unsure of what exactly was wrong or going on the doc did the only thing she knew, take her to the infirmary and perform some tests.
"Ma'am shall I inform Major Carter?"
"No!" She said it rather harshly "What I mean is there are people here that are looking for Andromeda we can't risk them finding out not yet."
The foreman nodded, he dispersed the crowd telling them to say nothing and went on with his work with one glance back at the teen now being carried away.
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"Major, Col is there anything about the two of you I should know?" The general asked once they had all been seated and the doors closed.
Sam shifted in her seat but remained silent.
"I see." The general now turned to Jack. "Col O'Neill?"
"Nothing much sir." He did his best to feign innocence.
"Then how about telling me why the major here blushed when a conversation was mentioned earlier and why Col you came to help her so quickly down there when silence would have been better for all parties involved?"
"Well I wanted to help her and Andy down there and it seemed like a good thing to do at the time. And the conversation was about Carter's ah personal life." The General did a double take at the col. "She confided in me."
Jack prayed that the general bought it, granted it wasn't the complete truth but it wasn't a lie either. It had been about Sam's personal life he just failed to mention the fact it was her dating life and he happened to be involved. Not that anyone outside of SG-1 knew that nor did they need to know that as it was against several regulations.
"I see. Well in that case your dismissed and for gods sake take a shower you two."
They both got up and left his office. Sam pulled at her shirt.
"Is it hotter in here or is it me?"
"Uh..it's hotter I think."
"That was close. Do you think we should have told him?"
"Later after all this is done."
"Yeah sounds good."
"We should get you know going."
"Yes sir." She smiled and was about to go her own why when
"Carter in my office now!" The General's voice rang out to the couple standing outside.
Carter rushed into the office just short of running Jack followed and surprisingly the general didn't argue this.
"Sir?" She questioned. Her stomach dropped as she looked at the general's face whatever it was it was not good. She repeated her question. "Sir what is it?"
The general who had up until now been staring at his phone looked up at her. "That was Frasier Andromeda collapsed on the way out of the gate room." Sam paled at this Jack moved closer to her now, he suspected that the general knew everything going on between them now and gave no second thoughts to the movement. Little did he know it just confirmed what Hammond had suspected he had in fact not known anything about the couple in front in him. "She said something about Mark before she fainted, she believed that he was in some kind of trouble. Frasier says it might be helpful if you were there when she woke up."
"Sir, I'll.." Her voice failed her.
"Sir," O'Neill jumped in "We've all become rather attached to the squirt would you mind if SG-1 stayed by her side until she woke up?"
"Of course permission granted."
With that they walked out of his office picking up Daniel and Teal'c along the way.
When they arrived Andy was still unconscious.
"Any change doc?" Jack asked.
"None. I can't seem to find anything wrong with her. When she collapsed it was like she was somewhere else. It's almost like her mind couldn't handle what was going on so she just shut down to avoid it." She held the file out in front of her. Her white coat blended in with everything else. So cold and uninviting, everything here had a harsh and cold feeling to it. At least that was what Sam thought at the moment. She was almost jealous of her niece able to escape the hell that had become her life during the past months. In a span of months she had lost her brother fallen in love with her commanding officer and now her niece was lying on a bed oblivious to the world around her. How she wished she could avoid everything right now to be like Andy, but she knew that she was needed Jack needed her Mark needed her SGC needed her most of all Andy needed her now more than ever. She could never forgive herself if Andy had to awake to government officials standing around her. It was then they heard a soft moan come from the young thin figure on the bed. It was then Sam noticed how thin Andy was. SG-1 and Frasier surrounded her bed. Sam took her cold hand in warm one.
"Andy? Andy can you hear me? It's me Sam."
Andy stirred in her bed her eyes opened; she blinked several times taking in her surroundings. "Sam? Where am I?"
"Your in the infirmary. You ah collapsed while ah.." Jack trailed off unsure of how much to tell her. Frasier jumped in.
"Do you remember us walking away from the gate room?" She shone a light in her eyes as she asked her the question.
Blinking from the invading light in her eyes Andy replied, "Yes, we were leaving 'cause there were people from the government right?"
"That's right. Do you remember what happened next?" She made notes on the file in her hands.
"Not really I remember trying to figure out what was happening, and then pain, then there's nothing, wait the pain, it wasn't mine it was from dad!" She tired to sit up and swing out of the bed but Jack stopped her.
"Hold on kiddo, your not going anywhere till the doc says so got it." He pushed her back down on the bed while Sam covered her with the blankets.
"But you don't understand!"
"I understand that you collapsed and we need to know why before you jump up and play hero."
Frasier mumbled an "I'll be right back" to Daniel and wandered off to get some things. By the time she returned the general was there and the threesome where still going at it.
"I have to go!" She protested while struggling to get up as Jack still had her pinned to the bed.
"You can't and won't. You don't even know where he is for crying out loud."
"You're not my father and you're not even from my family I don't have to listen to you!"
"He may not be but I am family and I say you stay put until you get a clean bill of health then we worry about your father."
Frasier walked up beside the general. "Do they remind you of anything?" She asked with a small smile.
"They look and sound like a family. Well at least Carter and O'Neill sound like parents trying to get their teenager to do something. While Andy plays the role of the disobedient teen rather well." The general suppressed his smile as he looked on at the trio who had stopped arguing when they heard the conversation off the doctor and the general.
"I am not a disobedient teen." Andy huffed as she lay back down, giving up on her struggles for the time being.
"And no offence but I don't see Carter as much of a mother." He looked at her with a lopsided grin lifting his hands off of the now quiet teen.
"While I didn't see you calming her down much." She replied. She also removed her hands from Andy silently praying that the teen would choose to stay put for the time being.
"Well I can see nothing physically wrong with her." An 'I told you so!' came from the bed while Frasier continued "but I would still like to keep her over night to make sure that everything is alright."
"Alright keep me informed Doctor." With that Hammond left the room followed by Teal'c saying that he had to meditate. Daniel soon left with the promise that he would return in an hour or two with a book on mythology for Andy to read.
"Andy?" "humm?" She looked at her food while she played with it not really eating anything/.
"What was it that you saw?"
"Nothing really it's just that after a while dad and I got so attuned to each other it didn't matter that I wasn't telepathic I could still tell if there was anything wrong with him."
"I see. Is..Is he ok?"
Tears filled up her eyes; she bowed her head and didn't bother to move the hair that fell in her eyes. "I...I don't know." She let the tears fall freely, not caring any longer that she looked weak it didn't matter if her father was dead, nothing mattered if he was, and after all without him what was the point in running? If it hadn't been for him she would have long ago been captured. Jack took her in his arms noticing what Sam had noticed earlier that she was much too light for someone her age. Not wanting to mention it he just hugged her. Sam came up on the other side and hugged her as well. They looked at each other not saying anything but knowing that as soon as they left they would find out exactly how long it had been since the girl had eaten as neither of them could recall her eating in the past few days at least not in front of them.
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Mark awoke after what must have been hours. He wasn't sure he just knew that he had been knocked out. He had felt as if he was going to die and he wasn't feeling much better now. Praying for the darkness to overcome him before anything else happened he heard a noise come form the dark corner. Once again he was to be denied his only wish, no he reminded himself not his only one, his one true one had so far been granted, that Andy remained far away and safe from harm.
"So Mark you awaken."
He groaned inwardly. "Anne." She stepped out of the shadows.
"Why Mark? Why didn't you marry me? Why did you marry her?"
"I loved her. We were only friends."
She walked closer to him. "Friends? Friends! You loved me!"
"I never loved you. I loved her and only her."
"Liar! You loved me and I loved you!"
"Please..Kill me if that is your purpose but please leave Andy out of this!"
"I will have my daughter!"
"She's not yours. She never will be!"
"If you had married me she would have been mine! I'm only taking what is rightfully mine."
She turned and left him in the harsh light, with the knowledge that sooner or later unless he died or escaped Andy would come running to her in order to save his life.
Alex watched from above as Anne left the room. Tears fell down for once in over 10 years. The last time he had cried it had been in joy over Andy's birth. Now he would cry again over her fathers death, and hers unless he could find a way to stop it all.
"Alex?"
"David?" He turned to the door to see his brother looking at him with concern.
"Brother? What's wrong?"
"It's the data we collected. He's dying David. My best friend- No I have no right to call him that anymore. I've put him there!" He gestured to the man down below them. "He's dying and I'm the one responsible for it!" He put his face into his hands. "I never knew it would kill him I swear, I never would have done this if it would have killed him," He looked up at David "you know that right?"
David walked forward putting a comforting hand on his brothers shoulder. "I know. But I think he should." Nodding towards Mark.
"I can't face him, not now."
"You have to he has the right to know he's dying. And you haven't completely failed him yet. You can still save his daughter. Go to him tell him what he deserves to know then save the girl."
"It won't make up for this betrayal."
"No but it will save one other innocent life."
All I ask is that any readers I have left not kill me for this late update. I beg forgiveness, between my job and writers block I've had a bit of trouble with this next part * whacks muse * Well I won't make any promises as I'm unsure how often I'll have to work but I'll do my best to get more updates out more often. Again so sorry. ~Avalon
Disclaimer: Anything you recognize doesn't belong to me.
Chaper 7: Hunted
Everyone in the gate room just stared at the two agents. It was O'Neill who first broke the silence.
"A federal fugitive? A 18-year-old girl?" He stepped behind Sam. A move the general took in.
"Yes. She is wanted for aiding and abetting her father. On more than one occasion she has helped him. We're bringing the charges against her."
"What? Why?" Carter demanded.
"Because she has to be punished for what she's done we can't just let her get away with it now can we?"
"The hunt for her father is over! Why start on her!" She knew she had slipped the moment the words left her mouth. Despite the fact the temperature was controlled Sam could have sworn that the temperature dropped a few degrees.
Everyone now looked at her.
"And how prey tell would you know that?" One of them questioned with a look of victory in his eyes.
For once in her life Sam was left at a loss for words. "I told her." All eyes now turned to Jack O'Neill. "Yeah the General told me and I told Saman- Carter during our conversation earlier, remember Carter?"
Sam thought back to the conversation they had earlier it hadn't had anything to do with Andy it had been to do with- she fought the blush that was coming on. "Yeah now I remember."
However much she tired to hide it a slight tinge of pink came to her cheeks. It went un-noticed by all but one in the room.
Both the men looked at them, everyone present knew that everything said by both parties had been an out and out lie but neither had the proof. Until Andy had been found on the base there was nothing the government could do and until the SGC found evidence that the government was something else than they said to be their hands were tied.
"Alright SG-1, debriefing in 30 min. Major, Col. I would like to see you both in my office now."
"Sir." They replied.
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"Andy? Andy answer me!" Frasier turned to one of the airmen that had joined a group that was surrounding them "Help me take her to the infirmary now!" A few moments before Andy had just stopped talking and collapsed in her arms. Unsure of what exactly was wrong or going on the doc did the only thing she knew, take her to the infirmary and perform some tests.
"Ma'am shall I inform Major Carter?"
"No!" She said it rather harshly "What I mean is there are people here that are looking for Andromeda we can't risk them finding out not yet."
The foreman nodded, he dispersed the crowd telling them to say nothing and went on with his work with one glance back at the teen now being carried away.
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"Major, Col is there anything about the two of you I should know?" The general asked once they had all been seated and the doors closed.
Sam shifted in her seat but remained silent.
"I see." The general now turned to Jack. "Col O'Neill?"
"Nothing much sir." He did his best to feign innocence.
"Then how about telling me why the major here blushed when a conversation was mentioned earlier and why Col you came to help her so quickly down there when silence would have been better for all parties involved?"
"Well I wanted to help her and Andy down there and it seemed like a good thing to do at the time. And the conversation was about Carter's ah personal life." The General did a double take at the col. "She confided in me."
Jack prayed that the general bought it, granted it wasn't the complete truth but it wasn't a lie either. It had been about Sam's personal life he just failed to mention the fact it was her dating life and he happened to be involved. Not that anyone outside of SG-1 knew that nor did they need to know that as it was against several regulations.
"I see. Well in that case your dismissed and for gods sake take a shower you two."
They both got up and left his office. Sam pulled at her shirt.
"Is it hotter in here or is it me?"
"Uh..it's hotter I think."
"That was close. Do you think we should have told him?"
"Later after all this is done."
"Yeah sounds good."
"We should get you know going."
"Yes sir." She smiled and was about to go her own why when
"Carter in my office now!" The General's voice rang out to the couple standing outside.
Carter rushed into the office just short of running Jack followed and surprisingly the general didn't argue this.
"Sir?" She questioned. Her stomach dropped as she looked at the general's face whatever it was it was not good. She repeated her question. "Sir what is it?"
The general who had up until now been staring at his phone looked up at her. "That was Frasier Andromeda collapsed on the way out of the gate room." Sam paled at this Jack moved closer to her now, he suspected that the general knew everything going on between them now and gave no second thoughts to the movement. Little did he know it just confirmed what Hammond had suspected he had in fact not known anything about the couple in front in him. "She said something about Mark before she fainted, she believed that he was in some kind of trouble. Frasier says it might be helpful if you were there when she woke up."
"Sir, I'll.." Her voice failed her.
"Sir," O'Neill jumped in "We've all become rather attached to the squirt would you mind if SG-1 stayed by her side until she woke up?"
"Of course permission granted."
With that they walked out of his office picking up Daniel and Teal'c along the way.
When they arrived Andy was still unconscious.
"Any change doc?" Jack asked.
"None. I can't seem to find anything wrong with her. When she collapsed it was like she was somewhere else. It's almost like her mind couldn't handle what was going on so she just shut down to avoid it." She held the file out in front of her. Her white coat blended in with everything else. So cold and uninviting, everything here had a harsh and cold feeling to it. At least that was what Sam thought at the moment. She was almost jealous of her niece able to escape the hell that had become her life during the past months. In a span of months she had lost her brother fallen in love with her commanding officer and now her niece was lying on a bed oblivious to the world around her. How she wished she could avoid everything right now to be like Andy, but she knew that she was needed Jack needed her Mark needed her SGC needed her most of all Andy needed her now more than ever. She could never forgive herself if Andy had to awake to government officials standing around her. It was then they heard a soft moan come from the young thin figure on the bed. It was then Sam noticed how thin Andy was. SG-1 and Frasier surrounded her bed. Sam took her cold hand in warm one.
"Andy? Andy can you hear me? It's me Sam."
Andy stirred in her bed her eyes opened; she blinked several times taking in her surroundings. "Sam? Where am I?"
"Your in the infirmary. You ah collapsed while ah.." Jack trailed off unsure of how much to tell her. Frasier jumped in.
"Do you remember us walking away from the gate room?" She shone a light in her eyes as she asked her the question.
Blinking from the invading light in her eyes Andy replied, "Yes, we were leaving 'cause there were people from the government right?"
"That's right. Do you remember what happened next?" She made notes on the file in her hands.
"Not really I remember trying to figure out what was happening, and then pain, then there's nothing, wait the pain, it wasn't mine it was from dad!" She tired to sit up and swing out of the bed but Jack stopped her.
"Hold on kiddo, your not going anywhere till the doc says so got it." He pushed her back down on the bed while Sam covered her with the blankets.
"But you don't understand!"
"I understand that you collapsed and we need to know why before you jump up and play hero."
Frasier mumbled an "I'll be right back" to Daniel and wandered off to get some things. By the time she returned the general was there and the threesome where still going at it.
"I have to go!" She protested while struggling to get up as Jack still had her pinned to the bed.
"You can't and won't. You don't even know where he is for crying out loud."
"You're not my father and you're not even from my family I don't have to listen to you!"
"He may not be but I am family and I say you stay put until you get a clean bill of health then we worry about your father."
Frasier walked up beside the general. "Do they remind you of anything?" She asked with a small smile.
"They look and sound like a family. Well at least Carter and O'Neill sound like parents trying to get their teenager to do something. While Andy plays the role of the disobedient teen rather well." The general suppressed his smile as he looked on at the trio who had stopped arguing when they heard the conversation off the doctor and the general.
"I am not a disobedient teen." Andy huffed as she lay back down, giving up on her struggles for the time being.
"And no offence but I don't see Carter as much of a mother." He looked at her with a lopsided grin lifting his hands off of the now quiet teen.
"While I didn't see you calming her down much." She replied. She also removed her hands from Andy silently praying that the teen would choose to stay put for the time being.
"Well I can see nothing physically wrong with her." An 'I told you so!' came from the bed while Frasier continued "but I would still like to keep her over night to make sure that everything is alright."
"Alright keep me informed Doctor." With that Hammond left the room followed by Teal'c saying that he had to meditate. Daniel soon left with the promise that he would return in an hour or two with a book on mythology for Andy to read.
"Andy?" "humm?" She looked at her food while she played with it not really eating anything/.
"What was it that you saw?"
"Nothing really it's just that after a while dad and I got so attuned to each other it didn't matter that I wasn't telepathic I could still tell if there was anything wrong with him."
"I see. Is..Is he ok?"
Tears filled up her eyes; she bowed her head and didn't bother to move the hair that fell in her eyes. "I...I don't know." She let the tears fall freely, not caring any longer that she looked weak it didn't matter if her father was dead, nothing mattered if he was, and after all without him what was the point in running? If it hadn't been for him she would have long ago been captured. Jack took her in his arms noticing what Sam had noticed earlier that she was much too light for someone her age. Not wanting to mention it he just hugged her. Sam came up on the other side and hugged her as well. They looked at each other not saying anything but knowing that as soon as they left they would find out exactly how long it had been since the girl had eaten as neither of them could recall her eating in the past few days at least not in front of them.
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Mark awoke after what must have been hours. He wasn't sure he just knew that he had been knocked out. He had felt as if he was going to die and he wasn't feeling much better now. Praying for the darkness to overcome him before anything else happened he heard a noise come form the dark corner. Once again he was to be denied his only wish, no he reminded himself not his only one, his one true one had so far been granted, that Andy remained far away and safe from harm.
"So Mark you awaken."
He groaned inwardly. "Anne." She stepped out of the shadows.
"Why Mark? Why didn't you marry me? Why did you marry her?"
"I loved her. We were only friends."
She walked closer to him. "Friends? Friends! You loved me!"
"I never loved you. I loved her and only her."
"Liar! You loved me and I loved you!"
"Please..Kill me if that is your purpose but please leave Andy out of this!"
"I will have my daughter!"
"She's not yours. She never will be!"
"If you had married me she would have been mine! I'm only taking what is rightfully mine."
She turned and left him in the harsh light, with the knowledge that sooner or later unless he died or escaped Andy would come running to her in order to save his life.
Alex watched from above as Anne left the room. Tears fell down for once in over 10 years. The last time he had cried it had been in joy over Andy's birth. Now he would cry again over her fathers death, and hers unless he could find a way to stop it all.
"Alex?"
"David?" He turned to the door to see his brother looking at him with concern.
"Brother? What's wrong?"
"It's the data we collected. He's dying David. My best friend- No I have no right to call him that anymore. I've put him there!" He gestured to the man down below them. "He's dying and I'm the one responsible for it!" He put his face into his hands. "I never knew it would kill him I swear, I never would have done this if it would have killed him," He looked up at David "you know that right?"
David walked forward putting a comforting hand on his brothers shoulder. "I know. But I think he should." Nodding towards Mark.
"I can't face him, not now."
"You have to he has the right to know he's dying. And you haven't completely failed him yet. You can still save his daughter. Go to him tell him what he deserves to know then save the girl."
"It won't make up for this betrayal."
"No but it will save one other innocent life."
All I ask is that any readers I have left not kill me for this late update. I beg forgiveness, between my job and writers block I've had a bit of trouble with this next part * whacks muse * Well I won't make any promises as I'm unsure how often I'll have to work but I'll do my best to get more updates out more often. Again so sorry. ~Avalon