Blood Ties
Disclaimer: I've just kidnapped these characters and forced them into these roles, they will be returned to their rightful owners when I'm finished.
Chapter 9: We have to go!
Andy pushed away the plate. She had eaten a lot compared to what she had been eating over the past few days and she wasn't sure how much more her stomach could take. She was hungry though apparently the Asguard forgot to mention that using her powers would make her tired and hungry. She curled up and tried to get to sleep before the doctors ran in again waking her up for the umpteenth time in the night to make sure all was well. Luck it seems was not to be with her, for just as she was drifting off to sleep.
"Andy? Andy!"
She grumbled and turned over pulling the blanket over her head. "Go away." Was barley audible from under the blanket.
"Come on kiddo. Up you get." Frasier pulled the blanket off her, which earned her a glare from the young teen.
"Wha was tha for?" Was the grumble that accompanied the glare.
"Kid I have a teen that stays with me by the name of Cassandra. I know how to get you up in the morning."
"Morning?" Andy was now confused. Had it not been just '0300 hours' as the orderly had put it? She voiced her confusion to Frasier.
"Andy it's 0830."
"8:30 am! Gods I'm never up before 10!"
Frasier had a good laugh at this. "Sam wanted to wake you when the others got up at 0600 but I told them that you needed the sleep"
"As in 6 AM?!"
"Yes as in am. Now, I have a question I know you, want to go rescue your father, Sam filled me in this morning. But if you promise to stay with Cassandra we will let you wander out side while the others work on a possible rescue plan. What do you say to that?"
Andy thought about this, she wanted nothing more then to see her father again before he died but that wasn't going to happen if she was down here. After all she was only agreeing to stay with this Cassandra, she never said where exactly they would be.
"Agreed, I will stay with Cassandra, in exchange for being let outside."
"Alright. Cassie, come in please!" She called out to the door.
"Don't call me Cassie anymore. Its just Cass."
Fraiser just rolled her eyes. "Come over here. Cassandra this is Andromeda, Andromeda this is Cassandra." She turned to Cassandra "Would you please show her around outside for a while while we take care of things down here." She nodded as this had already been agreed upon. "Ok great, see you girls at lunch then." She watched as the girls headed off then went up to the meeting already in progress.
"Frasier sit down please." The doctor acknowledged the General and sat down. We where just getting to some health issues concerning Andromeda. Care to fill us in on what you know?"
"Well for the most part she is healthy. Her mind and body are beginning to feel the effects of the mental pushing she's doing. That's also one of the factors to why she's sleeping so much."
"One?" Jack interrupted. "Let me guess the second has to do with her weight?"
Frasier nodded her affirmative. "Unless something is done it's just going to get worse."
"Wait what is wrong?" Daniel asked
"I would like to know that as well." The general spoke up.
"Well sir." Sam spoke up. "Andy hasn't eaten for over 3 days as far as we can figure."
"Well she did eat a little last night, but not much. I have Cass bringing some off base stuff to try to get her to eat. I'm also hoping that having someone closer to her age might help her to talk."
"Alright, we'll deal with that as it comes. Now about Mark."
"Sir we have to get him out of there! We have to go!"
"Major!" The general silenced her "I understand."
It was then that Sam did something that surprised everyone there.
"Sir, with all due respect how the hell can you know how I feel? My brother is out there maybe dead maybe alive I have no idea! My niece is being hunted by the government and I won't be able to protect her much longer I'm slowly losing the only family I have! So please do tell how can you know what I'm feeling?"
"Major! I know this is tough on you right now, but yelling and getting emotional is not going to help."
"Listen we have the best people looking for him as we speak. I suggest that we wait till they find something and talk when there's something more solid to go on. Dismissed." He got up and left leaving Jack and Sam seconds to stand and solute. Sam stormed out of the room and didn't stop till she slammed the door to her rooms. Jack bravely followed. He walked in and put her arms around her.
"This isn't fair! I should be out there looking for him! Not here helpless to do anything to help him!"
"Sam you know as well as I do that if you went out looking for him, that would draw attention to you putting Andy in danger. You don't to put her in any danger do you?" He received no response so he tired for humor "After all she's good enough at that without her aunt helping her."
A small smile did escape her lips at that. "I suppose she is. A lot like her father."
"What? Not like her aunt at all?"
"Are you suggesting something?"
"Who me?" He gave a mock innocent response. "Come on we've been taken off off-planet duty till this is figured out, so there's nothing for us to do, so why don't we think up something to do?"
"Are you suggesting what I think you're suggesting?" She turned to face him.
He leaned down and kissed her. "I don't know? What do you think I'm suggesting?"
* * *
Cassandra and Andromeda stood in silence for most of the elevator trip up. It was Cassandra who broke the unnerving silence that had engulfed them.
"So Andromeda-"
"Cassandra please call me Andy, no one has called me Andromeda for years except Teal'c and the General."
"Alright then call me Cass."
"Cass. Ok."
"So Andy, what do you like to do? Play any sports or anything?"
"Not really. I'm good at Archery, fencing, and martial arts. But that 'bout covers it."
"Martial Arts? I always wanted to learn some moves."
"Why don't I show you how to defend your self from attackers when we get up there then?"
"Sure, Thanks."
"No biggy. I need to practice any way."
They finished the ride up without another word spoken between them.
After several hours of practice they called it quits in order to get some rest. Andy however wasn't interested in resting she was trying to figure out how to get rid of Cass without harming her too much while making sure she couldn't call the guards. She decided that it was now or never and attacked Cass. However Cass it seemed had absorbed more form her lessons that she had anticipated and defended herself while calling for the guards, they came quickly and bunny hopped her down to the base again kicking and screaming all the way. Shouting numerous curses and obscenities.
By the time they got her down to the General's office Sam had been notified and was waiting with the general and to say she was mad was the understatement of the century.
"What the hell were you thinking!?" She didn't wait for an answer "You put yourself in danger, the SGC not to mention the fact you could have hurt Cass!"
Jack who had been standing off to the side with the general watching the whole thing jumped in. "Not only that but you put your aunt, your best hope of finding your father in danger as well." He walked over to her separating Sam and Andy. "Listen I know that you want to help him, but putting your self along with everyone else in danger is not going to bring him back here or get you to him any faster. The best thing to do right now is to stay here till we find out where he is."
"We have to go! We have to save him!"
"We will, we just need to think our plan though first otherwise we'll be caught and be of no use to him." He sighed "Listen I'll make you a deal: Stay put here, and when we find your father, you can go with the team that goes to get him. Ok?" He held out his hand to shake on the deal. After a tense minute she took it.
"Deal."
Disclaimer: I've just kidnapped these characters and forced them into these roles, they will be returned to their rightful owners when I'm finished.
Chapter 9: We have to go!
Andy pushed away the plate. She had eaten a lot compared to what she had been eating over the past few days and she wasn't sure how much more her stomach could take. She was hungry though apparently the Asguard forgot to mention that using her powers would make her tired and hungry. She curled up and tried to get to sleep before the doctors ran in again waking her up for the umpteenth time in the night to make sure all was well. Luck it seems was not to be with her, for just as she was drifting off to sleep.
"Andy? Andy!"
She grumbled and turned over pulling the blanket over her head. "Go away." Was barley audible from under the blanket.
"Come on kiddo. Up you get." Frasier pulled the blanket off her, which earned her a glare from the young teen.
"Wha was tha for?" Was the grumble that accompanied the glare.
"Kid I have a teen that stays with me by the name of Cassandra. I know how to get you up in the morning."
"Morning?" Andy was now confused. Had it not been just '0300 hours' as the orderly had put it? She voiced her confusion to Frasier.
"Andy it's 0830."
"8:30 am! Gods I'm never up before 10!"
Frasier had a good laugh at this. "Sam wanted to wake you when the others got up at 0600 but I told them that you needed the sleep"
"As in 6 AM?!"
"Yes as in am. Now, I have a question I know you, want to go rescue your father, Sam filled me in this morning. But if you promise to stay with Cassandra we will let you wander out side while the others work on a possible rescue plan. What do you say to that?"
Andy thought about this, she wanted nothing more then to see her father again before he died but that wasn't going to happen if she was down here. After all she was only agreeing to stay with this Cassandra, she never said where exactly they would be.
"Agreed, I will stay with Cassandra, in exchange for being let outside."
"Alright. Cassie, come in please!" She called out to the door.
"Don't call me Cassie anymore. Its just Cass."
Fraiser just rolled her eyes. "Come over here. Cassandra this is Andromeda, Andromeda this is Cassandra." She turned to Cassandra "Would you please show her around outside for a while while we take care of things down here." She nodded as this had already been agreed upon. "Ok great, see you girls at lunch then." She watched as the girls headed off then went up to the meeting already in progress.
"Frasier sit down please." The doctor acknowledged the General and sat down. We where just getting to some health issues concerning Andromeda. Care to fill us in on what you know?"
"Well for the most part she is healthy. Her mind and body are beginning to feel the effects of the mental pushing she's doing. That's also one of the factors to why she's sleeping so much."
"One?" Jack interrupted. "Let me guess the second has to do with her weight?"
Frasier nodded her affirmative. "Unless something is done it's just going to get worse."
"Wait what is wrong?" Daniel asked
"I would like to know that as well." The general spoke up.
"Well sir." Sam spoke up. "Andy hasn't eaten for over 3 days as far as we can figure."
"Well she did eat a little last night, but not much. I have Cass bringing some off base stuff to try to get her to eat. I'm also hoping that having someone closer to her age might help her to talk."
"Alright, we'll deal with that as it comes. Now about Mark."
"Sir we have to get him out of there! We have to go!"
"Major!" The general silenced her "I understand."
It was then that Sam did something that surprised everyone there.
"Sir, with all due respect how the hell can you know how I feel? My brother is out there maybe dead maybe alive I have no idea! My niece is being hunted by the government and I won't be able to protect her much longer I'm slowly losing the only family I have! So please do tell how can you know what I'm feeling?"
"Major! I know this is tough on you right now, but yelling and getting emotional is not going to help."
"Listen we have the best people looking for him as we speak. I suggest that we wait till they find something and talk when there's something more solid to go on. Dismissed." He got up and left leaving Jack and Sam seconds to stand and solute. Sam stormed out of the room and didn't stop till she slammed the door to her rooms. Jack bravely followed. He walked in and put her arms around her.
"This isn't fair! I should be out there looking for him! Not here helpless to do anything to help him!"
"Sam you know as well as I do that if you went out looking for him, that would draw attention to you putting Andy in danger. You don't to put her in any danger do you?" He received no response so he tired for humor "After all she's good enough at that without her aunt helping her."
A small smile did escape her lips at that. "I suppose she is. A lot like her father."
"What? Not like her aunt at all?"
"Are you suggesting something?"
"Who me?" He gave a mock innocent response. "Come on we've been taken off off-planet duty till this is figured out, so there's nothing for us to do, so why don't we think up something to do?"
"Are you suggesting what I think you're suggesting?" She turned to face him.
He leaned down and kissed her. "I don't know? What do you think I'm suggesting?"
* * *
Cassandra and Andromeda stood in silence for most of the elevator trip up. It was Cassandra who broke the unnerving silence that had engulfed them.
"So Andromeda-"
"Cassandra please call me Andy, no one has called me Andromeda for years except Teal'c and the General."
"Alright then call me Cass."
"Cass. Ok."
"So Andy, what do you like to do? Play any sports or anything?"
"Not really. I'm good at Archery, fencing, and martial arts. But that 'bout covers it."
"Martial Arts? I always wanted to learn some moves."
"Why don't I show you how to defend your self from attackers when we get up there then?"
"Sure, Thanks."
"No biggy. I need to practice any way."
They finished the ride up without another word spoken between them.
After several hours of practice they called it quits in order to get some rest. Andy however wasn't interested in resting she was trying to figure out how to get rid of Cass without harming her too much while making sure she couldn't call the guards. She decided that it was now or never and attacked Cass. However Cass it seemed had absorbed more form her lessons that she had anticipated and defended herself while calling for the guards, they came quickly and bunny hopped her down to the base again kicking and screaming all the way. Shouting numerous curses and obscenities.
By the time they got her down to the General's office Sam had been notified and was waiting with the general and to say she was mad was the understatement of the century.
"What the hell were you thinking!?" She didn't wait for an answer "You put yourself in danger, the SGC not to mention the fact you could have hurt Cass!"
Jack who had been standing off to the side with the general watching the whole thing jumped in. "Not only that but you put your aunt, your best hope of finding your father in danger as well." He walked over to her separating Sam and Andy. "Listen I know that you want to help him, but putting your self along with everyone else in danger is not going to bring him back here or get you to him any faster. The best thing to do right now is to stay here till we find out where he is."
"We have to go! We have to save him!"
"We will, we just need to think our plan though first otherwise we'll be caught and be of no use to him." He sighed "Listen I'll make you a deal: Stay put here, and when we find your father, you can go with the team that goes to get him. Ok?" He held out his hand to shake on the deal. After a tense minute she took it.
"Deal."