Blood Ties

Chapter 19:  I can't kill you, but I can I die.

Andy stumbled into the president's office. He looked up startled.

"Who are you?"

"I…I'm Andy."

"Andy…" He trailed off clearly looking for a last name.

She raised her gun. "Andy nobody. No last name needed, not for this." She saw him reach down. "None of that. Stand up and come around the desk." She watched as he did what he was told.

"Now what Andy Nobody?"

Andy stood there. There was so much she could say, so much she could do. "Why?" was all that came out.

The president looked confused "Why what?"

"Why did you let him do this?" The president just shook his head to show he still didn't understand the question. "Why did you let him shut down the SGC? Why did you let him drive me to this? Why did you authorize the teams to enter the SGC to take Major Carter? Why did you let them take Mark Carter?" Tears began to form in her eyes.

He understood now. She was close to the Carter family and knew of the SGC maybe even part of that family. "I had to. You must understand, the Carters posed a threat; the SGC hid them there. I had to take action."

"You didn't even bother to get the facts though!" She took a step forward, the president took one back clearly afraid. Andy didn't think of what she was doing all the anger and frustration of running and loosing her father and having her aunt threatened came out in this single moment in this single action.

"I talked to the people in charge Kinsey and what was that woman's name…" He trailed off trying to find her name.

"Anne."

"Yes that was it. Kinsey and Anne."

"Both completely off their rockers if you ask me." She said in a matter-of-fact tone. "So you left it to the 'experts' huh?"

"I did what I thought was necessary. Now if you'll just put down the gun we can talk about this." He raised his hands and took a step forward his black shoes making no sound on the carpeted floor.

Andy laughed, "What do you take me for? I know what'll happen as soon as I put this gun down. You'll get your guard in here and I'll never see the light of day again. You know you really are dumb if you just let people tell you what to do. The old Cliché 'There are two sides to every story' well when you only bother to find out one side your missing a hell of a lot buster considering there are far more than two sides to this story, to most stories actually."

"Listen I did what I thought was best. The past can't be changed. So tell me what should I have done?" He folded his hands in front of him. He knew that members of the SGC were right outside his door, if he could keep the child talking long enough he could waste the few minutes left before the meeting and they would come in and the guards would be there as well.

"You should have talked to others. Talked to the SGC, to the Carters. ANYONE! But no you didn't." She glanced at the clock 4 minutes had gone by. "Times up Mr. President." She raised the gun.

He backed up to the desk, dark blue coat and white shirt crumpled under him as he tired to find something to hold onto. "You can't do this! You can't kill me without killing whatever hope you had for your cause!" He raised his voice.

A small smile came to her lips. "Your right I can't kill you, but I can die." She raised the gun to her head. "And with my last breath I kill everything Kinsey hoped to gain from this." She never noted the door opening behind her, the shouts of her name nor the MP's pulling their guns. "Tell SG-1 I love them and I'm sorry." The president looked on in horror as she went to pull the trigger. All Andy heard was the sound of the gun a searing pain and darkness.

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The small rag tag group stood outside the door. Any second now they would be let in and this whole thing would be straightened out.

"…Without killing whatever hope you had for your cause!" They heard the sound of the president's voice come from within the room. Jack, Daniel, Teal'c and Janet all were suddenly alerted and rushed into the room the MPs close on their tail guns being drawn. What they saw shocked them all. Andy stood in front of the president gun to her head. "Tell SG-1 I love them and I'm sorry."

"ANDY!" Shouts from Janet, Daniel, and Jack came simultaneously, but they fell on deaf ears.

Jack had seen one child kill himself with a gun was not about to watch another child he had come to love kill herself as well. He took action without even thinking. He slammed the fist into the face of the nearest solider a loud crunching noise could be heard as his nose broke. He grabbed the gun aimed and shot. Hitting Andy right in the shoulder, it wouldn't kill her but it would cause enough pain that she would drop the gun aimed at her head. Andy fell to the floor. Jack's military training left him, autopilot gone he looked at what he had done. "Andy." He whispered. "God no Andy." He rushed over to her fell on the floor and cradled her head. "What have I done?" Blood over his hands, the other occupants in the room to stunned to move just watched the sight.

Janet was the first to recover. Rushed over to the pair. Checked the girl over and looked at Jack

"She's alive." She looked over at Daniel who was leaning against the wall for support. "She'll be aright but she needs medical attention fast."

"Why? Why did she do this?" They looked up to see a pale president.

"She wanted to be free." Teal'c spoke.

"No, she wanted to live. She wanted her life back, her family." The whisper came out so quietly that everyone looked at Jack just to make sure that they had heard right.

A small gasp of pain brought their attention back to the figure in Jack's arms.

"Sam…Aunty Sam…" A small whisper came from Andy so quiet that everyone had to strain to hear it.

"Andy? Andy can you hear me? Open your eyes Andy." Jack brushed her cheek. Andy opened her blue eyes just a crack.

"Jack…Janet?"

"Hey we're here just hold on you'll be alright I promise." Janet spoke as she wrapped a cloth around the wound.

"I'm so sorry Andy…I…I'm sorry."

"Jack." Andy opened her eyes fully now. "Jack He has Sam. You've got to get to her before they kill her!" Andy grabbed onto Jack's arm. "You have to save before it's too late."

"Who has here? Where is she?" Daniel and Teal'c moved closer at her words, waiting to hear where their lost team member had been taken.

"Kinsey and his goons have her." She raised her arm and threw her power out in full force towards the hidden hall. Energy spent, the door hanging open she said, "Go down the hall. It's the…the one with the…the…guards…" Andy fainted.

Janet took her from Jack gave her a once over and spoke, "She's fine. Go get Sam."

Jack nodded and ran down the hall with Teal'c and Daniel in tow.

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Kinsey walked away from the sectary's office. He now knew who had called that emergency meeting with the president things were not looking good. If the team Hammond sent could interrupt the girl and talk to the president everything would be ruined.

As he approached the door to the office he noticed that they were taking Andromeda Carter out on a stretcher, shot in the shoulder and unconscious. If nothing else it looked like the girl had done her job. He heard voices coming from the room beyond.

"She's alright for transport."

"Are you sure that she wouldn't be better off at the Hospital with an armed guard?"

"No, it'll be better if we can look after her at the compound."

"Alright."

"You guys going to be able to handle this thing with the President?"

"Yeah we're getting ready to make a statement now."

He waited outside the door and watched in surprise ad Dr. Frasier from the SGC walked out after the girl. He went inside, noting the blood on the floor and the guards around the desk.

"I heard about the President. I'm so sorry to hear about it." He paused as the top officials looked at him. "I would be happy to take the girl instead of killing her though, we could learn a lot from her abilities."

"What are you talking about Kinsey?"

"The Carter girl. Surely you intend to go after her death for killing the President?"

"Why would we do that when I'm alive and right here?" Kinsey never noticed the man walk in behind him. "Miss Andromeda Carter never had any intention of killing me, so why should I do the same to her?"

"Your alive?" Kinsey looked taken aback.

"Yes." He walked around the desk and sat down. "And we Kinsey have a lot to talk about. Now sit." He gestured to a chair as the guards placed hands on the hilt of their guns. Kinsey sat down; this was not looking good for him.

A/N: So Sorry for the late update, it would seem trying to juggle homework Collage and Work is not good for one's writing habits. If there are any of my original readers still reading this may good karma come back to you. I hoped you enjoyed these two chapters and here's hoping that the next one isn't as far away as this one was. My apologies as I try to fix everything up in my story.

~Avalon