SG-1: TNG
Disclaimer/Claimer - CHAPTER 1 dammit! Notes - I think I'm even more unsure about the direction of this chapter than I was with the last. Maybe not. Maybe I DO know what I'm thinking about doing but I forgot that I knew and to I don't think I know something I already know, you know? laughs Reminds me of that one episode of "Friends" with all the "They don't know we know." "They don't know we know they know." "They don't know we know they know we know." and so on. Ever since I saw that episode, I keep coming up with stuff that's kind of like it. It's strange. Anyway, enjoy the chapter! grin
Ch 6 - The Ata-what?
The next morning when Jack and Sam got up, it was around eight or nine. The couple was currently walking around aimlessly for the most part when General Williams came walking straight for them. He seemed to have a worried and apprehensive look on his face. Jack was the first of the three of them to speak, "Good morning, General."
"Morning, yes...Good...no."
Sam raised an eyebrow, "Why is that, sir?"
"About two weeks ago, one of the teams came back from being off world with this..." he moved his hands a little, "Thing...and no one knows what it is or...what it's for. I was wondering if you would mind taking a look at it." He looked like he had just asked them to commit the most impossible thing ever.
Before actually answering, Jack asked, "Does this thing have little...sign...symbol-thingies on it?"
"Actually, yes, it does and no one's been able to decipher them."
"Would you maybe be needing more help in the infirmary?" Jack continued with his questionnaire.
"Possibly..." The General said slowly, "What are you getting at?"
"See how many of my old team members I need to call up." He grinned.
The General smiled, "Well, why don't you just get the whole lot of the old SG-1 team here?"
"Right then, to your pretty red phone!" Jack said.
"Actually, you don't have to make all that trip, I'm sure your daughter wouldn't care if you used her phone." Alex raised his eyebrows and pointed towards Cecillia's office. tell that was her office, right?"
Jack glanced at it; it had a little black sign with little silver letters that said: Colonel Cecillia Alexandria O'Neil. "Yeah...I knew that. I just...like that little red phone." Jack smiled a little, hoping that the General would at least humor him and act like he bought it.
"Right...When they are all here, meet in my office." Alex said before walking off, probably to go to his office.
"Well, let's do this, then." Jack said, going into his daughter's office and picking up the phone.
Daniel Jackson grinned as he hung up the phone. That had to be the absolute quickest conversation he had ever had with Jack O'Neill and he had had some pretty short conversations with the man. Now to find Janet wherever that woman was. Not to mention that they could go back to their old workplace, but they might even be able to see their daughter today, too. "Janet! Where are you?" He called out for his wife.
Janet raised up quickly, but she soon found that this was a mistake. Of course, she wouldn't have found this out if she hadn't hit the back of her head on the low-sitting shelf in the closet. "Ow! sonuva monkey!" She half- shouted to herself. She sighed and got up, walking to the doorway of she and Daniel's room. "What?" She shouted down at him.
Daniel was halfway up the stairs now, "We have to go to Cheyanne Mountain."
Janet frowned, "Why?" Cheyanne Mountain wasn't exactly part of their daily vocabulary.
"Jack just called and--I'll explain on the way there.
Janet shrugged, "Alright."
Teal'C slowly placed the phone back on it's receiver.
His wife, Annalise, came into the living rom, smiling like she always was. "Who was that, dear?"
Ever-expressionless, Teal'C answered in his typical, stoic voice, "It was Colonel O'Neill and he has requested that I go to the Stargate base."
"Did he happen to say why? Or, more importantly, why he's at the base?" Anna frowned.
"He did not clearly explain his presence there or my need to be. Though, he did sound quite excited." Teal'C raised an eyebrow, "Even for Jack O'Neill."
"Sounds like you better get going, honey."
"Colonel O'Neill did say that you could accompany me if it would please you."
Anna smiled. The two of them had been married for some twenty or so years now, but he still spoke to her as though she were some kind of commanding officer or something. "That's alright, darling, I'll just stay home."
Teal'C nodded, "Then I shall leave now and come back when whatever it is that I am meant to do is over." He nodded again and kissed Annalise on the cheek before turning to walk out the door.
Daniel parked the Jeep that Janet had absolutely insisted they had to get about three years ago. "Here we are."
"Hasn't changed a bit on the outside." Janet muttered.
"I wouldn't really expect it to," Daniel blinked a few times, "It's a mountain."
Janet gave him a look that would even make Jack O'Neill stop talking.
"Right. Just a comment...don't take it seriously." Daniel nodded.
Teal'C parked the car and killed the engine. He took the keys out of the ignition and got out of the care. As he looked around, he frowned slightly. The frown slowly turned into a raised eyebrow, "Daniel Jackson." He said, walking towards the forest green Jeep.
"Teal'C!" Daniel frowned, "Wait. What are you doing here?"
"I could inquire the same from you."
"Jack called me and told me that the General needed me for something and...he said that--"
"I could come along." Janet finished for her husband.
"I see." He said, looking at Janet, "He asked the same of me."
"Where's Anna?" Janet asked, pushed a piece of stray hair behind her ear.
"She did not wish to accompany me."
"Well, I guess we should all go in and see what Jack was making such a fuss over." Janet said, making her way towards the bases entrance.
When his three friends entered the base, Jack was waiting for them. It was only Jack, no one was with him. Teal'C raised an eyebrow at the man, as did Daniel. "What--" Before Janet could finish her question, Jack spoke over her, "Long time no see, Jackson, Jackson, Teal'C."
"Actually, Jack, we...just saw each other two weeks ago." Janet said.
"Not the point!" He turned to Teal'C, "Where's Anna?"
"She did not wish to accompany me."
"Well, ok! Anyway, off to...see the Wizard!" He grinned. Even after all his years on earth, Teal'C would probably not get that.
"What are we all here for, exactly, Jack?" Daniel asked, pushing his glasses a little higher on the bridge of his nose.
"Well, I'm not completely sure, but...that's why we're all going to go the General's office." Jack raised his eyebrows and turned on the ball of his foot. It was hard for him to contain the fact that Sam was really here. From what he could understand, Daniel hadn't told Janet--or anyone for that matter. He wanted to tell the other two, but he wanted to see what they would do and say when they saw her in the office.
Sam was sitting in the General's office, waiting for Jack to come back with her old friends. She was anxious for them to come back to the office, but she hid it quite well. Maybe it was because she had been able to practice over the years when she had fallen for her commanding officer. She sighed and glanced around the room for what seemed like the millionth time. At that moment, Jack poked his head in the door, a wide grn plastered on his face. "Sam..."
"Yes, Jack?" Sam rolled her eyes; he could really be strange sometimes.
Jack just continued to grin as he spoke, "I'd like you to meet some people that I know." And so he, as well as the other three, came into General William's office. "This is Daniel Jackson, Teal'C....uh, I don't think he has a last name, and Janet Fraiser-Jackson."
Sam laughed a little at her husband's introduction. "Nice introductions, Jack."
"Thanks." Jack was still grinning like an idiot.
Cecillia, who was standing in the corner of her General's office grinned and looked a lot like her father at the moment. She ran over to the three that only recently arrived and hugged her "Aunt" Janet and "Uncle" Daniel. "I haven't seen you guys in ages!" She was about to hug Teal'C, but stopped, realizing that either she was too short or he was too tall. Cecillia mentally decided that he was too tall. She grinned up at the man, anyway. "Wow...it really has been awhile, hasn't it?"
"Almost two years." Daniel said.
"Really?"
He nodded.
"Wow..." Suddenly, she realized what she had just done and immediately turned to her commanding officer, "Sorry, sir, I didn't...mean to--"
Alex waved a hand, "Don't worry...I understand." He smiled.
Cecillia sighed and went over to stand with her dad, who was the next to speak. "So, what did you call that doohickey you wanted us to all take a look at?"
"You still use the word 'doohickey'?" Sam asked, slightly amused.
"What's wrong with it?"
Sam simply shook her head as a reply.
"Wait...we're supposed to be looking at something?" Daniel looked at the man that had phoned him, "Jack, next time you call me, be a little more detailed, ok?"
"Right...I'll make a note of that. Might loose the note, but I'll make it anyway."
Williams decided to speak now, "Follow me and I'll take you to the Atacer."
"Ata-what?" Jack asked.
"The At--"
"Don't mind him, sir, he'll do that with anything and everything." Daniel said.
"Right." Alex glanced at them behind his shoulder.
After a few minutes of walking down corridors, turning, going straight, and almost seeming to be going in circles, General Williams finally stopped and slowly opened the door that was in front of him. He entered, as did everyone else, and Cecillia closed the door, being the last to come in.
She looked around the now, somewhat familiar room and saw Major Pierce. She almost immediately started the seethe. What he had done earlier was absolutely uncalled for and, to be completely honest, totally against regulations. She walked over to where he stood in his little corner in the back of the room, staring directly at him. "James..." She warned.
"Colonel O'Neil." He said weakly. This was definitely not one of his best moments.
Jack and the others couldn't help but watch and listen to the two. Honestly, they were all wondering what happened. So, they all just stood there, acting as if they were looking at the Atacer and listened to and watched the Colonel and the Major that served under her.
"I swear, I can't believe you did that. Why did you do it?"
"I told you, it wasn't me." James started, "You have to remember that one of those...what'd ya call em's....Nalaman's was inside me...it wasn't....it's wasn't me, Ma'am."
Cecillia considered it for a moment, "Fine. Since I saw you get taken over by that Nalaman I'll let this one go, but if it happens again, Major, I swear, I'll--"
"You don't have to worry about that, Ma'am. I will personally make sure that it will never happen again." James said, firmly. Then he feebly added, "U-Unless, I...uh...get possessed by something again."
Cecillia raised an eyebrow at him, but turned to the others. "So...discussed anything yet?" She hadn't really been paying attention or trying to listen to them if they had been talking at all. She was focused on the matter at hand. However, that matter was done with for the moment and now she was interested in the Atacer.
"Actually, no, but Daniel is looking it over, seeing if he can translate any of the symbols." Williams said.
"Alright, what do the rest of us do until then, sir?"
"As you wish as long as it involves staying on the base."
"Permission to go to--"
"Your quarters? Granted, Colonel."
"Thank you, sir." And with a glare over her shoulder at James, Cecillia left for her room on the base.
Janet glanced at the young, black-haired man in the corner of the room and raised an eyebrow. She decided that she would follow and talk to Cecillia. "Call me if you need me, sir?" She said to the General.
He nodded and Janet left to find Cecillia.
Cecillia had the distinct feeling of being followed. She wasn't sure if that was because her team had just gotten finished with their latest mission and they had been being followed, or because someone really was following her. She hoped that it wasn't James. She didn't want to deal with him at the moment. "James, I don't want to--" She turned and saw her aunt Janet coming up behind her, "Oh, Aunt Janet, sorry. I thought you were someone else."
"I picked up on that one." She smiled.
"Right. So...uh...whatcha doin'?"
"I was going to talk to you, with me to my room?" She suggested, not wanting to sound like she was trying to boss her around or anything.
Janet nodded and followed her "niece" to her room. When they reached it, the two sat down facing one another on the black leather couch that was in the room. Janet was the first to speak amongst the silence, "So...who was that in the back of the room earlier?"
"Oh, that's James Pierce. He's under me, a Major, actually."
Janet nodded, "Right. So...what is it exactly that happened that made you so mad at him?"
"Oh....that...it was nothing really, um..." Hoping she could avoid to subject of James, Cecillia came down to her last resort and worst enemy, "Actually, I have to go to my office and do some paper work. I'm really sorry, Aunt Janet, but I just remembered and all. I...I'm sorry, but I really need to get that paperwork done." Cecillia smiled a little, quite possibly for emphasis.
"It's alright, I'll just talk to you later, ok?" Janet said, patting her on the knee. With that, Janet left and returned to the room she had previously left since she really wasn't sure where else to go.
Cecillia sighed and leaned into the couch, "Thank, God she took it. I really don't want to talk about that." She shook her head, "I really should go do some of that paperwork...It's getting piled up on me." So, she stood to go to her office and do at least a little paperwork. Cecillia was a lot like her father in the "I try to avoid as much paperwork as possible" sort of way, along with many other ways.
James was really glad that the General let him go to his own quarters. He swore he was off the hook now, since the Colonel had gone to her room and everything. He definitely had to say that he was happy that it was practically no chance whatsoever of running into his commanding officer. However, it was that "practically" part that didn't work out. Just before he turned down the hall for his room, he ran into someone. James didn't pay much attention to who it was, but helped her up. "Sorry, ma'am, I--" Then he saw that it was his Colonel and he dropped her hand, causing her to fall back down again.
Cecillia glared up at the Major. "Thanks a lot, James." She said in a biting tone as she pushed herself off the floor. She was glad when James gave her his hand again and helped her pull herself to her feet. "Thanks..." She muttered.
James said nothing, but nodded. He rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "So...uh...heh..." He sighed and looked up at Cecillia through his bangs.
Cecillia nodded, "Right..."
"Wh-what are you....uh, doing?"
"Office...paperwork..." Cecillia smiled a little.
"Paperwork, huh? That's a step-up, isn't it?" He joked.
Cecillia gave him a sideways half-glare. "Shut up." She smirked and started down the corridor to go to her office. "Where you headed, cowboy?"
James frowned, "Did you just call me a--" "Cowboy?" Cecillia laughed, "Don't even ask where that came from. You're from New York, very...not-cowboy-ish, don't you agree?"
"Yeah," James nodded, "I definitely agree." Over the years, his New York accent had become less noticable, but it was definitely still there.
"So, anyway, where you headed?"
"My quarters." James answered simply.
"See ya later, then." Cecillia said, opening the door to her office and going in.
James waved a little and went on down the corridor. When he knew he was far down enough, he muttered, "I can't believe I did that..." and entered his room, almost immediately slammed his back into the door and fell into a slipped down to a sitting position. There was no way that had happened; it just had to be part of a horrible, regulation-breaking dream.
Four hours later, Teal'C and Daniel had finally deciphered the symbols on the Atacer and Sam had a good idea of what it was used for. Teal'C had left to bring the General back, while Daniel and Sam ordered everything to make sense so they could try and explain it so that everyone could understand what the device was for. They were both used to extreme layman terms since they had Jack on their team for all those years.
Teal'C came back, not only with General Williams but with the new SG-1 team members and the new resident Doc of the SGC. Jack was the first to speak, "Alright, so...what's the deal with this little doohickey?" He asked, practically bouncing on his feet.
"Dad...a little over-excited, don't you think?" Cecillia raised an eyebrow at her father.
"Maybe..." He winked at her, "Anyway, what is it and what's it for?"
"Well, to start things off," Daniel started, "Teal'C and I have determined what the symbols mean. In the simplest terms, it translates to: Lavishers of light, keep it close; Devils of the night, stay far out of sight. I really don't know what it is supposed to mean, but...that's roughly what it translates to. The language is...--"
"Latin-based. Dad, I came up with that already. We know what it translates to." Jadis Jackson said, smiling when her father looked up at her. "I think they just wanted a second opinion from, you know, the original Dr. Jackson."
"You know you take after me so much that it scares me?"
"I'll keep that close." She grinned.
"So, Carter--er--Sam--er--whoever you are, what's it used for?" Jack asked, looking at his wife.
"Well, far as I can tell, it's used for...actually, I'm really not sure." She turned to the General, "Would you mind if I took a little more time to look at it and try and figure it out, sir?"
"Take as long as you need, Sam." The General nodded and turned to leave, but before he did, he said to the team that he had command over, "Dismissed."
Almost everyone left the room except the Jackson family and Sam. However, before James got too far away from him, Jack stopped him, placing a hand on his shoulder. The twenty-something year old's shoulders almost immediately tensed. "James, right?" When James nodded, Jack continued, "Right...we need to talk. Where would you suggest we go? It's...a little personal."
"My...quarters, I guess."
"Alright, lead the way." Jack said, allowing the young man to take lead and following after him. This should be fun. He might even manage to be able to make the boy squirm a little, purely for some good fun, of course.
Notes - Alright! That's that chapter. What is this Atacer? What the hell is it for? I'm not sure! If you have any ideas, I'd love you forever and dedicate the next chapter to you! grins and winks at reviewers And just WHAT IN THE HELL is it that Jack wants to talk to James about? Hmm? Care to give a guess?
2 reviewers of this chapter will get a cameo in this fic. Now, you wonder, how does one get a cameo? Here we go:
Category 1: Topic-Pick
The first reviewer to correctly guess the topic that Jack wants to talk to James about, you get a cameo. Happy? claps Good!
Category 2: Alien Tech (dedication as well.)
This isn't a "first or none" kind of thing. This is more a "I think this is greatness!" kind of deal. Anyway, for this cameo, you have to give me a little help on the Atacer (by the way, pronounced: A-ta-seer [thanks to my sis for the pronunciation on that one! She's great with that stuff! lol] )and, ya know, what it might be used for. ;
After you've done either of these (if you do), please, have mercy on me and do this:
1.) Tell me if you WANT a cameo (it would be sad if I gave you one and you didn't want it, ya know?) 2.) If you DO want the cameo, leave a little info for how you want your character to be perceived. NOTE - the cameos will be used from chapter 8-?? whatever I decide to make this end on lol
I know a lot of you are probably already going "TWO cameos? That's IT? What about the rest of us that get it right but aren't first or don't have the best ideas? What happens to us?!" Here's the skinny on that one:
For the other "I got the topic right..." people, if you see any of my other fics (obviously they have to be chaptered and not say ONE SHOT in the summary lol) that you like, I'll allow you a cameo in there somewhere.
For the other "Atacer use ideas..." well...if I have other fics, don't you think I'll have other alien technology? nods That's where you will come in. I will, at the beginning of the chapter that I use your idea in, give you full credit for it and whatnot and give you a dedication, as well. grin
Now, if that doesn't seem fair to you...you're really picky about how things are fair. laughs Anyway, review please! (Any form of a review shall be accepted: Flame; praise; constrictive criticism; alien tech ideas; correct topic responses; or a combination of these!) Hope you guys are enjoying this fic so far and I hope you have fun with the little mini- contest-thinger here grin winks & waves
Later days, PFB
Disclaimer/Claimer - CHAPTER 1 dammit! Notes - I think I'm even more unsure about the direction of this chapter than I was with the last. Maybe not. Maybe I DO know what I'm thinking about doing but I forgot that I knew and to I don't think I know something I already know, you know? laughs Reminds me of that one episode of "Friends" with all the "They don't know we know." "They don't know we know they know." "They don't know we know they know we know." and so on. Ever since I saw that episode, I keep coming up with stuff that's kind of like it. It's strange. Anyway, enjoy the chapter! grin
Ch 6 - The Ata-what?
The next morning when Jack and Sam got up, it was around eight or nine. The couple was currently walking around aimlessly for the most part when General Williams came walking straight for them. He seemed to have a worried and apprehensive look on his face. Jack was the first of the three of them to speak, "Good morning, General."
"Morning, yes...Good...no."
Sam raised an eyebrow, "Why is that, sir?"
"About two weeks ago, one of the teams came back from being off world with this..." he moved his hands a little, "Thing...and no one knows what it is or...what it's for. I was wondering if you would mind taking a look at it." He looked like he had just asked them to commit the most impossible thing ever.
Before actually answering, Jack asked, "Does this thing have little...sign...symbol-thingies on it?"
"Actually, yes, it does and no one's been able to decipher them."
"Would you maybe be needing more help in the infirmary?" Jack continued with his questionnaire.
"Possibly..." The General said slowly, "What are you getting at?"
"See how many of my old team members I need to call up." He grinned.
The General smiled, "Well, why don't you just get the whole lot of the old SG-1 team here?"
"Right then, to your pretty red phone!" Jack said.
"Actually, you don't have to make all that trip, I'm sure your daughter wouldn't care if you used her phone." Alex raised his eyebrows and pointed towards Cecillia's office. tell that was her office, right?"
Jack glanced at it; it had a little black sign with little silver letters that said: Colonel Cecillia Alexandria O'Neil. "Yeah...I knew that. I just...like that little red phone." Jack smiled a little, hoping that the General would at least humor him and act like he bought it.
"Right...When they are all here, meet in my office." Alex said before walking off, probably to go to his office.
"Well, let's do this, then." Jack said, going into his daughter's office and picking up the phone.
Daniel Jackson grinned as he hung up the phone. That had to be the absolute quickest conversation he had ever had with Jack O'Neill and he had had some pretty short conversations with the man. Now to find Janet wherever that woman was. Not to mention that they could go back to their old workplace, but they might even be able to see their daughter today, too. "Janet! Where are you?" He called out for his wife.
Janet raised up quickly, but she soon found that this was a mistake. Of course, she wouldn't have found this out if she hadn't hit the back of her head on the low-sitting shelf in the closet. "Ow! sonuva monkey!" She half- shouted to herself. She sighed and got up, walking to the doorway of she and Daniel's room. "What?" She shouted down at him.
Daniel was halfway up the stairs now, "We have to go to Cheyanne Mountain."
Janet frowned, "Why?" Cheyanne Mountain wasn't exactly part of their daily vocabulary.
"Jack just called and--I'll explain on the way there.
Janet shrugged, "Alright."
Teal'C slowly placed the phone back on it's receiver.
His wife, Annalise, came into the living rom, smiling like she always was. "Who was that, dear?"
Ever-expressionless, Teal'C answered in his typical, stoic voice, "It was Colonel O'Neill and he has requested that I go to the Stargate base."
"Did he happen to say why? Or, more importantly, why he's at the base?" Anna frowned.
"He did not clearly explain his presence there or my need to be. Though, he did sound quite excited." Teal'C raised an eyebrow, "Even for Jack O'Neill."
"Sounds like you better get going, honey."
"Colonel O'Neill did say that you could accompany me if it would please you."
Anna smiled. The two of them had been married for some twenty or so years now, but he still spoke to her as though she were some kind of commanding officer or something. "That's alright, darling, I'll just stay home."
Teal'C nodded, "Then I shall leave now and come back when whatever it is that I am meant to do is over." He nodded again and kissed Annalise on the cheek before turning to walk out the door.
Daniel parked the Jeep that Janet had absolutely insisted they had to get about three years ago. "Here we are."
"Hasn't changed a bit on the outside." Janet muttered.
"I wouldn't really expect it to," Daniel blinked a few times, "It's a mountain."
Janet gave him a look that would even make Jack O'Neill stop talking.
"Right. Just a comment...don't take it seriously." Daniel nodded.
Teal'C parked the car and killed the engine. He took the keys out of the ignition and got out of the care. As he looked around, he frowned slightly. The frown slowly turned into a raised eyebrow, "Daniel Jackson." He said, walking towards the forest green Jeep.
"Teal'C!" Daniel frowned, "Wait. What are you doing here?"
"I could inquire the same from you."
"Jack called me and told me that the General needed me for something and...he said that--"
"I could come along." Janet finished for her husband.
"I see." He said, looking at Janet, "He asked the same of me."
"Where's Anna?" Janet asked, pushed a piece of stray hair behind her ear.
"She did not wish to accompany me."
"Well, I guess we should all go in and see what Jack was making such a fuss over." Janet said, making her way towards the bases entrance.
When his three friends entered the base, Jack was waiting for them. It was only Jack, no one was with him. Teal'C raised an eyebrow at the man, as did Daniel. "What--" Before Janet could finish her question, Jack spoke over her, "Long time no see, Jackson, Jackson, Teal'C."
"Actually, Jack, we...just saw each other two weeks ago." Janet said.
"Not the point!" He turned to Teal'C, "Where's Anna?"
"She did not wish to accompany me."
"Well, ok! Anyway, off to...see the Wizard!" He grinned. Even after all his years on earth, Teal'C would probably not get that.
"What are we all here for, exactly, Jack?" Daniel asked, pushing his glasses a little higher on the bridge of his nose.
"Well, I'm not completely sure, but...that's why we're all going to go the General's office." Jack raised his eyebrows and turned on the ball of his foot. It was hard for him to contain the fact that Sam was really here. From what he could understand, Daniel hadn't told Janet--or anyone for that matter. He wanted to tell the other two, but he wanted to see what they would do and say when they saw her in the office.
Sam was sitting in the General's office, waiting for Jack to come back with her old friends. She was anxious for them to come back to the office, but she hid it quite well. Maybe it was because she had been able to practice over the years when she had fallen for her commanding officer. She sighed and glanced around the room for what seemed like the millionth time. At that moment, Jack poked his head in the door, a wide grn plastered on his face. "Sam..."
"Yes, Jack?" Sam rolled her eyes; he could really be strange sometimes.
Jack just continued to grin as he spoke, "I'd like you to meet some people that I know." And so he, as well as the other three, came into General William's office. "This is Daniel Jackson, Teal'C....uh, I don't think he has a last name, and Janet Fraiser-Jackson."
Sam laughed a little at her husband's introduction. "Nice introductions, Jack."
"Thanks." Jack was still grinning like an idiot.
Cecillia, who was standing in the corner of her General's office grinned and looked a lot like her father at the moment. She ran over to the three that only recently arrived and hugged her "Aunt" Janet and "Uncle" Daniel. "I haven't seen you guys in ages!" She was about to hug Teal'C, but stopped, realizing that either she was too short or he was too tall. Cecillia mentally decided that he was too tall. She grinned up at the man, anyway. "Wow...it really has been awhile, hasn't it?"
"Almost two years." Daniel said.
"Really?"
He nodded.
"Wow..." Suddenly, she realized what she had just done and immediately turned to her commanding officer, "Sorry, sir, I didn't...mean to--"
Alex waved a hand, "Don't worry...I understand." He smiled.
Cecillia sighed and went over to stand with her dad, who was the next to speak. "So, what did you call that doohickey you wanted us to all take a look at?"
"You still use the word 'doohickey'?" Sam asked, slightly amused.
"What's wrong with it?"
Sam simply shook her head as a reply.
"Wait...we're supposed to be looking at something?" Daniel looked at the man that had phoned him, "Jack, next time you call me, be a little more detailed, ok?"
"Right...I'll make a note of that. Might loose the note, but I'll make it anyway."
Williams decided to speak now, "Follow me and I'll take you to the Atacer."
"Ata-what?" Jack asked.
"The At--"
"Don't mind him, sir, he'll do that with anything and everything." Daniel said.
"Right." Alex glanced at them behind his shoulder.
After a few minutes of walking down corridors, turning, going straight, and almost seeming to be going in circles, General Williams finally stopped and slowly opened the door that was in front of him. He entered, as did everyone else, and Cecillia closed the door, being the last to come in.
She looked around the now, somewhat familiar room and saw Major Pierce. She almost immediately started the seethe. What he had done earlier was absolutely uncalled for and, to be completely honest, totally against regulations. She walked over to where he stood in his little corner in the back of the room, staring directly at him. "James..." She warned.
"Colonel O'Neil." He said weakly. This was definitely not one of his best moments.
Jack and the others couldn't help but watch and listen to the two. Honestly, they were all wondering what happened. So, they all just stood there, acting as if they were looking at the Atacer and listened to and watched the Colonel and the Major that served under her.
"I swear, I can't believe you did that. Why did you do it?"
"I told you, it wasn't me." James started, "You have to remember that one of those...what'd ya call em's....Nalaman's was inside me...it wasn't....it's wasn't me, Ma'am."
Cecillia considered it for a moment, "Fine. Since I saw you get taken over by that Nalaman I'll let this one go, but if it happens again, Major, I swear, I'll--"
"You don't have to worry about that, Ma'am. I will personally make sure that it will never happen again." James said, firmly. Then he feebly added, "U-Unless, I...uh...get possessed by something again."
Cecillia raised an eyebrow at him, but turned to the others. "So...discussed anything yet?" She hadn't really been paying attention or trying to listen to them if they had been talking at all. She was focused on the matter at hand. However, that matter was done with for the moment and now she was interested in the Atacer.
"Actually, no, but Daniel is looking it over, seeing if he can translate any of the symbols." Williams said.
"Alright, what do the rest of us do until then, sir?"
"As you wish as long as it involves staying on the base."
"Permission to go to--"
"Your quarters? Granted, Colonel."
"Thank you, sir." And with a glare over her shoulder at James, Cecillia left for her room on the base.
Janet glanced at the young, black-haired man in the corner of the room and raised an eyebrow. She decided that she would follow and talk to Cecillia. "Call me if you need me, sir?" She said to the General.
He nodded and Janet left to find Cecillia.
Cecillia had the distinct feeling of being followed. She wasn't sure if that was because her team had just gotten finished with their latest mission and they had been being followed, or because someone really was following her. She hoped that it wasn't James. She didn't want to deal with him at the moment. "James, I don't want to--" She turned and saw her aunt Janet coming up behind her, "Oh, Aunt Janet, sorry. I thought you were someone else."
"I picked up on that one." She smiled.
"Right. So...uh...whatcha doin'?"
"I was going to talk to you, with me to my room?" She suggested, not wanting to sound like she was trying to boss her around or anything.
Janet nodded and followed her "niece" to her room. When they reached it, the two sat down facing one another on the black leather couch that was in the room. Janet was the first to speak amongst the silence, "So...who was that in the back of the room earlier?"
"Oh, that's James Pierce. He's under me, a Major, actually."
Janet nodded, "Right. So...what is it exactly that happened that made you so mad at him?"
"Oh....that...it was nothing really, um..." Hoping she could avoid to subject of James, Cecillia came down to her last resort and worst enemy, "Actually, I have to go to my office and do some paper work. I'm really sorry, Aunt Janet, but I just remembered and all. I...I'm sorry, but I really need to get that paperwork done." Cecillia smiled a little, quite possibly for emphasis.
"It's alright, I'll just talk to you later, ok?" Janet said, patting her on the knee. With that, Janet left and returned to the room she had previously left since she really wasn't sure where else to go.
Cecillia sighed and leaned into the couch, "Thank, God she took it. I really don't want to talk about that." She shook her head, "I really should go do some of that paperwork...It's getting piled up on me." So, she stood to go to her office and do at least a little paperwork. Cecillia was a lot like her father in the "I try to avoid as much paperwork as possible" sort of way, along with many other ways.
James was really glad that the General let him go to his own quarters. He swore he was off the hook now, since the Colonel had gone to her room and everything. He definitely had to say that he was happy that it was practically no chance whatsoever of running into his commanding officer. However, it was that "practically" part that didn't work out. Just before he turned down the hall for his room, he ran into someone. James didn't pay much attention to who it was, but helped her up. "Sorry, ma'am, I--" Then he saw that it was his Colonel and he dropped her hand, causing her to fall back down again.
Cecillia glared up at the Major. "Thanks a lot, James." She said in a biting tone as she pushed herself off the floor. She was glad when James gave her his hand again and helped her pull herself to her feet. "Thanks..." She muttered.
James said nothing, but nodded. He rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "So...uh...heh..." He sighed and looked up at Cecillia through his bangs.
Cecillia nodded, "Right..."
"Wh-what are you....uh, doing?"
"Office...paperwork..." Cecillia smiled a little.
"Paperwork, huh? That's a step-up, isn't it?" He joked.
Cecillia gave him a sideways half-glare. "Shut up." She smirked and started down the corridor to go to her office. "Where you headed, cowboy?"
James frowned, "Did you just call me a--" "Cowboy?" Cecillia laughed, "Don't even ask where that came from. You're from New York, very...not-cowboy-ish, don't you agree?"
"Yeah," James nodded, "I definitely agree." Over the years, his New York accent had become less noticable, but it was definitely still there.
"So, anyway, where you headed?"
"My quarters." James answered simply.
"See ya later, then." Cecillia said, opening the door to her office and going in.
James waved a little and went on down the corridor. When he knew he was far down enough, he muttered, "I can't believe I did that..." and entered his room, almost immediately slammed his back into the door and fell into a slipped down to a sitting position. There was no way that had happened; it just had to be part of a horrible, regulation-breaking dream.
Four hours later, Teal'C and Daniel had finally deciphered the symbols on the Atacer and Sam had a good idea of what it was used for. Teal'C had left to bring the General back, while Daniel and Sam ordered everything to make sense so they could try and explain it so that everyone could understand what the device was for. They were both used to extreme layman terms since they had Jack on their team for all those years.
Teal'C came back, not only with General Williams but with the new SG-1 team members and the new resident Doc of the SGC. Jack was the first to speak, "Alright, so...what's the deal with this little doohickey?" He asked, practically bouncing on his feet.
"Dad...a little over-excited, don't you think?" Cecillia raised an eyebrow at her father.
"Maybe..." He winked at her, "Anyway, what is it and what's it for?"
"Well, to start things off," Daniel started, "Teal'C and I have determined what the symbols mean. In the simplest terms, it translates to: Lavishers of light, keep it close; Devils of the night, stay far out of sight. I really don't know what it is supposed to mean, but...that's roughly what it translates to. The language is...--"
"Latin-based. Dad, I came up with that already. We know what it translates to." Jadis Jackson said, smiling when her father looked up at her. "I think they just wanted a second opinion from, you know, the original Dr. Jackson."
"You know you take after me so much that it scares me?"
"I'll keep that close." She grinned.
"So, Carter--er--Sam--er--whoever you are, what's it used for?" Jack asked, looking at his wife.
"Well, far as I can tell, it's used for...actually, I'm really not sure." She turned to the General, "Would you mind if I took a little more time to look at it and try and figure it out, sir?"
"Take as long as you need, Sam." The General nodded and turned to leave, but before he did, he said to the team that he had command over, "Dismissed."
Almost everyone left the room except the Jackson family and Sam. However, before James got too far away from him, Jack stopped him, placing a hand on his shoulder. The twenty-something year old's shoulders almost immediately tensed. "James, right?" When James nodded, Jack continued, "Right...we need to talk. Where would you suggest we go? It's...a little personal."
"My...quarters, I guess."
"Alright, lead the way." Jack said, allowing the young man to take lead and following after him. This should be fun. He might even manage to be able to make the boy squirm a little, purely for some good fun, of course.
Notes - Alright! That's that chapter. What is this Atacer? What the hell is it for? I'm not sure! If you have any ideas, I'd love you forever and dedicate the next chapter to you! grins and winks at reviewers And just WHAT IN THE HELL is it that Jack wants to talk to James about? Hmm? Care to give a guess?
2 reviewers of this chapter will get a cameo in this fic. Now, you wonder, how does one get a cameo? Here we go:
Category 1: Topic-Pick
The first reviewer to correctly guess the topic that Jack wants to talk to James about, you get a cameo. Happy? claps Good!
Category 2: Alien Tech (dedication as well.)
This isn't a "first or none" kind of thing. This is more a "I think this is greatness!" kind of deal. Anyway, for this cameo, you have to give me a little help on the Atacer (by the way, pronounced: A-ta-seer [thanks to my sis for the pronunciation on that one! She's great with that stuff! lol] )and, ya know, what it might be used for. ;
After you've done either of these (if you do), please, have mercy on me and do this:
1.) Tell me if you WANT a cameo (it would be sad if I gave you one and you didn't want it, ya know?) 2.) If you DO want the cameo, leave a little info for how you want your character to be perceived. NOTE - the cameos will be used from chapter 8-?? whatever I decide to make this end on lol
I know a lot of you are probably already going "TWO cameos? That's IT? What about the rest of us that get it right but aren't first or don't have the best ideas? What happens to us?!" Here's the skinny on that one:
For the other "I got the topic right..." people, if you see any of my other fics (obviously they have to be chaptered and not say ONE SHOT in the summary lol) that you like, I'll allow you a cameo in there somewhere.
For the other "Atacer use ideas..." well...if I have other fics, don't you think I'll have other alien technology? nods That's where you will come in. I will, at the beginning of the chapter that I use your idea in, give you full credit for it and whatnot and give you a dedication, as well. grin
Now, if that doesn't seem fair to you...you're really picky about how things are fair. laughs Anyway, review please! (Any form of a review shall be accepted: Flame; praise; constrictive criticism; alien tech ideas; correct topic responses; or a combination of these!) Hope you guys are enjoying this fic so far and I hope you have fun with the little mini- contest-thinger here grin winks & waves
Later days, PFB