Chapter Four
The next day Amanda walked in to the mission briefing to find that Jonas was the only other person to arrive yet. "Morning Jonas" Amanda said trying to be polite.
"Morning Captain" Jonas said lifting his head away from the report he was reading just long enough to look at her then quickly returned his gaze back.
Amanda sat down in the place where she sat the day before and poured herself a glass of water as Jack and Sam walked in. "Good morning campers" Jack said with a wide grin on his face noticing Jonas he continued. "Oohh… dreamy look in his eyes pretending to read a report, my guess is Capmunroe was online last night."
Amanda who was just taking a drink of her water when Jack spoke found herself spitting the contents of her mouth across the table just missing Jack.
Jack gave her a questioning look and asked if she was ok, she gave a response that she was fine, it was just that the water went down the wrong way. Thinking nothing of it Jack turned his attention back to Jonas and demanded an answer with the look he gave Jonas.
"Yes Jack, she was online and we talked for a bit, but I don't have a dreamy look in my eye" Jonas said going slightly red faced. All Amanda could do while this conversation was going on was look down at the table going slightly pink herself knowing there and then that Jonas must be Newbe as he was the only person she spoke to last night. Thinking back to all the information he gave about himself she could tell how it all added up now.
Just then Sam's voice interrupted her thoughts "Are you all right Captain Reese you look slightly red, are you too hot?"
Snapping her head up to look at Sam who was staring at her, Amanda said "No… No I'm fine just thinking about something that's all" 'yeah thinking that someone who hates me may be falling for me' she silently added to herself.
"Oh don't tell me I've got two love sick puppies on my team" Jack said settling heavily into his seat and looking over at Amanda.
"No Sir, I can honestly say I'm not love sick, I've just moved to town, remember, haven't had time to get love sick" Amanda shot back but unable to stop herself from turn a deeper shade of red.
"Ok then just keep your mind on the job ok" Jack said shooting a small knowing smile towards Amanda. Across the room the door opened and Teal'c entered, quickly taking his usual seat after giving everybody a nod of his head in greeting. General Hammond was not far behind Teal'c, entering the room just as Teal'c had taken his seat. Hammond quickly walked round to his seat, stood at the back of it but didn't sit down.
"SG-1, as we discussed most of the details during yesterdays briefing I shall let you get off and prepare for your mission which you'll be leaving on at 1100 hours. That gives you three hours to get your things together and to the Gateroom, on time this time" Hammond said directing his last comment towards Jonas who had a tendency to be worse than Daniel Jackson for being late.
"Yes sir" Jonas said going slightly red knowing what Hammond was hinting at. With that all five members of SG-1 lifted themselves from their seats and left the briefing room.
Amanda quickly retreated to her office unaware that she was being followed by Jack. Quickly entering her office she quickly closed the door and raised her voice in anger almost shouting "Fuck… fuck… fuck… how the hell could I miss it all the fucking clues were there… why the hell did I miss 'em?"
Jack stood quietly outside her office wondering what Amanda was talking about and then thinking back to the briefing room and how she suddenly turned red about the same time he was teasing Jonas about his online fancy. "It can't be that" Jack said to himself then quickly turned and walked down the corridor in search of Sam.
In her office Amanda was grateful that she had already prepared her equipment for the mission as it gave her some time to quickly pop on line and hopefully talk to one of her dearest friends in England. Quickly walking over to the computer she quickly logged onto the internet.
Jack entered Sam's lab and noticed that she was just finishing packing her equipment, which he thought was a good thing. "Sam I need a favour" Jack said rushing over to Sam and receiving a puzzled look.
"What can I help you with sir" Sam said puzzled at the grin that was plastered to his face.
"I need you to do the same thing that you did with Jonas and his internet files but this time I want you to do it with Reese… I've got a hunch about something but I just wanna make sure ok" Jack said almost as hyper as a 6 year old in a candy store.
"Sure, but would you like to tell me what the hunch is?" Sam said walking over to her computer and logging on to the internal network.
"Ok… I think Captain Reese is Capmunroe" Jack said and Sam stopped mid type and quickly turned to face him
"Your kidding right… do you know the odds on that actually happening."
"I'm pretty sure she is Capmunroe… can you remember in the briefing room when I was teasing Jonas she was turning red, practically as much as Jonas" Jack said as Sam turned back around to face the computer so she could get back to work.
"But Sir she could just have been embarrassed about talking about things like that at work" Sam said starting to type again.
"True… but I followed her to her office to make sure she was ok, but before I had a chance to follow her in she closed the door… or should I say slammed. Then she started shouting that she should have seen it sooner and that she should have noticed things" Jack said watching over Sam's shoulder to see what she was doing.
"Ok that would get your imagination going… Ok this should be easy as she's online now, I'll be able to tail her and see where she goes, just like we did with Jonas" Sam said still typing speedily on the keyboard. It wasn't long before they found themselves in the Wormhole Xtreme chat room and Sam gasped at seeing Amanda's screen name but Jack couldn't resists saying "I knew it," but they both watched in amazement as she started talking to someone and then quickly moved to a private room which Sam quickly followed them in to.
Private room of Capmunroe
Capmunroe: Hey Louise am I glad your online cos I need to talk to someone and I haven't got time as I have to go somewhere in about an hour?
Goldenlion: Hey Amanda what's up?
Capmunroe: your never gonna believe this, can you remember that guy that I've been talking to for the last three or four months.
Goldenlion: Yeah what about him. Has he turned in to a freak or something?
Capmunroe: Worse, I've fucking found out that he's only on my new team and even more worse, he hates my guts in person but online I don't know he's like a completely different person I don't know what to do.
Goldenlion: shit. Does he know your Capmunroe.
Capmunroe: No, which I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.
Goldenlion: I think at the moment that's a good thing. I thought you were getting quite friendly with him and I was hoping that you had finally met someone good for you after everything you've been through. Only thing I can say is wait and see if this guy changes his mind about you, it may just be that you're the new one on the team and he's trying to throw you off balance to test you or something.
Capmunroe: I hope your right because he's a great guy online and I was hoping the same as you.
Goldenlion: Yeah well let me know how things turn out.
Capmunroe: ok thanks for your help. Say hi to my mum if you see her ok.
Goldenlion: will do talk soon ok.
Capmunroe: ok bye Louise.
Sam noticed that Amanda had logged off and she did the same. Sam and Jack sat in silence for what seemed forever while thinking about what they had just witnessed. "God she must feel horrible" Sam said stating the obvious.
"Yeah… what should we do… should we tell Jonas" Jack said trying to think of things to do to make things better for his teammates.
"No we can't, I think that would just upset both of them and maybe push them further apart" Sam said trying to think of a solution herself. "I think we should just leave it for the moment and see what happens, like Captain Reese's friend said maybe he'll get over it" Sam said saying the only thing that came to mind.
"Ok I'll give it two weeks and if things haven't got better between them we talk to both of them together agreed" Jack said and Sam quickly agreed with him.
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The next day Amanda walked in to the mission briefing to find that Jonas was the only other person to arrive yet. "Morning Jonas" Amanda said trying to be polite.
"Morning Captain" Jonas said lifting his head away from the report he was reading just long enough to look at her then quickly returned his gaze back.
Amanda sat down in the place where she sat the day before and poured herself a glass of water as Jack and Sam walked in. "Good morning campers" Jack said with a wide grin on his face noticing Jonas he continued. "Oohh… dreamy look in his eyes pretending to read a report, my guess is Capmunroe was online last night."
Amanda who was just taking a drink of her water when Jack spoke found herself spitting the contents of her mouth across the table just missing Jack.
Jack gave her a questioning look and asked if she was ok, she gave a response that she was fine, it was just that the water went down the wrong way. Thinking nothing of it Jack turned his attention back to Jonas and demanded an answer with the look he gave Jonas.
"Yes Jack, she was online and we talked for a bit, but I don't have a dreamy look in my eye" Jonas said going slightly red faced. All Amanda could do while this conversation was going on was look down at the table going slightly pink herself knowing there and then that Jonas must be Newbe as he was the only person she spoke to last night. Thinking back to all the information he gave about himself she could tell how it all added up now.
Just then Sam's voice interrupted her thoughts "Are you all right Captain Reese you look slightly red, are you too hot?"
Snapping her head up to look at Sam who was staring at her, Amanda said "No… No I'm fine just thinking about something that's all" 'yeah thinking that someone who hates me may be falling for me' she silently added to herself.
"Oh don't tell me I've got two love sick puppies on my team" Jack said settling heavily into his seat and looking over at Amanda.
"No Sir, I can honestly say I'm not love sick, I've just moved to town, remember, haven't had time to get love sick" Amanda shot back but unable to stop herself from turn a deeper shade of red.
"Ok then just keep your mind on the job ok" Jack said shooting a small knowing smile towards Amanda. Across the room the door opened and Teal'c entered, quickly taking his usual seat after giving everybody a nod of his head in greeting. General Hammond was not far behind Teal'c, entering the room just as Teal'c had taken his seat. Hammond quickly walked round to his seat, stood at the back of it but didn't sit down.
"SG-1, as we discussed most of the details during yesterdays briefing I shall let you get off and prepare for your mission which you'll be leaving on at 1100 hours. That gives you three hours to get your things together and to the Gateroom, on time this time" Hammond said directing his last comment towards Jonas who had a tendency to be worse than Daniel Jackson for being late.
"Yes sir" Jonas said going slightly red knowing what Hammond was hinting at. With that all five members of SG-1 lifted themselves from their seats and left the briefing room.
Amanda quickly retreated to her office unaware that she was being followed by Jack. Quickly entering her office she quickly closed the door and raised her voice in anger almost shouting "Fuck… fuck… fuck… how the hell could I miss it all the fucking clues were there… why the hell did I miss 'em?"
Jack stood quietly outside her office wondering what Amanda was talking about and then thinking back to the briefing room and how she suddenly turned red about the same time he was teasing Jonas about his online fancy. "It can't be that" Jack said to himself then quickly turned and walked down the corridor in search of Sam.
In her office Amanda was grateful that she had already prepared her equipment for the mission as it gave her some time to quickly pop on line and hopefully talk to one of her dearest friends in England. Quickly walking over to the computer she quickly logged onto the internet.
Jack entered Sam's lab and noticed that she was just finishing packing her equipment, which he thought was a good thing. "Sam I need a favour" Jack said rushing over to Sam and receiving a puzzled look.
"What can I help you with sir" Sam said puzzled at the grin that was plastered to his face.
"I need you to do the same thing that you did with Jonas and his internet files but this time I want you to do it with Reese… I've got a hunch about something but I just wanna make sure ok" Jack said almost as hyper as a 6 year old in a candy store.
"Sure, but would you like to tell me what the hunch is?" Sam said walking over to her computer and logging on to the internal network.
"Ok… I think Captain Reese is Capmunroe" Jack said and Sam stopped mid type and quickly turned to face him
"Your kidding right… do you know the odds on that actually happening."
"I'm pretty sure she is Capmunroe… can you remember in the briefing room when I was teasing Jonas she was turning red, practically as much as Jonas" Jack said as Sam turned back around to face the computer so she could get back to work.
"But Sir she could just have been embarrassed about talking about things like that at work" Sam said starting to type again.
"True… but I followed her to her office to make sure she was ok, but before I had a chance to follow her in she closed the door… or should I say slammed. Then she started shouting that she should have seen it sooner and that she should have noticed things" Jack said watching over Sam's shoulder to see what she was doing.
"Ok that would get your imagination going… Ok this should be easy as she's online now, I'll be able to tail her and see where she goes, just like we did with Jonas" Sam said still typing speedily on the keyboard. It wasn't long before they found themselves in the Wormhole Xtreme chat room and Sam gasped at seeing Amanda's screen name but Jack couldn't resists saying "I knew it," but they both watched in amazement as she started talking to someone and then quickly moved to a private room which Sam quickly followed them in to.
Private room of Capmunroe
Capmunroe: Hey Louise am I glad your online cos I need to talk to someone and I haven't got time as I have to go somewhere in about an hour?
Goldenlion: Hey Amanda what's up?
Capmunroe: your never gonna believe this, can you remember that guy that I've been talking to for the last three or four months.
Goldenlion: Yeah what about him. Has he turned in to a freak or something?
Capmunroe: Worse, I've fucking found out that he's only on my new team and even more worse, he hates my guts in person but online I don't know he's like a completely different person I don't know what to do.
Goldenlion: shit. Does he know your Capmunroe.
Capmunroe: No, which I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.
Goldenlion: I think at the moment that's a good thing. I thought you were getting quite friendly with him and I was hoping that you had finally met someone good for you after everything you've been through. Only thing I can say is wait and see if this guy changes his mind about you, it may just be that you're the new one on the team and he's trying to throw you off balance to test you or something.
Capmunroe: I hope your right because he's a great guy online and I was hoping the same as you.
Goldenlion: Yeah well let me know how things turn out.
Capmunroe: ok thanks for your help. Say hi to my mum if you see her ok.
Goldenlion: will do talk soon ok.
Capmunroe: ok bye Louise.
Sam noticed that Amanda had logged off and she did the same. Sam and Jack sat in silence for what seemed forever while thinking about what they had just witnessed. "God she must feel horrible" Sam said stating the obvious.
"Yeah… what should we do… should we tell Jonas" Jack said trying to think of things to do to make things better for his teammates.
"No we can't, I think that would just upset both of them and maybe push them further apart" Sam said trying to think of a solution herself. "I think we should just leave it for the moment and see what happens, like Captain Reese's friend said maybe he'll get over it" Sam said saying the only thing that came to mind.
"Ok I'll give it two weeks and if things haven't got better between them we talk to both of them together agreed" Jack said and Sam quickly agreed with him.
TBC