3 After Zero Hour: Part One
'Where are We Going?'(After Zero Hour, which was where the plant took over the base and Gilmore reviews Jack, but before Icon, which was where Daniel was wounded when the Grand Protectorate was over run by rebels and the Calcoonians were going to attack.)
Hey: Humor and Romance mixed with Stargate adventure have to love the show. My BF told me not to make Stargate into a Soap Opera, lol.
Lets see, Jack gave who he called Camel as the dead ZPM and sent him threw the gate. SG-1 returned and the President came by (And then...the joys of driving...oh, the things these eyes have seen).
SGCJack climbed into the government car and waved for SG-1 to follow him. Teal'c got into the passenger seat. Daniel and Sam knew that Jack was going to show Teal'c a few pointers on driving and situated themselves in the back. It was a very nice dark navy car with slightly tinted windows. They were taking some time off the President granted them after he established Jack as the General in charge by endorsing his position.
"Jack, you're a general in the Air Force." Daniel mentioned while buckling his seatbelt.
"Yes, that's what I do." Jack started the car and checked his mirrors.
Samantha tipped her head to one side and smirked at Teal'c, cause if Jack was anything he was a smartly. She knew sometimes it came across as being stupid or trivial, but she knew there was purpose to his act.
"I mean if we are going there, why didn't you just have us flown over there?" Daniel settled his glasses in a more comfortable place on the bridge of his nose.
"AAAhh, what's the fun in that? Besides Teal'c needs to learn to drive out in civilian life. He has to be able to drive with the crazy people. You see Teal'c, not everyone drives with their eyes open." Jack pulled the car away leaving the base.
Out on the Road
Near twenty minutes out, a car almost sideswiped them while it pulled out into the road. Daniel let out a sound and Sam clenched her teeth sure they would hit. Jack steered into the other lane to try and get away from the greenish blue Ford, Mustang. Jack had to control himself not to flip off the other car, after all Sam was in the car. He also did not want Teal'c doing that while out Sunday driving on his own. He made a mental note of the car's license plate.
An hour after they left the base, they stopped at a traffic light and seen another driver in a Chevy pickup truck run a red light.
"Was that not illegal, O'Neill?" Teal'c pointed to the truck speeding away.
"Yep. Remember the eyes closed thing?" Jack seemed unconcerned.
Jack turned on his signal and was turning right into a parking lot. He heard the tractor-trailer that was behind him step on the gas. Jack had to practically floor it and drift around the corner to get out of the way. To that, the truck honked its horn, and Jack did the same.
"Why was that truck speeding up when we were not out of the lane yet? We were following the proper procedure while using a turn signal." Teal'c started to feel confused and annoyed.
"He didn't want to slow down. It's a way of making the other vehicle get out of your way faster by threatening to kill everyone needlessly including yourself." Daniel was trying to speak calmly, but knew his voice sounded shaky.
"Yea, it would have added three seconds onto his driving time. Can't have that now can we? Remember, Teal'c some drivers close their eyes before they turn the car on and stay that way." Jack was now wishing he had flown instead of driving, but was not about to admit that to Daniel.
"Besides it's the first of the month and a Friday. What did you expect, less traffic than usual?" Sam was feeling amused at Jack's dilemma as she got out her cell phone to see if any good pictures could be taken.
When she got the cell phone out, they stopped to let a pedestrian walk by. Sam then gaped at a car with its break lights on. The car pulled straight back into them then stopped and pulled forward. The lady got out of her new light yellow Cadillac, which still had the temporary tags in the window, and walked to their passenger side door.
She could have been around 30-years-old Teal'c noticed, "I'm sorry. You were in my blind spot. I didn't see you, I'm sorry."
Teal'c viewed her pale face, "Have you had your eye's closed since you turned your vehicle on?"
He acted so serious she did not know if he was joking or being a smartly pants, "I had my eyes open, but you were in my blind spot. I am sorry. There is no damage to either car." She took a haughty step away from the government car.
"We were stopped to let that old man walk by. We are directly behind you. Blind spot my as!" Jack glared at her not appreciating her little excuse.
Teal'c resisted the urge to ask what that last statement meant and decided to take in the interactions of the parking lot where there was a hotdog stand, "Some of the drivers appear to be in the same medicated state Daniel Jackson was after he got shot in the arm." To that, everyone in the car laughed except for Teal'c who meant it.
They were in a parking lot of an electronics store, so Sam could grab a few things for her laptop on the way. They drove up the lane headed straight for the building to let her out at the door. A tall man was walking directly down the middle of their lane. Jack started to get upset and honked his horn at the man who pretended not to hear. Finally Jack spun the car into the other lane and floored it nearly clipping him.
"As Hol!" the man yelled to the car driving around him.
"Your not in a car! Walk on the side, stupid!" Jack would have loved to have had Teal'c open his door a little to give the guy a nudge as they went by, but knew that would not be a good idea.
Now, it wasn't just Jack who was upset. Teal'c wanted to get out of the car and shove the man to the side to get him out of the way of the next car that was pulling up behind him and was forced to slow down.
They then passed a man carrying a small child under his arm like a football while crossing the lane. The child was yelling and kicking, Jack seen as he slowed to a stop again. Three of the man's other children ran around him and one stood directly in front of Jack's car and stared at him knowing he was stopping Jack from proceeding. The boy, who could not be over ten, mouthed a few curse words in Jack's direction then started walking again.
"People let there kids play in the road all the time. Some days you have to pretend you are driving around cones there are so many. Gee I think I'll stand in the road and see what happens. I wonder what they would do if I started bumping into them just a little? Oh, then they would get all upset at the evil drivers. I know Sam don't even say it." Jack was inches from losing control and just parking his car directly behind the man's who just walked by with the kids.
Teal'c squinted his eyes. He saw a young teenage girl with a small bottle spraying something at the back of each car she walked past. He read the container and said it out loud, "Plane paint remover." He could see the patches she sprayed were turning into pealing paint in seconds as she walked unchecked. He raised his voice to tell her that it was not wise, and she ran off.
There was an empty space that another car was about to park in and another shopper at that very second pushed his cart into the space. The guy left the cart in the space and the driver yelled at him. Once again blocking the road, Jack mused. "What do these people have against me?"
"Sir, I think someone seen us leave the base. They called the others and told them to come out here. They know its you, Sir." Sam tried to keep her voice low and calm while holding her cell phone up for a great picture.
"What!?" His eyes gave looks of daggers at every person around his car for a moment. "Well, it looks like an ambush people. Carter?"
"Yes, sir?" She started smiling and putting the cell back on her lap.
"I never took you for a conspiracy theorist." Jack said dryly.
"Sorry, sir. I couldn't resist." She held her hand over her mouth and turned to Daniel who was also trying to control himself from laughing at the General.
"Why are people blocking the road purposefully?" Teal'c clenched his fist and turned to Jack.
"It may be because they are distracted or..." Sam almost got her other reason out.
"Don't even make excuses for them Carter. Ya know why they do this, because they can." Jack tried not to lose his temper and swerve at the pedestrians and other drivers to scare them into moving.
As their car pulled up to the intersection and turned slightly to be in the lane they needed to let Sam out, another person was in the way. A redhead who appeared to be in her early 30's was standing in the intersection with a buggy. She proceeded to check a few things in her bags making all the cars stop.
"Unbelievable!" That was it, Jack was about to road rage and call the base to have a Hummer dropped off, so he could run the 'stupid' people over. He yelled out the window, "Come on, move it!"
The woman looked at him as if he were being a jerk and continued for a minute to check her purchases. "I'm a pedestrian in a crosswalk. I have the right of way."
Jack started to turn red, "That doesn't mean to set up a pop-tent in the road."
"It's ok, sir." Sam got out of the car and trotted into the building trying to hurry.
"I find this to be very upsetting. They are not following the rules, but we have to allow them to do so. Can we call the authorities?" Teal'c was shifting his eyes wishing he had brought a weapon to stun them with. Zap Zap
"You'll have to get use to this kind of stuff, Teal'c." Daniel was trying to calm them down before they started pulling out their guns and directing traffic themselves.
Jack drove the car around to the side of the building and found himself peering at a parked car in the road, but at least it was in the other lane. "For crying out loud!"
The car was sitting out into the road by about four feet. The lane was blocked on the other side because of it. Jack spotted the man with all the kids waiting for him to pass, so he could go around the parked car. The woman who was standing in the road looking in her bags was behind him.
Daniel seen what Jack was about to do and just leaned back against the door and watched everyone's reactions. Jack brought the car to an almost stop and slowly went by the first parked car. He peered into the car of the man with all the kids and made eye contact. Jack started to smirk while barely even going two mph. The woman honked her horn, and then Jack stopped just so the man could not pull around him to let them both go.
A pedestrian thought that Jack was being friendly to her by letting her pass to her SUV and nodded. To that, Jack tipped his head. She put a few bags in the back then got in and backed up. He sat there seeming to enjoy the situation too much.
"Jack, can we go now?" Daniel started thinking the two people trapped by Jack were about to get out and start bashing the car.
Jack pulled past the woman who was red in the face, "Have a nice day."
The woman yelled a few words that Teal'c did not know.
"Why are they parked in the road? Please, do not say because they can." Teal'c was finding he might not want to drive out in civilian areas.
"You can kind of tell where the old parking lines were at. It looks like they decided to go by the old ones and not the new parking spaces that have been freshly painted. This is why I wanted to..." Daniel almost got that last sentence out.
"Don't say it. I'll make the call." Jack was becoming furious at the other drivers and was going to pull up to the building and get Sam.
"Stupid, stupid what goes on in their heads?" Jack was forced to stop again.
There was a business guy in an Escalade that was driving around the building's side in the wrong lane headed straight for them. Jack put his arms up into the air. The guy gave them a hateful glair while mouthing a few words and kept driving then cut down another lane.
At that moment a police car pulled up behind Jack and flashed his lights.
"Now what?" Jack turned the car off.
"Sir, you can't park here. This is a no parking zone." The cop acted polite.
"I'm not parking. A guy was in my lane driving the wrong way, and I was forced to sit here." Jack was about to say who he was.
"We had calls about the driving of a government car. Several calls from cell phones actually saying that the car was trying to hit pedestrians." The policeman was still wearing his hat and sunglasses, Daniel could barely tell because of the sun shining behind him while he talked.
"Pete, leave them alone." Sam strolled to the car giggling with a small bag in her hand.
"Pete?" Jack turned to peer at the cop for the first time.
About ten minutes later, a caravan of military vehicles arrived per Jack's order of a Hummer.
"Finally." Jack climbed into the new vehicle ready to do war.
Daniel shifted his vision to his hands, "Here we go."
Not long after that, they were waiting for the traffic to clear to pull out into the road.
"Jack, why are you turning that way? It would be easier to go down and turn around." Daniel had been tired of sitting for over ten minutes waiting to pull out into the road.
"Sir, it would take a shorter time to do what Daniel suggests." Sam leaned forward in the massive Hummer.
The car behind Jack was starting to lose his tolerance for the massive military vehicle. The Hummer took up both turning lanes. The guy could have turned dozens of times cause he would be pulling out to the right where as Jack had to wait for both sides to clear going left. The guy in the car counted each time he could have pulled out and he was no longer listening to his wife telling him to calm down. He started honking the horn and yelling out the window. He lost his temper, as he had always been a rode rage kind of guy. He had yelled at an elderly lady earlier asking if she was going to pull up and back in as she tried to make a turn. He opened his door and flipped the Hummer off continuing to threaten to beat their heads in the ground. Jack of course ignored him as best he could.
His wife of 14 years just shook her head. If he wants to get into a fight with military people, then he can go right on. I told him to pull out over there at the light, but did he take my advice since I shop here more often, Noooo. I wonder if I yelled and screamed what he would do?
The man's wife sitting in the passenger side started honking the horn and trying to press the tip of her foot on the gas yelling, "Get out of the way you idiots. Run them over. Do it, ram into them!"
He turned with a look of horror and shock on his face, "What are you doing? Your acting crazy!"
"I'm acting like you." She then became silent and did not talk the rest of the drive.
Two more cars behind that guy started to honk as well. Jack was starting to lose it. There was no way of pulling out. Everyone sped up or rode each other's bumpers to prevent anyone from pulling out. Maybe, Carter was right, they know it's me, and that's why they are doing this. Na.
"Jack what are you going to do? You should have listened to Sam. Why not just turn the other way?" Would that be accepting defeat? "Even if you did get a break and get out in to the road, you would still have to cross two more lanes in like three seconds to make the turn onto the freeway." Daniel was not prepared to sit there all day. "Hey, Sam could you call Pete and have him stop traffic for us?"
Jack started to growl, "I'm not going that way."
"Then where are you going?" Teal'c felt anxious to know.
"Where are you going, Jack?" Daniel started wonder in his frustration.
"Sir, where are you taking us? Sir?" Sam leaned forward seeing the wild look in Jack's eyes getting her cell phone ready for another picture.
"To He!" He raised his voice in obvious frustration. He floored the Hummer into the road where there was no obvious clear path to take. They nearly hit three vehicles as they screeched into the oncoming traffic then into the correct lane. The rough ride of a military Hummer only added to the feeling of wrecking.
"Ok, yea. Lets pick Reynolds up at his family's house, so we can get into a jet or something." Daniel was straightening his glasses after Sam handed them back to him.
Where are they going? Have to wait till I find out first! Hahahaha.
Oh, there's a great idea!
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