AN: This is all I've got so far... I'll try to update soon.
"What was she doing?" Jack shrugs as if he is bored.
"Reading." Daniel walks into the office as if he belongs.
"Dr. Jackson, where's Cha'til?" Daniel looks out the door and sort of waves. Hammond follows his gaze and sees Cha'til sitting at the briefing table.
"What does she have?"
"A book of Egypt." Hammond nods.
"Any idea how she got out?"
"She walked." Daniel doesn't need to 'sir' him civilians have those pleasures. Hammond smiles and Jack places his head in his hands to hide his laugh.
"What is she wearing?" Daniel glances back into the briefing room and smiles.
"Someone's sweats." Daniel takes the empty chair and looks over at Jack. "She picked them up from one of the rooms she had been in."
"How many rooms was she in?" Hammond sounds worried now, as if security was being compromised.
"Just a couple, she said she was just looking for her clothes." Hammond nods than picks up the phone.
"She's been located... I would like to know if any clothes come up missing... a sweater and sweat pants... ASAP." He hangs up the phone than looks back at Jack and Daniel.
"Search teams getting called off?"
"Yes Colonel." He looks out the door, his hands still resting on his desk. "I'd suggest you keep a close eye on her, I don't want her walking off again."
"Yes sir." Answers Jack, he gets up and walks out the door, Daniel following close behind. "Hey Cha'til." She had moved from the table and now is standing in front of the window that has a clear view of the 'gate.
It's beautiful.
Jack smiles, so does Daniel as he stands to the other side of her.
"You know what it is?"
Of course.
Her stance changes, seeming as if she thought it was common knowledge.
Used it lots of times.
"Really?" Daniel is amazed, Cha'til didn't seem as if she had been in many places.
With my family, we traveled to see our relatives.
Daniel smiles, as if remembering his own family.
"So your family used it?" She nods than focuses on the empty space in front of the 'gate.
Where's the panel?
Jack is the first to figure out what she meant but still let Daniel answer.
"We don't have one, we made our own." Cha'til didn't seem phased by this, she continues to stand in front of the window, her mind going off on it's own tangent, Daniel and Jack could feel her mind become disconnected from theirs.
It's beautiful.
Cha'til's voice comes in again, slower and distant, but still there. Daniel and Jack both look over at her as if on strings.
"You okay?" She nods and her smile widens.
Just... never mind.
"No, tell us." She turns around and shakes her head before moving back to the table, the book still wide open. She sits back down and flips the page, a picture falls out of the crease. Cha'til catches it before it hits the ground and holds it between her hands, studying the woman carefully.
Who?
The one word is all that comes through the 'fog' and Daniel smiles.
"Sha're." Daniel's eyes loose the present and drifts into the past, he slowly sits down in the chair next to Cha'til, still starring at her picture. The confused look still doesn't disappear from Cha'til's face. "My wife."
She's beautiful.
Daniel smiles, he's always known what she just said, just not from another woman's mouth. The picture of Sha're, is the only one in his possession, it was the only time they had. She's smiling, he had made her do that, she was as happy as ever.
Where is she?
The question was an obvious one, though not one any one on the base would have asked.
"I don't know." Cha'til's smile disappears, as does Daniel's. "It's okay, she's in the wind." Daniel smiles at this thought; he had always known she was still with him. Cha'til places the picture back in the book and shuts it, pushing it away from her and into the middle of the table.
"Teal'c... you seen the Colonel?" Sam has been looking for Jack for a while finally finding Teal'c might help.
"I have not." Sam smiles, more bummed out than anything.
"How 'bout Daniel?" Teal'c shakes his head again. "Thanks anyway."
"Carter!" Jack just turned the corner, his dog tags hanging out of his black shirt and his step a little light.
"Hi sir."
"What's up?" Sam looks at Teal'c, he walks away and Sam turns back to look at Jack.
"Where are Cha'til, and Daniel?" He smiles.
"Daniel's showing Cha'til around the base." Sam mouths 'oh' and heads back to her lab, Jack follows her, more eager than before. "You've been looking for me to ask me where Daniel and Cha'til are?"
"No sir." Sam goes into her lab and Jack follows.
"So what do you want?" Sam finally sits down in front of her computer and pushes the mouse, waking it up. "Carter. I'm getting bored." Sam smiles than points at the screen. "What is that?"
"I'm still trying to figure that out." Jack sat down behind her, his breathing lifting the hairs on the back of her neck making her place her hand there so the chills would stop.
"What's it from?" Sam picks up something that is connected to the computer.
"Something SG-4 found at the temple." Jack grabs the object, without pulling it out of the computer, and flips it over, looking it over inch by inch.
"Didn't see that there." He put it back next to the computer, brushing Sam's arms in the process. "So what's on the screen?"
"Well I'm guessing it's a journal of some sort." Jack laughs a little; it comes out more like a grunt.
"What's it say?"
"Um... that's what I need Daniel for."
"Oh." Jack starts to get up than sits back down.
"What is it sir?"
"Are there... pages?" Sam clicks her mouse and the picture on the screen changes. "Cool." Sam smiles at this.
"Here's the first page." She clicks her mouse once again and a picture of a man and a woman pops up on the screen
"Who are they?" Sam shrugs, than turns around in her chair and realizes how close Jack is, he pushes the chair back and leans back in it.
"Ah..." She looses her train of thought. "I believe they maybe her parents... sir." Jack nods. "I think it says it in the writing."
"Do you think she wrote it?" Sam shrugs again. Just than Sam's phone starts to ring, she digs it up from under papers and picks it up.
"Carter." She smiles. "Yeah." Sam holds the phone in front of Jack. "It's Daniel."
"Daniel?" He turns around and leans on the table. "Sure, bring her here, Carter needs to talk to you... quickly." He hangs up. "He's coming here, I'll bring Cha'til around the base some more."
"Okay." Jack watches the screen as Carter continues to browse the pages.
"This is Major Sam Carter's lab." Daniel slowly brings Cha'til around the corner and into the lab. She smiles than walks over to Jack a cup of coffee held protectively in her hands. "She's the other person that was there." Cha'til nods to her.
It's nice to meet you.
This frightens Sam a little, makes her jump. Jack and Daniel have a little laugh at her expense.
Sorry.
"It's okay." Daniel walks over next to Sam, peers over her shoulder at the black screen.
"Come on Cha'til, I'll show you the break room."
Break room?
"Just... come on." She nods, and follows Jack, always two steps behind. Jack turns around and shuts the door before heading for the break room.
"So what's up Sam?" He moves the chair Jack had been in to sit next to her and she moves the computer screen so he can see it better than she turns it back on.
"Can you translate this?" He changes his line of sight to the screen.
"Looks like Latin... it's not Latin though." He moves the chair a little closer. "Can you print this out?"
"Its more than just this one page, but... sure... done." The printer warms up and spits out page after page full of different shapes, symbols and letters. The printer finally stops and Daniel picks up his new 'book'.
"I'll get to work... one question..."
"The temple." Daniel didn't even have to finish the sentence Sam knew what he wanted. He smiles and walks out the door, leaving it open this time.
TBC