AN: Here you go... I don't know if it's good but I just wrote 12 pages and here's it typed. Hope you like it and as always read and review.
Hold on.
Cha'til walks over to her cup of coffee and takes a couple swallows. Jack can tell by the smell that it's Daniel's special blend. She finally walks back over to the table and picks up the paddle.
"Your serve." The little white ball is bounced over to Cha'til and she picks it up, hits it over the net and watches as Jack hits it back.
This is fun.
She hits it again, Jack misses it and goes to catch it before it rolls out the door.
"Yeah, 'cause you're winning." She smiles as if she knew what that meant and serves the ball again. It passes Jack and he slams the paddle on the table. "New game." Cha'til looks around the room and shrugs.
What's that?
"Pool?" She nods. "I'll show you." Jack walks over to the pool table and starts to set it up. "Whoa." Jack jumps a little.
What?
"Um... just my pager." He takes if off his belt and it shakes again. "See?" Cha'til nods and laughs as it shakes a third time. "We've got to go." She walks over to her mug and takes the last sip of coffee from it.
Can we get more?
"Sure... Daniel addicted you already?" Jack confused Cha'til and shakes his head. "Never mind." He shuts off the light and closes the door behind them.
With Cha'til nestled in the corner and a mug full of Daniel's special coffee grasped tightly in her hands the SG-1 team gathered around Daniel's desk. That is everyone except Teal'c who had been interrupted one too many times during his Kel'no'reem and wasn't about to answer their calls.
"So what's up Daniel?" Daniel smiles at Jack and looks over at Cha'til before answering.
"Look." Daniel didn't want to say anything yet, Cha'til seemed preoccupied at the moment but he wanted to be sure.
"What is it?"
"It's from the thing Sam had from the temple." Jack looks over at Sam, she shrugs.
"You translated it all?" Daniel shakes his head.
"No, just some of it... but I figured out what it is." Now Daniel is sure Cha'til is off somewhere else, she is slowly sipping the coffee that he had made especially for her. "She didn't write it." Daniel said as he nods to the girl.
"Who did?"
"Her parents." Daniel shows a printed version of the first page. "Meet Adrian and Kendra." Jack smiles, looks at the picture and than at Cha'til.
"She looks like her mother."
"Has her father's eyes." Sam adds.
And his bravery too.
The four suddenly turn around to see Cha'til still sitting in the corner, the coffee mug slowly being pulled to her lips. The happiness in her eyes disappeared, you could see the sorrow growing in them.
My mother always told me that.
She smiles at the memory than a tear runs down her cheek.
It's what I remember most about them.
Daniel pushes the 'print screen' button and slowly walks over to the girl in the corner.
"Are you okay?" Cha'til takes a long sip of her now cooled down coffee. Daniel takes a seat next to Cha'til on the floor, he leans over and whispers in her ear. "I'm here." Jack grabs the papers that Daniel had printed off, Sam and Jack both watch as Cha'til leans on Daniel for support and they quietly walk out and close the door behind them.
"Where's Dr. Jackson?"
"Busy... sir." Jack answers. Hammond has a packet of paper sitting in front of him, they match the ones Jack and Sam are holding.
"So what's this?"
"It's all Daniel has translated so far." Hammond flips through the big packet and than sets his hands on top of it.
"What is Dr. Jackson doing that's keeping him from this meeting?" Daniel had never missed a meeting that he got to show off his expertise of other languages.
"Talking to Cha'til, sir." Sam answers, she flips the first page and starts reading to herself.
"Did he tell you what he learned?"
"The journal that was found in the temple was not written by Cha'til." General Hammond is listening now, almost as if Jack is Daniel. "Her parents did." Jack picks up the picture he had taken off Daniel's desk and hands it to Hammond. "Adrian and Kendra." Hammond hands the picture back to Jack.
"She looks just like them." Daniel walks through the door, alone by the surprise of Sam and Jack. He sits down in front of another packet and smiles.
"They talk about her a lot." He starts, knowing from the names he had over heard that they already told Hammond that. "They talk about her destiny with the 'great ones'."
"The great ones?"
"Yes, also known as 'our protectors' or 'the ones with great power' they call them lots of things."
"Goa'uld?" Sam's question is one on everyone's mind.
"I don't know yet, they haven't mentioned anything that screams Goa'uld to me." Daniel is flipping through the many pages as he says this.
"Now you're sure about that?"
"You can look for yourself but I'm pretty sure." Daniel closes the packet and gets up and starts his pacing. "They mostly talk about Cha'til, what they have done to train her, and what they hope she will do for their people."
"So we might be holding something the Goa'uld is after?"
"It could be possible." Jack looks at Daniel as he continues to pace.
"Try to help Dr. Jackson with the rest of the translations, come back when you're done." Hammond gets up followed by Jack and Sam. "Dismissed." The three watch as Hammond closes his office door than Jack and Sam look over at Daniel.
"What?" Daniel doesn't seem as if he knows that Cha'til is gone.
"Where's your new friend?" Daniel walks up to the glass and watches as a MALP is set up in front of the 'gate.
"She needed to rest." Jack nods and Sam walks out the door behind them, bored with the situation.
"Carter.. could yo-." Jack turns around in the middle of his sentence to see an empty room. "Never mind."
"Walked out on you again?" Jack laughs a little at Daniel's joke.
"Looks like it." Jack turns back around after seeing Hammond walk down the stairs. The 'gate opens a new wormhole with a swoosh and the MALP is slowly lead into the event horizon.
"Who's going off world?"
"I think it might be SG-4, not sure though." Just than SG-3 and SG-4 walk into view and follow the MALP's path. "Looks like SG-3's going too."
"Dr. Jackson?" A familiar voice comes from behind the dazed friends. Daniel turns around as Jack follows.
"Yes?" An airman is standing in the doorway looking too nervous to walk in.
"She insisted I find you, you're requested to go to the VIP room."
"Thank you." Daniel looks over at Jack and gets a shrug. "Want to tag along?"
"Sure." Daniel heads for the elevator, Jack just a few paces behind, both knowing exactly who they're going to see.
"Cha'til?" Jack was the first one at the door but Daniel is the one who stepped inside first. He looks around the room a second time before pulling Jack in next to him.
"Where is she?" The answer Jack gets is only silence, he looks around the room, as if Daniel missed something. "She's got to be here... right?" Daniel still says nothing, they were both convinced Cha'til had called them.
"Right." Daniel finally answers. Jack nods and looks around the room one more time.
"Well she's not here." Jack states the obvious and looks at Daniel accusingly.
"What?!" Daniel is a kid again being accused of something he didn't do. "I left an airman at the door so she couldn't have walked off." Jack still looks at him accusingly. "I promise."
"Who was it?"
"Car... um... Carson." Jack looks at him again, trying to get it out of him.
"You sure?"
"Carson... positive." He sure didn't sound positive but Jack had to trust him, it was all they had right now.
"Okay." Jack says a little bit hesitant, he takes a couple seconds before he took his eyes away from Daniel.
"Sir?" Jack turns toward the door and smiles at the airman that now stood in front of him. He takes a look at the man's nametag before answering him.
"Carson." The airman smiles and nods.
"Are you looking for Cha'til sir?" Jack nods as Daniel walks up behind him.
"Where is she?" Daniel asks.
"Dr. Jackson." His 'hello' to Daniel. "She requested to be brought to the infirmary." Jack looks at Carson waiting for more. "Sir." Carson finishes.
"She's still there?" Carson nods and is pushed aside as Jack and Daniel heads to the infirmary.
"Jack!" He steps into the elevator and waits for Daniel before pushing the button for the floor that the infirmary's on.
"What Daniel?" Daniel looks over at Jack and freezes for a couple seconds.
"Are you okay?" Jack looks over to Daniel with a confused look on his face. Jacks face has turned ghost white and his lips are as blue as the ocean.
"Fine Daniel... why?" All of a sudden Jack falls to his knees and grabs his head as if a headache just hit him... hard. The elevator doors open and Daniel drags Jack out the door and calls down the hall.
"Janet! Janet!" Janet stands at the infirmary door and waves over an orderly with a cot. She runs over to where Daniel is standing over Jack.
"What happened?" As Janet asks this Jack starts moaning as if he is waking up after being knocked out. Daniel looks back down and sees the color crawl back into Jack's face. As Jack opens his eyes he first sees a figure in the doorway, than his vision clears the look in Cha'til's eyes is pleading for forgiveness.
"Colonel?" Janet's voice interrupted Jack's thoughts and her face blocks his view of the teenager.
"Doc." Jack smiles and the orderly helps Jack up on the cot.
"You feeling okay Colonel?"
"Little headache... why?"
"I'm going to do a couple tests... bare with me sir." Jack nods than lays down on the cot to let the orderlies push him to his destination, smiling the whole time.
"I'm sorry." Jack is laying on the cot behind a curtain trying to ignore the fact that Janet wants to watch him for a day. He opens his eyes to see Cha'til standing over him, opposite what it was like just a day or two ago.
"It's okay." Jack smiles and moves his eye sight and slowly looks around the room. The curtain that was half open when he fell asleep is now closed all the way... from one corner to the other.
"I didn't mean to... I tried to stop... I had to keep it away from Daniel... I had to keep it away from you..." Cha'til is talking fast... trying to explain before Jack starts to talk.
"I tried as hard as I could... I had to try... but it didn't work..."
"Cha'til." Jack tries to stop her.
"I'm so sorry... I didn't mean to..."
"Stop!" She finally does and looks at Jack... looking almost ready to cry. "You did nothing wrong... I'm fine." He stands up to look at her without having to strain his neck. "See?" The sorrow in her eyes scares Jack... he pulls Cha'til to him and holds her in his arms. Cha'til starts to breath slower, she falls into Jacks arms.
"I'm sorry." Jack just nods, letting her know that she didn't hurt him at all and he was fine.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry." She continues to say this as they both stand behind the closed curtain.
"Colonel?" Janet is peeking from behind the curtain, Jack now is sitting in a chair next to his cot and Cha'til is fast asleep in it. He looks up and walks out the curtain... giving Cha'til the quiet space.
"Hey Doc."
"I've been looking for her for a while. How long has she been here?" Jack shrugs.
"About an hour or so."
"How long has she been sleeping?"
"About half of that." Janet smiles.
"How'd you get her to sleep?" He smiles as if he holds the secret of the universe.
"I told her I would watch her." Jack stops and looks around. "And you're braking my promise." Janet smiles than shrugs.
"One more question." Jack nods, waiting for what's sure to come.
"Are you feeling okay?"
"Yeah... fine. Headaches gone."
"Good... thank you Colonel." Janet walks away and Jack walks back behind the curtain to sit back in his chair. Cha'til moves around, causing Jack to look up but settles down quickly as Jack starts writing his long over due report.
"Family history." Sam writes it down and looks back up at Daniel. "This is strange." He puts the paper on top of the notes Sam is taking and points to the symbol. "See?"
"Daniel, I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Oh." Daniel seems to remember again that he's not talking to another archeologist. "Sorry."
"It's okay." Sam picks up the paper and hands it back to Daniel. "It says that she holds the family history." Sam looks at the paper for another second before looking at Daniel.
"This is making it sound like a myth come true or something." Sam nods... agreeing with him.
"Dr. Jackson and Major Carter to the infirmary." With that the P.A. system shuts off again, both Daniel and Sam walk into the elevator.
"I wonder what's up." Sam asks as they step out of the elevator.
"It's Jack." Daniel states almost matter-of-factly. Sam looks at him confused and smiles when he shrugs. "Hey Jack." Daniel sees him as he paces in front of the curtain. It's now open halfway letting the two see Cha'til pretending to sleep.
"Hey Daniel how's the work going?"
"You called us up for that?" Jack shakes his head.
"Doc wants to talk to Sam and Cha'til wants to talk to you."
"Oh." Sam walks off to Janet's office and Daniel walks next to Cha'til.
"Hi."
"Daniel." Cha'til's voice is beautiful, it took Daniel a second to figure out if it was really her.
"Are you okay?" Cha'til nods, than closes her eyes. "You're sure?" She nods again.
"Tired."
"Talk to me later, okay? You should sleep." Cha'til smiles and moves around, getting comfortable. Daniel pulls the curtain closed again and walks over to Jack. "She's talked?"
"Yeah." Jack looks over at the invisible bed. "She's scared she's going to hurt someone again." Daniel smiles and nods.
"Like she hurt her friends." Jack looks over at Daniel.
"That's right she talked to you." Daniel nods at this. "Well she wants to sleep now, she said she needs it to keep from hurting people. She said she'll be fine tomorrow."
"And you?"
"I'm fine. Doc's letting me go." Daniel nods, and than continues to listen to Jack. "So you gonna tell me what Cha'til told you?"
"Maybe later." Jack smiles than follows Daniel to his lab so he can 'help' with the translations.
As Jack, Daniel and Sam look over the journal Teal'c quietly strolls into the lab... the door silently closes behind him and not one of the three look up.
"You called. What is it you want?" The three humans jump in unison at Teal'c's voice. The Jaffa stands fast, not even a flinch a the unexpected jumps.
"You're a little late there T." Jack says, he's happy to get a distraction from the thing he was suppose to be doing but wasn't.
"I'm sorry O'Neill."
"Doesn't matter." Jack looks at his watch and hits Daniel on the shoulder.
"What!" Daniel's annoyed, it's not the first time today Jack has hit him.
"Time to go." Sam hears him and waves goodbye as she heads for her lab, undoubtedly to do more work.
"My track or yours?" Daniel hadn't realized that Teal'c is still standing at the door.
"Yours." They leave as Teal'c follows, obviously confused.
"Bye T." Daniel and Jack both walk out of the locker room in a hurry. Teal'c is still in the locker room... just as confused as he was before.
AN: So it's long... o well... did you like it? Yes no? Do tell.