Author: Louise Mills
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Summary: O'Neill has to face up to who he really is. MacGyver Crossover
Rating: 15 British/PG-13 American
Author's Note: Please note I am no good grammar, so if anyone wants to be my beta reader please email me. This is my first Stargate SG-1 Fan fiction. Jack and Sam story. I am not good with knowledge of technology or some science stuff, so I will be making it up. If it's wrong don't reprimand me for it.
Chapter ThreeJack stood in the doorway of Sam's lab watching her tapping away at her computer. He had been standing there for 10 minutes already, without her realising he was there. This was quite unusual, she always knew when he was watching.
"Did you want something, Sir?" She asked, this made the colonel realise she did know he was there, and her question made him smile.
"Not really, only to ask you a question. Will you let me play my little game with the rest of the SGC?" His question made her stop typing, and turns round to face him.
"Well sir, I do have my doubts about your little plan, it's a bit cruel."
"I know, and everyone will probably hate me after it's finished, especially Daniel." He stated, his statement made her curious.
"How would it especially affect Daniel?" he just smiled in a way that reflected he knew something she didn't know, and of course he did, as he knew who he really was. But no one else did.
"Can you please tell me who you really are?" she asked.
"Maybe later." He answered. She knew it would be days later, most probably weeks later, or not until the day everyone knew.
"That's not fair, you already told me you're not the dumb colonel we have all come to love. Why can't you just tell me!" She pouted, and the smile vanished from his expression.
"Because you would probably hate me more then Daniel."
"That's not true, I could never hate you!" She stressed, believing with all her being she wouldn't hate him.
"Maybe not, but you most defiantly won't speak to me for a while, and I won't be able to stand that. Okay how about I give you clues along the way to make you guess quicker!" He said, knowing she wouldn't give up her questions until he gave something. Sam couldn't tell if he was telling the truth or not, but it was something, so she eagerly nodded her head.
"Okay then Major. I'll let you get back to the particle generator." He said, as he walked out of the room. Sam was a little shocked he knew what she was working on without her telling him. She got over it pretty fast as last night he did state she'd be surprised of the knowledge he held.
Jack couldn't stop grinning as he walked away from Sam's lab towards his office. He was in his own mind thinking up little schemes, so he didn't realise Janet was walking up to him until she was right in front of him and nearly bumped into her, which caused Janet's concern to escalate more then from after talking to Daniel yesterday.
"Sorry Janet I didn't see you there." Jack hastily spoke.
"I noticed." She answered. "I wanted to speak to you about what's bothering you. Daniel said yesterday that you were doing paperwork. I can't image you throwing yourself into your work just to forget what's bothering you. So I ask again, are you sure you're well?" She asked eager to know the answer; this just caused the colonel to chuckle.
"Yes Janet I'm fine. Don't worry about me, I talked to Sam last night, and it helped. Just to let you know things are going to change concerning me. It's about time I got serious about my job around here." He asked. Janet noted he called Sam by her Christian name not her surname, but she would bring it up with Sam later.
"Trying to get a promotion?" She joked.
"I didn't consider that Janet, but I wouldn't object to a promotion." He teased back. Janet still wasn't convinced that he was all right, and he noticed. "Honestly Janet I'm fine." He said with conviction.
"Okay I believe you this time, but I won't if you do anything else unlike yourself." She stated then continued her way to the infirmary.
"God, she's gonna believe I'm dying." He chuckled to himself; thinking of the things he was going to do that wasn't like him.
Pete's phone rang. He glanced at the clock and motioned to the other people in the room that they were right on time. He sighed deeply as he thought about the things Mac would do to him, when he found out what he had let happen.
He picked up the phone not really believing the situation that his foundation found themselves in. His better judgement told him he should be use to it by now.
"Hello?" He asked, all the sudden feeling the age he looked.
"Well hello to you too. And how are you? How's the search going?" The person on the line snarled.
"Stop with the formalities, what do you want?" Pete calmly spoke, but his angry was boiling inside.
"Now, Now! There's always time for formalities. Anyway we are not ready to tell you our demands, as we know it will take sometime for you to full fill them. In the mean time continue your search, it should become helpful!"
"What search?"
"Now Pete liars never prosper, the search for MacGyver of course. Why do you think we choose the operative we did? Because our demands will need the services of MacGyver to full fill them. We will phone in two weeks to see how the search is going." The mystery person said, wanting to close the conversion.
"Wait! I'd like to speak to my operative!" Pete said harshly, wanting to keep the person on the line as long as possible so his foundation could try and trace the call. The mystery person stated to laugh at his request.
"Oh I see what you're doing. But it won't work I'm untraceable! Maybe next time you can speak to your operative." He answered; the line went dead not too long after.
"Damn it!" Pete cussed.
Jack was again found to be in his office finishing off all the reports of previous missions that were overdue. He smiled to himself as he placed the last overdue mission report on the pile of out going mail. He realised his work was hardly over, he reached down beside his desk and picked up the pile of current paperwork, and notes of their missions that they had been on in the last two weeks. He chuckled to himself knowing the response the General would give to his current assignments paperwork being handed in days or weeks before they were due. "He'll probably have a heart attack." He muttered.
He was about to put the pen that was in his hand on the paper in front of him, when the phone rang. He was a little startled as he never had his office phone ring, but that's because everyone knew if you wanted the colonel, his office would not be the place to search. Realising he was letting the phone ring, he grabbed the receiver.
"O'Neill." He spoke down the mouthpiece.
"Colonel." Sam's voice floated through the earpiece.
"Yes, Sam?"
"I think you should go and see the General." Sam spoke cautiously, and Jack caught on to the caution in her voice.
"Sam, what's going on?" He uttered, suspicion laced in his voice. Sam hesitated and Jack's suspicion grew.
"Sam?" He questioned, obvious in his tone that he wanted the answer now.
"General Hammond has cancelled our mission this afternoon."
"What?!" he shouted down the phone, furious. "And he couldn't tell me himself, he had to ask my 2IC to relay the message!" He continued shouting.
"Well yes sir, but he said he did try to find you. After an hour with no luck he came to me. I figured you'd be in the last place anyone would check to find you, your office doing paperwork." She spoke logically. He realised what she said was reasonable, so he took few deep breaths, also wondering why the general would cancel their mission.
"Trying to calm down sir?" She light heartedly asked, she heard the colonel intakes of breath.
"Yeah." He chuckled back, a smile grew, his 2IC knew him so well.
"Carter, why?" He asked, his voice was low and held a hint of sadness. Sam knew what he was asking. Why had the general decided at the last minute to cancel their mission?
"I haven't a clue sir." She answered; he heard the honesty in her voice. Sam had her own suspicions that he had no knowledge of, and voiced them to him.
"Sir, I think you and I out of SG-1 and the medical staff are the only ones that don't know why the mission was cancelled." She uttered softly. Jack heard frustration, hurt, and slight anger in her voice. He thought over her statement, and came up with a few hypotheses of his own, as to why she spoke those words.
"You think Daniel and Teal'c had something to do with this?" he questioned and his grip on the receiver tightened, not really wanting to know what she thought about the situation, but needed to ask.
"Well maybe not Teal'c sir, and I don't think Daniel would march up to the general and state you are not fit for command intentionally. He may say a comment to a certain medical officer we all know, and the medical officer may have said something!"
"Sam, Janet saw me earlier she told me that she had seen Daniel. I convinced her I was okay. She wouldn't then go to the General and say I'm not fit for duty. Would she?" He stated, fearing that's what the doctor had done.
Jack stormed towards the General's office, in the one of the foulest of moods anyone had ever seen him in before. He knocked sharp and hard on the door and the general knew Jack was at the door.
"Come in!" The General said. The next thing he knew his office door flew open and the storm that was Jack marched in the office and promptly sat down on one of the chairs.
"Why?" Jack asked the General, his question caught George off his guard, as Jack had said it calmer then he looked. George put his guard on full burst, fearing the calm voice of Jack could be the calm before the storm.
"Presidential Order. He wants the SGC to have a security update. He wants you and me, to write a report about what upgrades we want to the security systems. He wants the report A.S.A.P. As he has already started phoning security companies to come down to the facility to show us all the different systems they have. I want SG-1 to be here for that in case they ask delicate questions about equipment we have in our labs, SG-1 are perfect for that job."
"Sorry for storming around sir. I thought you cancelled the mission because of what happened yesterday. I'll have the report in by the end of the day. I've had some ideas for a while about how to update the security systems."
"That'd be great Jack, and when you hand in the report I should have the reports on the companies coming to visit. We can discuss the security levels we will give them then, dismissed."
Jack walked quickly out of the General's office towards his office. Once he stepped though the threshold of the door he noticed the time on the clock was nearing the set time SG-1 have their lunch. Not wanting to repeat the same scene as the day before, with his team crashing through his door. He picked up a pen and pad deciding to make some notes for the security report during lunch.
Sam walked though the door of the commissary and saw Jack sitting at their table. She couldn't help but smile the smile that formed whenever she saw him. She watched him from the doorway drinking a cup of coffee while reading something intensively and changed some of the information on the paper or added some now and then. She grabbed herself a coffee, and quickly sat down next to the colonel.
"You working on some of your paperwork?" She questioned.
"Yes and No, I'm working on a report the president wants about what security updates me and General believe the base needs, that's why the mission was cancelled. So yes I'm working on paperwork, but not the paperwork I was working on this morning."
"Why would the president want a security updates report?"
"Don't know, but maybe because of all the security breaches we've been having lately." Sam laughed.
"Yeah he's probably right about getting better security. Could I look at the report, see how you're doing sir?"
"Sure I'm finished I've just been checking through it." He said as he handled over the report to her. Sam quickly looked over the report and looked back up to the colonel.
"You wrote this?" She asked, not sure if he did or not.
"Yes, thank you." He said astonished that she would think he would take credit for someone else's work.
"But the ideas are brilliant, you have also included the computer coding for each security measure. It really looks like you know how security systems work. I like the idea of iris scanning at the elevator doors on topside, and the instant lock down of the section of the base if someone doesn't use the scan or if someone uses the iris scan but their not in the systems. Also you have the lock down system on the security card scanners. The infrared triggering systems in case they bypass the card scanning on certain levels. Updating the computer of the card scanning to the gate room and the levels where the labs are is pure genius, it makes it impossible for someone to try to fake an electronic card to access areas." She said excitedly, she noticed Daniel was standing behind Jack's shoulder with his mouth hanging open, and she tried not to laugh.
"Yeah well, I use to work on security systems before joining the Air Force, for a Think Tank in California. You know Daniel, it's rude to stand behind someone staring at them like you are, and for god sakes close your mouth and sit down." Jack replied to Sam, and shocked all the rest of SG-1 when he spoke to Daniel. They wondered how he knew Daniel was standing behind him. Daniel quickly closed his mouth and sat down opposite Jack, next to Sam.
"You use to work for a Think Tank?!" He asked in disbelief.
"Ye..ah!"
"So you are more intelligent then you let on?!" Daniel asked again.
"Yeah so?" He asked.
"I always knew you just acted dumb!" Daniel stated, believing he now knew everything about Jack. But Sam had other thoughts; she knew when he said he use to work for a Think Tank that was one of her clues. Meaning she still had a long way to find out who he really was, then something he said hit her like a lorry 'did he say California?' she thought.
"Sir you said this Think Tank is based in California?"
"Yeah why?" He asked, thinking nothing about why she asking that question.
"Because there was only one Think Tank in California before you joined the Air Force." She sweetly said. That's when Jack realised his mistake; he had given her a huge guess to his identity without realising it.
"What Think Tank would that be, Sam?" Daniel asked, as he ate his sandwich.
"The Phoenix Foundation!" She uttered, loud and excited. Daniel's eyes widened at her statement.
"What is this Phoenix Foundation?" Teal'c asked, confused by the Major's and the archaeologist's excitement, as he sat down next to Jack.
"The company is a think tank Teal'c. They solve problems that many people would call impossible and make leaps in research development in weapons, science and other areas. They also help curtain companies and agencies with their security systems." Jack dully told Teal'c. Teal'c looked at Jack not surprised by what Jack had just said he knew Jack was ore intelligent then most people thought.
"And you worked there?" Teal'c asked, Jack just nodded his head.
"One of their old employees is also world renowned, he speaks a dozen more languages then I know, amateur Archaeologist. I once had the opportunity to go to one of his talks at the University of Illinois on Egyptian culture." Daniel told Teal'c. Jack's eyes widened at Daniel's statement.
"Oh, how was his lecture Daniel?" Sam asked, but before he could reply she continued. "Because I had an opportunity to see one of his lectures on Physics during High school, but in the end couldn't go, as it was the day after my mother died."
"I couldn't go in the end either, my foster parents managed to get information from Great Uncle Harry about the lecture. But it happened to clash with one of my final term exams." Daniel told Sam, he confused Teal'c more, and no one noticed Jack was more shocked then ever after Daniel stopped speaking.
"Great Uncle Harry? I didn't know you had a great Uncle Harry" Sam asked confused.
"Yeah he was the man's grandfather."
"I'm confused, I thought you said he was an Archaeologist? Why would he be giving a lecture on Physics" Teal'c asked.
"He had a degree in Advances Physics Teal'c, but he was a genius. So he knew about nearly everything there is on any subject." Sam answered.
"Who is this person you talk about?" The Jaffa asked.
"MacGyver." The other three members of SG-1 answered Teal'c, Daniel and Sam answered with excitement. Jack answered dully, which stuck Sam as weird.
"How do you know MacGyver sir?" Sam asked, not even thinking MacGyver could be him.
"Did you miss the part where I use to work there?" Jack answered sarcastically.
"What's he like?" Daniel and Sam asked.
"I'd rather not talk about this!" He stated. The other three just nodded their heads, not wanting to get the colonel in a bad mood. It was obvious he was in one and a pretty bad one at that, and they didn't want to push him too far.
"Don't you know what he's like Daniel after all your Great Uncle is his grandfather."
"No never meet the guy."
"How come this person doesn't work for the SGC?" Teal'c asked. The others shrugged his shoulders, and Jack thought 'ah but he does'.
"He vanished about 15 years ago, it was said he wanted to settle down. He hasn't published anything since then or raised out of the wood work." Daniel stated. This caused Sam to think '15 years? Umm. I wonder?' as she looked at Jack. He noticed her staring at him, but he blocked his face of any emotion. She shook her head, thinking it was absurd to think Jack could be MacGyver. Little did she know her guess was right on the nail and Jack knew he narrowly missed her holding onto the thought that he was MacGyver.
Jack was looking through the pile of records with the General about the companies coming to visit; they had agreed the company's security clearance would be a full level clearance. The companies couldn't do their job's properly if they didn't know what they were dealing with. The companies would have to sign a contract that Classified what kind of work they did at the mountain.
The general was looking over the second from last report that Jack had just handed him when Jack shouted.
"The Phoenix Foundation!" He voiced disbelievingly.
"Yes Colonel. This there a problem?" George asked Jack, concerned.
"No, of course not general." He stated, but deep down he felt like he was drowning.
End of chapter three, please review.
Chapter 3 notes for you: The blue-coloured sentences are lines and actions that Teal'c does that are very out of character. I do not think he would do that, but the sentences are grammatically correct.