Life's Problems – Part 4
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The next morning Teal'c and Daniel were sitting in commissary eating breakfast when Jack walked in and headed in their direction with his breakfast.
"Hey guys, mind if I join you?"
"Sure Jack."
"Of course O'Neill" they moved their trays over to make room for him.
"So where's Carter? Is she not joining you this morning?" Jack was hoping to talk to Carter before the Tok'ra arrived about her visit to his house.
"I'm a little worried about her, Jack?" Daniel said with concern.
Jack wasn't sure if Carter had told them about her visit or not. "Why is that Daniel?" he asked a little skeptical.
"Oh that's right you weren't here yesterday. Well the Tok'ra came by and ..." Daniel was about to explain when Jack interrupted him. "OH...Yeah...Uh Carter came by the house yesterday to tell me."
"What ... and knowing this you don't think we should worry about her?" Daniel was getting a little upset with Jack.
"No! ... I mean yes ... I mean I'm a little worried about her too Daniel. Her father is missing for crying out loud who wouldn't be sympathetic with her" Jack yelled, very annoyed with Daniel.
Unfortunately, Sam walks into the commissary as he finishes his last sentence. She decided to grab a pastry and some coffee. She was trying to decide if she should make a quick exit or at least stop to say hello.
She walked up to where they guys were sitting and greeted them without emotion. "Good Morning."
"Hey Sam aren't you going to sit down?" Daniel said has he moved his tray over to make room for her.
"No that's OK I left an experiment running in my lab. I'm gonna go check on that. I'll see you guys later." She left, leaving the three men looking very concerned.
"Well that was strange." Jack said oblivious to what she had overheard.
"I believe she was disheartened by your lack of sympathy toward her situation O'Neill"
"What! What are you talking about?" Jack was mad.
"I believe Colonel Carter walked in only hearing the last part of your conversation with Daniel Jackson"
"Uh Oh" Daniel said.
"What?" Jack was trying to think back at what he said. He was angry with Daniel for trying to confuse him. "Oh" he said as he remembered how sarcastic he was. 'Great now how was he going to explain that he was upset with Daniel and it had nothing to do with her dad being missing'.
"Well Guys I guess I need to go and apologize and explain to her what she overheard."
"Indeed O'Neill." Teal'c said sternly
"That's probably a good idea Jack."
Jack got up from the table to leave, when the Klaxon sounded announcing throughout the SGC "Unscheduled off world activation" "Repeat Unscheduled off world activation". The three men ran to the control room to see if it was Jacob or the Tok'ra.
Sam was already sitting at the computer in the Control Room when the three men came running in.
"It's the Tok'ra ID, Sir"
"Open the Iris, Colonel." All eyes anxiously awaiting their visitor.
A Tok'ra representative walked through the gate ... alone. The wormhole disengaged.
Sam's lowered her head and closed her eyes. She needed a few seconds to regain her composure. She knew it probably wasn't her dad coming through the gate, but she had hoped. Daniel squeezed her shoulder and she quickly overcame her disappointment and got up to greet their visitor.
Jack and Teal'c were the first to enter the gateroom. Daniel and Sam followed shortly after them.
The Tok'ra walked down the ramp, "My name is Ian and I have been sent to you from the Tok'ra High Council regarding the one you call Jacob Carter."
"Have you heard from my father?"
"You must be Samantha Carter. We have heard many great things about you from your father."
"Is there news regarding where he is?" Sam was getting inpatient.
"Is there somewhere else that we may talk?" Ian asked as he looked around.
Jack decided that he should speak up since he's in charge of the base now.
"Hi. I'm General O'Neill, this is Daniel and this is Teal'c." He pointed to the other two men standing beside him
"It is a pleasure to meet all of you. I have heard good things about each of you."
"Why don't we move this to the Briefing room" Jack said as he led the group upstairs.
"Well tell me ..." Jack motioned for everyone to take a seat.
"Ian" Daniel said trying to help Jack knowing he didn't remember his name.
"Right. So tell me Ian, what do you know about Jacob and Selmak's disappearance, besides that he has been missing for a month?" Jack asked a little angry. He wanted the Tok'ra to know that he wasn't happy about being in the dark for the past month.
"We apologize for not coming sooner, but we received Intel this morning. We believe he is on one of these four planets." Ian said as he passed a device over to Jack indicating the coordinates to four planets.
"Do you want us to check at all four planets?" Jack asked wondering why they always did the Tok'ras job.
"That is unnecessary General O'Neill. You may choose two planets and we will look on the remaining two planets."
"Can you give us anymore information to work with?" Jack had to make a decision, and choosing a planet based primarily on their address wasn't a very good strategy. You might as well pick any-mini-miny-moe.
"I'm afraid not."
"Well how did they come up with these four planets?" Sam asked knowing there had to be a reason.
"The Intel that we have received from other Tok'ra operatives over the past month indicated that he would have been taken there."
"Taken?!" Jack and Sam said in unison.
"I'm sorry did they not inform you that he has been captured?" Ian said looking back and forth between Jack and Sam
"No. They didn't give any information except they haven't heard from him in over a month." Sam said cheeks red from anger.
"I'm afraid to inform you he has been captured by ....
Up Next – Find out who captured Jacob.
Sorry for the cliff hanger. Ch.5 is almost complete.