The whole of SG1 was sat around the briefing room table waiting on Hammond to come to start the briefing. Sam and Jack were on one side in their usual seats and Daniel and Teal'c were on the other side in their usual seats.
The door opened but rather than Hammond walking in whom everyone expected Janet came in to the room giving Sam a look that she wasn't sure about.
"Doc… didn't realise you were going to be sitting in on the briefing" Jack looked over at her with his usual smile.
"General Hammond asked me to sit in on the briefing, it's… something to do with Daniel's translation I think he said" Janet came and sat beside Jack so that she wouldn't have to continuously try and avoid eye contact with Sam.
Jack looked over at Daniel puzzled, "What's all this about Danny?"
"Jack… just wait a few minutes and I'll explain when Hammond gets here, saves me having to repeat myself."
Giving Daniel a disappointed look but really not all that bothered, as the longer he had to wait for Daniel's translation babble then the better for him.
The door opened again and Hammond entered, he quickly walked around the table and took his usual seat at the end.
"Right lets get this briefing started… Yesterday Dr Jackson came to me and told me that he had finished translating most of the writing from PY2 760… if you would like to continue Daniel?"
"Yes sir… Well" Daniel started by getting a sheet of paper from the pile in front of him then clicked the remote dimming the lights, clicking it once again he switched on a television which displayed a picture of the writing from the ruins.
"Most of the writings were just talking about the general history of the people who lived on the planet… We were correct in thinking it was one of the four major races… the Furling's occupied PY2 760 for a little over 5 millennium but were forced out by an unknown race of aliens… It goes on to talk about how there was a battle and how they were unable to contact their allies… they… well they… they go on to talk about how the ruins are actually some kind of technology… The writing talked about how the building that once stood there had the ability to inflict foresight on to 'worthy individuals'… Then there's a whole wall that looks like specifications for what they would class as worthy… a few words I think I've managed to translate correctly… words like, strands of person… I think that means something like DNA but I can't be sure… There were also things like scans and the words females were mentioned numerous times but males were hardly mentioned."
"So what you're trying to tell us Daniel is that that building we spent hours looking at, at 'your' insistence could possibly cause us to… I don't know turn in to fortune-tellers" Jack gave Daniel a dirty look.
"No Jack… what I'm saying is that there is a possibility that the Furling's created this… machine to help them in their battle against their new enemy… For all I know they knew that the Ancients failed in their attempt to build a time machine so they looked at it from another point of view… They needed to know what was to come so they built the machine to help by providing some of their females with the ability to see the future."
"Possible future" Sam added without even thinking before talking and without even looking up from the notes that she was making.
"Carter?"
"Yes sir" Sam looked up from the notes not sure why everybody's attention had suddenly turned to her.
"What do you mean?"
Sam was puzzled now unaware what Jack was talking about, "Sir… sorry but what are you talking about?"
Before Jack had a chance to reply Teal'c joined the conversation, "I believe that you said possible future, MajorCarter."
Sam looked puzzled at Teal'c and then back at Jack and then the rest of the group, "Oh… sorry didn't realise, sorry."
"So what did you mean by possible future, Carter" Jack still wanted an answer.
"Well… ummm… the future's not set in stone and theoretically the smallest thing could change things in the future… so there are only possible futures until the events actually happen."
"And you would know this for sure… why?" Jack looked questioningly at Sam.
Sam grimaced, "Theoretical astrophysicist and…"
Both Jack and Janet both noticed the hesitation in her voice and the grimace when asked why she should know. "Sam you haven't… why didn't you come to me for a check up… you know what happened to Jonas when this happened to him" Janet looked concerned.
"For one, when this happened to Jonas it was because of Nirti messing with his DNA… Also it's only happened twice and both times it's been rather… personal" Sam shot Janet a warning look not to go too far, as she really didn't want to reveal what she had seen.
Janet seemed to accept that but made a note that Sam should come down to the infirmary to get a check up to make sure that there wasn't any complications.
With all that discussed the briefing was soon brought to a close and Janet who kept throwing her disappointed looks quickly escorted Sam to the infirmary.
"Janet… come on I'm fine, is there really the need for all these tests" Sam watched as Janet didn't take much notice of her while working busily around the infirmary.
"Come on Janet… you know I'm fine what's with all this."
Still no response came from Janet.
Tired of not getting any response Sam sighed and laid heavily on her bed, the stress of the disappointed looks crossing Janet's face since she found out about the visions was so unbearable, Sam felt like screaming.
Sam thought Janet needed to know why she couldn't have told anyone about the visions because it would be endangering what she had recently found out to be the world that Janet lived in and has done for a very long time.
"Janet" Sam said in a voice clearly showing defeat.
Janet turned and saw the defeated look on Sam's face that matched her voice and couldn't help but feel sorry.
"What is it?"
"You need to know why I didn't tell anyone"
Janet walked up to Sam's bed, her instincts telling her that this was going to be something that she didn't want to get around a military base.
"Go on" she asked in a low voice.
"The first vision… it was about well… it was about what Adam is" Sam matched her low voice with Janets.
Janet nodded knowing that her feelings had been correct. "Why did you stick around once you found out… I can't see you as the kind of person who'd react well to something like that."
"Well to tell you the truth… I freaked out when I first found out… there was the whole vision thing and then the other, it took me a bit to work out how I felt about it… Adam told me I could ask him anything and he'd tell me… I finally think I've got everything worked out only to find out that it may be an alien influence that's causing me to have these visions… It just seems that my life can't get any more complicated and then something else adds to my problems."
"I'm sorry Sam"
Sam looked at Janet puzzled now, "What… what are you sorry for?"
"Because I think I may have added to those problems last night… but you had to know."
"Oh Janet… don't worry about it… Adam explained to me that it was a long time ago… he'd explained that he was young and made a mistake…lots of mistakes actually, but you have to believe me Janet he's changed… You should have seen the anger in his eyes when he talked about it… not anger towards you… anger towards himself."
"Ok… for now Sam I'll leave it be but until I see it with my own eyes I'll just keep my mouth shut… But I warn you if I see any signs that he's done anything… and I mean 'anything' I'll be right there" Janet warned.
"Thank you Janet… that's all I ask" Sam smiled, a little of the stress depleting from her face.
TBC