Just been a while since I last did this one, I'm trying to update all of my stories at the mo as updates are going to be very slow as of now - not my fault honestly.
Thank you to the people who reviewed the last chapter it is appreciated.
Daniel had been trying to ignore Ferretti and Jack for the entire flight. It had not been easy, Jack had felt the need to interupt Daniel everytime he seemed to get ingrossed in the report that had been sent to him from his contact in Egypt. Eventually Daniel had snapped at him which had caused Jack to retire in a huff to the other end of the small cabin with an amussed Lou Ferretti in between them. When they had eventually landed in Cario airport Jack had insisted that he drive as he had heard from Sam and Janet what Daniel's driving was like in the desert and he did not wish to have to live with the experience or have Carter tease him about it when he returnned to the base.
A 2 hour drive from Giza brought the three men to a campsite. From the complete lack of life around it they guessed they had come to the right place. The contented look on Daniel's face reminded Jack of the fact that Daniel had grown up in places like this and the familiarity of a dig site and being in Egypt must have brought all those memories back.
"Jamal if that is you back again you better have good news for me or if you don't ..." the woman stopped speaking at the sight of them. She had been expecting to see the politicion what she had in front of her were three men dressed as though they were in the army, one of them though did not look as though he fitted in. She recognised him but she could not remember where she had seen him though.
"Dr Hill?" The silver haired one asked
"Yes. What are the american army doing out here?" She demanded of him.
"We are here to find out what you have found here." Jack replied
"I'm sure that you could find that out without forcing my workers and colleagues to return to Cairo." Charlotte snapped. The man opened his mouth to say something back but was quelled by a look from the man with glasses.
"I'm Dr Daniel Jackson, I have no idea why your men were sent back but I can assure you that Jack O'Neill, Lou Ferretti and I had nothing to do with it." He said.
"Dr Jackson, I have heard of you. You disapeared from the acedemic world about 10 years ago." Charlotte said.
"It was not that long ago." Daniel muttered.
"I am sorry if I have insulted you but you must understand how important my work here is. I have had to call in favours from my university days to get some sort of work done here. I would appreciate it if you were gone by the time they got here this evening." Charlotte said.
"We can't do that Dr Hill. We have been ordered here until you have finnished excavating. It would be easier for you if you decide to cooperate with us." Jack said.
"Dr Jackson, would you be interested in seeing what I have found so far. You 2 can set up whatever you brought with you near to my tent. Dr Jackson ?" She said, giving Jack a helpless look Daniel followed the woman towards the excavation.
"I don't think she likes you sir." Ferretti said
"Ya think" Jack replied.
"We are 2 metres down here, considering the state of what we found here this is surprising. The temple looks as though it just shut down for no reason. If it had been buried by a sand storm as I originally thought there would have been bodies here, priests worshippers anybody. I have found no trace of that, it was just abandoned." Charlotte said.
"The work in here is exquistite. Have you started deciphering any of the heiroglyphs?" Daniel asked looking round in wonder.
"Some of them. I was trying to excavate as much as possible. I do not have much of a reputation as an Egyptologist yet and if I try and decipher everything then I will not get to find out everything about this place." Charlotte said.
"Do you mind if I dechiper it?" Daniel asked
"Certainly, all we know is that it is dedicated to Sekhamet." Charlotte said looking at one design.
"How many other archaeologists have you got arriving later?" Daniel asked thinking of the security risk.
"There are three archaeologists as well as a computer expert. Before you say anything about stopping them I won't I have known all of them for years and they will want to know what's wrong if I tell them not to come here."
"There were some unusual metal samples that you sent back to be analysed. It was these that caused our government to take an interest in what you were doing here as they had some very interesting properties." Daniel said this beingg their agreed cover story until such a time as they needed to think up another.
"I can show you where I found them if you wish. It is near the end of the work I have done so far. I was going to carry on excavating down there today if my workers hadn't been taken."
"You are not going to let us forget about that are you." Daniel teased.
"Not until I get my team back and can continue to excavate without any interferance." Charlotte replied removing her bandana to wipe sweat off her forehead.
"Daniel will you and Dr Hill get up here we have company." Jack's voice said a short while later.
"We'll be up." Daniel replied over the radio.
"Charlotte, I think your friends might be here." He called, she looked up surprised, a whisp of hair had come out of her plait and drapped across her face.
"We'd better go up there then. Tell Gi-Joe not to fire on them." She said straightening up, she brushed herself down before heading out of the temple with Daniel behind her. The two archaeologists emerged from the excavations blinking slightly at the difference in the light.
"Charlotte." A young woman called from her position near to a new 4x4. From the accent Daniel guessed her to be from Spain, the man standing slightly in front of her as though protecting her from the two soldiers looked as though he was from Japan.
"Will you two knock it off. These are my friends so put the god damned guns down." Charlotte ordered.
"Yes mam." Ferretti said with a mock salute. Him and Jack walked away from the new arrivals leaving Charlotte to great them.
"Carmen,Robert, it is good to see you again." She said with a hug to the pair.
"Hi sweatheart." A man said kissing her lightly, he was a few years older than the others with glasses.
"Thomas." She replied with a smile.
"Charlie." The other man said holding back slightly.
"Will you great her properly mate. You've been going on about how much you've missed her for most of the flight." Thomas said nudging him forward. The man rolled his eyes before bending Charlotte back and kissing her deeply.
"Hi Brian." She said slightly breathlessly when he let her go.
"Since when have you been involved with the army?" Thomas asked.
"Since they descended on me earlier. Guys this is Jack O'Neill, Lou Ferretti and Dr Daniel Jackson. They are here till I can get rid of them."
"Hello." Daniel said with a smile the other 2 just nodded
"These are Dr Carmen Jenkins from Spain and her husband Robert Jenkins. Both are archaeologists. Tom Alexander old friend and computer expert. This is Dr Brian Morgan. How would you describe what we are Bri ?" Charlotte introduced them
"Well I was hoping fiance but I hadn't got round to asking you yet." Brian said seriously. Tom and Carmen laughed at the look on Charlottes face.
"Seriously?"
"Yep."
"Of course I will." She said delighted.
Sekhamet stretched as she got out of the sarcophagus, she needed to find her new host, the one she was in had been damaged by all the years in the sarcophagus and did not seem to be working properly. From the sounds above it seemed that there were quite a few people digging her out, one of them would do then she could take back thiis miserable planet and seek out Ra and have revenge upon him.
There you go. Now I know not a lot happened in that one and there was a lot of dialogue but I'm getting the story going.
I guess you lot can work out who the host is going to be though feel free to guess.
Please let me know what you think of this chapteras reviews are always appreciated.
Next time :
Sekhamet gets a new host
The NID arrive
The excavations get underway again.
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