Jack O'Neill stood in front of Daniel's office, his hand raised over the
door as if to knock. He hesitated as he stood there and he wondered what
he was going to say to help his friend.
'To lose one woman you have cared for to the Gould is bad enough, but now to lose another,' Jack thought.
"Well no time like the present," he muttered before he gently rapped on the shut door.
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Beneath the Surface . . . of the Mind
By Verse12
Verse12@hotmail.com
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Disclaimer:
I do not own these characters nor do I claim too, this is a simple fan based homage. Their creators and the companies they work for and with own the characters and all that pertains to them. (I.E. MGM, Double Secret Productions, Gekko Film) This is just fans of the shows expressing their love for it for fun, no profit is involved or expected thank you.
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Chapter Fourteen
Divergent Paths
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Dr. Daniel Jackson did not want to talk, he did not want to think, he didn't want to deal with what had happened in Chicago and then later in Egypt. The knock on his door was not welcome, all he wanted to do was sit in his lab with the lights off and think.
Of course the knocks continued and eventually he heard Jack call out, "For cryin out loud Danny I know you're in there, I'm coming in."
The archeologist sighed and turned his face a frozen mask as it opened. A flick of Jack's wrist turned the overhead florescent lights on as he strode inside.
He slowly walked over to where Daniel sat at his workbench that was littered with various artifacts. "Hey Danny," Jack said his face a mask of concern, "you know we're going to get her back right."
Daniel sighed and took off his glasses; he picked up a cloth and proceeded to clean them all the while not looking at Jack. "When I lost Sha're I thought it might kill me but I survived. Now another person I have cared for has been taken by them and, and . . . I don't know if I have the strength to fight her, even if we haven't been in love in a long time."
Jack put his hand on Daniel's shoulder, "Look at me Daniel," when the archeologist did so Jack continued. "We will be here for you in this, and look at it like this she's still on the earth if she wants to get off world she has to come here. The scientists at Area 51 will have her ship striped and all the doohickeys checked out, so going after it there wont do her any good."
"I know Jack and its not like when I lost Sha're. Sarah and me had a falling out not long before I ended up here the first time. I don't look at her like I did Sha're," he sighed, "it just seems like anyone I was EVER close to will get taken by the Gould's"
"Hey it just shows you've got great taste in women, huh?" Jack quips only to hold up his hands defensively at Daniel's glare, "hey its just a little joke."
"Very little," Daniel murmured with a slight smile to show Jack he understood what he was trying to do.
Jack smiled broadly at the come back, "good one," he said with a slap on the younger man's back which nearly caused him to fall off his stool.
"Come on Daniel General Hammond wants us all in the conference room for a debriefing," the Colonel said while he steadied his friend.
"Okay Jack," the archeologist said as he stood up and left his office with his friend, he was a little brighter than he had been.
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Samantha Carter sat at the conference room table and though she was worried about Daniel and what the Goa'uld Osiris would be up to on the loose, her thoughts were on the little life growing inside of her. Unconsciously her hand drifted down to her stomach and rested there as if to feel the little life in her womb. The slight smile on her lips ended with a start as Jack and Daniel open the door and strode inside.
"Good of you to join us Dr. Jackson," General Hammond spoke in a tone of voice that said that though he understood his difficulties he had to maintain protocol.
"I'm sorry General," the bespectacled man spoke contritely.
General Hammond nodded in understanding before he began the debriefing.
After a few minutes of recap on previous events and a couple small things Sam had discovered about the stasis jar the meeting was turned over to Daniel and Teal'C. This was for them to tell what had happened in Chicago and then latter in Egypt where Dr Frasier had joined them.
Daniel began his story calmly he told of how he had found the body of the curator and though the police ruled it an accident its likely that Osiris had killed her.
"I was scanning artifacts in the museum storage area to see if any had any traces of Naquada when Sarah or who I thought was Sarah anyway, came in. At the time I didn't think anything about it but now I can see she was pressing me for information on how I know how to read Goa'uld and where I've been. It was during this conversation when Teal'C finally located me I had been about to report to you sir that I believed Steven was the Gould. But when Teal'C entered he immediately knew that Sarah was in fact the Gould."
Teal'C took over the story here and told of how he had some difficulty locating DanielJackson but when he did he knew that SarahKane was in fact a Goa'uld.
"I called out to DanielJackson to move away because I knew the Goa'uld would sense my nature as well and would no longer remain deceitful of its nature."
"I was a little slow on the uptake General," Daniel interjected "before I knew it Sarah's eyes glowed and she cursed in Gould. She grabbed me by the neck and threw me into a rack of artifacts."
"The Goa'uld Osiris then attempted to pull another shelving unit down upon me as well as I was attempting to get DanielJackson to safety. I was able to avoid it and pull DanielJackson away from its path but in the process Osiris was able to escape and lock us into the room. By the time we had extricated ourselves and I had assured myself that DanielJackson was uninjured, Osiris had fled the area."
"That's when we called you General and you alerted the police," Daniel added.
"Indeed DanielJackson," Teal'C nodded. "But despite all of our best efforts she has since eluded all efforts to locate her."
"What cover story did you give the cops anyway sir?" Jack asked.
"We told them that we believed she had been exposed to a dangerous chemical that effected behavior making her violent and that it could cause hallucinations in those around her. That should excuse any bizarre things people see the Gould do as well."
"That's a good idea sir," Sam said with a nod.
"Thank you Major, Dr. Jackson, Teal'C if you would continue," General Hammond said.
"Well Sir that pretty much raps up what we found out in Chicago, the amulet was gone and since Sarah, I mean Osiris didn't know where it was either, I believed Steven did have it and since she seemed pretty desperate to get it back I was worried she may go after him."
"With her picture distributed the cops kept her from catching a flight to Egypt but she was able to get away from security, so that stunk. But it did give us an idea, as you know the police were able to track her for a while as she headed west but eventually we lost her. So we left tracking her to the FBI and the Police and hoped she didn't jump bodies," Daniel said.
"As you know we feared Osiris was attempting to locate the Stargate as Hathor did so we felt our presence here was necessary," Teal'C added.
"Yeah, yeah we know all that," Colonel O'Neill cut in, "but then Danny felt we needed to check out what Steven Rainman or whatever his name is was up to in Egypt. So Danny and 'T' went there with the Doc and her new Gould tranqs, while me and Sam . . . um I mean Carter, while me and Carter stayed here and kept a look out for Osiris," Jack said and tried to cover up his slight blush with a frown at anyone who looked at him funny.
Daniel coughed at this point and tried to distract General Hammond from his serious gaze at Jack and Sam. "Anyway sir we headed to Egypt and found Steven, he had stolen the Amulet and it turned out to be a key to Osiris's ship. We were able to through Steven off track but its going to be a problem to keep him quiet, at least all he saw was the ribbon device and not the ship itself."
"I've contacted the right people Dr Jackson," General Hammond interrupted. "We shouldn't have any problems from Dr. Rayner."
"Uhm? Okay" Daniel responded as he took the General's words in. "he's okay isn't he, I mean he isn't, um hurt?"
Hammond frowned at Daniel, "No Dr. Jackson, what do you take me for? He was just encouraged to let certain theories, that could hurt his career, go."
"Oh, I see." Daniel said with a blush, "Sorry."
"It's okay Dr. Jackson," the General reassured him.
"Anyway, as you know we found the ship under the old Temple and Teal'C was able to get it in flight and cloaked so we were able to get it back here and well that's pretty much it for that."
"Except we still don't know the location of Osiris," Doctor Frasier said after having been quiet through most of the meeting.
"Of course Dr. Frasier," General Hammond concurred. "We will keep the base on full alert until we have found her or whoever Osiris is inside. Also people I want some kind of plan to track this Gould down in case she doesn't make a run at this complex."
A chorus of yes sirs come from this comment and the General dismisses the meeting.
"Daniel?" Sam asked him once they were in the hall, at Jack's questioning gaze she indicated with a gesture that she would talk to him later.
"Yes Sam?" Daniel asked his pregnant friend.
"Are you going to be okay? You know I'm here if you need to talk, right?" She asked him, as she has been worried about how he has been taking this.
He just shook his head, "I'll be okay Sam, It was over between me and Sarah for years. It's just I hate to see anyone taken by the Gould let alone someone I knew."
"I understand," she said and gave him a pat on the arm, "Look I'm going to head back to my office and see if I can come up with some way to track Osiris, all right?"
"That's a good idea Sam," he nodded "I'll check some more records and see if I can come up with anymore info on what she could be up to now."
They broke up this discussion with promises to talk to the other if they uncover anything more or when Jack comes by to bug them to get something to eat.
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Meanwhile in the mountains surrounding Colorado Springs, up in a small cabin in the woods a muffled scream filled the near by area.
Inside the dimly lit cabin a dead airman is tied to a chair his form beaten and bloody, he had obviously been tortured at some length before he finally died.
"Feh," a deep rumbling voice resounded as a heavily shrouded figure passed in front of the smoky glass of the only window.
"So weak these little Tauri," Osiris said as her eyes glowed, "you are lucky I do not have access to a sarcophagus little man or your pain would never have ended."
"But you did tell me enough little man, now I know enough to plan what I need to do," she said with a smirk and a deep throaty laugh.
To be continued:
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End Notes:
So what do you think? Please let me know. I do have a plan and a reason for keeping Osiris stuck on earth, for now anyway.
Also I ended up switching chapters eleven and twelve, since I wrote them in opposite chronological order I decided to fix that and make chapter twelve number eleven and vice versa. Thanks.
Anyway, Later.
Signed: Verse12
'To lose one woman you have cared for to the Gould is bad enough, but now to lose another,' Jack thought.
"Well no time like the present," he muttered before he gently rapped on the shut door.
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Beneath the Surface . . . of the Mind
By Verse12
Verse12@hotmail.com
**********************
Disclaimer:
I do not own these characters nor do I claim too, this is a simple fan based homage. Their creators and the companies they work for and with own the characters and all that pertains to them. (I.E. MGM, Double Secret Productions, Gekko Film) This is just fans of the shows expressing their love for it for fun, no profit is involved or expected thank you.
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Chapter Fourteen
Divergent Paths
***********************
Dr. Daniel Jackson did not want to talk, he did not want to think, he didn't want to deal with what had happened in Chicago and then later in Egypt. The knock on his door was not welcome, all he wanted to do was sit in his lab with the lights off and think.
Of course the knocks continued and eventually he heard Jack call out, "For cryin out loud Danny I know you're in there, I'm coming in."
The archeologist sighed and turned his face a frozen mask as it opened. A flick of Jack's wrist turned the overhead florescent lights on as he strode inside.
He slowly walked over to where Daniel sat at his workbench that was littered with various artifacts. "Hey Danny," Jack said his face a mask of concern, "you know we're going to get her back right."
Daniel sighed and took off his glasses; he picked up a cloth and proceeded to clean them all the while not looking at Jack. "When I lost Sha're I thought it might kill me but I survived. Now another person I have cared for has been taken by them and, and . . . I don't know if I have the strength to fight her, even if we haven't been in love in a long time."
Jack put his hand on Daniel's shoulder, "Look at me Daniel," when the archeologist did so Jack continued. "We will be here for you in this, and look at it like this she's still on the earth if she wants to get off world she has to come here. The scientists at Area 51 will have her ship striped and all the doohickeys checked out, so going after it there wont do her any good."
"I know Jack and its not like when I lost Sha're. Sarah and me had a falling out not long before I ended up here the first time. I don't look at her like I did Sha're," he sighed, "it just seems like anyone I was EVER close to will get taken by the Gould's"
"Hey it just shows you've got great taste in women, huh?" Jack quips only to hold up his hands defensively at Daniel's glare, "hey its just a little joke."
"Very little," Daniel murmured with a slight smile to show Jack he understood what he was trying to do.
Jack smiled broadly at the come back, "good one," he said with a slap on the younger man's back which nearly caused him to fall off his stool.
"Come on Daniel General Hammond wants us all in the conference room for a debriefing," the Colonel said while he steadied his friend.
"Okay Jack," the archeologist said as he stood up and left his office with his friend, he was a little brighter than he had been.
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Samantha Carter sat at the conference room table and though she was worried about Daniel and what the Goa'uld Osiris would be up to on the loose, her thoughts were on the little life growing inside of her. Unconsciously her hand drifted down to her stomach and rested there as if to feel the little life in her womb. The slight smile on her lips ended with a start as Jack and Daniel open the door and strode inside.
"Good of you to join us Dr. Jackson," General Hammond spoke in a tone of voice that said that though he understood his difficulties he had to maintain protocol.
"I'm sorry General," the bespectacled man spoke contritely.
General Hammond nodded in understanding before he began the debriefing.
After a few minutes of recap on previous events and a couple small things Sam had discovered about the stasis jar the meeting was turned over to Daniel and Teal'C. This was for them to tell what had happened in Chicago and then latter in Egypt where Dr Frasier had joined them.
Daniel began his story calmly he told of how he had found the body of the curator and though the police ruled it an accident its likely that Osiris had killed her.
"I was scanning artifacts in the museum storage area to see if any had any traces of Naquada when Sarah or who I thought was Sarah anyway, came in. At the time I didn't think anything about it but now I can see she was pressing me for information on how I know how to read Goa'uld and where I've been. It was during this conversation when Teal'C finally located me I had been about to report to you sir that I believed Steven was the Gould. But when Teal'C entered he immediately knew that Sarah was in fact the Gould."
Teal'C took over the story here and told of how he had some difficulty locating DanielJackson but when he did he knew that SarahKane was in fact a Goa'uld.
"I called out to DanielJackson to move away because I knew the Goa'uld would sense my nature as well and would no longer remain deceitful of its nature."
"I was a little slow on the uptake General," Daniel interjected "before I knew it Sarah's eyes glowed and she cursed in Gould. She grabbed me by the neck and threw me into a rack of artifacts."
"The Goa'uld Osiris then attempted to pull another shelving unit down upon me as well as I was attempting to get DanielJackson to safety. I was able to avoid it and pull DanielJackson away from its path but in the process Osiris was able to escape and lock us into the room. By the time we had extricated ourselves and I had assured myself that DanielJackson was uninjured, Osiris had fled the area."
"That's when we called you General and you alerted the police," Daniel added.
"Indeed DanielJackson," Teal'C nodded. "But despite all of our best efforts she has since eluded all efforts to locate her."
"What cover story did you give the cops anyway sir?" Jack asked.
"We told them that we believed she had been exposed to a dangerous chemical that effected behavior making her violent and that it could cause hallucinations in those around her. That should excuse any bizarre things people see the Gould do as well."
"That's a good idea sir," Sam said with a nod.
"Thank you Major, Dr. Jackson, Teal'C if you would continue," General Hammond said.
"Well Sir that pretty much raps up what we found out in Chicago, the amulet was gone and since Sarah, I mean Osiris didn't know where it was either, I believed Steven did have it and since she seemed pretty desperate to get it back I was worried she may go after him."
"With her picture distributed the cops kept her from catching a flight to Egypt but she was able to get away from security, so that stunk. But it did give us an idea, as you know the police were able to track her for a while as she headed west but eventually we lost her. So we left tracking her to the FBI and the Police and hoped she didn't jump bodies," Daniel said.
"As you know we feared Osiris was attempting to locate the Stargate as Hathor did so we felt our presence here was necessary," Teal'C added.
"Yeah, yeah we know all that," Colonel O'Neill cut in, "but then Danny felt we needed to check out what Steven Rainman or whatever his name is was up to in Egypt. So Danny and 'T' went there with the Doc and her new Gould tranqs, while me and Sam . . . um I mean Carter, while me and Carter stayed here and kept a look out for Osiris," Jack said and tried to cover up his slight blush with a frown at anyone who looked at him funny.
Daniel coughed at this point and tried to distract General Hammond from his serious gaze at Jack and Sam. "Anyway sir we headed to Egypt and found Steven, he had stolen the Amulet and it turned out to be a key to Osiris's ship. We were able to through Steven off track but its going to be a problem to keep him quiet, at least all he saw was the ribbon device and not the ship itself."
"I've contacted the right people Dr Jackson," General Hammond interrupted. "We shouldn't have any problems from Dr. Rayner."
"Uhm? Okay" Daniel responded as he took the General's words in. "he's okay isn't he, I mean he isn't, um hurt?"
Hammond frowned at Daniel, "No Dr. Jackson, what do you take me for? He was just encouraged to let certain theories, that could hurt his career, go."
"Oh, I see." Daniel said with a blush, "Sorry."
"It's okay Dr. Jackson," the General reassured him.
"Anyway, as you know we found the ship under the old Temple and Teal'C was able to get it in flight and cloaked so we were able to get it back here and well that's pretty much it for that."
"Except we still don't know the location of Osiris," Doctor Frasier said after having been quiet through most of the meeting.
"Of course Dr. Frasier," General Hammond concurred. "We will keep the base on full alert until we have found her or whoever Osiris is inside. Also people I want some kind of plan to track this Gould down in case she doesn't make a run at this complex."
A chorus of yes sirs come from this comment and the General dismisses the meeting.
"Daniel?" Sam asked him once they were in the hall, at Jack's questioning gaze she indicated with a gesture that she would talk to him later.
"Yes Sam?" Daniel asked his pregnant friend.
"Are you going to be okay? You know I'm here if you need to talk, right?" She asked him, as she has been worried about how he has been taking this.
He just shook his head, "I'll be okay Sam, It was over between me and Sarah for years. It's just I hate to see anyone taken by the Gould let alone someone I knew."
"I understand," she said and gave him a pat on the arm, "Look I'm going to head back to my office and see if I can come up with some way to track Osiris, all right?"
"That's a good idea Sam," he nodded "I'll check some more records and see if I can come up with anymore info on what she could be up to now."
They broke up this discussion with promises to talk to the other if they uncover anything more or when Jack comes by to bug them to get something to eat.
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Meanwhile in the mountains surrounding Colorado Springs, up in a small cabin in the woods a muffled scream filled the near by area.
Inside the dimly lit cabin a dead airman is tied to a chair his form beaten and bloody, he had obviously been tortured at some length before he finally died.
"Feh," a deep rumbling voice resounded as a heavily shrouded figure passed in front of the smoky glass of the only window.
"So weak these little Tauri," Osiris said as her eyes glowed, "you are lucky I do not have access to a sarcophagus little man or your pain would never have ended."
"But you did tell me enough little man, now I know enough to plan what I need to do," she said with a smirk and a deep throaty laugh.
To be continued:
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End Notes:
So what do you think? Please let me know. I do have a plan and a reason for keeping Osiris stuck on earth, for now anyway.
Also I ended up switching chapters eleven and twelve, since I wrote them in opposite chronological order I decided to fix that and make chapter twelve number eleven and vice versa. Thanks.
Anyway, Later.
Signed: Verse12