Major Samantha Carter stalked back towards her lab, supposedly to work on an experiment that was very important. But what actually was going to happen is she was going there to brood, she's was going to brood about a certain Colonel and her decision to try to be in a relationship with him, despite how it violates the rules of fraternization.

'Did I make the right decision,' she mused, as she threw open her lab's door in a huff.

"Stupid Freya," she muttered with a frown as she angrily tore about her lab, and heatedly worked on her research.

"Stupid Anise," she grimaced and shook her tear filled head as one tear trailed down her cheek.

"Stupid Jack…" she trailed off quietly as her movements slowed and she came to stand before her lab bench.

"Stupid…me," she murmured as she broke down, as she dropped down onto her stool and put her face in her hands as sobs stole her breath, and tears rolled down her cheeks.

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Beneath the Surface . . . of the Mind

By: Verse12

Verse12 at Hotmail dot 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 Twenty

Old Friends

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A knock on the door resounded thru the lab.

"Huh?" Major Carter sat up quickly as the sound awaked her from the sleep she had fitfully fallen into.

"Major Carter?" a voice questioned from the hallway.

"Siler?" She queried, still slightly dazed from her unplanned nap. "Uhm? Give me a second, okay."

"Uhm? Yes Ma'am," he replied in a confused tone.

After quickly wiping her eyes Sam ran her fingers thru her short hair and called for him to enter.

As soon as Sgt. Siler entered the lab he knew that Major Carter had been crying, "Uhm, Ma'am?"

"Yes Siler," Sam said wearily.

"Uhm, Permission to speak freely, Ma'am?" he said with some slight trepidation. At her questioning nod he continued slightly calmer, "We've known each other for a long time haven't we Ma'am?"

"Yes Sgt.?" She answered in a questioning tone, as she wondered what exactly could be his point. "Over six years," she finished.

"Yes Ma'am, I said that just to say I'd like to think we are not just members of the Air force together but friends."

"Of course," Carter said quickly, discipline is important she knew, but when you dealt with life and death issues together camaraderie and friendship could be just as important.

"So I hope you don't take offense when I say that I, and most everyone on base would agree with me, that we are worried about you," Siler said with out looking her in the eyes.

"Worried?" she questioned with a frown.

"Uhm? Well, when you left the gate room, people noticed you seemed kind of upset…"

"And," she prompted with a slightly annoyed tone.

"Well we just wanted to make sure you were alright, and I sort of volunteered to check in on you, we just wanted you to know that if you need anything you can turn to any of us for help."

"I," Samantha Carter began, slightly choked up, "I really appreciate that Siler." After a moment she continued, "I guess, my… condition… has made the rounds on the base grape vine, huh?"

"Uhm, yeah, its okay, we understand these kind of things happen. My mother had the same thing happened to her with my littlest sister Kathy, and everything turned out okay. Hey, if you ever need a baby sitter I have LOTS of experience," he finished with a grin.

"I'm sure I'll take you up on that," Sam said with a smile, as she began to feel a little bit better from Siler's little pep talk. "And don't worry about me," she continued, "sometimes these hormones make me a little loopy."

"I understand completely,' he said with an answering smile of his own, "I was fourteen when my mother was pregnant with my little sister Kathy, and their were times I wanted to dive out a window to escape," he said jokingly with a slight chuckle.

Her slight giggle eased his mind over her inner turmoil, and with a smile he opened the door, "I'd better get back to my post Major, but if you need to talk or anything you know where to find me."

"I sure do Sgt.", she said with her typical brilliant smile.

Just before he closed the door though he reopened it and stuck his head back in causing her to look back up at him. "Oh by the way I don't know if you heard but Lt. Fareway transferred to Area 51, he was tired of not getting enough time to study stuff."

"Oh, that means we are the last two from the original interface project," Major Carter said with a frown.

"Yeah," Siler sighed as he leaned on the doorframe of her lab, "I still remember that first day when you joined the project. Dr. Sanders had been struggling over that integration protocol for over two months, you came in and in ten minutes had it solved," he laughed.

"He didn't take that well did he?" she smiled in amusement.

"No he didn't," he smiled, "If he had kept on as head of the project we would never have gotten the dialing computer interface up and running."

"Well," she blushed slightly in embarrassment, "I did my best."

"Yeah," he smiled as he looked at her, "you did great." He sighed and looked back thru the still open door to see if anyone was around, "I never did thank you."

"Thank me?" she questioned.

"For your letter, after you were reassigned to the pentagon… it meant a lot to me," he said quietly.

"Oh… well, I had heard from Major Davenport about your mother, and I just thought I would write something small to let you know you had friends who cared. It wasn't much," she finished self deprecatingly.

"NO," Siler said quickly coming out of his nonchalant stance, "no it meant a lot to me, I… was feeling very lonely then and well, it helped to know I wasn't alone, and that others had been thru this before." He sighed and shook his head, "It helped, really."

"Well, I'm glad I could help," she smiled a rosy hue to her cheeks.

"Listen Ma'am, I better get back to my station," he said with a smile.

"All right Sgt. I'll see you later," she smiled back at him.

"Goodbye."

"Bye."

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Across the country, at a mansion outside of Washington D.C., a shadow stalked, a flicker of golden light shown from the shadows face, and a hint of a smile was visible.

The gaze of the Goua'uld Osiris rested on the large man in a dark suit that stood outside of the back door of the mansion. "Perfect," she intoned in the chilling voice of her kind as she saw that he was just under the security camera, and out of its line of site.

With that she stood up, dusted herself off and sauntered into view of the Guard, "Hullo?" she called out in a normal tone of voice, her British accent evident in her greeting.

"Uhm? You aren't supposed to be here Ma'am," the hulking guard spoke, and Osiris grinned internally as it was obvious that this one was chosen for his brawn and not his brains.

"Yes I'm sure sir," she began as she drew closer to him while she kept her face from the camera. "Its just that my automobile broke down and I was wondering if you could help," she finished as she stood close to him which caused both of them to be lost from the camera's view.

"Uhm? I really can't leave my post here, theirs only two of us on duty tonight," he said with a confused frown and a step back.

"Really?" Osiris said with a smile somewhat reminiscent of a large predator as she placed her hands beguilingly on his shoulders.

"HEY?" the guard suddenly said, " how did you see me back here if you broke down on the street?"

Suddenly and with the speed and strength a symbiote gives she grasped his neck and snapped it quickly. As the man fell to the ground Osiris's eyes glowed briefly, "humm, you were smarter than I thought you were, still the results were the same."

A look at the door to the mansion leads Osiris to smile cruelly, "Soon, O so soon," she said as her smile grew even larger yet even colder.

To be continued,

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Endnotes:

I am SOOOO sorry it has taken me so long to update this story, I can't belive that it has almost been six months. I never meant to take so long to get this out,but I hope this was a welcome surprise. I hope I can update sooner for all of you who like this story.

Well what do you think? Please review and let me know, okay?

Later.

Signed: Verse12