Title: Odin's Children

Author: Maigan

Email: maigan18yahooDOTcom

Rating: PG-13 to be safe, some violence, minor torture and two small bad words!

Summary: Someone very important to Jack goes missing.

Season: 5

Pairings: Very minor Sam/Jack cannon based

Spoilers: Fail Safe

Disclaimer: I do not own Stargate or have any money, mores the pity!

Authors Notes: This has been kicking around in my head for a while…so here it is!

Odin's Children (Part One of The Missing Series)

(Prologue)

The rogue asteroid fell across space, strangely beautiful in its inexorable trek across the open stars. The blue and white swirl of Earth lay in its path. The people on the Earth were utterly unprepared for its coming and for the changes that would occur. All over the world hundreds of people disappeared from their jobs, their homes, their cars. The impact of their disappearance would create shockwaves across the galaxy and beyond.

The asteroid did not impact the Earth, thanks to SG-1. Once again they saved their planet from disaster. They believed that they had won. However, one of them was unprepared for the fate of his only family.

Chapter 1

SG-1 returned triumphant from their mission of saving earth once again. Walking down the corridors that they called home, each of them felt a sense of peace and security.

"Welcome home SG-1, and well done." General Hammond congratulated his flagship team.

"Thank you, sir." Jack O'Neill replied with his customary half-hearted salute.

"Jack could I speak to you in my office, please?" General Hammond unexpectedly said.

What could I have possibly done already?

"Yessir" Jack followed Hammond into his sparsely furnished office and took up residence in one of the visitors chairs, his long legs stretched out.

General Hammond sat at his desk, a look of consternation on his normally placid face.

"Jack, I received a call for you while you were gone. It was a Sgt. Ortiz from a Sheriff's office in Florida. He told me that your sister is missing."

"Missing, sir? What do you mean missing?!" Jack sat up in his chair, his blood pressure rising dramatically.

"Apparently Sgt. Ortiz is her superior officer. He told me a little about what happened but he was unwilling to discuss details with someone who is not her next of kin. Why don't you call him and find out what happened, son." Hammond advised in a soothing tone. He was hoping to calm the younger man. Jack appeared to be having trouble dealing with this situation.

"Yessir. I will call him right now. Can I use your phone, sir?"

"Of course, Jack. Here is his number." Hammond handed Jack the phone number and left the office to give Jack some privacy.

The rest of SG-1 was waiting in the briefing room, looking at him expectantly. After working together for so long, they could tell when something was troubling him. He wasn't going to tell them anything, however until Jack gave the word.

Major Samantha Carter was worried. She could see the Colonel in Hammond's office through the glass star map. His body language showed him to be thoroughly pissed. He was gesturing wildly and appeared to be yelling into the phone. She hadn't seen him this angry in ages! What in the world could be affecting him so deeply? Most of the time, the colonel kept his emotions in firm control. A puzzled frown marred her pretty features.

Jack slammed the phone down and stalked out of Hammond's office, a dark cloud over his features. "Sir, request permission to take some leave?"

"How much time do you need?" The General asked.

"A few days sir, I want to take a trip down there. The locals weren't very forthcoming."

"I'll give you a week, dismissed." Hammond replied, understanding in his voice and features.

"Thank you, sir." Jack said as he left the briefing room.

"General, what's going on?" Asked Daniel, frowning. Something was definitely off with Jack.

"I'm sorry, if you want to know, you will have to ask Col. O'Neill." Hammond retired to his office to make some calls.

"That was odd." Daniel stated.

"Indeed." Teal'c observed.

Just as Daniel and Teal'c started to follow Jack, they realized that Sam had already followed him.

Jack stalked though the SGC on his way to the locker room, airmen scattering in his wake. Everyone on base knew to get out of the Colonel's way when he looked that fierce!

"Colonel!" Sam caught up to him in the hallway outside the locker room. He turned to face her and tried to put a more pleasant face on.

"I am kinda in a hurry, Major." He glowered at her.

Sam stepped back, wary of his mood. "Sir, do you need someone to watch your six?" She worried.

"No, Carter I'm fine." He turned away from her and entered the locker room.

Something in his eyes made her pause, he looked desperate and broken. She stood outside the door for a moment and taking a deep breath followed him inside. He was seated in front of his locker, head down and staring at a picture he held.

"It's my sister." He stated, startling her from her own thoughts.

"I didn't know you had a sister, sir." She was surprised, the colonel never talked about his family.

He smiled humorlessly at her reply. No he never did talk about painful subjects. He supposed he ought to tell her why he was so upset; she wouldn't let it go until he did.

"My sister is fourteen years younger than me. She was always my responsibility, since our parents died not long after she was born and grandpa wasn't up to caring for an infant." He took a deep breath.

"Even after I went into the Air Force I always sent most of my money home so that she could have the things every kid needs. We were always close; until she started to get older. Pretty soon we were butting heads over everything." He glanced up at Carter briefly.

"She's stubborn, my sister." He chuckled.

"Wonder where she gets that from?" Sam cocked an eyebrow at him.

"Well, um. Since were both kinda stubborn, we obviously had some conflicts when she was grown. Not long after she graduated from High School she told me that she had met the man she wanted to marry. Of course, I hated him instantly. I didn't think that he was good enough for her. We had a huge fight. Sara tried to act as intermediary between us and that worked for a while. I never talk to her husband, he is such a jerk." He handed the picture to Carter.

She took it from his hand, surprised at the amount of trust and openness that he was showing her.

The picture showed a darkly beautiful woman of about thirty-five, with black curly hair and her brother's brown eyes. She smiled at the camera, sitting on a fence with horses in the background.

"We slowly drifted apart, and after Sara and I split, we had another huge fight. This time it was much worse. I told her not to bother calling back, ever." He winced in remembered pain.

Jack stared down at his hands and sighed. "She sends me letters and pictures occasionally, usually at Christmas."

Whether he realized it or not, the emotion in his voice gave Jack away to Sam. He loved his sister and missed her. It was likely that he had never tried to bridge the distance between them. The Colonel was a man of few words.

Jack sighed and stood up. He glanced briefly at his second, "And now she is missing, my baby sister." Desperate emotions threaded through his words; anger, recrimination, pain. Sam had to look away from him, not wanting him to see the sympathy she knew was etched on her face.

Jack reached out and took the picture back from Carter. He gently ran his fingers across the smooth surface and tucked it into his breast pocket, next to his heart.

"I'm going to find her," Cold dread threaded up Sam's spine at his tone. "And when I find the ones that took her, they are going to find out what happens to people who hurt my family." He closed his locker and silently walked past Sam and out the door.

Sam sunk down to the bench and stared at the closed door, cursing the regulations that kept her from following him and offering a simple hug. But even a hug would be misunderstood by the rumor mongers. She sighed and placed her head in her hands, resigned to the inevitable.