Sam walked, she didn't know where she was going, but found herself outside of Daniel and Jonas's room. The colour had left her face, and she couldn't show any emotion at that point if she tried. Sam knocked on the door; Jonas opened it, surprised to see Sam instead of a CSI.
"Hey," Jonas said softly, he could tell something was wrong, very wrong, "what's wrong?"
Sam collapsed onto Jonas in tears; she buried her head in his chest. Jonas awkwardly wrapped his arms around her in an attempt to comfort her.
"Who is it?" Daniel called from around the corner.
"Go get Jack," said Jonas, "tell him Sam and I won't be coming tonight, but go out and have a good time, alright?"
Daniel pulled his shirt over his head and walked towards the door, he saw Sam in a way he'd never seen her before, broken. He nodded silently and closed the door behind him as he left, however it didn't shut all the way. He walked to the lobby and found Teal'c and Jack waiting.
"Where are Carter and Jonas?" Jack asked.
"They aren't coming," said Daniel, "but they said to go have a good time."
Teal'c tilted his head to the side slightly in question.
"Sam isn't…uh…feeling well," said Daniel in response.
"Does she want anything?" Jack asked in concern.
"No," said Daniel, "I think it's something she needs to sleep off."
Daniel saw Agent Grissom re-enter the hotel with a blonde woman.
"Sam, what's wrong?" Jonas asked she wouldn't let go of him, so he'd sat down on his bed to try and get more comfortable.
"Mary-Ann," Sam sobbed.
"Your cousin?" Jonas asked.
"Murdered," Sam added between sniffling.
Jonas didn't say anything, "Oh great," he thought "some vacation this is turning out to be."
"Who are you looking for?" Gil asked Catherine as they went up in the elevator.
"A Major Samantha Carter," replied Catherine, "she works at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs."
Gil looked at Catherine, "a petite woman, short blonde hair?" he asked.
"Yeah," said Catherine "how'd you know?"
"It might be a coincidence," said Grissom, "but my suspects both worked for the military and at least one said he was from Colorado, a tall blonde woman was with them."
"Sounds like a pretty big coincidence, why are you back here?" Catherine asked.
"Sarah forgot some of her swabs," said Grissom, "not the ones with the DNA, but a few extras, she was too busy staring at one of the suspects and didn't realize she forgot them.
"Staring at one of the suspects?" Catherine asked as the elevator opened.
"He was the brunette in the lobby with the big black guy and the military style guy," replied Grissom.
"He wasn't bad looking," said Catherine as they headed down the hall.
"Well, we managed to catch him as he was getting out of the shower," said Grissom.
"That explains it," said Catherine, "this is my suspect's room."
"Here is mine," said Grissom, he was only a few doors over.
Catherine knocked on the door but didn't get a response.
"Cath," said Grissom calling her over and listening to the conversation that Sam and Jonas were having through the crack in the slightly opened door, "listen."
"Don't worry," said Jonas, "it'll be alright."
"But what if they come after me like they're after you and Daniel?" Sam asked as paranoia was beginning to set in.
"Look Sam," said Jonas holding her "everything will be fine."
"But what if they find out about you?" Sam asked crying.
"Sam, everything will be alright," said Jonas resting his chin on her head.
"I'm so scared," said Sam, "if they find out the truth, they believe everything so far, but I mean they'll be after me, my Aunt said they suspect a family member."
"Don't worry, my secret is safe," said Jonas, "let's just try and find out the truth before we get nervous."
"Yeah," said Sam calming down a bit, but tears were still flowing from her cheeks, "oh Mary-Ann."
"That sounds like part of a confession," said Catherine.
"Let's not be hasty," said Grissom, "for all we know they're talking about something entirely different."
Grissom knocked lightly on the door.
"Come in," called Jonas, "oh Mr. Grissom, I thought you were done."
"One of my co-workers forgot some swabs," replied Grissom then he gestured to Sam, "who's you friend?"
"This is Sam," replied Jonas.
"Samantha Carter?" Catherine asked.
Sam nodded.
"I need a DNA sample from you," said Catherine, "here's a warrant."
Catherine handed over the warrant and Sam read it silently.
"Does this have to be done now?" Jonas asked, "She's been through a lot and…"
"It will just take a second," replied Catherine pulling out a swab.
Sam opened her mouth and Catherine swabbed her mouth. She finally let go of Jonas and he went to the washroom.
"Thank you, I'm sorry for your loss," said Catherine sympathetically.
Sam nodded and croaked, "I just found out,"
The next day was quiet at the CSI lab, until Greg had finished processing the DNA Sarah had brought back.
"Grissom!" Greg called running down the hall, his shoes slipping on the floor so he almost fell over.
"What?" Grissom asked.
"That weird DNA we found," replied Greg "we got a match to one of your suspects, Jonas Quinn, however Nick scanned the Colorado Spring records, police, medical, etc. No one named Jonas Quinn was found."
"He's lying to us?" Grissom asked.
"Either that or he doesn't eat, shop, has never been arrested, and has never gone to the doctor," replied Greg, "but his DNA, wow, it's unlike anything ever discovered by humans before."
"What about the other one?" Grissom asked.
"Well we got a match, also checked the records for a Daniel Jackson, the computer keeps telling me he's deceased, otherwise everything checks out," said Greg, " might be a computer error, the last unknown DNA I managed to match to a Beau Black, he' s seventeen and has been arrested for shoplifting."
"So we have a mystery man, a teenager, and a dead man walking?" Grissom asked in mystification, this case kept getting weirder and weirder…
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