Chapter Four

Although it was noon the air was still fresh because of the morning rain that had fallen until not thirty minutes ago. Colonel Jack O'Neill, Major Sam Carter and Doc Fraiser walked down the runway toward the jet that would be taking them to England. All three of them looked unusually concerned about what could happen in England or more to the point what could go wrong while they were there.

They weren't the usual kind of people who would look on the negative side of things but what they faced or more to the point 'who' they faced could lead to some awkward questions being asked. Questions that they couldn't answer. Truth be told, why would they answer those kind of question when they could put someone's life in danger.

Although they had never even met this Louise Robinson they had reason to feel connected for her. She was after all the truth a daughter of Sam and Jack, and both Sam and Jack were close friends with Janet who believed that any child of Sam and Jack's was like her own family.

Janet, no stranger to finding out that your whole life had been a lie was not only concerned about Sam and Jack, she was also very much concerned about Louise. What was she going to think of Sam and Jack when they came and smashed the illusion from around her, but also what she would think of the parents that had raised her as their own?

As they approached the jet the captain stepped out and saluted when he saw the three. "Sir… We're all set… we can set off as soon as you're on board the jet."

"Thank you Captain" Jack nodded to Sam and Janet then the three of them boarded closely followed by the captain. The door was closed by the captain who as soon as it was secured headed to the cockpit.

Within minutes the sound of the engines were heard and then they started moving until they'd finally taken off and were smoothly flying through the air to their destination.

They had been flying for about thirty minutes before anyone spoke up, but it was Janet who decided to break the silence. "So Jack what's the plan when we get to England?"

"Well first off… I would say find a hotel with available rooms."

"I could help out with that sir" Janet said receiving a strange look from Jack.

"How exactly can you help out Doc?… I didn't think you knew anybody in England."

"Yeah well I do… but I wasn't suggesting that we stay at one of my friends… I have a house on the outskirts of Leeds, we could use that if it would be better… then we wouldn't have to worry about someone seeing something that they shouldn't."

"I've read your file Janet, it doesn't say anything about you having a house in England… to be honest it doesn't even mention you ever being in England."

"Yeah well it's been a very long time since I've been there."

"Janet?" Sam was starting to get concerned now, getting the impression that she was going to inform Jack of a little more information then he needed to know.

Jack threw Sam a 'close your mouth' look then looked back at Janet who was now looking slightly sheepish. "What's going on here?"

"I need to inform you of something Jack which can't get back to the Air Force… but I believe you need to know as there is a remote possibly it could affect the mission?"

"If it was something that could have affected the mission you should have informed Hammond that you couldn't go on the mission Doc… now what is it?"

"Like I said there's a possibility of it affecting the mission but only a slim chance of that… but first I need to show you something" with that Janet pulled out a small knife from the back of her trousers and slit the palm of her left hand open.

"Janet what the hell do you think your playing at?" Jack said jumping out of his seat and grabbing the First Aid box and rushing to deal with Janet's hand but before he could do anything Janet pulled her hand away from Jack's reach.

"Jack please… like I said I need to show you something" Janet then held out her blood filled hand to Jack and nodded for Jack to clean the hand.

On cleaning the hand Jack couldn't believe his eyes. "What the hell?"

"Jack…" but she got no response. "Sir…"

"Doc what just happened?"

"Let's go sit back down and I'll explain…" Jack did as she asked and quickly took his seat and looked at Janet expectantly.

"Right first off it would be easiest to tell you that I'm an immortal."

"How?"

"Well the how I'll explain to you some other time but for now all you need to know is that I'm immortal… I can't die… when I get injured I heal like you just saw… but the thing that may interfere with the mission is that there are others like me out there and there's this… game… All you need to know is that in this game we get challenged to fight… the fights are to the death" Janet looked down at her hands not knowing how Jack would react.

"But you've just said you can't die?"

"There's one way… the only way to win is to… cut the head of your opponent off…"

"TO WHAT… are you nuts?..."

"Jack please let me finish… If I do get challenged you must not interfere"

"If you think I'll let you go off and fight to the death you have another thing coming"

"Jack please you have to understand that this is how we live… how we die, there are rules to the game that's why I never brought it up before… but now we'll be away from the base and you need to know… if you do interfere Jack… I'm sorry but I will be forced to stop the interference… at any cost."

"And what's that supposed to mean… you'd kill me if it came to it?"

"Yes"

"Ok… but one thing… if you're meant to fight to the death and cut the other guys head off what do you use?"

With this question Janet couldn't help the smile that came to her face. "With this" Janet pulled her bag over to her and pulled out a Katana. It was a beautiful sword, the blade glistened in the light and the handle was dark, almost the colour on the night sky. All together the sword caught Jack off guard and he found himself speechless.

"I'm guessing with your reaction… you like it?"

Jack looked from the sword to meet Janet's eyes and found himself looking into deep pools of hazel, amusement which seemed to shock Jack even more. At this point Sam couldn't help herself any longer and she burst out laughing.

Jack shook himself out of the shock and looked at Sam. "You knew about this?"

"Yes sir… but I found out about immortals from another source who then informed me about Janet's immortality."

"But your not…"

"Immortal… no sir"

"Ok… right where were we… yes right… Ok Janet we'll stay at your house, then first thing tomorrow we find out where Louise works and infiltrate her workplace somehow… we check her out for a few days find out what she does in her free time, who she hangs around with and so on."

"Sounds like a good plan sir."

"So we're all agreed… is there anything else that any of you want to add?"

"Sir… when we infiltrate her workplace I would like to do it" Sam said moving uncomfortably in her seat under the scrutiny of Janet and Jack.

"Carter?…"

"Sir I… I want the chance to speak to her… I know this doesn't make much sense but I've just got to do this… I don't know if it's my hormones or something but I need to do this… I need to see her up close and see if I can get a chance to talk to her."

"Janet… your opinion."

"I think it's a good plan… and as for Sam going in to the workplace… as long as its nothing that could harm the baby I don't see any problems."

"Ok then we'll go with that plan then… Sam will go into the workplace… Janet you'll stick close to Sam but won't enter the workplace with her… I'll check out her friends…"

"Ok"

"Ok then… as we have most of the details sorted why don't you two get some rest.