Chapter Fourteen

The halls of the SGC were quiet as Louise walked with Sam, Jack and Daniel on their way to the briefing room. Today was the deadline that Louise had been given to think about whether or not she was going to take the job offer.

They reached the briefing room and they entered the room. Sam and Jack took their usual seats. Louise took the seat Daniel usually sits in therefore Daniel took Teal'cs seat and Teal'c took the seat next to Daniel although he wasn't best pleased with the seating arrangements being disrupted.

General Hammond entered moments after SG1 and Louise and quickly took his usual seat at the end of the table. "Right then let's get this briefing started… Miss Robinson have you come to a decision regarding your going to come and work for the SGC?"

"Yes… I've made my decision and I'll take the job…" Jack could tell Louise was still nervous but at the same time there was also excitement hiding in the back of her eyes.

"Good… I'm glad to hear it… you'll start on Monday morning, Dr Jackson will give you some paperwork stating what he'll want you to do… If you have any problems don't hesitate to ask any of SG1."

"Thank you I will do…"

"Ok then well that's all settled… I think…" Just then a young officer walked in to the room and stood next to General Hammond. "Yes Sergeant… What is it?"

"Sir we found an intruder on level twenty seven sir…"

"Have they been escorted to the holding cells?"

"Yes sir he has… but he's requesting to speak to Major Carter…"

"Major, go to the holding cells and see what the intruder wants… also find out how he got into my mountain… Colonel go with her and see if you can help out with anything."

"Yes Sir"

"OK"

Jack and Sam answered at the same time then without missing a beat they both stood up and left the briefing room. The General turned to the rest of Sg-1 and Louise and dismissed them. Daniel offered to drive Louise home while Teal'c went to the gym to work out a bit.

"So Carter why do you think this intruder asked for you to see him?" Jack asked as they walked down the corridors on their way to the holding cells.

"I've no idea sir… we'll find out as soon as we get there I guess…"

They continued to walk the rest of the way in silence, both running over reasons as to why the intruder would ask for Cater to come see him instead of anyone else.

Once they arrived at the holding cell door Jack indicated for the SF to let them enter. The SF unlocked the door and held it open for them to enter. Jack entered first and stopped just inside the doorway. Sam had to move around him to let herself into the room and found herself face to face with the one person she least expected to see.

"Adam… What the hell are you doing here?"

Adam at least had the decency to look guilty and annoyed at being caught. "I just felt like talking a walk and I ended up here."

"What twenty seven levels under Cheyenne Mountain where you know I work and it just happens to be one of the most secure facilities on the planet?"

"Well yeah…"

"Cut the crap Adam why did you break into the mountain?" Jack butted in getting frustrated with the whole situation.

"The truth… you want the truth…"

"Yes Adam… we want the truth… the whole truth and nothing but the truth and if we don't get it I'll have your ass locked up in the darkest hole possible for the next few centuries…"

Adam looked dumbly at Jack then turned to face Sam with a questioning look on his face. Knowing what he was asking her Sam shook her head stating that Jack didn't know about him being immortal. Jack caught the look and groaned internally, "Please tell me he's not like Janet…"

"Ok we won't" Adam cut in knowing that it would annoy Jack and the way he was feeling at the moment it was good to annoy someone.

"Oh for crying out loud, next thing you'll be saying is that Daniel's an immortal too…"

"Nope Daniel's not immortal"

"That's good to know… I was starting to wonder after the amount of times he's died… so what are you doing breaking into our mountain?…"

Adam gave him a puzzled look at the whole Daniel dieing comment then just shook it off. "I was checking it out… I'm not going to have two people working here that I want to keep safe and I don't like the fact that I don't know what's going on… And if I don't know what's going on then I wouldn't be able to help them if anything happened."

"You can't be serious…"

"Why would I not be serious, I don't want anything to happen to Sam or our baby and I don't want anything to happen to Louise… I look out for the people that I care about…"

"Adam I don't need protecting from anything that's inside this mountain and Louise is safe too…"

"Then why is it so top secret down here… the government only ever safeguards something this bad when it's extremely dangerous."

"That's just not…"

"Give me one example then?"

"Here…" Jack grinned thinking he'd just proven his point.

"Oh so that's why you have the armed guards at the entrance of the mountain, the reason you have one of the most experienced trauma doctors as your CMO… Oh I'm also forgetting the fact that you have half a dozen armed guards in the same room as the Chappai…"

"The what?…" Jack always liked playing dumb when someone found out about something they didn't need to know but this time he had a feeling it just wasn't going to work.

"The Chappai… Gateway to heaven… Stargate… oh come off it I know what that thing is and I know that if the Goa'uld realise you have the gate uncovered a lot of my friends would have died in vain… I will not live under the rule of the so called gods again and I'll do whatever it takes to see that thing destroyed."

"Carter" Jack tapped her on the arm and indicated that they should leave.

Without saying another word Jack knocked on the door to the holding cells and the SF quickly looked inside then opened it. Sam and Jack left and the SF made quick work of locking the door and resuming his position standing guard of the door.

Jack started down the corridor with Sam hot on his heals. He suddenly stopped at a closed door and pushed it open, glad that the room was indeed empty like he'd hoped, he let Sam enter and then followed her in closing the door after them.

"Sir?"

"Tell me you didn't say anything to him Carter…"

"Sir you know I haven't told him anything and I will never tell him anything."

"Ok… now how do you want to deal with this… we can't exactly go to Hammond and say 'it's ok sir he already knows about the Stargate as he was there helping with the rebellion and was among the group that buried the Stargate in the first place'… That as you know would bring up some questions that we wouldn't be able to answer."

"I don't know sir… maybe we could go talk to Janet and see if she'd go talk to Adam about what's going on and about how important it is for him to keep quiet."

"That's going to have to do… I'll go to Hammond and tell him that it seems that he didn't see anything of importance… I'll also say he's been injured so we'll have an excuse to get Doc to talk to him… you go get Janet and bring her to Adam but explain to her on the way down what's going on and what we need her to do"

"Yes sir" With that Sam quickly left the room, Jack sighed knowing it was going to be a very long day then left the room as well and headed towards Hammond's office.

Hammond was reading through a file when there was a knock on his door. Giving permission for the person knocking to enter Hammond closed the folder and waited as the door opened and Jack walked in.

"Sir…"

"What did you find out from the prisoner Colonel?"

"Nothing sir… it turns out the prisoner is Adam Pearson sir… Carter's boyfriend…"

"What was he doing breaking into the mountain?"

"Well apparently he got wondering what Carter was doing stuck in a mountain for days on end so he decided to see for himself…"

"Very well… what did he see?"

"Nothing that would indicate anything to do with the Stargate sir…"

"Very well… we'll let him sweat for a while then, we'll let him go in the morning… but make sure that he's aware that if he decides to go for a walk around the mountain again that it would be a good idea not to."

"Yes sir… oh sir it turns out that while breaking into the mountain he caused himself an injury… Carter's gone to get the Doc to check him out… make sure it's nothing major."

"Good… that's all then, dismissed." With that Jack turned and left the room leaving Hammond to think about the situation.