Carter in Orange County chap9
Author's note: I was a little worried about this chapter as it was really the first time I made them all meet. I have to ask you guys, do you want this to be a shipper story 'cos I could do that but I'm not sure about it. I'm like a huge shipper but I don't want to write something that will make everyone uncomfortable. So let me know in your reviews please. Oh! And Equinox-SGC you were pretty close with your guess. I will be getting Caleb down there, you'll see how in the chapter.
And on with the story…
The confrontation:
"Who the hell are you?" It was half past 10, and Sam knew these guys weren't selling cookies. Whatever they wanted, it could wait until morning.
"Ummm…I'm sorry to show up like this but you see you didn't listen to us earlier, and we really need to talk to you"
'I recognize that voice' Sam thought to herself, 'That's the voice off the phone earlier'
"If I didn't want to talk to you earlier, then what makes you think I want to hear what you have to say now? At half past 10 at night?"
"Please, we came all the way from California just to talk to you"
"Well you're here now, you might as well come in"
Sam turned around and walked into the living room, leaving the door open behind her.
Once they were all seated, carter turned to face Seth and Ryan, who were sharing a double seater, while she was perched on the lounger.
"Now what is so important that two teenage boys have come all the way from California to talk to me?"
Seth looked at Ryan, but Sam and Ryan looked at Seth and so he started trying to explain.
"Please don't interrupt me okay, it's a long story but I'm going to try and condense it"
Sam nodded.
"Thank you." Seth took a deep breath and plunged right in. "It all started a few weeks ago. My grandfather Caleb Nichol was under scrutiny from the DA's office for bribery, but he claimed he was innocent even though they said they had conclusive proof that he was giving money for no apparent reason. You see he had set up this trust, and for 16 years he had been paying money into it. Anyway, it turned out that Grandpa was innocent, of bribery at least, you see 16 years ago he had cheated on my Grandma and he had had and illegitimate child, the trust fund was for her. So we were really messed up for a while but everything settled down, only no one trust my grandpa anymore, he isn't the person I, or my mom, thought he was."
Sam was looking thoroughly bewildered by now; she had no idea what this had to do with her, but was feeling sorry for the boy. He obviously felt very strongly about what had happened and she though he probably had some issues to deal with about his grandfather, the man didn't sound very nice.
Seth paused to take a sip of his drink, but was ready to carry on the narrative.
"So after things had settled for a while, I decided that I couldn't trust my grandpa anymore. I mean can you blame me?"
Sam shook her head silently.
"So I went to the woman he had an affair with and I asked her about my grandpa, and most importantly, if he had done this before. She told me he had, once, and with a woman who's husband was in the Air Force. She couldn't be positive, but she thought that the woman's name was Libby, and she knew that she already had a son, and her husband was called Jacob. Jacob Carter."
At this point Seth stopped to allow the woman to think. She was looking very shocked and the implications had obviously sunken in.
"So you're telling me that my mom cheated on my dad?"
"Look, I know this is probably hard…"
"You bet its hard! But my mom would never do that! Ever!"
"Well there is an easy way to find out…"
"Oh; and what's that?"
"Come back with us, and take a blood test, that will prove whether its true or not"
Seth sounded proud of himself, he had finally come up with a way to confront his grandfather with another off his illegitimate children, good job there weren't anymore or the Cohen's house could start to get crowded. Mind you Sam had to agree to come back first.
Carter asked to be excused and got straight on the phone. The first person she called was General O'Neill.
It was 11 o'clock and O'Neill was fast asleep, he really didn't appreciate being woken up.
"Someone had better have invaded the SGC and taken prisoners!" he growled as he made his way to the phone.
"Who is it?"
"Sorry sir, was this a bad time?" He sure sounded stressed, Carter was a little worried now.
"No Carter, what did you want?"
"Well those people who phoned me earlier showed up at my house sir, and they're saying that my mom cheated on my dad and I have a whole other dad, I want to take a blood test but you know I can't do it in a normal hospital because of that protein marker Jolinar left. So I really need you to authorize a trip into the mountain for this Caleb Nichol guy"
Jack was half asleep so he agreed to what she said, after all Sam would never ask him to do something stupid, she could be trusted.
"Sure thing Carter, bring him in tomorrow if you want. Can I go back to bed now?"
"Uh, yes sir. Sorry to wake you sir."
"S'ok, night Carter." And he put the phone down
"Night Jack" she whispered.
By the way, even with my crap knowledge about American geography, even I realise that it is probably impossible to drive from California to Colorado in one day, but for the sake of the story lets pretend it happens, okay? Thanx xxx
