Thank you: ichargrl: LOL! primax: I actually picked the name because I thought it sounded well with Maybourne. But knowing Jack it wouldn't be surprising! Stargate-Rocks, Queen of Reviews, Californian Girl and Stargate4jesus: lol thanks! SGCFan4ever: Right! HopeGrace-MLH: I love your name! Thanks for reviewing! Girlzrule17 :-) PantherGoddess: Ok at the risk of sounding like a total dumbball I have no idea what an xanda is. I hope your day is better. Englemyer: Thanks! Glad I have de-confused you! Aligewe: Theflashback in the last chapter will be explained in the next chapter! And she was reaching for her necklace. The one that she was wearing when she came to the SGC that can make her invisible, etc. Jack took it away in chapter 2 I think. HTH
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Previously on Stargate SG-1
"Lisa, may I see you in my office?" Janet asked seeing the little girl pass the empty infirmary
Lisa stopped "I told Sam I'd-"
"Now" Janet said firmly
Lisa suddenly reached for her neck
"It's not there, Lisa Maybourne. Or should I say, Lisa O'Neill?"
And now.. the continuation!
Lisa looked at her panic stricken "You can't tell anyone!" she hissed
Janet stared at her "You are the daughter of my best friend. How the hell did that happen?"
"It's complicated, listen to me Janet when I say if you tell then you will spoil everything"
"Lisa, I can't do that"
"Janet, please, I don't want to hurt you"
"What?" Janet asked astonished
"Forget what I just said, Janet please!" she begged "I don't care, tell them AFTER I'm gone but you can't tell them till then"
"Gone, where are you going?"
"That's not important, Janet, do you believe in fate?"
"What?"
"Ok, anyways, what do you know about time?"
"Lisa-"
"No, listen to me. I'm telling you that hundreds of worlds count on me. I'm going to fulfil hundreds and hundreds on prophecys"
"Right..." Janet said
Lisa looked at her steadily "Do you promise not to tell anybody?"
"Lisa, I-"
Lisa gently placed her hand on Janet's head. A few seconds later, Janet looked at her
"What was I going to say?"
"I think you were going to ask me to get you something from the commissary" Lisa said wincing inside at the lie
Janet nodded looking a little confused. "Ok, thank you"
Lisa nodded. She slipped out of the room then doubled backed and stole the DNA sheet. Two minutes later it went down the toilet.
"Lisa, what took so long?" Sam asked when Lisa entered her lab with a cup of coffee.
"I uh stopped to talk to Janet" she said her mind racing.
"Oh ok" Sam said giving her a warm smile.
"Sam? Do you like me?" she asked
Sam looked up "What?"
"Do you like me?" she asked
Sam got up slowly and stood next to her "Yes Lisa, I like you" she said giving her a hug
Lisa smiled at her "I love you Sam" she whispered
"I love you too" Sam whispered back.
"It's beautiful" Lisa whispered
Jack grinned at her "Yeah, I think so too"
"Is astronomy your hobby?" she asked
"Yeah" he answered
They looked together at the beautiful night sky
"Jack?"
"Yeah?"
"Are you glad I came here?"
Jack raised himself on one elbow "Why?"
"Are you?"
He laughed "You're a funny kid, you know that?"
Silence
"Yeah, yeah I am"
Lisa skipped down the hall feeling like a little girl. As she approached Sam's lab she heard arguing. Slowing down she listened outside.
"But sir-"
"Carter"
"Sir, she has nowhere to go"
Silence
"There is foster care"
"Sir with all due respect, I don't think foster care is for Lisa"
"Carter, we have no idea why she came on base! We need to find out why! For all we know she could be a... spy"
Carter ignored that "Jack, let me take her"
Jack stopped in his tracks "What?"
"Let me adopt her"
"Carter, have you gone insane? how could you take care of a teenanger?"
Lisa outside the door held her breath
"Janet did" she heard.
Inside Jack stood there looking at her."I don't think it'd work Carter" he turned to leave
"Jack please"
He halted again "Carter"
"Sir, I- oh forget it" she said storming out off the room, passing Lisa without seeing her.
Lisa walked in slowly. Jack had his forehead on the table.
"Jack?"she called quietly.
He looked up "yeah?"
she gave him a smile "It's ok, really, foster care is ok, I mean..." she trailed off.
He looked down "You heard us"
She nodded. "You love her, don't you?"
His head shot up but for once he didn't deny it. "Yeah, I do"
Tears came to her eyes "I'm sorry Jack". She whispered.
"For what?"
She shrugged "For coming here, for making her mad at you, for you not being able to marry Carter, I dunno, take your pick".
Jack pulled her to him and looked into her eyes "Lisa this isn't your fault. Period. Remember that, ok?"
she looked down "But if I hadn't come..."
Jack looked at her intently "Why did you come?"
She looked at him and he saw the resolve, the determination, "I came to fulfil my destiny, my prophecy" she simply stated.
Jacklooked at her "What does that mean?"
Lisa looked at him "I can't explain, but I promise, You'll find out someday".
"I can't explain now, but I promise,You'll find out someday" the words echoed in his head over and over.
Jack rubbed hisforehead "Daniel, I can't keep her here indefinitely. Sooner or later she 'll have to go home".
Daniel glared at him "So what are you going to do? toss her into the streets? throw her on a abandoned planet?"
Jack groaned "I don't know Daniel, ok? this girl shows up in my base. No family or friends, no purpose on Earth it seems. I can't let her go offworld! What if the Goa'uld get her? What if something happens to her? Carter will never forgive me if I send her offworld and she'll never forgive me if I keep her on Earth".
Daniel wrinkled his brow "What does Sam have to do with this?" he asked
Jack resisted the urge to roll his eyes "She wants to keep the kid".
Daniel gave him a disbeliving glance "Sam? as in Samantha Carter?"
"Yeah, you got a problem with it?" a voice asked from the doorway.
They both winced
"Sam I didn't mean it like that"
She glared at Daniel "so what exactly DID you mean?"
"Well, how are you going to take care of her? you are gone all of the time!"
Sam looked down "she needs someone, someone who loves her".
"Could you not find a nice family like you did for Cassandra?" Teal'c asked
"I don't think she really wants to go live with a bunch of strangers" Daniel said
Teal'c gave him a strange look "Were we not once strangers?" he asked
"It's different-" Daniel begam
Carter finally found her voice "I'll retire".
Now all three looked at her "I'll quit the airforce, I'll shorten my hours, I'll-".
Jack opened his mouth "Oh no you are not"
Carter glared at him "With all do respect SIR, I am ALLOWED to leave the airforce and YOU can't stop ME".
Jack looked shocked "Major Carter, you-"
"Sam, don't" a young voice broke in.
They all turned to face Lisa
"Lisa, can you go hang out with Janet for a bit?" Sam requested
"No"
They all stared at her
"Lisa, I'm ordering you to-"
"Oh Jack shut up" she broke in rudely.
"you wanna know something? I CAN'T stay here" she yelled.
"Why?" Daniel asked
Lisa just shook her head "I'm sorry" she whispered dashing out of the room leaving three very confused adults
Later
Lisa sat on her bed hugging her knees.
"It's time to go" she whispered looking down at the necklace she held in one hand. She pulled up a corner of the matress and removed the small grey ball.
"Good bye" she whispered.
Ok, before anyone gets mad at me for 'erasing' Janet's memory, I just really think Janet would have told!
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