A/N
I'm back, with a second chapter! I really hope it's not disappointing! I'm having a writers block now, so don't expect the next chap in a weeks time.
If it is at all possible these are the mind link conversations:
/ … /Yugi to Yami
\\ …\\ Yami to Yugi
Egypt
"This is Cassandra, is major Carter there?... But... I need to speak to her, it's urgent." She was on the phone with some new sergeant. Cassandra had news for the Major. The people of the Tauri didn't know about the Chapai'ai, and considering everything she had seen on this world, they weren't ready for it, yet.
"Yes?" came from the other side of the line.
"Sam? Cassandra here. I think there's a problem." The young woman said as a concerned look appeared on her face.
"A leak?" came Sam's voice from the other side.
Cassandra's eyes opened wide, how could Sam know about it before she had reached her? "Yeah, the professor found a jar with an address. How do you know about this?"
"Someone with the nickname Pharaoh posted a message on a forum. Any idea who it might be?" the female voice said, she was extremely curious about this person whoever it was, and she had no intention of hiding this feeling from Cassandra.
"Well, the professor is into Egyptian royal houses. I wouldn't know anyone else who would call himself something like that." Cassandra really hoped she could help on this one, and she would do the best she could.
"Hmm, I see. I'm going to meet him, to make sure he doesn't release anything to the public. Can you mail me some info about him?" Sam inquired.
"Sure, ok. You're coming here? Cool! Then I can finally show you where I work!" Cassandra pushed her long hair out of her face and looked around. If Sam was coming, she'd better clean up her tent.
"Yeah, I'll be coming there. I don't know where that professor wants to meet, but I'll be sure to stop by." Sam was ready to end this conversation, she still had some packing to do.
"Well, I'll mail you as soon as possible. How long will it be before you get here?" Cassandra didn't want to keep Sam from her work, and she probably didn't have much time. The military always took care of these leaks as soon as possible.
"It's time to go, where's Carter?" In front of a big vertical pool of water, SG-1 waited for their only female member. Jack, the team leader hadn't been happy about having a woman in his team, but he had learned to respect her, and her decisions. He considered her as a close friend, and now she was late. That had never happened before. Jack walked to the phone in the gate-room and called Samantha Carter. "Carter? Where are you, it's time to go." He asked over the phone.
"Didn't general Hammond tell you, sir?" the voice of Samantha sounded surprised. It wasn't something for the general to forget something important like that.
"Tell me what?" he asked, taking a look at the control-room. The general wasn't there; he was probably on the phone, most likely talking to the president.
"Well, I might have found a leak. It's in Egypt. Some guy has put an address on the net. I've got orders to find him," the female voice explained. She sounded a little worried.
"Ok, I'll see you when we get back."
Before Carter could reply, he hung up and walked back to the rest. "She's not coming," he said simply, and walked through the circle.
He left the other two staring at the place where he had just disappeared.
"What does he mean by that?" Daniel asked himself, before following Jack into the circle. Teal'c arched an eyebrow, and followed his friend.
Many light-years away…
"Jack," Daniel walked down the stairs in front of the gate. "What did you mean by that?" The gate closed behind Teal'c, who also wanted to know what the previous scene was all about. The fact that Carter stayed behind wasn't said in the mission briefing.
"She's got business in Egypt, there's supposedly a leak," Jack said. He pushed his worries to the back of his mind and started securing the area. His eyes scanned the local area. They seemed to be in some kind of storage room.
"Who are you?" said a male voice, who, shortly after speaking up, found 3 weapons pointed at him. He slowly raised his hands a little into the air.
"I am Daniel, this is Jack, and Teal'c." Daniel replied, pointing at the owners of the names. "Who are you?"
"I'm Jonas Quinn. So it is a gateway?" The young man eyed the group, and nodded towards the big circle. He wanted to know if he had been right all along.
"Yes," came the reply, "It is a gate. What planet is this?" the colonel said harshly. He lowered his weapon a bit, he didn't want to look too hostile towards someone who could just as well be an ally.
"We're in a laboratory, in Kalowna. My planet is called Langara…."
Back on Earth
Yugi was pacing back and forth through his tent. He was going to meet this 'Sam' person in an hour, and he didn't have a clue what to say. He took the file with the information about the carafe, and read it. After he had read everything again, it was time to go to the meeting place.
A military jeep drove up to the place where a man with spiky, tri-coloured hair was waiting. Yugi could only watch in awe when a blond woman, dressed in an air force uniform stepped out of the car.
"Hi," she said, "I'm Major Samantha Carter, United States air force."
"Erm, hey," Yugi started, he still didn't know what exactly to say. "Yugi Motou, head of these excavations." The two shook hands, when an awkward silence fell.
Sam was the first to speak. "Is there a place we can talk in private?" she asked, looking at the seemingly half people who were amazed that there was a visitor at the camp.
Yugi knew she was trying to break the tension, and he was grateful for it, but he didn't think it was working. "I'm sorry for all the staring, we're not used to visitors," he started. "We're in a desert, we can just go behind a sand dune, or we can go to my tent, if you want," he offered.
"Somewhere in the shade would be nice, I think the tent would be best." Sam said, with a kind smile. She looked at the sky; the sun's rays were very hot here.
Once inside the tent, she felt like she was back on Abydos. Everything that lay in the tent seemed to be Egyptian, and not newly made. A lot of old artefacts that were catalogued stood there. Old books lay on the ground, near some big cushions. The bed in the far corner was the only thing that wasn't from the distant past.
Yugi walked to one of the cushions and offered Sam a seat. "Would you like something to drink? I don't have much, you can pick from water, red wine or just a beer," he asked when Sam had sat down.
"I'll have water, thank you," she replied. This was the type of weather that required a lot of drinking. She already had a drink in the car, but in the desert, you could never drink too much.
"Oh, no alcohol when you're on business?" Yugi asked with an understanding tone to his voice. He tried his best to get a reading of her personality, but couldn't find anything to go on. /What do you think Yami, can she be trusted/ He asked, not really having any valid options left.
"No, that's not it. I just prefer water," Sam defended.
\\Why are you asking me? You're the one who's good at judging people.\\ his Yami replied. He couldn't believe that his host didn't know whether to trust this woman or not.
"No need to defend yourself, Major, I always drink water during the day," Yugi replied. Two conversations at once were really annoying, but he had grown accustomed to the situation. He had even practised it with Anzu one time.
/I'm not sure about this woman, there's something strange about her. It feels almost like Bakura and Malik… Could it be that she has a spirit, or something similar/ The young professor wondered.
"May I ask why the United States Air force is interested in an ancient artefact?" he asked out loud, when he didn't get a reply on the last question he had asked.
The major hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to speak. "I'm afraid that's classified," she said with a face clear of any emotion.
\\Hmm I see.\\ Yami sent through his mind link. He had thought up various possibilities, but only a few made sense. \\Well, if she had a spirit, we would have clearly sensed it. Perhaps she recently had one.\\ That was the first thing that would come to mind. It could be right, it could be wrong, but if his host didn't know about it, he couldn't check for it.
"So is this dig, yet I allowed you to come here." Yugi negotiated. It was a way he had learned from his other. His darker side had a lot of experience with things like negotiating, duelling and mind & psychology games.
"Th- this is secret?" Sam was obviously shocked with this new information.
"Yes." Yugi replied simply.
A/N
Yes people, a minor cliff-hanger. I need to keep you reading somehow, right? I got good reviews on this story, and I'm very happy about it. I really hope I can finish this one. (I have problems finishing things.) But I've found 2 beta-readers who are happy to help me. (I lost the mail adress of one of them, sorry for that. Please send me an other mail, you know who you are.)
Special thanks to:
Squibit, for beta-reading
Isis the Sphinx,
Pharaohyamifan and
Koji-Itemu for reviewing
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