I'm really sorry it took so long, I just had a lot of people breathing down my neck to get various (apparently more important) things finished.
Anyway, I'm kind of in a rush so this chapter is not my best ever.
I'd like to say I'm really sorry to everyone who reviewed and said they really liked the Daniel / Willow pairing but it just doesn't seem like it's heading that way. Then again since I write with absolutely no idea what's going to happen next there may be hope yet.
Joe B: Thank you, thank you, thank you for letting me use your idea, I'm really grateful since I had no idea how to start this chapter off.
I am really grateful to everyone who reviewed the first two chapters, I luv you all loads.
Anyway, onto the chapter, pleez read and review even if it's just to say this is the worst thing ever.
Wiccan Science
Part 3
Why did they let Jack drive? Don't they know that being in a car when Jack's behind the wheel can severely increase your health insurance. Daniel found himself back at the base a good ten minutes before it should have been possible for him to get there.
'Seriously Jack, how is it you never get caught speeding?' Sam asked the question that had been bugging Daniel during his time in the car that hadn't been devoted to prayer.
'Well you see…' Jacks answer was cut off by his cell ringing. He picked up and listened for a second before hanging up and turning towards his team, 'The General wants to see us ASAP something about that Willow girl.' He shrugged and hurried down the corridor leading to the elevator.
Two minutes later and they were in the briefing room with a worried looking General Hammond. 'We may have a problem.'
'I just got off the phone with an old friend of mine, he called as soon as he saw I was doing a check on Willow, the good news is that she's not an alien at least as far as anyone knows.' Daniel's mood lightened considerably until he realised that the immortal words, 'we have a problem' were probably not because the General couldn't believe they had wasted the surveillance. 'A few years back a classified project called the Initiative was set up in a small town in California, it ran for a few months but was destroyed. After it was destroyed, the military kept a tight watch on the area, as far as I can tell Miss Willow Rosenburg scares the crap out of them. I believe his exact words were, 'she's a dangerous bitch, entirely capable of destroying anything that comes up against her.'
'With all due respect sir, if she's not an alien what exactly makes her so damn scary?' once again Jack hit the bullseye with his question.
'He wasn't too clear on that point but I trust this guy and I think we should tread carefully with this one.'
'Well General, I for one would like to know what we're up against, have you got footage from the surveillance.'
'I'm sure we can get it patched through to here Major Carter.' Hammond got on the phone and within seconds the screen in the room came to life with the image of Willow coming into the main room from the bathroom and god did she look pissed.
'I've got to get a TV like this,' Daniel rolled his eyes, trust Jack to think of that in a tense situation.
'Hold on what's she doing?' Daniel looked back at the screen and saw Willow simply sitting on her bed with her eyes closed.
'I do believe she is meditating Major Carter.' The answer came from Teal'c who was watching the screen with his usual intensity.
'Woah! Did you guys see…it wasn't just me…her hair was red a minute ago right?' Jack stuttered out his question vocalising the confusion felt by the others. They had just witnessed her red hair turn black in an instant. She turned and walked out the door giving them a good look at her face on the way and the look on her face was murderous.
'There has to be a logical explanation for this.' Carter reached for the logic and it completely slipped her grasp.
'It would appear there is indeed something unusual about this girl General Hammond.' Teal'cs talent for understatement never ceased to amaze Daniel.
They discussed what they had seen for a few moments before the General picked up the phone and began to talk to the surveillance team. After a few minutes he exclaimed in frustration. 'Does anyone know where she is or what just happened?'
'I do.' Came the answer from the corner of the room.
All heads turned towards the new voice and they found themselves staring into the depthless black of Willows eyes.
The looks on their faces were priceless, the shock, the astonishment and just all round general fear. She really would have been there earlier but feeling Daniel in the room had fazed her slightly, but now she realised he was just a decoy, a way of getting into her life, a way of spying on her. He didn't care about her, she was part of his job, for all she knew that entire vamp thing could have been a set-up.
'What the hell are you?' the question came from a grey haired guy, his tone demanded an answer, they spy on me and then demand that I explain myself, these guys are unbelievable.
'I'm just your regular human,' she said it in a conversation tone but anger blazed in her eyes, 'well, maybe not quite so regular, you?'
'Miss, I think that maybe when you're in a military base surrounded by thousands of armed soldiers you might want to let us ask the questions.' Again it was the annoying grey one, she smiled dangerously, letting every piece of anger and contempt show.
'Please Willow, don't make this hard on yourself, we don't want you as an enemy, we just want to talk to you.' Daniel stepped forward, which she had to admit was fairly brave of him, he obviously didn't realise he was Willow enemy no. 1, she hated being used, especially when it was her emotions they were playing with.
'Oh that's right you just want to talk, how silly of me, you don't want to bug my hotel room, go through my things and pry into my private life, sorry, my mistake I'll just be going now.' Every word Willow spoke dripped sarcasm and malice, 'no wait, that's exactly what you did, I think I'll stay here for a while, you know think up some really creative punishments, you guys need to be taught not to mess with the wrong people.'
By this time she was surrounded by soldiers each with their guns trained on her. 'Look young lady, we don't want to hurt you but as you can see we can and will if you make us.' It was the one she had heard being called General earlier, for someone with so much power he really was clueless.
She threw her head back and laughed, the soldiers in front of her exchanged glances, apparently people didn't often laugh at them when they had guns in their faces. She looked into the Generals eyes saying,' you really don't know anything about me do you?' she stepped forwards waving her hand at the same instant, the soldiers flew backwards across the room, their guns landing in a heap at her feet. The occupants of the room drew back at the obvious display of her power.
'A friend of mine from a military installation near your hometown informed me that they were aware of your particular talents, he failed to go into details though.' Oh the General man has gone back to stalling tactics, good choice.
'How is the Initiative? I figured after what happened they would have been closed down completely, I assume it is the Initiative you're talking about, and technically it was under my hometown not near it. I take it they are still watching us then, I mean if they were warning you they must have seen me last year because when they were around the first time, I don't think I was considered much of a threat.' I can't believe I babble when I'm mad I must be calming down.
'You never really answered the original question, if you were human how could you do that,' the blonde speaking nodded towards the soldiers who were now struggling to there feet. 'What are you?'
'Do you realise how rude it is to just accuse someone of lying like that, not to mention bad for your health.' Any sense of calm that had been returning to Willow was gone in an instant, the magic within her was once again begging for release. With barely a thought Willow threw her against the wall, cords came out of nowhere and bound her half way up with legs kicking and eyes wide in fear.
The grey haired man ran over to help his friend and Daniel stepped forward again laying his hand on her arm, 'let Carter go Willow.'
'Don't touch me, Daniel, and don't speak, you tried to use me, you lost your right to speak.' With that said Daniel found himself fixed to the spot, unable to move or speak and as a little extra she used a glamour to make him see and feel tiny little insects crawling about under his skin, the terror in his eyes was beautiful.
'Now General have you learned your lesson yet, are you going to leave me alone?'
'Miss Rosenburg I demand you release my men this minute.' The little man's a slow learner.
'Wrong answer.' She used her magic to throw him out of the room and slam the door behind him.
The grey haired man moved away from Carter and slowly came towards her and opened his mouth to speak but she was seriously bored with him by now and didn't even wait to hear what he said before binding and silencing him.
She turned to only person in the room who had remained silent, quickly erecting a shield around the room to keep out the soldiers who were pounding on the door. 'Your not human.' She stated it as the fact she knew it to be, she was calming down now as her curiosity about this man was overcoming her rage.
'No indeed I am not.' Was the only answer she got from him. He was making her feel a little uncomfortable with the detached way he was watching her, if he was scared of her, he wasn't showing it.
'You know you've got a worm in your stomach right? Are you some kind of demon?' her curiosity was really beginning to take over.
'I am not a demon, I am a Jaffa, the 'worm' within me is a Goa'uld, I suppose you would call me an alien.'
'Really?' she sat down with her legs crossed on the table, she felt her hair and eyes return to their natural colour.
'Willow Rosenburg, I will not talk to you while my friends are under your control.' He left it at that, simply waiting for her to act.
'Oh' she debated what to do, finally deciding she didn't want to hurt him and she really wanted to hear what he had to say.
She got off the table and walked over to the chair nearest him and sat down, her eyes changed to black again, she saw worry flicker across his face for a second and actually felt bad. What do you feel bad for, they were spying on you remember. She found that she really didn't care anymore, she had had her revenge, now she just wanted to know more about this alien.
She quickly erected a shield around the two of them and then released the magic that held the others and allowed her other shield to drop letting the General and his soldiers enter. She then turned back to the man and looked at him expectantly, she knew the people now crowded in the room around them were frantically trying to force their way past her shield. She didn't bother with them knowing they could not get through it or interrupt due to the soundproofing which functioned to both keep their shouting out and her conversation private.
'What is she doing to Teal'c in there?' Jack was standing looking at the shield in frustration, it had been four hours since Willow had released them and she was still talking to Teal'c. Or at least they hoped they were still talking, about two hours ago they had tried to communicate with the Jaffa using hand signals but Willow had seen and so they were now left staring at a reflective instead of clear shield and they had no idea if Teal'c was ok, or even still there.
'I think that as long as he doesn't do anything to make her mad he should be ok sir.' The answer came from Carter.
'How'd you figure?' Jack asked calming slightly.
'Well from what we've seen, I think its fair to say that when she's angry her hair and eyes go black and that's when she starts doing whatever it is she did to us. But when she closed off the shield with her and Teal'c her hair was back to normal, so I think at the moment, he's ok.'
'But she could have freaked out since the shield changed, anything could have happened.' Daniel was close to panic as he thought over what he had just said. This was all his fault, if he had never bumped into her and called in the SGC none of this would have ever happened. The funny thing was, he had liked her and now not only was he terrified of her, he was fairly sure she was pissed of at him, which wasn't increasing his confidence even a tiny little bit.
'Shit!' the exclamation cut across Daniel's thoughts and he turned quickly to where the shield had been only to see Willow looking down at a soldier lying at her feet with amusement.
'You know,' she spoke down to him with laughter in her voice, 'it's never a good idea to lean on things that could suddenly disappear from beneath you.' She turned to Teal'c, and gave him a quick hug ignoring the guns that were pointed her way, she whispered into his ear, 'if you ever need me you've got my number.' She continued to stun all those in the room as she casually walked around a soldier to present herself in front of the very shocked General and grip his had shaking it with enthusiasm, 'it was nice to meet you, almost fun, I've got to go now, sorry about the whole scary me thing but you kinda did ask for it. Oh and before I forget…'
She sat down on the floor right in front of Hammond and closed her eyes, a few seconds later the area on the floor to her right began to glow, her hair became a slightly darker shade of red and a box began to form beside her. When what looked like a large wooden box was fully formed she grabbed it and stood up, placing it on the table she spoke again. 'I don't think anyone except Teal'c should try to open that, it would be inadvisable. She smiled briefly at them all although she frowned slightly as she looked at Daniel and cheerfully waved, 'Be seeing ya.'
Shadows began to collect around her disappearing when they became completely black, apparently taking her with them as she was now nowhere to be seen.
'What the hell happened in there, you were in there for four hours, and what's in the box, and who the hell is she?' Jack practically shouted out his questions, pausing to allow Teal'c to answer.
'We were talking Jack O'Niel, I have no idea what is in the box and she is Willow Rosenburg.' Teal'c answered in his normal monotone.
'I hate to interrupt gentlemen but we need to ascertain the contents of that box before we deal with anything else.' Hammond quickly stepped forward examining the box at a distance.
'I believe she no longer wishes us harm General Hammond, I will open the box.' Teal'c stepped forward and opened the box before anyone had time to protest.
He looked at the first item briefly before handing it to Jack who took it cautiously and found it was a small envelope with his name written neatly on the outside. He looked to the General who nodded to him slowly, he glanced towards Teal'c who was looking through the other contents of the box with an uncharacteristic grin on his face. Finally deciding he might as well get it over with, he ripped open the envelope and pulled out the sheet of paper inside.
He read the letter through and by the time he reached the end, he was even more confused about Willow.
Dear Jack,
Sorry again for all the trouble, don't worry the paper doesn't bite unless you hand it to Daniel in which case I wont be held responsible for its actions.
I know I only just apologised but I take it back, I can't believe Teal'c has been on this planet for I don't know how many years and you have never shown him our amazing achievements. I have fixed that problem for the moment although I fully expect you to keep up the good work.
Willow
Ps do you realise how annoying it is to have to explain every pop culture reference you make?
The letter left Jack wondering just what exactly Willow classified as the amazing achievements of the human races. He didn't have to wait too long to find out however since he was beckoned over to the table by a puzzled Carter.
He took one look in the box and began to laugh uncontrollably, God that girl is strange.
TBC
