A/N because for some reason the little dash thingy no longer works on fanfic when ever some one gets cut off by a character or sound it will look like this EX: "So Sam how are we going to/"
So I hope that works with you...Hehehehe...Have fun reading!
Chapter 6 -o- Off World
"Well this is him" Sam said several hours, and lots of questions, later. They were looking at the man who they were all fairly sure took the alien palm pilot. He was very unremarkable looking; he had short brown hair brown, brown eyes and pale skin. They were looking at a picture of him walking out of Daniel's office, where the alien palm pilot (APP) was being stored. He had a big smile on his face and he even had the nerve to wave at the camera as he walked by. "His name is Stephen Mathews" She said tossing the folder down on the table in front of her. "He was in the military for six years; he has a direct order from some General Michel Peterson to come here to the SGC. He's a major and has been here for almost six moths." She paused and looked around at them. "But the real kicker is he hasn't been here for six months. Until a week ago this guy didn't even exist. We've been in contacted with General Peterson and he's never heard of this guy. Now the pentagon is not only pissed that we let some guy run off with a potentially dangerous item, we also let him in to the SGC in the first place."
"So he just showed up today came in took the alien device and walked out again?" Daniel asked sounding a little more then shocked. "How is that possible?" He asked looking form Sam to Jack to General Hammond.
"We don't know" Sam said shaking her head. "He had all the ID's to get him in. "We really don't know how this happened. But we do have to fix it" She said sitting down next to Jack.
"Well at lest he didn't know about the key" Daniel said. A second later all the eyes in the room were on him. He looked around at them and smiled a little. "Well I'm fairly sure there's a key, it can't work without it. I don't know for sure but I think its probably still back on P34-367. I didn't want to say anything till I was sure."
"Well ok" Hammond said nodding his head and standing. "That's some good news then"
"Only if there is a key" Jack said looking at them. "I'm just saying" he said shrugging his shoulders. Hammond looked to Daniel who nodded his head.
"I'm pretty sure there's a key" He said looking at Jack who smiled at him.
"Ok then" Hammond said walking around the small room. "We need all the information we can get on this guy. We need to find out who he is and who he's working for."
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"You're sure he can't be traced to us?" he asked turning around in his chair to look at the man standing in front of him.
"Yes Sir" He said nodding his head.
"And his body has been eliminated?" he asked sitting up a little.
"Yes Sir" he said again nodding his head. He put a folder on his desk.
"And what have you done with the device?" He asked looking up from the folder.
"We put it just were you said to" he said pointing to the folder. "It's all in there"
"Very good" He said nodding his head. "You're dismissed"
"Yes Sir" He said nodding his head. He turned and walked out of the room. He walked down the hall to a small room in the back of the building. He smiled at the man sitting there watching MacGyver.
"So how'd it go?" He said as he turned around to look at him.
"Fine" he said nodding his head. "We got the device and Stephen Mathews is gone" He said Stephen Mathews with little quotes above his head. The guy laughed and turned back to the TV.
"I don't know why you watch that crap, no one is that smart" He said getting some coffee and sitting down next to him.
"I don't know" he said shaking his head. "This Dr. Jackson seems pretty smart"
"We'll see" He said rolling his eyes.
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"Ok so someone took an alien device from the base?" Cassie asked looking a little shocked. "How does something like that happen?" She asked turning to look at Charlie. Charlie shrugged his shoulder and shifted Danny on his arm.
"Here let me take him" Cassie said taking the baby and settling him in her arms. He looked up at her and closed his eyes. CC was upstairs sleeping, it was nap time. And Kiara had gone to school like normal.
"I don't know" Charlie said shaking his head. "Dad didn't really give me many details. He said someone pretending to be personal at the base walked off with something, some kind of alien thing"
"Oh" Cassie said rocking the baby a little as she walked around the room. "So they know nothing?"
"Pretty much" Charlie said nodding his head. It was odd to watch her walking around with a baby in her arms. He wondered what his and the other Cassie's kids would have looked like. "They said they didn't know when they'd be home, but they'd try to make it back sometime tomorrow."
"Ok" Cassie said wondering if she was ever going to make it back to school. She looked up at Charlie and he smiled at her. 'Well maybe missing a little school wasn't so bad.' She thought smiling back at him. "Why don't I start something to eat and then--
"No, I'll make lunch" Charlie said walking towards the kitchen. "You have yet to try my famous tuna fish casserole." He turned and smirked at her.
"Ok" She said nodding her head. "I'm going to go put Danny down"
"Right" He said nodding his head and walking into the kitchen.
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"Anything?" Jack asked walking into Sam's office with two cups of coffee and some doughnuts. Sam didn't even look up from the computer screen she just reached out her hand for the coffee and took a drink. She put it down and ran her hands over her face.
"Yeah I think so" She said finally looking up at him. "I think I've found our man/"
"But?" Jack said sitting down across from her.
"But he's a grocer in a little town called Walden" She said looking back at the screen then turning it so he could see it.
"Well that's him" Jack said looking form the screen to Sam.
"His name is Steven Matten, his wife Kim Matten reported him missing two weeks ago. They run a Ma and Pa stores. I can't find anything that would lead me to believe he was in anyway connected to this. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen the pictures of him from the video." Sam said looking down at the screen. She reached over rolled the mouse around clicked on something and the printer began to print the things on the screen. When they were done she reached over pulled them from the tray and put them in a folder.
"I've called the police in Walden, they say they'd be happy to help but they have no leads. His wife said he went to the store on a Sunday and then just never came home. They've done interviews with everyone even remotely connected and have come up with nothing."
"Ok" Jack said nodding his head. "Let's go talk to Hammond"
"Ok" Sam said picking up the folder and following Jack out the door.
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Five hours later Jack and Sam were on their way to the tiny town called Walden. Hammond wanted then to find out as much as they could about Mrs. Matten and anything about her husbands disappearance. They had been talking about everything from work to Kiara's next play. They were about half an hour away and it was starting to get dark outside. Jack had called Charlie to let him know what was going on and ask if he would watch Kiara. He had said it was fine and thought he might take her to the zoo tomorrow with Cassie, CC and Danny seeing as it was a Saturday.
"So how should we approach this?" Jack asked looking over at her as they sat at a red light.
"I think we should be honest" Sam said smiling at him.
"You think we should tell her we think her husband may have been taken over by aliens?" Jack asked smirking at her. "I don't think that'll go over real well" Sam rolled her eyes and Jack pulled through the light.
"No" She said shaking her head. "I think we should tell her someone looking like her husband was involved in a robbery. See if she knows anything, maybe if he was acting weird before he went missing"
"Ok" Jack said nodding his head. "Do they have kids?"
"Yeah" Sam said nodding her head. "A girl and a boy, the girl is Kiara's age and the boy is four" She said after looking down at the folder. It made her sad that these kids may never see their father again. She was glad, not for the first time that Jack was out of harms way (for the most part).
"Ok" Jack said nodding his head. The last ten minutes of the drive were spent in silence. Both were thinking about the twins, and both were praying this never happened to them. They sat in the Jack's truck for a second after they pulled up to her street. Jack reached over and put his hand on her arm.
"You ready?" he asked smiling at her.
"Yep, you?" She asked putting her hand on his.
"Of course" He said getting out of the car with her. They had parked about three houses down from Mrs. Matten. They were afraid that Jack's truck wasn't very Air force and she may not believe them. Jack walked over to the sidewalk and smiled at Sam.
"Here we go" He said walking with her up to the house. When they got there Jack knocked on the door and they both pulled out their ID's.
"Hello?" A small brunet woman asked as she opened the door a little.
"Hi" Sam said smiling at her. "I'm Major Sam Carter and this is Colonel Jack O'Neill, we'd like to talk to you about your husband" Sam said holding up her ID with Jack before the women could even ask to see them. "It won't take but a minute" She nodded her head and pulled the door open all the way.
"Come in" She said walking into the living room. "I'm sorry the house is such a mess, with Steven...gone its hard to keep clean"
"It's fine" Jack said smiling at her. "You should see my house" He said causing her to smile. She nodded her head and gestured them into the kitchen.
"Can I get you anything?" She asked looking around the room a little. "I don't know what I have but..."
"No thank you" Sam said smiling at her.
"Have you found something about Steven?" She asked looking hopeful. "Why is the Air force involved?"
"No, I'm sorry" Sam said shaking her head. "We were brought in-- Sam was interrupted when the phone on the table rang.
"Just a moment" She said reaching for the phone. "It could be Detective Davis with news" She said as she picked up the phone. She held the receiver to her ear and then nodded her head. Then her lower lip began to tremble a little. She nodded her head as tears started to run down her cheeks. "T-th-thank you" She said hanging up the phone. She looked up at Sam and Jack.
"They found him" She said shaking a little. "He's in bad shape though" She said standing a little wobbly. "They...uh...they said he's...he's unconscious and unresponsive."
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"So do we have any idea what we're looking for here?" Jonas asked as he Daniel Teal'c and SG-16 walked away from the stargate. They were there looking for the key to the APP. They brought SG-16 along because they had found the APP in the first place and would now best where to start looking. "I mean when you say key do you mean like a key key or do you mean like a code?"
"It's a key, like for a lock. It should be a little smaller then my palm and rectangular. It also shouldn't be very thick, probably a little thinker then construction paper." He said reaching into his pocket and taking out a folded piece of paper. He unfolded it and handed it to Jonas. "See it fits here" He said pointing to the APP, there was a rectangle hole on it.
"Oh" Jonas said nodding his head. He handed the paper to Colonel Powers and turned back to Daniel. "How do you think Sam and Jack are doing?"
"I don't know" Daniel said shrugging his shoulders. "I don't envy their job though. I hope they find him though; it will answer quite a few answers." The walk was a short one; the runes were no more then forty feet from the gate. Daniel was wondering if maybe it had something to do with Sam and Kiara's kidnapping. He wasn't sure why, but something told him they were connected.
"Ok this is it" Major Maxtor said looking around the small runes. "There's not much here but I found the APP in here" he said leading Daniel and Jonas into a little room while the rest of SG-16 and Teal'c stayed out to watch for unfriendlys. He led them over to a small table in the back of a very empty room. There were a few broken pottery pieces and what looked like it might have once been a computer of some sort, but someone had shot the hell out of it.
"Ok" Daniel said looking at him and Jonas. "Fan out, it could be anywhere"
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"I'm sorry" some doctor said to Sam and Jack. "There is no brain activity at all, he's brain dead" Sam sighed and Jack looked over at the women crying on a hard hospital chair. They had been there for about an hour now.
"Do you have any idea what happened?" Sam asked looking a little hopeful.
"No" he said shaking his head. "Physically there is nothing wrong with him, I really can't explain it"
"We'd like to have him transferred to a hospital in Colorado Springs" Jack said looking from Sam to the doctor.
"Well that'll be up to Mrs. Matten" He said looking to the women crying.
"Right" Jack said nodding his head. He and Sam walked over to Kim Matten. They both sat across from her. She looked up when Sam spoke her name.
"Mrs. Matten we'd like to ask you something" Sam said in a soft comforting voice. Kim nodded and sniffled a little. "We'd like to take Mr. Matten to a hospital in Colorado Springs."
"Why?" She asked looking hopeful. "Can you help him?" She asked looking to the double doors that her husband was lying behind.
"We...well, we don't think there's much we can do" Sam said shaking her head.
"Well why would I send him there?" She asked whipping tears away.
"We may be able to find the people who did this to him" Jack said taking her hand in his. "Help you find out how and why this happened" He said looking into her eyes. "You're welcome to come with us/"
"No" She said shaking her head. "He can go, ill sigh whatever needs to be sighed, but I need to be here with my children right now" She said standing up. "If you'll excuse me I have a few phone calls to make" She walked away rubbing her forehead, she must have a hell of a headache.
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"Sir!" Major Maxtor said smiling at Daniel. "I think I found it" He said walking over to Daniel and smiling at him. He handed it over and Daniel smiled too.
"This is it' He said nodding his head. Just as he was reaching up to tell the rest of SG-16 they had found it he heard what he thought sounded like a staff blast. They ran to the door to find a bit of a fire fight on their hands.
Daniel got down behind a rock next to Jonas as Major Maxtor went around a little. He looked over at Colonel Powers, who was smiling a little as he took out two Jaffa with the same hit. Daniel looked over at Teal'c, they made eye contact and he edged his way over to him.
"When did they show up?" Daniel asked as he returned fire.
"No more then a minute ago" Teal'c said firing twice and looking over at Daniel. "Did you find the key?" he asked firing again almost without looking.
"Yeah" Daniel said nodding his head. "Major Maxtor found it" he said as they edged over to the rest of the group.
"Then I suggest we depart" Teal'c said looking to the gate. "Daniel Jackson I will cover you" Teal'c said as they headed towards the gate.
"Thanks" Daniel said smiling a little despite the situation. As he took cover behind the DHD dialing when there was no fire coming at him he thought about what the Goa'uld were doing on this uninhabited planet, had they come for the APP? Lucky for them the Jaffa had not expected a fight so there were few of them. They made it back to the SGC all in one piece, except for Major Maxtor; he got a shot in the leg for his troubles. Hammond was of course there at the base of the ramp to meet them.
"Are you all right?" He asked looking at the major, who was leaning on Teal'c.
"Fine Sir" He said nodding his head.
"Ok" Hammond said nodding his head. "Go see the doctor, then we'll debrief in an hour" He said as they all filed out. Daniel stood there a small smile playing on his lips.
"You found it?" Hammond asked as they watched the rest of them walk out.
"Major Maxtor found it" he said pulling it out of his pocket. He held it up for the general to see. "There's some writing on it, I'd like to get to work..." He said trailing off.
"Right" Hammond said nodding his head. "Stop in the sick bay and then get to it, I want it to work when we get the APP back" Daniel smiled at the fact that he had emphasized the 'when'. Daniel walked into the hall and wondered what CC and Danny were doing.
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"They found him" Charlie said as he hung up the phone. He walked over to where Cassie was paining with CC. Danny was asleep in his rocking chair. Cassie looked up at him with a question in her eyes.
"So?" She said smiling at him.
"He's comatose, they don't think he'll be any help" he said sitting down next to Cassie. "Daniel says Janet will be home in an hour"
"Just in time to tuck you in" Cassie said smiling at CC.
"Moms coming home?" She asked smiling.
"In a little while" Cassie said nodding her head. "Any word from Dad?" She asked turning to Charlie.
"Yeah they made it home fine" He said nodding his head. "Dad and Sam are on their way home to"
"Yeah!" Kiara said coming down the stairs. "It's about time" She said shaking her head. Then she looked over at her brother a little worried. "We're still going to the Zoo tomorrow right?"
"Yep" Cassie said nodding her head. She looked out the open window and smiled. "The news said it was supposed to be in the 70, so dress appropriately."
"Right" She said walking into the kitchen. She came back out with a box of apple juice and sat down next to CC. "So what are we playing?"
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The next day Stephen Mathews AKA Steven Matten lay in the sickbay at the SGC. He had arrived by helicopter at about 2:30 that morning with Jack and Sam a few hours behind. They had opted to drive back; nether of them had wanted to leave the truck there. It was almost 5:30 by the time Sam and Jack walked through their front door. Sam smiled and tugged on his coat and pointed to the living room where Charlie was asleep on the couch with Kiara curled up next to him. Cassie must have dropped them off sometime that night. Jack looked at her and a little smirk came to his lips, he held up a finger and mouthed 'Just a second'.
He walked into the kitchen and came walking out with the camera. Sam smiled and nodded her head. They turned o the hall light so as not to wake them but still have light for the picture. She and Jack walked over to the front of the couch and Jack turned off the flash and snapped a picture. Sam smiled when Kiara shifted and burrowed deeper into Charlie's shoulder. Then both Sam and Jack's smiles fell when she started to thrash a little.
"No" She said barely above a whisper. "Sam wake up" She said shaking her head now. "Please Sam, wake up" Jack was about to wake her when Charlie shifted a little to put his hand on her arm and she settled. He opened his eyes and smiled a little and Jack and Sam.
"Hi" He said in a low whisper. "You guys just get in?"
"Yeah" Jack said putting the camera down.
"So did you wake the guy up" he asked shifting so he could get up. He stood and looked down at Kiara.
"No he's brain dead" Jack said shaking his head. "Docs going to have a look in the morning"
"Oh" Charlie said smiling at Sam. "How you feelin?"
"Ok" She said nodding her head and putting her hand on her stomach. "It's the most incredible feeling" She said smiling at him. "They haven't started to kick yet but I can feel them fluttering around in there."
"Cool" Charlie said nodding his head. He bent to wake Kiara but Jack put a hand on his shoulder.
"Let me" he said smiling.
"Right" Charlie said striating up and walking over to Sam. He smiled at her leaned in and whispered. "He's going to hurt his knees if he tries lifting her" Sam looked over at him and grinned and nodded her head.
"I heard that" Jack said as he lifted Kiara up off the couch. He hid the wince as his knees protested the weight and smiled at them.
"Daddy?" Kiara said as she put her arm around his neck.
"Hi there munchkin" He said smiling at her.
"Hi Oz" She said smiling before she drifted back off to sleep. Jack walked out of the living room and towards the bedrooms. Sam sat down on the couch and sighed.
"You ok?" Charlie asked sitting down next to her. She looked over at him and smiled.
"Yeah, I'm just tired. I don't think I've slept in about 20 hours." She said lying back on the couch. "How has Kiara been?"
"Good" he said lying back too. "She's excited about the Zoo"
"That's good" Sam said smiling.
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"Daddy?" Kiara said as Jack was getting up from her bed. Jack sat back down and smiled as she whipped her eyes.
"Yes sweetie?" He said whipping her hair out of her eyes.
"Did you get the bad guys yet?" She asked not sounding like the ten year old she was but more like the five year old she use to be, she always sounded younger to him when she was half asleep.
"Not yet" he said shaking his head. "Sorry"
"It's ok" She said yawning big. "You will" She said with all the normal confidence of a ten year old.
"Good night" He said as her eyes fluttered shut. "I love you" Jack stood and walked out the door. He walked into the living room opened his mouth to say something then shut it and smiled. Sam was asleep on the couch; she looked so calm as she lay there.
"I'm going to head to bed" Charlie said coming out of the kitchen with a glass of water. Jack turned and smiled at him.
"Ok" He said walking over to Sam. "Have fun at the Zoo"
"Will do" Charlie said nodding his head as he walked out of the living room. Jack knelt down next to Sam and shook her a little.
"Sam" He said smiling. "Sam, wakey, wakey" He said soothing her hair back. "Come on Sam, I don't think I can carry you all the way to our bed.
"Are you saying I'm fat?" Sam asked without opening her eyes.
"No" Jack said smirking at her. "Just full up of babies" Sam opened her eyes and reached out and pulled him down for a kiss.
"Ok" She said sitting up and yawning. "Bed?"
"Yeah" he said nodding his head. "Bed time"
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The next day SG-1 past and present were all standing in the sickbay standing by or around Steven Matten's bed. It was about noon and Janet had just finished all her tests and called them down there. She came walking out of her office and right away Sam could see it was bad news. She walked over to them and opened the file.
"Ok people" She said looking up at them. "I did a few tests on his this morning when I got here. The only one that tells me anything is the brain scan." She pulled it out and put it on his legs. Jack looked down at it nodded his head and looked back up at her.
"And we're seeing what exactly?" He asked looking back and the scan.
"This is his brain. As you can see there are no brain waves" She said pulling out another paper. "When I fist saw these I knew they looked familiar but couldn't figure out why." She pulled out another paper but didn't put it down. "So I did some research and found this" She said sitting down the paper.
"These are mine" Sam said picking them up.
"How can you tell?' Jack asked looking over her shoulder at them.
"Because they say 'Carter, Samantha' on the top" Sam said smirking at him.
"They are yours" Janet said nodding her head. "From when that computer entity took over your body"
"Right" Sam said nodding her head. She looked up at Janet a little confused. "What are you saying? Did some computer take him over then still the APP?"
"No" Janet said shaking her head. "At lest I don't think so" She turned on the computer monitors next to him and they could all see his nonexistent brain waves. "But I think something did take him over, pushing his mind to the back. Unfortunately he was weak minded and it caused him to go brain dead." Janet said looking from the monitor to the rest of them.
"So what took over his mind?" Daniel asked stepping forward.
"Well that's the million dollar question" Janet said shaking her head. "I have no idea what could have done this"
"Ok, so now what do/" Every one stepped back when a bright light enveloped Jack and then he disappeared.
"Asguard?" Jonas asked looking around at every one.
"I hope so" Sam said walking to the phone to call Hammond.
A/N Hope you all like this, I know it's a little short but I wanted to get one out by the weekend because I won't have a chance to work on it. So let me know what you think. :-)