Wolves Among Sheep
Disclaimer: I do not own any of Stargate SG1; I'm just borrowing them for a bit of twisted fun.
Summary: The Ancient's gene is rare and those who have it are considered very lucky, but in an alternate reality the gene is a death sentence. So how did Jack and Daniel end up with an adopted Daughter each who could potentially be the answer to all their prayers?
Warnings: Um none for this chapter, except maybe a lot of confusion…heh…
Ok now we get to see if Danny and Jack can handle a little added extra to our two new characters…but don't worry there's plenty more surprises in store for our two favourite members of SG1
Dedicated to my good friend Lisa… ok yes it's focussed more on your character at the mo but don't worry the other one will become more involved soon…
Enjoy!
Chapter Five: Small Surprises
(The Next Day…)
"Daniel?" Daniel looked up at his name. General Landry was looking at him expectantly, as were the rest of SG1+1. He sighed and shook his head causing five faces to fall.
"I got nothing, except a sore back and a load of dust mites." He said casting his eyes downward. He could feel the tension and worry in the air and he felt horrible for adding to it. He felt Cameron place a reassuring hand on his shoulder and weakly smiled knowing that he understood. It was Cameron after all who'd made sure his coffee supply had never run empty, and that he got some sleep every now and then.
"Carter, please tell me you have something." Jack pleaded from across the table. She brought her eyes up to meet his then quickly dropped them again at his gaze. She'd worked her assistants to their breaking point and pushed herself even further than she thought was possible. Still, she had Nada.
"Sorry Sir." The tension had just thickened and an impending sense of doom flooded the briefing room as all parties sat in silence, unwilling to believe they'd finally hit a dead end.
"Teal'c?" The last and final member of SG1 looked up. He was the member who had never failed to help them out, whom they could all rely on, had never let them down.
"I am sorry O'Neill." The silence was deafening.
That was, until the door gave a small squeak and a young blonde stood in the open doorway, a slightly horrified look on her face. Jack stood slowly, recognising the young girl immediately. He gave her a quick smile and a brief nod to let her know she wasn't in any danger or had angered anyone. His reassurance gave her the confidence she needed to take a few hesitant steps into the room…
"I…" She stopped suddenly afraid of suggesting what she was about to suggest. But Jack gave her another encouraging smile. "I…um…" again she hesitated unsure whether she was trespassing on private grounds by speaking up her ideas.
"Is there something you want Lisa?" Jack asked gently. She looked up in to his deep brown eyes and told herself she owed it to him and his people.
"Um…I can help…I know some things…that…might help…" Gen. Landry stared at the young girl in the door way in awe. He hadn't seen the two girls that he'd permitted on base since they came through the Stargate and collapsed; he'd been too busy with the current situations to visit and welcome them to Earth, but on a first impression basis this one was a shy but bold one taking the risk of entering a private conversation and speaking out however shyly and offering information to complete strangers.
"What information?" Jack asked gently moving so he was knelt in front of her, knowing she needed a friendly face in order to carry on. She glanced around at the faces staring at her and recognised Cameron from the infirmary. He gave a quick wave and smile and she felt herself relax inside. She turned back to Jack and decided that they needed to see what she knew, what she can do for them in return for helping her and Maria.
"I- er we, can help. I'll show you… if that's ok?" She made it clear that she needed their permission to do something. Jack wasn't sure of this, he'd seen what aliens could do but this was just a young girl from an alternate Earth. The least she could do was draw a picture of what she needed to say…right?
"Go ahead. Do what you gotta do." He smiled again reinforcing his words, encouraging her to act. She took another glance around the room as though wanting everyone's approval before she went ahead. Finding no objections she nodded and took a deep breath.
She closed her eyes and frowned, concentrating yet again, breathing slowly yet steadily. She felt it rippling within her, felt it squirming and rising. She felt a small wind pick up around her, felt a warm tingle spread throughout her body, and heard the murmured gasps from the people in the room. She opened her eyes and found herself surrounded by an aura that was glowing a 'minty' sort of green. She gave a small smile of victory then tested her ability with the small powers she had called on.
She held her hand up inline with a coffee mug by Cameron's arm and willed the object to levitate. It took a few attempts but slowly the coffee mug lifted into the air with a small green aura of its own. She felt something dripping onto her lip and knew that she had little time left to put the mug back down safely before she lost control. She began to lower the mug.
All eyes were on the hovering mug in disbelief; Sam in awe, Daniel in shock, Cameron a little afraid, Teal'c intrigued, Gen Landry with suspicion and Jack with disbelief. They watched closely as the mug lowered itself close to the table wobbling from time to time before it was safely on the table surface looking as innocent as it had been several seconds earlier.
As one the group turned to her, each with a varied questioning expression on their faces.
"How did you do that?" Cameron asked looking much like an excited schoolboy with an awestruck grin to match.
"I don't know how it works." She replied tasting a distinct coppery taste as she spoke, she looked back at them with a slightly fearful look before touching a hand to her lips only to find blood on her fingertips. Jack snapped out of his shock and reached for a tissue box whilst asking if she was ok.
"I'm ok. It happens sometimes when I use them." She replied taking a couple of tissues and blowing her nose to get rid of the blood. Jack peered at her, obviously trying to discern if she was really ok and trying to figure out what to make of this new discovery.
"Them?" he asked. She noticed he'd paled slightly at her words. She didn't know why, but it sent shivers up her spine as he looked at her with that suspicious frown of his.
"I…I… don't know…. w-what to call them…I-I think…maybe powers?" She was stammering again and in obvious distress at something. She watched as the adults took this information in and processed it trying to make sense of it all; hoping they wouldn't cast her aside or hand her back over to the Ori.
"And can…" Daniel began trying to remember the others girls name, "Marie?" Lisa looked up into his ocean blue eyes and corrected him politely.
"Maria." She said with the fondness of a close sisterly bond. Daniel nodded to himself remembering instantly,
"Maria, sorry. Can Maria do this too?" He asked watching her intently. She nodded wiping her nose again.
"Yes she can. But where I have little energy behind it, she has massive amounts that she can't control." She explained briefly still hoping they'd help her. A sudden outburst made her jump and turn on the defensive stance she'd grown used to.
"This is incredible!" Sam exclaimed looking very excited and on the verge of going into a scientific lecture. Jack inwardly braced himself for the onslaught of unknown words and phrases but was saved when Gen. Landry stood and spoke.
"I think it best if Miss Lisa here retire to bed for a while, Jack if you would be so kind as to lead our guest back to her room?" Jack stood and nodded leading Lisa back outside the room and in the direction she'd obviously wandered down from her temporary room on base.
They were no less than three corridors away from the briefing room when Lisa spoke up in the silence that had befallen them;
"Are you going to send us away?" Her voice was close to a whisper so it was a wonder how he heard it but he did nonetheless. He stopped and looked down at her; she stopped also feeling that he was no longer moving. He saw the expression on her face as she turned to face him, and knelt down quickly taking her shoulders in his hands.
"Why would we ever do that?" He asked rhetorically. She looked up at him with a gaze that held too many tortures for a girl her age. She let it slide and fell silent for several seconds before she asked a question that had been burning inside her during the whole ordeal with the briefing room. The reason she was wandering in the first place…
"Where's Maria?" Jack watched as her eyes lit up with worry, he noticed how her voice took on a tender loving tone at her name. They'd certainly been through a lot together and nothing could break a bond as strong as the on they had; a bond that felt oddly familiar some how.
"I'll take you to see her later ok? Right now you need to catch some Zs." He said with a slight teasing tone and a smile to boot. She caught the happy tone in his voice and felt it rise within her own body, an emotion she'd long forgotten…happiness.
"Can I have a net?" She asked as he stood and began walking down the corridors. He chuckled heartily and ruffled up her hair gently…
"Cheeky little squirt…"
It was quiet. The halls were void of any human activity and this unnerved her. Where was Lisa? Who was that man? What was this place? Questions kept flooding her mind and she found it hard to focus.
She'd woken up in the hospital looking place again but no one was there. She'd began to get worried and so ventured out to find Lisa, but this place was bigger than she first thought. She was wandering aimlessly around the grey dull corridors, trying to find a friendly face.
Slowly she became aware of a voice muttering quietly nearby. She tensed not knowing who it was or where they were. As she listened she found that she recognised the voice from somewhere. She moved in the direction of the voice and listened carefully.
"And in the darkness…there is heat? No that's not it…" It was him! The man from the planet. The man who'd helped her. Maybe he'd know where Lisa is? She rounded a corner following his voice finding only doors and other corridors. She moved down the hall way listening to the deep rumbling as he mumbled to himself.
She finally came to a semi open door and peered inside. He was stood in front of a large projected screen his back to her, trying to read the pictures on the screen. She stepped into the room curious as to what he was reading and immediately recognised it. It was Ancient Text. A fluency of hers.
(A/N; for lack of effort I have put any Portuguese in Italics, just makes it easier to translate in your own minds what is being said instead of having to translate what is being said from one language to another to English…the meanings kinda get lost…)
"Uma Escuridão virá. Uma praga de Shadowed prosperará. Uma Morte nômade cairá sobre toda vida unida e uma batalha feroz lutou. Mas em Escuridão há Luz, há esperança, um poder de origens desconhecidas…um Salvador para todos mundos."
(A Darkness will come. A Shadowed plague shall flourish. A nomadic Death shall fall upon all united life and a ferocious battle fought. But in Darkness there is Light, there is hope, a power of unknown origins…a Saviour for all worlds.) He turned to her abruptly with a shocked and confused look on his face before he managed to find his voice again.
"What did you say?" She looked at him with a confused look before he realised he'd spoken in English and not Portuguese. He repeated in said language and saw recognition light up her pretty features. She pointed at the words on the screen as she repeated what she'd said first of all.
"Uma Escuridão virá. Uma praga de Shadowed prosperará. Uma Morte nômade cairá sobre toda vida unida e uma batalha feroz lutou. Mas em Escuridão há Luz, há esperança, um poder de origens desconhecidas…um Salvador para todos mundos." Daniel could only look at her in awe. This girl could read the 'Ancient' Language! He looked back at the screen and quickly applied her translation to the text for confirmation of his suspicions. He slowly turned back to look at the girl in front of him in awe…It was right…
"Pode ler isto?" (You can read this?) He asked squatting down to her height and studying her face closely. Her hazel eyes were glued to his as she nodded in the affirmative shaking free loose strands of hair which fell into her face as she moved. That was when he noticed she was quite a pretty child underneath the grime and dirt she had yet to clean off. That was also when he noticed she was in hospital scrubs and walking in bare feet.
"O que são fazendo para fora de cama?"(What are you doing out of bed?) He asked looking back to the door, finding no guide or guard, before taking her hand and leading her back out into the hallway. She looked sheepish before replying something he'd usually say.
"Siento-me bem; eu não necessito estar numa cama."(I feel fine; I don't need to be in a bed) He smiled at the likeness between them and asked why she was out in the halls on her own. She looked down at her feet as she answered.
"Procurava Lisa; meu amigo. Tenha-o visto a?" (I was looking for Lisa; my friend. Have you seen her?) She looked up at him searching for a sign, a direction, and an answer. He looked back at her with a studying smile.
"Sim vi-a; é segura e soa adormecido. É tida bem a aventura estes poucos dias passados, ambos de você têm." (Yes I've seen her; she's safe and sound asleep. She's had quite the adventure these past few days, both of you have.) He watched her face screw up in disgust at a memory she obviously didn't like. "Quer dormir em seu lugar?" (You want to sleep in her room?) He asked suddenly feeling her need to be with her life long friend. She looked up at him with an excited gleam in her eye and nodded persistently. He chuckled at her antics and steered her to another level. Taking her to where she needed to be; walking, together, the first steps of an even bigger journey than the one she'd already made to get here…
