Chapter 3
Jenna
Colorado Springs
6 months earlier

"Jenna! Supper!"

"Coming, mom! I'm doing my homework. Just let me finish this last problem!"

Yeah right, she couldn't remember the last time her homework had taken more than half an hour.

Jenna was thirteen years old. She had shoulder-length wavy light brown hair and almond-shaped jade eyes. She had pretty, angular features and a creamy complexion.

What she was really doing was finding out what the government kept from the world. It was really quite interesting, she learned all sorts of things. It was amazing what you could find when you were secretly a genius.

Hacking into Top-Secret government files was a hobby of hers. She came home from school, quickly finished any homework she had, and started searching the net for any unknown secrets. None of any of the places she had hacked had ever found her out.

"Oh my God"she muttered

She had found something, something BIG. On the screen, it said in big blocky letters, 'Cheyenne Mountain Complex, welcome to Stargate Command. Please sign in below' beneath the writing were three boxes, obviously for entering passwords etc.

JENNA!!

Startled, she yelled back, "Coming mom." and quickly x-ed out of the window. Oops. She ran down to dinner before her mom got mad and came up to her room.

After dinner, she went back to her computer and tried to find that last one again. "Ah! There it is!" she said softly. She REALLY wanted to know what this "Stargate" was. "There we go!" She was in. First, she went to 'mission files,' this must be a military operation or something, Oh! There were so many! Hmm, where to start? At the beginning, of course! WOW. Her jaw dropped as she read about the first mission to Abydos. Now she understood why this was all Top-Secret, if it got out, the world would fall into chaos!

Then she started reading about going back to Abydos and going to Chulak. She just read, and read, and read! She couldn't stop herself! Some weren't as exciting as others, just simple recon, but the very concept left her stunned.

When she realized it was three in the morning she quickly x-ed out of the window and went to bed.

She dreamed about the stargate for the whole three hours she slept.

She saw a huge, grey ring with strange symbols on it spinning around with triangles around the edges lighting up here and there. There was a whooshing noise as a huge bubble burst out of it like a sideways mushroom cloud. Jenna flinched. There was a blue water-like surface in the middle of the ring. The Stargate, she thought. Although how she knew this, she could not figure out. There weren't any pictures in the database, but she was sure that was what it looked like. She could not make this up.

She had been so absorbed in pondering the gate that she had not even noticed her grey surroundings, until they morphed into a clearing in a green lush forest. It was surrounded by high, white pillars supporting a trellis with a delicate climbing vine as a sort of roof. The plants above her created a green light that filtered to the elegant undergrowth and the barely noticeable path formed by a springy moss.

She followed the path until she came to a building. The walls curved in and were a translucent white color. There was flowing script set in the walls all over the building. All this beauty left Jenna astonished.

The symbols looked familiar. Jenna felt she could read them if she really concentrated, but she moved on toward the front of the building.

As she walked toward the building, she noticed a gold circle about where a door should be. She got closer and saw that the gold was some more of the writing. She reached toward the middle of the circle. Her hand quivered slightly and she hesitated before touching the wall.

Just at that moment, she awoke to the sound of her alarm clock. She reluctantly got ready for school. The dream was so strange, but she didn't just forget it like any other dream. It stayed with her and she knew that all of it was real.

UGH, not another day at school, it is just so boring! She didn't really know why she hid her brilliance; she could have been through college by now! However, something inside her kept her from letting through her true potential. The same thing made her miss a question here, or there. Sure, she still got A's, but it wasn't as if she got a hundred percent on everything, even though she could have.

She went through the motions of school like normal but she kept drifting off, thinking of the Stargate and her dream. She was constantly drawing the gate, the clearing, the building, and the gold circle. She couldn't concentrate or pay any attention to her teachers so she missed what was going on here or there, and frequently had to lean over to ask one of her friends what the teacher said they had to do for homework.

She was so excited to get home and read more about the Stargate. She thought about the Goa'uld, the Jaffa, and all the exciting things that had happened inside that one mountain.

Back at Jenna's

When she got home, Jenna decided to look at other stuff, including personnel files. She learned all about the SGC's elite team, SG1. There was Colonel Jack O'Neill, the leader of SG1; Major Samantha Carter, a brilliant scientist; Daniel Jackson, an archaeologist and linguist; and Teal'c, the former first prime of Apophis, now an ally.

Next, she got into the science of the Stargate. Cool, wormhole physics! Jenna loved that stuff. She was always eager to learn new things, even if she already knew a lot of it.

Over the weeks and months, Jenna learned all about the stargate program, and she became especially interested in SG1…

Three months ago

Jenna was still reading mission files. She now mostly skipped over the simple recon missions now, but you would be surprised at how many adventures happen at the SGC every day. She had now been obsessed with the Stargate for about three months. Time had seemed to blur together. There was so much to learn! At this point, she could control the gate and the iris if she wanted to. She became extremely tempted at times, she once even thought about going down there and sneaking in, but she knew she would get in BIG trouble, and they might even think she was a Goa'uld!

She still thought about the dream she had that first night she had discovered the gate. It had been three months, but she still remembered it exactly as it had happened. She had finally decided that the place she saw was definitely another planet, the script she had seen was an alien language, and she had definitely seen the Stargate. She kept drawings of everything she saw in her dream. They were exact replicas of what she had seen, and she was sure of that.

Every day she looked up at the mountain, expecting a Goa'uld ship to descend upon it at any second, or for it to blow up, or any sign of what was happening inside. Nothing ever happened. It just sat there, looking peaceful, tranquil, and perfectly innocent of anything. She glared at it, looking for proof. Nothing, ever.

"JENNA!"

"Coming, mom!"