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Ch 2: The Girl...

Getting past security with the young child was harder then Jack had thought that it was going to be. So, after spending half an hour talking to the infuriating airman, he was on his way to Carter's lab. However he knew he wouldn't get there anytime soon. The girl was so slow; she took her time to make sure she looked at everything. There were so many new things she had never seen before.

Jack was getting irritated with her. "Come on," he finally said, they were only three doors away from her lab. He felt like grabbing the kid and carrying her the rest of the way, but he guessed that wouldn't earn her trust. So he let her take her time, and finally they arrived at the lab.

Sam was on her laptop, he should have guessed, typing around a million words per second. She turned when she heard the door open. "Colonel?" she asked, clearly surprised. "I thought you left already." She quickly pressed 'save' before hopping off her chair.

"I did, Carter," Jack said, his voice full of frustration. He placed his hands on his hips and let out a sigh. "But then…" he trailed off as the girl poked her head into the room, and froze upon seeing a new person.

Sam also froze. 'What in the world was Colonel O'Neill doing with a child? Why would he bring her to the SGC? Had she missed a memo?' "Sir?" she asked cautiously. "What is going on here?"

Jack shrugged before responding. "Umm… apparently I'm… babysitting."

Sam wrinkled her forehead in confusion. "What?" She looked at the child. "Why? Who is she?" She took a step closer while the kid looked over her.

"Well, I don't know. Actually, well, okay, I do know, but… I don't." he gave her a sarcastic smile; to show her he was serious.

"Sir?"

"Well, Thor basically just dropped her into my lap. I had no say in the matter. He said that she managed to come aboard his ship, or something… a couple days after leaving the planet he noticed-"

"What planet?" Sam asked, trying to sink in all the information at once.

"He was on some planet or another, it doesn't really matter. Anyways, he found her, she wouldn't tell him where she was from, or who she was. She didn't tell him anything, anyways; he decided to leave her with me." He finished and leaned over to pat the girl's head.

Sam blinked slowly as she looked from one to the other. Thor had done some really odd things in the past, but would he really abandon a girl with Jack O'Neill?

"Oh!" Jack added, remembering his earlier discovery. "And I think she's deaf…"

"Deaf?" Sam repeated slowly.

"Yes, Carter, deaf. As in… deaf, can't hear anything. Deaf people also tend not to talk to people. They have a hard time understanding what we're saying to them, it's probably because they can't hear." He nodded.

"Yes, sir. I know what it is. I meant to say, why would you think she's deaf?"

"Why do I have to explain everything to you? Can't you just take my word for it?" he rolled his eyes. "The reason I think she's deaf, one, she didn't seem to hear me when I talked to her, and two, earlier when I grabbed my paper I knocked over my beer and it shattered, the kid didn't even flinch! She couldn't have known that it was coming unless she has eyes in the back of her head." He looked at the brown hair, looking for a sign of another pair of eyes.

Sam stood there, confused, no sure what she was supposed to do, or say. She walked closer to the two of them, and kneeled down slightly. "Hello." She said in a friendly tone and a smile on her face.

The girl looked from Sam up to Jack, licking her lips again, she moved closer to him, as if she were scared of Sam.

Jack dropped his hands to his side. "Oh! Now you like me!"

Sam straightened up. "So, Thor wants you to do what exactly with her?"

Jack shrugged. "I have no idea. Get something out of her I guess. Find out where she lives, I don't know!"

Sam nodded slowly. "Okay." She glanced back down at the girl, considering their options. "I think we should take her to Janet, sir. Just to make sure everything's okay."

"Good idea!" He said, wondering why he hadn't thought of that. "Better yet, why don't you take her?"

"She doesn't appear to like me, Colonel." Sam said as she took a couple more steps closer. The girl immediately reacted and backed up and hid behind Jack, barely peeking around his leg.

"She'll love you! Just give her a little time to warm up to you, that's all. You'll be best friends before you know it." Jack said. The child grabbed his shirt, as if it would protect her. "Won't you?"

The girl stared up at him, puzzled.

Sam sighed slightingly. "Sir. I really think Janet should take a look at her. If she's from an alien planet we have no idea what kind of diseases and other things she could have brought back, or what we could be giving her."

"Okay, Carter." He said. "Tag along?"

Sam hesitated before shrugging her shoulders. "Alright, sir."

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Jack, Sam and their new guest walked into the infirmary. Jack had his hands on the kid's shoulders, because he had to push her the whole way there. "Finally!" He said as he spotted Janet in the corner doing something or another. "Doc! I got a visitor for you!"

"I'll be right there…" Janet said, preoccupied with the folder in her hands. She scribbled something down and turned to the small group. "So, what can I do for… you…?" Her eyes fell upon the girl with the old brown dress.

The girl trembled as she saw the slim redhead. She looked more frightened seeing Janet then she had meeting Sam. She looked up at Jack, who still had not let go of her shoulders.

"It's okay, she's great… well, unless she has one of those big honkin' needles in her hand." Jack squeezed her shoulders to let her know it was okay. "Doc, this kid needs to be checked out."

Janet abandoned the folder to a bed and stood up. "Who is 'she' exactly, Colonel?" she asked as she crossed the room towards them, not breaking eye contact with the guest.

"Her?" he pointed to the child. "Oh. I have no idea." He said with his normal sarcasm in his voice.

Sam managed to resist the urge to roll her eyes, she folded her arms and began to explain the story, or at least what she knew of it…

Janet nodded slowly. "Okay, so you think she's deaf?" she asked, once Sam was done. "Alright, I'm going to need her on the bed." She walked over to her equipment and began to get the things she would need.

"Okay." Jack said, he steered the girl by her shoulders in the direction of the beds, once there, he lifted her up onto one.

The girl felt the bed with her hands; she stared at it curiously. A very small smile spread across her face, so small, no one even noticed it.

Janet put the stethoscope into her ears and walked over to the girl. While she did this, the girl back slowly away from her, until she was almost off the bed. "Don't worry, honey, I'm not going to hurt you."

She was now right next to the bed; she moved the stethoscope closer to the child's chest, once she was two inches away the girl gasped. She pushed Janet away angrily before quickly jumping off the bed. She began to run around the room, doing her best to ignore everyone's attempt to catch her.

Jack, who had been expecting a little trouble from her, hurried over and tried to grab the child, but she was to quick for him, she quickly ducked and ran the other way. "Hey! Come here kid! It's okay, she's not going to hurt you!"

The girl found the door they came in from, she looked back at Jack who was running to her. She let out a small squeal and made a dash for the doors, but she didn't get very far before two strong arms were around her. She began to fight back, kicking and struggling to get out of the grip, but she couldn't.

"No you don't." Sam muttered, as the girl began to fight her. "You're not going anywhere." She began to walk back towards Janet, with the fighting girl in her grasp. The girl was strong for being so small.

Janet dusted herself off and pushed herself off from the ground. "Thank you, Sam." She said, picking back up the stethoscope that had fallen off. "Colonel, Sam, you're going to have to hold her down for me." The child didn't seem like she would stop kicking any time soon.

Jack nodded. "Okay." He took one of the girl's shoulders and leg and Sam took the others. The girl was still struggling to get away, but because of Jack and Sam both holding her down, she was failing miserably. "Just sit still!" Jack ordered, knowing she wouldn't.

Janet moved the stethoscope closer to the girl's chest once again. The girl tried harder then ever to get away, but Sam and Jack held onto her tightly. A tear slid down her cheek, she was so scared, anyone could tell just by looking at her. "It's okay, honey." Janet assured in a soothing tone. "You'll be okay…" Janet placed the cold metal against the girl's skin; she jumped back a little in surprise.

A moment later, Janet put the stethoscope down and smiled. "See, that wasn't so bad, was it?"

The girl stared at her expressionlessly.

Janet took a deep breath. "Okay, now, you're going to have to hold her really still while I draw some of her blood…"

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Not long later, the young girl sat on the edge of an infirmary bed, clutching her arm with the band-aid on it, as if it were broken. She stared up at Janet as she walked back into the room. The look on her face spoke the words she didn't. She was NOT happy.

"Well," Janet said, walking over to the small group. She looked down at the open folder in her hands. "She's very close, but not all human. Or at least not our kind of human, it is possible she may be a little advanced. Her body is built slightly differently, and I can't be sure if she is deaf or not. But, if I had to pick one, I'd say she is. Her eardrums seem to be slightly out of whack, but that could just be the way she is."

"What are you saying?" Jack asked, pulling his hands out of his pockets. "You think she's deaf?" He had never thought he would want her to be wrong so badly. He couldn't imagine being deaf, especially as a small child.

Janet sat the folder on the bed and crossed her arms. She hated to be the barer of bad news, which unfortunately was a major role in her job. "I can't be sure."

"But you think she is?" Sam confirmed.

Janet sighed. "Yes, I do."

Jack and Sam exchanged glances before turning to the girl, who stiffened and stared right back at them, as if asking 'what are you looking at'?

"What are we going to do with her?" Sam asked, placing her hand on the girl's shoulder, before quickly moving it as the girl backed up.

"I don't know. Maybe… maybe Daniel can be of some help, he might be able to do something. Write down something in different languages…" Janet suggested. "There may be a few more ways to communicate with her, I don't know."

Jack nodded. "Yeah, okay, that's okay." He shoved his hands back into his pockets. "Kid, you ready to go?"

"I'll let you know how the other tests turn out as soon as I get them back." Janet said.

Sam nodded. "Okay, thank you for everything, Janet."

Janet smiled. "Bye-bye, kiddo. Sorry about poking you..."

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I don't know when I'll be able to post the next chapter, but hopefully it would be soon. If not, I apologize beforehand.

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