Chapter Six haHA! Here you go, some of the underlying conflict plot is put in this chapter...okay so not too much but there are important things you must remember. SO Pay attention there will be a quiz!
Anna sat her desk staring at the tablet in front of her. It had been a couple months since she first started and had been on several missions since. A few days ago however, Daniel had given her this tablet and said that it was a priority one project. So she stopped everything and concentrated on it, and it only.
She stared at the tablet for a full minute before she let out a long sound, "Moooooooooosiiiiiiiiiiccccccccccc..."
"Excuse me?" She jumped and looked over at Daniel, "Sorry."
"Its okay, but I seriously need to make an investment on some bells." She said half to herself.
"What?" He looked confused by everything she had said in the last minute.
"Nothing." She shook her head.
"Nothing really, you just like making strange cow noises for no reason." He smiled and leaned on her desk.
"Cow noises?" She wrinkled her brow then it hit her, "Oh! No no no! I was merely figuring out what was missing to help me translate this tablet, music."
"Music? Music is the key to translating the tablet?" He blinked, baffled by this news.
She laughed, "No, it's not the key, it just helps me work, it keeps me focused, Dr. Jackson."
"Daniel." He smiled, "Please I'm not that much of a doctor, so just Daniel."
"Oh," She smiled, "Alright, if it's okay with you."
"It is and…" He fingered the folder he was holding.
"Yes?" Her eyes focused on him as she noticed his sudden fidgeting "Is there something else?"
"I know it's been a couple months since you started and I wanted to apologize. From when we first met, I was a complete jerk and…"
"Daniel," He stopped and looked up, she was smiling, "I'll forgive you if you forgive me."
He nodded, "Alright."
They stood their in the moment just smiling at each other. The moment was abruptly interrupted by the blaring of the alarm.
"Unscheduled gate activation!"
They both dropped what they were doing and ran down the hall to the gate room. They stood looking at the gate.
"Anna!" She turned and saw Jack coming down the stairs, "How are you?"
"Fine." She tilted her head
"Good, good, and work how is work?" He smiled.
"Fine." She stopped, "Can we do this later?"
"Oh right." He put his hands on his hips, "Wha'da we got?"
Walter shifted in his seat, "Nothing yet sir. It's just open and there's no message."
Everyone stared at the closed iris. Sam, who was stationed at a computer, finally spoke, "There's a message coming through. It's some sort of code."
"Excuse me?" Jack looked over at her, while Daniel and Anna stepped up behind her.
"It's a code, sir. Someone is sending us a code." She told him.
Daniel leaned closer for a better look, "A number code?"
"It's the alphabet." Anna said with her arms crossed staring at the screen.
"What?" Daniel and Sam both looked up at her.
"The numbers are spaced out into words. Watch," She wrote down the first three letter sequences:
2085 1612114520 919195321185
T he P l a n e t I s S ec u r e
They looked at her, "Me and my friends used to write messages like this in grade school."
"Translate the rest of it now, I wanna know what's going on." Jack told her.
"Right!" She started scribbling furiously.
"Where's it from?" Jack asked.
Walter looked back at the screen, "P3G-467."
"Jack I just came back from there." Daniel told him, "That's were the device is at."
"Well then we really need to know why they can't use there communicators don't we!" Jack said loudly giving Anna a hint.
"I'm working on it!" She snapped back as she continued to scribble.
The room became suddenly tense and Anna found her heart beating faster and that she was sweating. She started to hum a song and kept working.
Jack looked at her then to Sam. Sam shrugged and looked at Daniel and Teal'c. Neither said anything, but Daniel gave a small smile.
"There!" She handed the paper to Jack.
He scanned it quickly, "Open the iris." He looked at Anna, "Good work." He turned quickly and headed toward the gate room.
She let out a long held breath and clutched her stomach suddenly feeling sick. Nerves, she truly hated her nerves. They never responded well to fast paced things. So many times after missions she found herself in her office lying on the floor.
Well there were other reasons for that action too, but she wasn't going to tell anyone about that.
Sam placed a hand on her shoulder, "You okay? You look like you could use some rest."
"I'm fine." Anna smiled.
"You are not speaking truthfully, Ms. Anna." Teal'c stepped in front of her.
She lifted her chin defiantly, "Oh really? How would you know?"
He gave a small smile, "Because you have not slept in three days."
"How in the world did you know that?" Her eyes grew wide. She heard that Teal'c was amazing, and she witnessed some of this amazingness, but he was a mind reader too?
"I have passed your office many times in the past few nights, and everytime you have been translating the tablet, that Daniel Jackson has given you." He looked at her firmly.
"You haven't gone home or just rested in three days?" Sam was nearly scolding her.
"Is that bad?" Anna made a confused face.
"Do you do this often?" She asked her.
"Well, no, not unless it's something important." Anna smiled and tried to escape.
"She does it frequently Carter." Teal'c told Sam.
"Anna! You need to take a break." Sam told her, "I'll make it an order if I have to
"Bells and duct tape…" Anna mumbled.
"You'll make what an order?" Jack came up behind them.
"She hasn't stopped in three days sir." Same explained.
Jack looked at Anna slowly slink away down the stairs, "Stop." She froze, "Turn around." She looked a child caught with a cookie, "Is this true?"
She smiled, "Maybe just a little."
"Anna I order you to go home for the rest of the day, and if one of the guards finds anything that looks anything like work on you when you leave, you'll be in big trouble." He shook his head and walked up to her, "I know you like puzzles, but taking care of yourself comes first, isn't that right guys."
Sam smiled, "Absolutely, sir."
"Indeed rest is the best thing for one's body." Teal'c nodded.
"What's good for what?" Daniel walked up to them.
Jack looked back at him, "Getting rest Daniel, a word that you are very unfamiliar with."
"Do I need rest?" He looked at everyone strangely, "If that's what you're telling me I'd have to disagree. I have gotten over 18 hours of sleep in the past two days."
"Yes, and while you were sleeping Anna here was working, for God knows how long." Jack told him.
Anna rolled her eyes and just walked away as the group started discussing their sleeping habits. She was fine, she new when she had to stop, and now was not the time.
She yawned, okay maybe a nap wouldn't hurt.
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What you didn't think there was really going to be a quiz did you?
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