Chapter 11

John Sheppard stood by the rail and watched the endless dark ocean without really seeing it. The constant faint throbbing in the back of his mind started to irritate him, he didn't knew when it started, but it felt like it was getting worse. He just wanted to laid down and sleep, but his mind could not stop thinking. He could almost feel the borrowing storm, in metaphorically speaking, these two boys were trouble, his instincts screamed in warning but he could not really pinpoint where the danger came. The boys didn't look dangerous on themselves, but of course neither were really a boy, but he was human. When he first saw them he automatically labeled them as a child and his mind just could not wrap around the thing that they were once the General Jack O'Neill who once requite him. It was hard to see the similarities between these two youngsters and the old, graying General, who pulled the strings from afar.

Elizabeth and Rodney were all for it to take the older one in one of the team and use his experience to help out with the defense of Atlantis, as well the war with the Wrath. John wasn't so sure, he didn't know the General, he only met with him two times: the first when the man requited him and then when they were shipped out to Atlantis. He really didn't care at the time about an unknown superior officer. It was a fact the man had a laid back attitude and somehow still had a commanding present.

John learned forward to put his elbows on the rail, and his chin in his palm. He sight, it wasn't like he didn't trust Elizabeth and Rodney's judgment, its just sit somehow wrong with him. His thought wander back to the afternoon meeting.

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He remembered watching Tayla escorting their two visitors down one of Atlantis main corridor. He couldn't help but felt something was fishy with the boys' story, even with the Stargate such a thing shouldn't happen. Okay who was he kidding, it's not like he didn't fighting soul-sucking vampires on almost daily base. But it was just mind bogging to think into the story, it was not everyday the man hear that their superior officer was cloned then deaged, by evil scientists and now they were hiding in Atlantis.

He had an itchy feeling, like something would happen, something which would endanger Atlantis ever since the boys arrived. But how they arrived? Both have such a grace, like they down it every day of their life. He wasn't sure he could pull it off. He was more used to the jumpers, then walking. Oh, well. But it wasn't the only thing he noticed at the time, there were the boys posture, the way the older Jack moved, held his gun, surveyed the room, as the cold brown eyes met his blue, he felt even then the shiver then run thought his body. He knew he was facing a dangerous opponent

"John?" Elizabeth's voice distracted him in his musing, he noticed he couldn't see the boys anymore from the spot he was sitting, he turned toward Elizabeth.

"Yes?!"

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It was decided they would make a DNA scan to check if they were really clones, if it was true they should have the same DNA structure according to Beckett. He saw a white light flashed from the control room. He hurried toward the control bridge what he saw made him stop died in his track. The older boy was there, tinkering with the controls. His gaze flickered over the room, searching for the guard, he didn't saw anyone else. He moved toward the stairs.

"Hey!" he called out, as he run down. "What you think you are doing?"

Jack didn't even flinched at his call, as if he already knew John was there. The boy's finger flickered over several control panels, monitors' flashed, as John get closer he could see Atlantis main area.

"What are you doing?" John called out again as he made a move to grab Jack's shoulder. He didn't really knew what happened the next thing he knew someone gripped his wrist, his arm was twisted, and pulled up as he felt his body falling toward the floor. He suddenly found himself face down on the floor. "What the f.." John growled the best he could with his cheek pressed to the cold floor.

"Oh, Colonel is that you?" surprised young voice asked below him. The pressure eased up on his body then he was pulled in sitting position. Jack stood there, a sheepish expression on his face; the boy removed his hands from John's body and hid them in his pocket. "Sorry." Jack shrugged.

John gingerly moved his right shoulder, as he tried to easy back the strained thews and muscles while he didn't took his eyes off from the boy. "What are you doing? Where is the guard?"

"Guard? I didn't see anyone here." shrugged Jack, as he rocked on the ball of his feet. "I looking for J.J. actually."

"Where is he?"

"If I know I wouldn't be looking for him." with that he turned back toward the control panels and pressed down a few more symbols. Fain pulsing symbols appeared all over Atlantis, it was an energy scanner, John saw it before.

He climbed to his feet while Jack studied Atlantis plan. John studied the young man's future, the calculating look in his narrowed brown eyes, the slightly frown looked somehow disconcerting on the face someone so young.

"He is here." Pointed out Jack, with such a certainty, John had no problem believing him.

"How we will get there."

"With the transporter thing."

"There isn't transporter station."

"Oh yes, there is." Jack turned his back to the computer station and walked up to the wall, there was a small alcove. He looked over his shoulder to be able to see John and asked. "Are you coming?"

"Yeah." John walked over to Jack while he reached for his radio. "Major Danis, it's Sheppard."

"Yes sir." Came the response through the radio

"Report immediately in the control room, and get someone to find the guard who supposedly should be here. I want that man to report in my office tomorrow."

"Yes sir."

As soon as he stepped beside Jack, white light surrounded both of them. The next thing he knew, he stood on a desolated corridor, the faint salty smell of ocean lingered in the air. John could hair the faint sloshing sound of the waves. Jack moved confidently toward the noise as if he knew where he was going; John followed him, one step behind. He wasn't entirely sure Jack wasn't dangerous to his health. In the faint moonlight he could spot a small form sitting on the edge of the balcony.

Jack cocked his head sideway as if he was listening to something; as he went closer to the boy, J.J. He watched them for a second, it was like they conversed without words, the feint twinkle sensation in the back of his mind and the shiver it went down his spin was almost enough to convince him about it. But as soon as it started it was over. The two boys stared at him with identical brown eyes and smirk on their face. He had a suspicious feeling that he was in trouble. He couldn't help but gulp.

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General Hammond watched the arriving reports: someone managed to break into Cheyenne Mountain, and used the Gate; 5 guards were incapables, the security system went down for a few minuets and one of the engine got blow up. The only clue was a blurred picture of a boy, a certain brown eyed boy. "What are you involved this time, Jack?"

Someone knocked on his door, "Come in." Colonel Vyler stepped inside his face grim, his posture rigid. Just what he needed, some more trouble.

"What is it Colonel?"

"Sir, Alpha Team just reported General O'Neill disappeared." Oh yes, just what he needed.

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