Early the next morning Terri got onto her computer and continued her search as soon as she heard her father's truck drive away. She was going to get to the bottom of what was going on with her father, she wasn't about to have him going out into the field like this without knowing what he was doing. She would go mad with worry if she did.
"Terri?" Taryn said from her bed. "What are you doing up so early? It's weekend."
"Trying to figure out what dad is doing?"
"Why?"
"Cause I am worried about him, aren't you?" Terri asked.
"Yes, but it's classified."
"So what? He's our dad…" Terri said as she looked at her computer. "Damn it… Still no results."
"Like Classified information is really going to be on the web for public view." Taryn said. "Dad has a bunch of files in his office."
"He keeps it locked all the time."
"We can try…" Taryn suggested.
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"How much longer?" Terri asked Mike as he picked the lock on her father's office.
":Almost got it." Mike said.
"How'd you learn how to do this, anyways?" Taryn asked.
"You pick up a few things when you are in an orphanage." Mike said as the lock clicked. "There we go."
"Thanks handsome." Terri smiled as she kissed his cheek before opening the door.
"Admit it you like him." Taryn smirked.
"Whatever." Terri said as she hacked into her father's computer.
"If he finds out you are doing this you'll be so grounded."
"Till I get out of school probally." Terri laughed.
"Look at this." Taryn said as she picked up a picture of a boy about Charlie's age in tattered clothing and long black hair. "I wonder who this is?"
"I don't know." Terri shrugged. "Look at these files, they mention a dig in Thebes and a Stairway to Heaven or Stargate."
"What's a Stargate?" Mike asked.
"I don't know." Terri said as she brought up a picture. "Whoa…"
"What is it?"
"Remember when my professor of our science class gave me an F for theorizing that a stable wormhole can be established between two points?" Terri asked.
"Yeah." Mike replied.
"That almost looks like what one of my designs looked like." Terri whispered. "Could Dad be on another planet?"
"It can't be…" Taryn whispered.
"I think it is…."