Because it took so long to get the last one up you get two today :) ... Hope you like it still. Thanks to all the readers and reviewer's :) ... Hopefully the feedback from these old stories makes me write a better one next :)
It had all taken a matter of hours, from their departure time to their arrival, with one Daniel Jackson but minusing one Captain Carter. Frowning General Hammond stood there watching them, as they walked the length of the ramp and simply stared at him.
"Where is Captain Carter, Colonel?"
"We are unaware of that sir," he stated with something the General thought was hatred to himself and sorrow she was missing.
"Very well. Get your selves cleared and come straight to the briefing! Dismissed!"
"Yes sir!" The men all shouted and left for the infirmary.
As Jack had been the first to get seen he was also the first seated in the briefing room, when General Hammond walked in.
"Colonel," he stated. Jumping Jack looked up and was about to stand when he was waved off.
"Sir," he simply and quietly replied.
"What's on your mind son?"
"Carter's missing because of me sir,"
"How is that Colonel?"
"I was angry at her and made her stay by the stargate alone with the locals, instead of coming with all of us."
"You could not have known this was going to happen Colonel,"
"I am well aware of that General, but it is still my fault!"
"Then I suppose you'd want to take it upon your self to tell her daughter?"
"What?" He gasped.
"Captain Carter has a ten year old daughter Colonel. Her name's Xantheia, and is enrolled at Cheyenne Mountain Elementary."
"Where's that?" Jack frowned staring at his CO.
"It's roughly 16 minutes by car Colonel. It's 5250 Farthing Drive. I'll get Walter to print you a map. You are to go there with four airmen just in case. The school has a fantastic reputation, but I'm sure when her friends see her being lead away from the school they might try something."
"You said she was ten sir,"
"Yes,"
"Ten year olds can't do that much damage General!"
"You will be surprised Colonel!" And with that, he slid what could have been recorded as the thinnest air force file possible across the table to him.
"As well Colonel, she is a very bright young girl. She has been military since birth. Her grandfather is military, her mother, and her father. However from what I have heard her father might be dead. That is unclear at the moment, considering several men who have been thought dead over the last ten to twelve years are still starting to show up in camps. She will know something is wrong the second she see's you Colonel."
"Noted sir." He stated with a wary smile and staring at the file in front of him. Sighing he shook his head. "Why did she join with a kid with no father?"
"I honestly believe she thought she'd find him one way or another. I've known Captain Carter a long time Colonel. If anything she is loyal. If her daughters father was presumed dead on a mission and she felt otherwise, she'd do anything to find him. To tell him about her."
"Understood sir." So as the other men walked into the room, Jack stared at Kawalsky, before bowing his head and sighing yet again.
"So gentlemen," Hammond stated staring at each of them. "None of you can tell me what happened?"
"Well sir, the Colonel was a bit ticked off with the Captain..."
"I am well aware of that already Major, anything else?"
"She was having trouble sir. She left during the meal Daniel and the people put on for us. I followed her to find out what was wrong."
"And?" The General prodded. Wincing Kawalsky looked at Jack before Lou, and finally the General.
"She was in a fight within her self sir."
"Meaning?"
"The Colonel reminds her of her daughters father sir. She didn't know it was possible, and she was starting to get edgy. She felt like something was going to happen. She was simply staring out at the sandstorm, telling me about him and her daughter."
"I see,"
"So Carter shouldn't have been on this..."
"No sir!" Kawalsky stated glaring at Jack. "That is NOT what I am saying at all Colonel! All I am saying is that she was having second thoughts, AND she was wishing her daughter still had her father!"
"So she was somewhere else entirely Major!"
"No sir! She was one hundred percent on that mission, mind, body, and soul!"
"Then what ARE you saying Major?" Jack hissed glaring at him. Bitting his bottom lip from yelling the obvious at him, Kawalsky pulled back just as Lou jumped in.
"With all due respect Colonel, General. Shouldn't we be trying to work out just where Captain Carter is, instead of blowing up blaming her or our selves for this mess? We didn't know what was going to happen! And the same thing could have happened if she was with you, Colonel and Kawalsky and or I were left with those kids! Only we'd be dead not captured! They took Daniel's wife as well remember!" He stated glaring at Jack.
"Noted Major, but lets not forget that his wife was probably trying to..."
"STOP IT JACK!" Daniel yelled standing and glaring at the man. "I don't know what your history is with Sam, and I don't want to know! But right now both YOUR Captain and MY wife are missing! Get over your bloody military guideline bullshit, get your head out of your ass and fucking do something! We don't know what happened! We don't know where they went! We don't know why or what for! But did you look around?
"Huh Jack? ALL the men and boys were dead! The only women that were there were Sam, and Sha're! And they were both taken! It doesn't take a fucking brain surgeon to work it out!" He yelled not once taking his glaring, flaming arrow firing eyes from Jack.
"Calm down Daniel!" Jack stated.
"I am calm Jack! It's you who is reeling about something or other! You fucked up! Sam's missing! Get over it! We'll find her!"
"She has a kid Daniel!" He yelled. Stopping dead in his heated moment and words Daniel stared at Jack.
"What?" He whispered.
"Yeah exactly! I just found out too! Why do you think I'm like this huh? That poor kid apparently has no father! She's an orphan until we get Carter back, and we know nothing of where she is!" He snapped.
"OFF WORLD ACTIVATION!" Came Walters voice half way through the briefing that no man could help with. After their shouting at each other Hammond was thankful someone, anyone was knocking at their door! He didn't care who it was at that present second! He just wanted to get out of the room, and get these men to try and work something out.
As the wormhole was established, they all raced down the stair case to the control room and were met with several gasps and Walter calling for the medical team, when a body was thrown through and landed heavily and awkwardly on the ramp.
"Sam!" Charlie and Lou stated before they realised their slip ups, they ran into the room, housing the stargate, and ran to her side. Checking for a pulse Charlie looked up as Jack was close to them.
"She's alive,"
"Barely," nodding Jack moved as did the two men when the medical team arrived to quickly assess and take her to the infirmary.
Just after the lunch bell rang Jack and the four airmen made their way to the classroom they were told housed one young Xantheia Carter. Not knowing if she would still be there considering they just saw most children run from their rooms when the bell rang Jack opened the door anyway. Stopping when he saw the back of a little girl and the teacher raise her hand to stop them from coming in, he frowned.
Moving in anyway, he watched as the teacher talked gently to the little girl who's head was down most of the conversation, and sometimes coming up to give a response or what he suspected was a reassuring smile to the teacher. So they waited and listened.
"Did your mum go on a mission?" Shrugging Xanthiea didn't no what to say.
'Yes miss she did and she hasn't come back! She's probably dead and now I'm alone! I'm an orphan!' No she wasn't going to say that! Nodding the teacher smiled gently.
"Ok, go have your lunch," and with that Xan turned with a bowed head and started walking towards the door. Slowing however as several pairs of feet came into view, which caused her to look up. Upon seeing the uniform the man directly in front of her was wearing she froze and dropped the paper bag that housed her lunch, and in turn causing the small glass jar in it to shatter.
Jumping slightly Miss Jays looked up and noticed the men. Moving quickly she stood just behind Xanthiea and watched them.
"Can I help you?" She questioned watching as the front man crouched in front of Xan.
"Xanthiea Carter?" He questioned gently, which made her legs instantly go weak and if he wasn't there to catch her, her knees would have made a rather quick connection with the floor. Grabbing her tightly, he was about to stand her back up, when she gripped his jacket and started crying.
"My, my, mum!" She cried burying her head into his shoulder and gripping his jacket for dear life. Looking up at Miss Jays, he stood holding Xan.
"Ma'am, would we be able to take her things with us?"
"What? She's not going anywhere! What if someone comes to get her?"
"Tell them, she's with Colonel Jack O'Neill! If she's a Carter, then I know both her uncle and grandfather, personally." And with that he left with the four men surrounding them. As they walked down the corridors of the school, a now walking but still very upset and fragile Xanthiea had a death grip on Jack O'Neill's left hand. They had two men walking in front of them and two behind, and all four so close that Xan couldn't move away from them, and no other child could try and grab her.
I hope i got the story corresponding with the first story of this series.. It got a little complicated at one point i think in the next segment, however I hope it still works.. Please review.. Feedback no matter how nice or evil is better than none.. Hope you're still enjoying it :)
