Chapter 13

Alex woke up the next morning to her alarm, she needed to go work on the translation some more, she had no doubt that she would find Daniel sitting at his desk. She stood up but felt a pressure around her waist; she was pulled back down to the bed and into Scott's arms.

"Where do you think you're going?" Scott asked jokingly as he kissed his wife.

"I need to go work on the translation; Daniel is probably already waiting for me." Alex said after her husband released the kiss.

"Why do you have to go so soon?" Scott asked pleadingly.

"I told you, I really need to get the translation done, but you can have me tonight again," Alex said wrapping her arms around Scott's neck; he continued to hold her waist.

"Ok," Scott said, kissing Alex once more, "But it's like 0500, that's early for you,"

"Yes, yes it is," Alex said pulling herself out of bed once more and changing into her SGC uniform, "I'll see you later."

"See ya," Scott said, he rolled over and went back to sleep.

Alex walked into her brother's lab; there was no sign of him. She walked over to his computer, it was turned on, and he always turned it off before going home or to bed. That's weird. His coffee mug sat, half full, on his desk, that was not like her brother. Then she saw, there was blood on the desk, not a lot, but enough to signal to her that something was wrong. She walked over to her lab and picked up the receiver sitting in its cradle on her desk. She dialed the extension of her quarters, Scott picked up.

"Davids." Scott replied tiredly through the phone.

"Scott, it's me, Alex," Alex said worriedly.

"What wrong?" Scott said recognized the worried tone in his wife's voice.

"I need you to get down to Daniel's lab, now; I think he was attacked last night." Alex said quickly, "His computer is still on, his coffee mug half full, and there is blood on his desk."

"Ok, I'll be right there," Scott replied suddenly finding himself very awake.

Alex was in her lab pacing back and forth waiting for her husband to arrive. Cameron walked by in the corridor and saw her pacing he walked into her lab. Alex didn't notice him, he walked up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder, and she reacted quickly, elbowing him in the stomach.

"Ugh!" Cameron moaning with pain, he just had his wind knocked out of him by a 23 year old girl, "What in the world was that for?"

"Oh!" Alex said regretfully, "I'm sorry, I am just a little on edge today."

"And why would that be," Cameron said standing up, beginning to feel better.

"Look!" She mentioned, and walked over to Daniel's lab to show her commanding officer the signs.

Scott joined them, "Hey," he said, his wife almost elbowed him to, but Cameron stopped her.

"It's just Scott," Cameron said caringly releasing his friend elbow.

Alex turned around and wrapped her arms around Scott, "What if he's dead?"

"He is not dead, Alex," Scott said as he wrapped his arms around his wife, she started to cry.

"We're going to find him," Cameron said comfortingly, walking over to the phone hanging on the wall of Daniel's office.

Cameron picked up the receiver and dialed General O'Neill extension, "O'Neill,"

"Hey, this is Mitchell"

"What can I do for you, Mitchell?" General O'Neill said through the receiver.

"Well, Daniel seems to be missing," Mitchell replied.

"What?" O'Neill said in shock, "Where did he go missing from?"

"We think from his office, Alex is worried and wants to mount a search and rescue team."

"Ok," O'Neill said through the receiver, "You're in charge of this one Mitchell, get the teams together, give them their assignments, and find Daniel."

"Yes, sir," Mitchell replied and then hung up.

"Ok, I am going to have SG's 1, 3, and 5, meet in the Gate room in half an hour, Alex if you want to, you can start the search on Level 10, and work you're way up, until you get to the gate room.

"That's eighteen levels' to search!" Alex exclaimed, "There are over 100 rooms on each level, this is going to take forever!"

"But we're going to find him." Mitchell replied, and then walked out.

Half an hour later, SG's 1, 3, and 5 were waiting in the gate room. Colonel Mitchell was walking up and down the gate ramp while talking to his Comrades.

"Ok, the teams will be made up of three members each, one from each team, there will be two left over from SG-1 and one from SG-5, they will make their own team. Scott, Alex, and Major Kowalski, will be that left over's team. Everyone else, make a group."

They all busied themselves making teams for a couple minutes, and then every body was ready.

"Ok, team 1" Cameron said pointing to a team, "You take levels 10-13, you're team Alex, will take Levels 14-17."

They two teams left the gate room, and Cameron gave out the rest of the assignments all of the teams left the gate room and started the search.

Scott frantically searched every nook and crevice of level fourteen, while Alex searched level 15, and Major Kowalski searched 16, they would all meet together and search 17 together.

Alex was opening every singly door on Level 15, she opened up the armory, she knocked on a personnel's quarters, they opened up and she searched their room. She did this to many other quarters. Alex opened up a storage closet; she found her brother slumped against a metal rack, unconscious, his face stained with blood. She rushed over to him and tried to wake him up, no luck. She grabbed her walkie-talkie, "All search teams, I found him."