Sudden Changes chapter seven
The two agents carried their targets out of the boy's room; the agent dragging the older redhead stopped for a second and lifted her into his arms securely. He looked at the floor so that he could evade the child's toys lying around.
They made their way to the stairs trudged down carefully, the guy holding the boy went down two at a time and walked through the kitchen; the man holding the boy swore quietly in pain after he crashed into something; he put the boy over his shoulder and used his free hand to rub his knee.
They continued through the kitchen and then through the door with no further interruptions.
The door to the Rosenberg house slammed open and two darkly-dressed people came out carrying a woman and a little boy, they walked up to their van and placed them both in the back of the vehicle. Using rope and tape the agents tied their hands behind their backs and tied their legs together before taping their mouths.
One of the agents jumped in fright as a cat screeched at him, he shook his head in disgust and tried to scare it off; the cat streaked off down the sidewalk.
"Grey, move it!" said the other agent impatiently. Agent Grey nodded and turned away from the road that the cat had just run along.
They both jumped out of the back of the van and slammed the door shut before getting in the front; they pulled away from the curb.
Jack ran towards wherever the light ball had originated from and heard his team running beside him, he wondered what the NID had done this time; whatever it was he was betting that it wasn't good.
"Whoa!" yelped Jack keeping his voice low. A cat had just sped along the path that they were on and had almost collided with him; the feline screeched and kept running. Then they heard a shout that sounded suspiciously like an order; they looked at each other and took off running.
SG1 ran around a corner and saw an unmarked van pull away from the curb; the door the house nearest the van was wide open, and they just knew that the people inside the van were NID; no way would someone leave their front door open in the middle of the night.
Jack ran towards the van intent on stopping it from driving away, he ran faster as the vehicle started speeding up and got to the door nearest him; he wrenched it open to get the driver's attention…
And was shocked momentarily when he saw a young woman and a little kid tied up and looking very unconscious; the van swerved violently and he fell forwards and landed hard on the ground.
Jack lifted his head from the ground and saw the van driving off, "Shit," he muttered and punched the ground in anger; those SOBs had just kidnapped a kid and a young woman.
Jack saw Teal'c try to catch up with the van briefly before realizing that there was no way that he'd ever catch it; the Jaffa strode back scowling slightly. No matter how 'slight' the scowl was it always looked scary on the big guy.
"What do we do now?" he heard Daniel ask quietly. "Jack, what was in there?"
Jack glared at the street corner that the van had disappeared around, what did those bastards want with a child and a young mother?
He'd bet his entire bank account that Kinsey had something to do with it, the slimy snake would stoop down to the lowest level to get what he wanted: Power and control.
Jack pushed himself to his knees using his hands and then stood looking pissed, "They just kidnapped a little kid and his mom."
Daniel looked upset, "Oh god, we have to get them back!" The only thing they could do at that moment was call Hammond; who would in turn call the President.
Sam looked as upset as the Archaeologist did, "We should phone the General, we can't do anything until we do."
Sam knew that the NID were capable of a lot of terrible things; making lab-rats out of a boy and his mother was something that they could do without feeling any remorse. No one deserved to be a lab-rat for the rest of their lives especially not them.
She pushed down the feelings of righteous anger and pulled out her cell phone; she gave it to her CO and turned back to the road as if hoping that the van would come driving back somehow.
She heard the phone conversation between the Colonel and the General, she sighed and waited for the call to end, a few minutes later Jack got off the cell and handed it back to Sam who put it in her pocket.
"The General wants us to find a picture of the hostages so that we can do a background check to find out why Kinsey's goons would want them in the first place," he said looking at his teammates. "So we gotta do a little snooping around."
As they walked towards the open door Daniel turned to his best friend, "What is the General going to do?" he knew that the General wouldn't just sit back and let the NID capture innocent civilians especially since one of the said civilians was a small child.
"He's getting on the phone to the President," Jack replied. "He's working on getting them both back safely."
Daniel looked relieved, "I can't believe that Kinsey's stooped this low just to get power." He shook his head looking amazed and disbelieving.
Jack gave him an incredulous look, "I can!" he stepped through the door into the house and then said, "Kinsey's a power-hungry old son of a bitch, this is exactly something that he would do."
Sam nodded in agreement as she fell into step with Daniel, "Yeah, but why would he think that a boy and a young woman have any power whatsoever?"
Jack walked through the kitchen and turned the lights on so that he could navigate his way around the house without getting too many bruises, "That's what we're here to find out, Carter."
Daniel smiled as he saw a child-like poster of a pyramid and some Egyptian gods; he saw a name written on the top corner of the poster in blue ink: it read Chris Rosenberg in child-like letters.
The archaeologist walked out of the kitchen and then into the Lounge; he walked over to a shelf that held several photos of different people on it. There was a blonde girl and a dark-haired boy in one of the photos who looked like they were close friends.
Another photo to his right caught his eye; he looked at it and his breath caught in his throat, "That's impossible," he whispered under his breath.
It was a photograph of a young redheaded with big emerald-green eyes; the woman next to the redhead was equally familiar, she was blonde and had bright blue eyes.
The woman in his dream- or whatever it was- was staring right back at him with her arm around the redhead; they looked just like him and his wife had looked in Abydos.
In love.
He didn't know what was more surprising, the blonde woman who had visited his dreams or the redhead who he had…uh, met after Sha're was killed.
He turned the picture over and looked at the back, usually there was a name or names on the back of a photo; so he took the photo out of its frame carefully and looked at the back.
Tara and Willow- 2001
So, the blonde in his dream was called Tara; the woman who was trying to warn him of something.
Daniel thought again about how crazy this was as he placed the photo on the shelf as another picture grabbed his interest; he picked it up and looked at it; Willow was holding a baby, as small and delicate-looking child with red tufts on his head.
Daniel looked closer and saw that she looked about twenty-two years old, she had the same beautiful smile that she had five years ago when he'd first met her- and of course the night that he hadn't been able to forget as much as he'd tried to afterwards.
He looked at the little baby in her arms and was confused when he felt disappointed as he looked at the photo.
Why would he be disappointed? He didn't even know her; they hadn't even talked for the last five years and it was obvious that she had a boyfriend because where else had the baby- wait a moment…
He looked back at the picture of Tara and Willow; they looked like they were in love…so she couldn't have had a boyfriend- unless the blonde had died before she had the baby.
There was only one way to find out at the moment, ignoring the twinges of guilt that he felt while he was rummaging through someone else's property he took the picture from the frame with the same amount of care he had used on the first one.
He turned it over; nothing.
Disappointed, he put the photos back in the frames and looked around the room again; he found a certificate with lots of different coloured cartoon bears over it, he picked it up and read it.
This certificate is awarded to: Christopher Rosenberg, for colouring a brilliant picture.
Daniel looked at the year which was printed in tiny letter, '2007'. He narrowed his eyes in confusion, he didn't know why but he suddenly had a burning desire to find out about the boy and his mother.
Chris must have been born a year or two after they met and by the looks of the certificate it was something that a school would give a student. How old was this boy?
Daniel walked back to the shelf and saw a photo of a boy with longish bright red hair and a familiar grin, he shook his head. Chris looked about three or four years old, but that would mean that he was conceived close to the time when he'd 'met' Willow.
He took the photo out of its frame and turned it over, it read;
Chris age 4- born on July 2003
Daniel did the Math in his head; he was obviously conceived in late 2002 through to 2003 when he was born, the dates all started with the night that he and Willow had met.
"Daniel?!" the archaeologist jumped in shock and spun around to face Jack who was looking at him in exasperation, Daniel blushed slightly.
Jack looked at the picture that Daniel was holding and saw the date; he made a disgusted sound and said, "What the hell does kidnapping a four-year-old accomplish?"
"Um…" he shrugged feeling perplexed as his mind tried to wrap itself around what he'd just found out, another part of his mind said that it was entirely possible that it could just be a coincidence.
Then Daniel remembered Tara's words in his dreams;
"You have to help them."
"The two people who will become a large part of your life"
"You have to help them, if they ever got their hands on him- on Wil- the woman, if she loses her child she'll-"
"She's already lost control once, you have to stop it from happening again."
"The woman and her child,"
"You need to save them from the people who want to use the child as a weapon against the monsters who pretend to be Onak."
His mind worked rapidly to add up all the facts, the two people who will become a large part of my life… Tara had then almost slipped up and said 'Willow'.
Daniel swallowed nervously and completely forgot that Jack was standing next to him.
If Chris was his son, then both of them would become a big part of his life.
Then Daniel's mind jumped to the last thing Tara had said to him, 'Save them from the people who want to use the child as a weapon against the monsters who pretend to be Onak- Gods.
The Goa'uld, who would want to use them as a weapon to fight the Goa'uld…the NID!
Oh god! He was supposed to save them both from the NID; she was talking about Willow, Chris and himself!
Suddenly everything cleared and he understood, but there was one thing he didn't understand; what did she mean by Willow losing control?
Losing control over what? Her temper?
"Daniel?!" Jack looked pissed an a little worried. "What is up with you?"
Daniel saw that Sam and Teal'c were also in the room looking at him in confusion, and then he gave them a dumbstruck look as he wondered how he would tell his teammates about all this.