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Chapter 13- Well I Wouldn't Say...
The fact that Hope had to stay at the SGC with her parents worked out fine for the first month. Then the threats had started to arrive when other words learned of the "key's" existence. Different allies had started to call in, including some enemies such as the leftover System Lords. The only powerful allies that had not contacted them about Hope were the Tok'ra and Asgard. SG-1 was surprised to say the least.
"You'd think that our little buddy, Thor, would at least call in to say hello," O'Neill said during a briefing with SG-1 about all the hype surrounding Hope.
"Even the Tok'ra," Carter said even when O'Neill made a face at the word Tok'ra.
"Maybe they just don't know what to do yet," Daniel states.
"Perhaps they are merely searching for the weapon before they obtain the key," Teal'c says.
"Or maybe they know you guys won't give me up so easily," Hope said wanting to get into the conversation.
Just then the klaxons start while Walter reports over the speaker, "Unscheduled off-world activation."
"I guess we spoke too soon," Hope says as they all head to the control room.
"It's the Tok'ra IDC, sir," Walter informed them as they walked in.
"Open the iris."
As the iris opened, two well-known figures walked down the ramp, a Jacob Carter/Selmak and Anise/Freya. Carter jogs to the gate room and hugs her dad while Hope looks on with curiosity.
"He's my grandfather, isn't he?" she asks O'Neill when she finally realized who Jacob was.
"Yes," O'Neill starts to say as he turns to look at his daughter, "but we don't know how he'll react to having another granddaughter so please don't go running to give him a big hug okay? Don't worry, we will tell him, but in the briefing room where it'll be harder for him to kill me."
"Oh, I get it, he's gonna think you and mom...oooooohhhhh."
"Yeah so don't say anything just yet."
"Yeah sure ya betcha."
The all sat in the briefing room with O'Neill at the head of the table with Carter to his right, Hope and Teal'c sitting on the same side with the others across the table. Jacob and Anise had given Hope curious looks until her patience wore out, "Is something wrong?" she asked them to get their attention.
"Who are you?" Jacob asked being blunt.
"Getting right to the point I see. Well..." Hope started.
"Dad, have you ever heard of something or someone called the key?" Carter interrupted her daughter before she said something inappropriate.
"That is why we are here," Anise answered for him, "there has been a rumor going around the universe that the Tau'ri have possession of this key."
"Well I wouldn't say possession," Hope murmured to herself at the same time O'Neill tells the same to himself.
"So Jack," Jacob turns to O'Neill.
"So Jacob"
"So is the rumor true?"
"Well you know Jake, that rumors are rarely ever true, especially the ones around here and..." O'Neill trailed off as Jacob gave him a look as if saying, Jack, you're an ass.'
"Well then if you don't have the key then I guess we'll have to continue on with our mission," Jacob says as stands up along with Anise.
"Wait," Hope stands up and walks over to them, "I'm the key."
Then both Jacob and Anise bowed towards Hope while she looks around at the others, confusion written on her face.
"Dad," Carter says as he comes up from the bow, "she's also your granddaughter." She then glances at O'Neill not realizing Jacob saw it.
"O'Neill I'm gonna kill you!" Jacob then starts running towards O'Neill while he stands up and starts running so the Jacob is now chasing him around the table while he yells, "O'Neill! I am going to kick your ass from here to the farthest galaxy there is! Then all the way back here so I can torture you sorry bastard! Your going to be sorry you were ever born!"
Before he begin his ranting again, Hope stepped in, she stood in front of O'Neill as he was glancing behind to Jacob and picked him up around his middle, she then spun him around and placed him down non too gently so she was between her dad and grandfather, "Would you two stop it! Stop acting like five year olds and sit your sorry behinds down and listen to the whole damn story before you go and kill someone!"
They both sat down and looked at each other, then at Carter asking what just happened.
"Thank you Hope." Carter said glad her daughter was the one to get there attention focused again.
"Okay, now that everyone simmered down let's get back to business," Hope once again taking charge, "now, first of all, why did you bow? Cause that really confused me."
Anise answers since Jacob was still a little stunned from what happened, "In our culture, and many others, the key is the most important being alive. It is a symbol of the possibilities for the future, what we can accomplish and hope for this universe."
"I should have know my name would come back and bight me," Hope said to know one in particular.
"Don't blame me, it was your dad's choice," carter whispered in her ear so no one could here her as Hope smiled to herself.
"Okay, now that that's over, can we move on?" Jacob asked, he then bowed his head as Selmak took over. "I am sorry for Jacob's behavior, he is quite upset at the moment and it will take time for him to understand as I do."
"Thank you Selmak," Carter thanked her favorite Tok'ra. He then bowed his head again so Jacob could talk, "Okay, I might be a little upset but I don't need you to be apologizing for me." Jacob told Selmak out loud which made everyone smirk.
Daniel then cleared his throat getting every ones attention, "Perhaps we should start at the beginning. Sam, you want me to start?" At the nod of her head he began, "Three years ago, the four of us traveled to what seemed like a vacant world. When we stepped out of the wormhole, we all became unconscious and when we awoke many hours later, we traveled back to the SGC."
Teal'c then took over, "When Hope had come to us through the Stargate one month ago, she fell unconscious and there were no signs as to what was wrong. Oma Desala had come and saved her and informed us it was a flaw in the system, a signal when to let her know when to send her here through the Stargate to her parents."
"And I'm guessing that's you two," Jacob asks looking at his daughter and the General.
"Um yeah, you see dad, when we were unconscious on that planet three years ago, the General and I were put into an Ancient machine which took out DNA."
"And then I was born," Hope told her grandfather.
"But you look as if you were fifteen, how can that be when you were born just three years prior?" Anise asking the question also on Jacob's mind.
"I was designed so that every year I would age three years instead of one until I reached my parents."
"So dad, are ya gonna still kill me?" O'Neill asked Jacob.
"If you keep calling me dad then yes, it's a promise."
"Yeah but grandpa, if I may call you that," Jacob nods his head, "then I won't have a father and that wouldn't be very good," Hope says as she puts on a sad face.
"Hm, that is a problem."
"Dad, Anise, what do you know about Hope?"
Anise answers quickly, mostly looking at O'Neill trying to impress him, "To our knowledge, the key is the one who can find and use the weapon to destroy anything it wants. The weapon needs to be programmed for what needs to be destroyed. We also know that her parents can sense when the key is in trouble or dying, except there is only one way to kill it but to my knowledge, nobody knows how. But if it is ever killed then it is reborn as soon as possible."
"Well I wouldn't say nobody knows," Hope whispers. Carter hears this and gives her a glare communicating to her not to say anything.
"Well that's all we know so why don't we just get out of here and do something?" O'Neill suggested.
"Actually Jack, we'd like to take hope back with us for a little while," Jacob informed them.
"Why?"
"We need to make sure she's who she says she is."
"I'm sorry Jacob, but I don't think we understand. I mean, we know she's the key because Oma Desala came to tell us herself, what other proof do you need?" Daniel asked.
"We must bring her back for Za'tarc testing to see if she is really what she says she is, "Anise answered, also trying to impress Daniel.
"Not that again," O'Neill and Carter groan at the same time.
"Fine, but Sg-1 and I go with you," O'Neill tells them.
"Very well, we must go soon."