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Chapter 7

The SG-1 team sat around a table, each had a copy of Cordelia Chases' background check in front of them. It was thicker than they had imagined it would be, well than Jack and Sam thought. Daniel didn't really know how thick a background check should be, Tealc' hadn't been expecting a background check of any kind.

Jack was the first to speak, giving voice to thought, "This is at least twice as thick as someone her age should have in a background check. She's only 20."

"I do not understand why this was necessary at all," Teal'c spoke out.

"It's suspicious that a young woman would move right next to me and befriend you."

"You do not believe it is possible for me to make a friend among the Tau'ri?"

"What? No! That isn't what I meant! It's just a bit too much of a coincidence not to check out." Jack worried he might have offended Teal'c. It was just weird that he'd become friends with a valley girl.

"Indeed," Teal'c spoke out after a small silence.

Daniel and Sam looked at each other before Daniel decided to break the uncomfortable atmosphere. He coughed softly and spoke, "Let's just look through it."

After a moment they all opened their files and began leafing through it. The first page was a quick summary of the contents.

"Wow!" Jack cried out his eyes wide. "She's been interviewed 28 times by the police!"

"Well she did say she was working for a private investigator and she helped out on cases," Daniel interjected.

"No…" Jack said flipping through the pages and skim reading the police reports. "This is all in high school. Look at this! Sophomore year of high school she and a fellow student found a bunch of students massacred. She's on the scene a lot for murder scenes."

"OH! Check this out, page 18," Sam said her head tilted down reading furiously. "She was one of the three girls that that fraternity at UC Sunnydale was going to sacrifice. It was in the news a couple of years ago. Turns out that the fraternity had been sacrificing girls for over 50 years. Someone from her school had crashed the party where they'd grabbed the girls, worried about a friend of his, she'd also been selected to be sacrificed, he had realized they were still there after the party ended and had gone back with some other friends and saved them."

"The things that happened to this girl! She was kidnapped by someone trying to make a bride of Frankenstein type thing. I'm surprised she's willing to make friends with people considering the things that happened to her just in high school!" Jack said as he read some of the reports in more depth.

"This is fascinating," Daniel said as he read through them. "Some of these things she's interviewed over have some background in mythology. Religious sacrifices and the like. Her very first interview with the police was as a witness to some sort of mass murder scene committed by a cult."

"You think it's possible she might have had contact with the Goa'uld?" Jack asked his eye staring straight at Daniel.

"No… I don't think so. None of this seems to indicate aliens in any way. Still it's all very interesting."

Teal'c just sat there, saying nothing, as he read through the files. He had sensed no ulterior motive when it came to Cordelia Chase. She was very straight forward. For all he suspected there was more to her than apparent, there was no deceit detected. He would wait until his comrades finished reading their copies before he would say anything.

It took over an hour for them to read through it all. They sat the files down in front of them. Jack rested his forehead on the tips of his fingers with both his elbows resting on the table. He massaged his head from the headache he'd developed reading the files. Daniel leaned back in his chair his arms loose at his side. Sam, like Teal'c, remained sitting firmly in her chair.

"So let me summarize," Sam stated, "Cordelia Chase had an ideal life until age 16. Before that she was the winner of local beauty contests etcetera and then she started to end up at crime scenes. Then during her senior year of high school her father got into trouble for not paying his taxes. She got a job in a clothing store. She graduated from high school, went to LA to pursue a career in acting and got a job working for a P.I. where she again ended up at crime scenes. She then moved here for 'health reasons.'"

"Her life was like a horror movie. Happy teen ends up surrounded by psychos." Jack said sharing his own summary of her life.

"Well I don't see anything to imply she is anything other than what she says she is. It even says where she got the money for her home, a hefty finders fee and a percentage from a treasure trove of stuff she helped locate in LA," Daniel said offering his opinion.

"Indeed," Teal'c said rising from his seat. "She is who she is and has no intentions of harming us."

Teal'c left the room and the rest of SG-1 were left together for a few more moments where they decided they would leave her alone for now since she did seem to be a normal civilian with no ties to the NID.

End – Chapter 7

REVIEWS INSPIRE ME!

The long awaited background check! For the most part this was a lot easier to write than I thought it would be. Although it is a bit shorter than I hoped. This was really the first chapter without Cordelia actually in it.

Police reports mentioned come from episodes: The Harvest, Prophesy Girl, Some Assembly Required, and Reptile Boy. I always wondered how that police report would be filed about the fraternity sacrifices. I don't remember the details of any of the Angel episodes to mention them…