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Chapter 9

Jack and Sam exchange looks as they returned to the gate. SG-1 had just finished a week long training mission with several other SG teams. Jack and Sam hadn't had a chance to really discuss the situation with Cordelia Chase, but both had set in motion their own unofficial background checks before they had left. Jack called in some favors and had people looking into Ms. Chase's past as well as those related to her from police reports. Sam had set a computer search on those names as well, if there was anything of note they would know now.

Sam returned with Jack to his office. She was more than able to check results on his computer while he checked for any useful phone messages. As Sam connected to Jack's computer he typed some numbers into his phone to listen to any messages he might have. Jack froze when he heard a familiar voice coming from the phone. Sam looked up at him concerned as the computer began verifying her identity. As Jack uttered one word Sam rushed to her feet and his side. "Mayborn."

Jack pressed buttons on the phone to switch to speaker and to repeat the message. Harry's voice here was quiet, "I don't know why you're interested in Summers, but stay away from her, her friends, and her ex-boyfriends. You don't want to mess with them, no one who knows what they do will be happy if you interfere with them. They scare me, they scare the NID, and they even scary Kinsey." A resounding click was heard as he hung up.

"Well if I wasn't suspicious before I'd most definitely be suspicious now," Jack said staring at his phone. Jack thought for a moment more as he tried to figure out why Mayborn would warn him away, especially risking being tracked down. The only two possibilities that came to his mind was that either Mayborn really was scared about Jack getting the attention of these people or Mayborn actually wanted him to look into it. After all, Jack had never ignored something that cryptic in his life and he wasn't about to start now. Jack saved the message and returned to listening to his other messages in private.

Sam retook her seat contemplating what was going on. As Sam typed into the computer she was shocked to notice a message of her own as well. On her screen was written the words "STAY AWAY FROM THIS FILE! Love, the Yellow Crayon ". The few files that weren't classified beyond even her authorization all had that message written on it. Whoever they were dealing with knew what they were doing.

Sam, of course, had never heard of the Yellow Crayon before. The Yellow Crayon was after all very good at hacking so few ever found out that their systems had been hacked at all. And fewer still knew who it was, in fact the number of people, still alive, who knew the identity of the Yellow Crayon was one, the man who had inspired the nickname in the first place by offering a yellow crayon to a crying girl back in kindergarten. And although he knew she was good he had no idea how good she was since he wasn't interested in computers.

Jack and Sam were both somewhat suspicious people by nature, well by training really, and these events most definitely set off their radars for this kind of stuff. As one they both logged off their respective electronic devices and left Jack's office. Each deciding to continue their research in different directions. Jack would look into Buffy Summers and Sam would figure out who the Yellow Crayon was. Each stopping momentarily to think that those were, respectively, silly names.

"We have to find Teal'c, even if Cordelia isn't NID, if they're afraid of her friends we should all avoid her until we figure out what's going on," Jack said doing his best to keep his voice level and not alert the others that he was bothered by something.

Sam nodded and they headed off to Teal'c room, hoping to speak with him, he usually spent his time after training missions meditating there. Once they arrived at his door and knocked and there was no answer they quickly broke into his room to find it empty. Jack sighed and led the way to the gym, finding it was occupied, and being used, by some of the miscellaneous soldiers stationed at the SGC but no Teal'c, they continued on to the cafeteria, which was also a Teal'c free zone. Soon Jack and Sam ended up in front of the infirmary, where they had last seen Teal'c, although his physical should have been over with half an hour ago. Sam opened the door after seeing Jack hesitate. Inside was Dr. Janet Frasier who looked up from her files to see who was at the door.

"Janet, have you seen Teal'c? We were looking for him and he isn't in his room," Sam asked before Jack or Janet could start anything.

"He took Daniel to see someone, a Chase, I think," Janet said as she set down her paperwork.

"Cordelia Chase?" Jack asked.

"Yeah, I guess that's what he could have said."

Jack and Sam looked at each other and rushed out the infirmary leaving Janet staring at where they had just been.

* * *

"Are you sure Cordelia said it was okay for me to come too?" Daniel asked Teal'c worried.

"She said it was so," Teal'c replied in monotone, anyone else would have been annoyed with answering the same question over and over again no matter how many ways Daniel could re-word it and languages he could did it in. It was actually only the seventh time he'd asked, and he'd only used two languages to ask, but it did seem to have been asked far too many times. Why Daniel seemed concerned at all confused Teal'c, but only a little since there was so many things about the Tau'ri that confused him.

It wouldn't be common knowledge why Daniel was nervous, but while on the training mission Daniel started to think about Cordelia and it reminded him of high school. The cheerleaders hadn't been too kind to the smart foster kid who was skipping grades and he was worried now that Cordelia would bring back some more unhappy childhood memories. Cordelia hadn't really been that different from some of the girls Daniel was reminded of, although Daniel didn't really know that, he also didn't know that Cordelia had been forced to grow up and be a better person than those cheerleaders. They'd been downright cruel to him at prom. His foster parents at the time had thought it would do him good to go. Daniel shuddered momentarily remembering that night.

"We have arrived," Teal'c said as Daniel drove past Cordelia's house.

Daniel took a deep breath and turned around and drove back the couple of houses so that he could park in front of her house. He parked and the two of them walked up to the front door. Teal'c reached over and rang the door bell. Moments later the door opened and standing there was Cordelia dressed in very casual clothes, in fact they were work out clothes, a plain white tank top and shorts. Cordelia smiled as she caught sight of them before moving to the side and gesturing for them to come in.

"It's great to see you again Murray! And you too, Daniel," Cordelia said cheerfully. "Murray, ready to see that meditation I use? The one that requires movement?"

"Indeed."

Cordelia smiled widely at him before taking it down a notch, only a little concerned about premature wrinkles. Then seeing the confused look at Daniel's face she explained, "I was learning Tai Chi before I moved here. It's really relaxing and Murray was trying to explain the meditation he uses and I thought he might be interested in this, but I didn't get to demonstrate what I knew before you guys had to work for a while week. It doesn't seem fair that you have to go on week long training trips where you can't communicate with people at all."

"Oh. Uh-Yeah," Daniel stuttered for a moment caught in Cordelia's fast pace. Cordelia grabbed his left hand and Teal'c right hand to drag them after her.

"I set up exercise mats in the backyard when Murray called to see if you guys could come over. Come on!"

Daniel looked around as he was dragged through Cordelia's home and was looking around trying to take it all in. It was surprising neat and tidy for such a ditzy person he thought. "Does your roommate keep things clean?" he asked before blushing embarrassed for saying that out loud.

"Dennis? Yeah, he's always cleaning, it's great, not that I'm a messy person mind you. Oh!" Cordelia said stopping suddenly. "I'm forgetting my manners, would either of you like something to drink?"

"Uh sure. Do you have coffee?" Daniel asked.

"No, I don't. … I went cold turkey off it since I heard that the caffeine in coffee can cause wrinkles," Cordelia said seriously.

"Cold turkey?" queried Murray before Cordelia or Daniel could speak again.

"A phrase meaning to stop completely, I have no idea where it came from. We could probably look it up later… So what do you want to drink Daniel?"

"Oh… How about tea?" Daniel asked.

Cordelia let go of Daniel and Teal'c and went through a nearby door. "Is this alright? It's all I have right now." Cordelia said as came back through the door and showed Daniel her box of tea.

"Yeah that's fine with me," Daniel said gazing after her. "I hope you don't mind me asking but why do you have British tea?"

"I don't actually like tea," Cordelia's voice replied, slightly muffled by the closed door between them, interrupted just a bit by the clanging and beeping made by getting out cups and using a microwave. "Giles sent it with the books he wanted me to store for him. I've asked him to keep sending it when he needs me to store stuff since Murray likes it."

"Books?" Daniel said, his expression changing to the one Jack had come to fear when on missions, actually he fears it most of the time but it's worse on missions.

"Yeah, Giles sent me a bunch of old books. Angel, my old boss, did too. They don't need them right now, but they don't want people stealing them. They think no one would come here to take them, plus Dennis is going through them and copying the pages, by hand at that, and we're working on organizing them."

"Old?" Daniel asked almost forcefully, "how old?"

"Really really old, not sure how old exactly though," Cordelia replied coming back holding a tray with two cups of tea and a glass of water. Cordelia walked through another nearby, open, doorway looking back expectantly at the two men. They both followed her into a cozy dining room. They sat down and each took their drinks, Cordelia drinking her water and the guys their tea.

"Are these the books Willow was borrowing for her ancient book addiction?" asked Murray as Teal'c decided to join the conversation.

"No, not those, these are books on demon summoning rituals for the most part. A couple books on prophesies, which is what Dennis is supposed to be copying out and translating."

"Is Dennis here?" asked Daniel. "What languages does he translate? What about-"

Teal'c, seeing that Daniel was planning to ask several more questions without giving Cordelia a chance to reply, reached over and touched Daniel's shoulder gently. Daniel shut up.

Cordelia giggled, she enjoyed seeing unadulterated curiosity, it reminded her of Willow in her pre-witch days, not that Cordelia would have ever admitted to liking Willow at any point in time. "I doubt you'll see Dennis. And he only knows Latin. I'm trying to teach him Sumerian."

"You know Sumerian?" Daniel asked shocked.

Teal'c was also surprised, he didn't know that Cordelia knew any other languages.

"I don't know it well. I know a couple of words in a lot of old languages. Giles taught us. He knows like 6 languages fluently, I think, and knows how to look up stuff in a bunch more. He used to work at some British museum," here Cordelia shrugged, she really didn't care about these things, but she was getting paid by Angel and Giles for the work she and Dennis did so she was willing to deal with it. More money was good. Plus Anya was giving her great investment advice. The only reason Cordelia kept her job at the mall was just in case something happened, and the employee discount, couldn't forget the employee discount at a shoe store. Cordelia really really loves shoes…

A few moments of silence passed as Daniel held back from asking questions. Cordelia maintained her own Murray like calm expressions only a short while before she burst into giggles again.

"Daniel?" she asked as he looked up from his tea, he'd been attempting to focus on it to avoid disturbing the potentially scary cheerleader.

"Yeah…"

"Would you like to look at some of the books while Murray and I work out?"

"Yes!!!"

Cordelia giggled again as she showed him to the study. Daniel's eyes widened as he saw the books sitting on the shelves. There were over 50 books and they were, as Cordelia said, really really old. Daniel couldn't even imagine what books that old would be worth. Cordelia smiled at the look of shock on his face and even Teal'c almost smiled at the giddy joy of Daniel in book heaven.

"I can read them?" Daniel asked carefully, making sure it was alright.

"Yes. You're an archaeologist and a linguist, right? I know you'll take care of them. You just can't take them home with you," Cordelia replied. "Come on Murray, let's leave the geek to his books."

"Indeed."

End – Chapter 9

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Notes:

Cordelia seems so out of character here… Oh well…

This chapter ended up surprising long (Longest chapter so far!) and maybe a little mundane. A lot of stuff I wasn't going to add until later chapters and stuff I hadn't been able to fit into previous chapters worked really well in this chapter. YAY! I know there are a couple of things that are bothering some reviewers which will hopefully get explained soon, I can't answer a lot of them until the amulet of light shows up.

I am alive and working on my fics, at least mentally. Sorry it's been so long since I worked on this fic. Someone said it didn't have a plot and that bothered me so I decided to focus on my other story, Dinner with Voldemort, which I will hopefully finish soon, and then my dog died and I didn't really feel like writing...

An Alternate version of the Jack and Sam search for Teal'c

As one they both logged off their respective electronic devices and left Jack's office. Jack reached over and grabbed Sam's should softly but firmly. Silently he gestured her in the direction of Teal'c's room followed by pointing to him and then the other direction, towards the gym. Sam nodded and signaled that if their chose first checks weren't his location she would go on to check the cafeteria and he would check the infirmary. Jack's eyes widened in horror and he shook his head frantically. Sam held back a giggle as Jack gestured for them to switch, he really didn't want to see Janet again with her needles, and her joy in using them on her favorite pincushion, Jack.

They rushed to Daniels office to see if he knew where Teal'c was. As they stood panting in his doorway Daniel stared at them. In one voice they asked, "Do you know where Teal'c is?"

Daniel looked at them concerned he as he stood up he said, "I believe he's with Cordelia. She's teaching him some sort of meditation she was learning from her old boss."

"What!?" exclaimed Jack and Sam in unison.

End – I decided not to use this since it seemed a little out there. But I had to share it. Plus I wanted Daniel to go with Teal'c to see Cordelia.