CHAPTER 10 –

Harry found Sam in her lab and she was throwing things around working out her frustrations. Harry watched with detached amusement. Sam suddenly turned around and looked at him. Before Harry could apologize she gave him a sharp look and pointed her finger at him "Don't you dare. You are not my favorite person right now and if you apologize then I won't be able to stay mad at you and right now I want to strangle you."

Harry whipped out his wand and then walked over to Sam and handed it to her. He turned her around so that she was facing a manikin that was in the lab for testing. Harry held her arm that was holding the wand. "Think of a blasting spell to use on the dummy."

Sam looked confused but then suddenly the spell and the wand movements came to her. She did the appropriate wand movement and said the spell. Suddenly the dummy exploded. Harry jumped back "What the hell!"

Sam turned around with a smile "I can do magic now?" she suddenly realized that Harry was looking very confused and asked him "What is wrong? Did I do something wrong?"

Harry looked into her eyes "You shouldn't have been able to do that at all. I expected you to do the movements and the spell from the sharing but nothing should have happened. That is why I made sure I wasn't touching the wand or you would have drawn on my magic."

Sam looked from the wand to the dummy "So how did it happen?"

Harry looked in thought and then drew in two breaths before he closed his eyes to activate his mage sight. When he opened them he immediately focused on a bright sphere located in the center of Sam, just like a magical would have. Harry sat down heavily in a chair.

Sam looked at him "Harry?"

Harry looked up at her "Sam you have a magical core almost as big as mine."

Sam sat down beside him "Is this a bad thing?" she asked.

Harry looked into her eyes "No, not bad but I am pretty sure this has never happened before." Harry sighed "It appears that when we share ourselves that we shared everything. Are you ok with this?"

Sam looked off into the distance for many moments before she replied "You seem to be the most affected by this, are you ok with this?"

Harry held her hand "Sam, you don't understand because I never explained this but magicals live almost two to three times as long as non-magicals do."

Sam looked at the floor "You choose to be with me knowing that you would have to watch me grow old and die?" Sam had a tear roll from her eye as she looked at him.

Harry looked at her "Yes but I did it because I loved you and no matter how short of time we had together it is worth it."

Sam stood up and held out her hand. Harry grabbed hers and stood too as Sam molded herself to him. Sam put her hand behind his neck and looked at him with an affection that Harry craved. Sam whispered to him "Harry you are a special man, a very rare find and I am so lucky to have you." Sam leaned in and kissed him.

Harry lost track of what surrounded him and then felt the sensation of a bed and him laying on it. Harry looked up and found Sam above him and smiling down at him. He wanted to wrap his arm around her and found that he couldn't move. He looked over and found restraints. Sam was above him with a small smirk "You messed up when you gave me these abilities and the knowledge to use them."

Harry smiled back "If you keep kissing me like that so I lose track of everything I don't think I will mind."

Sam crossed her arms over his chest and then placed her chin on her hands "I think you owe me for the extreme embarrassment I felt this afternoon."

Harry arched his eyebrow "Are you planning to extract your revenge on me?"

Sam giggled "Oh, yes Mr. Potter as I now know how to enter your mind as you did to me."

Harry looked very concerned and then turned away. He spoke softly and Sam felt his fear for her. Harry whispered softly "Sam be careful because there are things about my life, experiences I have had that you may find out about. I haven't told you because to me they are in the past."

Sam placed her hand on his face "I won' do this if you don't want me to."

Harry looked at her "No, I don't want to hide anything from you but they could become unpleasant. I wanted to warn you."

The next morning Sam sat looking out the bay window of their house. It was 4 AM in the morning and she was still upset from the memories she had found from Harry's childhood. She was deeply hurt by what she saw that Harry had gone through. She realized that humans could be wonderful at times and then she realized how ugly of a species they could be.

That is the part that stuck with her. Her own family had been close until her mothered died and then it all fell apart because the grief that her father, brother and she had felt at the loss. Her father dealt with it by working harder and in some ways ignoring his family. Her brother had sports and she had her studies to take her mind from it. They loved each other but had not grown closer but further apart.

Harry's situation was much different. He lost his parents at a very young age and his only relatives had shown him nothing but hate. Then when he entered the wizarding world he was again shown hate from some, adoration from others and never any closeness or love. She realized that they corrupt government that Harry had known fostered a detachment from the rest of the world causing him further loneliness.

In spite of it all Harry was such a kind and caring person. He was gentle with her and spent every hour making her happy. Sam continued to wipe her eyes at the hurt she felt for Harry. In her mind, all she wanted to do was make it better for him.

A noise distracted her and she found Harry standing at the doorway coming from the kitchen. She looked at him and smiled as she wiped her eyes. Harry came to her and then settled in behind her to hold her. He deftly stole a sip of her coffee and neither of them said a word as they held their own counsel in their thoughts.

A short while later their alarm went off upstairs and they slowly got up. Sam turned towards Harry and kissed him "Thanks for sitting quietly with me."

Harry smiled and kissed her nose "Your welcome but it was as much for me as it was for you." Harry held her hand "Come on I have this fascination with seeing my wife in the nude while water is on her."

Sam chuckled "You brits are such pervs!" she said with a smile before adding "I am so sore I am going to need a break, for at least today."

SGC COMMAND

General Hammond looked up from the report that Jack had given him and then over to the SG1 team. "So let me get this straight. Harry knows every weapon that the SG teams will carry on missions?"

Jack answered "Yes sir." He then gave a series of hand signals that Harry stated out loud as they were given. He made no mistakes. Jack turned to Hammond.

General Hammond turned to Jack and then to Harry "How did you do it so fast?"

Sam answered with candor and no embarrassment "Harry and I shared ourselves in a very intimate way to include our knowledge." She looked at Harry and winked with a smile "To use a Star trek reference, we did a Vulcan mind meld. What Harry knows I know and what I know he knows." Sam finished.

General Hammond looked at her with stunned silence before he asked "You want me to put in my report you did a Vulcan mind meld and made Harry proficient in battle tactics?"

Harry answered "No, sir we don't want this information to leave this room."

Hammond shook his head "Harry I can't do that. I have to report to my superiors. Hell something this significant I have to tell the President." He stated with firmness.

Harry smiled "I know that General but this is significant because it is so useful as a weapon. If the enemy finds out we lose a great tactical advantage. The thing Sam didn't tell you is because of the merger she is now magical too. Her magical core is almost as big as mine. We aren't even sure of all the changes that happened or what those will be."

Hammond stood up "What? She is magical just like you."

Sam stood up and waved her fingers to conjure a dummy and then sent a wandless stunner at it. She sat back down and smiled.

Harry grinned "General there are only a handful of wizard's on the entire planet that can do a wandless spell. Only half of those can do it without speaking the spell. Sam and I are in the top ten of powerful witches and wizards known to exist. Do you really want to write that in a report?'

Hammond rubbed his face in exasperation "No, that would be highly classified information." He looked at both of them "Any idea of how this happened?"

Sam smiled "Only a bare hypothesis either I was changed genetically, we both were changed genetically, or the merger did something unexpected."

Daniel added in "Harry you said you had never heard of this happening before so how could you draw these conclusions?"

Harry looked serious "It is only an hypothesis at this stage Daniel."

Sam added "Without scientific data and evidence to support our belief, we cannot prove it one way or another. So what would you have us do?"

"There is another thing that lends a little credence to this belief, "Harry stated with a calm voice "The Alterrans were very good at making their technology only work for someone of their genetic signature. My bet is that I had just enough genetic material to be recognized by their machines which brought this change about." Harry stated.

Hammond sat in thought "You would need outside experts to confirm any findings you gathered and for now this program is too classified to do this."

Sam nodded "Exactly my thought sir."

Harry added for good measure "Perhaps we could set down with the President and tell him the highlights on his visit here next week."

Hammond looked up at him "The president is coming next week?"

Harry gave him an innocent look "Did I forget to mention that. My bad!"

Hammond looked at him "You did that on purpose."

Harry smirked "It's not like people have not told me things I should know around here, have they General?"

Hammond deflated "Noted Harry!"

Jack had looked confused "When did you talk to the president?"

Harry gave a mask of non deference "I am sorry Colonel but I can neither confirm nor deny any knowledge that I may have of the President of the United States." Harry leaned across and looked at Jack "I could tell you Jack but then I would have to kill you."

Jack sat back in his chair with his arms crossed "Ha-Ha-Ha, laugh it up but as the newby on the team you get point all the time." Everybody at the table began to laugh.

Once everyone settled down Harry continued "I want to broach another subject and I hope I don't offend anybody but I have found a major flaw in your tactics with the gate."

General Hammond and Jack looked very interested as they motioned for them to continue. Harry sat up straighter "Well if you use the gate and the enemy is already there you lose the element of surprise unless you fly to that particular planet."

Jack stated "We don't have the capability to do that."

Harry answered "I know. I think I have a two part plan to help with that. Part of it comes from Sam's knowledge, some from mine, and the Alterran repository I have absorbed. It is slowly becoming useful information."

"My suggestion is to develop a smaller flying version of the MALP so the teams get no surprises."

Hammond added "How is that different than sending a MALP through and the enemy blowing it up?"

Harry smirked "The Alterran's had a pretty good handle on anti-gravity drives and dimensional phase shifting."

Sam sat up excited "You can make them invisible!"

Harry held his hand up "Once they leave the event horizon they would be but sent with something obvious they would go unnoticed and then we could send other weapons guided by the flying MALP to destroy targets and clear the gate site."

"Another part of that is to leave a satellite in orbit above the planets gate for any world we visit and that way if we open the gate we can download a log of activity of that world."

Teal'c answered "There is no way the enemy could ever surprise us again."

Hammond grinned "These are excellent suggestions. What is the other part to this?"

Harry really smiled "The Alterran's used this same technology to build ships that could fit through the gate. They could carry as much as twelve people through, they were space worthy, and had limited weapons."

Sam looked really excited "Well that could change the whole dynamic of how we get around on these worlds as well. It would be possible to survey a planet in days instead of weeks."

Harry frowned "You are also not aware but the Alterran's also had gates that are in space around systems and worlds that were very dangerous to someone not in a ship. It is only luck so far that you haven't entered one of those."

Jack shook his head "Is there anything else we should know?"

Harry seemed perplexed "Not right now but if I absorb anything more I will let everyone know." Harry stood up "I suggest that Sam and I get busy on the drawings and schematics for the new MALP and then start working on a gate ship."

General Hammond stated "I agree but I still want you Mr. Potter to run through some tactical scenario's. Colonel O'Neill use the other SG teams as OPFOR to add realism."

Jack smirk at Harry "Sir can I bring some other Special Forces guys in because knowing Potter he will come up with some way to defeat us easily."

Hammond looked at him and smiled "Any scenario like that has to done off this base."

Jack put his hands in his pockets and smiled "Noted sir." Jack walked out the door whistling "See you later boys and girls."

Teal'c walked to the side of Harry and gave a warning "Based on my previous experience Harry Potter I would watch your back as Colonel O'Neill is up to something."

Harry winked and smiled back at him "He will be so shocked when he tries."

Teal'c raised his eyebrow and looked to the General "I think I am with you in that Colonel O'Neill and Harry have very similar character traits."

Sam scowled "Boys!" she then stomped after Harry.