5 months three weeks later.

James had just come in from school and was watching TV and pondering. He had read the files they were all years old and mainly odd mythologies. He really had no idea where they came from only that it had to be some hidden backwater as there was no record of most of the thing on the web. He had decided a while ago that the answer was probably at Daniel's work place. Only it was right out side town. That and James never knew when Daniel was going to be coming back. He said he did a lot of over time, but he some times got called in the middle of the day and went tearing off there and was gone for a week only popping back in every now and then. There was something seriously weird about it all. He never said anything about it either, came back like he'd never been gone.

There was the sound of someone turning the key in the lock. James lept to his feet naturally in a defensive position.

"Hello" James said as the door swung open slowly. Out side stood a tall greying man with a hard stoney face. It was Jack; Daniel had introduced them a while back after Daniel was away for a while and had asked Jack to look in on him, James knew he worked with Daneil. "Hi, Is Daniel around?" This was an opportunity James wasn't going to pass up. He walked calmly to the door hoping Jack hadn't noticed his stance.

"Umm no. Haven't seen him since yesterday. Anything I should know about?" Jack seemed worried but James knew better than to try and ask what it was. He and Daneil never said a word. He hadn't met anyone else. He just sat around the place really trying not to get in to trouble and enjoy him self two things that don't mix easily. School was a shit hole of pointlessness, he was coasting through history, geography, french, and Computing. Everyone hated him for it and he couldn't stop.

"No, no just work." Jack turned absent mindedly before stopping. "you okay here, on your own."

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Hmmm, school going well? Making friends?"

"No, ummm, not really. I'm a bit on the outside really."

"Eh, don't let it get you down. I'm sure you'll be fine given time." Jack patted him on the shoulder in a friendly way.

"Thanks, I'll tell him you called." James said and Jack turned back to the door.

"Yes, you do that." James closed the door behind Jack and waited at the window as he watched the air force colonel return to his car and drive off down the road. Before pulling the pass card he'd lifted from Jack's pocket out his sleeve. He put it in his pocket grabbed his jacket off the hook by the door and left.

Just outside SGC

James had cycled further than that before but on the last stretch he'd had to off road to avoid the cars seeing him. It was not too hard to hide in the forest that surrounded the mountain. He'd been hoping for a back entrance. Instead he'd been thrown off his bike by the handle on the hatch he was starring at. There was a number pad and an enter button that he assumed was to open it. The problem was he couldn't tell if there were a limited number of tries. In which case he would have to try it once only even that might alert someone if he got it wrong. He would have looked at the workings but those were on the other side of the hatch. There must be a way. These guys had to have telephones and the Internet in there. He'd try again tomorrow. In the mean time if he couldn't get in what was he going to do with Jack's pass card? He had no chance of returning it, and he couldn't risk dumping it incase someone with more funds than he found it and entered the well secured base for more malicious reasons than curiosity.

Three days later

At the SGC

"…He's your responsibility Dr Jackson!"

"I know but he's been so many places he knows how to do lots of things. Every time he's been passed on he's learned every thing he can then got bored and been passed on. He won't drop this. I think the only way to work this is to tell he the truth or something close enough to the truth for him to believe. He knows somethings going on. He's smarter than you could be believe. I dread to think what his IQ must be." Daniel pleaded to his superior while James sat in a cell somewhere else in facility having been picked up trying the key pad.

"That would be a huge security risk, I can't do it."

"He doesn't want to do anything he just wants to know. No ones ever trusted him enough to tell him anything out right, so he finds out for himself. If we tell him he might return the favor and keep quiet, you can get him to sign the disclosure, he's over 16. The shock of being told alone most likly will keep him quiet. He certainly doesn't say much about himself."

"Bring him in tomorrow and I'll have a word. It would make life easier if you don't have to come back and check on him all the time."

Daniel's Apartment

"James." They had walked in. The teenager headed for his room closing the door and locking it. Daniel could hear draws being thrown open. "What are you doing?"

"Packing." Daniel sighed.

"James you don't need to pack." James scoffed.

"Look, Jackson, just dump me now, cause I'm not going to stop looking in to your work and you know it."

"Yes, I do know it." He emerged from the room still in his jacket, bag in hand.

"So who you dumping me on?"

"No one. That wouldn't solve anything." James looked shocked. That's what every one did when he showed his true colours.

"Look I've decided that since your not going to stop trying to find out about my work now the best thing to do is tell you the truth." James rolled his eyes.

"You mean a believable lie." Daniel rubbed his eyes.

"No I mean the truth. I know you read the stuff on my computer. It's a book I'm right of legends I've picked up through my work. Well, I gathered those traveling through the stargate."

"You mean the gods gateway?"

"Yes, the stargate is an advanced device, that creates a wormhole through the galaxy connecting a huge number of planets to one another. You believing this?" James weighed it for a moment and cross matched it with his knowledge of the man so far.

"Yes I am. You're not lying. But why all the sudden disappearances?"

"I'm actually part of the flagship team, we get called in, in times of crisis and for missions all the time, that why I'm gone for so long as well. I'm off world somewhere else. Got stuck there a couple if times actually."

"Cool, can I see it?"

"Yes, your coming in on thursday to sign a disclosure agreement and talk to General Hammond about the whole thing."

"Sounds good to me."

"Great. Don't tell anyone will you?"

"I won't." curiosity suddenly assuaged Daniel.

"How come?"

"Because there would be no point. They wouldn't believe me and you would ship me off some where." Daniel held his hand out to James who took it.

"I'm glad with have an understanding but I don't plan to 'ship you off' any time soon." He glanced round at the bags, "You want some help unpacking?"

"No it will be quicker if I do it my self."