Kajos: Well, here's… something, not sure what just felt like I should possibly get this bit done.

Sam took him to an interrogation room Jon supporting his other side. He sat down in front of the table. There was something sat on it.

"What is that?" James asked pointing to the machine, "I mean other than Gould."

"Tok'ra actually." Jon said.

"This is just a sort of detector, it tells us if there are any influences on your brain. We just want to be sure considering the recent events." James nodded obviously not believing a word of it. "I just need to attach this." she said leaning forward and pushing something into his forehead. Jon went to leave.

"Wait!" James called.

"You want me to stay?" James just nodded and Jon glanced up to check with Carter who nodded that it was fine. Carter switched the machine on and picked up the clipboard of questions they had decided on earlier. James stood against the wall and watched Sam looked at the laptop displaying the machines feed for a moment before turning it off and back on again. A little frustrated she turned to James.

"Right, we just need to start with some basics to calibrate the machine up. How old are you?"

"Sixteen." James replied.

"And where were you born?"

"London, UK."

"What nationality were your parents?"

"American and British."

"Where are they now?"

"They're dead."

"How old were you when they died?"

"Four."

Sam watcher the screen the whole time getting more and more confused when Frasier stuck her head into the room.

"I'm concerned by these results, I'm going to connect James up neural activity monitor." James looked a bit worried.

"What's wrong?"

"Well, one thing we're using that machine to look at is if your brain is working normally, we wanted to check after you were able to communicate with us."

"So what's wrong?"

"Well the readings are confused, like they're trying to do too much at once, they're fluctuating between extremes and I want to see if we can spot anything on from your brain waves that might explain this." Some medics arrived with the equipment and it was attached to James' head.

Screen started to show normal brain waves. His Beta waves were up a bit high but he was anxious so that was to be expected. Same started to ask questions.

"So what happened to you after your parents died?


Daniel cringed at the answer.

"I spent a week at with my brothers family before he decided he couldn't cope and took me to my Aunts." James thought he had a brother.

"Have you seen much of your brother since?"

"There's a twenty year age gap between us so we were never that close and no, I haven't seen him since." A brother he thought had abandoned him, no wonder he was so closed off, Daniel suddenly felt honoured by how much the boy had opened up to them all.

"And how long where you at your Aunts?"

"Just until my parents funeral a few days later, when I said to her that I didn't want to go and that it was pointless because they were just bodies she couldn't stand to look at me anymore." Hearts broke around the room for this kid, for the dead pan voice in which he remember his youth.

"And where geographically were you then?"

"England. I started school there and didn't come over here till I was nine."

"You barely have a british accent at all."

"My father's brother didn't like it, he thought it sounded stuck up."

"So you lost the accent?"

"Eventually." He said with out elaboration, Daniel knew why from the determined look on his face. He had fought his way through foster care and come across some rather unpleasant characters. At least his hadn't been his family.

"How big is your family James?"

"Not huge, sometimes the people weren't family, just friends of my previous carers."

"Did you think of running away at all?"

"I did when I was ten my Uncle handed me off to a friend of his that worked on the docks near by, after two weeks as a slave I ran off. Stayed in a few places then the police picked me up and I was sent back to my uncle."

"How did your uncle react?"

"He wasn't happy." Daniel knew they had to do this, go into the little details eat away at things they could check like police involvement. It didn't make it pleasant.


Frasier was baffled. James had high Beta and high Delta wave activity as well as Theta wave. That made no sense. It was like part of him was talking to them and the other part was off having a dream. She stopped Carter mid question and thought for a moment, some of the waves were odd shapes as well.

"I just want to try something." She carefully changed the settings on the monitor to one she normally used for hosts that separated different consciousnesses. Suddenly there is was a normal brain wave pattern and a second one at a lower frequency. Both she and Carter stared at the screen. Jon looked between them.

"What exactly does that mean?" James looked at him confused as he was.

"Well…" Frasier struggled to find words. " James when I did some scans when you were asleep I found that you had far more brain activity than you should have and I think I just figured out why."

"If this is what I think it is" Sam said looking to Frasier for conformation "then there is more than one consciousness in your head."

Kajos: That's it for this one but I might write some more and do another chapter.