"Explain." Colonel O'Neill said flatly as Daniel and Teal'c unconsciously moved a little closer to their friend and teammate, offering silent comfort over something they knew was beyond painful for the Colonel.
"I'll start with what Miss Rosenberg included with the email she'd composed." Carter decided. "And then tell you what I've found. She attached a copy of an NDA that Joyce Summers, Faith's biological mother, signed recently. In it, she promised not to disclose the discovery that some eggs she'd banked during a health scare while pregnant with her daughter, Buffy Summers, had, instead of being donated to an infertile couple as she'd specified, been redirected to a government sponsored experiment in modifying genetics. She was also informed that sperm you'd banked to try for a surrogacy pregnancy with Sarah had also been 'misdirected' to the same program. She was told under no circumstances could she contact you directly because your work is sensitive. However, the NDA does state, that you can contact them."
"Not possible because I. Didn't. Know." He said, still flat and controlled.
"Hence an anonymous email from a friend." Daniel murmured. "How did they find out themselves?"
"What I've found out is the program was an NID project and ran for two years, from 1980-1982. It was shut down because most of the...offspring, to use their terminology, were nonviable. I only got a summation of the project, as my clearance, high as it is, wouldn't allow for more. They paid surrogates to carry the modified embryos. What I've found on Faith is more detailed. She was born on February 20th, 1981 to Karen Lahaine of Boston, single mother. A large deposit that I couldn't trace was made to her account nine months, six days before Faith Lahaine was born, another six months into the pregnancy and a third upon delivery and one more when the project was shut down. Karen Lahaine never worked a steady job in her life and was often arrested for drunk and disorderly and prostitution. Faith was removed from her care after running away repeatedly." Carter stopped, she was trying to stay professional, but this girl's life read like a never ending series of horror. Add to that her CO and teammate and she was struggling hard.
"Go on." O'Neill ordered roughly, he needed to know all of it.
"She reported to the Social Workers that her mother had a lot boyfriends...some of which may have suggested they wanted to be her boyfriend. Faith's description of the language and actions indicated it. She was placed in foster care, things were...better, I guess and at age fourteen she became the Ward of Dr. Diana Dormer, a Professor at Harvard. Dr. Dormer volunteered at an outreach program Faith had been enrolled in. Dr. Dormer began proceedings to adopt her and Faith's life seemed to be improving considerably, her grades showed a marked improvement, as did her behavior."
"She had someone who gave a damn." Daniel, a foster kid since he was eight after his parents died, but never adopted because his grandfather never surrendered custody, but rarely took care of him, himself, understood what it could feel like to finally have someone who cared.
"It didn't last, I'm afraid." Carter continued. "In September of 1998, when Faith was seventeen and a half, Dr. Dormer's mutilated body was found along with evidence that someone had been chained to a wall, not Dr. Dormer, who was postmenopausal, the blood and tissue recovered were from a teenage girl. She'd...she somehow wrenched the chains out of the wall. A month and a half later she showed up in Sunnydale and took a room at a rundown motel. Two days later someone murdered the desk clerk and trashed her room. Witnesses claimed two men, one black, one believed to be near seven feet and built like an ox according to the description, attacked her."
"They chased her all the way across the country?!" O'Neill exclaimed. "What the Hell were they after?"
"There was never any police report made to the Sunnydale PD, she moved into a different room." Carter answered, the lack of answers was frustrating. "The Boston Police couldn't find anything else other than some piles of ash, which turned out to be the cremated remains of humans, in the room Dr. Dormer was found in. Faith stayed in Sunnydale and apparently made contact with Buffy Summers but remained in the motel. Then in February both girls were questioned by the Sunnydale PD as potential witnesses to the murder of the Deputy Mayor of Sunnydale, who'd been found dead, dumped in the bay, something wooden had been shoved in his chest, splinters were found in the wound, before his body had been dumped. A week later, the Mayor moved her into an apartment. He hid the fact that he was paying for it, but I traced the payments."
"The same Mayor that's now dead in an explosion at the High School?" A so far silent General Hammond asked.
"Yes, Sir. I think we can guess why he moved her into an apartment."
"One of two things, I guess." Daniel muttered. "He was covering something up or he was using her and she probably thought, it was better than what she had."
O'Neill's hands clenched, the only outward sign of what he was feeling
"The night before their graduation, both girls turned up in the hospital. Faith had a deep knife wound to her lower belly, her uterus had to be removed and nearly every bone in her body was broken. Blood in her apartment indicates she was attacked there and possibly thrown off the balcony. She was found in the back of a truck that drove by there. Buffy Summers nearly bled out after her throat was torn open by what the doctors decided had to be an animal of some sort. This is when blood tests indicated they were half sisters and Joyce Summers discovered she had a daughter she never knew existed."