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Sam kept walking, as Mark tried to slow her down to ask about the old man who had just arrived (where the hell had he arrived from 28 levels underground Mark wanted to know?). They got to the lifts and as they were waiting she carried on telling the story that had been interrupted.
Mark did not believe half of what she told him! It was too incredible! She had told him of travel to a world called Abydos, which was the name of somewhere in Egypt he thought. And of the mission taken by Jack O'Neill and Daniel Jackson. He wondered what the hell his normally straight sister was doing spinning this yarn to him when she should be serious, after all he had to know about his job, not fairy tales!
"Come in" Sam said she opened a door with her electronic key card and he was faced with what looked to be a very busy work room. There were monitors and metres of all kinds, a huge bench with tools in racks and microscopes and magnifying glasses. It looked cluttered, but in such a way that he was sure she knew where everything was.
"I'm going to kill Felger" she muttered as she picked up a goose-necked magnifier and placed it on the bench "if he touches my DOOR in future I'll set it to electrocute him never mind my work bench!"
"So are you working back here?" he asked
"Not really, I'm based out of Nellis, most of the time anyway, but I'm going to be here and there for a while yet, let's get back to the story shall we?"
She told him of beings that had snakes, and ones that uses to have them, about a pacifist race who could heal the dead, and she explained that the Roswell grey race that Alex Colson had shown on TV was real, and they were a race called Asgard! He also heard how his father had been saved from his so called terminal cancer by allowing another being to share his body… something Mark really did not want to accept, after all it would mean the man who had finally made friends with him was not even his father!
She told the story of the four races in a galaxy wide alliance, and the fact that they, humans, would soon be the fifth race, and how they had been in contact with all the others, even if the last ones they had only met in the few months or so.
Mark wasn't sure if he should call for the men in white suits or run screaming from her, he just kept absorbing what she said and allowed her to continue.
The PA blared out again "Colonel Carter to the Control room, Colonel Carter to the Control room" and he and Sam headed back out. This time when she went down the steps in the corner of the room he was allowed to follow. He saw a huge metal ring and heard a loud grinding noise. The man who had arrived earlier was stood at the bottom of a metal ramp leading up to it with Teal'c, and Jack turned as they entered.
"Thought by now he would be thinking you were crazy" Jack said to his wife, draping an arm across her shoulder again, she shrugged out of it, pulling a face at him as she moved to sit at one of the terminals. Jack gestured to the ring "See what she's talking about" he said just as the little man at the controls said
"Chevron 7 locked!" there was a huge WHOOSH sound and a boiling wave of what looked like water shot out of the ring heading straight for them! It subsided back and there was no sign of moisture anywhere in the room except for what looked like a blue lake, an upright blue lake, filling the circle!
The old man in the room below, said something to the younger one, they clasped hands and then he walked up the ramp to what looked like the pools surface and walked straight into it. Seconds later the pool disappeared and the man was gone! No one reacted to the fact that he was missing, but then if what Sam had told him was correct, this was an every day thing for them!
Mark looked at where the man had been, then he looked around, everyone was watching him, a couple of people were looking at him in sympathy, Jack was smirking, Sam smiling and Daniel… well he was looking for more coffee by the looks.
Then the grinding noise started again and once again the siren blared, the light flashed and the voice came over the PA "UNAUTHORISED OFFWORLD ACTIVATION" and he could see the little Tech Sergeant was the one who was doing all the announcements. He turned to Jack after a minute and said "Its SG18 sir, coming in from P3X-439"
"The place where I got my head sucked again?" Jack asked and Sam winced as she looked at him.
"Yes Jack, they were doing a survey now Anubis has gone, see if there was anything else left behind by the ancients" Daniel said from the back of the room.
"Open the iris" Jack said and suddenly 4 men appeared out of the pool of water that had reformed, they walked down the ramp, handing off their weapons to someone at the bottom, they looked up at the control room.
"Go get a medical and shower kids, debrief at 14:00" they gave a sloppy half salute and left via the huge blast doors just under the window Mark was watching them through.
"So" Jack said, turning to Sam, "did you introduce Mark to…"
"No Sir, I thought I would wait and we could do it together" Sam interrupted him
What else could they have in store for him?!
They all exited the room and Jack took a deep breath… "Time to get this over with," he said and gestured for Sam to precede him.
They once more stepped out of the room, Sam and then Mark, Daniel and Teal'c, they had travelled half way to the elevator as Sam turned around and said "Oh no you don't!" and she turned and ran towards the door she had come out of earlier, she opened it and entered, it took a full 5 minutes before they both came out again, Jack looking abashed.
"Jack is afraid you are going to kick his arse in about 10 minutes" Sam told her brother
"I miss dad you know, but I am so glad I don't have to face him with this" Jack said
Sam smiled sadly "Selmak would have protected you, she liked you" she said and he put his arms around her and gave her a hug.
"Sir! Not on base" she moved away from him slightly and said, "come on, I bet SG13 are waiting for us"
They headed off again, only being interrupted a couple of times by people on their way down the corridors. They exited the lift at 21 again and the Doctor met them at the doors to the infirmary, he gave Mark the all clear health wise and told them he was "safe to go in" they entered the small ward and everyone headed for the other door Mark had seen earlier, saying a quick "Hi Siler" to the man who was there with his hand being stitched earlier, now he was having a cut on his forehead dressed!
Jack and Sam stood at the doors to another room and both took a deep breath.
"Welcome to the Family" they said and opened the doors for Mark to go through.
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