Stargate SG1 Fan Fiction ❯ The Secret Life of a Major General ❯ Chapter 35 ( Chapter 35 )

Chapter 35

Gateroom, Level 28, SGC, Cheyenne Mountain Complex, CO
July 1, 2005
Afternoon

Daniel jiggled his weight impatiently as he stood near the ramp of the stargate. Both impatient and anxious. How’d he end up being the one elected to tell Jacob about things when the man ’gated to SGC to attend his daughter’s weekend wedding? Oh yeah, Jack was in DC, Sam was flying to DC today—where he, Teal’c, and Jacob would join them—for the intimate wedding being performed on Monday by a Justice of the Peace in the backyard of Jack’s Alexandrian home.

All he had to do was get Jacob to DC and not give into the Tok’ra’s demands about their destination and why Sam was not here to greet him. Yeah, a piece of cake. Daniel snorted. His head jerking up when the stargate engaged as scheduled.

“Receiving IDC,” the sergeant on duty intoned. “It is Jacob-Selmak.”

Landry, who had been standing at the sergeant’s shoulder, gave the go-ahead and the iris spiralled open. A few moments later the leather clad Tok’ra walked through the wormhole into SGC.

“Daniel,” Jacob greeted as he tromped down the metal ramp. Raising his eyes he exchanged greetings with Landry as well, having been informed some months ago of the change in command at SGC.

“Ah—hi Jacob,” Daniel stuttered. Finding himself at an uncustomary loss of words now that he was face to face with Sam’s father.

“Is everything alright? Where’s Sam? I was expecting her,” Jacob inquired as he steered the archaeologist towards the blast doors and the infirmary beyond.

“Ah, she’s not here.”

“Where is she then?”

Daniel shook his head and collected his thoughts. “There have been quite a few changes around here since you last visited. As you know, Jack is in DC as the Homeworld director but shortly afterwards Sam was reassigned to R&D in Nevada.”

“Nevada? What for?”

Daniel waved a hand. “Various reasons that she could tell you more about than me.”

“I’m certain she will,” Jacob remarked, implying that she would because he would ask her to explain.

“Teal’c’s on the Free Jaffa Council and has been spending the past…” Daniel counted the months off on his fingers, “about five months on Dakara.”

Jacob nodded as they cleared the doorway to the infirmary as he knew about the location of Apophis’ former First Prime because of Tok’ra reports.

“And I just finished wrapping up a treaty with the Nalini—my last one before I leave.” Daniel shrugged. “Mostly I’ve been doing research and getting ready for my trip to Atlantis in two weeks.”

“So SG-1 is done?” Jacob inquired.

Daniel half shrugged again and shook his head at the same time, “Yes and no. The flagship team is going to be led by a Colonel Mitchell,” here Daniel frowned a bit sheepishly, “and I really don’t know who else is or will be assigned to the team. I’ve been so busy dealing with Catherine’s estate and my Ancient research.”

Jacob nodded in understanding. “We’ll continue this discussion afterwards,” he stated as Dr Lam ushered him to his examination.

“Why are we flying to DC?” Jacob inquired as he, Daniel, and Teal’c cleared the boarding procedure at the Colorado Springs Municipal Airport. “I thought Pete—and his family—lived in Denver.”

“He does—they do,” Daniel said uncomfortably. “But the wedding is in DC.”

“Pretty strange place to hold the wedding if you ask me,” Jacob muttered as he cast an interrogational look at Daniel before wandering off to the vending machines to appease Selmak’s sweet tooth.

Daniel breathed a sigh of relief at the man’s departure. He did not think he could take much more of Jacob’s questioning without spilling everything.

“I can see where ColonelCarter gets her tenacity,” Teal’c observed.

It was an observation that Daniel could heartily agree with. “I just wish she could have come to the SGC and tell everything to him—instead of us flying out with him,” Daniel grumbled.

Teal’c merely clasped his hands in front of him and looked at the bespectacled archaeologist.

“Right,” Daniel sighed again. “It would be pointless and a waste of money for Sam to fly from Las Vegas to Colorado Springs, and then from Colorado Springs to Washington. Plus, she told me that they are going to tell Jacob together. The only thing her being here would save is my discomfort with this situation.”

Teal’c smiled.

Daniel rolled his eyes at his friend’s response and turned back to Jacob as the man returned with a bag of gummy snakes. Daniel felt his eyebrows rise as he saw the candies and looked questioningly at the Tok’ra.

“Selmak likes the irony,” Jacob explained before he bit the head off a snake and chewed happily.

Disembarking from their flight the three men—well technically, one man, one alien, and one man hosting an alien—carried the only luggage they had, their carry-ons, and headed for the baggage carousels to meet with Sam. Jacob was the first one to locate his daughter in the crowd, Selmak homing in on the naquadah signature she was emitting.

“Dad!” Sam exclaimed happily as they embraced.

“Hi Sammie,” Jacob returned the fierce hug as Selmak quietly gave her own greeting, “It is indeed pleasant to see you again Samantha.”

“Wonderful to see you two too.” Sam smirked at bit at saying that. “I’m so happy that you could be here like you promised.”

“Hey, my little girl’s getting married,” Jacob smiled as he squeezed one of her hands reassuringly, “I wouldn’t miss it for anything.”

“Thanks Dad, that means a lot to me,” Sam said softly before she turned to Daniel and Teal’c and exchanged greetings and hugs with them. “Come on, let’s get back and I’ll tell you all about what you’re doing in Washington Dad.”

“Is Mark here already?” Jacob inquired.

Sam shook her head but her expression did not change. “No, he’ll be flying out with Laura and the kids tomorrow morning. Tonight it’s just us and Cassie.”

“And how is she doing?” Jacob asked as Sam ushered them from the airport to the rented car she had waiting in the parking lot.

“Cassie’s doing great,” Sam said brightly as they climbed into the car and buckled their seat belts. Signalling, Sam backed out of the parking space and joined the traffic heading out of the parking lot. As she navigated the streets of Dulles heading for Alexandria she kept up a steady chatter of information about Cassie and what she herself had been doing in Nevada at R&D.