Charlie Carter
1/2 of the Teen Brigade!
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Wherever your imagination takes you...
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"Hey, Ben, wait up!" Ben turned in his tracks at the familiar voice of Jo.
She ran up to him.
"What's up?"
"Anise wants you to 'make yourself useful, seeing as you're here'" she said,
mimicking her mother perfectly. "You get to come on a mission with us."
"Cool. Details?"
"Briefing's in ten minutes."
"Alright." He smiled and left her kicking herself. Why didn't I ask him
then? She sighed, feeling that today would be a bad day.
"Alright, so if this were true, the next attack could be more severe." Jo
heard Sam's voice. She turned the corner to see Sam, Charlie and Ben.
Charlie shushed her before she opened her mouth, pointing to her head. This
meant beware, intellectual discussion in progress.
"Yes. But I think I know a way to beat them," Ben elaborated. "See, if we
don't raise our shields that early, they'll assume we're giving up, so they
don't attack just then. But then, as soon as they do that, we power up
weapons and raise shields simultaneously, they'll be caught off guard,
giving us."
"The advantage?" queried Jack, as he wandered around the corner. "Hey,
gorgeous." He kissed Sam. Charlie pulled a face.
"Urrrgh, please, stop with the mushy crap." Jack grinned.
"Make me." Ben coughed. Jack looked up.
"Anything to declare, Jack?"
"Oh! Yeah, time to be briefed." Charlie rolled her eyes, and followed the
procession.
"What?" Jack's reaction went unnoticed; the Tok'ra operative Ketlix was
explaining scientific terms about the details of the new planet that the Tok
'ra thought they could inhabit. Ben paid direct attention to him. Freya didn
't. She was looking at Ben. Jo was looking at Freya and Ben. Charlie was
looking at Jack. Jack was looking at Sam. Sam was writing a simpler version
down for Jack. She was also looking at Ketlix, and at the board. Daniel was
looking at the report. Teal'c was looking at the board. Ketlix noticed that
few eyes were on him. He tested this out.
"And in the southern hemisphere, I understand that Colonel O'Neill kissed a
fish." Ben's eyes widened. Freya didn't hear. Neither did Jo, Charlie, Jack
or Daniel. Sam's eyebrows creased into a frown.
"Really?" She looked at her boyfriend.
"What?" cried Ben, on the verge of laughter. Teal'c looked bemused. Jack
looked up.
"What? What did I do?"
"Apparently, you kissed a fish."
"Wha.wha. WHAT!?!" Jack was outraged. But Ben twigged.
"Oh, I see. Ketlix was testing to see who was listening. I'm sure he didn't,
Sam," he assured her. Sam, winking at Charlie, stood up.
"Yeah, I believe you," she half-cried, storming out the room. Charlie warned
Jack not to follow, the dirty two-timing animal kisser. She followed Sam
out, as did everyone except Ketlix, Teal'c and Jack. Jack was fuming.
"Look what you did!" Sam's giggle could be heard. This was bizarre, thought
Jack. He crept through the door and along the corridor. He heard their
conversation.
"That Ketlix is so mean!"
"Not as mean as Sam!"
"Or you!"
"True."
Jack came behind Sam and kissed her head. Everyone broke into a fit of
giggles. They were soon ended as the general came around the corner,
demanding an explanation.
"Don't ask me, I'm a fish-kisser," said Jack.
"I'm a fish-kisser's girlfriend," said Sam.
"I'm a fish-kisser's daughter," said Charlie.
Everyone laughed again. Hammond, puzzled, simply walked away.
There was a brief session, in which everyone kitted up to go to P4X-726. The
Stargate activated, and the girls waited for the boys on the ramp. The doors
opened, and Jack, Daniel, Ben and Teal'c entered.
"Oh, boy," sighed Charlie and Sam. Freya and Jo frowned.
"Reservoir Dogs. It's Jack's favourite film at the moment." The boys
approached the 'gate and paused, looking at Jack for instructions. He
nodded, and they went together. Sam sighed and followed.
P4X-726 was a peaceful planet on the MALP. The reality was far from
peaceful, though, as SG-1 and the Tok'ra crew stepped through. Jaffa were
everywhere, shooting the residents.
"Uh oh," was Jack's initial reaction, before turning into the military man
he was. Sam followed suit, as Charlie and Jo hid behind the DHD. There they
found a corpse of a child, not much younger than them.
"We can't hide here," whispered Jo. "The Jaffa know this hiding place." She
spotted a hole in the ground and dived in. Charlie looked behind her, then
jumped in after her.
Chifu started to ferret round for a staff weapon, found two and passed one
to Anise, who was by the ramp defending herself with a dead Jaffa.
"Charlie! Jo! Dial home!" Jack shouted. Sam glanced back as Jo took control
and started the dial-up sequence.
A Jaffa took advantage as Freya's defence dropped, and fired a shot at her.
Ben dived to push her out of the way, onto the ramp. But Jo had finished
dialling up home, and Ben and Freya were engulfed in the backwash. Jo
screamed, but she was too late. They were gone.
Jack shot the final Jaffa. Then, silence, broken by Jo sobbing on Charlie's
shoulder. They packed up and went through the 'gate, quietly remembering
Freya/Anise and Ben/Chifu.
The funeral had been and gone. Jack and Jacob had said some pretty nice
things. Jo was getting over it. The wounds were healing.
"Mornin'" yawned Charlie. Jack looked up from his bowl of fruit loops.
"Mornin'. Oh, me and Sam were thinking last night, and we were wondering if
you wanted a sister." Charlie stopped and turned.
"WHAT?"
"Well, we were gonna adopt Jo, if you were okay with it." Charlie beamed and
nodded. She picked up the box of fruit loops and stopped.
"Ya know, this means less fruit loops for us."
"Oh. Hey, you're going to Daniel's tonight. I'm going to cook Sam a nice
romantic dinner."
"Jo too?"
"Yeah."
"Ooooooooo! Jack cooking romance!"
"Shut up."
"Ooooooo!"
"Shut up!"
"Alright, what's going on?" Sam asked as she entered the room.
"Nothing," chorused Jack and Charlie.
"Colonel Jack O'Neill, you foxy devil."
"What?"
"I refuse to believe you know how to cook lobster."
"I do! With a recipe book." Sam laughed. It had been a perfect evening. Jack
cleared the plates away and pulled a box out of his pocket.
"Look, I have a reason for all this. Sam, I love you. And I can't see me
being with anyone else. Ever. So, Major Samantha Carter," he said, opening
the box and getting on one knee, "will you marry me?"
The End.
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