Events on the Horizon: A Stargate Sequel

Chapter 23

Jonas

Once again my jump back to my home world was delayed thanks to issues with the gate Kelowna side. I was in the control room watching over the gate before Sgt. Harriman joined us for his shift change. I had volunteered to cover Sgt. Joiner's so she could be home recovering from a bout of food poisoning and honestly I was counting down the minutes until I could retire back at my suite. I had forgotten how boring the gate room was when nothing was going on around me.

"Yes, yes, I wouldn't want to meet them anyway," I heard Eleanor's voice coming into the room with another pair of footsteps.

"They are not to be viewed as beings worthy of your time." Teal'c replied to her, lip curled in disgust.

"I'm not interested in them, per say." She sighed placing a plate down in front of me from a collection of concoctions the mess hall provided and a coffee. "I'm more looking to see if the deity they claim to be matches that of the cultures who claim them. Amaterasu for example, is she going to be in a kimono? One would expect finery, yes?"

"One should not care about the clothing of false gods." He grunted in response. I shoveled forkfuls of pork rice in my mouth refusing to engage in the conversation. "Daniel Jackson has asked I walk you up here and hand you over to Jonas Quinn."

"I don't need a babysitter Teal'c, thank you."

"I am not sitting on babies. I am an acting escort."

"What did you do?" I narrowed my eyes at her mid forkful and she shrugged.

"I get excited. I'm easily excitable." She scrunched her face in admission and continued. "I may have said that I was going to find a way to observe the system lords during their council today so that I could add their interactions into my database. It was just an idea. He's worried about my safety."

"Daniel Jackson is wise, and does not want you put in any harm. Again." Teal'c turned to me sternly, "I trust you can monitor Eleanor Owens?"

"She's an adult." I shrugged. "She'll be fine." I took another drink from my coffee. "She can hang out with me anyway. They're supposed to what? Be here in a few minutes? We can watch them from up here."

"I'll be fine." She sighed leaning against the panel as a red light started flashing. She lifted her hand in a panic and gulped. "Sorry, I uh, I won't touch anything. I'll just sit in the chairs and watch." She cowered over to a free chair and pulled her laptop out. "See, just tip tapping away. No harm. Thank you Teal'c."

"You can tell Daniel that Princess over here is safe and being well kept." I shoveled another forkful in and grinned at the massive giant of a man. He gave a curt nod and walked out. After I finished my plate I turned back and looked over at Eleanor who was lost at work.

"You know the system lords are not really anyone to be messed with." I said plainly and she let out a deep sigh. 

"I didn't want to interview them. I feel like a profile though would be helpful when other civilizations that we may come across who were once a dominion of the said system lord are met. Let's say we came to Kelowna for the first time and we had a small profile of what to expect from your civilization thanks to similarities in our own customs. Not everyone can have a little pocket Jackson, but they can have this to help guide them." She saw the slight twitch in my eye thinking back to the first encounter on my planet. My country alone was not a kind one, but now mine and the two others on my planet were working together to form one true unit. I wondered how much Daniel, anyone, had told her about that week. About how we watched him die from saving those who framed him for his own death. How I owed him my own life even, and how he never brought it up again, never held it against our friendship that in the most painful way I watched as his body killed itself from the inside out by radiation poisoning. Thankfully the gate began spinning with the incoming of the system lords and I didn't have to continue dwelling on past events. I set the alarms as SG-1, General Hammond, and a new woman I had not met yet stepped out alongside them.