Trial by Fire by Stargate

Author:Stargate
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-06-07T16:20:00+00:00

"My what?"

"Continuemus..." the man muttered, dodging Jack's glare. Then he looked up. "You have decided?"

"What do I have to do?"

"I cannot tell you that yet. So you see, you shall have to trust me, one way or the other." The knowing smile was back. "You'll have to pass the initiation first."

Initiation, huh? He could do initiation. Back in the glory days when he'd enrolled at the Academy attitudes towards the timehonored ritual of hazing had been somewhere between slack and ignorant.

"When?"

"Vow." Tertius rose, and the togas swished approvingly. "Please, follow me -... What is your name?"

"Jack."

"Jack? Forgive me, but it seems a strange name."

This from the man who called himself The Third One. Jack shrugged and got to his feet. "It's short for Jonathan."

"That's the Hebrew form. You want the Latin." Bun lolling at a belligerent angle, Kelly had snapped out of her sulk with a smirk that promised some terrible revenge. "Deodatus."

Deodorant?

"God's Gift." The smirk broadened viciously. "And aren't you just, duckie?"

Tertius, who'd missed the subtext in its entirety, nodded enthusiastically. "Fitting indeed. You shall see. Follow me, Deodatus."

The crew of eavesdropping togas parted, and Tertius strode towards the door. Jack - Deodatus - did as he was asked and followed, envisioning cruel and unusual ways of killing professors of archaeology.

The guards fell in behind him.

"That star chart they're using is dodgy. Longitude's off by at least two degrees. I can compensate, but a lot of it is guesswork," muttered Major Carter, gazing at the screen of her laptop and the graphic display on it. Suddenly she added, "You know, I think we're missing something here."

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