The Apprentice: SG-1 Series

Chapter Five: 1969

ALONG AN INTERSTATE HIGHWAY

We'd finally reached the interstate. I could see a small red corvette speed by and I shook my head. Man, those cars are nice.

"You know, the 'Vette blew it when they went with that body style. They used to be so cool," Jack exclaimed.

"Actually, I was about four and a half years old in '69," Daniel replied.

"Hey at least you'd been born, I'm not even alive yet!" I muttered, crossing my arms. Jack smirked and ruffled my hair.

"Ahck leave ma hair alone," I exclaimed, batting his hand away. We crossed the road and hid in a ditch.

"Carter, stick your thumb out," Jack ordered. We all crouch down in the ditch while Sam stood by the road holding her thumb out.

"We should go to New York," Daniel exclaimed. Several cars passed by.

"Why?" Jack asked.

"Catherine used to live there right?" I asked, glancing over at Daniel.

"Yeah she did. She's probably the only person outside of the military who has the slightest idea where the Stargate might be. And I really don't think she's going to tell us over the phone," Daniel answered.

"Daniel, you can't. In order to preserve our past, Catherine has to meet you for the first-time years from now," Sam interjected.

"So, we go in disguise. Pretend to be...foreigners," Daniel suggested.

"How are you going to do that?" Jack asked.

"Well, Adolfina and I speak 23 different languages. Pick one," Daniel answered. I watched another car go by.

"Cars don't seem to be stopping despite Sam holding her thumb out to them," Skaara whispered to me. I smiled and shook my head and grabbed his hand.

"Catherine said herself she began her research in the late sixties. I mean, who knows...maybe we're the ones who gave her the idea in the first place," Daniel suggested.

A white van passed by Sam not even slowing down. Sam threw up her hands before sticking her thumb out again.

"This method appears to be ineffective," Teal'c stated, standing up.

He climbed up to the road, and Jack stood up and followed him.

"Teal'c? Teal'c!" Jack shouted.

I stood up as well and followed Jack with Skaara and Daniel right behind me. I could see a multicolored, brightly painted bus coming down the road, and Teal'c stepped right into the path of the bus, holding his arms up palms out towards the bus. The bus pulled to a stop barely even a foot away from him, and I could see a peace sign ornament on the hood. Teal'c dropped his arms and Jack ran up to him and hit him on the shoulder. Well that is one way to catch a ride.

"What are you thinking?" Jack asked frustratedly.

"That is effective, O'Neill," Teal'c responded, motioning to the stopped bus.

Jack gave him a look before moving over to the side of the bus. The doors swung open and I could see a long-haired, bearded young man at the wheel. There was a dark-haired girl wearing a poncho beside him.

"Hey. We would've stopped, man," He exclaimed, smiling.

"Hi. Listen, we've got gas money. Where are you headed?" Jack asked.

"Upstate New York, some big concert. Where're you headed?" The man answered.

"New York...back East," Jack supplied.