[Kata Harris]

0745
Conference Room
Vedic Base

She was barely awake when she received the notice that Admiral Oxford wanted to see her as soon as possible, what the senior officer wanted, she did not know but for him to want to meet so early in the day, it had to be something interesting. Dressed and still not awake but with a cup of coffee in hand, Major Harris walked into the bases conference room, this early in the morning she was not surprised to find the room empty, except for the Admiral of course. "Morning sir, you wanted to see me?" she said as she entered the room.

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[Matthew Oxford]

0745
Conference Room
Vedic Base

He had the information on his desk for few days already, if not weeks. Internally, Matt had debated whether this new lead was worth following to find their missing member, Doctor Henry Pratt. Many leads before this had lead to a dead end, but that hadn’t stopped Harris and Witwer from pursuing them at every angle since the man had been declared MIA. Both woman had returned empty hand and with fallen faces each time it proved to be a waste of resources and time. It was clear to him that finding the Doctor held importance to both of them. Henry had after been their team member for some time as he had been for Bobby. Oxford knew that the whole base would be willing to chase every lead that came to them. Such impact was admirable and it took few people, years to achieve.

He looked up when Harris entered. It was early, Matt was aware of that. He had chosen this time for a reason. One it was quite and two there was no meeting he had to attended at such time of the morning, unless he had ordered them or mission reviews were of high on his list. There were perks to running his own base. He motioned to the empty chair, “I did,” he spoke, “Take a seat Major. I wanted this meeting down without Witwer, at least for now. I understand that she is your XO, but right now I want to speak to the team Commander.” Witwer, while had a good head on her shoulders, the woman could also act on emotional level at times. Such sat on his table before him.

Gazing at the file while he gave Harris a moment to take seat, while he gathered his thoughts, “I know that in the past I have asked you and Witwer to follow leads to find Doctor Pratt and none have ever lead anywhere,” he sighed at he looked at her, “This,” he tapped the folder before him, “is the latest of the leads. I can’t promise that they will lead anywhere if at all. I want you and Witwer to take, on the other hand I don’t If this leads to dead end, yet again.” He slide the folder halfway between her and him; and interloped his fingers, “You can take it if you think this will lead somewhere. I hate to waste you and your team’s time.” Having the Joint Chief of Staff breathing down his neck wasn’t appealing either.

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[Kata Harris]

0745
Conference Room
Vedic Base

The Admiral had a file sitting on the table before him, whatever was in that file had to be important enough to have her awake this early. Kata took her seat, setting her coffee cup off to the side, “I know that in the past I have asked you and Witwer to follow leads to find Doctor Pratt and none have ever lead anywhere,” she knew where this was going. The mission of finding Pratt had been a focus for SV2, even when they did not have an actual mission, even when they were on a mission the team kept an eye out for the man, but time and time again they found nothing. “This,” her eyes flicked to the folder as the Admiral touched it, for months she had been trying to stay hopeful about finding their missing teammate, but now she feared the the Admiral was about to tell her that they now had proof to believe that Dr. Pratt actually gone.

“....is the latest of the leads. I can’t promise that they will lead anywhere if at all. I want you and Witwer to take, on the other hand I don’t If this leads to dead end, yet again.” the older man slid the file across the table, Kata reached out and took it while he kept talking, “You can take it if you think this will lead somewhere. I hate to waste you and your team’s time.” if you think it will lead somewhere.. Here they had another lead, another chance to go looking for Pratt and the Admiral was leaving it up to her to decide if her team would go after it. Opening the file she started looking at the information inside, "Let me guess, if I decline sending my team SGC will be declaring him KIA and not just MIA." she said with a sigh.


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[Lequana Ka'ti of Partho]

0745
Mess
Vedic Base


Lequana say in the mess with her arms flat on the table and her chin resting on the table, as she sat there in boredom. If she had her way, she'd be back in her lab working away with the devices found on missions. Their was nothing nicer than taken items apart and finding out how the worked.

Why she was asked to wait here, she had no idea. All she knew was that she was now with a new team. So all she could do was sit and wait to see what happened.

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[Billie Jean Witwer]

0745
Mess
Vedic Base

Another shake up. Billie shook her head as she made her way to the mess hall after waking up with a headache, there was a chance she might coming down with something or it was just due calling a night way past the time she usually slept. She did have new team member files to go through. Asher was an interesting addition to the mix of what was full of females. Ever since Doctor Pratt had been missing, it had been hard to find anyone who would fill his shoes, either on the team or the expedition as a whole. Then there was Doctor Malhotra who was most of time a quiet man who always met the expectation that was asked of any task. Repeated requests for him to join a team -any team- had been turned down. Billie was baffled as to why he wasn’t so keen on being on one. The man spent way too much time in the labs.

His excuse, Billie mused as she poured herself a coffee, was that someone had to pick up Henry’s end of the work. Too much work wasn’t good either, but it was something she won’t have dared to point out to the man. He won’t have listened anyway. Turning around she spotted Leq, the woman had saved Harris and Hamrick, so that was something both Kata and her were thankful for. Deciding to join the woman, “Food’s that much boring?” she asked as she pulled back a chair, “Mind if I join you? I’m Billie, by the way.”

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[James Calmara]

0745
Mess Hall
Vedas Base



Shuffling along in time with the short line around the food serving area James Calmara, glanced
over the options for this morning, a lot of pastry today, which although he would not pass on he
wanted somthing a little more substantial this morning. He grabbed a Bear Claw before taking
his turn at the sizable pot of oatmeal.


He paced into the seating area, and his attention was caught by the table with two who looked,
well to say as if they need a good night sleep would be a kindness. He knew the two by sight
but not in any detail. Compelled to join them and maybe rectify this fact, he strolled over and
introduced himself. “Well it would appear I've found the all nighter table, mind if I join you two.” As he placed his tray on the table, waving a hand at the cup carried by Wittwer. "It would appear you've found a decent counter, although I think our friend here could do a whole pot." He stated with a smile as he say down at the table.

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[Daniel Jacob Asher]

0745
Mess Haul/DFAC
Vedas Base

Dan entered the Mess Hall and headed straight for the food. He'd never needed all that much sleep. As such he had risen early and PT'd. Now he wanted food. He filled his tray and looked for a seat. He wasn't much of a talker when he was hungry, but in the interests of getting to know everyone, he walked over to the occupied table.

"Mind if I join you?" he asked.

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[Lequana Ka'ti of Partho]

Lequana set up as Billie arrive. She was half tempted to tell her to sit elsewhere but at the last minute she decide that a conversation with Billie might distract her. Plus also because she hated the waiting, to every skinny bone in her body and it agitated her so much. At least all do, she won't be waiting alone.

" Waiting is not a friend of mine, so more the merrier." she grunted," Can't sleep, it's a time of year on my world best described as thanks given on your world. Strange not been around family, memories refuse to yield their torment in a man not of words.

Taking a deep breath she looked around the room in hope of distracting herself before coming up with a new topic.

" I know who you are," she said softly," Photographic memory you see. I know all the faces, price of nanities."

Sitting back Lequana crossed her arms as more guests appeared and as they approached to sit at he'd table she gave a huff at the idea of more company.

[James Calmara]

0746
Mess Hall
Vedas Base


Pulling out quite chair Calmara took a seat, while Lequene was responding most likely to an earlier question. At the mention of memory and nanites the engineer smiled a little, such a small phrase but yet another gentle reminder that this was not your average assignment, and after a generous helping of bureaucracy back on earth it was welcome one. A breath of fresh air. As was her quite vocal dislike to waiting around. “I'll second you on that, but sometimes a pause before a change is a good thing.” He added before starting to spoon oatmeal, glancing up at the latest arrival, he shrugged and offered. “Tables got four seats I suppose.” then tossing out a general question ”so what's the latest around the Vedas campfire?”

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[Billie Jean Witwer]

0745
Mess Hall
Vedas Base

She had just sat down when James Calmara joined them. To her it admirable how one person could serve in two different galaxies and still keep sane. Most of the expedition members were doing their second tour of duty when it came SGC. This was her first. It was always worth learning the ropes from those who were more expedition. She had learnt a lot from Harris, by being her XO. So, others were also there to learn from. She chuckled at Calmara’s words, “I didn’t pull an all-nighter, Chief. Just rolled out bed not long ago,” she told him as she sipped her coffee, then faced Leq, when she spoke, “We call it thanksgiving. Not gonna be back home this year again. Dad won’t be pleased.” She was sure her family would miss her. She understood the torment from memories and missing family events. She had missed out many family gatherings, birthdays and what not. With her own birthday around, it was a going to be hard to celebrate without her twin. It would her second without her sister by her side. “I understand that. Not having family around can be hard.”

Billie gave smile as the woman mentioned knowing who she was, face to the name sort. “Having photographic memory can be awesome. I wish had it some days, it would make it easier not to fry the brain while trying remember stuff.” She looked up when Asher joined in, “More the better,” she motioned to the chair. It had been while since there had been good chatter done.

Billie snorted at the question, then grinned, “Depends on what you want hear, Chief,” she faced him, “Most versions of one thing, we know, depends on who you ask. Right?” They never got anything from the horse’s mouth itself to correct any rumors that floated around.

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[Matthew Oxford]

0746
Conference Room
Vedic Base

He had delayed turning Henry Pratt’s MIA into KIA for many reasons. His people wanted time to find the man, even a trace or sighting of him. He had given them the time, even requesting for the deadline to be extended twice before this. But the pressure was on him to get things in motion. Bobby hadn’t been pleased, Travis had been even less. Even a word with Vanessa Collins had yield little for him. None of his senior staff were pleased about the orders SGC had send. His hands were tied and this was his last ditch to make a status change on the doctor; whether he wanted to or not. He understood now how Bobby had felt when the Shiva had been MIA. The man had to choose to keep them MIA or declared them KIA. The choice was never easy, when it was your own family. It was even harder when those one served with became family. There were others to face.

Matt nodded as Harris put the two and two together. He hadn’t included her in the meeting since he was sure the orders weren’t going sit well with the pilot at all. For SV2 it was matter of their team member, “Correct,” he told her, “also, SGC wants answers, and they wanted them months back. I merely kept extending it. This is one last extension they have granted me. I fail to answer, I have to declare him KIA.” Right now, he would take anything in regards to Henry, even a sighting for stop from KIA status.

Sighing, “Have a chat with your XO, and let me know.” He was sure Witwer would simply head towards the armory then the gate in response. She had done it many times before. He didn’t see why this time it would be different for the young Naval Officer. They all had become a family while they were here, away from home. “Unless you know what she will say. I’ll wait in my office for your decision.”

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[James Calmara]

0746
Mess Hall
Vedas Base


Calmara nodded as he continued to spoon oatmeal, their particular table was in a get to know you cycle it appeared, which was a good thing, one of the side benefits of their work was making acquaintances that would likely not happen otherwise.

The similarities as well we're plane to see, simple things like missing home when it comes to holiday season a feeling he shared given recent development in his own personal life. But the most telling thing was the lieutenants reaction to what was supposed to be a friendly conversation source, evasive and defensive for the most part or perhaps she was always that direct, Calmara chose to counter rather than directly confront, ”True enough, and isn't that the value of other opinions and viewpoints, taken together they tend to give a better picture. Which is why I asked.” if the young Lieutenant was consistent in the character aspects she showed in their short interaction so far, he figured she was a good one, defiantly someone he could work with in the future and Leq, well she was a curiosity for sure, and with a counter now out there Calmara simply went back to his question ”So what's is the latest?”



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[Kata Harris]

0747
Conference Room
Vedic Base 

"Correct..." Kata set the open file down on the table and reached for her coffee cup, taking a drink she listened to the rest of what the Admiral had to say. “...also, SGC wants answers, and they wanted them months back. I merely kept extending it. This is one last extension they have granted me. I fail to answer, I have to declare him KIA.” why was SGC so adamant about declaring a man dead? What did they have to gain besides changing three letters on some paperwork? “Have a chat with your XO, and let me know.” there would be no chat, as soon as Kata mentioned this to Witwer she'd say yes, probably before the Major finished her sentence.

Harris rubbed her face, "There won't be a chat, we will be going...least I will...if anyone else does not want to go I won't order them." she did not want to put her team thru another disappointment, yet she also could not just stay back and let this lead go not investigated and let the SGC just go and label a man dead when they still didn't even know how he might've died. "That is, if that is okay with you Sir." she asked as she looked to Matt. 

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[Lequana Ka'ti of Partho]

0746
Mess Hall
Vedas Base

With a smile, Lequana started to play with two bread sticks and make them walk across the table in front of her. Photographic memory was not all it was cracked up for,

" All my people have it, it's a curse really," her eyes glared to Billy as she spoke half bored " Are curse for using the nanities to save are people. Be lucky, I remember every conversation to a tee and all the times I've not said I love you or good bye."

Even in her dreams her memories worked against her, making her relive those unhappy times. But them thoughts were beginning to put her down. So she snapped out of it and decided to lighting the mood by playing a dumb alien.

" I'v a question," given Billy a smirk, she hope she'd catch onto the joke and see how quick the males would try to change subject," So explain, what do the female Tau'ri mean by a period?"

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[Billie Jean Witwer]

0746
Mess Hall
Vedas Base

What was the latest? Did he reallly wanted to know? She mused as she took a sip of her coffee, “There a suspected case of our Expedition XO getting hitched,” she told him, “No, it’s not confirmed, but that’s the word through the gr**evine so far.” The man was wearing a what appeared to be a brand-new ring. And Billie was a sucker for a good romance. One was playing out before her as it was. “It seems he has courted the pretty diplomat. If I had to guess it was a super shotgun wedding.” She looked at Asher for a brief moment, “We don’t bite. Feel free to speak.”

She winced as Leq glared. She didn’t know what it was like to have a photographic memory. When she really thought about it, it could be considered a curse. Even more for those in the front line. She couldn’t even being to think how much those memories would mess with someone, “Sorry,” Billie genuinely apologised to the woman, “The more I think about it, the more I can see how it can be.”

She picked up her coffee again when the question came, she nearly scalded her tongue and looked at Leq than at Calmara and Asher before setting her mug down. She could feel a light burning sensation on her tongue. Chuckling softly yet a little uncomfortably, “Well uh….” She shifted in her seat, her face felt a little warm,  “Not exactly a question to ask in a male company. Nor is the topic. I’ll explain later, if that’s okay.” Most men didn’t really understand it, anyway. It was even tougher to deal with when one was deployed on tour. There was always fear of running out of stock when they would be most required.

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