New Chapter; Know The Road
Title: Know The Road
From: My Little Girl by Tim McGraw
Author: Assilem
For: The Songs Trilogy
Prompt: 088 School of the 100 Table
Know The Road
Eva Jackson was scared. The five-year-old little girl sat in the kitchen as she stirred the contents of her bowl of fruit loops. Daniel was sitting holding his mug of coffee as he flipped through the newspaper. He was nervous. His little girl was going to school. A school on earth.
It was Eva’s first day of school, and the little girl was less scared than he was. He was scared out of his mind. Vala wasn’t doing much better either. She paced their house, trying to decide if Eva was ready for Kindergarten.
"She’s only five Daniel," Vala would protest nightly after they put Eva to bed, waiting for Anastazia to wake up for her midnight feeding. For the time Daniel would say she was ready, she was smart, but now he was just as scared as Vala.
"Okay, school time," Daniel said standing up as Vala stopped her pacing and looked over at her daughter.
"I don wanna go to school," Eva said looking at Daniel.
"Why not sweetie?" Daniel asked standing up and picking up Eva.
"I scared," she whispered Daniel chuckled. He was scared too, but school shouldn’t be so bad.
"I know you are. But you know what, big girls go to school," Daniel replied as Eva looked at him, with the same look Vala gave him when they were skeptical. "Go get your shoes on."
"Kay," Eva said walking out of the kitchen and into the hall. Sitting down she pulled on her black Mary Janes.
"Daniel, she’s not ready," Vala said stopping her husband and putting a hand on his chest. "She’s just a little girl."
"Vala, I’m scared too, but our little girl is growing up," Daniel said as Vala pouted, smiling softly Daniel reached up and cupped her face. "I’ll make sure she’ll be all right."
"You better, if anything happens to my little girl," Vala started as Anastazia woke up and started to wail.
"You ready to go Eva?" Daniel asked as he and his wife parted, each heading to a daughter.
Eva looked up and nodded as she sat on the floor and played with her shoe buckle. "I wanna say Bye to Mommy."
"Sure, we can do that," Daniel said helping his girl stand up as Vala and Anastazia walked down the stairs. "Mommy, someone wants to say bye."
Vala smiled and walked over to where Eva stood as she leaned down and took the little girl into a hug. "Byebye Mommy."
"You have fun at school darling," Vala whispered kissing Eva on her puckered lips. "I’ll have some soup for you when you come home."
Eva was going to a small private school that had been cleared by the Air Force for their first half human half alien child. She would be treated just like any other child, except for the fact there was going to be an undercover Airforce officer as her teaching assistant.
"Byebye," Eva waved as she and Daniel walked out of their house. "Dada?"
"Yeah Princess?" Daniel asked as he helped Eva get into the car and buckle her up.
"Is school fun?"
"Yeah, you get to learn, just like you do when you get to come to work with Daddy," Daniel explained as Eva nodded.
The ride to the school was filled with Eva asked questions about everything, and Daniel trying to answer them all. Just the thought of Eva not being in either his or Vala’s sight was heart wrenching. When they got there, Daniel noticed a group of parents and their children standing outside the front doors to the kindergarten classroom.
"Come on Ev’," Daniel said lifting the girl from the backseat and putting her to the ground. Eva immediately took a hold of his hand and squeezed it. Daniel smiled softly as he shoved his car keys in the pocket of his jacket.
Walking up to the group of people standing around he noticed that a few of the children were playing and yet most of them clung to their parents.
"You must be new," one woman smiled walking up to Daniel and Eva.
"Um, yeah," Daniel replied not knowing what the woman meant.
"My daughter Kristen went to pre-school here," she replied. "I’m Lisa Stevens by the way."
"Doctor Daniel Jackson, and this is my daughter Eva," Daniel introduced as the little girl clung to his side a little tighter.
"Please to meet you Doctor," Lisa smiled before she bent down to Eva’s eye level. "Hi Eva."
"Hi," Eva replied.
"Did you want to go and play with my little girl? She’s just over there, with the blonde hair," Lisa said pointing to the little girl who was drawing on the cement with chalk, bright blonde curly hair framed her face.
"Go on," Daniel urged as Eva walked tentatively over to the other children. "Eva’s a bit shy."
"That’s perfectly normal," Lisa smiled. "Why did you choose this school for her?"
"Best one around," Daniel shrugged. "I wanted to give her a good chance to become whatever she wants."
"A Doctor even," Lisa hinted.
"If she wants," Daniel shrugged as Lisa reached up and touched his arm.
"What kind of Doctor are you?"
"Uh…I have three doctorates actually. I’m an Archaeologist, Paleontologist and a Linguist, PHDs in all three."
"Oh wow," Lisa said, thoroughly impressed.
"I started to teach Eva French and German already," he said, getting the feeling that this woman would not leave him alone. Great he had a woman infatuated with him. He hoped she’d get a look at the gold band that was permanently glued to his finger. "I speak around 30 or so languages."
"So do you travel for work then?"
"All the time," Daniel replied. "My wife and I are both diplomats for the Air force."
"Where is your wife?"
"At home with our youngest," Daniel replied, he was really starting to get nervous with this woman. Just his luck the bell rang and the door opened. "Eva come here Princess."
Eva ran over to Daniel and took a hold of his hand as the pair walked into the school. Immediately regconising the woman that was to be the teacher's assistant.
"How's Janet?" Daniel asked walking up to Simon Well's wife, Sheryl?.
"Daniel," she smiled as the two hugged briefly. "Janet is doing just fine. How is the rest of the team?"
"Oh you know them," Daniel chuckled. "I didn't know you were the one who was assigned."
"The air force figured since I am a teacher's assistant and already know about everything, I would be a good canidate," she replied. Smiling Daniel looked at Eva who seemed a bit more comfortable knowing that someone she knew was going to be there.
Eva still didn't understand the concept that she wasn't really a human, and Daniel figured she was just too young to understand, and they'd tell her, and Anastazia as soon as they were old enough to understand.
"I'll give them that," Daniel replied before everyone was called to pay attention by the teacher. Half an hour later, the parents were asked to leave and Daniel looked like he'd ust been asked to kill someone.
"She'll be all right," Sheryl whispered as she guided Daniel out of the classroom. Digging into his pocket, Daniel pulled out his cellphone and dailed home.
"Hello?"
"Hey honey," Daniel said clear enough to let the onlookers knew he was a married man.
"Hi darling, how’s it going?" Vala asked.
"She's doing great, a bit nervous at first, but someone we know quite well seems to be the teacher's assistant," he replied. "Janet’s mother."
"Eva is all right though right? She’s not too scared, Daniel if she is, bring her right home."
"Honey, she’s fine. How’s the baby doing?" Anastazia had been teething quite mean lately and all she did while she was awake was either wail or chew on everything.
"Better," Vala replied as Daniel heard Ana giggle. A smile spread over his face. "Her molar came through."
"That’s wonderful," Daniel grinned from ear to ear. "Can I talk to her?"
"Sure," Vala smiled as she placed the phone to Anastazia’s ear.
"Hi sweetheart," Daniel smiled. "Mommy says your gums are all better, Daddy will be home soon."
Saying goodbye to both Vala and Anastazia, Daniel hung up and leaned against the wall of the school. A few of the women looked at him before turning away, while one of the men walked up.
"How old is the other one?" he asked.
"Thirteen months," Daniel replied.
"Girls?"
"Both," Daniel replied. "You?"
"Boys. Vicky is at home with Andrew, still crying I suppose," the other man replied. "So I brought Eli."
"Same here, Vala has Anastazia so I brought Eva," Daniel replied. "I’m Daniel."
"David," he smiled shaking Daniel’s hand. "Looked like you know Mrs. Wells."
"Yeah, I worked with her husband," Daniel shrugged. "Their daughter was named after a very good friend of mine."
David smiled and leaned against the wall next to Daniel. The two talked as they waited for the first day of school to be over. They decided that tomorrow shouldn’t be so bad, as the doors opened, the parents turned and walked back in as they were greeted by their children.
"Dada!" Eva grinned handing Daniel a picture. "Look!"
"Wow," Daniel grinned looking at the paper. "That’s beautiful Princess."
"Its family," Eva said. "Uncle Jack, uncle Tealc, Uncle Cam, Auntie Sam, Mommy, you, and Ana!"
"That’s gorgeous," Daniel smiled. "Ready to go home?"
"Yeah," Eva nodded.
By the time the two arrived home, Vala had lunch all set and Anastazia was sitting contently in her highchair with a arrowroot cookie in her mouth. Eva grinned and ran over to her sister, climbing onto the chair.
"Hi pumpkin," Daniel smiled kissing Anastazia’s brown fuzz.
"How was it darling?" Vala asked setting some ravioli in front of Eva.
"Good," Eva replied as she started to eat. Vala looked up at Daniel as he handed her the picture Eva drew. "I dew that!"
"Its very good," Vala smiled standing up and walking to the fridge, putting the picture on it, with the magnet that spelt Eva.
After lunch Eva found her way to the couch and laid down, still feeling that she needed a small nap every now and then. Anastazia was taking her nap, which left Daniel and Vala awake and sitting in the kitchen.
"Are you sure she’s going to be okay?" Vala asked looking at her husband.
"She’ll be fine, she liked it there," Daniel explained. "Honey, its just school."
"Its our first born growing up," Vala countered. "And soon boys are going to come into her life."
"Oh no they wont! I’ll beat them off with a stick!" Daniel declared.
From: My Little Girl by Tim McGraw
Author: Assilem
For: The Songs Trilogy
Prompt: 088 School of the 100 Table
Know The Road
Eva Jackson was scared. The five-year-old little girl sat in the kitchen as she stirred the contents of her bowl of fruit loops. Daniel was sitting holding his mug of coffee as he flipped through the newspaper. He was nervous. His little girl was going to school. A school on earth.
It was Eva’s first day of school, and the little girl was less scared than he was. He was scared out of his mind. Vala wasn’t doing much better either. She paced their house, trying to decide if Eva was ready for Kindergarten.
"She’s only five Daniel," Vala would protest nightly after they put Eva to bed, waiting for Anastazia to wake up for her midnight feeding. For the time Daniel would say she was ready, she was smart, but now he was just as scared as Vala.
"Okay, school time," Daniel said standing up as Vala stopped her pacing and looked over at her daughter.
"I don wanna go to school," Eva said looking at Daniel.
"Why not sweetie?" Daniel asked standing up and picking up Eva.
"I scared," she whispered Daniel chuckled. He was scared too, but school shouldn’t be so bad.
"I know you are. But you know what, big girls go to school," Daniel replied as Eva looked at him, with the same look Vala gave him when they were skeptical. "Go get your shoes on."
"Kay," Eva said walking out of the kitchen and into the hall. Sitting down she pulled on her black Mary Janes.
"Daniel, she’s not ready," Vala said stopping her husband and putting a hand on his chest. "She’s just a little girl."
"Vala, I’m scared too, but our little girl is growing up," Daniel said as Vala pouted, smiling softly Daniel reached up and cupped her face. "I’ll make sure she’ll be all right."
"You better, if anything happens to my little girl," Vala started as Anastazia woke up and started to wail.
"You ready to go Eva?" Daniel asked as he and his wife parted, each heading to a daughter.
Eva looked up and nodded as she sat on the floor and played with her shoe buckle. "I wanna say Bye to Mommy."
"Sure, we can do that," Daniel said helping his girl stand up as Vala and Anastazia walked down the stairs. "Mommy, someone wants to say bye."
Vala smiled and walked over to where Eva stood as she leaned down and took the little girl into a hug. "Byebye Mommy."
"You have fun at school darling," Vala whispered kissing Eva on her puckered lips. "I’ll have some soup for you when you come home."
Eva was going to a small private school that had been cleared by the Air Force for their first half human half alien child. She would be treated just like any other child, except for the fact there was going to be an undercover Airforce officer as her teaching assistant.
"Byebye," Eva waved as she and Daniel walked out of their house. "Dada?"
"Yeah Princess?" Daniel asked as he helped Eva get into the car and buckle her up.
"Is school fun?"
"Yeah, you get to learn, just like you do when you get to come to work with Daddy," Daniel explained as Eva nodded.
The ride to the school was filled with Eva asked questions about everything, and Daniel trying to answer them all. Just the thought of Eva not being in either his or Vala’s sight was heart wrenching. When they got there, Daniel noticed a group of parents and their children standing outside the front doors to the kindergarten classroom.
"Come on Ev’," Daniel said lifting the girl from the backseat and putting her to the ground. Eva immediately took a hold of his hand and squeezed it. Daniel smiled softly as he shoved his car keys in the pocket of his jacket.
Walking up to the group of people standing around he noticed that a few of the children were playing and yet most of them clung to their parents.
"You must be new," one woman smiled walking up to Daniel and Eva.
"Um, yeah," Daniel replied not knowing what the woman meant.
"My daughter Kristen went to pre-school here," she replied. "I’m Lisa Stevens by the way."
"Doctor Daniel Jackson, and this is my daughter Eva," Daniel introduced as the little girl clung to his side a little tighter.
"Please to meet you Doctor," Lisa smiled before she bent down to Eva’s eye level. "Hi Eva."
"Hi," Eva replied.
"Did you want to go and play with my little girl? She’s just over there, with the blonde hair," Lisa said pointing to the little girl who was drawing on the cement with chalk, bright blonde curly hair framed her face.
"Go on," Daniel urged as Eva walked tentatively over to the other children. "Eva’s a bit shy."
"That’s perfectly normal," Lisa smiled. "Why did you choose this school for her?"
"Best one around," Daniel shrugged. "I wanted to give her a good chance to become whatever she wants."
"A Doctor even," Lisa hinted.
"If she wants," Daniel shrugged as Lisa reached up and touched his arm.
"What kind of Doctor are you?"
"Uh…I have three doctorates actually. I’m an Archaeologist, Paleontologist and a Linguist, PHDs in all three."
"Oh wow," Lisa said, thoroughly impressed.
"I started to teach Eva French and German already," he said, getting the feeling that this woman would not leave him alone. Great he had a woman infatuated with him. He hoped she’d get a look at the gold band that was permanently glued to his finger. "I speak around 30 or so languages."
"So do you travel for work then?"
"All the time," Daniel replied. "My wife and I are both diplomats for the Air force."
"Where is your wife?"
"At home with our youngest," Daniel replied, he was really starting to get nervous with this woman. Just his luck the bell rang and the door opened. "Eva come here Princess."
Eva ran over to Daniel and took a hold of his hand as the pair walked into the school. Immediately regconising the woman that was to be the teacher's assistant.
"How's Janet?" Daniel asked walking up to Simon Well's wife, Sheryl?.
"Daniel," she smiled as the two hugged briefly. "Janet is doing just fine. How is the rest of the team?"
"Oh you know them," Daniel chuckled. "I didn't know you were the one who was assigned."
"The air force figured since I am a teacher's assistant and already know about everything, I would be a good canidate," she replied. Smiling Daniel looked at Eva who seemed a bit more comfortable knowing that someone she knew was going to be there.
Eva still didn't understand the concept that she wasn't really a human, and Daniel figured she was just too young to understand, and they'd tell her, and Anastazia as soon as they were old enough to understand.
"I'll give them that," Daniel replied before everyone was called to pay attention by the teacher. Half an hour later, the parents were asked to leave and Daniel looked like he'd ust been asked to kill someone.
"She'll be all right," Sheryl whispered as she guided Daniel out of the classroom. Digging into his pocket, Daniel pulled out his cellphone and dailed home.
"Hello?"
"Hey honey," Daniel said clear enough to let the onlookers knew he was a married man.
"Hi darling, how’s it going?" Vala asked.
"She's doing great, a bit nervous at first, but someone we know quite well seems to be the teacher's assistant," he replied. "Janet’s mother."
"Eva is all right though right? She’s not too scared, Daniel if she is, bring her right home."
"Honey, she’s fine. How’s the baby doing?" Anastazia had been teething quite mean lately and all she did while she was awake was either wail or chew on everything.
"Better," Vala replied as Daniel heard Ana giggle. A smile spread over his face. "Her molar came through."
"That’s wonderful," Daniel grinned from ear to ear. "Can I talk to her?"
"Sure," Vala smiled as she placed the phone to Anastazia’s ear.
"Hi sweetheart," Daniel smiled. "Mommy says your gums are all better, Daddy will be home soon."
Saying goodbye to both Vala and Anastazia, Daniel hung up and leaned against the wall of the school. A few of the women looked at him before turning away, while one of the men walked up.
"How old is the other one?" he asked.
"Thirteen months," Daniel replied.
"Girls?"
"Both," Daniel replied. "You?"
"Boys. Vicky is at home with Andrew, still crying I suppose," the other man replied. "So I brought Eli."
"Same here, Vala has Anastazia so I brought Eva," Daniel replied. "I’m Daniel."
"David," he smiled shaking Daniel’s hand. "Looked like you know Mrs. Wells."
"Yeah, I worked with her husband," Daniel shrugged. "Their daughter was named after a very good friend of mine."
David smiled and leaned against the wall next to Daniel. The two talked as they waited for the first day of school to be over. They decided that tomorrow shouldn’t be so bad, as the doors opened, the parents turned and walked back in as they were greeted by their children.
"Dada!" Eva grinned handing Daniel a picture. "Look!"
"Wow," Daniel grinned looking at the paper. "That’s beautiful Princess."
"Its family," Eva said. "Uncle Jack, uncle Tealc, Uncle Cam, Auntie Sam, Mommy, you, and Ana!"
"That’s gorgeous," Daniel smiled. "Ready to go home?"
"Yeah," Eva nodded.
By the time the two arrived home, Vala had lunch all set and Anastazia was sitting contently in her highchair with a arrowroot cookie in her mouth. Eva grinned and ran over to her sister, climbing onto the chair.
"Hi pumpkin," Daniel smiled kissing Anastazia’s brown fuzz.
"How was it darling?" Vala asked setting some ravioli in front of Eva.
"Good," Eva replied as she started to eat. Vala looked up at Daniel as he handed her the picture Eva drew. "I dew that!"
"Its very good," Vala smiled standing up and walking to the fridge, putting the picture on it, with the magnet that spelt Eva.
After lunch Eva found her way to the couch and laid down, still feeling that she needed a small nap every now and then. Anastazia was taking her nap, which left Daniel and Vala awake and sitting in the kitchen.
"Are you sure she’s going to be okay?" Vala asked looking at her husband.
"She’ll be fine, she liked it there," Daniel explained. "Honey, its just school."
"Its our first born growing up," Vala countered. "And soon boys are going to come into her life."
"Oh no they wont! I’ll beat them off with a stick!" Daniel declared.