Supposed to be studying... and this pops into my head. Oh happy days! Spoilers for 'Crystal Skull'.

Sam stared down at her hand in amazement turning it back and forth and smiling slightly. A slight "ahem" caught her attention and she looked up bashfully at Janet who looked at her in amusement.

'I'll give you a few minutes shall I?' Janet asked, rolling her eyes good naturedly at her friends' wonderment. The Doctor turned and clocked at the Colonel who was leaning against the door frame and watching something.

Sam glanced at his amused and yet slightly weirded out expression and followed his line of sight. Daniel was sitting over a pot of coffee and downing a cup in a faster time then she would care to think about. Sam shot the Colonel a concerned look and he rolled his eyes at her as he sat down on the bed next to hers.

They both looked over to see Janet snatch both the pot and cup away from him and Sam could see that she was resisting the urge to smack him.

And with that Sam just looked back down at her hand and smiled to herself.

She looked over at the Colonel as she felt him staring at her, he was smiling oddly and Sam felt herself blush slightly.

She shoved her hand into her pocket and shrank back slightly and saw Janet giving her a weird look. The Colonel laughed quietly to himself, shaking his head and flopping back onto the bed.

Sam glanced around fugitively making sure that everyone else was otherwise occupied before looking down at her hand and grinning to herself.

She had been out of phase.

Cool.

'Sam!'

'Carter!'

Sam looked up startled as both Daniel and the Colonel stared at her before sharing exasperated expressions and sighing in unison.

'Sorry I was just-'

'Thinking.' Both men spoke as one with matching expressions, eyebrows arched and looking amused. She placed her hand up on her shoulder and rested her cheek on it and smiled ruefully.

'I can't help it. It's amazing we were actually out of phase! I mean the power requirements alone must be immense and to contain the mechanism of transportation through a seemingly innocent skull just-'

'Gives me an infinite headache? Seriously Carter as amusing as your geeked-out state is half of the time, it's just hurting my radiation riddled head right now.' And with that the Colonel placed his head on his folded arms and moaned slightly.

'Doctor Frasier did recommend a treatment for you, O'Neill. You refused it.' Teal'c spoke and Sam swallowed a laugh as she watch the Colonel raised his slightly, so slightly in fact, that she could barely catch the vicious glare being aimed at Teal'c.

Daniel smiled broadly next to his friend and stretched, before tapping the table and bouncing his palms off of it a couple of times. He then winced slightly and Sam figured that the Colonel had kicked him.

'Seriously Jack, go take an Advil or something... I am going to relish in being back in this wonderful phase.'

And with that he started tapping once again, and a thought struck Sam.

'Say Daniel...' She started looking at him curiously, and felt the two other men follow suit as Daniel looked at her expectantly.

'Yes Sam?'

'What exactly did you do why out while out of phase?'

Of all the reactions Sam had anticipated coming from one Daniel Jackson, the embarrassed blush was not all that high on the list. Though in retrospect, it really should have been.

She and the Colonel looked at each other for a beat before looking at Daniel more seriously.

'Ah... nothing?'

'Nothing my ass Daniel, spill.' The Colonel had clearly made a miraculous recovery as he smacked the shamefaced archaeologist on the arm.

'I wandered around... Tried talking to you guys...'

'Pretty one sided chat I'd wager.' The Colonel pipped in causing Daniel to shoot him a dirty look.

'Aaaaaaaaaaand?' Sam tilted her head closer to Daniel trying to coax some answers out of him.

'I may have seen somethings...' At this he blushed furiously and all three of them leaned in towards him.

'What things?' The Colonel asked in a hushed tone as Sam glanced around the commissary to make sure that no one was eavesdropping.

'I don't want to say!'

'Oh Daniel, you little voyeur! Why I never knew!' The Colonel leaned back with one hand on his chest and fanning himself jokingly. Sam started giggling before leaning in even closer to him.

'What did you see? Or rather who did you see, and more importantly what did you see them doing?' She whispered, her eyes wide and mischievous, and not quite able to control the smirk threatening to play about her features.

'A. I'm an archaeologist, we are the original voyeurs Jack. B. I'm not telling you anything Sam and C. I can't believe you two are looking for gossip!' Daniel gave both officers severe looks, to which they both looked at one another in surprise and then at Teal'c.

'Two of us? I do believe that there are three of us who are quite curious as to the activities of the SGC personnel, Daniel.' Sam nodded emphatically as the Colonel obviously pointed at each of them in turn as she counted them off.

'You two are intuned with one another, it's freaky.' Daniel looked from one to the other and pursing his lips slightly and adjusting his glasses.

'Don't try changing the topic of conversationl! We won't play along.' The Colonel poked him in the arm as she narrowed her eyes at him. Daniel returned her bristled look before sighing and dropping his shoulders.

'Teal'c doesn't seem like the type to be gossiping... Right Teal'c.' Sam laughed shortly at this before crossing her arms across her chest.

'Are you kidding me? Teal'c has this place wired! Anytime I want to know what's going on, I go to either Janet or Teal'c. People in the know.'

'Don't forget that the gate tech guy!' The Colonel pointed at her and Sam shook her head in confusion for a minute.

'Oh Sergeant Harriman! Good call Sir!'

'Thanks. Now back to the conversation at hand. What did you see?'

'Wait a minute, Janet?' Daniel looked at her in confusion and she just rolled her eyes in response.

'Nurses.' She could swear that she could hear the 'duh' that was echoing in the Colonel's head as he rolled his own eyes at their friend.

'There is no greater gossiping force.' He deadpanned taking a sip of coffee and watching for Daniel's reaction.

'I don't know about that Sir, the little old ladies in my neighbourhood are a force to be reckoned with.' She countered cradling her own cup of coffee and twitching her eyebrow at him.

'Oh you still a CIA spy with the older "handler"?' The Colonel grinned at her making air quotation marks as Daniel 'huuuuh?' at the pair.

'Oh no, they finally moved onto the alien conspiracies.' Sam jokingly replied, trying not to laugh.

'Reeeally? Only took them what, three years?'

'Give or take, yeah.' At this the Colonel smiled brightly at her and she couldn't help but laugh loudly.

'Those old biddies... God they make not be as accurate as the grape vine here, but they are so much more amusing.' He sighed in appreciation and watched her laugh, smiling slightly.

'They have the time to be really inventive.' She agreed smiling in return before focusing back on Daniel who was watching them in what looked like amused confusion.

'Am I still involved?' He asked cocking his head at her and smirking, as she sighed and nodded.

'For whatever reason, they seem to be insistent on putting us together.' Suddenly Sam couldn't bring herself to look him in the eye and knew that he was also doing the same exact thing. Sam shook her head and exhaled sharply, knowing that Daniel was trying to process the conversation he'd just heard and that Teal'c would never mention it.

'So what did you see?'

Judging by his knee jerk reaction that resulted in him knocking scalding hot coffee onto his lap, Sam felt that she shouldn't have asked.

But she really wanted to know.

'C'mon Daniel!'

And so did everyone else.

Is it bad to say I giggled as I wrote this? I never know if that's a good sign, or just a general sign of my impending insanity... Who knows, maybe it's the labs that are getting to me... One month in and I have done ONE experiment... with only a month left. Thank god this little ray of inspiration hit me!

Also thanks to all the reviews I got for 'Her not so Stalwart Knights'... I wasn't one of my more... unique chapters, more of a sedated piece, so I'm glad people enjoyed it!

Anyways, please review... the box is right there... just down below, I promise personnel responses to everyone! As I always do!

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