Insanity is sometimes the best form of medicine.......I should know! Enjoy : D

StarKate

A/N - This is just a little fic, which is probably a very weird product of my twisted mind! ~_^

Season - Around about Season 5.

Setting - Just another mission.....or is it? A warning to everyone to stay AWAY from harmless-looking flora!!! hehehe

One of Those Days

Sam glanced around at P3Y 729 as she walked away from the 'gate, and into the ruins some kind of ancient temple.

The planet was an average sight for her.

Tall green trees, wildflowers, lots of rocks, clear blue skies, and two suns and a moon peeking through the fluffy clouds.

Wait a minute......Sam did a double take on the sky. She shook her head, and chuckled slightly, bemused at the sight. No matter how much a planet resembled home, there were always a few differences.

Raising her head slightly, her nose detected a wonderful scent on the breeze. Sam walked forward slowly, looking around for the source of the alluring odour. She crouched as the smell intensified, and picked a very pretty flower from the ground. It's petals glistened alluringly in the sunlight. The perfume...what a fragrance...

Feeling light-headed and deliriously happy, she placed the flower in her chest pocket, before strolling after Daniel.

***

Jack O'Neill looked at his 2IC. Usually so attentive and aware, the major was acting very strangely. She stood very still, looking around her, seeming to be disorientated. She then looked at the sky, shook her head and laughed.

* Carter looks like she's away with the fairies...this is gettin a bit weird. * The major wandered across to a patch of flowers, and picked one, before following the doctor to his ruins. *Okay.....never picked her as the daisy-picking type....*

***

Sam wandered across to Daniel, who was fossicking around in the ruined buildings of the Ancients. He excitedly bounced through the deserted streets, examining columns, and taking rubbings of the text carved into them. He looked up as she approached. "Sam! You've gotta see this! It's incredible, their writings have been perfectly preserved! These must be the best examples of Ancient text since when we were on that other ruined planet, pretty similar to this one actually," he literally jumped for joy.

"And, and, and, well they're incredible!" he babbled. She listened listlessly as the doctor began recounting the planet's entire history.

Sam adored Daniel, and loved having him around, he was like a brother really, and she loved having someone to share her theories and discoveries with, but sometimes could just get a little.....*annoying*............and *irritating*..........and there were those lectures he was always giving before missions...........and he was always leaving his gear hanging around offworld............and *then* there were those awful glasses.........

"Sam? Sam, were you listening?" He peered at her, concern written all over his face. Carter looked blankly at him for a moment. "You know you should really think about getting contacts. And while you're at it, do something with your hair," she waved her hand about, before standing up and wandering away.

Daniel stared after her. "Well that was odd," he muttered.

***

Carter walked back to where the colonel and Teal'c were setting up camp. If you could call what she was doing walking. It was more of a hop-step-twirl-jump-getting dizzy-uh oh-watch that branch- *CRASH*

"Uh Carter?" O'Neill watched his 2IC pull herself out of the bushes, sit on the ground, and attempt to clean herself up. A stray twig flopped over her eyes, as she tried to pull her BDUs back into a state of normality.

"Ya alright?" The colonel towered over her. Hang on...two colonels towered over her....

"Um....I'm fine sir.....I think..........Did you happen to grow another head recently?"

She looked at him for a moment, assessing what she saw. "You know, you're actually kinda cute, good strong jawline, and nice eyes," She tilted her head, examining. "But ease off a bit on the aftershave," she nodded descisively, her eyes unfocussed.

Sam stood unsteadily, and tottered off, leaving the colonel to stare after her as if she was growing an extra head herself.

*** "Heya Teal'c!" Carter enthusiastically patted the giant Jaffa's back. He lifted himself from assembling his tent in a small clearing. Raising not just one, but two eyebrows, Teal'c regarded the major.

"MajorCarter, is all well?" Even he hadn't witnessed this level of strange behaviour in the tauri before now.

"I'm fine! Fantabulous! Absolutely positively brilliant!" Carter skipped in circles around the stoic individual. "Come on Teal'cy, play with me!"

Sam raced over the clearing, and picked another flower of the same kind as hers, and put it in Teal'c's front pocket, as the wonderful scent drifted through the glen.

"Major Carter, I am experiencing a strange sense of lightness," Teal'c said slowly, then his face lifted, and he *almost* smiled .

"I believe I wish to participate in this 'play' ritual Major Carter."

***

Daniel approached the campsite, and spotted Jack, who was attempting to gather firewood. The doctor jogged a dozen metres, before reaching the disorientated colonel. "Jack? *Jack*?" Finally O'Neill responded. "Oh, hey Danny." He scrubbed his hands across his chocolate eyes, and winced. "Ugh, what a headache..." Daniel nodded sympathetically. "I had one just ten minutes ago, but it passed pretty quickly. Kinda like a hangover, huh?"

The colonel nodded, before grimacing. "Carter was here a little while ago, she was acting kinda strange. It started just after she left. She must be wearing some strong perfume or something, 'cause this really sweet scent reeked while she was here. Then she wandered off, and the migraine kicked in," Jack rubbed his temples.

Daniel paused, thinking. "Come to think of it, my headache started just after Sam left...Jack did she have a flower in her pocket when you saw her?"

Jack regarded the doc. "Yeah, she did, little pink flower. I saw her pick it earlier," His eyes widened. "You don't think...?" Jackson nodded. "We'd better find her space monkey," he stood, winced again, before setting off with the doctor in tow.

O'Neill suddenly stopped, and his voice lowered conspiratorily. "Danny, I'm gonna ask you something important, but be honest, okay? Tell me straight, don't spare my feelings." Jackson nodded. "Is this aftershave too strong?"

***

"Ring a ring a rosie, a pocket full of posies! Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall down!"

Two members of the most elite of all the SG teams, respected diplomats for world-to-world relations, and ambassadors for Earth throughout the universe, fell to the ground in an undignified heap, laughing as hard as they could.

"That was most amusing MajorCarter," Teal'c spoke, his voice muffled by the fact his head was buried in the grass. Carter flopped onto her back, on the soft ground. "He, he, you're funny Teal'c!" Sam giggled hysterically. "Let's play again!"

***

Jack and Daniel strode through the scrub, looking for any sign of the wayward major.

As Jack continued on ahead, Daniel spotted movement, out of the corner of his eye. Carefully, he moved towards the motion, to investigate. What he saw made him gasp.

Trying to hide his grin, he called out to the colonel. "Jack, you'd better come take a look at this," Daniel chuckled. O'Neill made his way back to where Daniel stood. The doctor motioned for him to look through the gap in the trees, into the clearing. "What the..." Jack's eyes widened to the size of dinnerplates.

It was indeed a sight to behold. A Kodak moment with a difference!

Sam and Teal'c were dancing in circles, singing all the nursery rhymes they could think of (including the ones in Goa'uld - Teal'c).

Daisy-chains made of the strange alien flowers hung from their necks, arms, ankles, P90's, staff weapons, and radios.

Daniel and Jack crept slowly foreward. Carter was the first to spot the pair.

"Hi Danny! Do you what I think you look like?"

Not waiting for a response, the major continued.

"A hamster! That's what I'll call you; Danny Hamster!" She giggled wildly.

"And now for you sir, what can I call you?" Sam tilted her head, lost balance, and took a nosedive to the dirt.

"Carter, look, quit messin' around! We'll getcha back to base, and ol' doc Fraisier'll fix you up ok?" O'Neill's brows knitted in frustration at his 2IC's antics.

"Yay! I found a name! Grizzly!! Perfect!" The now dirt-grass-flower-water- stick covered Major smiled crookedly.

"Uh, Carter..." O'Neill crouched in front of her, and reached out his hand. "I think I might just take these flowers of ya, ok?" He took a chain of the pink-coloured flora off Carter's P90, and was going to put the unruly flower on the ground, when a strange feeling overcame him.....

*You're not bad looking yourself Major..* O'Neill's mind wandered as he stared at his 2IC's face. *Those eyes...* He leaned closer, just to look... Yeah, that's all he was doing, looking...

"Uh, Jack?" O'Neill snapped out of his thoughts with a jolt, his face inches from Sam's.

"Oh, sooo not bringing back samples of these!" he muttered bashfully, trying to hide his reddening face.

O'Neill slowly stood, and cleared his throat surrupticiously. "Well, er herm, yes...We'll have to get a message back to Hammond to say we'll be a little, er, delayed, getting back...Danny, you wanna come for a walk?"

Jackson glanced at the Jaffa and the USAF officer, both happily making rude noises with grass blades, and nodded furiously.

"They'll be fine on their own, it's not like they can cause too much trouble right?" Daniel looked at Jack for reassurance. O'Neill nodded. "Let's go!"

They walked off towards the direction of the MALP, and the Stargate.

***

*Well that was...er....interesting.. back there,* Jack O'Neill mused as he and the doctor trudged back to where the ancient Stargate stood.

*Wonder what woulda happened if Daniel hadn't interrupted...*

He stopped his thoughts forcefully, but couldn't stop his mind's eye looking into those deep blue eyes again....

Shaking his head forcefully, he walked on.

More coming soon! Promise! R & R, please! StarKate