Title:Strangers in this Strange Land
Rating: G
Pairing: None
Disclaimer: Not mine. Don't want 'em. In fact, if they're yours, could you take them out of my head? That would be greatly appreciated. Most people get plot bunnies. I get plot-Goa'uld.

Jonas

People wonder why I smile all the time. Colonel O'Neill and Major Carter both tease me about it. They don't understand how I can keep such a cheery attitude even when the world is going to thell in a handbasket around me.

Cassie

People wonder why I am so sullen. Well, they don't always wonder. I am a teenager after all. Pouting is in my job description.

Jonas

Everyone has a defense mechanism. O'Neill has sarcasm. Samantha Carter immerses herself in work. From what I have heard about Daniel Jackson, he reacted like Samantha, just in a different field. I smile.

Cassie

If I smiled all the time, no one would trust me. I'd be one of those peppy, perky, fake girls. But more than that, my mom wouldn't know how to react. I am the 'poor little orphan girl' after all. If I was always cheerful, what would that say about me? That I was happy about my entire world being wiped out by a plague so that I would be brought here and doom this world to death? Yean. I didn't think that would work either. It's much easier being serious. Sort of like Daria, on MTV. No one expects anything out of Daria, just that she be smart and serious. I can do that. I don't have to smile.

Jonas

I have to smile. Despite its problems, I truly loved my world. Kellowna isn't all corrupt governments and cover ups. At least no more than this world is. I just happened to be involved with one of those cover ups. And I chose to make the best of said situation and do what I could to make it right. And so I'm here. In a world with many wonders. Many things that would cause people on my world to exhibit the same wide eyed wonder that I make a show of. But also many horrors. Horrors unimaginable to our insulated little world. Horrors that could have me curled up in a ball whimpering. So I will keep smiling until I don't have to anymore.