Two by two

Childofspacegypsy1

Synopsis: Sg-1 plus Jack learns to see things through new eyes.

Chapter One – Tropical Paradise

Two by two they ran through the low mouth of the cave.

Cam had Vala by the arm as he dragged her out of the torrential downpour and they slipped and slid into the stone room. Standing just inside the cave, they tried to shake off the residual tingle as they watched the rest of their sopping group flounder through the opening.

Just as they crossed the threshold Teal'c grabbed Sam by the back of her vest to keep her from sliding into the cave on her stomach. Quirking a brow at the odd tingle, he pulled her to the side as Daniel and Jack burst through the veil of water into their small shelter.

Rubbing his arms against the tingle that had raised his forearm hair, Jack turned squinting, trying to locate the archeologist. "Daniel? Just what the hell was that?"

The man standing facing the wall opposite him, rubbed the small hairs at the base of his neck as he turned to answer.

Jack's mouth fell open as he watched himself turn and reply in his own voice. "Well, how the hell am I supposed to know, Jack. This planet was your idea. Tropical paradise my ass."

"Daniel?"

"Jack?"

"Daniel?"

"Oh my God." Vala was staring at Cam, Cam was staring at Vala.

"What?" Sam asked as she and Teal'c came over to see what was wrong.

Turing her head to look at Teal'c and see if he had some idea as to what was going on, Sam was shocked when instead of Teal'c standing next to her…she was standing next to herself.

Sam's head turned towards her, "ColonelCarter…" her voice faded away and her eyes widened as the person occupying her body realized that he was looking at himself and not ColonelCarter. And what was wrong with his voice?

"Does somebody wanna tell me what the hell is goin' on?" Vala's husky voice drawled, the pounding rain muffling its worried volume.

"That's my voice! That's my body!" Cam leaned back, pointing at Vala with horror, his voice oddly accented.

"Daniel?"

"Jack?"

"Daniel?"

"Damn it, Jack! I don't know." Jack's horrified gaze swung from Vala to Cam and then back to his rightful, bespectacled face.

Daniel's body turned to Sam's, thought about it and swung to Teal'c's instead. "Okay, Carter?"

"I don't know. Sir." The almost disrespectful inflection of voice and the feminine tilt of head and hands on hip posture was hard to swallow in the deep timbre of voice and the large frame of the imposing Jaffa. Teal'c's body turned to Sam's asking for something from her pack.

Everyone watched in muted horror as the Jaffa wandered around the room, studying the doohickey and mumbling incoherent techno babble. Walking back and forth through the entrance of the cave, Teal'c shook his head and walked up to Jack, who stood one hand on his hip, the other pinching the bridge of his nose, and passed the piece of equipment over him from top to bottom.

"Well, there are definitely some odd readings here, but I have no way of knowing what they are or what they are doing without more equipment." Teal'c walked back to where Sam stood against the wall, the feminine face a stoic mask, placing the device into her pack.

"Ok, step one. Who is who?" Sam in Teal'c's body crossed her arms and watched as everyone eyed each other uncomfortably. "Fine. Jack?"

Daniel looked up. "Yeah?"

Sam rolled Teal'c's eyes. "Daniel?"

Jack's hand silently raised, not even looking up.

"Go sit next to Daniel..I mean Jack." Teal'c's body turned to look at where Cam and Vala where not looking at each other. "Vala?"

"Present!" Cam reached up to twirl a nonexistent pigtail.

Teal'c's head shook. "Next to Jack please."

"Jack? Like physically Jack or like Jack, the personality currently occupying Daniel's very sexy body?" Cam's face flashed a mega-watt smile.

Sam raised Teal'c eyebrow. "Just get over there. Cam?" She looked at Vala's lean body perched on a rock, legs spread, pulling the bands out of her pigtails and making a pained face.

"Damn, my head hurts from those things. Why on Earth would you torture yourself like that princess? My scalp is screaming in pain." Vala's hands were massaging her scalp.

"Actually Vala, why don't you come over here and sit next to Cam?" Sam pointed Teal's large finger to the now disheveled looking 'princess'.

Going to stand next to her body-snatched self, Vala reached down to 'adjust' something. "You know Cameron, you are lucky I've done this before and am prepared for all the quirks that come with the male physic." Vala winked a bright blue eye.

Vala's grey eyes met Jack's brown ones across the room as Cam and Daniel internally grimaced.

Jack, curious about the situation, stepped out of the cave and looked back in, rain soaking him. The Jaffa rose suddenly, Sam's concerned evident on his face, "Daniel! Get out of the rain!"

Jack came back in, rubbing the water off Daniel's glasses with his sleeve. "That would be Daniel, sir?"

Sam's smile fully captured Teal'c's face in a very unusual way. "Oh right, sir, get Daniel's body out of the rain."