Just Admiring The View
"I must say. The view from this vantage point is... fairly impressive."
The amused, smug tone of Ba'al's made Lt Colonel Samantha Carter's back stiffen. She was climbing up a particularly steep section of hillside, and the mouthy Ba'al clone was behind her, with Teal'c taking up the rear guard position.
Sam knew she should just let it go, knew he was baiting her and trying to get under her skin, but the man was pushing it. Always pushing it, she was going to have that carved on his grave marker after she killed him. Justifiable homicide had never sounded so good. The Colonel and Daniel would back her up. Plenty more clones where he came from.
Ba'al had been between her and Daniel earlier, but he'd made a point of turning to glance back at her cleavage once too often and she'd made him walk behind her at the next opportunity. Now, it seemed he'd discovered something else about her to comment on.
"I've never understood the Tauri insistence on green clothing for its military. The clothing itself is utilitarian and uninspired, but adding that horrendous color..."
"Do you ever stop talking?" Sam hissed. Her forward progress halted, so she could turn around and glare at him. "Shut the hell up."
"Is there a problem, Carter?"
Carter turned her attention back to the hill. "Nothing a gag wouldn't cure, sir."
Her teammates laughed. She didn't think the situation was funny, personally, she was serious about the gag. Feeling petty, she loosened a small boulder with the toe of her boot as she scrambled up the next section, and smirked as it rolled over Ba'al's foot.
Ba'al stumbled and cursed under his breath at her.
Sam's brain provided the translation, and she turned and punched him in the nose. He lost his balance and fell backward, rolling to a stop and Teal'c's feet.
For his part, Teal'c stepped over Ba'al and let him roll down the rest of the slope and splash into the fetid canal water at the bottom.
"I hate that man. Every single clone of him."
Teal'c glanced over his shoulder at the clone splashing out of the muck and starting up the hill after them. "Indeed."