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He didn't have a clue what he was currently looking at. All he knew was that it had a flat bottom and was kind of oval shaped. The top had a long slit in it with one end being slightly larger. The boat thing-y, which is what he decided to call it, was hollow inside. It was the color of wet mud with little white dots all along the sides. He needed to use two hands to hold onto it, and for the life of him he couldn't figure out what it could have been for. As if reading his thoughts a voice came from behind him.

"It was used to hold the blood of someone that had been sacrificed." Jack jumped and hastily put the boat thing-y down from where he had picked it up. "Blood. You don't say?" Daniel just gave him a little smirk not even turning his head to look at him as he fiddled around with some other pot looking thing. "So, what cha lookin' at?" Jack said as he came over by Daniel, trying to get as far away from the blood boat thing-y that he felt he appropriately re-named. He couldn't help but glance back at it every so often as Daniel went on about what he had found and what he thought the natives of this planet had been like. He wanted to make sure that the blood boat thing-y was going to stay where he put it.

Again as if sensing what Jack was thinking Daniel's words cut through his thoughts. "You don't have to worry Jack. It's just a Salepter. It's not going to jump out at you and drain your blood." He said this in his very innocent voice that said, 'I'm mocking you, but your not suppose to know.' Jack just glared at Daniel knowing that it wouldn't have any effect, but making him feel slightly better as he replied. "Sale's what?"

"Sal-ep-ter. The jar that holds the sacrificers blood. The part that you would have needed to worry about is the Pontiar. It's the knife looking instrument with what looks like a drain slash straw on the other end. The priests would stab you with the knife end, obviously, and then let the blood, well, drain down into the Salepter."

Jack just stared at his friend. He really didn't want to know how Daniel knew all these things. Looking around he hadn't seen anything so far that looked like the Pointy thing so he figured he was safe. Looking at Daniel he saw that his friend was already engrossed with something new. Leaving his friend to play with all his new treasures, that there was no way in this world or any other that he would allow to go back through the Gate with him, Jack grabbed his radio to get in contact with Carter and Teal'c. "Carter, this is O'Neill how do you read?"

"Carter here sir. How's everything on your end?" Carter had a edge of humor in her voice that Jack could have done without. She and Teal'c had seen the room of Daniel treasures before they went to gather her soil samples, so she knew exactly how Jack was doing. "Oh just peachy Carter. Just peachy." Jack replied as dryly as he could. This was suppose to be an easy relaxed mission. Let Daniel look, not play with, just look at all the ancient toys and let Carter dig in her dirt to see if she could find any traces of Naquada. They had been here for a day and a half and Jack was getting a little, well to say the least, bored. "You find anything interesting yet Carter?"

"Not exactly sir. We found a few traces of Naquada in some of the samples, but not enough in one area to consider it a valuable find." There was a hint of disappointment in her voice. Jack could understand that to a degree. If they had found a good source of Naquada they would be able to put themselves in a position to win the war against the Goa'uld. Though on the other hand if they had then Carter would be hidden away in her lab for who knows how long working on plans for things to use the Naquada for. Jack knew that Carter and Daniel were geeks at heart. They liked to do their scientist-y things every now and then. Thats why he put up with these missions every once in a while. Let them have some fun doing what they do best. But above all else, they were a first contact, front of the line, combat unit. Jack liked to actually be doing something. Sitting around fishing during down time was one thing. Sitting around watching Daniel talk to himself in who knows how many languages as he shifts through junk? Not his idea of fun.

"Well I'll give you till dinner time then we'll pack it up and head home." The General had actually given them till tomorrow morning but Jack wanted out of here as soon as possible.

"Copy that sir. Though are you going to be able to drag Daniel away from his treasures?"

"Oh he'll come Carter. He'll come. Hey Teal'c, you there?"

"Where else would I be O'Neill?"

"Very funny T. Have you noticed anything different about this place?"

"What do you mean by different O'Neill?"

"I don't know, strange?" Jack had had a bad feeling in his gut when they had all gotten up this morning but had not been able to place why. There was nothing living on the planet, well none that the UAV had detected, and he hadn't felt this way yesterday. 'Maybe it was spending all that time with Daniel in the room full of things that could kill you' Jack thought to himself. 'That would certainly do it.'

"I have not seen anything out of the ordinary O'Neill" Teal'c replied. There was something in the way that Teal'c had said that that had the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. "Have you felt something out of the ordinary then?"

"I do not know. It feels as if there is someone watching us. When I turn to look, I see nothing and the feeling of being watched is gone. It is most, disturbing." For Teal'c to admit something was disturbing that meant there was something very wrong with this planet. "Okay Teal'c, I don't need to tell you to keep an eye out. We only have about a half hour till dinner time then we'll all meet at the camp site. After that we're out a here." Jack wished he could pack everyone up and high tail it back to the Gate now. But Carter hadn't mentioned feeling anything out of the ordinary and he was going to have a hard enough time as it was getting Daniel to leave the night before they were suppose to. "Carter did you copy that?"

"Yes sir, I copy."

"Good, stay close to Teal'c will ya. Just to be on the safe side. O'Neill out." Now that he had the easy part over with it was time to face the bull dog with his room full of bones and tell him one, he couldn't take any of them with and two, that he had to leave them earlier then planned. 'Great, just great, I'm going to get chewed to pieces in there. Oh well, it's not like it's the first time and it most certainly wont be the last. Perfect O'Neill now your talking to yourself, you have been spending to much time with the bull dog in there. Though at least it's all in your head and not out loud like some people.' Jack just laughed to himself as he headed into the room to face the music.

"Okay Daniel, time to pack it up." Jack said as cheerfully as he could. Maybe if he kept things on the happy go lucky side Daniel wouldn't put up to much of a fuss.

"But Jack there are so many things that I haven't even looked at yet. Let alone studied." Daniel exclaimed.

Oh who was he kidding. He knew there was no way Daniel was leaving this room without a fight the second he saw it. But he also knew that arguing and getting confrontational about it wasn't going to get him anywhere either. Daniel had learned a lot over the years, especially the listening part. He was proud of the way Daniel had, in a way, grown up. He could hold his own in a fight and Jack didn't have to worry, as much, about him. If they were in trouble Daniel wouldn't argue, as much, about how Jack planned on getting them out of it. But then there were the times when Daniel was, well, Daniel. He was a Archeologist, Anthropologist, and Linguist at heart, and nothing Jack did or said was going to change that. Jack wouldn't change that for any world. Ever since Daniel had come back from being all glow-y, he hadn't wanted anything or anyone to change what made Daniel who he was. Being Daniel was what made his best friend the man that he was. But there were certain times that those qualities drove Jack insane. Like now, all the time that Jack had been thinking about his friend, Daniel had been going on about the reasons why they should stay.

"Daniel, I said before that we were going to pack it up and head back to the camp site at dinner time. Thats what time it is." Daniel opened his mouth to argue but Jack held his finger up to stop him. "Ah ah. When we get back if the General decides that it's worth coming back to study all this then fine. I'll let you come back and stay till your hearts content. But until such decision is made, lets go."

As Jack and Daniel walked down the hallways the feeling Jack had before was coming back at full force. "Daniel, do you feel anything out of place?"

"Like there's something around every corner waiting for us?"

"What? You feel it too?"

"Darn it." Daniel mumbled, "I was hoping that it was just me."

"What! Why didn't you say anything?"

"Well, like I said, I had hoped that it was just my imagination." Daniel said trying to defend himself. Jack sighed frustratedly, "I can tell you without a doubt, it's not. Even Teal'c has felt that somethings wrong."

"Well I'm sorry okay? Let's just catch up with the other's." Daniel said trying to stop a fight before it could start.

"Fine with me." Jack said as they both rounded the corner that would take them outside of the structure. "Umm, Daniel I think that we may have a problem."

"Yes Jack, I think you may be right in that observation." They looked behind and realized they had no where to go. They were trapped in the front and in the back by to many spears to count.

"Oh yeah. Well Danny boy this day just keeps getting better and better. Doesn't it?"

AN: I love to read and write but this is the first story I've ever let anyone else read. So if you feel so inclined, let me know what you think and if I should continue the story. Thanks :-)