A/n: I don't own, so please don't sue, you guys know the drill. The title is a song by Elton John, my sister was playing it and gave me the idea. Sorta.

Huh. I guess it is Veteran's Day, huh? Are you supposed to say happy Veteran's Day? Well, if you're reading this and you're a Veteran, Happy Veteran's Day!

Had to make some changes.

There were a lot of things that Daniel had been expecting that morning. Major General Jack O'Neill had been there, just as he was supposed to be after the Atlantis team decided to return him. He was there for a meeting with Hank Landry and SG-1 to discuss the Sangraal and the Dragon after their near disastrous return. Vala had stolen three of his waffles at breakfast as Cameron and he debated who was cooler, Kirk or Picard. Teal'c had paid them little attention, instead focusing on his own breakfast. Sam hadn't either, she'd sat there and read some physics book or another and had her first cup of coffee and Fruit Loops. Cameron had shut up when Jack walked in, hurriedly standing at attention, Sam engrossed in her book.

"No, please, don't get up," Jack teased as he sat across from her, "for the last time, Mitchell, at ease."

"Sorry, Sir," was Cameron's reply as he once again took his seat across from Daniel, trying very hard to look like he wasn't listening and wasn't at all bothered by Jack's presence. It still made Daniel want to laugh.

"Good morning," Teal'c raised an eyebrow at the flippant tone, Daniel smirked, Vala was..intrigued, Cameron inwardly abashed, "Sir."

"She speaks," Jack took a sip of his own coffee and winced at the bitter taste, "What'cha reading?"

"Geek stuff,"

"Ah,"

His morning, for all intents and purposes, was a normal as they ever were. Vala proceeded to tease Sam until she thought she would no longer get away with it, Jack joining in on occasion, sometimes even Cameron. He and Teal'c defended her. Sam then ran them all in circles with something from her book.

Then they all shut up.

They all went to do their usual work. Teal'c went to help train the 'new kids' all the while probably scaring them more than they needed to be. Cameron was helping Vala with more 'Earth customs' because Daniel simply didn't have the time to it that day and because she need to be distracted from thinking about Adria. He and Sam were going over exactly what the Sangraal was, neither actually getting very far.

He wanted to know what secrets it held, to know exactly how the weapon was supposed to work.

She wanted to know why the hell the most powerful weapon in the universe was a glowing marble roughly the size of her fist.

It was an odd change.

Jack wanted to know what the most powerful weapon in the universe was a holographic glowing marble roughly the size of Sam's fist.

Both of SG-1's scientists looked over at the General who had taken it upon himself to make himself comfortable in Sam's lab and was turning back and forth on her desk chair, rolling a pen in his fingers.

"What?" He asked.

"Nothing," Sam shook her head and smiled at him.

It was then, as Sam reached for her cell phone that Daniel knew that their world was about to change.

He never could have expected it.

"Carter," she answered, earning an amused look from both Jack and Daniel, each turning a frown as they watched her face fall, "Grace? Grace what happened?"

Jack rose from his chair and made his way over to where she was standing. Daniel also made his way over, and feeling rather stupid as to why the girl would be calling or, maybe, he figured, they knew another one, asked Jack, "Grace?"

"Gracie," was his friend's distracted reply.

Daniel blinked. When had she started going by Grace?

"Yeah, I'll be there as soon as I can get a flight out," Sam paused, leaning closer to the two men in her lab for comfort. Her eyes were too bright and all of a sudden, he knew what was happening. Daniel watched as she became Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter, no longer just their Sam. She stepped away from them, stood straighter, shoulders squared. Jack removed a hand Daniel hadn't even noticed was on her back.

"There was an accident, I..I have to go," Jack nodded, reached over and handed her the keys to something Daniel wasn't aware of and just like that, she was gone. He assumed she was headed to the locker rooms.

"I need to talk to Landry," Jack shoved his hands in his pockets, before nodding uncomfortably at Daniel and heading out as well.

What the hell had just happened?