Author's Note: I'm not sure if everyone is in character in this chapter, so I'd appreciate anyone's comments on that. Thanks.

Cheeky.

Fait Accompli

By cheeky-chaos

Chapter 1

"Yo, Jackson," Cameron Mitchell called out as he walked into Daniel's lab.

Looking up from where he had been blissfully translating some tablets from P3X-492 without Vala's constant irritations, Daniel scowled. "Don't you have someone else to annoy?" he asked his team mate.

Cam just smiled and shrugged. "Nice to see you too," he said mildly.

With a sigh, Daniel put down his notebook and gave the other man a penetrating glance. "Was there something you wanted?" he asked.

"You did know it was lunchtime, right?" Cam asked. "And you do remember agreeing to meeting me, Teal'c and Vala for lunch?"

With a muffled curse, Daniel looked down at his watch and discovered it really was lunchtime – and he had agreed to meet his team mates for lunch. Sighing again, he rearranged the tablets and stood up. Cam rolled his eyes. "You owe me ten bucks, by the way," he said as the pair left Daniel's lab and headed for the commissary. "I bet Vala that you would actually remember."

"You should know better than to bet against Vala at anything," Daniel replied, before realising that he'd pretty much insinuated that he hadn't been likely to remember lunch.

Cam turned his head to arch an eyebrow in Daniel's direction. "That's the last time I stick up for you, Jackson," he muttered.

Daniel sighed and shook his head, ignoring Cam's muttered comment. "Heard from Sam lately?" he asked instead.

Samantha Carter, now a full-bird Colonel, had recently left the SGC for command at Atlantis after the disappearance of Dr. Elizabeth Weir. Cam had been sad to see her go, but if anyone deserved the promotion, it had been the woman who had come to be one of his closest friends. However, the whole team had missed her for the last six months.

"No since we last did," Cam replied. "I'm sure she'll send a message through the 'gate soon. Atlantis is due for a monthly update in a few days."

"Think I could finally persuade General Landry to let me visit Atlantis again?" Daniel asked suddenly.

Hiding a smile, Cam shook his head, but before he could say anything, the pair walked into the commissary and Cam caught sight of the remaining members of SG-1. In typical Vala-like fashion, Vala was sitting in Teal'c's lap, stealing food from his plate and speaking animatedly while the big Jaffa regarded her in his usual stoic manner.

Daniel snorted at the sight. "She's probably trying to get him to help steal the British crown jewels again," he said.

"I thought she'd given that up?" Cam asked in surprise, nudging the direction of the lunch line.

"No, not really," Daniel answered, his tone sarcastic.

Cam rolled his eyes. "You've locked your credit cards away again, haven't you?"

Having discovered the one safe that Vala was unwilling or unable to open – the one in General Landry's office – Daniel had begun locking his credit cards away on a regular basis. "Do you have any idea how much that woman spends on shoes?" Daniel asked darkly.

Cam his another smile as he grabbed his lunch and headed over to Teal'c and Vala's table, Daniel in tow. "It's the downside to having a shopaholic girlfriend," he said mildly.

"She's not my girlfriend!" Daniel hissed, his blue eyes snapping with irritation.

"Whatever, Jackson," Cam replied, knowing it was only a matter of time before Daniel gave into Vala's advances – or Teal'c locked them in a storage closet.

Teal'c nodded in greeting as they wandered over, just as Vala was finishing whatever she'd been saying. "...come on, Muscles. It'll be fun!"

"I do not believe it is a wise course of action," Teal'c intoned in reply.

"You're not still trying to steal the English crown jewels, are you?" Cam asked as he slid into a seat opposite the pair.

Vala turned and gave Cam an appraising look, mischief dancing in her eyes. "I have leant that your interesting planet has something known as 'jelly wrestling'. I believe I'd be quite good at it. Do you think I could get Daniel to coach me?"

Cam absently patted the archaeologist on the back as he began to choke on his sandwich, before giving Vala a reproachful stare, knowing that the whole jelly wrestling idea had just been a way to get a rise out of Daniel. Then he sighed as Daniel fixed Vala with an angry glare.

Knowing that Vala, and therefore the rest of the table, was about to get a lecture on responsible behaviour, Cam decided to interrupt. "Maybe that isn't such a good idea," he said. "What with going offworld all the time on missions and everything."

"What missions?" Vala asked with a roll of her eyes. "The Ori are gone, the Baal clones have practically all been caught and Daniel hasn't annoyed anyone new yet, so there's no maniacal aliens currently out to destroy the galaxy."

"Hey!" Daniel objected to the comment, but was prevented from replying as an airman approached their table.

"General Landry wanted to see you in the gateroom, Dr. Jackson," the airman said politely, the quiet awe of someone newly assigned to the SGC.

With eyebrows raised in curiosity, Daniel shared a glance with the rest of SG-1, before getting up. Cam and the others stood and began to follow. While General Landry had only asked for Daniel, there was an unwritten law at the SGC – when one SG-1 team member was involved, so were the others. It was not only true for missions or basketball games, either.

"You know," Vala said as they headed out of the commissary. "I could have been wrong. Maybe Daniel has annoyed someone else and they're about to declare war on him for insulting their mother or something."

Cam shot her a glare, but she just looked innocently back. "I don't annoy everyone I meet, you know," Daniel muttered.

"Not everyone," Vala agreed. "But there is a large percentage of the galaxy that does find you a bit irritating."

"Whereas, I suppose they find you perfectly charming," Daniel shot back.

"Of course," Vala replied with a smile.

Suppressing the urge to roll his eyes at the bickering of his team mates, Cam followed them up the stairs to the gateroom and was greeted by the familiar shimmering blue of an active 'gate. General Landry, who had been standing in front of a monitor, gave a small smile as they all entered, Daniel and Vala still bickering.

"And here they are now," he said, stepping back to reveal the smiling face of Colonel Samantha Carter on the screen.

"Sam!" Daniel greeted delightedly.

"Hey, Daniel," the blonde replied.

Sam looked wearier than Cam remembered and her now long blonde hair was tied behind her in a plait. It seemed a little strange after the short hair she'd worn for so long, but it was a good strange. "Hey, Colonel," he greeted. "How goes it on Atlantis?"

Smiling tiredly, Sam nodded in Cam's direction. "Hey, Cam. Atlantis is good; busy, but good. I miss you guys, though."

"We, too, miss your presence here," Teal'c told her.

Vala nodded. "Daniel's just no fun to go shopping with," she added. "Ooh! Maybe we should come and visit."

"Actually, that's what I wanted to talk to you about," Sam began.

"You need us on Atlantis?" Daniel asked, his eyes practically begging Sam to say yes.

Sam smiled at her friend's eagerness. "Well, Daniel, I've got someone who's asking to see you," she replied.

"Who is it?" Cam asked.

"And how did Daniel manage to annoy someone all the way over in the Pegasus galaxy?" Vala added.

As Daniel glared, a hint of a smile crossed Sam's face, as if she were hiding a smile at Vala's comment. Then she turned serious. "She says her name's Morgan le Fay," she said. "And she has something very important to tell us."

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Stepping through the 'gate, Daniel shook off the lingering cold as he gazed around at Atlantis' gateroom. It was still as bright and open as he remembered, the colourful tones strange to his eyes after years at being used to the military green and grey of the SGC. A grinning Sam was waiting for him and he wasted no time in walking over and giving the woman he considered a sister a hug.

"Hey, Sam," he grinned as they stepped apart again. "It's good to see you again."

"Indeed," Teal'c agreed as he also stepped up to greet his friend by grabbing both her hands – the closest the large Jaffa came to a hug.

She gave a small laugh that was then cut off as Vala ran at her and wrapped her in an enthusiastic hug. "Samantha!"

Then Vala seemed to spot the two people standing beside Sam – John Sheppard and Rodney Mckay. Her eyes moved approvingly over Sheppard, especially since she hadn't spent much time with the man since SG-1's last visit to Atlantis over a year before. "Hello there, handsome," she purred.

"Vala," Daniel sighed.

Vala pouted, before flouncing back over to Daniel. "You know, Daniel," she said. "If you're not going to let me have any fun, you should have just left me back on Earth with your credit cards."

"I wish," Cam heard Daniel muttered under his breath.

Stepping forward, Cam shared an amused glance with Sam. "Hey, Sam," he greeted. "Colonel Sheppard."

"Shouldn't you call her ma'am now or something?" Rodney asked then, looking more than a little irritated.

"Rodney," Sheppard signed in almost exactly the same tone as Daniel had used with Vala.

Cam felt his eyebrows rise and looked a little awkwardly at Sam. She shook her head slightly, before turning to the astrophysicist. "After everything we did on SG-1, I think we can stand a little informality," she said.

"Right," Cam said, getting down to business. "So what have we got?"

"The woman claiming to be Morgan le Fay made contact with one of the planets we trade with about two days ago," Sam began to explain as everyone began wandering up the stairs in the direction of her office. "Lorne's team was visiting at the time and passed on the message."

"To talk to me," Daniel said, not really need to frame it as a question. "So where is she now?"

"She's still on M5X-492," Sheppard said. "We didn't want to bring her to Atlantis unless she was a Replicator trick."

"Ah," Cam said. "How's that coming?"

Rodney glared. "Oh, just great," he snapped. "They're still fighting the Wraith, but they still find the time to try to blow us up every so often."

"Yeah, I've heard they do that," Daniel said.

"Just ignore him," Sheppard said. "He likes to think he's funny."

"At least I don't think I'm Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise," Rodney muttered.

Cam tried to hide a smile as he shared an amused look with Sam. "So I'm guessing the first step would be to go and meet her?" he asked.

"That would be the general plan, yeah," Rodney replied, somewhat caustically.

"Rodney," Sam sighed.

Then she turned Cam, Daniel, Vala and Teal'c. Just seeing them in her office after everything was enough to make her smile softly. "We move out in an hour," she said.

"We?" Daniel echoed, picking up on her wording.

Sam grinned at him. "I may be commander of Atlantis," she said, "but I still get to have a little fun. Besides, you really think I'm going to let you guys go through the 'gate without me?"

Cam laughed. "Oh, yeah!" he cried. "The band is back together!"

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