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Chapter 2

"Good one, Daniel. Me married?.... To Carter? Very funny." Jack said sarcastically. His head hurt too much to really comprehend what was going on and the thought that his usually morose archaeologist was playing some sick joke on him made it even worse. Daniel continued to give him that damn confused face and it was really starting to bug the snot out him. He tried to sit up, using his friend as leverage, feeling a wave of dizziness wash over him.

"Careful, Jack. Teal'c should be here any moment with some ice for your head." Sitting up fully, he put his head in his hands, hoping that Teal'c would think to scrounge up some Motrin while getting the ice. Daniel had his phone in his hand and started dialing.

"Who are you calling?" Jack asked.

"I'm calling Sam." Jack was beginning to think that the joke thing was going a bit far with the fake call to Carter.

"No, You're not." He groused. Daniel took the phone away from his ear, looking at it.

"I'm not?"

"No."

"Oh, Okay." To Jack's complete surprise Daniel folded the phone shut and put it back in his pocket without another word.

"What? That's it? No argument?"

"Why would I argue with you, Jack?" Jack stared at his friend dumbfounded.

"Why would you argue with me? Hello?....That's all you do."

"It is?" Daniel looked at him with genuine surprise.

"Duh."

"I suppose if you say so, then I must. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be argumentative." Daniel looked truly culpable and Jack wondered if he missed the whole aliens swooping down and turning him into a pod person thingie when he was knocked out. That really was the only explanation he could come up with for the archaeologist's weird behavior.

Just as Jack was wondering if he should bring Daniel in for an MRI to rule out the possibility of this being some sort of Goa'uld possession, Teal'c arrived and Jack nearly fell over again.

"Teal'c?" He asked, not sure if what he was seeing was real or a hallucination. "What is on your head?"

"You like it?" He asked, pointing to the ridiculous, red and white striped, stove-top hat that reminded him of the Cat in the Hat. "I just got it yesterday." Teal'c smiled widely handing Jack an ice pack. He gaped open mouthed at the usually reserved Jaffa, especially when the large man suddenly began belly laughing.

"You should have seen it, O'Neill." He grabbed his stomach, trying to speak between laughs. Jack then noticed that the big man was wearing a 'I'm with stupid.' T-shirt with an arrow pointing to the side. "That puck cam flying out of nowhere and BAM! You went down like a rock! It was the funniest damn thing I've seen in a long time!"

"Hey!" He hissed between clenched teeth. "What happened to blending in?" He asked, nodding to the crowd beginning to form around them.

"Right, Sorry. Blending in now." Teal'c snorted, wiggling his fingers and hands, pretending to make his large frame invisible. Jack put the ice pack against his bruised and pounding forehead.

"What is wrong with you two?" He growled.

"What do you mean?" Daniel once again plastered on that confused, little boy lost look, that was really, really growing old and Teal'c continued to smile a full toothy grin, scaring the pants off of Jack.

"Don't ya think you guys are acting a little weird?" He asked looking at them sideways, continuing to hold his head, as though it might go nuclear at any moment. They looked at each other and both men shrugged at the same time.

"Uh, no.... but then again, Teal'c always acts a little strange." Daniel answered, eying Teal'c's hat. Jack could only shake his head, before deciding that such a movement was a bad idea. Something was definitely wrong here, maybe he was just a little hazy from the puck hitting him and all he needed to do was go home and sleep it off. Hopefully, things would be back to normal in the morning.

"Whatever. Let's just get out of here and go home." Jack suggested and raised his arms as Daniel and Teal'c helped him up.

"That's a good idea." Daniel agreed. "Sam will want us to bring you back, she didn't seem to keen on the whole 'boys night out' thing anyway."

"Again? The whole Carter is my wife joke is really lame, can't you just drop it?"

"Whatever you say, Jack." Daniel complied.

"Daniel Jackson told a joke?" Teal'c asked "No way!"

"Yeah, he keeps trying to convince me that Carter and I are married, pretty ridiculous right?"

"As funny as it is to see you two married, I'm afraid it's not a joke." Teal'c laughed "And she's was pretty pissed that you left her at home with the kids tonight. But at least it should be pretty entertaining to see her go off on you when you come back home with that shiner." Jack stopped cold in his tracks, his face draining of blood.

"Whoa, wait a sec....Kids?"