By the next morning, Sam was in her lab with Teal'c. Daniel hadn't arrived yet and she needed help translating something in goa'uld.
"How is Pete Shanahan, Major Carter?" He asked out of the blue.
Sam was hooking a cable into her computer to interface a device she was handling. "Good. Although I haven't heard from him in awhile." She said. "Why do you ask?"
Teal'c was about to explain until Daniel knocked on her door. Sam stopped to look up. "Daniel, hey. What's up?"
"Oh nothing, just wondering if you had seen Shanahan recently." He enquired.
Sam was getting suspicious of her friends whom she considered brothers. Both were going out of their way to ask about her current boyfriend and she got a sick feeling in her stomach about it. Then her CO came knocking on her door.
"Whatcha doin'?" He asked innocuously.
"Asking about Shanahan." Daniel declared.
"Daniel, we talked about this." He warned.
Daniel turned back to Sam and boldly stated, "I think you should break up with him."
"Oh, for crying out loud! Daniel, it's none of your damn business!"
"Nor is it yours Jack!" He looked back at Sam who hadn't had quite enough time to fully comprehend what was going on. "I got a bad feeling about him."
He brushed past Jack in angry frustration muttering something about how people in the military can be so blind to others behaviour.
Jack took a few steps inside Carter's lab and halted. Teal'c cocked his eyebrow and raised his head. "Although I disagree with Daniel Jackson's actions, it would go against my better judgment to discard his feelings regarding Pete Shanahan completely, O'Neill."
"What? Not you too." Jack rubbed his eyes.
"Indeed, I as well." He got up from his stool and before he left the room turned to his friends "I saw Pete Shanahan as I was walking home last night".
Now that the others had gone, it was just Jack and Carter.
"Um, Sir. What's going on?" She asked.
Jack rubbed his head back and forth suddenly looking very tired. He wasn't quite sure how to answer that question, so he just came right out and said it.
"Carter, didn't you find it odd that Daniel looked a little spooked last night?"
"Yeah, I asked if he was okay. He said that he was and so I left it at that."
He rubbed his head again. "Well, You shouldn't have left it at that."
"Sir?"
"Daniel said that he got a bad feeling from him when he met. Then he saw him at O'Malley's last night and thinks that its strange that he would be there the same time as we were and not say hello."
"Maybe he didn't see us," she said hopeful.
"Daniel swore that Pete was looking directly at him."
"Oh." She looked crestfallen.
"Look Carter I am going to be honest," he started, "I could just peg it on the fact that Danny Boy is going through one of his episodes, but if Teal'c is backing him up, there has to be more to the story."
"Sir?"
"If it's any consolation Carter, I don't believe it either, but Teal'c's right about one thing." Jack paused, expecting Sam to say something, when she didn't he carried on. "We can't discard Daniel's feelings completely," O'Neill stressed the word feelings like it was a swear word, "I admit, that he has been wrong before. Let's hope that he's wrong this time."
"Sir, what are you suggesting?"
"Tonight me and Daniel and Teal'c will go looking for him. Ask him what's up. If he's just completely besotted by you, he has no reason to hide from us."
Sam smiled which made him grin in return "Sir, I don't think he would do anything to hurt me intentionally."
"I agree that he wouldn't be there without good reason. But I think that it would be a good idea if we find out what that reason is." He stated firmly. "And Teal'c and Daniel won't get off our cases unless I do something. You know how they get." He shrugged.
"Yes, Sir."
