"Carter," said General Jack O'Neill.

Across from him, Samantha Carter fiddled with her fork staring down at her plate, her mind obviously someplace else, thinking about the events of the day, more importantly the news that Daniel had casually announced, belying its actual importance.

"Sam," he tried again.

Sam looked up, suddenly aware of where she was. Jack was looking at her, a slight smile on his face. Sam smiled back. "Sorry. I guess I'm still trying to get my head around it."

"Yep, pretty big stuff."

"You don't think Daniel's..."

"... cuckoo?" finished Jack arching his eyebrow, "Probably."

"That's not quite what I meant," she said smiling, "But he has been working hard. Maybe he's seeing what he wants to see..."

"Why? Because he thinks that there's a gate address with a ninth chevron. Or that he's sure there's a super gate above the planet. Or maybe it's because he thinks that if we go to that gate address we'll find a being that is older than the Ancients?"

"When you put it like that..."

"Sam. Let me ask you something. With all that we've seen, why is this so hard to believe?"

"You're right. Theoretically speaking it could be possible... its just wow!"

"Wow? That's all you've got?"

Sam started to get excited as it began to sink it. "Think what this could mean. It opens up... so many possibilities. We've been to so many planets as it is, yet we haven't even really begun to scratch the surface. If that super gate is really there like Daniel thinks it is, and we put in that gate address..."

"My thoughts exactly. Though you could be right about Daniel working too hard. He does seem kinda distracted, like he's got something on his mind..."

"Besides what is possibly one of the biggest discovery we've ever made?" Sam said, smiling.

Jack gave a chuckle. "Yeah, there is that and of course this is Daniel we're talking about after all. He does have a history of getting wrapped up in things. Anyway it looks like he might of found something. Interested, much?"

"Interested? You mean going to see if the super gate is there... God, yes!"

"I thought you might say that," he said smiling.

"We're really going to do this? Aren't we?" said Sam, her face glowing with excitement.

In response Jack just smiled and took a sip of his beer.

*S***S*

Cameron glanced at Anna as she drank her tea, her foot tapping to some tune that only she could hear in her head, humming slightly as she did so. She was sitting on a bench in the locker room, dressed and ready in her SGC uniform, her pack on the floor in front of her as she watched Cameron finished packing his own pack. It was early in the morning and it was just the two of them in here.

"Looking forward to going on the mission, are we?" said Cameron, smiling and giving a chuckle.

"How could you tell," answered Anna, smiling back, "But, yes you're right, I'm a little excited."

"Just a little?" Cameron tried to keep the smirk of his face as he glanced at her again, raising his eyebrow slightly in a intimation of Teal'c's own questioning look.

"Okay, a lot," Anna replied, laughing

"I figured as much," said Cameron, smiling back at her as he finished securing his pack. As Anna stood up, he went over to her, brushing a strand of her hair back off her forehead. Getting serious for a moment he looked at her. "You okay with this?"

"Oh, yes."

Anna reached out and gently touched Cam's face, smiling and looking directly into his eyes. She could tell he was excited about it, but also slightly concerned for her. With the unusual nature of their jobs, they had talked about the risks. They accepted that death would come one day, either one of them could die. They just weren't in any hurry to get there. "This is just too wonderful for words. How could we not go?"

Cameron chuckled softly, before leaning forward and giving her a kiss. "I had a feeling you were going to say that. And you're right. It's pretty wonderful. Man, we really do have the best job in the world."

Anna snuggled into him, wrapping her arms around his neck as she returned his kiss. "I couldn't of said it better myself."

*S***S*

"Sir, you want the chair?"

Cameron made a move to get out of the command chair as General O'Neill arrived on the bridge of the Odyssey. Sam was with him, which meant that they were all here, along with a handful of crew who were also on board.

"It's your ship. I'm just along for the ride." Seeing the looks of the others, Jack smiled as he realized that they had not been expecting him to come along on this mission. "You think I was going to miss out on this?"

"No Sir," said Cameron leaning back in the chair.

"Well, Daniel. This is your show," said Jack, looking at Daniel and indicating that he should do something.

"Right. Well there should be a gate somewhere in orbit of the planet. Once we find it, we can encode the gate address."

"You didn't happen to find some more details about exactly where this gate is, like a map, by any chance?" said Vala, plonking her behind on the edge of a desk.

"It's a super gate, isn't it? Can't imagine it'll be too hard to find," said Cameron.

"Daniel?" Jack looked at Daniel again, waiting with impatience.

"I'm not exactly sure if you could call it a super gate..." Seeing the looks of the others he clarified further, "I'm fairly sure it's big though. At least big enough for a ship to get through."

"Yeah, well when we find it, we just might find out how true that is," said Cameron.

"Indeed," affirmed Teal'c.

"Well, then, let's find out shall we." Jack tried to keep the frustration out of his voice. Why wasn't he surprised by Daniel's vagueness, you think after all these years he would of learned.

Turning to Captain Harris Cameron gave the order. "You heard the General. Make it so!"

"Cam!" groaned Anna and Sam.

"Sorry. I always wanted to say that," he said, giving Anna a wink.

"So?"

Jack looked from Sam to Daniel and back again.

"So..., I guess we try dialing the gate address." Sam, looked around at the others for confirmation, sensing that like her they were all excited .

"Ya think?" said Jack with a raised eyebrow, "Somehow I don't think the idea was just to stand around and look at the thing."

"No Sir."

"Personally, I can't wait to see whats there. Just hope we don't find ourselves in the middle of a black hole."

"Then it'll be a short trip, wouldn't it." Jack looked over at Cameron, understanding his eagerness to go through the gate.

"Indeed, it would," answered Teal'c.

Sam walked over to the built-in DHD. Her hand hovered over the first symbol, before she turned to Daniel. So far he had been very quiet.

"Daniel. Maybe you should do the honours," said Sam, stepping back from the DHD.

"Sam's right." Jack nodded.

Daniel walked forward. Not saying anything he punched in the gate address, pausing as his hand hovered over the DHD, before shutting his eyes and hitting the 9th and final symbol. For the next few seconds there was total silence on the bridge.

"It worked," said voices, mingling together.

Daniel recognized one of them as Sam, before opening his eyes. Before him was the event horizon. Daniel took a slow, deep breath. He had been right. "We should go through," he said quietly.

*S***S*