.060 – Drink

"Oh for cryin out loud," growls Jack as he steps into the infirmary. His eyes sweep over the members of SG – 1 and he lets out a sigh before being tackled from the side.

"Jack!" the girl that tackled him says. There's a giggle from the face buried in his shoulder, and Cassie looks up into his face with an impossibly wide smile. "I knew you'd show up. Look what we got; presents!" She releases him to stagger to the centre of the room before falling gracelessly to the floor beside a prostrate Daniel. His glasses are hanging off his face at a strange angle, sleeping with drool coming out of his mouth. Vala has draped herself over his chest and is reaching up in the air, grabbing at nothing with wide eyes.

"Sam sent us…" Cassie stops, and frowns. Her face screws up in thought the same way it did when she was a child and Jack had told her that all kids had to have a dog. "She gave us… Teal'c, what did she give us?" She turns to face the stoic Jaffa who is leaning by the door with an amused look on his face.

"Samantha Carter wished to give us a gift from her new base," Teal'c was speaking to Jack as Cassie had already forgotten she was talking to Jack and crawled over to Cam, who was sitting propped against the wall, staring into nothing and blinking repeatedly. "I believe it is Athosian wine; a drink made by one of the peoples of the Pegasus galaxy. She had cautioned that it should be drunk slowly, but Cassandra challenged Colonel Mitchell to a contest. Vala insisted on joining, and persuaded Daniel Jackson to do so as well."

"How much did they drink?" asked Jack, surveying the incredibly intoxicated members of his flagship team and the girl he had come to think of as a daughter.

"I believe they each had one bottle," Teal'c replied. "Cassandra may have had more. It seems her advanced immune system has helped her weather the effects of the drink better than the others."

Cassandra was bored of poking Cam to get a reaction, and shakily rose to her feet. She stumbled over to Jack and almost knocked him over as she collapsed into his arms.

"Jack," she mumbled, her eyes drifting shut. "I'm sleepy. I want more wine."

"I think you've had enough," chuckled Jack, as he lifted her in his arms and placed her on a bed. Teal'c took his cue and managed to get Vala to stop whatever she was doing and placed her on a bed. Jack left the Jaffa to the heftier task of lifting the two men to their beds and turned back to Cassie who was blinking her way to sleep.

"Sam?" Cassie whispered, almost asleep. "Don't leave, you promised."

"Shh," Jack smiled and brushed her dark blonde hair off of her face. "She's just out for a bit. Don't worry, I'm here, I'm not leaving."

Cassie smiled, and finally fell asleep.