Teal'c raised his eyebrow at the Colonel and nodded toward Callie.

"I would be most willing to assist you in your demonstration Major Parker."

Callie looked around the group, looking for any sign of sympathy, but was meant only by looks of amusement.

"Uh, sure ok." She stood and O'Neill cocked his head in surprise.

She twisted her torso to stretch out her back and shoulder while standing in the clearing, waiting for Teal'c to approach her. When he stopped in the clearing, she turned to face him and found herself looking straight at his chin. She tilted her head back to look up into the face of the Jaffa and winced. She took a small step back away from him and turned and readjusted her baseball cap.

"Remember, this is just a demonstration right big guy." she told him as she took her stance and wrapped her hands into loose fists. "Don't take my head off."

Teal'c bowed his head and lifted his hands into a defensive position. Toku crouched down next Sam to watch the match between the SG1 members. Called moved her feet like a boxer and took a swift swing at Teal'c. The jaffa easily blocked the punch and landed a solid strike to her face. Callie landed flat on her back in a poof of dust and Jack, Sam and Daniel shared a simultaneous wince at the hit. Callie's could see the purple sky as her vision began to refocus and she rotated her jaw to make sure it was still working.

"What did I just say?"she barked

"You're head still remains Major Parker."

Callie rolled over and pushed herself to her feet and faced off to her opponent again.

"Does not the jaffa Teal'c have greater strength then that of Major Parker?" Toku whispered to Sam

"Yeah, you could say that."

Callie, took another swing followed quickly by a second, that made contact with Teal'c's chin. Teal'c reacovered faster then she had hoped and swept her feet out from under her, landing her flat on her back again. She stood quickly and surprised the Jaffa by running full speed at him, hitting him like a 120 pound football player, knocking him off his feet and onto his butt. Jack looked on with a curious facination.

"Is this how Tauri combat is supposed to look?" Toku asked Sam. Sam cocked her head, watching the much smaller Major and jaffa wresling in the dirt in front of them.

"Uhm, no not really." Sam giggled.

Callie decided she hadn't really planned out this attack the moment she hit she dirt wrapped around the knees of the alien she only met earlier that afternoon. All she knew is he had the upper hand in strength and obviously had some combat training of his own. All she could think to do was do something so random she might have the element of surprise. It had worked, but now she faced the problem of 'what now" The surprise hadn't lasted long and she quickly found herself in the dirt again after Teal'c had connected a strike to the pressure point in her shoulder. Her vision blurred for a moment before making out a silloette of a face in front of her.

Her chest seemed tight and an unexplainable fear gripped her. Her mind fogged over and refused to let her remember where she was and what she was doing. When the face of her attacker came into focus, it wasn't the face of the Jaffa she had been sparring with, but the evil face that haunted her dreams. The dirty face twisted into a sickening grin, full of stained crooked teeth and nauseating breath. This was no longer a fight for fun, this was a fight for survival.

Jack had been watching the entertaining sparring match between his former Captain and the jaffa from the sidelines, letting out an occasional snicker at the bizarre turn it had taken. Teal'c had just delivered a tv perfect strike to her shoulder, knocking the little major off of him long enough for him to stand. Suddenly Callie had rolled away from the larger man and had taken on a crouched stance that he had only seen taken by the Major in one other occasion. Her face was no longer one of amused horseplay but of a fearful distain that reminded him of a cornered pit bull. Her eyes glazed over and her jaw set as her hand crept around slowly to the waistline of her pants.

"Crap." Jack whispered to himself. "Stop her!" he ordered as he stood. "Teal'c!"

Callies hand wrapped firmly around the grip of the knife that hung in the sheath on her belt. She was about to lunge at her tormentor when she heard a shout from the left. She glanced at the movement next to her and suddenly her vision blurred again. She blinked hard and gripped the knife tighter. She shook off the fog and focused on the worried face of Colonel Jack O'Neill. She looked around confused at the Vacadians surrounding them and watching her with morbid interest.

"Callie?" Jack questioned watching her eyes become focused and soft again. She looked at him, down at the knife in her hands, then quickly up at Teal'c. She dropped the knife and pulled her hand back like it had burned her.

"Uhm, yeah. In a fight like that I would go to the closest weapon I had." she instructed Toku, covering herself. "Excuse me."

Callie hurried off toward the treeline behind them. The moment she was behind the cover of trees she dropped to her knees and heaved into a shrub. After a minute, she sat back on her feet got her breathing under control.

"Get a grip Callie. Not here." she said to herself before scooting away from the shrub a few feet and sitting down in the dirt.

"Jack, she's been gone over an hour. Don't you think we should go look for her?" Daniel exclaimed as they sat around the fire they had built after the sun had gone down and the planet's temperature had dropped.

"She'll be back Daniel." Jacks eyes stayed focused on the fire. "Give her another hour."

"What the hell happened out there?"

"Flashback. I didn't realize they were still that bad for her."

"She covers it well sir." Sam commented.

"Why don't you guys go ahead and turn in. I'll wait up for her."

They nodde and headed off to their designated dwellings. Sam waited until Daniel and Teal'c had disappeared into their room before she turned to Jack.

"You know, its not your fault sir." she said softely.

"I know Carter."

Sam nodded and entered the stone building that they had designated the 'women's bedroom' for their stay. She set up her cot and unrolled her sleeping bag out onto it before removing her boots and lighting a flame in the small latern the Vacadians had given them. She tucked her pack under her cot and set her zat under her travel pillow before setting up the other cot for Callie to use when she returned.

Not too long after, Sam heard the low voice of the Colonel talking a few minutes before the missing major walked into the room. She stopped at the foot of the cot and picked up her pack. She pulled the Berretta from her pack and tucked it under her pillow as Sam had done with the zat. She removed her baseball cap and pulled her t-shirt over her head to sleep in the tank top she wore underneath. In the dim light of the lantern Sam could make out some jagged scars that ran along her back, just above the low cut neck and peeked out from under the sleeve of the tank right above a tattoo that Sam couldn't quite make out. She wondered where she had recieved the scars and how.

"Thanks Major." Callie said quietly over her shoulder.

"For what?"

"Well at the moment for setting up the cot for me."

"Sure. You ok?"

"Yeah, sorry about that. Just needed some time to clear my head."

"Ya know, You're part of the team now. You don't have to go through things alone anymore."

"I appreciate that Major, I really really do. Be patient if it takes me awhile to warm up to everyone. Its been a long time since I've really trusted anyone but myself."

"Understandable. You can start by calling me Sam."

"Only if you call me Callie."