Eden
The Stargate was located high in the mountains. The sight before them was both beautiful and formidable. Perhaps not as majestic as the jagged snow capped Rockies. There were row after row of mountain ridges and every valley was filled with the morning's mist. As the sun began to burn off the wisps of mist the gray blue mountains turned a myriad shades of green.
O'Neill sat on a rock staring out at the wilderness. Sam Carter sat beside him, a gentle breeze ruffled her hair.
"Looks like the Appalachians. Do you think this is something like Daniel Boone saw centuries ago and still had the guts to cross."
They, SG-1, had an instantaneous home through the gate, Daniel Boone and the settlers that followed him had about 400 miles to walk in order to establish a new home, homes they would have to build, a town they'd have to carve out of the wilderness.
What or who lay before them?
Why was there a Stargate here?
Could this be a new home for humans from Earth?
The settlers with Boone were infringing on Native American territory. Was anyone else here?
As the mist burnt off with the morning sun shimmering areas in the distance were visible. Burst of orange on the hillsides reminded O'Neill of Flame Azaleas. O'Neill passed his binoculars to Carter and pointed. It was a lake in the midst of a mountain meadow. However there was a strange shaped object almost the size of a tractor trailer. Possibly it could be a rectangular rock formation.
He, along with SG-1, had been here before. There were no allies here, no tech, no big honking weapons to save their asses. Didn't stay long, they needed to move on to find those things, but he'd remembered this place. And so this trip back years later.
"What do you think?"
"I like it. I could ask Dad see what he knows and do a fly over and check for inhabitant.
"Actually Carter, he already has. Says it good to go. Even left a few toys for you."
She looked surprised he had kept this from her.
"And Thor picked up something and left it here for us."
"That rock formation?"
"Oh yeah, it a timber frame house, some assembly required."
Sam look a bit confused, wondering where he was going with this.
"If it all went to hell" he said "if we had to bail, this is a good place to start over." He nudged her shoulder.
"Are you afraid...no not afraid but sensing something?"
"No , just need to be prepared...maybe a little paranoid." He gave an offhanded smile.
She smiled that marvelous smile and asked him. "Just a house?"
He brightened. "Naquadah generator, solar collectors, a few Tok'ra tunneling crystals. Anything else you want? Oh and there are fish in that lake."
He turned and looked at her like he was trying to find an answer to an unasked question.
A memory flooded her of so damned long ago in a place so different from here. She remembered the feel of his hands on her skin, the gentle caresses, the rough calluses and her leaning over and kissing him long and deep. She flushed at the memory.
Anything, she'd do anything, follow him anywhere. She supposed he knew it.
She gave his hand a squeeze and that's all he needed.
