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Chapter 11

Daniel had been wondering around with his head elsewhere for days and Janet was more than a little concerned. He was really struggling over whether he should join the Maverian military, normally he would have said no immediately rather than get involved in someone else's war. This time it was different though, this time the war was theirs as well and if the Maverian's lost Daniel and Janet was in as much danger as the Maverians.

In truth she was conflicted by the situation as well, she knew there was every reason for him to join the military and help in this war. At the same time though she didn't want him to, she knew his propensity for getting in trouble and she didn't want him getting hurt or even worse killed.

"Janet, are you okay?" Levern asked her with a look on his face that said it wasn't the first time.

"Sorry, I was lost I thought"

"You and Daniel have been doing a lot of that over the last few days, are you both okay?"

"Commander Dar asked Daniel to join the military" she explained.

"I see, did he agree"

Janet shook her head "He doesn't know what to do"

"I'm sure whatever decision he makes will be the right one" Levern reassured her.

"I know"

- - -

Why was it that every time SG1 went on a routine mission they ended up running for their lives back to the gate. They should stop calling them routine missions, it almost seemed like a jinx.

They ran across the open field toward the stargate with a battalion of Jaffa hot on their tales. The air was full of staff blasts and bullets as both sides continuously exchanged fire.

There was a small explosion at his side and Jack turned to see Sam go down, she'd been hit. "Teal'c, Evans, cover fire!"

Jack quickly knelt down beside her to check the damage, it was a blast to her shoulder, not life threatening but it had knocked her out. He quickly picked her up in his arms and ran for the gate.

"Evans, dial the gate!" he shouted as he continued to run.

He heard the sound of the stargate dialling and the familiar whooshing sound and waited for Evans to send the iris code through.

"Let's go!" Evan shouted as he turned to fire at the oncoming Jaffa to allow Jack to run though the gate with Sam. He felt a sharp pain in his back just before he stepped into the event horizon. When he emerged on the other side he fell onto the ramp the pain his back burning through him. A moment later he heard the sound of two more people step through the gate behind him followed by the iris closing.

"What happened?" Hammond asked as he walked up to them, the medical team along with him.

"Goa'uld" Jack explained and Hammond seemed to find that sufficient for now. Jack turned to look at the two members of his team that had just come through the gate, Teal'c had taken a blast to the leg and Evan was limping as well though Jack couldn't see any injuries. Satisfied that none of them were going to die, he collapsed into unconsciousness.

- - -

He had made his decision and he was going to stick t it, he hoped. He'd told himself that a dozen times over the last few days and each time he'd changed his mind again. This time however he was going to stick to it and to make sure he did he was heading for the Commander's office to tell him.

When he heard the commander's voice tell him to enter he walked into the office and blurted out his decision before he could change it.

"I'll do it"

"You'll join the military?"

"I will"

"That's good to hear, what made you decide?"

"A lot of things"

"Then you'll begin training tomorrow, dismissed"

Daniel nodded his head and left the room, heading for the infirmary to tell Janet. She had a right to know what he'd decided, she'd had a right to know before he'd told Dar but he didn't want to end up changing his mind again so he'd done that first.

He found her tending to an injured soldier with a friendly smile on her face as she always did with patients. Unless you were a certain colonel who complained the entire time. He waited until she had finished with the patient, marvelling at the ease with which she used the Maverian medical technology.

"Hey" she said when she spotted him and walked over to him.

"Can we talk?" he asked her.

"Sure, we can use the private room next door, the patient that was in their this mornig has already gone"

She led him through to the next room and stood next to the bed that had been made ready for its next patient. "What's wrong?"

He moved to stand directly in front of her "I decided to join the military" he watched as an array of emotions flickered across her face the strongest being fear.

"Well, you just be careful okay, you're all I have here"

He pulled her to him and held her in a tight "And you're all I have"

They stood that way for several moments, both of them reflecting on how much their lives had been turned upside down and how much the other meant to them. It was Janet that finally pulled back and looked him in the eyes and Daniel could see so much emotion there.

"I have to get back to work"

"Okay" he told her, he le leaned down and kissed her gently on the cheek and she smiled and left the room.

- - -

Sam woke up to find herself in the infirmary; she sat and sent a searing pain through her shoulder.

"Ow" she said.

"Careful Carter" Jack said from where he was propped up on his bed next to hers. Next to him was Teal'c sitting in one of the chairs with a somewhat pained expression in his face, she obviously wasn't the only one injured. It was then that she noticed the missing presence of her new team mate.

"Where's Evans?"

"He sustained only a minor injury to his ankle" Teal'c stated and Sam nodded.

"Oh I see you're finally awake" a woman's voice said and Jack groaned as Dr Miller walked into the room "Only one mission and all three of you end up in here" she said as she checked Sam's vitals.

"Well how were we to know the Goa'uld were gonna show up"

"You should be well enough to leave in a few hours, both of you" she said before walking out of the room once again.

"She should work on her bedside manner" Sam said as she watched the woman leave.

"You should have seen the needle she stabbed me with earlier, be glad you were unconscious at the time; I had unfortunately just woke up. She wasn't gentle either, we're all gonna have bruises in the morning" Jack told her and the expression on his face told her he wasn't happy and he wasn't exaggerating.

- - -

"Daniel Jackson?" The man said as he entered the room, he was a fairly young man with short black hair and a physique that told Daniel he was definitely in the military.

"That's me"

"I'm Colonel Rowven, I'm going to be training you and when we're done you'll be joining my team okay?"

"Okay" Daniel said, Colonel Rowven seemed to be a decent man and Daniel detected no trace of hostility coming from him.

"Right then, we'll start with some basic hand to hand, I know that you worked for the military at your home and that you were a very capable soldier but it never hurts to brush up on your skill and maybe learn some knew ones"

"Sounds good"

"I need to get an idea of exactly how much you do know so let's spar"

Daniel nodded his head and the two of them got into positions, Daniel made the first move, swinging for him but he dodged it, dropped to the floor and knocked Daniel off his feat.

"You have good form but you leave yourself open to attack, when you attempt to hit your opponent it's not all about strength, you need to keep the rest of yourself covered in the event that you miss. You have to watch your opponent's body movement to predict what they will do and keep yours to a minimum so they can't figure out what you're going to do, let's try again"

Daniel once again attempted to hit the Colonel but missed; however when the Colonel tried to hit him this time, Daniel saw it coming and blocked it"

"You learn quickly"

- - -

Daniel laid down on his bed and despite the hot shower he'd just had there wasn't a single part of his body that didn't ache. Colonel Rowven had trained him for almost two hours and whilst he'd learnt a lot he was fairly certain he wouldn't be able to do any of it for days. Fortunately he had two days before he ha to go to training again so he had some time to recover.

His door chimed and he knew it was probably Janet coming to check on him so he called for her to come in.

The door opened and he saw Janet sit on the best next to him "You look terrible"

"Thanks"

"How did it go?"

"Colonel Rowven's a nice guy and he definitely taught me a lot today"

"Did you get hurt?"

"Apart from being slammed into the floor a dozen times, no not really"

"Well I just came to check on you and see how you got on today so I'll go and let you get some sleep"

"No that's okay" Daniel said sitting up, he really didn't want her to leave yet "I'm starving, how about we go and get some dinner?"

Janet nodded and smiled "Alright then"

TBC