Authors note - I have added another chapter. Please got to chapter 10 to read. After feedback from this chapter I decided to include a little Jack and Teal'c but it didn't fit at the end of this. Please read and review as always. And I am glad that some people are beginning to come round the Coach. I didn't want him to be unlikeable.


Sam yawned and reached out blindly for her coffee cup as she stared at the screen in front of her. She had no idea what had caused the malfunction in the system – let alone fix it – but she had managed to turn off the sound. Needless to say, she wasn't happy. Two late nights in a row and she couldn't wait for the weekend. Unfortunately it was still Wednesday night. Sam glanced at her watch for confirmation and sighed, make that Thursday morning.

"Great, Sam, just great. 0600 hours and you have class in 3," she muttered to herself. "Come on, focus."

"You know – talking to yourself doesn't help." Sam jumped at the sound of Daniel's voice coming from the doorway. "I've brought fresh coffee for you. And a bacon and egg McMuffin."
"Thanks, Daniel – but what are you doing here? What are you even doing up?"

"Oh, you know, beats being at home."

"Oh yeah, I can see that being at home in bed asleep is no way near as interesting as bringing me coffee!"

Daniel sighed. "I wasn't sleeping. Jack and Teal'c have been arguing all night. Jack didn't go to school."
"I thought so – I didn't see him when I had physics."

Daniel nodded. "So, how's it going? Need a hand?"
Sam laughed. "I need sleep! Seriously though – I can't find anything wrong with it but the systems still adamant that there's an offworld activation. Unless . . ." Sam's voice trailed off as she began madly tapping at the keyboard.

"Unless?" questioned Daniel.

"Unless the glitch isn't at our end. I'm not sure if it's possible but it could theoretically be alternate gate systems."

"Ok, not following," stated Daniel, coming to stand behind her.

"Ok, well we know that black hole's can cause problems with gate travel. And according to this information," explained Sam, pointing at a diagram on the screen in front of her, "we have one here, by this planet. It's only small but it's only occurred recently. Now according to the mission logs we were scheduled to go to this planet. We would have been due back today."

"So, you're thinking that the offworld activations are other SG1 teams coming back through? Presumably teams that aren't teenagers? But that doesn't make sense. Surely they would have arrived on base if that was the case."
Sam shook her head. "Not necessarily. I mean, our gate's not active at the moment, and we've kept the iris shut just in case. It seems to be that the signal's straying slightly, the black hole must have displaced it somehow. The gate hasn't activated once – just the alarm system. That, or there's a problem with the gate at the other end."

"Ok, Sam, if you are right, how do we fix it?" asked Daniel.

Sam smiled. "Well, I need to write a programme allowing for that particular black hole. If that doesn't fix the problem then we need to send a team through to fix it.

"And it's taken you nearly 20 hours to figure that out?"

"Just don't say anything. Give me 30 minutes to write a programme allowing for this specific displacement. I don't want to risk going through until I know we'll make it."

Daniel just shook his head. "Sam, we won't be going through either way."
"I know, really, I do." Sam smiled sadly. "I'm just so used to going through."

"Well, I'll go and inform 'Uncle George'."

Sam nodded, already too engrossed to have noticed Daniel leaving.


Authors Note:

Managed to get two more chapters done for you. Hope you enjoy. Please read and review. Sorry if the technical stuff was a bit random, any suggestions for improvement greatly appreciated – all the authors that make it sound simple are amazing because I struggled big time.