The side of his head pounding, Daniel woke to a strange tapping sound. He sat up tenderly and looked around for the source to see Vala kneeling on the ground outside, rapping her knuckles on the window. She grinned and waved at him. He shook his head, amused, and stood up, walking to the window. He unlatched it and pushed out the screen, climbing up to crawl out. Vala and Sam grabbed his hands to help him.

"So what happened?" Vala began to ask when the bedroom door suddenly flung open and the girl ran in and, catching everyone off guard, pulled Daniel back in by the ankle. She slammed the window shut and relocked it, glaring at the linguist in front of her. Daniel winced, and then flung his arms over his head when she raised her staff threateningly.

"Ah!" he cried. "Don't!"

She lowered it slowly and walked past him, sticking the staff out to trip him. Daniel fell, hard, to his butt, completely taken off guard and whipped his head around to give her the most incredulous look he could muster: one he tended to use for Vala a lot. She met it after picking up his radio and P90, waving them at him teasingly. Daniel frowned.

"I thought you broke the radio," he said.

"I turned it off," she replied gruffly. "I have a few questions for you."

"Uh…okay…"

"What did you do to my family?" she asked without a further hesitation. Daniel's eyes widened. He hadn't been expecting that.

"Uh…I didn't do anything, kid. Seriously."

Her jaw muscles visibly tightened and she suddenly jammed the tip of his P90 against his temple. He winced again and sighed.

"Do you even know how to shoot that thing?" he asked. She eyed him distastefully.

"Point and shoot and it seems I've got the point part down."

Daniel inclined his head, seeing her reasoning.

"My name is Q," she said into the radio. "I have your friend's weapon to his head and will not hesitate to shoot if you do not answer a few questions to my satisfaction."

"What do you want, kid?" Cam's voice asked tersely.

"First, I want everyone to stop calling me 'kid'," she answered angrily. "I'm sixteen. I'm not a kid."

"Fine."

"What did you do to my family?" she finally inquired.

"They didn't do anything…" Daniel hissed under his breath. Q jammed the point of the gun deeper into his temple.

"Look, we didn't do anything. We don't even know where we are," Cam answered, the irritated tone growing with every syllable. Vala reached for her radio as well but ended up jumping several feet in the air when a single round of gunshots rang through the air.

"That was simply a warning, directed to his upper leg," Q told them. "But, as you can hear, it's still not too pleasant."

She held her finger on the button a little longer to let the team hear Daniel's loud, pained cursing. Daniel glared at her, hands grasping the wound, blood seeping through his fingers.

"You're sixteen?" he asked disbelievingly. She ignored him.

"I ask again, what did you do to my family?"

"We didn't-!" Vala started only to be shoved by Cameron.

"Shut up!" he hissed, but it was too late. Another round of Daniel's P90 rang through the air. This time, they didn't need their radios to hear Daniel's bellows.

"ARGH! Son of a-! Holy—ow, ow, ow…gaaaaa…." He looked up to glare at Q again. "I don't like you!"

Q met his glare. "I don't care!" she yelled back. "I don't like you, either! WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY FAMILY?" she bellowed, as to keep the threatening tears at bay. If Daniel wasn't biting his lip so hard because of the pain, he might've felt some sympathy for her but, for crying out loud, she had shot him! Twice!

"Drop the gun," Teal'c always calm voice said at the doorway. Q whirled around to aim the P90 at the Jaffa.

"Do as he says," Cameron ordered, coming up from behind Teal'c. Both men pointed their P90s back at her. Seeing she was out-numbered, Q set the P90 on the floor gently and raised her arms in surrender. Cam nodded at Teal'c as he walked over to help Daniel up. Teal'c inclined his head in acknowledgement and raised his zat, stunning the teen.

Daniel growled at Cameron as the colonel helped him up.

"Took you long enough."

"You know, it's a wonder you don't have your own personal bed in the infirmary yet," Cam joked.

"It's because Carolyn doesn't like me as much as you," Daniel pointed out. Cam stuck his tongue out at him.

"I could drop you," he threatened.

"But you won't," Daniel added, giving Cameron the most menaced-filled glare he could muster. It did the job.

Teal'c picked Q up and they walked back outside to greet Sam and Vala, the latter of the two pacing a hole into the sidewalk. Her eyes brightened as soon as she saw Daniel.

"Danny! You okay?" she asked, rushing to his side. Daniel winced as he put a little too much weight on his right leg.

"No," he replied shortly.

"So, that's her?" Sam asked, looking pointedly at the girl flung over Teal'c's shoulder. Cam nodded.

"Yeah. That's the little demon."

"She kinda reminds me of you," Daniel said, looking at Vala. Vala widened her eyes, hurt.

"I'd never shoot you!" she cried. Daniel raised an eyebrow at her.

"Uh…yeah, actually, you have in the past," he said. Vala frowned.

"When?"

"It wasn't a P90, but a zat still hurts," he continued. "On Prometheus, remember?"

Vala's eyes sparkled in recognition and she grinned. "That doesn't count. I did what I had to."

"You were trying to get rich; I was trying to get to Atlantis to see if Dr. Weir and the others were still alive!" Daniel argued. Vala rolled her eyes.

"You're so technical."

"So how do we get back?" Sam interrupted.

"We could simply walk back to the Wal-Mart," Teal'c suggested, "and see what happens there."

The rest of the team looked at him thoughtfully.

"It's worth a try," Cam said. It seemed no one else had a better idea anyway, so they did as Teal'c proposed.

A/N: I love reviewers and live for constructive criticism!