The Adventures of SG-1
Return To Earth

"Prometheus Revisited"

Orbit of Saturn

Near the planet, a hyperspace window formed, and out of it came the Prometheus. It proceeded to change course, not towards earth, but towards one of the moons.

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Prometheus Bridge

Harry looked down at the folder in his hand, while Sam looked out of the window, looking out at Saturn, which filled the left half of the window.

"So this probe was launched by an F-302 into orbit of one of the moons?"

"Indeed." Colonel Ronson replied. "As we were unavailable, that was their quickest delivery method."

"Why didn't we hear about this?" Sam asked.

Ronson shrugged. "I'm not sure. It is part of the Hyperspace Watch program, I'm sure there would have been a memo." An amused glint appeared in his eye at the last, making Harry and Sam smother their own grins.

"Probably missed it then. But good idea, probes scattered throughout the system..." Harry mumbled, as he looked at the last data received by the probe.

It was one of the long-term probes built by Area 51 using knowledge and technology gained from the Stargate Program.

A Naquadah-generator powered probe with limited propulsion, mostly station or orbit –keeping, with a variety of sensors to keep watch for ships and satellites. Low powered to the point that Goa'uld ships would miss them even if they were searching.

"It's thanks to the small Hyperdrive fitted to the F-302's with the programming for short-range jumps, I'm told." Ronson continued. "They make several small jumps, cutting down a several day journey there and back to twelve hours."

Harry hummed, and Listened distractedly as Sam learned more about the probe.

It was, as they said, a Probe to keep watch for Goa'uld ships, and to provide some early warning. Using earth-orbit based telescopes like the Hubble meant they had to be looking at the ship to see it.

And light only travelled at its speed. Only with the built-in subspace communications (thanks to the Tok'ra) did they now have a network of real-time sensors covering around half of the solar system, mostly on the planetary 'plane'. Ships coming in from oblique angles to the planetary orbits would be missed in many areas, hence only 'half' of the system covered. They had deployed many of these probes.

However the probe in question was malfunctioning, hence their slight detour.

"We're also using the opportunity to do an in-depth survey of the moon it is orbiting." Ronson finally said.

Sam smiled at that, but Harry missed it. He was curious about the moons. As a member of SG-1, he didn't really have much time to learn about their own solar system.

"So which moon?" Sam asked.

"Titan." Ronson replied.

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It had been a not-so-simple matter to bring the probe in. While the team from NASA and Area 51 worked on it, Sam and Harry had begun the in depth survey of Titan.

It had been after some strange readings, however, that brought the pair to Colonel Ronson.

"I think we need to send a survey team down to the moon."

Ronson nodded, but asked, "what strange readings?"

Harry looked at Sam, and she looked at him in turn. Sam spoke. "The moons' gravity is a little higher than it should be. It should be about 0.15 G. But it's at 0.2 G."

"It should be?"

"Well, we didn't know for a fact, but some pretty smart scientists made their best... guess."

--

Harry and Sam finished the video call with the President, whom was very surprised by their news.

They had spent a week doing a planetary survey of the moon Titan.

Then they called the SGC, and Jack and Hammond both heard the news.

"I suppose that explains why Trinium isn't on Earth, then." Jack pondered.

Sam nodded. "We know it can occur on planets with lower mass and density. All the planets we've so far encountered that had the metal were all smaller or had lower gravity than earth."

A thought was shared by all.

"I guess extra terrestrial elements aren't quite so extra-terrestrial as we thought, huh?"

Harry spoke up. "What happened to that big asteroid that Anubis sent at us? Didn't that have large quantities of Naquadah?"

Sam nodded, and smiled. "You think we should harvest it?"

Harry nodded, and Hammond on the screen spoke. "Have you presented the idea to the President?"

They shook their heads, so Hammond suggested, "I'll call him. I guess NASA have their work cut-out for them."

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Stargate Command

"Headache?"

Harry looked up, to find Sam sitting across from him. Lately they had spent a lot of time together. Considering what happened a month ago, though...

Harry nodded. "I visited Jacob at the Alpha Site when you were... Anyway, he'd accidentally turned it on for a few minutes. Man, that feeling gave me the shivers."

Sam nodded, and looked at him. "You okay?"

"Why wouldn't I be?"

"Ever since..." She started, but couldn't finish.

"Ever since 'Grace'," Harry finished for her, "I've been different. You got a little sense of closure on something, and I got mine."

"Yeah. I just mean, she was right, you know. That, apparition. You need to spend time outside of books, out of the SGC."

"We just spent three weeks on the Prometheus."

"You know what I meant."

Harry was silent. While observing the gas cloud, He and Sam had began to hallucinate. At first, they were in the ships' infirmary being checked out until they realised they were seeing the same things. That it wasn't being shared because of Harry's magic making a link with Sam to do so, meant it wasn't hallucinations.

They had heard some of the other crewmembers had similar apparitions. By the time they had left, a few mental ghosts had been excised, as it were.

Harry wasn't going to ask why Sam thought she couldn't see anyone, or why she had a thing for Jack just because he was 'safe', someone she couldn't be and that neither wanted to lose their careers just to be with as a couple.

"Why don't you take a week off? It's your birthday in a few days, you know."

Harry smiled slightly at the reminder. Those few months ago, he had accidentally alluded to his birthday being in July. There were times he forgot it had been adjusted to Halloween, all because of that stupid temporal jump when he crossed over.

"Where would I go? Everyone I know is here or off-world. Not exactly nice spots to take a holiday."

Sam thought for a moment, before she decided. "Mark invited me up to visit for Thanksgiving, but I'm spending it with dad at the Alpha Site... Maybe he'll agree to have it early. His wife's Canadian and in canada, they celebrate it on the 2nd Monday of October. So I'm sure both should agree to a compromise..."

Harry looked at her with a smile. "I've heard lots of your brother. Sure." Then he turned stern, and said, "Don't dare suggest that he try to set me up on a blind date though."

Sam had a guilty look, and pointed out, "That was Daniels' doing. He learned his lesson."

"I'm sure it was all his idea."

Sam didn't look him in the eye.

Harry let the silence go on for a moment, before he nodded. "Alright. He lives in San Diego, right?" At her nod, he smiled, "Never do get to see much of Earth itself for pleasure."

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A/N:

And so the long journey to the Harry/Sam has begun, with the beginning of the stronger friendship. Where before they were Mentor/Student first, Team Mates second and then Friends, in that order, now they're friends first, team mates second, and equals. Until now they're friendship was due to what he needed to learn, and Sam trying to get to grips with the whole Magic business. Then it became that he'd joined SG-1. Her memory about what happened during her time as an ascended is mostly gone under lock and key. Why, when Oma promised not to remove the memories (only the knowledge)?

Tell me this. In season 7, where was the Sam and Daniel moments? How often, etc? How close were Sam and Teal'c, that year?

And who has she spent most of her time with in this series? And so I've created a bit of consistency with 'The Unending Odyssey' while I had that faux pas thingy (I think thats what you'll call it) by having Sam forget when oma said she wouldn't. She'll remember, on her own. as she forgot, on her own. Or did she really forget and just thing some things are dreams? hehe.

Next, Fallin Langara. No it's not the start of episode 'Fallout'. It's just, Jonas arrives early for a bit of a break time, while that data that worried him so in the episode is being analysed and he himself gets a few days vacation. I don't know if he was fine with the thing, so I put that he was. You'll see what I meant ;)

Dates since I tend not to mention them: This is October. in 2003, halloween was the friday. so this is monday or tuesday. I'm still operating from the idea that Season 7 ends in february 2004 (Lost city was what, a couple weeks after 'inauguration'? and Inauguration day is always in January. so the changeover to the next president is offset by a year or 3, depending whichever number president Hayes is or would that be, whichever presidential term has started, if you forget the different presidents in office and just counted the official terms of office?) 'Fallout' starts on the 6th november by this calendar.