As Daniel looked through a report of a set of ruins that SG-13 had encountered on a recent mission, he happened to catch part of a conversation between two Airmen as they walked past his open door. He was about to ignore it when he realised who they were talking about. The first Airman said,

"Can't believe he's coming back... Apparently he's coming to help out when Colonel Carter's babies are born."

The other Airman replied, "Oh... yeah. Hey, wouldn't it be funny if they were his?"

Daniel felt inexplicably angered at the remark, and he found himself consciously listening further.

"Nah man... They're Doctor Jackson's alright. Damn shame what happened to him. His tumour's huge and they can't operate yet 'cos they're not sure about the moonshine that those asses fed them."

"They should have used the Odyssey to blast the planet to bits."

"Are you kidding, the good Doctor wouldn't let that happen. The guy's died already saving the Planet of the Idiots, and I'll bet he'd do it again if he could."

Daniel frowned in confusion as their voices faded. He smiled slightly at the Airman's adopted name for Langara before quickly concealing it as he felt a touch guilty, reminding himself that the Kelownan government did what they had thought was right.

He got back to wondering who they were talking about, and his angered returned briefly when Jack's name resurfaced in his consciousness. He mentally shook himself before deciding to seek out Sam for two reasons: to ask her about it, and because he was feeling lonely.

He slowly albeit carefully made his way to the Commissary, where he found her reading a book, a glass of juice to the side. He sat opposite her, asking as she looked up at him in surprise,

"Hey, how are you doing?"

She replied with a small smile as she reached for his hand, a group of Airmen cheering lecherously before being subdued by ice-cold glares from both of them, "Half bored. The General won't let me look at the latest mission reports, and Doctor Lam said that it may be because that her Mom had a paper craving when she was pregnant. I did mention that I wasn't having paper urges but he won't budge... How about you?"

He smiled in amusement at the story before his smile faded as he related to her most of what he had heard. When he had finished, she shrugged, replying, "I don't know who it could be. It doesn't make sense to be the General seeing as he's in and out of the mountain so much that 'coming back' isn't exactly notable in general."

He squeezed her hands and asked, smiling bashfully, "So... how do you think Teal'c's coping?"

She laughed, remarking, "I would seriously pay good money to see his face right about now. It's nice that Cam and Vala are getting some alone time. They haven't really spent much time together outside of a team setting because of us two."

She added, glancing at the now innocent-looking Airmen a few tables away, "Let's go - those two are hanging on to every word we're saying."

"Well, it's just as well we weren't being rude."

She smiled in amusement as he reddened, and as they left the Commissary, their arms around each other in support, she replied, leaning her head on shoulder, "Well, if your redness if anything to by, their agreggate redness would power the SGC ten times over."

"Oh, this is what I get for mixing with Astrophysicists."

"You're just jealous Archaeologist, Linguist, Philologist, Chocologist..."

He was about to reply when they nearly walked straight into Landry, both of them wincing as they quickly straightened up, the General, amused, asking after them.