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Stargate SG-1
"Coming Home"
Chapter 3




1530 hours, embarkation room.
SG-1 was geared up and ready to go, they were just waiting for the stargate to finish dialing. The gate's seventh chevron locked, the wormhole engaged, and SG-1 stepped through the blue shimmering event horizon of the stargate. In seconds all five members were on a new unexplored alien planet.

"Okay kids," Colonel O'Neill began, "we've got two days to play. So one day in greeness, you know it's our favorite place!" He joked, "and then one fabulous day in the sandy desert."

"That's a great plan, really. But why do we need to explore the desert for an entire day?" Doctor Daniel Jackson asked.

"Because I think we could all use a change of scenery," Jack looked aound at the lush greeness that surrounded them. "Don't you think it'd be nice to not be somewhere that didn't look like the last planet we visited?"

"Well, actually Jack. The last planet we visited was basically rocks. So...this is a change of scenery," Doctor Daniel Jackson told Colonel Jack O'Neill.

"Okay, bad example," O'Neill said thinking. "Carter what do ninety percent of the planets we visit look like?"

"Like this one, sir." Carter answered O'Neill's question.

"Ha! Told ya, Daniel." O'Neill said getting grins from both, Carter and Kawalsky.

"Okay, okay Jack I'm wrong and you're right. Happy?" Daniel asked with a smile.

"Oh yeah."

"So? Is this what you guys do on missions? Fight?" Kawalsky asked, amused at Jack and Daniel's fight.

"More or less," Sam Carter told him smiling. "They're always arguing about something Jack likes to call Daniel's artifacts "rocks"."

"Well, ya know us majors have to stick together, right?"

"Right. Hopefully they'll behave sooner rather than later," Carter said, she and Kawalsky smiled at Jack and Daniel who were still arguing.

"Jack, Sam and I are going to set up camp okay?" Colonel Jack O'Neill was too busy arguing with Daniel that he didn't hear what Kawalsky had said.

"Wha...???" O'Neill asked when Sam Carter tapped his shoulder.

"Major Kawalsky has been trying to get your attention for the last five minutes," Carter informed O'Neill.

"Oh..." O'Neill said raising one eyebrow, "sorry. Guess Daniel and I fight too much."

"Guess so. Anyways, Sam and I are going to set up camp over there," Kawalsky said pointing at a clearing nearby.

"Oh, okay. Go ahead, have fun!" O'Neill said.

Kawalsky and Carter left O'Neill, Jackson, and Teal'c. They took the camping equiptment with them, and started to set up camp, while the others explored alittle.

Three hours later, SG-1 were all back at the campsite. All five had already had enough of the lush greeness of their suroundings. O'Neill had decided that they wouldn't stray far from the campsite for the rest of the day.

After awhile Kawalsky and O'Neill took a walk to collect firewood and to talk. "So...you and Sam are still?" Kawalsky asked.

"Yeah, we're still not together," O'Neill said giving him a "leave me alone" look.

"So...do you still not have feelings for her?"

"Who?" O'Neill asked dumbly.

"Who? Who is Samantha Carter, ya know the beautiful blonde on your team. Ya know she's alot smarter than you and probab..."

"Okay! Okay!" O'Neill interrupted, "I get it! I really do know who you're talking about. And well I guess I do..." O'Neill said making a face at his admittance.

"Does she feel the same?" Kawalsky asked, oviously interested in Jack and Sam's personal life in this world.

"Well....let's start from a good sort of mission," O'Neill said and Kawalsky nodded. "Well the Tok'ra they put these arm bands on Daniel, Carter, and me and they made us really, really fast and super strong. Anyways we went to destroy this new Goa'uld ship. So....we go through the gate and Teal'c follows, but he can't use the armbands cause of his snake."

"Oh, interesting."

"Yeah, well the three of us knock out all of these Jaffa, and can go through the force shields and everything. Anyways, Sam's wristband stopped working and she was caught behind this force shield, I tried to get back to her, but...then my wristband fell off and I fell unconscious." O'Neill paused for a minute, "anyways we escaped and like a week later thsi Tok'ra Anise said that Sam and I were Zartacks after this test we took and that we were going to kill someone at the Tok'ra meeting with the President. But it turned out to be Martouf, the other Tok'ra. He was Sam's host's mate and she ended up having to kill him before he tortured himself to death."

"And where's the part about knowing Sam loves you back?" Kawalsky asked thinking Jack might have left out that part on purpose.

"Oh..oh yeah. Sorry. They were putting Sam and I to sleep so we couldn't kill anyone. I decided to go through with this Tok'ra experimental procedure that drove someone else crazy, but before they began Sam remembered something that we never thought could count as a false memory. See when we were trapped, well Carter was trapped anyway on the other side of the force shield. I wouldn't leave her, because I'd rather die myself than loose her."

"Wow! So..."

"So? What?"

"Go against regs or something."

"Kawalsky shut up!"

"Yes, sir!"

"Kawalsky, did you come here just to harass me or did you really want to explore alien planets?" O'Neill asked him.

"Kinda both, sir."

"Ah, great! So, you're here to drive me out of my mind and explore alien tree planets? Great..."

"Yeah, well if you and Sam were..."

"But we're not!"

"Yes, I know, but then I wouldn't bug you."

"So if Sam and I were braking regs and going out you wouldn leave me alone?" Jack O'Neill asked.
"Basically."

"Kawalsky! C'mon you know that it's not going to happen! Sam and I like our jobs too much, especially Sam. Jacob would kill me if I messed up Sam's career."

"Who's Jacob?" Charles Kawalsky asked.

"Sam's dad and a Tok'ra. Jacob likes me, and we don't want him to hate me, do we?"

"Jack, don't worry I know that eventually you and Sam will get a clue and go out and get married."

"Ummm...probably not and anyways we're still on the problem of regs in the Air Force let alone the SGC. Believe me Sam won't throw away her career that easily, the SGC is a big step ahead of NASA, which is where Sam would be if she hadn't come to the SGC. The SGC is more than Sam could have hoped for, she probably would have rather have adopted Cassie if she could instead of Janet."

"Who's Cassie?"

"A little girl we rescued from a planet struck by a Goa'uld plague. She was the only survivor, and Sam grew very close to her."

"Oh, well, see in some alternate reality you and Sam are married and adopted Cassie," Kawalsky told him.

"Now this is an alternate-alternate reality?" O'Neill asked.

"Sure Jack, so you ready to go back to camp?"

"Yes! I'm tired of your harassment of your superior officer."

"So, court martial me!"

"Can't do that," O'Neill told Kawalsky, "you're my best friend and I just got you back. Do you think that I'm actually going to kick you out?"

"Owww...Jack! I feel so loved!" Kawalsky told him joking. They proceeded to camp laughing and joking.

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