Just a filler, before our journey continues..

Still don't own SG-SG1, any Star Wars Characters or the Dark Side

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SG1 were 'good to go', on Jonas's co-ordinates, but there was a delay in departure due to a medical emergency, off world, with SG4.

Colonel O'Neill walked the corridors of the SGC preparing for the upcoming mission; he didn't like delays, he always got 'fidgety'.

Sam caught up with him on his third loop, she had that smile, "Carter," he commented, "you've got that smile."

"Sir?"

"You know, that, 'I'm gonna ask Jack to do something', smile."

"No sir, may I walk with you?"

Jack looked at her, suspiciously for a moment, and then continued to walk.

"Do you think we'll find the key, sir?" Sam continued.

"Well, Cassie, Jonas, Daniel and 'you' thought we would Carter, or did I dream the meeting earlier?"

"No sir, in fact that's where I've just come from, the infirmary, visiting Jonas, you know Dr Fraiser put him on bed rest?"

"Yes, I've read the report."

"And Daniel's there at the moment, and Teal'c visited earlier...."

Jack stopped and turned to face Sam, "your point Carter?"

"I thought seeing as we are waiting for SG4 that you might like to see Jonas too."

"I'm busy at the moment Major."

"Oh, sorry sir, can I help?"

Jack hesitated, "no, I'm doing 'things', Colonel type things."

"Yes sir," she replied and smiled that smile again. The 'he's gonna do it' smile.

Jack popped his head around the infirmary door and saw Daniel talking to Jonas. He went to carry on walking when he heard Daniel's voice, "Jack, hi, I'm just leaving."

Damn, O'Neill thought and went through the door.

Daniel noticed Jonas stiffen in the bed and take a more military stance, he smiled secretly, remembering when Jack use to have that affect on him.

"Dr Jackson," Jonas said with pleading eyes, "you don't have to go."

"Sorry Jonas," Daniel replied, "I need to check on stuff."

"Dr Jackson type stuff?" O'Neill asked.

"Yeah, Jack," he said on passing with a 'Sam got you to come' smirk on his bowed face.

Jack moved across to the bed and smiled at Jonas.

Jonas smiled back

"So, you feeling any better?"

"Yes Colonel, thanks."

"No side effects from your encounter with big 'A', like your not gonna turn all Darth Vader on us?"

Jonas looked puzzled.

O'Neill held up his hand, "forget it, earth joke."

"Oh."

Silence.

"So, Jonas can you..?"

"No, Colonel I can't."

"Then, how did you..?"

"Because everyone who's visited has already said, 'hey, Jonas can you guess what I'm thinking?' Or 'hey Jonas, can you read my mind?'"

"Ah."

More silence.

Jonas looked down at the bedspread and picked at a bit of fluff, then stated, "Sam told you to come."

"No, no, not at all," O'Neill said cautiously, "I was passing, out there in the corridor, and thought.."

Jonas looked at Jack with those wide, disbelieving eyes.

"Yeah, Sam told me to come, not that I wasn't, it's just I got caught up with stuff."

"Colonel, if you rather be somewhere else, I'm fine, I'll be up and about when Dr Fraiser returns, she'll need the bed," replied Jonas hoping Jack would leave soon. He forgot how nervous Colonel O'Neill made him.

Jack looked into the young man's sincere face; he forgot sometimes how hard it must be for this kid, an alien, living on a strange planet, with no contact to family or members of his own race and unable to go back to his own world. Yet, he'd embraced this new experience with open arms and a warm smile, never feeling sorry for himself, never regretting his choice.

Jack coughed into his hand, "Y'know Jonas, what you did, giving up your home, everything you've known, for the truth, not many of us would have done that, made that choice."

"You have sir and the rest of SG1, sacrificed everything to defeat the Goa'uld."

"That's why we're a team, Jonas, all of us."

The Kelownan smiled, with eyes and lips, which enveloped the whole room and part of Colonel O'Neill's heart. Jack smiled back into those majestic, green, eyes and wondered why he'd never, really, got to know this strange young man. Maybe Daniel's 'death' had shrouded that; maybe part of him didn't want to get too close to the alien, that to some extent, he blamed for Daniel's demise.

Jack coughed again, "you know, when all this is over perhaps we could go fishing?"

Jonas raised his eyebrows in surprise, "all this?"

"Yeah," said Jack making circling motions with his arms, "all this."

"I'd like that," replied Jonas and then very softly, almost to himself, he murmured, "Jack."

If O'Neill heard he chose not to say anything only, "you do realise that you have to be quiet, though. Fishing is a very quiet sport, man, rod, water, quiet."

The alarm went off to signal the return of SG4 through the stargate.

"Well, practice on the quiet while we're gone, okay."

"Yes sir."

Jack got up to leave, "Colonel," Jonas said, "good luck finding the key."

Jack saluted and Jonas relaxed.

Colonel O'Neill joined Teal'c, Sam, and Daniel by the stargate, they were all smiling at him, well apart from Teal'c but Jack could see he was smiling inwardly.

"So Jack," asked Daniel as he stood beside him, "you saw Jonas."

"Yes Daniel, I did."

More smiling.

"And for your information, when all this is over, we're going fishing."

"Fishing, O'Neill?" Enquired Teal'c eyebrow raised

"When all this is over?" Asked Sam.

"Yes, all this and yes fishing, you know, man, rod, water, quiet," reiterated Jack.

"Indeed," answered Teal'c, eyes front, looking into the gate, "I believe Jonas Quinn has never fished before."

"Well, knowing Jonas, by the time we're back, he would have surfed the web and soaked up as much info about every aspect of fishing," Major Carter expressed with amusement and to Jack's annoyance.

Teal'c acknowledge this statement with a regal nod.

"Okay people, shall we rock and roll," Jack said, pulling on his cap and four of the members of SG1 stepped through the event horizon.

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Next time: Through the Stargate!