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*Gym*

"DANIEL!!" Both Sam and Jack yelled running into the room, as Teal'c stood by the door making sure no over eager soldiers came rushing in. The Doctor ran to the still down linguist, broken mirror crunching under her boots, while Jack tackled Ariana's small frame pinning her to the ground, knocking the air out of her.

"GET OFF OF ME!!!" The panic in her voice, surprised him, what surprised him more was how close he had come to a broken nose when she jerked her elbow towards his face. Standing he held her arms behind her back, as she stopped pulling away.

"Is He All Right?" Jack barked, still holding Ariana's arms behind her back.

"I'm fine!" Daniel said shaking Sam's hands off, as got up. "Let her go!" He ran his hand through his short hair glass falling, his shirt full of small tear. When Jack didn't let go, he bit the inside of his cheek, the dimples standing out. "Jack let her go. I'm fine." The younger man whispered, holding out his hand, as if asking for her. Stupefied Jack let go, the young woman started let herself be led away when she stopped in her tracks. "What?" Daniel asked worried she was hurt.

"You're bleeding." She whispered pointing to his calf, a six inch shard of glass jutted out at a scary angle, blood had soaked through the thick material of his pants.

"What the h...." Sam gasped. "Your leg shouldn't be functional."

"He's got another." Ariana said looking in the mirror to her right. They all looked in the reflection, the back of Daniel's shirt was shredded, with a single long gash.

"God, Daniel." Jack said unconsciously reaching out to the younger man, and when he pulled away for some reason it bothered him.

"I'll be fine. I AM Fine." He said evenly. "Shall we?" He asked Ariana who had already gathered there discarded things. As they left they heard them whisper.

"You should have that looked at."

"Yeah, let's.... It hurt's like a son-of-a-bitch."

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*Infirmary*

"What the hell happen?" Dr. Frasier asked looking at Daniel's back and leg.

"I tripped into a mirror in the gym." Daniel lied smoothly, blushing a little for effect.

"BULL SHIT!" Jack yelled walking in, a tight look on his face.

"Col.!!!" Maj. Hammond said surprised, he had been in the Infirmary getting ant-acids when Daniel and Ariana came in.

"We've got a tape showing HER kicking him into a mirror in the gym." He said growing red, veins in his neck starting to bluge.

"Is this true?"

Both Daniel and Ariana exchanged guilty looks nodding. "It was my fault I lost focus." Daniel said noncommittally.

"She kicked you across the room!!" Jack said giving him a frustrated look.

"But I should have noticed you weren't centered." Ariana said quickly, sitting next to him on the hospital bed.

"Actually MajorHammond, it was our fault." Teal'c said speaking up.

"Oh how do you figure?" Jack asked angry.

"We burst in, while's they were warming up, distracting them from they're focus." He said, Sam nodded slightly.

"Oww!" Daniel said sharply almost jumping off the bed as Dr. Frasier held up the nine inch glass blade.

"I'm surprised you felt that, your nerves in that area should be dead." She said giving him a wondering look.

"Guess I heal fast." He grumbled.

"I could help." Ariana said finally speaking.

"I think you've helped enough." Jack said coolly.

"How?" Hammond asked ignoring him. Looking around she pulled a flat stone from her pocket.

"Is that a peridot?" He asked surprised by the size. She nodded.

"I use peridot for men and hematite for women." Holding the stone in her palms she closed her eyes humming softly for a few moments, Jack rolled his eyes and crossed his arms with a bored look on his face. When she opened her palms the stone seemed to be alive, pulsing with a watery green light, purple/blue light filtering through her long lashes. Daniel gasped at the heat coming

from the should be cold rock. Everyone else in the room leaned in trying to get a better look, when Daniel suddenly bit back a yell Jack moved to stop her. "All better." She said her naturally good natured self. Pulling the stone of the wounded calf, the gem now was dull and flat looking as if whatever made it wonderful had been drained.

"That's incredible." Sam said looking at the wound was well over half healed, not doubting that the internal damage was more than healed.

"How?" Jack blurred out. Nobody noticed Ariana standing slowly, arms tightly wrapped around herself as she started to walk away, when Daniel suddenly bolted forward.

"NO!" He yelled surprising everyone, as he caught the girl as she fell quietly.

"What happen?"

"Is she all right?"

"What went wrong?"

"Get her into a bed."

"Where's my stethoscope?"

Everyone started talking at once, as Daniel just hold her close still kneeling on the floor. He reached down and pulled up her pant leg, shaking his head at the shallow gash on her calf. "Help please." He whispered as everyone still talked. Growling softly he gritted his teeth. He stood quietly, only Jack saw him leave the room caring the one that both harmed and healed him. Following he watched as Daniel took her to his room laying her on his bed. Knocking on the door frame Daniel looked up at him worried, nodding for him to enter.

"What happen?" Jack asked in a deadpan voice.

"It's the price they pay for healing." He was sitting on his desk legs crossed not taking his eyes off the still figure on the semi-messy bed.

"You mean she took it from you and...."

"Took it into herself." Looking at the older man, he brows knitted together. "Somebody could be dying and she wouldn't stop to think of herself. She'd just help them."

"Why is she knocked-out?" Jack asked not understanding.

"She's away from home, her power source. She isn't as strong as she normally is."

"I see..." Then Jack noticed something. "She totally took care of your back." He hesitantly touched the skin that should be half peeled away, Daniel didn't move, surprised at the touch. Jack traced where it should have been before removing his finger, and then himself from the room.

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*Two days later Hammond's Office.*

The balding General sat at his desk, watching the Gym tape for the twenty time, at the sound of a soft knock he pause it just were Daniel had Ariana pinned under his boot. "Come." He said looking up seeing Dr. Jackson's head peaking around the door. "Enter Dr. Jackson. Have a seat." He said directing the far younger man to a chair on the other side of his desk.

"Yes General?"

"Let's have a little talk." He said turning the monitor towards the man sitting opposite of him, he was mildly amused at the disgusted look on the Doctor's face. "Problem?"

"I.. I didn't realize how, umm, you have know idea how weird it is to see myself fighting." Daniel said squinting at the screen.

"You have no idea how strange it is for US to see it. And how well you two held up against each others blows." Hammond said leaning forward. "Is there something you should be sharing?"

"She's... teaching me her meditation and how she is the way she is." He muttered not looking at the screen. Seeing how uncomfortable that made him, Hammond turned off the monitor.

"Is she awake yet?"

"No, but it should happen today. I hope." Daniel said worried.

"I see, and has her injuries healed?"

"Yes sir, completely."

"You've bonded with her a great deal, like most women that come through the StarGate....."

"Yes, well I'm normally the first or only one that can speak to them." Daniel said uncomfortably.

"Are we going to have problems with this one?" Hammond asked delicately.

"No, not at all Sir." Daniel said shaking his head. "If she wanted to harm us in anyway she would have done it already..... Why do you ask?"

"Because if she were I'd have to report it." Seeing Daniel's stricken face, Hammond held up his hand. "But I haven't reported anything yet, most of all I've kept everything from Maybourne."

"You have no idea what a relief it is to hear you say that Sir." Daniel said sighing.

"I have an idea." Hammond said smiling. "Dismissed Dr. Jackson."

"Thank you Sir." Daniel said standing.

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*Hallway*

"Hey Daniel!" Jack said catching up to him.

"Jack." He said nodding.

"How's Ariana?" Jack asked concerned, then wondering why he stopped. "What?"

"That's the first time you called her by her name." Daniel said looking at him surprised.

"Is it?" Jack said nonchalantly. Starting to walk again, a small smile on his face. They walked in quiet both lost in thought, Jack sneaking a glance at his friend, the shorter hair cut growing on him.

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*Daniel Jackson Room/Office*

"So when do you think she'll wake up?" Jack asked as Daniel opened the door.

"Any day now...." Daniel stopped half way in his room, looking at the empty bed.

"What's wrong?" Jack asked coming in, then seeing the bed. "I guess today huh?" They both paused though when the bathroom door opened.

"Oh hey." Ariana said standing wrapped in a large bath towel. "In or out?" She asked running her fingers through her wet hair.

"What?" Jack asked.

"In." Daniel said shutting the door behind them.

"Thanks you were letting a draft in." She said pulling out a pair of black pants from her bag, sliding them on under her towel. Jack arched a brow and looked at Daniel questioningly, the scientist shrugged half sitting on his desk. "So how long have I been out?" Ariana asked turning her back to them, tossing the towel on a chair.

Jack turned away quickly, "About fifty hours." He said growing warm suddenly, as Daniel snickered at Jack's small blush, then tapped him on the shoulder pointing to Ariana. Turning he became puzzled, her back had a this silvery scar exactly where Daniel's wound had been. "Are you ok?"

Clipping her bra, she turned to them and nodded. "Yeah I think so, but being locked up is a real drain. How the hell do you do it?" She asked digging in her duffel bag. pulling out a plain white shirt.

"We leave when we can." Jack said as Daniel pulled the peridot out of his pocket, placing it in her hand when she had finished pulling on her shirt.

"Thank you." He said seriously. Ariana stared at the gem in her hand as if she couldn't recognize it, then smiling with a flip of her hair she winked at them.

"It was no big thing." With that she tossed the stone in her bag and quickly walked out of the room wooden sandals in hand.

"What was that?" Jack asked scratching his head.

"I'm not sure. We should do something for her."

"Like what?"

"I don't know what do teenage girls like to do?" Daniel asked picking up the damp towel and tossing it into the bathroom. Jack sighed and put his fists on his hips.

"What are you getting at Daniel? Shopping? The movies? A hike? She can't leave base yet."

"It's nearly been five days Jack, I really think if she wanted to leave she could have by now." The archeologist crossed his arm and leaned against his desk glancing at the older man. "There's got to be something."

"Yeah... I got it!" Jack said going over to the door.

"W..h..a..t...?" Daniel responded worried for some reason.

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*Jack O'Neil's Office/Room*

"This just might work..." Daniel said impressed.

"I hope so, I was going to use them." Jack said pulling out another fully loaded MP3 setting it down, pulling out a seventh.

"I don't even think she'll be able to listen to it all." Daniel said passing him another.

"I hope not, if so I don't want to have to download the boy bands and Britty's." He said with a grimace, taking another and finishing off.

"Is that all of them?" Daniel asked picking up the box.

"Yep... That is my whole library." Jack said standing.

"And here's mine." Daniel said holding up another box.

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*Mess, Kitchen*

Ariana was laying back on a clean stainless steel counter eating a pear counting the dots in the ceiling tiles, she supposed that she should be writing about her home world, or her lives or something equally dull or responsible. But she was bored out of her mind, she had given them two zip disks full of size eight font and sketches, that would have to be enough for now. Rolling in place she rested her head in the palm of her hand, closely looking at the green skin of the pear.

"Eh hem!"

"EPK!" Looking up she fell off the counter and into a set of strong arms.

"Whoa sorry!" Jack said setting her down, he smiled.

"What's up?" She asked offering him a bite of her pear. Jack started to take it when he shook his head.

"No, thanks. Com'on I wanna show you something." He said stuffing his hands in his pockets.

"Umm ok." She said finishing off the fruit tossing the core in the trash. She playfully looped her arm in his as he lead her away. They didn't see the darkly dressed figure take the core out of the trash and walk away.

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*Rec Room*

"Ok so tell me!" Ariana said leaning against him playfully.

"Tell you what?" Jack asked playing dumb.

"Where we going?" She asked grinning.

"I have no idea." Jack said as he turned into the empty rec. room.

"Hey, cool." She said looking at the fair sized room. Jumping a foot or two in the air when Daniel came up from behind suddenly dropping his hands onto her shoulders pulling her into a hug.

"I really do want to thank you." He said warmly, hugging her tightly around the shoulders.

"Awww... Danny gonna make me cry!!" She said laughing. Pulling away she smacked them both lightly on the arms. "And don't surprise me like that!"

"Tomorrow is your last day." Jack said crossing his arms. "And since we have to drive at least an hour to get any where..." He let Daniel finish.

"We figured you could use some entertainment." With a smile he handed her the two small boxes.

"Shweet." Smiling she sat on a table, and read the labels on each one. "What is this? The entire musical library of Morphus?"

"Almost, just no boy bands...."Jack said with a tight face. "I tend to get green around the collar when I hear them."

"Yeah and I just want to break something... and I'm normally around things that are just a bit too valuable for that." Daniel said in mock seriousness.

"ANY way..." Jack said thinking. "Tomorrow is your last day stuck with us old fogies, so is there anything you want to know about Earth?"

"Hate to tell you Jack but I've been on the Web since I got here."

"And?"

"Not much left that can surprise except the people themselves." She then looked at them serious. "Is there some place we can talk and not have to worry about big brother?" She asked nodding to the cameras.

"Ah yeah." Jack said leading them away."

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*Jack O'Neil's Office/Room Bathroom.*

"This is weird..." Ariana said sitting on the toilet resovoure.

"Trust me no way anyone can know what we're talking about in here." Jack said leaning against the sink.

"So what did you want to talk to us about?" Daniel asked sitting on the edge of the tub.

"Well... I've had three lives in this life time..." She started.

"But you've only told us about two..." Daniel filled in.

"Right." Ariana said with a nod.

"And?" The Col. pushed.

"The third was here, on Earth, with my father." She smiled. "I want to get to know him, again."