"Thanks guys, it's been fun." Sam said as she climbed out of the car
in the base parking lot.

"You're welcome."

"Teal'c I'll walk you in." Sam said as she grabbed her bag. She'd already fished her base ID out earlier.

"Carter, we don't have to start work again until tomorrow morning. Please tell me you're not going to start an experiment now." Jack stated.

"I'm just going to check there weren't any problems with the gate over the weekend and then I'm going home for the night."

"Good. I'll see you in the morning then. Daniel do you need a lift home?" Jack asked.

"That would be great Jack, my car is in the shop until tomorrow. Have a nice evening Sam. You too Teal'c."

"Thank you Daniel Jackson." Teal'c nodded and started to move towards the base with Sam keeping in step beside. Him.

~

"Captain Carter, I thought you were on downtime until tomorrow." Hammond said as she entered the control room. She'd changed back in to her uniform.

"I am sir, but I thought I'd come and run a diagnostic and see if there were any problems while I was away."

"I see. Carry on." He instructed. "Oh by the way did you have a nice birthday?"

"Yes sir thank you. I'm sure Colonel O'Neill will be more than happy to fill you in on the weekends events sir." Sam said with a smile.

"I'm sure he will. I'll be in my office if there are any problems."

"Yes sir." Sam said and sat at the computer consul.

~

"Janet?" Sam called as she entered the infirmary.

"Sam? I thought you were on leave until tomorrow." Janet said as she stepped out of her office.

"I am, we got back a couple of hours ago so I thought I'd check up on the gate before I went home."

"Any problems?" Janet inquired.

"No. So do you want to hear about my weekend?"

"Of course, lets go to the commissary. I'm due a break, let me tell someone where I'll be an I'll meet you there."

"Okay. Coffee, white with two sugars?" She asked.

"Yes please."

~

"Here this is from me and Cass." Janet placed a box on the table in front of Sam.

"Thank you." Sam lifted the lid and inside was a hand painted vase, obviously done by Cassie. "It's beautiful. I call Cassie and thank her later."

"So what happened after Teal'c hauled you out of here over his shoulder?" Janet asked.

"We went to Denver and checked into this really nice motel. Then the Colonel insisted we went to the zoo, but Teal'c got caught in the turnstile." Janet smiled. "Then Daniel made some comment about one of the apes looking like the Colonel when he was bored, I couldn't stop laughing."

"That sounds about right. So what happened after you went to the zoo?"

"We had dinner at a restaurant. They got me a cake at couple minutes after a midnight; it was made to look like Earth. Saturday morning we had breakfast at a diner across from the motel. The commissary staff sent me this huge blue Jell-O. After that we spent the day at a theme park. All the guys were a little green at some stage. Then that night we went to a bar, and this drunken guy decided he'd get a little overfriendly so the Colonel punched him out and got barred from the bar. He and I had a blazing row about me being able to protect yourself."

"Sounds like a bad day. Did you work it out?" Janet inquired.

"Yeah, we yelled and cleared the air. So on Sunday we went to a science museum, but Daniel found they had a slight error in the translation of the Egyptian Mummies exhibit. When we found Colonel to ask him if Daniel could talk to the curator about it, he was playing with the lightning ball."

"That's our Colonel O'Neill." Jack let out a big grin.

"It gets better, Daniel and I went to talk to the curator and they wouldn't listen to him even after I showed them my ID. So they called the Colonel and he got a little defensive about Daniel's skills and threatened to call the President to get him to tell him about Daniel. But they weren't too happy so we got thrown out." Janet burst out laughing. A few of the people on the scattered on tables all over the room looked at her.

"Sorry." Janet said when she calmed down.

"It was pretty funny. After that I took them for ice-cream, I never seen a guy take so long to decide what he wants so I ended up helping order. After that we went bowling. The Colonel was getting straight strikes so I tried to distract him but he scored a strike and hauled me off my feet."

"I take it you didn't take that too well." Janet asked.

"No. He ended up on his back on the floor. After that I took them to meet my friend Curt and the Rockies."

"As in the Colorado Rockies Baseball team?" Janet questioned in awe.

"Yes, Curt's a pitcher and an old friend of my brother's. The Colonel was sort of in shock so he spent the rest of the night and most of the morning repeating the fact that he'd met the Rockies, which is why I'm not telling him I used to date one of the Minnesota Wild. But forgetting that, we went and saw a really bad movie and the Colonel threw soda down my leg after I may have accidentally hit him in the head with some popcorn. Then after lunch we went to play laser quest. Daniel challenged him to us versus the Colonel and Teal'c. The Colonel accused me of shooting like a girl. So while Daniel practised cover fire I snuck round not firing until I was stood right behind the Colonel with my laser gun to his head on his knees. After that I took Teal'c out too. It was fun then we came home."

"Sounds like you really did have good weekend." Janet admitted. "It's a shame I had to miss it."

"I'll talk to the Colonel about including you next time he plans something like this."

"Captain Carter." Someone said stood at the end of the table.

"Yes Sgt." Sam said looking up at him.

"Ma'am, Colonel O'Neill asked me to give you a message. He said you should have left by now, the gate is functioning fine. If when he calls back in thirty minutes you're still here he will order the SF's to eject you out of the base until tomorrow morning."

"When the Colonel calls back tell him I was talking to Dr Fraiser but I'll be leaving shortly."

"Yes ma'am." The Sgt left them.

"He called to check up on you?" Janet asked.

"I promised I'd leave after I checked on the gate. I'd better go, it was embarrassing enough on Friday I'm not getting thrown out of the base otherwise I'll never live it down. I'll call Cass before her bed time and I'll see you tomorrow." Sam stood and took the box with the vase in her hand.

"Night Sam." Janet called.

"Night."

THE END