Daniel was no dummy. He hired Dawn as temporary help, getting the necessary clearances for her to work on the top-secret things that the SG teams regularly brought back through the gate. He was pleased that he did, for between them they cleared a lot of the backlog of translations in record time.

It was the middle of the summer and one afternoon Dawn was lying on Daniel's couch, rolling a stone with inscriptions on it around in her hands. She felt like she should be able to read it but was batting zero so far.

"Hey beautiful lady."

Dawn looked up to see Jon lounging in the doorway. "Hi!" she jumped up and grabbed him for a hug and kiss. He had been busy at the Academy, going through student orientation and she hadn't seen him for several days.

They kissed passionately, the rock in Dawn's hand forgotten as she got wrapped up in the kiss. A snort from Daniel as he squeezed by made them pull apart reluctantly. Dawn was about to say something when she opened her hand that held the rock and stared.

"Daniel!" She held out her hand and he grabbed it, realizing what she saw.

"Clay. We need some clay." And he dashed out the door.

Jon peered at the fading marks in Dawn's hand, "Ok, I give. What is it?"

"No one's been able to figure out these stones that were discovered on some planet, I forget the name. Now we know why! The stone is like a stamp, you have to press it onto something to be able to read it!"

Jon smiled at the excitement in her voice. "Huh."

She leaned forward and kissed him sweetly, "Don't play dumb with me Jonathon O'Neill."

"Why not? It always works for me." Came Jack's voice from the doorway.

Daniel pressed by him, carrying a flat tray with a lump of clay on it. "Jack, why are you here?" he looked at his friend over his glasses.

"It's almost lunch Daniel." Jack replied patiently.

Daniel was busy smoothing the clay with what looked like a wooden knife, "Lunch is going to have to wait." He said absently. He reached for the stone and rolled it onto the clay like you would take a fingerprint. It was immediately obvious that the markings were a language, and there were also some symbols that only showed up in the clay, but were invisible on the stone's surface. Daniel looked up with a big smile, "Dawn, you are a star."

Dawn blushed and moved around to peer at the clay. She pointed at the first symbol, "Isn't that…doesn't that look like.." she looked at Daniel who smiled.

"Oh yeah. It's a derivative of ancient Greek." He replied with satisfaction.

"So now can we go to lunch?" came Jack's long suffering voice.

They were in the cafeteria eating lunch, Daniel and Dawn talking about what there might be on the planet where the stones had been found. Daniel was already making plans to go with SG-12 to do some more excavating of the ruins.

"So, why is this so important?" Jack asked quickly while Daniel's mouth was full.

Daniel quickly chewed and drank some of his coffee to clear his mouth, "Because Jack, they are related to the ancient Greeks. The Greeks were ahead of their times in mathematics, sciences, government. If they were transplanted to this planet, then after so many thousands of years there maybe technology equal, if not greater to our own!"

Jack eyes his enthusiastic friend, "Huh."

Dawn shook her head, "Oy. How does anyone fall for that?"

Both Jack and Jon smiled at her complacently, "It works because it has the advantage of people underestimating us." Jon replied.

Several days later….

Jay was standing in the control room, staring pensively through the glass as he watched his wife get ready to go on her first official mission. She was joking with Daniel as she adjusted the straps on his backpack, then she turned to have him check hers. SG-12 was readying the boxes of archeological tools as the gate activated. The malp telemetry had come back clear, and the UAV had done an aerial sweep and failed to turn up anything as well, so the mission to P9972, or as Jack called it, 'The planet of the stoned Greeks' was a go. General Hammond leaned forward to speak into the mike, "SG-12, Doctor Jackson, Mrs. Coburn, you have a go."

Buffy turned and looked up at her husband, waved cheerfully and followed Daniel through the event horizon. The gate disengaged and Jay sighed. Jack clapped his friend on the shoulder, "Relax."

A grunt, "Easy for you to say."

This planet had no dhd so the team made sure that their throwaway was with them. SG-12 set up camp and Major Rowden and Buffy did a quick tour of the perimeter. There was a clean, clear stream nearby and the temperatures were in the low 70's. All in all it was the perfect place to do a little digging in the dirt.

Daniel and SG-12's archeologist were in hog heaven. They spent the first three days surveying the temple site and it's broken doric columns. Buffy was Daniel's faithful shadow, making sure that he took it easy, ate regularly and didn't stay up 'til the wee hours of the morning writing in his journals.

On the 4th day they had finished their surveys and were starting soil analyses and video recordings. Dr. Gibbs and Daniel discussed the ruins and whether there might be more buildings in the area.

"Buffy, I'm going to head north and see of there are additional buildings that would normally be part of the temple complex."

She shrugged, "Ok by me. Grab your gear and let's go." Daniel smiled. He was enjoying having Buffy babysit him. Plus she was easy on the eyes.

Buffy let Major Rowden know what they were doing and then she and Daniel began to hike north. She let Daniel rattle on about the artifacts that had been found while she kept her eyes moving and her ears open. Another column spearing out of the shrubs sent him into spasms of delight and he began to shove through the underbrush.

"Daniel, wait up!" Buffy called, then shook her head fondly as she watched him ooh and ahh over a piece of marble.

"Look at this Buffy! I was right. This is a secondary temple building. Look at these lines." Buffy let him look around before making him sit and eat lunch. They finished and began to head into the taller trees when Buffy stiffened and glanced around. She turned to say something to Daniel when she saw an unknown someone thrust a spear towards the archaeologist.

"Daniel run!" Buffy shouted, shoving him out of the way and getting pinned to the tree with the spear through her shoulder.

"Buffy!" he turned to go back to her but she shook her head, "Get back to SG-12 now! I'll try to make it back to the gate. Go!" she shouted and watched with relief as he turned and disappeared into the brush.

"Damn." She glanced up at the incoming soldiers flooding the area. Her shoulder ached and she sighed with resignation as she was surrounded. It was time to play blond and dumb.

Daniel was breathless as he burst into the clearing beside the ruins, then bent over gulping in air.

"Dr. Jackson?" The Major hurried over, alarmed to see how pale the archeologist, and became even more concerned as he noticed the blood on the man's uniform.

"There's unfriendly natives headed this way." Daniel gasped out, taking the water bottle offered by Dr. Gibbs.

"Where's Buffy?"

Daniel grimaced, "Last I saw she was pinned to a tree with a spear through her shoulder." He moved quickly to his pack and got the dhd.

The Major's eyebrows raised, "What? Christ, Coburn is going to kill me." He turned to the others just as a spear whizzed by. "Everyone head to the gate!" he shouted and they all sprinted for the Stargate, the natives hot on their heels. As they got closer Rowden began to lay cover fire, "Jackson, dial us out!"

***

"Unauthorized gate activation!" Sgt. Davis announced.

Jack and General Hammond quickly entered the control room, "Who is it Davis?" Jack asked.

"It's SG-12's code Sir."

"Call Colonel Coburn Jack. SG-12 wasn't supposed to report in for another 2 days." General Hammond turned to the Sgt. "Open the iris."

Jay arrived just as the even horizon stabilized. He watched as SG-12, Daniel and two spears came through, then the gate shut down.

"Where's Buffy?" He asked. Jack and the General raced to the gateroom, Jay on their heels.

"Daniel?" Jack asked, coming close enough to see the blood and be concerned.

"I'm ok Jack. This isn't mine." Daniel flinched as his eyes met Jay's.

"What happened son?" The General asked Major Rowden.

"Sir, Dr. Jackson and Buffy went to search out another part of the temple, they had been gone for an hour when Dr. Jackson raced back saying the unfriendly natives were headed our way."

"And Mrs. Coburn?" he turned to Daniel.

"Buffy was pinned to a tree with a spear. She told me to leave her. I didn't want to Jay." Daniel's eyes pleaded with his friend to understand.

Jack patted Daniel comfortingly on the shoulder, "You did the right thing Danny. No point both of you being captured." He watched Jay with concern.

Jay closed his eyes in pain. His wife was missing.