Summary: AU. Senator Kinsey manages to shut down the Stargate (for an unexplained reason, don't ask) sometime in season 4/5 and now everyone must move on.

Pairing: Sam/Jack kinda, more on that later maybe(I'm more of a Verne than a Dumas)

Rating: PG just to be safe I guess, but its very clean.

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"Professor, you're an Egyptologist, right?"

"Yes, that's right…heh, that's why I'd be teaching Egyptology" The young, brown-haired professor responded, fixing his glasses, wondering what this interruption had to do with anything

"And that's what you've always been, and kind of geeky?"

"Um, I'll ignore the… latter half of that sentence... eh, yes."

"Then what's with the army fatigues?"

Daniel Jackson looked down at his green baggy pants.

 Oops. It had been several weeks since the stargate program had been shut down, and everyone involved had been reassigned, and several weeks since he had started at Columbia as a professor of Egyptology, but the reflex of putting on the military uniform to work had not yet faded, and the military uniform in question had still not left his closet. His SG-1 jacket had been confiscated, to get rid of any evidence of there ever being a stargate, but everything else he had kept. It was not his first day teaching, of course, he had been there over a week, but today he had had a late morning, today he had had another haunting dream about the stargate, and today the dream had been particularly vivid, enough to bring back some old 'gating habits. Already today he had almost started teaching Abydonian to the students, and now he realized he was not wearing the neat pressed pants he usually wore.

     "Oh, well, I…" CCRRLIIING!!! Saved by the bell he thought, as the period ended and the students started filling out of the classroom, rustling papers away and folding laptops. Will I have time to go home and change during lunch? Not if I want to eat, he thought. Better start thinking of a story…he was on a dare…an old friend-oh boy…

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"Sam!" Daniel pulled his bag over his shoulder as he entered the busy hallway, running to greet his friend

"Daniel, hey" she smiled and greeted him "what's with the pants?"

"Don't ask…" he sighed, " Y'know one of my students asked the same thing…" he laughed a little "some of these people are so… are your students this-"

"Argumentative. Yes. Try to explain to them theoretical astrophysics. I tried to explain a new theory I derived from the stargate, and all they have is contradictions and-"

"And you can't tell them how you know you're right because the stargate is classified. I know, everyone jumps on me for pronouncing things 'wrong', and you know that what we know isn't known to the general public and-"

"Therefore not in the curriculum, I know! Its so frustrating!"

There was a short silence

"You hear from jack yet?"

"Not for a few weeks, last I heard since he retired he was moving to Minnesota for an indefinite fishing trip, so…"

"So he probably doesn't even have a phone"

She smiled weakly "I hate this, how could senator Kinsey just shut us down like that!" she sighed, her eyes reddening

"Sam?"

 "Its my dads birthday. This will be the first time in years we haven't been together today…without a stargate...I'll never hear from him again, or Teal'C, I mean, they could be dying somewhere, and…" she choked, her eyes welled with tears but she forced herself not to cry. Daniel looked pensive, his forehead creased. This was all so wrong, but what could they do?

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So whadya think? Chapters two&three are coming soon, but I can't guarantee anything after that. If you want to flame, flame, just pleeaase review!!