UNSCEDULED GATE ACTIVATION!! UNCHEDULED GATE ACTIVATION!! The mechanical voice blared.
"Receiving SG-1's remote code!"
"Open the iris!" he ordered
A moment later, the four members of SG-1 clattered onto the ramp, looking bewildered as they stumbled through of the shimmering, fluctuating pool of light.
The gray haired colonel looked up at him through the observation room window and waved. And suddenly he disappeared. In a second, the fair-haired major dissipated. The blued-eyed archeologist looked up at him, shrugged, and vanished.
Teal'C was already gone.
And suddenly, it all disappeared, dissolved, and suddenly a sunlit living room materialized, and in its center, sitting at his desk, sat a bald elderly man, who, despite his weight, still looked active, though perhaps a bit resigned now. He sighed, shaking off the dream, and picked up a magazine, flipped through it, and put it down. He turned on the television. Changed the station. Changed it again. And again. Turned the TV off. Picked up the magazine again. Put it down, and sighed.
Being retired was ok. After all, he'd planned to long ago. It was just a little…dull. Sure, he got to see Kayla and Tessa more often, it was just…after the stargate, it was hard not to expect…more. He sighed again.