Carter wasn't alone. She was walking with Daniel, Sally, Gina and an assortment of other girls who were basically just following Daniel around to see what he was going to do next so they could do it with him. Sam thought it was cute the way the girls followed Daniel, although she knew he didn't find it quite as charming as she did. She did know that he needed a little time away from the girls, though; otherwise he was going to probably go nuts. So when she saw Jack walking out of China, she grinned and waved him over.

O'Neill walked over to the group, smiling at the girls and Sally, and scooping up Gina, who always wanted to be held if she could.

"Hey guys, what's up?" He settled Gina carefully so her weight wasn't resting against anything that hurt too badly.

"Daniel's ready for that talk, now, Jack." Sam said, reaching over and taking Gina from the Colonel.

Jack didn't have a clue what Carter was talking about – which normally wasn't anything new anyways - but this time, he didn't even have a starting point.

"The talk?"

"You know, the talk you wanted to have with him about your plans for tonight." She was giving him some sort of eye and body language, obviously trying to tell him something, but Jack didn't have a clue.

"Um, yes. The talk." It was obvious that Daniel had no more idea what was going on than Jack did, but both men nodded.

"Well... come on, Daniel. If you're ready, we better have that... talk."

"What was that all about?" Daniel asked a moment later as the two of them walked down the hill towards the horse corral. "Are we supposed to be having a talk?"

"Not that I know of."

"Well...?"

Jack shrugged. "You didn't ask her to have me talk to you?"

"Why would I do that, Jack?"

"I don't know."

"So... um..."

"Yeah..."

They found themselves walking next to the pole fence of the corral, and Daniel realized that none of the girls had followed him and Jack. It was kind of refreshing to him to not turn around and see a little girl watching his next step.

"So, how's the hand?"

"Fine. And your face?"

"Fine."

"Good..."

"Yeah..."

"Talk's over?"

"Oh yeah."

"It's kind of nice, though."

"What is?"

"The girls stayed with Sam."

"Ah. You do have quite a following here, don't you?"

"So... what's going on with you and Sam?"

"What's going on with you and Sally?"

Both men were silent for a moment, staring at each other.

"So... Talk's over?"

"Oh yeah."

"Daniel! Jack!" The two turned at the call, and saw that Gary Hines was walking up to them, holding the schedule in his hand.

"Hey. I'm going around asking the counselors what they want to do for the evening activity tonight. We can have a campfire, or we can have a game. Do you have a preference?"

"Game." Both said this immediately and Gary smiled. Male counselors always seemed to prefer games to singing. Of course, so far all but one of the female counselors he'd asked had voted for games as well, so it was even this week.

"Okay. Looks like we'll be playing games, then. Do you think Murray would prefer games over campfire?"

"I'm sure of it."

"Great. Then I'll see you at dinner. I need to go get everything set up."

"See you."

They looked at each other again, still uncertain if there was something Carter had wanted them to talk about that they'd missed.

"So..."

"Yeah..."

"Good talking with you, Jack."

"You, too, Daniel."

Daniel turned and headed for the cabin, still looking mystified, and Jack turned and headed for a cup of coffee, feeling equally bewildered.