Chapter 16: Giles is here, and he brought a friend….
To say Daniel was excited was to leave no word adequate to describe exactly how excited he was. Even Teal'c had commented, utterly serious he had asked if Daniels decaf had been swapped for triple expresso's, a comment that had the colonel holding his sides, and General Hammond beating a hasty retreat behind his office door, where he was heard to collapse laughing.
It was not that Rupert Giles, one of the few people to have accepted his theories years before when he had been laughed out of academia was coming, it had nothing to do with all he had heard about this man, his life since leaving the British Museum, but everything to do with the book he carried with him. The Pergamon Codex, a book believed lost with the library of Alexandria so many thousands of years ago. Okay, so it wasn't an original, but this was still one of the discoveries of the century! A copy of this legendary book kept safe all these years!
Daniel was interrupted in his thoughts by an airman walking into the briefing room where SG-1 were waiting,
"Sirs, there are two people at the gate who insist that you called them here"
O'Neill raised an eyebrow, a habit he had picked up off Teal'c, two people?
Teal'c and Carter smothered grins, they could guess who the second person was, the Colonels face should be a picture.
"Well? Who are they?" O'Neill asked.
"A Dr Rupert Giles, and a Willow Rosenberg"
They weren't disappointed.
"Rosenberg here?!" O'Neill cursed, and began preying that no snakes choose today to visit.
"Find Buffy Summers and Xander Harris, last I saw they were carrying Ferreti to the Infirmary after he challenged Xander to a fight, and have them meet us in the guardroom"
The airman nodded and left as SG-1 left for the guardroom at the mountain entranced,
"Xander took Ferreti out?" Carter asked, amused.
"Said something about normal strength opponents not exactly being a challenge in a one-on-one anymore" O'Neill grinned, "Therapeutic deflation of ego's I call it, especially once the tapes have made the rounds…"
"Sir! How could you! Selling tapes of Ferreti getting humiliated like that!" Carter paused in her mock rant "I thought we had first dibs sir!"