Jack? by Teri
Chapter 16 "Laugh It Up"
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Mac and Sam took the controls and got far enough away before the ship exploded, just as Mac planned.
"Hey, it looks like the Death Star." Mac grinned.
"Does that mean you think you are Luke Skywalker?" Daniel asked.
"Nah, I'm more of the Han Solo type. You be Luke."
"Great and Sam gets to be Leia." Daniel added.
"Interesting casting." Sam grinned to herself. "So, that means you are a scruffy nerf-herder?"
"Hey!"
Becoming more serious, "So, Colonel Simmons was aboard the ship when it exploded?" Sam asked.
"Well, no." Daniel started.
"What Daniel is trying to tell you Major is that Colonel Simmons was cast in the role of Darth Vader." Jack grinned. "Like Vader at the end of the original episode he is probably spinning out to space in his own ship, hopefully not to bother us for quite a while."
"Jack, I would like to complain about that casting." Daniel said with a slight grimace.
"Why? It fits. He was the bad guys right-hand man who managed to get away just in time." Jack shrugged.
Sam realizing Daniel's complaint started laughing. Earning herself a glare from Daniel.
"Watch it Leia, you've got the same problem." Daniel looked at Sam pointedly. Jack looked confused. Turning to Jack, Daniel continued.
"Yeah, but Jack. You said I was Luke and I don't want to be Simmons' son." Daniel mock whined.
Jack's eyes widened as he began to laugh and then Daniel joined in as well.
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Jack and his crew soon made contact with Teal'c and the others. Thor was confident that his people would soon pick-up their signal and return SG-1 to earth before much time passed. In the mean time, they set a course for Earth, which was the nearest Stargate.
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"So, Mr. X. Before you were looking for a good time to have a talk with us. I don't think you will get a better chance." Daniel said.
"Yeah," Sam added with a grin. "It's quiet now."
"Sam!" "No!" Daniel and Jack yelled in unison.
"What?"
"You just jinxed us." Daniel explained.
"That's silly." She replied. "Thinks like that don't happen in real life. Daniel deals in mythology I can forgive him for being superstitious, but you Col . . ."
The ship rocked as if it had been hit by a blast. The last thing any of them knew was that everything went black.
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The End.
~~~~ Just kidding.
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"Welcome back Colonel!"
Jack opened his eyes slowly and saw the face of Dr. Janet Fraiser hovering above him.
"What happened?" He asked confused. "Where?"
"You're in the Sickbay, Sir." Janet told him.
Jack squinted at her. "Sickbay, Doc? You been watching Star Trek with Cassie again?"
"Sorry, Colonel. You are in the Infirmary. What is the last think you remember?"
"Well, there was the Klingon Bird of Prey . . ."
"Sir." She said with an exasperated sigh.
"A Romulan War Bird?"
"Sir." Her tone held a warning of pain if he continued.
"Dominion?"
She placed her hands on her hips in what Jack could only describe as a typical mother pose.
"Fine." He grumbled as he tried to sit himself up. "Be that way."
She rolled her eyes at him. Why was it she missed him when he had been away?
"Damn it Jack, she's a doctor, not a comedienne." In walked Colonel Makepeace doing his best Dr. McCoy impression.
"Colonel? What are you doing back here again? Can't I get rid of you?" Janet shook her head.
"Well it seems to me you told me to come back for a check-up today." He said innocently. "Course, now I see you already have a Colonel in here and of course you know you have a one Colonel per day limit, So, I'll just be going."
"Halt! About face!" Janet called pointing to another area of the infirmary. "March. 1-2-3-4 1-2-3-4." Makepeace did as told. "We have new doctor. He will see you in a few minutes."
"He? We finally got a guy doctor?" Makepeace grinned. "Now the men of this base will have a safe haven from you."
"Yes, Colonel." She rolled her eyes. God save her from Colonels who think they are funny. "Dr. Cleaver is a fine surgeon."
Jack sounded like he was choking.
Robert just looked at Janet like she was crazy. "Our new Doctor, a surgeon, is named Cleaver? What Dr. Butcher and Dr. Hacksaw were unavailable?"
Jack finally stopped choking and pulled himself together. "Doc, what's Cleaver's first name? Beaver?"
"Ward?" Robert supplied.
Jack suggested, "Wally?"
"My mother actually calls me Wally, Sir, but I tend to prefer Walter or Walt." A young man in his mid-thirties came around the corner. "I believe you are up next Colonel Makepeace. If you could step in we can get started. Oh, Doctor Fraiser, did you want to take a look at Lt. Alexander before I sign off on his post-op check-up?"
"Yeah, thanks Wally..er Walt, sorry." She said blushing.
The other Doctor grinned and walked back where he came from.
Makepeace looked at Janet. "Alex is back there?" He said with a gleeful look. "We get to break in the new Doctor together." He started going to the back, the last thing Janet and Jack heard from him was, "Ah, Grasshopper I am here." "I've been waiting master."
"Doc, you think the new guy can take both of them, together?" Jack asked.
"It makes a good initiation for him. If he can handle Moe and Curly he certainly can face the horrors of the SGC." She smiled. "So Colonel, I believe you were going to tell me what you remember before we were so rudely interrupted."
"Gee, you have a one track mind. Fine, the last think I remember is the ship starting to rock then waking up here."
"Good, the way you were joking I didn't think there was any memory damage, but I had to ask." Janet explained. "Something in the transport -process reacted badly to the arsine in your system." She looked at him for a moment slightly confused. "Just how did you get Arsine in your system? Isn't it used strictly in the manufacture of small electronics?"
He grinned at her. "You mean Carter and Daniel didn't explain?"
"No," she said with frustration. "They said it was a story you should tell."
"Tell you what Doc., just come to the briefing. I'm sure Hammond will make me tell the whole story and I . . .," he sighed, "just don't feel like telling it twice. Anyway, you said the others were alright?" He looked around the room. "So, where are they?"
"Daniel and Sam were also unconscious for a while but woke up just before the Asguard transported you back." She explained. "As for where? Well, Colonel, I'm a Doctor, not a babysitter."
She and the Colonel turned to the sound of applause behind her.
"I give it a eight. Nice timing and the line does sound better coming from an actual doctor." Alex touted off.
"I don't know Lieutenant. The delivery was a little rough and I just couldn't hear Dr. McCoy. I'll give her a five." Robert grinned.
"But, Colonel," Alex rebutted. "She deserves the points, this was her first time. Jokes are not as easy as they look."
"True." Robert grinned again. "Perhaps you should sit down. The first one is never easy."
"Right, sit down Doc., I'll get help." He turned and called out in a tone that made it clear that his words were joking. "Paging Doctor Wally Cleaver - Paging Doctor Wally Cleaver, Emergency, Emergency, Come Right Away!"
Jack watched wondering why the kid was trying to twitch his nose as he said it.
Dr. Cleaver popped his head in. "What?" He said sounding way too much like Jack O'Neill.
Robert turned to him, a picture of seriousness. "This patient may have broken her funny bone, due to sudden use after years of neglect."
Walt just rolled his eyes, wondering when he walked into an episode of MASH. He shook his head and started to walk away.
"But Wally . . . " Alex said with a whine.
Walt stopped and turned to Janet. "Doctor, I suggest you take two aspirin for the headache you must have and ban these gentlemen from the Infirmary." He turned back to leave wondering how fast he could complete the transfer request.
"So help me if the three of you cost me another Doctor!" She said angrily.
"Hey, Doc. Innocent here." Jack said pointing to himself.
Alex snorted, but it was Robert who responded. "Jack old boy, I don't think you have been innocent in quite a long time."
"Oh for crying out loud!" Janet said getting up-set. "You two," she said pointing at Alex and Robert, "Get out!"
Alex and Robert left as ordered. On the way out, Alex leaned over to Robert and whispered, "'For Crying out Loud?' I think she has spent to much time with O'Neill."
Robert grinned a moment, but then noticing the look on Janet's face grabbed Alex's shirt and pulled him faster out of the room. "Careful, don't want to make the lady with the big needles to mad."
As the guys left Janet, turned around to Jack, "you are also cleared to go, but come back for a check-up in the morning."
Jack gave her a small sympathetic smile. "Thanks Doc., you know those Aspirin are probably a good idea."
She nodded and turned to get the pills as Jack left. He was gone before she thought to warn him that Nick was on base and even worse that his son, wow his son, Sam was here too.
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Robert and Alex were chatting as they walked into the Mess Hall.
"Hey Alex, I am going in town this evening to watch a double feature, wanna come?"
"Sure, what's playing?"
"'Interview with the Vampire' and 'Dracula'"
"I think I'll find something else to do. Thank you very much." Alex grumbled as they found somewhere to sit down.
"Aww, Lieutenant isn't scared of Vampires, is he?"
"Hardly."
Nick quirked his eyebrow upon hearing the last part of the conversation.
"Uncle Nick? Hello Nick?" Sam Malloy said, waiving his hand in front of his father's old friend.
"Sorry Sam." He smiled slightly. "What were you saying?"
"I was wondering where I could go to get information on what happened to Dad. No one will tell me anything." He said rather frustrated.
"You know they have an archeology department around here." Nick sighed. "I realize your Dad isn't there now, but if he was on this base at all you and I both know he would have stopped there. Janet says that Dr. Jackson, he's the head, his office has more artifacts than the Smithsonian."
Sam chuckled, "Yeah, Dad loved to look at those rocks. I'll see what I can find."
He rose to leave, but Nick placed a hand on his arm. "Sammy, this is still a restricted base. They've shown up a lot of latitude, but I think you better find KB, the Sarge, or someone to take you up."
Sam merely grinned at him, "Where would be the fun in that." He winked and left.
Nick sat shaking his head, "Like Father, Like Son."
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Jack walked out of the Infirmary thinking about what to do next. 'First, I'll check on the kids and make sure they were all right. Janet said they were, but I want to see for myself. Then, I'll see General Hammond, set-up a debriefing, and find out what story he gave Nick and Adam before sending them on their way. Hopefully, it will be an explanation that will allow MacGyver to maintain their friendship. After that, I really need to call Pete. He probably thinks I fell off the planet, not far from the truth. Good thing Sam was on assignment or he would be worried about not hearing from me too. Probably try to mount a rescue mission to find me.' He chuckled to himself. 'He must get that from his mother's side. Maybe a preventive e-mail would be a good idea. So first I'll head over to my office . . . wait, no office, no computer. Nearly, forgot I retired - again. Danny will let me use his.' Game plan set, he went to go check on Daniel and steal his computer.
He arrived at Daniel's office, but Daniel wasn't there. He really needed to e-mail Sam so he let himself in. "Hopefully, he won't mind, course he never did before." Silently reminding himself that things aren't like they were before.
He signed on his e-mail and composed a letter to Sam, he then decided to check the rest of his letters. He had rigged it so that all e-mail, instant messages, and the like were all filtered through one program. So he didn't have to log on to multiple accounts. This was nice, because he could check Jack's e-mail, Mac's e-mail, Dexter's e-mail, and all his other accounts at the same time. One e-mail caught his eye from: DJPyramids@LostInSpace.com - Help Information Needed.
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Daniel and Sam Carter were in Sam's lab huddled over her computer.
"So Daniel, tell me again what information you were able to dig-up on the Colonel
"As I said before, Dr. MacGyver is just as classified as Col. O'Neill. The only record I found of him outside of general tax and property records as well as employment records at the Phoenix Foundation was in the internal files of the SGC." Daniel reminded her.
"And none of it had a first name?" She still couldn't get past that.
"Nope. I have also put out a few discreet inquires for his name and other information with an information hacker I know."
"You know an information broker, Daniel?" Sam asked amused at the thought of Daniel with shady friends. She pictured him with dark glasses and a dark hat skulking in back alleys.
Daniel chuckled realizing what Sam was thinking, "No more of the best person with a computer I have ever known. Dexter Fillmore. I figured that if he couldn't find something . . . then no one could."
"Have you heard from him?"
"Not yet, but if you let me log on from here I'll see if he has sent something."
Sam gave her permission, then asked him another question. "Okay, so what did it say about him in the SGC files?" Sam asked, wondering what the possible tie in could be.
"Well it seems," Daniel began with a smile, "that Jack was part. . . . Hey," he pointed at the screen. "He's logged on -- this is the guy I was telling you about." Daniel quickly clicked on the name to send an instant message.
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DJPyramids: Hey Dex!
DextersLab: Hi, It has been a while. Glad to hear from you.
Jack sat back grinning at Daniel's computer, "You'll never know how glad, this will be fun."
DJPyramids: It had been a while. Have you found the information I asked about?
DextersLab: You mean on Neferteri?
DJPyramids: No Dex
DextersLab: Oh, you mean the MacGyver stuff?
DJPyramids: Yeah
DextersLab: Well, he is a tricky one - slippery character, he is.
Sam looked at Daniel, "This is the best you could do?"
Daniel rolled his eyes, "Give me a break, I am an archeologist not an international spy."
"I don't know. Double-0-Daniel has a ring to it."
DJPyramids: So . . .
DextersLab: Oh, well -- He was born in Chicago, IL, but raised in Minnesota. In fact, he still owns his grandfather's cabin there, supposedly has great fishing.
"Cabin." Sam repeated aloud.
"Fishing? Is there more to him than Fishing?" Daniel wondered aloud.
DJPyramids: So he was born a MacGyver?
DextersLab: No, he was born Homo Sapiens
"Since when did Dex learn sarcasm?" Daniel wondered.
DextersLab: Of course, he was.
DJPyramids: Dex were you able to find his first name?
DextersLab: Yeah, course if I had a first name like his I wouldn't tell anyone either.
"Something worse than Dexter? No wonder he keeps it a secret." Sam smiled Daniel just nodded his head in agreement.
DJPyramids: What is it?
DextersLab: What's what?
DJPyramids: His NAME Dex
DextersLab: MacGyver. You're the one who told me. Are you feeling ok Daniel?
Jack could just picture the look of consternation his friend's face.
DJPyramids: His FIRST name
DextersLab: Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent.
Daniel looked up at Sam, "I think he is possessed."
"I think he is demented," Sam countered.
"That too."
DextersLab: What else you want to know?
DJPyramids: Does he have children?
DextersLab: Yeah
DJPyramids: How many?
DextersLab: That's tough to say
DJPyramids: Why?
DextersLab: He each has one.
"I told you demented." Sam reiterated.
Daniel frowned, "Not if MacGyver has a son and Jack had Charlie."
"Oh."
DJPyramids: Their names?
DextersLab: Oh yeah *grins*
DextersLab: One is named Sean, the other is a secret - not Mac's son. shhhh.......
"There's another son besides Charlie?" Daniel said. "I wonder where he is."
"Sean MacGyver. We'll have to look for information on him. Maybe it will help us find something about the Colonel." Sam suggested.
DJPyramids: You can tell me
DextersLab: No can do partner
DJPyramids: Okay, then what else can you tell me?
DextersLab: He is the acting head of the Phoenix foundation.
DextersLab: I've done work for them. He's a nice guy
DJPyramids: You know MacGyver?
DextersLab: Sure. We're real close.
"Yeap, real close." Jack couldn't remember having so much fun in a long time.
DJPyramids: What else can you tell me about him?
DextersLab: Smart, about as smart as me.
"I am not sure that is saying a lot." Sam offered.
"This next line will throw them." Jack grinned.
DextersLab: He doesn't like guns, but they say he can make anything explode.
"Jack?" "The Colonel?"
"Not like guns?" they said together.
Sam typed the next question,
DJPyramids: Does he have connections to the military?
DextersLab: Couple
DJPyramids: Such as
DextersLab: Well, he was in Vietnam.
DextersLab: He and his partner, Charlie Robinson diffused mines.
Daniel and Sam looked at each other, "Charlie."
DJPyramids: Air Force
DextersLab: No Army.
Jack grinned imagining the look on Daniel's face.
"Army?" Sam looked shocked.
DJPyramids: Then what?
DextersLab: SECRET - classified. Shhhh DXS rumors.
"DXS?" Daniel looked confused.
"Department of External Services, like The Agency or CIA," Sam supplied.
DextersLab: then Peter Thorton left - MacGyver went with him.
DextersLab: Worked for Phoenix - trouble shooter as needed
DextersLab: Government work some say - shhhh . . .
DJPyramids: Then what?
DextersLab: Disappeared. Poof.
DextersLab: Like he was in outer space or under a mountain.
Daniel had picked the wrong time to take a sip of coffee as he sprayed it across the room.
"Under a Mountain? Space? You don't think he really knows. Do you?" Sam asked amazed.
DextersLab: No one knows. . . Secret
DJPyramids: Do you know?
DextersLab: Maybe
DJPyramids: Will you tell me?
Jack took a moment to consider.
DextersLab: Yes
DJPyramids: Well . . .
DextersLab: not now
DJPyramids: When?
DextersLab: Later
DJPyramids: Dex, please. This is important.
DextersLab: Soon, Danny I promise.
"He was a lot of help." Sam frowned.
"Danny?" The comment struck Daniel odd, no one called him that but . . . He let the though go for later.
DJPyramids: Well, thanks for the help Dex.
DextersLab: Don't you want to know where he is right now?
DJPyramids: I have a good idea.
DextersLab: No, you don't :)
DJPyramids: I really do.
DextersLab: Wanna bet?
DJPyramids: Fine, Dex. Where?
DextersLab: *grin* your office *big grin* your computer
**DextersLab has logged off **
Daniel looked up at Sam, "I'll kill him!"
Sam just sat back in her chair trying hard not to laugh at the whole situation. Something clicked in her mind. "Wait you said he was an expert on Computers? And he is really the Colonel?"
Jack sat back in the chair grinning. Either, Danny will sit and stew a bit or he'll be here in 5-4-3-2-1. He looked up at the door.
"He's late." He waited a minute then he started to compose an e-mail to his assistant Jennifer asking her to let Pete know he's okay. After a few minutes there was a knock on the open door of the office.
He began before looking-up. "Daniel, since when did you start knocking on your own door . . ." The final word died in his mouth as he glanced up to see his son Sam at the door.
Sam wasn't really paying attention to the man in front of him, but he felt some how that he should know this man.
Mac - he knew that with his son in front of him he was definitely MacGyver - stared at the door. 'What on earth was he doing here.'
Sam gave the man a second glance. He sort-of-kind-of looked like Dad. Dad with very short, gray, hair and wearing a uniform. "Uh, sorry to disturb you. I am looking for Dr. Jackson or the archeology department."
Mac was still dumbstruck. He had been faced with Aphosis, Ra, Fruit Loops and Murdoc, but here he felt out of his league. He was saved by a voice from behind Sam.
"I'm Daniel Jackson, may I help you?"
Sam turned around and grinned slightly at Daniel, a move that seemed far too familiar to Daniel for some reason.
"Yeah, I'm trying to find out if my father may have been here."
Mac started to cough.
"Well, I've been away from my office, but I can try to find out. Why would he have been here? What department does he work for?"
"Dad doesn't work here. He loves archeology and he can spend all day looking at his rocks."
"Artifacts," Daniel and MacGyver chorused. Daniel gave Jack an odd look.
"Whatever," he grinned. "Sorry old joke, anyway he was suppose to have been on this base and Uncle Nick suggested that he would have found his way here - too curious, allowed or not."
Sam looked at Daniel expectantly, then he realized, "oh, haven't told you his name yet. Bet that would help. MacGyver."
Daniel nearly dropped his coffee cup as he turned to look at Jack. He turned back around, "So you must be Sean?"
"SAM, actually. Sean's my name, but I don't use it. How did you know? Does that mean Dad has been here?"
Daniel glanced over at Jack. It looked like his world was falling apart. Perhaps it was - his carefully constructed separate lives. Not knowing what Jack wanted Daniel proceeded, "Well I heard about you from an on-line friend, Dexter Fillmore."
"Really?! So you know Dad. Has he been here?"
"Sam," Mac said in a soft tone that Daniel had only heard when he was speaking about Charlie.
The tone did the trick and made Sam take another look at him. Finally it clicked. It didn't make sense, but it clicked. This man was his Father "Dad?" Sam just stared t him for a minute and latched on to the oddest of details, "you cut your hair?"
He was so relieved to see his father, he moved forward and the two men embraced each other.
Daniel slipped out of his office, closing the door deciding to allow the men to have their reunion in private. As he walked away he decided he'd get revenge on Jack for the 'Dexter Thing' later, after all revenge is a dish best served cold. He went to go tell Sam Carter what had happened.
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Notes: for the record, Charlie really was Mac's partner in Vietnam. They got together in one episode to diffuse some bombs on a cruise ship and Charlie was killed.
Also, it was revealed in A Hundred Days that Jack has a grandfather in Minnesota, so the cabin fits both Jack and Mac.
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I hope you all enjoyed it. I tried to get away from the action and back to the conversations and start to get into the revelations.
Please let me know.
Thanks,
Teri (Garnet_TM@yahoo.com)
May 1, 2003
PS If you didn't catch it before - Check out Jack Interlude - Duct Tape.