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'Oh! Fruit Loops, again! Just what I need for another loopy day...'

Now back to the question of the day... whatever that is...

"Anyway, I'm sorry, but that just happens to be the way I feel about it. What do you think?"

Jack blinks. 'Jeez, how can I even remember what the question was when I haven't heard it in at least a month? Oh well, here's my chance, I'd better just ask what the questions was again.'

"I'm sorry Danny; I wasn't listening, what was the question again?"

"Jaaack...!" Daniel whined, "I was asking you what you thought about my idea that the pictographs on P4X-625 could be linked to the ruins found in Central America back in the late twenties!"

Samantha Carter was smirking, amused by their antics she just watched as Jack formulated an answer to another of Daniel's off the wall questions. 'Too bad Teal'c isn't here to watch...' she thought as she waited for the colonel to make another of his flippant remarks.

Jack thought back to the mission on P4X-625, which they had gone on a couple of weeks before the mission to P4X-639.

Nothing big had happened on the trip and the only evidence of a long gone civilization had been the primitive drawings on an old stone wall that was nearly eroded away by time and the elements, unlike Sg-15's visit to P4X- 639 which had gotten them into this mess in the first place!

"Well, I thought that they looked more North American than Central or Southern American. Although there are similarities, the shape and order of the drawings on P4X-625 look more like the ones found in Virginia than those in Mexico," MacGyver confidently replied while keeping eye contact with Daniel.

Sam fought to contain her laughter at what she had thought was a joke from the colonel.

That is, until she heard Daniel's gasp and shocked whisper.

"You're right... but how?"

After hearing this, she shifted her gaze to her commanding officer. The humor slowly drained from her eyes as she waited for an explanation of how the colonel knew so much about a subject that he constantly avoided and illustrated an extreme loathing towards.

Both Sam and Daniel were disappointed when instead of explaining his supposedly new knowledge of archeology, Jack got up and excused himself.

Looking over at Daniel, Sam voiced one of her many questions.

"What was that all about Daniel?"

"I don't know Sam, I just don't know," he replied distractedly as he was already thinking of the implications of the ruins being North American in nature and Jack's role in that discovery.
MacGyver, because Jack had decided to be himself for a while, was walking down the corridor thinking about how fun it was to mess with Daniel's mind.

Sure he had thought long and hard on the subject before, but it was always entertaining to consider the possibilities in more depth. There were so many ways to accomplish his goal that he would have something to occupy him for years.

Not to mention how this particular pastime helped to keep his mind sharp. After all Danny wasn't at all dim-witted, he soon became immune to the stimuli, and new methods had to be developed to achieve the desired result of a bewildered Daniel Jackson. Or at least more bewildered than usual that is...

In this instance Daniel's astonishment wouldn't last very long before he did one of two things.

'He will either start to pester me with never-ending questions on how I even knew what he was talking about. Not to mention alone how I was able to answer him intelligently.'

'Which when you think about it is rather contradictory, why would he ask me questions that he doesn't expect me to know the answers to in the first place? It must be a doctor thing... '

'No wait, I'm a doctor too. It must just be a Daniel thing. Yeah that has to be it, there are no doubts about it, it's definitely a Daniel thing!'

'Daniel's other response might be to start rationalizing what he heard by coming up with reasons and excuses for me to know what I know.'

'But of course, knowing Danny like I do, I figure that he'll do both.'

'He will rationalize and pester me about it at the same time. Oh joy.'

'But hey! I only have to worry about it for the rest of the day, and then Danny won't even remember that there was a reason to pester me.'

'One the other hand, it's not like he ever needed a reason to pester me before...'

'He will just find something else to bother me about.'

'Crap! I'm doomed for eternity, I'll have to endure it for the rest of my life, and there is no escape!'

Umm right, that was a bit dramatic...

Finally arriving at his destination, MacGyver unlocked the door in front of him that was labeled 'Colonel J. O'Neill.'

'Ok, I have ten minutes to get to the briefing room. I just need to grab my notebook to bring with me this time, but I need a plan...'

'First off, Teal'c will have to be avoided. It shouldn't be that hard to avoid him this particular loop, but I'll have to be really careful later.'

'I seriously doubt that he will show up at the briefing today because of what Danny said during the last loop...'

'This may be one of the few opportunities that I can use to really try to figure out what's going on, my way, without having to worry about the consequences if someone were to catch me doing something that I shouldn't be able to do.'

'Seriously, who would ever expect me, the dumber than dirt colonel, to voluntarily go to a -boring- meeting if there was no consequences to my not attending?'

'Well, not including Pete, that is... He would expect that of me, but he isn't here now is he.'

'I wonder how he is doing anyway, I haven't spoken to him in ages...'

'Anyway, I will need to make up an excuse for Teal'c not being at the briefing this morning. It can't be that he is sick, because that will only land him in the infirmary again and I don't think that he would be very pleased if he had to go through yet another check-up.'

'I can just imagine what our next sparing session would be like... Talk about major pain on my part...' Jack thought cringing.

'Eh, on to the next subject now. I have to get into Carter's Lab when she isn't there.'

'I know that she goes strait to her lab after the briefing is over, so I need to either find a distraction to occupy her for a couple of hours or I can just wait the three and a half hours before she leaves to go talk to Hammond about the possibly Goa'uld device found last month on P4X-388.'

'I think that I will wait this time and think of a decent distraction while I work at perfecting a new hobby, I've always wanted to try out pottery...'

Picking up a thick notebook and a good pen, MacGyver left his office and began his journey towards the briefing room.
I was going to make it a bit longer, but when I was editing it I really liked the idea of leaving the chapter ending as it was... It also gives me a good place to start the next chapter.

Soooo, I thought I'd put all of you that were waiting on this, out of your misery and go ahead and post what I have.

No promises, but I hope to have the next part done faster than this part was.

Please tell me what you think!

Candy-Dawn (07-09-04)