I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while! But don't worry! I promise to have Chapter 5 up by next week!

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"Major, wake up," said a voice from deep inside the darkness. "Major? Can you here me?" The voice echoed around the invisible walls of blackness. "Major, I need to speak to you about Colonel O'Neill." That name... where had she heard that name?

"What?" asked Carter sitting up. She looked around the small room. Sitting next to her bed was General Hammond. He was looking at her expectantly. "Sorry General I didn't hear you."

"I was asking about the Colonel," Hammond said kindly. Carter looked at him and then thought. It hurt her to think. She gave a short cry of pain but quickly stifled it into a cough. She didn't want to show anything on her face.

"What about him? How long have I been asleep?" asked Carter. The General looked around. Carter knew there was going to be bad news coming next.

"I've got some bad news."

"What is it?" Carter asked hurriedly.

"The Colonel, Dr. Jackson and Teal'c have gone missing. We think they went through the Stargate two days ago. You've been asleep for five now, including the ten minutes you were awake two days ago," explained Hammond. Carter thought about this.

"What did I say when I was awake?" she asked.

"Something about people being attacked."

"Oh no! Ritchik and Parphanely are in trouble!" shouted Carter.

"We thought so too Major!" said Hammond, "Calm down! We think that SG-1 has gone to help them. Do you know the gate address of the planet they went to?"

"It's in the computers, I'll recognise it if you put it on the screens!"

On the swampy planet of Hadres Daniel looked at the 'city' in front of them.

"This is your main city?" asked Daniel looking from the first building to the last in a matter of seconds.

"Biggest on this island, yes!" said the man whose name was unpronounceable. O'Neill had decided to call him Bob

"Are you sure? It has only eight buildings," said Teal'c.

"You call those buildings?" asked O'Neill, "Teal'c did I ever take you to New York?"

"I believe not O'Neill," said Teal'c.

"Well, we should go for a long weekend sometime! Daniel, can you read the writing on that hut over there?" asked O'Neill.

"It says pub," said Daniel quickly. He looked to the big castle in the distance. "Is that the castle that the two aliens went into?" asked Daniel.

"Yes! They ran in there!" said Bob.

"Good. How did you know that said pub Daniel?" asked O'Neill suspiciously.

"Well, you should know! I thought you said you played this when you were a kid," said Daniel sarcastically.

"We weren't really into pubs back then Daniel," said O'Neill hotly.

"Well, the two beer glasses gave it away for me," said Daniel.

"Well. Let's go to the castle! But first, let's go to the pub," said O'Neill.

"Good plan," agreed Daniel.

"Indeed," said Teal'c.

"Well Major?" asked Hammond back on Earth.

"It's not here!" said Carter exasperated. "I don't understand it! It was here! I swear it was!" Hammond looked at her. He then turned to the lieutenant.

"Is it possible they deleted it from the system?" asked Hammond. The lieutenant looked up into the angry face of General Hammond. He then turned to Carter for some kind of assistance.

"I think it is possible!" said Carter quickly. Hammond turned to her. Behind Hammond's back the lieutenant mouthed thanks to Carter. She smiled.

"I don't think this is really the time to smile Major!" shouted Hammond, "O'Neill, Dr. Jackson and Teal'c have done something which is against regulations! They will be punished!"

"But they've gone to save someone!" countered Carter, "That far outweighs the wrongdoing! In the army and the Air force we believe the famous words; "Never Leave A Man Behind" and those are the words that the Colonel is going by now!"

"You are stepping way out of line Major! They could have come and told me and I would have let them go! What is your explanation for that then?" asked Hammond putting his face right against Carter's. Carter looked away and towards the Stargate. She thought of O'Neill then, wondered how he was doing. Wondered whether he had found Ritchik and Parphanely, and most of all whether he was alright. But then she thought about O'Neill properly. He would never get hurt! He had a way of getting himself into trouble, but also an outstandingly good way of getting himself back out. He'd faced numerous Goa'uld! Two balls of slime weren't going to hurt him! He was probably killing them right now! Fighting heroically alongside Teal'c and Daniel. Yes, those three get into trouble? What a crazy idea. They were probably fighting now...

"Another pint!" O'Neill said to the barman, "This stuff is great! I've drunk si... si... Daniel, what's the number that comes after five?"

"Twenty!" said Daniel drunkenly.

"S'right! I've drunk twenty pints of this stuff and ain't I drunk!" hiccupped O'Neill.

"Yes you are O'Neill!" said Teal'c soberly.

"Wha? No, I meant 'And I ain't drunk!'" said O'Neill.

"S'right! S'what 'e said! I heared 'im I did!" said Daniel.

"I think that you should not drink anymore of this liquid," said Teal'c holding up a glass of it. The liquid was a dark brown. It was definitely not beer! Well maybe Guinness... "What is this liquid, bartender?" asked Teal'c.

"Swamp water! Best drink in the bloody world!" said the bartender. These words sobered O'Neill and Daniel up straight away.

"What?" shouted the two of them together. They then ran outside and threw up into the swamp water flowing down the street. They then thought of the many people who must have pissed, thrown up or worse in the swamp water. They puked again. Teal'c came out after them, accompanied by Bob.

"O'Neill, maybe we should go to the castle now," said Teal'c.

"Give me a moment would ya Teal'c!" shouted O'Neill. He then threw up again.

"Are you perhaps ready now O'Neill?" asked Teal'c.

"Ok, fine!" said O'Neill standing up. He looked at the castle ahead of them. Daniel also stood up and looked at it. O'Neill got out his gun. "Let's go!"