"You have a go." Brinkman said after receiving authorisation from General Hammond and the President.

Daniel, Jacob, Hannah and Ferretti walked through the open gate to a planet close a short distance from where Daniel had been rescued from a few short days before.

A couple hundred yards away was the waiting Tel'tac.

There was a Tok'ra stood waiting to greet them as they approached.

"Gelmac." Jacob greeted him.

"Selmac, the high council contacted me and asked me to meet you here but they didn't give me a reason."

"My daughter is very ill. We need to fly to a nearby planet and ring Dr Jackson, Major Ferretti and Lieutenant Jenkins into a pit to collects samples which may help effect a cure." Jacob explained.

"Very well."

"It'll take about ten fifteen minutes to get there so get comfortable." Jacob suggested.

"You know Jacob it would be easier if the Tok'ra gave us a list of planets we should avoid." Ferretti said.

"Unfortunately I know human curiosity too well. If we gave you list you'd want to check out each planet." Jacob said. "At least this way you only randomly stumble over planets you shouldn't visit."

"He does have a point sir." Hannah said.

"No Hammond would lock them out of the gate and situations like won't happen." Ferretti countered.

"You've been spending too much time with my son-in-law." Jacob stated.

"Can we just go instead standing arguing about sharing information? This isn't helping Sam." Daniel snapped.

"Sorry Daniel." Ferretti muttered.

"Gelmac lets go." Jacob walked towards the pilot's seat and sat down.

Janet checked Sam's vitals and marked them on the chart. Her heart rate was up slightly as was her blood pressure.

"Ma'am." One of the nurses came and handed her a note.

"Thank you Lieutenant." Janet read the note. "Tell him it could be a couple of hours."

"Yes Dr Fraiser. What about the Colonel?" She asked nodding to where Jack had fallen asleep onto Sam's hand.

"Let him sleep. There is nothing he can do right now and he needs the rest."

"Yes ma'am."

"We'll wake him in an hour or so when we need to put Sam back into the ice bath to take her temperature down."

"Yes ma'am."

"Okay this is as low as we can go and the rings still work." Jacob said. "Let us know when you're done.

"Thank you Jacob." Daniel said as they stood in the centre of the rings and Jacob pressed the buttons to activate the rings and beam them down.

Once on the ground they stepped aside slightly.

"So we just need to grab soil samples?" Ferretti asked.

"Janet wants about twenty from all around the pit. She thinks the concentrations maybe higher in one area."

"You fell down into this pit and between you only ended up with a sprain ankle and a small cut?" Hannah said looking up the side of the pit.

"It was a smaller hole when I fell in after leaning over the edge to see if Teal'c was okay. I think I did a somersault and landed on my butt in a pile of the crumble soil." Daniel replied.

"I'm still impressed."

"Let's just get these samples and get home." Ferretti said.

"What is it with you today?" Daniel asked.

"Sam and Jack are my friends."

"Getting mad or pissed off isn't going to help." Daniel pointed out.

"Right now it's working for me." Ferretti kicked a pile of dirt.

"Louis." Hannah walked over and put a hand on either arm. "Take a deep breath."

"Hannah." He started.

"Deep breath now otherwise I'll have Jacob leaned me a Zat."

"Threatening to shoot a superior officer is a court martial able offence." He reminded her.

"I'm not talking as your second in command; I'm talking as your girlfriend. Let's get this done calmly and rationally and when we get back you can take it on the punch bag in the gym."

"Fine."

"Good now go over there and take some samples. Something about this place gives me the creeps."

TBC