SG13 The Suicide Squad

by Cesar A

First in series. Prisoners form SG-13, the lives of the members of SG-1 and the SGC will never be the same again. Characters from JAG and West Wing appear.

2. Part 2

Chapter 1 the meeting

Cheyenne Mountain facility, Colorado Springs

Next morning 0900hrs.

SG-1 sat in the conference room with Doctor Janet Fraiser and Doctor Daisy Hammond waiting for the general to arrive for the morning briefing. Colonel Jack O'Neill sat back in his chair staring at his team and the assembled doctors. Doctor Daisy Hammond the General's daughter as it turned out, was a new addition to Star Gate Command having arrived only a month earlier, Dr. Warner having been transferred out Area 51 to take up the role of CMO. However, she had quickly become friends with many of the base personnel especially with Janet Fraiser and Samantha Carter. She had actually known Sam for quite awhile since their fathers were good friends. They had also been good friends as young teenagers, but time and distance had stopped the relationship. It was only recently that the two women met after being apart for so long. After getting over the initial shock of seeing each other again, they were trying to rebuild the relationship that they had shared as teens. O'Neill continued to stare at the younger woman who looked like she was just a year or two over thirty and was quite beautiful with long dark hair and creamy tan skin. In fact, as Daniel pointed out to him the day they had all met her, she was the spitting image of another Daisy, Daisy Fuentes the fashion model and actress. It was obvious to Jack that the girl had not inherited her looks from her father, so Mrs. Hammond must have been a beautiful woman.

Sam saw that Jack was staring at the new doctor again, and a small pang of jealousy hit her again. No, it is not jealousy, she told herself he is just a close friend, she just wanted to protect her commanding officer. From exactly what she did not know, Daisy was definitely beautiful and kind. However, definitely off limits, unless you want to incur the General's wrath. Besides just about everyone on the base with the exceptions of the males of SG-1 had hit on the young woman and she had turned every one of them down. Sam did not get it, Daisy had been popular in high school and she had dated a lot. Something must of happened for her to change so much, a woman who looks like Daisy, should not be spending Friday nights alone, but she does, or as of lately with her and Janet. "Damn I have to get a life!" she thought looking around the table.

"I wonder what's keeping the general?" Sam wondered aloud trying to change the thoughts in her mind. Looking around the table her eyes landing on a certain archeologist who was nose deep in yet another book. "Oh if I could only get you to look at me like that." She thought wistfully to herself, just lately, Sam had finally admitted to herself about her true feelings for the young archeologist. When she finally realized that she had these feelings, she found to her shock that she had had them for quite a long time. Perhaps as long as when Sha're was still alive, perhaps as long as she'd known him. That is perhaps why she had not noticed before, Daniel was married and she wouldn't try to come between them so she had squashed those feelings down violently. However, now those feelings were back, it hadn't been easy there had been many nights when she had stayed awake trying to talk herself out of it. Trying to tell herself that he was her best friend, more like a brother. Then the evil part of her mind would cut in and say "Yes but you don't want to rip Mark's clothes off and kiss every inch of his body like you want to do with Daniel". However, Daniel did not think that way, Sam knew that he saw her as a sister, a colleague and not as a woman or a lover. Sam had decided that she could live with that, well for now at least. Yet, eventually those feelings in her had to be, needed to be addressed or she risked losing part of herself.

"Yes" Teal'c said precisely snapping Sam's mind back to the present "It is not like General Hammond to be late."

Just then a very red-faced General Hammond entered the room, everyone stood up at attention.

"Sit down everyone." General Hammond sat and began "I'm sorry I'm late but I just got off the phone with the Joint Chiefs. It seems we are getting a new SG Team today." He told them

Sam smiled their efforts were beginning to pay off "That's great sir we sure can use the help, so SG-18."

"SG-13, Major." The general corrected her.

Jack looked up surprised "I thought we agreed to skip thirteen, it's bad luck." Jack remembered that there had been actually two SG 13 teams. After both teams were wiped out in less than six months, it had been decided to leave the number 13 alone. Since that time the SGC hadn't lost an entire team.

General Hammond looked up tiredly "This is going to be a special unit Colonel, and it is going to prove to be a pain in the ass more so for some of us than others." He said pointedly looking at his daughter who stared back confused

"Sir?" she asked respectfully

"SG-13 is the special designation for the suicide squad." Hammond said evenly "They are going to be given the missions that are deemed to dangerous for regular SG teams."

Jack nodded in understanding "You mean missions with no likelihood for success." He knew what it was like to be on that kind of team, only a few years ago he probably would have volunteered to do the job himself. "STOP THAT", he ordered himself, "that was a long time ago you aren't that man anymore." He reminded himself.

If the general knew what Jack was thinking he did not let on "That is correct Colonel."

Janet looked shocked; every SG team took chances with the unknown that came with the territory. However to deliberately send a team into harms way was wrong.

"They are all volunteers I take it." Daniel looked just as shocked as everyone else did

"In a manner of speaking." The general admitted this was going to be the hard part

"In a manner of speaking?" Jack asked, "What does that mean sir?"

Hammond sighed "It means that our old friend Colonel Kennedy, has whispered in the right ears and has gotten not only the authorization to form this team, but that they are out of my direct command." Looking around the room, he saw his best and brightest and admitted to them "They are all convicted criminals."

Daisy's eyes opened wide and her mouth began to open and close, no one noticed. Criminals who had the training to do these kinds of jobs, no it could not be him, they would not....

"Criminals?" Jack said incredulously "Here? How the hell ..." he began angrily

"Colonel that's enough." The general warned, "Each man and woman was chosen for their particular skills, they are all former military taken from our own stockades. Dr. Jackson I will need you and Major Carter to get them up to speed on the gate and what we do here."

"Yes sir." Daniel agreed "But sir there is much more to it than that as you know." He said staring wide-eyed at the general still unable to believe that the military would actually form a suicide team.

Hammond did indeed know "Yes I do know Dr. Jackson, as I said each member of this team is a specialist in their own area. The team's leader has a doctorate in ancient studies as you do. In fact, I was given a copy of his dissertation."

Sliding it across the table to Daniel "It makes for some very interesting reading."

Picking it up Daniel opened up the thick folder "The influence of extraterrestrial beings on the ancient civilizations of earth?" Daniel began to scan the pages "By Gabriel Fuentes, wow." He muttered as he read

Daisy's eyes flashed to her father "Gabriel?"

George Hammond nodded "I'm sorry Daisy, but yes."

Eyes opening wide, her heart constricting "Gabriel is coming here?" she asked again

By this time, everyone was staring at the young woman wondering what was going on, why she was so pale.

George Hammond looked at his daughter, his heart breaking for her. He still remembered the nights after the trial when he would find his daughter in her room crying her heart out. The pain she felt every time she visited him in prison, the pain when she returned his letters unopened. She had been unable to take it back then, the pain and heartbreak had proven too much for her. George's only hope was that she had gotten stronger over time.

"He's already here." He told her, then turned his attention back to business as he hoped his daughter would "Major Fraiser, and Captain Hammond get your sick bay ready, SG 13 will be down shortly and they will be given physicals to make sure that they are fit for duty. SG1 you will stay behind to greet SG13, then Major Carter and Dr. Jackson will stay behind to fill them in on our operations here. Dismissed." The General stood up, as did the others and without another word the general left the room.

Janet immediately turned to Daisy whose face was still white. "Who is Gabriel Fuentes?" she asked

Looking up at her boss and Sam who had come around the table as well "He was the man I was supposed to marry." She said simply. Everyone in the room became silent.

Janet stood up "Come on Daisy, let's go down to sickbay and you can tell me about it. Sam meet us for lunch?" Janet knew that Sam would want to know everything as well.

"Sure, I'll be there." She promised patting Daisy on the shoulder hoping to give her strength "It will be alright Daisy." She promised knowing that she would protect her friend if she could.

"Wow." Jack muttered when they were gone

"Wow is right sir." Catching his eye Sam nodded "I'll find out and let you know." She told him

"O'Neill I am confused" the big jaffa turned to him "I understand the necessity for warriors to risk their lives and I understand that sometimes warriors must be sacrificed that is the way of the Goa'uld. But I thought that Humans did not do things like this."

Jack shook his head "These are not warriors Teal'c they are the scum of the earth."

"I have got to meet this man." Daniel spoke up still reading the thesis; completely oblivious to everything that had just happened "He has things in here that I never thought of, well before I got involved with the Star gate." He smiled at the others.

"You are staying as far away as possible from these guys." O'Neill warned "These guys will eat you up and spit you out Danny. And they will stab you in the back as soon as look at you."

"You are right there Colonel." A voice called out to them

O'Neill recognized the voice immediately and stiffened in response "What are you doing here Kennedy." He asked remembering the last time the man had been here he had tried to take Teal'c for some "experimentation".

"I am here to meet with my team." He said simply

"Your team?" Sam asked obviously as disgusted as O'Neill was.

"Yes" he told them taking a seat "Doctor Jackson, Tilk."

"That's T-E-A-L-'C" Jack stretched out the word for him

Kennedy ignored him and continued "Yes, I will be the one who decides what missions SG13 will go on." He informed them

Leaning back in his chair Jack sighed, "I guess that means you are going to be staying awhile."

"Yes, ah I hear them coming now."

The sounds of chains rattling could now be heard getting louder as they approached the briefing room.

"You made them walk up here in chains?" Daniel asked disgustedly "Where do you think that they are going to go?" he motioned around the solid mountain.

Kennedy shook his head swiveling his seat to face the man "Colonel O'Neill was correct doctor Jackson, these men and women are the scum of the earth. They will kill you as soon as look at you."

SG1 watched as the first man entered the room. They immediately noticed how the man quickly scAnnied the room to see what he was facing. He was tall about Daniels height of 6'1" but this man was much wider and his dark eyes almost appeared to be black, they were dead, almost like a sharks eyes, cold, calculating and deadly. Dressed in orange coveralls he quickly shuffled into the room as fast as his ankle chains allowed. Behind him followed the biggest woman that Jack had ever seen. Standing at least 6 feet tall with long black hair that reached halfway down her back, with startling blue eyes. She is an attractive woman but with more muscles than Jack and Daniel put together, she also shuffled into the room. The next man was also large and also tall standing at least 6 foot 7 inches tall, completely bald the light seemed to shine off his ebony skull, his face also showed no emotion yet in his eyes you could see the disdain in which he felt for the others seated around the table especially for Kennedy.

"Whoa" Thought Jack "Kennedy you had better never let yourself be caught alone with this guy."

The next two in caused everyone around the table to do a double take. The two men were identical twins both with blonde hair and with blue eyes they stood about six feet and were about Daniels size. In decent shape but nowhere near the size and mass of the rest of the group.

Colonel Kennedy faced his 'men' and made the introductions "SG1 may I introduce you to SG13. From left to right our archeologist and expert on ancient cultures Dr. Gabriel Fuentes, next is our astrophysicist Dr. Antoinette Yates, next is Lincoln Washington expert tracker and field medic, and the twins are Simon and Samuel Pierson, both expert marksmen."

Daniel stood up immediately and crossed over to them holding out a hand "Dr. Fuentes a pleasure to meet you. I'm Doctor Daniel Jackson."

Gabriel smiled inwardly "This guy is either not too smart or incredibly trusting." He thought

Taking the hand, he shook it "Dr. Jackson, I've heard of you." He said politely

Daniel smiled embarrassed "Really? Oh I just started reading your dissertation, I would like to discuss it with you."

"Later Danny" Jack came up to him and pulled him back disgustedly, wouldn't he ever listen.

Jack faced the 'leader of the group' and studied him they stood almost nose-to-nose, neither man blinking.

"What you want to make out?" Gabriel asked as the other prisoners laughed

One of the guards came up from behind and smashed his rifle butt into his kidneys. Gabriel fell to his knees, his breath knocked out of him, he began to dry heave.

"Behave Fuentes." The Guard snarled

"That's enough corporal." Sam yelled from the side seeing the pain the man was in.

"Yes corporal that's enough, now uncuff the men and take up position." Kennedy told him

The guards fAnnied out as the corporal unlocked the men.

"Please be seated." Kennedy told them "And let's get this started."

Janet sat in her office with Daisy as the young woman told her about her ex-fiancé and about his crime for which he was convicted. Janet was sorry for the young woman, imagine falling in love with a convicted murderer.

"The worst thing is I think it was all my fault." Daisy admitted bitterly

Janet shook her head, she knew Daisy better than that "What are you saying Daisy of course it wasn't your fault."

Daisy shook her head violently "If I hadn't kept pushing him to get away from that crazy ex-wife of his."

Janet knew the beginning of a story when she heard one "You mean he was married before?" she asked settling herself down for a long story.

Daisy nodded grabbing a tissue from the box on Janet's desk "You see Gabe is a self made man, he has no family, well at least none that will claim him. His mother was Japanese, his father Colombian they met and fell in love. His mother came from a very well respected and wealthy Japanese family while his father did not; he was a musician a very good one from what Gabe told me, he was from what they call the 'wrong side of the tracks'. She was disowned by her family, and as it turned out his father was an alcoholic."

Janet shook her head trying to imagine what growing up there must have been like.

"After Gabriel was born, his father got out of control with his drinking. He had not wanted children and he took it out on both of them, a couple of times when he was really loaded he hit them. It wasn't that Gabe's father was so bad, he was just very young and he hadn't come from the happiest of homes either. Still in time he got used to the idea of being a father, and things started to get better. But by this time it was Gabriel's mother who lost it. I guess it was too much for her to deal with her husbands drinking and the demands of a child. So to escape Gabriel's mother turned to heroin, just so she could escape for a while. That left Gabriel alone with his father, by this time he'd given up drinking and was trying to get Gabriel's mother straight. His musical career was starting to blossom and he taught his son to play as well, things were going great for them and it looked like they were going to make it. Then one day when he was five Gabriel's father tried to stop a hold up in a bodega store and the gunman shot him dead. Gabriel was in the store and saw the whole thing happen."

Janet closed her eyes, her heart breaking for a small innocent child. Who by five years old had seen and experienced more violence than most people do in a lifetime.

Daisy took another tissue, wiping her nose she continued "His mother went back to her family and begged them to take her child at least if not her. Her father agreed, with the proviso that she checked herself into rehab and got cleaned up. It was not much better for Gabriel there either, you see he was a half-breed not fully Japanese and it did not help that he looked like his father and not oriental at all. Gabriel was treated more like a servant and worse a punching bag for the family students.

"Family students?" Janet asked confused

Daisy nodded "You see his mothers family, the Tanaka's are a samurai family, and they very much believe in the old ways. Especially when it came to marital arts training, every member of the family or clan as it were are trained from a young age to be samurai. That included martial arts training, in the beginning Gabriel was used to be practiced on by the others. Gabriel stayed in a small house on his grandfather's estate with his great uncle Chun-li. The Tanaka's are a very wealthy family who could have easily afforded to take proper care of a little boy. Imagine Janet, Christmas day at your family's home yet you get no gifts. No one comes to wish you a merry Christmas, instead you are all alone and watch through a window while the rest of your family sits around eating Christmas dinner. The only one who took any care or any interest of Gabriel was his Great Uncle Chun-li who like him was also a family outcast because he was half Chinese. That is where they made their mistake." Daisy smiled "You see Chun-li was not just any outcast, Chun-li was also a martial arts master, I guess that he felt a kinship with a little six year old boy, you know someone who was just like him. So, he taught him all his secrets, especially the ancient secrets of his father. Ninjitsu. Anyway that was his life for the next ten years, by this time his mother had been accepted back into the family except that she was not allowed to visit her son, she had to pretend that he did not exist. Soon she remarried to a respectable Japanese man and forgot all about her first-born son so that she could build her new family with brothers and sisters that Gabriel was never allowed to meet. Gabriel was told when he asked about his mother that she didn't want to see him, that he was just a biological mistake." Daisy said bitterly

Janet felt disgusted, to treat a child in such a fashion; there was absolutely no excuse for it. It is a sad truth that most people who have children have no business raising them. They let the children fend for themselves no one helps them or cares for them, and then society wonders why all of a sudden there are so many criminals running around. It was no wonder that this boy had grown up to be the way that he is. What would he have been like if he had been loved and cared for instead of scorned because one of his parents wasn't exactly what you would wish for your daughter. Janet turned her attention back to Daisy who had still been speaking.

"When Gabe was sixteen his grand father came to him and laid out Gabriel's future for him. Gabriel was to take a job in the family business as a mail boy, no more school, no college, no nothing, no choice. If he proved himself worthy maybe in twenty years he would be put in charge of the mailroom, it was that or nothing. Gabriel took nothing." Daisy said proudly

"She still loves him" Janet thought but said nothing, still it showed Janet something else. Gabriel Fuentes was and probably still is a very proud man.

"Chun-li gave him some money and Gabriel ran away and for the next two years he lived on the streets, still he went to school everyday and got his diploma." Daisy shook her head in sadness "Gabriel won't talk about those years he spent alone. I get the feeling that he had to do things to survive. Things that he is not proud of, maybe things that were not legal. In his senior year he went to career day at school, you know college recruitment and military recruitment that type of thing. Well Gabriel didn't have the money for college so he went to the military recruiters and started talking to them, the Navy recruiter is the one that grabbed his attention with talk about sailing the seven seas and visiting all sorts of foreign ports, having a different girl in every port. He arranged for Gabriel to take the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) test, you know to see what he was qualified to do. Gabriel scored in the 98 percentile; his recruiter checked his grades and saw that Gabriel was one of the top students in the school. He sat down and talked to Gabriel, he told me that his recruiter was the first person who really talked to him. The first one who seriously seemed to care about him and his future so Gabriel told him the truth that he had no money to go to school, and no home to go to. So, the recruiter pulled some strings and got Gabriel an interview with the review board of Annapolis, and they accepted him. At that time, he was dating another senior in high school Amanda Cunningham. When she got pregnant Gabriel married her, they had a daughter, Josie." Daisy stopped thinking "My God she must be sixteen by now." Shaking her head, she continued the story "Personally I think that she got pregnant, as a way to trap him, to get away from her family, and it worked. Anyway, they kept the marriage a secret while he went to school, she got an apartment off base and he came home when he could. He graduated an ensign and because of certain skills that he'd shown in Annapolis he was recommended and talked into joining the Navy Seals."

"The Seals?" Janet said obviously impressed "Tough bunch of guys, they are the ones who gave Colonel O'Neill some of his training."

Daisy nodded "Yes and Gabriel flew through their training, he told me that it was much easier than the training his uncle gave him." She smiled, and then frowned when she continued "Anyway his 'marriage' had been crap since the beginning and Amanda was developing the reputation of bedding every available man around. At first, Gabriel refused to believe it, but Gabe is not stupid and if it was not for the fact that he thought, that Josie needed her mother he would of left sooner. They were transferred to Norfolk where my dad was stationed, by then he was a Lt in the Navy and also a Seal attached to team six he was a rising star in the service. Josie was six at the time or just turned six. I met him at a Navy formal dance." Daisy closed her eyes remembering that night so long ago "You should have seen him Janet in his dress whites, saber hanging at his side with those cute little white gloves on. I fell for him the moment I saw him, and he fell for me. It was love at first sight for the both of us. He'd filed for divorce and was starting to date again. He was there with some woman, Barbara I think her name was." Daisy shook her head "I was there with some junior officer my father had fixed me up with since I was just home from college. The moment we met, it was like no one else existed." Daisy smiled and Janet shook her head, 'Oh yeah, she still loves him' Janet thought to herself seeing the dreamy expression on her junior officer's face.

"We started dating the very next day. It was then that I started learning things about him." Daisy admitted uncomfortably "Gabriel is the toughest man that I have ever met; he has to be considering how he grew up. I've only seen him fight once." Daisy shivered, and that once was more than enough "The rage and violence that he keeps bottled up is incredible, I was terrified." Janet watched as Daisy's expression change becoming more thougthful "However, with me, he was gentle and always kind and you should have seen him with his daughter. Josie could do no wrong in his eyes; the fight that Gabe got into was because of her. When Josie was about three or four Gabriel started to train her as he had been taught, one day we went on a picnic and Josie was playing around doing flips and things that Gabe had taught her. A group of older teens just out of high school started to tease her, why I do not know. Why boys that age would even bother with a six year old is beyond me. Anyway this was the first time that I met Josie and I could tell that she was just the cutest kid you would ever want to meet. These boys started getting rough with her, so Josie did just what her father taught her. Belted the biggest one right in the balls and ran, the other boys started to chase her. I knew it was going to be bad the minute I saw Gabriel's face. He put all four of those boys in intensive care for chasing his daughter. As for Josie, she was scared to death but she forgot it quickly. That's the type of kid she was, sweetness and love, oh what a beautiful sweet girl, the Japanese that Gabriel didn't inherit was passed on to her, except that she got her mothers green eyes." Reaching for her bill fold Josie pulled out a picture handing it to Janet

"Oriental with green eyes?" Janet smiled looking at a picture of a five or six-year-old girl Janet's eyes opened wide "Oh she's beautiful." Proudly her father stood behind her with one hand on her shoulder dressed in dress whites smiling to the camera, sitting in a chair was Daisy proudly holding the child in her lap. If Janet had not just been told, she would have assumed that Daisy was the mother of the girl. She had that look in her eye, that maternal instinct, although from the picture Daisy could not have been older than twenty or twenty one years old herself at the time and the man looked to be in his mid twenties.

Daisy pointed at the picture smiling, "That was taken soon after they got to Norfolk a few months after we started dating, Josie sang with the Washington opera company that night." She said proudly

"Opera Company, at six?" Janet was shocked looking back at the tiny girl

"Oh she's a prodigy." Daisy told her, reliving that night in her memory, "She sings like an absolute angel, it would bring tears to your eyes."

Daisy shrugged and continued "Anyway soon after Gabriel got to Norfolk he caught his wife in bed with the base commander."

"The base commander?" Janet was shocked "I take it that Gabriel didn't take it well."

"Oh Gabriel was livid, Josie was playing in the living room at the time. He chased the man for about three blocks with a gun; it took ten MP's to drag Gabriel away, four of them ended up in the hospital. It was kept hush-hush because of the circumstances that he had flipped out; they wanted to keep the general's reputation clean, so there were no charges filed against him. He immediately filed for divorce and got custody of Josie. He told me later that what had upset him the most was not that she was cheating on him, but the fact that she had done it in their home practically in front of his daughter. We met about three months later since he had already started divorce proceedings we started dating, but Amanda would not leave us alone. She would call in the middle of the night, or she would bang on the door and scream until we let her in. She would follow us on our dates and try to cause trouble wherever we went. On several occasions, she even threatened to kill me. I begged Gabriel to ask for a transfer, he talked to my father about it and it was agreed that the situation was not good. Amanda was obviously unhinged by then and nothing good could come from that. So, my father arranged it so that Gabriel would be transferred to Japan. Oh, he was so excited! He wanted to see the land where his family had come from; to actually live there was a dream come true for him. He asked me to marry him as soon as the divorce was final. I said yes and we were happy, well except for Amanda. She went to the day care center where Josie was during the day and disappeared with her for three days. Gabriel was losing his mind not knowing where Josie was. Then Amanda shows up and acts as if she did nothing wrong. I guess Gabriel finally snapped, she disappeared one night and was never heard from again. Rumors started to spread that Gabe had killed her; I did not want to believe it. I could not believe it and I would not have believed it unless I had seen what Gabriel had done to those four boys who had chased Josie, I know that he would kill anyone who threatened her life. Then one day we went to his place after a movie and found the Navy investigation service searching his house. They found a bloody knife hidden in his bedroom, the blood turned out to be Amanda's and he was arrested, tried and sentenced to death."

"What happened then?" Janet asked holding out the box of Kleenex to her junior officer

"Well since our plans to go to Japan were out I applied and was accepted into medical school, and at first I visited him every week, then it was every month and soon I just never went back." Choking it out Daisy admitted to her "I just couldn't go back there, seeing him like that, he'd suffered so much in his life and now he was sentenced to die. He wrote to me asking me, begging me to come see him just one more time. Soon I just sent those letters back as well without opening them, I could not take it. It was I who kept at him to get rid of Amanda, I believe to this day that the only reason he did it was to protect Josie and me. I wanted him to get a restraining order against her, at least until we left the country. I never meant for him to actually kill her." Daisy begged for understanding.

Janet came around her desk "It wasn't your fault" Janet consoled her "Gabe made his own decision on how to deal with his ex, it was the wrong decision but it was his. What happened to Josie?" Janet asked trying to change the subject.

"That's the funny part." Daisy chuckled showing Janet that it was anything but funny, "Amanda's parents didn't want anything to do with the little 'chink' child as they so lovingly referred to her. I couldn't take her even though I wanted to but I wasn't family. So Gabe did the unthinkable, he called his grandfather. He came of course, honor demanded it of him. They talked and then his grandfather met his great grand daughter she was staying with my family at the time. Now since Josie looks Japanese she was welcomed into the family with open arms. Gabriel agreed to turn custody over to him if he promised to do his best by the girl; you know private schools, a voice coach for her singing and such. I was there the day that Gabriel signed the papers giving his grandfather custodial rights." Daisy admitted wiping her eyes "I have never in my life seen a look of such desolation in anyone's face, it killed Gabriel to sign those papers. Since then I have kept in touch with Josie over the years, we write each other at least once a week and talk on the phone. But I know that Gabriel hasn't seen her, or spoken with her in ten years."

Janet nodded dumbly wondering what she would do if she had to give up Cassandra. Immediately she knew that it would destroy her.

Janet was snapped out of it when she heard Daisy say, "I can't see him Janet."

Janet shook her head "You can't avoid him forever, he's stationed here now."

"Not yet though, I don't want to see him like this." She pleaded with her

Janet relented seeing the rough shape that Daisy was in having to remember all of this and having to adjust to her former fiancée being on base.

"Okay, I'm giving you the rest of the day off. Go home and think about this and how you are going to approach it." Janet relented

"Thank you Janet." The younger woman hugged her letting Janet go Daisy quickly left the room.

Janet sat dumbly for a moment when she realized that she still had Daisy's picture. Looking up she saw that Daisy was already gone "Oh well I'll give it back to her tomorrow."

Just then Jack walked in holding his eye, smiling Janet slipped the picture into her pocket and walked over to him.

"What happened to you Colonel?" she asked looking up at him, it really sucks to be short, she thought.

Jack still steaming sat down in a chair "One of those pieces of scum got a shot in on me while I wasn't looking." He said icily

"Let me take a look." As Jack took his hand away, Janet touched the sensitive area making him jump

"Looks like you'll live." She told him "But you are going to have a doosy of a black eye for awhile. Which one did it?" Janet asked curiously

"The she hulk did it." Jack admitted wincing at Janet's gentle probing finger

"She-hulk?" Janet asked as five people in chains were led into the room "Oh!" Janet was surprised to see the huge woman walking with the men.

Antoinette smiled in the Colonel's direction "Did baby get a boo-boo." She asked as the other men started laughing.

"You'll be fine Colonel" Turning to the huge woman, Janet thought evilly "Nobody hits my Colonel that way"

Jack turned away from the behemoth of a woman "We still on for tonight?" he whispered

Janet smiled "Of course, but first I'm going to enjoy giving her a complete physical." She said snapping on rubber gloves.

Jack drew back a bit startled "Oh boy" he thought, "I don't like that look on her face. I had better remember never to piss Janet off." Still he thought it was nice to know that she cared about him.

Two hours later Janet finished with the others and was left with one last examination, Janet left Antoinette to put her clothes back on as the large woman was muttering something about sadistic bitch doctors, causing her to smile.

Her last patient sat calmly with his shirt off waiting for his physical. The nurses who walked past all stopped and asked if there was anything that they could do for him. Janet shook her head and shooed the nurses away but she really could not blame them. Sitting before Janet was a perfect specimen of man, lightly tanned skin with long black hair and handsome face and muscles to die for and die happily. His washboard stomach was something to drool over; you could bounce quarters off that six pack.

"Get over it Janet" she ordered herself "You are dating a Colonel for god's sake. Secretly dating but dating none the less."

Janet reached for the medical report "Gabriel Fuentes?"

Gabriel turned his attention to the doctor and nodded "That's me Doc." He said softly

Janet grabbed the blood pressure cuff and set to work "Daisy was right, he must be something else in those dress whites that the Navy uses." She thought

Twenty minutes later Janet snapped off her gloves "Well Mr. Fuentes."

"Doctor Fuentes" he corrected her

Janet smiled, she'd been right, a very proud man "I apologize Dr. Fuentes, you are in perfect health."

"Thanks." He said getting off the table and putting his orange coveralls back on

"Wait a second" Janet stopped him as she noticed a black and blue mark just starting to come in on his kidneys. "How did this happen?" she asked touching the skin.

Gabriel winced a bit "The guards got a little rifle happy, don't worry about it doc, it's nothing new." He told her resigned to the bruises

Reaching for a container, she handed it to Gabriel "I want a urine sample." She told him

Sighing he took the flask "Where?"

"Just over there." Janet told him showing him the door

Gabriel made his way over to the door and tried to close it when a guard stepped forward.

"No you don't Fuentes, the door stays open." The guard smiled evilly at the other man's discomfort

Janet could see an angry flush creeping into the man's features, but he did as he was told. Janet turned away to give the man what privacy she could. He returned a moment later and handed her the flask, it was tinted red with blood.

"Get in that bed over there I want to do some tests on you." She ordered immediately

"He can't ma'am." The guard informed her

"What do you mean he can't?" Janet fumed at the thought that her orders were actually being questioned

"He has to report for a briefing in five minutes with a Major Carter." He informed her, obviously not happy with the doctor's glare directed at him.

Janet fixed him with an icy stare "I will release him when I think he's ready to go. Do you understand that Sergeant."

The guard shook his head, obviously not liking it himself, but orders are orders "I'm sorry Ma'am, my orders are..."

Janet put her hands on her hips "I don't care about your orders, I will not have you risking the lives of the people on this base."

Calmly Gabriel held out his hands to the guard "Let's go Charlie."

The man sighed in relief "Thanks Gabe, sorry about Wilkens earlier."

"Not your fault." Gabriel nodded knowing that Charlie was one of the few humane guards that the prison had.

Janet watched as the two men ignored her, she was about to say more when the guard named Charlie turned to her, Janet was shocked to see the pleading look in his eyes.

"Ma'am, please don't make it worse on these guys, if were late there are going to be repercussions and they are going to have to pay not you." Charlie Sayers had been a guard a long time. Once upon a time, he thought that he could change the system, now he just wanted to put in his time and get the hell out. Hopefully then the nightmares of prison would end, in his nineteen years as a guard he'd learned the hard way that there was actually very little difference between being a guard and being an inmate. The only real difference was that he got to go home at night.

"Don't sweat it doc, I'll be fine." Gabriel told her as he shuffled out of the room.

Janet closed her mouth she did not like this. Did not like it one bit, she was going to have to talk to the General about this.

Sam was just finishing her briefing, she was impressed with this group of criminals especially with Antoinette Yates. The woman was as big as a house but she asked intelligent questions, and was just as enthralled with the star gate as she was. They had argued back and forth for twenty minutes on some point of physics, and Sam had to finally admit that she had been wrong in one of her calculations. She also knew that Daniel had been just as impressed with Gabriel, and they also had argued but their argument had to be settled later with the aid of some texts. Sam was just about to call the meeting for lunch when Kennedy showed up. Immediately the prisoners who up until then had been laughing cracking jokes all shut up instantly, and Sam realized that Kennedy held the power of life and death over these people, literally.

"Ah just in time I see." He began "Well I hope I'm not interrupting." He asked politely of Sam

Sam shook her head "No I was just about to call it for lunch. We'll continue afterwards." she told the group with a smile

"Good" turning to the others he said, "I told you all that if you behaved, there would be privileges. To show my good faith and forgetting that business with Colonel O'Neill." Staring hard at Antoinette, who shrugged "I bear gifts." Motioning to the guards, they put several boxes on the table. Reaching into one Kennedy pulled out two cartons of cigarettes.

"Your brand I understand Dr. Fuentes." He said tossing the cigarettes to him

"Thanks, do you mind?" he asked

"Not at all." Kennedy smiled grimly tossing the man a lighter.

"Antoinette a journal for you."

Smiling she took the thick book with ballpoint pen attached "Thank you Colonel."

"And candy bars for the twins."

"Thanks" they said simultaneously

"And some magazines for you Mr. Washington."

Washington took the magazine and immediately opened up the centerfold "Beautiful." He muttered staring at the blonde model leaning up against a 1965 Stingray corvette.

Kennedy looked up to Sam, "Major if you will excuse us please."

Sam came to attention "Of course sir" saluting she turned and left

Kennedy waited until Major Carter left the room then turning to the team leader he began "Okay to business, Dr. Fuentes how soon can you have your team ready."

Gabriel had already thought it out "Ten weeks." He said

"That long?" Kennedy asked suspiciously

"Yes" Gabriel nodded "You see Colonel it's not just a matter of learning about the star gate. Take me for example, I have been out of it for ten years now, Antoinette for six, I mean we are all in good muscular shape but not in good stamina shape. I couldn't run a mile right now if my life depended on it."

"And these ten weeks will consist of?"

Gabriel shrugged as he put out his cigarette "Basically sir, it's a return to boot camp. Get back into shape, and weapons training, the twins might have been good once. However, neither of them has held a gun for five years, Washington is going to have to get training on modern field medicine techniques and how to treat Goa'uld weapon wounds. In addition, we have to go through the star gate a couple of times, to some friendly planet for practice. I want to be sure that we know what to expect when we get to the other side. I want to make sure that we can go through and be combat ready on the other side immediately.

Kennedy smiled; he knew that he picked the right man for the job "Very valid points Dr. Fuentes, I agree."

"I can ask Dr. Jackson to supply the location of a friendly planet where we can prepare or at least conduct our star gate exercises." Gabriel offered

"I'll take care of that, I'll also see that we get some drill instructors up here by day after tomorrow." He told the group.

Gabriel held up a hand, "If I may sir, I'd recommend, some Seal instructors."

"Very good suggestion, Doctor I'll take it under advisement." Kennedy nodded making notes "There are just two things that I want to go over with you." He told them "First, this goes for any team member. If you are injured on any planet, you feel that, you cannot make it back. Alternatively, if you are here, the prognosis of your recovery is not good, and you are in too much pain, you may request a section 13. Upon requesting a section 13, the person in charge of the team will immediately execute that person, painlessly of course. If Dr. Fuentes falls then it is up to Dr. Yates to take over the task. Is that understood?"

They all nodded, all hoping that it would not come to that.

"Second, I know that some of you maybe thinking of trying to disappear while you are off planet since there will be no guards with you. So let me show you this." Reaching into a box, he pulls out a flat band with velcro and a lock.

"Each of you will be wearing one of these every time you go off planet, these are designed to explode if they are tampered with or removed they also work off of body temperature and are very sensitive. They can be set for any amount of time. After you are told of your mission there will also be a time limit imposed, if you are not back in time these bands will explode and kill you instantly, is that understood." Looking around the table, he nods "Good, now go get some lunch be back at 1330 hrs for you're next briefing. You will start physical training the day after tomorrow at 0500 hrs. Dismissed."

Sam and Janet sat in the cafeteria talking, Janet telling her all about what Daisy had told her. Sam shook her head feeling sorry for the man and she began to wonder what the stories of the others had been, what did they do, what had led them to the point they were at now? Janet even told her about the bruise on Gabriel's kidney.

"Yeah I was there when that happened." Sam shivered remembering how the large man had crumpled to the floor "It looked very painful."

"What did he do?" Janet asked curious

Sam shrugged "Nothing, the colonel was trying to stare him down when Fuentes made a joke. Everyone laughed except for the guard who slammed the rifle in his back."

"I don't like this" Janet told her friend "They may be criminals, but they are human beings and beating prisoners like that is just plain wrong."

"I agree with you Janet." Sam agreed with her friend, but what could they do

Just then, the rest of SG1 showed up "Mind if we join you ladies." Jack asked

"Please" Janet smiled looking at Jack's eye "I see the bruise is coming in nice and black."

"Humph! Don't remind me." Jack said putting down his tray "So what's new on the grape vine." He asked the two women; he knew that Janet would have some news to give out.

Janet paused before taking a bite of her sandwich "Nothing much all the talk is centered around our new SG team. You know wondering what crimes they committed to get here."

"Oh that." Jack brushed it off, finally, he knew something before Janet did. This was a moment to savor.

"You know?" Sam asked then remembered, "Of course as second in command here you would have access to their service records."

Jack smiled as he bit into his sandwich. It had been the first thing he'd done after meeting them.

"Well give." Janet whispered curious as hell

Just then, the sounds of chains could be heard coming down the hall and the five prisoners were ushered into the mess hall. The entire room watched as the group were released and allowed to get food, but always with armed guards near them. They were then ushered to a table in the corner, where they sat down and began to talk and eat.

"Well" Jack leaned forward and began to tell them "The twins were convicted on seven counts of stealing military weapons and illegal weapons sales, evading capture and leading the military and police and FBI on a chase through five states. They also managed to do over three million dollars worth of damage to private property. They got fifty years to life. Lincoln Washington was convicted of second-degree murder; he says that the guy was a white supremist who with a bunch of other guys tried to lynch him. The problem is the guy he killed was the base chaplain, and there were no others found in the area matching the description he gave. It was proved that he had made the whole thing up and was sentenced to twenty-five years to life. Dr. Antoinette Yates is the only one that I feel sorry for, even though she gave me this black eye. She was working in a lab out in California on a fusion reactor, one day while she was out at lunch the reactor blew up killing ten people in the lab. Later she was accused by her commanding officer that she purposely set the thing to blow, even though there was really no proof just his word against hers. She claims that the general on the base had been hitting on her and she turned him down. As far as I can see she is either one cold-hearted bitch or she got royally screwed. She was sentenced to death."

"Oh man." Sam whispered looking at the large woman who was sitting back and laughing at something that one of the others had said.

"Dr. Gabriel Fuentes was convicted of killing his ex-wife although no body was ever found. They did find that there was a large insurance policy on her life, which he claims that he knew nothing about, even though he took it out just three weeks before she disappeared. Moreover, they found a bloody knife hidden in his bedroom. Sentenced to death, the sentence was supposed to be carried out on Friday." Talk about luck, Jack thought to himself "Funny thing is although I have their service records, any reference to what ranks they were or what they did in the service has been deleted."

"Well" Janet smiled happily knowing she had information to impart "I don't know about the others but, Doctor Fuentes was a naval officer."

Jack was impressed "How do you know that?"

"Daisy told me all about him." Turning to Sam, she remembered the picture "Oh you want to see his daughter?"

"You have a picture." Jack said amazed at his girlfriend's resources. How the hell did she do it?

"From Daisy." She nodded and handed it to Sam.

"Oh she's beautiful." She said "And he looks good in uniform." Sam raised an eyebrow appreciatively.

"Let me see." Jack asked taking the picture from her "Good looking kid, a lieutenant huh?" Looking closer at the picture Jack was squinting "Is that a SEAL pin I see on his chest."

"Yes SEAL team 6." Janet informed him "By the way Sam, Josie is also something of a child prodigy. She sings opera, she even performed with the Washington opera company once."

"Wow." Jack said passing the picture to Daniel and Teal'c

"Who's the woman?" Daniel asked

"That's Daisy ten years ago." Janet said eyebrows raised

"Really." Jack said looking back at the attractive woman

"So this is an old picture." Daniel nodded handing it back to Janet.

"Yeah Daisy said that Josie must be about sixteen by now."

Jack shook his head staring over at Fuentes "That must mean he was a father at seventeen or eighteen, he's only thirty-four now."

The entire group looked over at the table where SG13 sat eating their lunch, when suddenly one of the marines from SG3 called out for everyone to hear.

"It's bad enough that my taxes pay for these guys, but do we have to eat with convicts as well."

Immediately Antoinette stood ready for a fight, as did the others.

"Sit down." Fuentes ordered them patiently "They are just fucking with us."

"Gabe man!" It was obvious to everyone that the big black man wanted a fight, as did the others.

Gabriel looked up at the big man, "Link, do you want to lose your privileges over some retarded jar-head mother fucker?" he asked reasonably

"Naw man" the large black man sat down "You're right about that."

"Annie sit down."

Antoinette sat back down muttering, "He's coming this way."

"I'll deal with it." He told the others preparing himself

The large marine lance-corporal came over leaning on the table "What did you say convict?"

Gabriel did not even bother to look up "What are you deaf besides being a retarded jar-head motherfucker?"

"Colonel." Sam warned seeing exactly where this was going.

The guards stood around snickering at the reddening Marine; suddenly he lashed out grabbing Gabriel by the throat.

"LANCE-CORPORAL Fragetti!" Colonel Jack O'Neill strode over to the table "You will release that man immediately."

"But sir."

"NOW!" the colonel exploded

The marine released his grip "He's not worth it anyway." He announced and made his way back to his table where he was getting high fives from the rest of his team.

"Captain Reynolds." Jack called out "If you cannot control your men then I will find someone who can and have you replaced as 2IC is that understood."

Reynolds shot out of his seat "Yes sir, understood sir." He said giving his lance corporal a dirty look for getting him in trouble.

The head guard had enough "Okay convicts up." He ordered

"Aw come on man we didn't do nothing." One of the twins said earning him a slap in the back of his head

"Come on let's go." Gabriel said shoving one last bite into his mouth.

Again the rifle slammed into his back "I didn't say you could take another bite convict, now move."

Annie and Lincoln moved over to Gabe and helped him stand.

"Corporal" Jack moved in front of the man "This makes it twice now that you've hit this man for no good reason, do it again and I will personally shove that rifle up your ass." Turning to the other two "Get him down to medical." He ordered

"Yes sir." Lincoln muttered

"Thank you sir." Annie nodded

It was an hour later that General Hammond and Colonel Kennedy entered the infirmary, Hammond could see that one of the beds was taken up by Gabriel Fuentes. Janet looked up, saw the general standing there, standing she came forward, and saluted the general.

"How is he?" asked the general

Janet sighed, "Bruised kidney." She informed him "He's been urinating blood mixed with urine. It's not too bad though he should be fit in a couple of days."

"How did this happen?" asked the general

Janet stared hard at Kennedy not liking him one bit "One of the guards is a little too open with discipline, I was told that he was struck once in the kidney during the morning briefing. I personally witnessed the second blow to his kidney in the mess hall."

"What did he do?" asked Kennedy wondering if he had picked a troublemaker

"Nothing." Janet told them, crossing her arms she stared at the general "The guards ordered them out of the mess hall after one of the other SG teams objected to their presence in there. Dr. Fuentes ordered his men out took one more bite of food and was struck for eating without permission." She informed the general

Hammond turned to Kennedy "Is this the kind of operation that you are running here? Brutalizing men for absolutely no good reason." He asked angrily

Kennedy shook his head "No General it is not, and I promise that it will not happen again. Dr. Fuentes is a valuable commodity."

Gabriel woke to hear loud voices looking over he saw George Hammond standing with the doctor.

"General Hammond?" Gabriel stared at the face from his past.

"You are dismissed Colonel." He told Kennedy heading towards the cot

"Sir if you wish to talk to one of my men..."

Hammond turned and looked like he was ready to explode "Colonel Kennedy this is still my command here and I will speak to whom ever I wish. Dismissed."

Kennedy snapped to attention "Sir" turning he left

Hammond turned to the Janet "Thank you doctor."

"Yes sir" turning she walked away to her desk, still keeping an ear out for the conversation.

Hammond took a seat by the cot "How are you Gabriel?"

"Loafing to tell you the truth, it's not too bad. Hey you got a second star, congratulations sir." Gabriel smiled at the older man, genuinely happy for him.

Hammond smiled "Thank you son, how have you been really?" he asked seriously

"Surviving sir" Gabriel admitted shrugging his shoulders "It's all I can do, just survive."

"How did you get involved with Kennedy, I thought you were smarter than that." Hammond shook his head

Gabriel sighed tiredly "George, my execution was set for Friday. Kennedy came to see me last night, offered me a chance to go on living for a while longer. Besides he said that if I didn't agree, I was to be lead directly to my execution."

Hammond shook his head sadly

"How's Daisy?" Gabriel asked changing the subject to something more pleasant.

Hammond looked up "She's fine, she's a captain in the Air Force now." He said proudly, happy that one of his children had taken up his profession.

"Air force? What about medical school?" Gabriel asked truly concerned about her career.

"Oh she graduated and joined up did her residency at Los Alamos."

"Is she happy?" Gabriel asked hoping that she was

Hammond smiled "I think so, she hasn't complained yet, and you know how she loves to complain."

"Yeah" Gabriel laughed, "General do me a favor, next time you talk to her. Tell her that I understand, and that I only wish her the best."

Hammond smiled patting the young man on the shoulder "I'll do that son, you just get some rest now."

"Yes sir." Gabriel closed his eyes to try to get some sleep.

Hammond walked over to Janet's office and opened the door "Daisy left?" he asked already guessing that his daughter had once again run away.

"I gave her the rest of the day off sir, she was very upset." Janet admitted, general Hammond nodded and turned to leave "Thank you doctor." Knowing that he would have to stop by her apartment later and talk to her. Not as her general and commanding officer, but as her father.

"Sir" Janet saluted, hoping she did the right thing in letting Daisy go home.

Chapter 2: The Training

It was two days later at 0500 hours when SG13 was awaken by the yells of drill instructors. Hopping out of their beds, they dressed quickly and began their day of fun in the sunshine.

SG1 and Janet watched topside as SG13 were put through their paces. Many times, they shuddered with memories of their own boot camp experiences. Except that this was infinitely worse, the SEAL instructors knew that they were training convicts and they did not like it one bit. However, instead of complaining they decided that the best way to deal with the situation was to beat the hell out of them.

"MOVE IT, MOVE IT!" the drill instructors yelled at them as they passed the four-mile mark on their run "My grand mother moves faster than you maggots and she's been dead for ten years."

SG13 ran the course that had been set up for them to train, moving as fast as they could. O'Neill watched the team leader carefully, Fuentes was always in front, except for when one of his people would fall then he would always go back and help the fallen man or woman. Jack sat there shaking his head, it was just the thing that any good commander would do. Be the best, but still take care of your people. Jack was surprised to see that ten years in prison hadn't made Fuentes forget his responsibility to his men.

It was late afternoon when it was decided to have unarmed combat training. The navy seal instructors spoke at length about vulnerable spots in an opponent. Also how to take down an enemy quickly and decisively. The convicts all looked bored at this training, Jack whispered to the others that the cons could probably teach the trainers some things about survival. Soon it was time to square off. It was decided that the guards needed extra training as well, so it was the convict versus the guard. Annie was first.

"Oh this is going to be interesting." Sam whispered to Janet secretly hoping that Annie would prevail.

Annie faced the guard settling her feet wide apart. The guard rushed her, Annie waited until the last moment, then quickly stepping aside she threw out one massive arm, clothes lining the guard. The guard did a complete flip and landed on his face.

"Ouch!" Daniel said feeling his own throat

At that moment, another guard came from behind and grabbed the big woman from behind in a chokehold. Annie quickly reached behind her and grabbed the sergeant by his privates causing all the men to wince. Breaking the hold, she quickly grabbed the man and lifted him off the ground in an amazing display of brute strength and body slammed him.

"Oh that's it he's done." O'Neill observed, knowing that the guards were going to remember this training for a while. It was payback time for the cons.

The head trainer smiled "Good Yates. Fuentes you're next."

Gabriel stood up and made his way to the squared circle. Corporal Wilkens pushed his way into the opening.

The corporal pointed at Gabriel "You're going to pay for getting me in trouble convict."

"Oh-oh..." Daniel observed "Isn't that the guy that..."

Teal'c nodded wondering what the Tauri prisoner was going to do "Yes Daniel Jackson, that is the guard who struck Gabriel Fuentes with the rifle."

"I don't like that look on Fuente's face." Sam observed sitting forward, "I think he's looking for some payback."

"GO!" the Seal instructor called

Later no one could really say what move Gabriel used on the man, one moment the corporal was rushing him. The next he lay in a broken crumpled heap, it was over in a couple of seconds. Gabriel calmly walked away, none of the other guards even attempted to try to take him on, none of them were that stupid. The Seal instructors stared at his retreating back wide-eyed.

"Well he doesn't need to learn anymore." One of them observed to the other trainer who simply nodded

"We need a doctor over here!" The instructor called out.

"That's my cue." Janet told them as she made her way to the hurt guard.

They watched as a stretcher was bought out and the man placed on it and taken away.

"OKAY!" the instructor yelled, "Washington you're next, move it."

At the end of the day, SG13 was ordered down to medical to get a once over before dinner. SG1 followed them down and waited with them. Gabriel made his way over to one of the beds.

"Why Corporal Wilkens, what are you doing here?" He asked sarcastically as he took in the mans arm in a cast up around his shoulder. Wilkens eyes opened with fear and hatred of the man.

"You broke his arm, his collarbone and three of his ribs." Janet informed him staring at the large man before her. Daisy was right; Gabriel Fuentes was one tough man.

Gabriel shrugged and turned away from the man without another look. What he saw then stopped him cold.

"Daisy?" His heart began to hammer in his chest, his palms beginning to sweat. Ten years and she still affected him this way!

"Captain Hammond" Daisy corrected him "Over here I need to take your blood pressure." She ordered moving away from Janet and the others. All of who stared after them.

Gabriel moved in shock seeing her again, sitting down on the table Daisy closed the curtain cutting everyone else out of view.

"Hello Gabriel." She said softly unsure of what to say to him.

"Daisy you look great, more beautiful than ever." Gabriel began "I spoke with your father the other night he didn't say anything about you being here."

"I asked him not to." Daisy admitted remembering how she had begged her father that night not to say anything, "I didn't know what to say to you, or how to feel about seeing you again."

Gabriel nodded "I understand, I'm sorry if this makes you feel uncomfortable. To tell you the truth I do not know what to say either. Except that I've missed you."

"Have you spoken to Josie?" she asked trying to change the topic.

Gabriel shrugged "No." He admitted

"Why?" she demanded, wanting to know why Gabriel had turned his back on her.

Smiling bitterly Gabriel told her "She found out what I was convicted of, she hates me."

Daisy sighed, yeah that would do it, "I'm so sorry Gabe." She said taking his hand in her own, Daisy knew from talking to Josie that the one true way to stop a conversation cold was to bring up her father.

A half-smile appeared on his face "Just the last bit of my life turning to shit, what else is new." He said resignedly

Daisy took a deep breath and continued "Gabriel listen, I just wanted you to understand why I never came back."

"It doesn't matter." Gabriel told her unable to look her in the eye.

Daisy could see that the fact that she never returned still hurt him "I have to say this." Taking a deep breath she let it all out "I could not bare to see you locked up; I loved you too much to see that pain in your eyes. The other reason was that I felt responsible."

Gabriel looked surprised "Responsible for what?" Then it dawned on him "For Amanda?" At her nod, Gabriel sighed, "I know you don't believe me, but I didn't, I never hurt Amanda. Yes, I was mad, yes there were times when I could have strangled her. But I swear to you I never touched her." He pleaded with her, trying to make her believe him.

Tears began to form in her eyes "Oh God Gabriel I wish that I could believe you, but the evidence was there." She turned to leave "I can't do this I'm sorry."

"Daisy" Gabriel pleaded, "Please if you will just listen for one moment."

"I can't. I'm sorry." Daisy rushed out from behind the curtain wiping the tears from her eyes

"Oh no." Janet whispered to Sam

Janet made her way behind the curtain; Gabriel just sat there a lost look on his face. Looking up he saw Janet.

"Hey doc." He mumbled seeing the look on her face Gabriel shook his head "You know don't you." It was not a question.

Janet nodded; she also knew that the man before her was also in pain.

"I don't know how to get through to her, she still doesn't believe me."

The weeks flew by and the training of SG13 continued, and it just continued to get harder and harder and more unforgiving. Injuries, sprains, cuts, and abrasions were the normal course of the day for each member, although none of them ever complained. SG1 would often sit watching the training as it went; General Hammond had put SG1 on stand down for a few weeks to help keep an eye on the new team. To ensure that they were not being abused to badly. Each member of SG1 had their own feelings for what they witnessed, brutal was one word that had come to mind often. It was the same on base, by this time, all the SG teams had either heard of or seen SG13, and no one made it easy for them. Catcalls, insults were constantly hurled their way, many trying to provoke fights with the team. During meals, other members of SG teams would "accidentally" shove or trip a member of the team causing them to drop their trays and the guards would not allow them to get another. Yet, when that member of the team arrived at their table. The other members of the team would give that member food from their own trays. O'Neill watched and reported as ordered by the general as did the others, but he saw what the others did not. The more outcast SG13 became the closer the bond between them became. Where once they were five criminals who probably would have fought each other to death for a pack of cigarettes. Now they were a tightly knit unit who took care of one another, five people standing as one to protect each other from the rest of the world, and standing defiantly.

It was always Gabriel Fuentes who calmed his team down; he was the one who would remind the others of losing privileges for fighting, or maybe even being sent back to prison. Finally, even he got tired of it, and soon it came to a head. During their seventh week of training with the SEAL instructors, they held armed to unarmed combat training. The aggressors were given weapons while SG 13 had to fight it out barehanded. Other SG teams had volunteered to go up against them to 'help' in their training. Gabriel went forward and waited while the other teams were given knives that had their sharp edges heavily taped down as not to actually cut. He faced two members of the SG 3 marines and waited. Lance Corporal Fragetti smiled at his friend and pulled off the tape from the knife.

"Let's give them some real training." He smiled

"Jeff are you crazy." Corporal Henry Jones asked seeing the gleaming blade

"GO!" The SEAL instructor called out.

Jeff Fragetti ran over immediately blade in hand slashing away at Gabriel.

"Wait!" Jones called out trying to stop them.

Teal'c who had better sight than the others did saw what was happening "O'Neill, Lance Corporal Fragetti has removed the tape from his knife."

"What?" Jack looked and saw as well that the blade was indeed not covered. Moving towards the combatants he began to call out.

"Stop, stop fighting!" he ordered running towards them

Fragetti swung one more time and struck flesh.

"Gotcha" he smiled as he saw the blood begin to flow and moved in again.

This time Gabriel was ready, and he was through playing games and taking it easy on these guys. The next swing was clumsy and Gabriel moved in grabbing the arm of his attacker.

Jack could swear that he heard the bone snap from ten feet away as others moved in. He definitely saw the other arm snap in half and Fuentes grab the knife putting it under the man's chin.

"Stop Fuentes" Jack ordered immediately "Don't do it." He warned

"Gabe man stop." Link called to his friend

"Gabe!" Annie put a hand on his shoulder "Don't do it, they'll send you back. They'll send us all back, I don't want to die, please let him go." She pleaded with him.

Gabriel fought off his impulse to kill the man. Still the anger and rage inside him begged release to erupt from within and to cause damage. Slowly he lowered the knife and dropped the man who fell to the ground crying out in pain. With his body still trembling from his anger, he turned to O'Neill and handed him the knife.

"That's it." He told Jack his eyes blazing in anger "I've turned the other cheek too many times. Colonel you had better warn your people, that's it. The next time something like this happens, I promise you only one of us is walking away alive."

Janet came up to him "Dr. Fuentes let me take a look at that cut." She asked him, shaking her head she looked at Jack "This is going to need stitches." She told him.

As Janet took her patients away, Jack looked at the other man.

"Corporal Jones." Jack held up the knife to him "What the hell is this all about." He demanded

"Sir" the corporal gulped "Sir I didn't know that Fragetti took off the tape until the last second. I tried to stop him sir, but he just attacked him."

"Corporal" Jack looked at the man "I want you to go back into the mountain and I want all SG teams out here in ten minutes. Do you understand?"

"Sir, yes sir." The man ran off towards the mountain

Daniel, Sam and Teal'c approached their commanding officer "What happened Jack?" Daniel asked him.

Shaking his head, he showed them the knife "That asshole Fragetti attacked Fuentes with a bladed knife, and Fuentes broke both his arms and almost slit his throat." He told them

"What?" Sam was shocked "How did you stop him?"

"His team stopped him." Jack told them "Now Fuentes is really pissed, he's promised me that the next time that someone on this base tries anything against him or his people. He is going to kill them, and I don't think he's joking." Jack said angrily as more personnel showed up.

Soon many of the teams showed up, others were off world but Jack had enough of them here to begin with for now.

"Attention!" he called out to them and they all snapped to.

"I have just about had it with all of you!" he began "For the last seven weeks I have watched you people playing your stupid little games with SGl3."

"Sir." One of the Majors of SG12 smiled

"You're at attention!" Jack yelled in his face, immediately the man shut his mouth and stood even straighter.

"Captain Reynolds, one of your men just attacked Dr. Fuentes with this knife." Jack informed the man holding up the bloodied knife "Lance Corporal Fragetti is going to be court-martialed for this." Jack promised him "Now I am telling the rest of you, to pass the word to all the other teams not present today. That enough is enough. The next man or woman that I find out that is planning or actually does something against SG 13, I will have your ass for lunch." He promised, "SG 13 is here to do a job just like the rest of you, I don't need to have to worry about what is going to happen next."

General Hammond strode up to Jack and SG 1.

"Colonel why are all my teams up here instead of working?" He demanded to know.

Jack took the general aside and explained to him briefly what happened and gave him the knife. The general turned back to the teams his eyes blazing with anger.

"People, if what Colonel O'Neill just said hasn't penetrated your skulls yet, let me add this. If I hear of one more incident, just one." The general held up a finger to the others "I will take that entire team and lock them in a room with SG 13 and I will tell them that the gloves are off. The only reason that they have allowed you to get away with it so far is that they are afraid of the repercussions. I will remove that restriction from them and let them beat the ever-living crap out of you. Then I will personally kick you off this base and reassign you to the worst shit-hole that I can think of." He promised them "Carry on Colonel." He turned and walked away.

It was during their eighth week of training that SG1 was called away for a mission.

Hammond stared at his premier team "SG1, I'm putting you back on rotation, the other SG teams are all either out on assignment or are recuperating from them. I need a team to investigate PT37-Y55 for standard recon. We have sent through the MALP and Major Carter has all the necessary data. You have 48 hours to conduct an investigation and take any samples and readings that you can. Also Dr. Jackson the MALP detected a structure so you may wish to investigate that." The general informed the team

"Sir were there any signs of indigenous life?" Jack asked as always worried about finding Goa'uld on other worlds.

"None Colonel as far as we can tell the planet seems to be completely lifeless." The general informed them.

"When do we leave sir?" The colonel asked already chafing at the bit. SG 1 had been on stand down long enough.

The general smiled at the colonel's obvious eagerness "Prep your team Colonel you leave at 0800 hours tomorrow."

"Sir" The group stood saluted and left

As they moved out of the briefing room Jack clapped his hands together "Okay kids, how about pizza and beer tonight." He asked the group

"Can't," Daniel admitted, "I'm meeting with Doctor Fuentes to go over some material."

Sam shrugged "I'm doing the same with Doctor Yates."

Jack shook his head "You two have been hanging around those two far too much lately for my liking." Especially after last week, well at least the other SG teams had finally learned their lesson. Once the other teams learned what Fuentes had done to Fragetti, none of them were especially anxious to be locked in a room with any of them.

Daniel shrugged "Hey Dr. Fuentes is good, and that is saying a lot since he did his masters and all his doctoral work from a prison cell."

"And I'm doing some research with Annie, who had an idea about my reactor. We are going to see if it is feasible or not."

"Just watch your backs with these guys." Jack warned them still not able to completely trust them, "And what ever you do don't get too attached to them."

Daniel stared at his friend "What's wrong with that Jack?"

Jack shook his head, for two of the most brilliant people on the planet they were sometimes thick as bricks. "They are the suicide squad Danny, the missions that they are going to go on in a few weeks are not going to be easy. They've been set up from the word go, I don't want you to get too attached to them in case they don't make it." He said trying to be as gentle about it as he could.

"You mean in case they die." Sam said flatly

"Yes" Jack admitted, he hated to be the one to tell them, but they had to face reality. It would just cause his friends too much pain to get close to someone that has the life expectancy of a fruit fly.

"Okay Jack" Daniel said obviously not liking it

"Yes sir." Sam agreed

Jack stared at the two Doctors for a full minute, then turned his attention to Teal'c, "Good, come on Teal'c the game starts at seven."

"Very good O'Neill." Teal'c almost smiled, it came as quite a revelation to all of them that Teal'c would turn out to be a football fan.

Sam and Daniel walked away from the group heading down towards the lab. It had been agreed that it would be easier to guard the two prisoners if they were together. So Daniel and Sam had been given bigger offices that they could share, large enough so that the two groups could work simultaneously while still staying out of each other's way.

"I don't think that I can do that." Sam admitted as they walked down the passage.

"You mean what Jack said." Daniel agreed, knowing that he felt the same.

Sam nodded "I already like Annie, she's funny and smart and hasn't been the least threatening to me."

Daniel nodded as well "Yeah Gabriel's been the same, he's just interested in the material. Besides, it is really nice to talk to someone who loves history as much as I do. You know someone who doesn't get that glassy eye look every time I try and talk to them."

Reaching the door Daniel opened it and let Sam go through first and saw that both Annie and Gabe were already there working.

"Hey guys." Sam smiled at the two nodding for the three guards to remain outside. After they were gone, a secret smile passed her face making it light up. "So what do you guys say to Chinese tonight?"

Later as they worked in separate groups Annie leaned in close to Sam whispering "So how long have you and Daniel been together and better yet how's the sex." She asked smiling.

Sam's eyes opened wide turning back looking at the men who were both hunched over books oblivious to their conversation.

"What are you talking about?" Sam whispered back

"Oh come on Sam." Annie pleaded "Just a few details, I haven't had a man's hands on me, at least in that way, in seven years. I have to live vicariously through you."

"Daniel and I are just friends, nothing more." Sam protested weakly

Annie's eyes opened wide "You're kidding right, he's gorgeous."

"I know..." Sam stopped suddenly realizing just what she was saying

Annie smiled in triumph "So it has crossed your mind." Turning back, she looked at Daniel and sighed, "I know it's crossed mine."

"You stay away from him." Sam elbowed the giant woman playfully, knowing that the giant woman could easily pound her into hamburger. She didn't even want to think what Annie would do to Daniel, only that Daniel would probably be frighten by the very thought of the giant woman pursuing him.

Annie elbowed her back, but said seriously, "I'd never hurt you that way Sam." She told her friend "You and Daniel are the only ones around here that have treated us with any respect. You've treated us like human beings." Tears stung the giant woman's eyes

Sam was shocked to see the toughest woman she had ever met cry.

Tears beginning to fall Annie told her "It's been so long since anyone has treated me like a person, like a human being with worth, and not just another convict."

It broke Sam's heart to see this woman in pain "You're my friend Annie."

Annie smiled at the smaller woman "Thank you Sam, that means a lot to me. More than you can possibly realize, it is nice to have a friend again. Someone that I can really talk girl talk with and not want to stab me in the back." Quickly she looked back to make sure that the men, especially Gabe had not seen her break down.

Sam saw this and asked "You like Gabe?"

Annie shook her head "Not that way, I do respect him, don't get me wrong he's gorgeous too, and he's a scholar. However, he is also a soldier, through and through, I do not want a soldier in my life. I want a scholar, someone who is gentle and kind, and doesn't know how to disembowel a man with a spoon." She laughed wiping away her tears.

"I know what you mean." Sam whispered back because the two men behind them were still oblivious to them. "I was once engaged to a soldier." Sam shivered remembering Jonas "He was a control freak, who liked to play mind games. I swore never again."

"So that's why you like Daniel, why don't you tell him?" Annie asked curiously

Sam shook her head "He doesn't see me like that, I'm his best friend, like a sister."

"Damn friend zone." Annie muttered

Sam smiled sadly "Besides I think that he still hasn't gotten over losing his wife."

Annie had read the mission report "That must have been so hard on him."

"It was, and is."

"So what's between you and Sam?" asked Gabriel

"What!"

"Come on Danny, you can tell me." He smiled

"Nothing, she's my friend." Daniel told him blushing furiously

"Oh come on Dan, what's up with that. I've seen the way you look at her, and I've seen the way you check her out, especially from behind." Gabe winked

If possible, Daniel's face became even redder suddenly wondering if anyone else had ever noticed.

"Come on man she's beautiful, and has a nice ass." Gabriel leered looking back at the afore mentioned bit of anatomy

"You've been looking at her?" Daniel asked shocked, from previous conversations he knew that Gabe still loved Daisy

"Dan" Gabe said seriously "I've been in prison for ten years, at this point your great grandmother would turn me on."

Daniel looked back at the two women who were leaning close together in deep conversation.

"You love her don't you." Gabriel whispered the statement

Daniel could only nod "But she could never feel the same about me."

"Why not?" Gabriel asked

Resigned to the facts Daniel shook his head "Look at me Gabe, I'm a geek, a book worm archeologist."

"So am I."

Daniel stared at his well-muscled friend "But you at least don't look it. Besides I think that she likes Colonel O'Neill." He said wistfully

"How do you know that?"

"The way they are always flirting with each other, laughing, joking."

"What about the regs, are they seeing each other?" Gabriel asked him seriously

"I don't think so." Daniel admitted, he did not mention that he was afraid to find out for sure. He was not sure that he could handle seeing Sam and Jack together as a couple.

Gabe shrugged looking back at Sam "Well I don't see a sign that says 'property of Colonel O'Neill' anywhere on her. You should just go for it." He encouraged

"And if she says no?" Daniel asked nervously

Gabriel shrugged and continued, "So she says no, you move on. It's better than pining away, and believe me I know what that's like."

"You mean Daisy." Daniel said knowingly

Gabe nodded "I can't get her out of my mind." He admitted but turned back to try to make his new friend understand "Daniel, I'm going to say this as a friend. Do not live with regrets, I know what that is like. My whole life is nothing more than one giant fucking regret. Go after what you want, life is way too short not to. If she says no, then you got your answer and you move on and try to find someone else. You gotta grab the brass ring if you can, don't you ever let your life become like mine. Sitting on death row thinking about shoulda, coulda, woulda."

Daniel was still too afraid "But it could cost me her friendship. I don't know if I could handle that."

Gabe grabbed Daniel by the bicep "It won't, not if she really is your friend. She will just say that she is deeply flattered, but she does not like you that way. If she dumps your friendship just cause you admit you like her more than you should, then fuck her. She isn't worthy of your friendship." Gabe smiled at Daniel's reaction and continued, "Then again there is the chance that she might say yes, and that she likes you too. In that case the only thing that you two have to argue about is which side of the bed you like to sleep on."

Daniel blushed crimson

Gabe let go of his arm "Just think about it Dan. You only live once; you just gotta make a grab for that brass ring no matter the cost. That is what this life is all about." Gabe patted his arm and picked up the book on Mayan culture again.

Two hours later, they headed back towards the cell area, walking ahead of the guards, Gabe asked.

"How did it go?"

Annie looked back making sure the guards were out of earshot, "She's hot for him alright. You?"

Gabriel smiled he still knew love when he saw it, "The same, hopefully we have accomplished our objective tonight. If not we just keep at them until they do."

"Let's hope so, I like them." Annie smiled determined to see that her new friend gets what and whom she wanted.

"So do I Annie, so do I."

As they were let into the large room, which had been designated as SG13's cell, the door was closed and locked behind them. Suddenly their three teammates jumped out of their bunks.

"What's on for tonight?" asked Washington his mouth already watering

"Chinese." Annie said as she opened her jacket and started pulling out cartons of food for the others as Gabe did the same.

Silently Sam and Daniel made their way to the surface to head home. Neither really was in the mood to talk, both still thinking over what their friends had said to them. As they headed out towards the car park Sam turned to Daniel and saw that, he was deep in thought.

Looking around Sam saw that Daniel's car was no where to be seen "Need a ride?"

"Yeah, my car is in the shop." He admitted kicking a pebble

"Again?" Sam shook her head "You should really get a new car Daniel."

"She's a classic though." Daniel protested trying to defend his baby

"Not if she's always in the shop she isn't." Sam pointed out reasonably

As they approached her car, they noticed that O'Neill's car was still there.

"Didn't Jack leave to go watch football with Teal'c?" Daniel asked her staring at the jeep before them.

"Yeah" Sam nodded "Maybe the Colonel's having car trouble too."

"With the windows steamed up like that?" Suddenly Daniel smiled

Sam noticed it as well and smiled "Well, well, well, I wonder who Jack has in there." Sam leaned against her car

Seeing Sam smile like that, Daniel rejoiced inside. If she wasn't jealous or mad then maybe....just maybe...

Daniel raised an eyebrow as he settled himself next to Sam "I sincerely hope that it's not Teal'c." Daniel joked earning him some hysterical laughter from Sam.

Suddenly the window rolled down and the jeep started and Daniel and Sam were both shocked to see Jack with lipstick smeared all over his face and Janet straightening out her blouse.

"Well, well" Sam said getting herself under control staring at her friends

Startled both Jack and Janet looked over at Sam and Daniel who were both casually leaning against Sam's car.

Daniel sighed in relief "At least it's not Teal'c."

Sam started laughing again.

Jack looked flustered "Ah... Ah Janet's car broke down and I'm giving her a lift." He said looking at Janet who quickly nodded in agreement.

Daniel just could not let it go "And the lipstick all over your face is just her way of thanking you for a lift."

Sam covered her mouth with a hand still laughing but managed to say, "Janet you've miss-buttoned your blouse."

Looking down Janet saw that she had indeed miss-buttoned her blouse and blushed furiously.

"You two saw nothing." Jack ordered in his best officers tone.

Both Sam and Daniel popped up to attention and Sam nodded "Nothing sir."

"Jack and Teal'c are back at Jack's place watching football." Daniel agreed

"Right." Still blushing Jack threw the jeep into reverse and quickly sped out of the car park. Leaving his 2IC and his archeologist laughing in the parking lot.

"Did you know about this?" Sam asked still laughing getting in her car

"Hadn't a clue, although obviously Teal'c has been covering for them." Daniel admitted also getting in "I wonder how long that's been going on."

"I have no idea, but I'm trapping Janet for some details tomorrow." Sam promised putting a hand on Daniel's knee.

Shaking his head "Imagine two grown adults going at it in a parking lot like a couple of teenagers." Daniel laughed looking over at Sam unconsciously taking her hand into his entwining his fingers with hers.

Sam stopped laughing feeling his hand on hers, of course they had touched before, after so many years it was impossible not to have touched each other. This was different though, it felt different, at least it did to Sam. It felt more intimate, looking over at Daniel, a gleam of hope in her eyes.

Daniel stopped laughing seeing a new look in Sam's eyes

"I can imagine it Daniel." She whispered leaning in closer to Daniel hoping that she wasn't making the biggest mistake of her life in reading more into the hand holding than there really was.

Daniel began to lean across as well; it is now or never he thought, "Now that I think about it so can I."

Twenty minutes later, a lone sentry and dog walked through the parking lot.

"There sure are a lot of steamed up cars tonight aren't there girl."

The dog barked and the guard chuckling to himself kept walking.

"Good morning Janet." Sam said breezily as she entered the infirmary, a smile the size of Texas lighting up her face. Remembering the night before, she and Daniel had stayed up late discussing their feelings about one another. Sam felt herself melt under Daniel's gaze and at his touch, so soft and gentle. They had spent the rest of the night exploring each other's bodies finding out what excited the other, only to fall asleep for a couple of hours as the sun rose. Sam had never imagined that Daniel would turn out to be so sensual and such an exciting lover. There were depths to him that Sam had never realized, but she was willing to learn all she could about him. They had awaken after a few hours of sleep, both smiling not truly believing that the other was still there, that it had not been just another dream on either of their parts. Then Sam remembered that she had not been protected that night and after some quick calculations Sam winced, this spurred another conversation, it was finally agreed that Sam would get something. Both agreed that they hated the feel of latex in something so intimate as making love. It had thrilled Sam to the core to hear those words from Daniel, making love. It was obvious to her that their night together was more than just sex. That it was the beginning of something special for the both of them.

Janet turned and saw her friend coming towards her with a giant smile on her face. She knew that this was coming; she had half expected a phone call the previous night and was somewhat surprised when none had come. Janet had spent a large portion of the previous evening wondering what she was going to say to Sam. Daniel was easy, all she had to do was threaten him with what she would do to him the next time he was in the infirmary and he would keep his mouth shut. Sam on the other hand was military and as such had a responsibility to her rank. She had fallen asleep no closer to an answer than she had when she had been awake.

"Hi Sam." She said closing the door to her office so no one else could hear.

Janet did not even pause she just jumped into her explanation "Okay Sam, it started about six months ago after the thanksgiving day party we had. Jack gave me a lift home and I invited him in for some coffee, Cassie was with a friend and one thing sort of led to another."

"What are you talking about?" asked Sam confused, then remembering "Oh you and the Colonel." She said dismissively, any other day that would have had Sam all over the petite doctor getting information. However today was a completely different day, today she had a man of her own. One who she knew already that she loved dearly.

Janet nodded biting her lip

"Do you care about each other?" Sam asked seriously, she did not want to see either of her friends hurt.

Janet smiled and her eyes stared off at something in the distance that only she could see "Yes, I think I'm falling for him in a big way Sam."

"I'm really happy for you Janet." Sam smiled gently happy for her friend

"Really?" Janet smiled a genuine smile "The regs..."

Sam shrugged not caring "I've realized lately that the regs aren't all that they are cracked up to be."

"Oh" Janet silently mouthed, not saying anymore, she did not want to press her luck. Instead, she asked

"So why are you here this morning if it isn't for details of my love life."

It was Sam's turn to become nervous "Ah...Janet I need..." God this was so hard.

"You need..." Janet encouraged her when Sam stopped talking

"Birth control pills." Sam whispered afraid to speak louder now biting her own lip.

"Birth control pills!" Janet exclaimed while Sam ducked her head looking out the window as some of the nurses began to curiously look their way.

"Say it a little louder Janet, I don't think the General heard you." Sam said turning a deep crimson

Janet's hand flew over her mouth "I'm so sorry Sam." Then smiling Janet leaned over her desk "So who is it?"

"I don't think that we need to go into that." Sam began biting her lower lip staring at Janet's desk top with intense scrutiny.

Janet shook her head "This is awful sudden Sam, I mean just last night..." Janet's eyes widened "Daniel?!"

At Sam's lack of response, Janet leaned back and smiled at her friend "How did it happen?"

Sam shrugged "We sort of got it into our heads after catching you and Jack, and we..."

"Started necking in the parking lot. But the pill?" Janet asked surprised that things would move along so quickly, she and Jack had waited over a month before things had progressed to that level.

Sam stared at her friend knowing what was going through her mind "We talked a lot last night about everything. You know about Sha're about how he felt about it. About how I felt about him, and how he felt about me. It was not just a one-night thing Janet; we have felt this way for a long time. It is just that neither of us had the guts to tell the other. Then the next thing I knew we were in bed."

"Was it good?" Janet asked with a wicked gleam in her eye.

Sam blew out her breath "I think that Daniel's memorized the entire Kama sutra."

"That good huh." Janet laughed at her friends blush, and then got down to business "Did you use anything last night?" she asked

Sam shifted uncomfortably "That wasn't on the top of our list last night. After all it wasn't something that either of us was expecting." She admitted

Janet sighed having heard the same story too many times before, "When was your last period?" she sighed, thinking that Sam of everyone should know better.

"Two and a half weeks ago almost three." Sam whispered knowing the coming response

Janet stared at her friend and shook her head "Entering danger area." Standing Janet went to the cabinet and came back with a couple of pills.

"What are these?" Sam asked eyeing the pills

"Morning after pills" Janet explained to her "You take one now and one six hours from now, it will suppress your ovulation. Now I gave you your last gyno when?"

"Six weeks ago."

Janet nodded "That's right during your annual physical and that went well, so I don't see any problem with that." Standing up Janet again unlocked the cabinet and reached in taking out a packet of pills "You know that they won't become effective in your system for awhile." Janet reached into her desk, pulled out a bag, and turned back to the cabinet. "Here you go, just make sure that you follow the instructions. Any questions you just come back and ask."

"Alright." Sam nodded taking the bag from Janet and looked into it, it was filled to the brim with condoms "Janet!" Sam blushed furiously shutting the bag feeling as if she was seventeen again.

"You'll need them." Janet said seriously "Like I said the pill takes awhile to get into your system. Take them and USE them." Janet warned her friend seriously.

"I really hate these things, so does Daniel." She protested

"It won't kill either one of you for a few weeks." Janet warned her "Unless you want a little surprise nine months later"

"I'm not quite ready for that just yet." Sam smiled getting up

"That's quite a change in attitude Sam." Janet looked at her friend and saw a woman in love

"What is?" Sam asked confused

"The last time you and I got drunk together, you said that you'd never be ready to have children."

"So the point is?"

Janet smiled "You just said that you weren't ready just yet, I'd say that is quite a change of heart."

Sam smiled as she opened the door "Thanks Janet" Pausing at the door Sam's smiled got wider "You're right and I think I kinda like that idea." With that, Sam closed the door behind her and almost skipped out of the infirmary. Janet sat back for a moment wondering what a child created from the DNA of those two would be like. Suddenly she shivered a blonde hair, blue-eyed super genius. It was definitely a scary thought.

Jack caught up with Daniel in the locker room, looking around to make sure that they were alone Jack moved in.

"Hey Danny-Boy."

Daniel looked up and smiled "Hey Jack, how's it going."

"Listen about last night." He began nervously

Daniel shook his head "It's none of my business."

Jack sighed with relief, he should of known that Daniel of all people could be trusted.

Daniel looked up at his friend "But just out of curiosity how long?"

Jack smiled "Since thanksgiving."

"Wow" Daniel smiled "That's nearly six months ago, you happy?"

Jack smiled "I haven't been this happy in a long, long time." He admitted to his best friend

Daniel put a hand on Jack's shoulder "That's all that matters."

"For a long time I thought that I didn't deserve to be this happy."

Daniel nodded knowingly "Because of Sara and Charlie."

Jack nodded sitting down heavily "Yeah, sometimes I still feel..."

"Stop it Jack" Daniel told him "You are a good man Jack, one of the finest I've ever met. If anyone deserves to be happy, it's you. I wish I could make you understand that what happened to Charlie was an accident. A friend told me recently that you gotta grab the brass ring while you can. So I don't want to hear this shit that you don't deserve to be happy, because you do." Daniel told him angrily

Jack was surprised at his friend's anger, but he knew it was only because Daniel cared about him "Thanks Daniel." Jack said sincerely "That means a lot to me."

Daniel smiled then asked, "Does Cassie know?" wondering how the teen would react to her adopted mother dating again.

Jack laughed "Yeah it was either that or traumatize the girl wondering why I was wandering around her house in a robe. She's taken it well, says it's about time that Janet started dating."

"That's good then." Daniel said putting on his jacket and adjusting his holster "So any wedding bells in the near future?" he joked

Jack put up his hands in protest "One thing at a time Danny-boy, I've just gotten used to the idea that Janet actually likes me hanging around."