In a dark room, hardly anything can be seen Jack entered the room. The room is down in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex

"It was a dark and gloomy room." Jack said in a slightly scary tone of voice

"Shut up Jack!" Tyra said

"But it is!"

"Even though it is dark we don't need you to add a spooky atmosphere to it." Added Sam from somewhere else in the room.

"Why are the lights off?"

"Cause I'm trying to put this light bulb in!" Came the familiar voice from Daniel.

"Well in that case scary and spooky fit right in to this room at the moment." Jack whispered to Tyra who was standing next to him

"Do you need a light?" asked Niya

"That's pointless Niya, cause there's no light."

"Daniel, why do you need us all in here anyway?"

"Just in case something happens to me, in case you hadn't noticed that does happen to me a lot."

"You can say that again." Tyra said quietly, Jack's response was to laugh.

"Who's laughing?"

"No one." Replied Sam

"I heard someone laugh, now I'm not gonna put this light bulb in until I know who it was."

"It wasn't anyone. Now just fix the light and then we can all go." Jack was annoyed about he fact he was in there with nothing to do.

"Argh!" CRASH!

"Daniel? Daniel, what happened." Niya asked, anxious to know if Daniel was injured or not. A torch came on and it shone around the room until it's beam landed on Daniel. He was on the floor with a broken wooden stepladder ontop of him.

"You see that's why I said using a chair would be better than using a wooden stepladder."

"Good thing you had that torch with you, Tyra."

"Why do you always have to be right?"

"How should I know? How come it's always you that gets the injury?"

"It's not always me. You've been killed twice."

"You 6 times." Sam added

"You've had an arrow through your shoulder, been infected with a Goa'uld symbiote, stabbed in the stomach and had blast weapon damage on your leg. I don't think there's anything I've missed off that list. And I haven't had that much done to me."

"At least she hasn't died as many times as you have! You've died 6 times, remember?" Niya helped Daniel up.

"Can you walk?"

"Yeah."

"How can you tell? You haven't even tried!"

"All right, enough all ready! Where's the bulb?"

"Err." Tyra shone the torch around the room again and soon found the bulb, shattered on the floor.

"There." She said pointing to it. She went over and picked up most of the pieces

"Let's go." They all left the room, Daniel hobbling but otherwise he was fine. Jack was not that certain that Daniel was ok.

"You sure you're ok Daniel?"

"Yes Jack I'm fine, no thanks to you."

"It was your own fault. You should've listened to Tyra and used a chair instead of the wooden stepladder. It was bound to break!"

"Enough of the ladder all right? I'm going off to a DIY store to get some paint."

"Why?" The group looked at Daniel waiting for a reply.

"So I can paint my room. General Hammond said I could."

"You're not gonna use a wooden stepladder are you?"

"Of course not. It's broken so I can't! I'll use a metal ladder."

"At least then you'll be able to reach the ceiling, and the tops of the wall." Tyra said smiling.

"So, what colour will you paint it?"

"Wait and See!" And with that Daniel walked off to go up to the surface.

A couple of hours later and Daniel had returned from the store and was walking down a corridor towards his room with two tins of paint. He soon saw Sam and Tyra.

"I see you're back."

"Good observation."

"You got your paint?"

"Yes." He said holding up his two very large tins.

"You're room isn't that big, you won't need two tins of paint."

"Yes I will."

"Why?"

"Two different colours."

"Interesting." Tyra replied not too confident about Daniel's plans.

"You wanna help me?"

"Isn't it a bit dark in your room though, with no light bulb being in there?" Sam pointed out

"No, there should be a light bulb in there now. On my way out I asked the caretaker if he would change it for me and he said he would."

"We have a caretaker?"

"Lieutenant What's'is'name. Davis."

"Oh him. So, he's now our caretaker?" Daniel just nodded in reply to Sam's question. The two women looked at each other.

"So, are you gonna help me or not?"

"All right. Especially after the mess you made of trying to replace the light bulb this morning."

"Enough with what happened this morning!"

"Sorry Daniel." They moved off and made their way to Daniel's office.

Luckily for them Davis had changed the light bulb and taken away the broken ladder and swept up the smaller bits of glass that Tyra couldn't pick up earlier. He had also left a ladder in his room ready for Daniel to do some decorating. Daniel propped the ladder up and tested its sturdiness.

"Be very careful on that ladder Daniel, cause you could easily slip off." Sam said just as Daniel was about to climb up it.

"One more word from you about ladders..."

"Sorry." Sam opened one tin of paint and Daniel opened the other one. The two women looked at each other again at the sight of the two colours. Green and purple.

"Hmm. Green and purple. Nice choice." Tyra said sarcastically.

"At least it's better than grey. You two paint the walls, I'll paint the ceiling."

Daniel took the purple tin and began to climb the ladder. Sam and Tyra took the green paint and began to paint the walls.

A while later and Daniel was still on top of the ladder painting the ceiling purple. The ladder was now right next to the closed door. Sam and Tyra were still painting the walls green.

Suddenly the door opened and Daniel was thrown off the ladder, with the tin of paint following him. Daniel landed on the floor with a THUD and the paint landed with a SQUELCH. The paint tin had landed on Daniel's head. Tyra and Sam looked at Daniel and then at the door where Jack was now standing.

"Daniel? Are you all right?" Daniel took the tin off his head and wiped the paint off his face.

"I don't know." Daniel was now annoyed. Very annoyed.

"Sorry." Jack said.

Daniel looked at Jack and then at Sam and Tyra and he noticed that Tyra was beginning to laugh, but doing her best to keep it back. Sam was just staring at Daniel. Sam looked at Tyra and then Jack, Tyra and Sam all burst out laughing.

"You think that's funny?"

"Yes we do!" All three replied.

"I just came to tell you we've been scheduled for a travel in a couple of hours, so you might want to have a shower before then Daniel." Jack was having so much trouble just to tell him that because the situation was so funny.

"Thanks Jack."

"I guess we'll have to wait until another day to finish off the painting." Tyra's laughs were calming down a bit.

"Yes, cause I need a new tin of purple paint." Tyra moved over to Daniel and helped him up.

"Off you go. You heard Jack!"

"Thanks." Daniel heads for the door and left. Jack looked into the room at Sam and Tyra, smiled and then walked away.

"Poor Daniel. First the light bulb, now this. What's gonna happen next?"

"It has not been his day today!" The two women laughed for a bit longer