A Day in the Life…of Earth's Stargate?

Hey, look. It's John. That means it's about 11pm. Who's idea was it to not have a clock in the Embarkation Room?

Oh, good. John's coming in here. I wish I could say hi. He's so nice to me.

"Hi Sg." He whispers, walking up the ramp to me. "Rough day?" If he only knew. Sg-1 had a scheduled mission and two unscheduled rescue missions. The Tok'ra needed help or something. Sg's-3, 6, 7 and 9 each had a mission and Sg-4 came back from one. I wonder if John had a good day. He'll tell me. "I heard the Tok'ra came through." He whispers. Yep. "I got a lot of sleep today." That's good. He's been really tired lately. "My daughters brought home their report cards today. All three of them are making honor roll. My wife and I were so proud, we took them out to dinner." Cool. Go daughters Andrews. "We visited my wife's parent's too." I'm sorry. Oh, no! Approaching General. Run and hide John.

"Andrews." Too late.

"Sir." He turns and salutes General Hammond. Sorry, man.

"What are you doing?" The General asks.

"Nothing, sir." Not your best answer.

"Could you stop doing nothing and do your job?" Not really a question. Good tactic, George.

"Yes, sir. Sorry, sir." John answers and walks away from me to the control room. Bye John. Nice hearing you tonight.

Silence.

Two Minutes Later

Wow! This is boring. I wish I had something to do, or at least to look at. I mean all those other Stargates on other planets. With trees and grass and sky and water and temples and ruins and anything. Of all the places to put an object such as myself; I get put in a big, secret, underground base. All I see is gray and green and tan and black all day. Mostly gray. BORING!

Hey, someone new. It's Sam. Why is she here? I listen to her conversation. Ah, another check-up on me. She does one of those about every half an hour. I'm surprised she gets anything else done. Maybe she does this as a break from her other work. Hmmm…never thought of it that way. Is that Jack? How does he always manage to find her? I wish there were a clock in here. Then I could time how long it takes him to get here. I think they are meant to be together. I've heard a whole lot of things have happened between them. Of course, I've seen very few of them because I'm stuck inside this ugly gray room ALL THE TIME! I did hear Jack telling Daniel that she had attacked him, sexually. If I remember correctly that was right before he attacked Daniel, definitely not sexually, for caring about Sam, as a friend. What's going on now?

Looking. I can't really see into the Control Room, but I try.

Are they kissing. Yes, yes, yes, NO! Damn. So close to actually being there when it happened. I think she fell and Jack caught her. Nice save, Jack!

Why do I miss all the good moments between them? I guess I'm overreacting. I see a lot. Hmm. Like the first time Sam went through the wormhole. Jack pushed her. That was funny. I can remember what he said, "Oh, I adore you already, Captain." If nothing else, that man is very funny. And that time we were all stuck in the time loop. What nobody else knows is that I was looping with Jack and Teal'c as well. When they were golfing through the wormhole. They should win an award for Most Creative Use of a Stargate. And when Jack retired so that he could kiss Sam. That one I saw. Though nobody except Jack, Teal'c and myself remember it so that makes it so mush better.

I'm bored a gain. Why do I get bored so many times a day? I'm an ancient, alien artifact. I should be content with my life, and yet I feel…dizzy? A feeling that can only mean one thing…

"Unauthorized off-world activation."

Doesn't look like they're getting an IDC.

CLANG.

Nope there goes the Iris. I hate it when they do that. I miss the pretty kawoosh. Hey look, here come the defense teams. That was pretty slow. Must be one of their bad nights. They usually get here before the guys in the control room decide to close the Iris.

BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG.

In the words of Jack: Like bugs on a windshield. I'm glad it didn't come through, but I wonder who or what it was.

SWISH. No more Iris.

WOOSH. No more wormhole.

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Author's Note: I have no idea where this came from. I wrote it last night. If people like it I will write another chapter because it was so much fun to write. It is from the gate point of view and I hope everybody likes it.

Meghan