In the commissary, Jack pulled his cell out of his pocket.
"O'Neill." He said after pushing the button with the green phone on it to answer the call.
"Jack, it's Daniel. I tried calling your office, but your not there." Daniel's voice came through the phone.
"No, I'm not there." Jack answered sarcastically to the archaeologist who was interrupting his 'snack.'"What do you want?"
"I need to talk to you. Could you come to my office?"
"This is Daniel, right. You're Hammond trying to trick me? Whatever you think I did, it wasn't me." Jack questioned.
"Jack, I swear this is Daniel." Daniel was chuckling on the other end.
"Are you sure?" Jack asked, he knew he was talking to Daniel, but he was bored and wanted to play with Daniel for as long as he could.
"Yes Jack. I'm completely sure. Check the caller id on your phone." Jack could tell Daniel was trying not to laugh on the other end.
"555-6391. I don't know that's Daniel's number." Jack said, trying not to blow his cover by sounding too stupid. "I'm hanging up now. I'll call back once I've called my reliable source to make sure you're not trying to trick me."
Jack quickly hung up the phone and cleared off the tray he had his empty containers on. He put his cell back in his pocket and headed to Sam's lab.
He knocked on the lab door and opened it slowly, checking for signs of flying debris, exploding anything and any other experiment that could misfire and cause trouble.
"Carter? You here?" Jack asked, after assessing the coast was clear. He couldn't see her anywhere, but it was her lab and she knew it better than him.
"Yes, sir." He heard a voice mumble from a corner. He walked to where he thought the voice was and saw Sam sitting in a corner with a notebook in her lap.
"Hey Carter. Whatcha doin'?" He asked with a small smile.
She quickly shut her notebook and rested her arms on it. "I was taking some notes, sir." She answered while standing up so she could regain her respect as an officer. "Why do you ask?"
"Daniel called and said he wanted to talk to me." He started. "Do you know what he wants?"
"Yes, sir. It's about the newsletter." She explained, being purposefully vague.
"Oh, I..." He started, but was cut off by the ringing of the Lab's phone. "Oh fer crying out loud." He muttered as Sam walked by him to the phone.
"Carter." She answered after picking up the offending phone.
"Oh. Hey Daniel.." She listened for a couple seconds. "Yeah, he's here." She paused to listen again. "Yeah, I'll tell him. Yeah, Daniel, bye."
She hung up the phone and turned to her CO. "Colonel, Daniel still wants to talk to you. He wants you to go to his office."
"Okay." He half whined and walked out the door to Daniel's office.
He walked down the halls and only stopped when he was in front of Daniel's door. He knocked on the door and then stepped inside without waiting for answer.
"You wanted to see me, almighty archaeologist." He said sarcastically after closing the door.
"Yeah, I did, Jack. Did you call your reliable source to make sure it was me who called Sam too?" Daniel asked, a note of sarcasm on his voice as well.
"Ha ha, Daniel. What do you want?"
"I went to see General Hammond about the newsletter I'm going to write. He had some ideas. One of his 'ideas' was that you should have a part in writing it." Daniel explained carefully.
"So...it's just an idea." Jack responded.
"Okay. Actually it wasn't an idea. I have to give you a part in this newsletter for General Hammond to approve it."
"I'm not liking this Daniel. What do you have in mind?"
"I was going to have you find and type up the scores for sports games." Daniel said.
"I have to what? Wait, sports? And I can do this on work time?" Jack asked sceptically.
"Yeah. That's it." Daniel stated.
"Cool. I can do that. For what sport?"
"I don't know. Hockey, football, baseball. I don't think there are many golf fans on base."
"Okay. Tell me when you need it by and I can do that." Jack said.
"Okay."
Jack left Daniel's office in what was almost good mood. Hockey; very good. Football; okay. Baseball; a little on the boring side, but it's just the scores.
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