A/N: I got this idea from this great little show on cable called "Dead like me". For anyone in Australia with either cable (optus/foxtel) it's on Fox 8, Monday nights at 8:30 aus east coast daylight savings time… Set post-threads, so there's not Pete! YAY! Sections in brackets are character asides…
Sam yawned and rolled over. 5:30 am. She stretched for a moment and lay back on her bed, staring at the ceiling, wondering if she could be bothered going to work. She didn't actually have to go in to work today – for once – but the General had begged her to sit through his annual finance meeting with him. She didn't know whether to feel complimented or not – did he find her so enthralling that she could make even a business meeting interesting, or was she just his play toy? She yawned once more. On the other hand ("there are 5 fingers", she could hear jack's voice say in the back of her mind) it was a chance to spend some more time with him – get to know the workings of the base better. She was 2IC of it now, after all. Sam yawned again and, sighing, rolled out of bed. He owed her big time.
Jack sat, head perched on his hand, trying desperately not to fall asleep as the man in front of him droned on and on (and on and on and on…) about the conventions and – actually, Jack wasn't sure the man was even speaking English anymore. God he was bored. Oh so bored. He was sure the only reason he had these meetings only once a year was because they lasted for a whole year. He felt his mind shutting down and wondered if it was actually possible to die from boredom. Carter is so dead, he thought, stifling another yawn as the accountant continued to prattle on about a stale economy or whatever. Actually, he didn't blame Carter for ditching him. Ok, so he did, but he could understand why. Even Jonas would find this meeting boring.
A sudden knock on the door made him jump. Everyone stared at him as Daniel entered the room. Jack leapt from his chair and practically ran to the man. He couldn't remember the last time he had been so happy to see his favourite archaeologist. (Probably the last time he'd come back from the dead. In other words – yesterday).
"Daniel, what's up?" Please let it be something important; please let it be something important…
"Uh," Daniel looked up, pain and sorrow clear in his watery blue eyes. "Sam's dead."