A/N: yay! I'm so glad someone besides me has seen dead like me! You rock spacemonkeylover! For all those in the UK, Dead like me is on sky one on Wednesday, 9pm. Sorry for the delay in posting, I was having so much trouble writing this chap! I'm so not used to angst…

Jack felt his heart constrict. "She's what!"

"She died. This morning. On the way to work."

Gee, thanks for the abundance of info there Daniel.

"How?"

"She ate a peanut m and m and had an allergic reaction and then she died…"

Jack raised an eyebrow. "She died from chocolate!"

"Technically peanut m and m's aren't chocolate. They're nuts…"

Daniel's eyes began to tear and Jack felt a wave of sympathy for the man. This had to be hard for him too. He put his arm around Daniel's shoulder and led him out of the briefing room. He turned and said over his shoulder,

"Meeting adjourned. Get Walter to schedule another one."

He didn't know how, but somehow they had ended in up in Carter's office. He figured it was habit. Daniel took one look at their surroundings and began to sob quietly. Jack pulled him into a hug. The pair stood there for a moment, finding a strange sense of comfort within their shared misery. A quiet sound from the corner, so soft to most it would have gone unnoticed, drew them from their reverie. Jack looked up to see Teal'c shrugged over in Sam's – she was dead now, he could call her that – chair. Daniel went and sat on the table next to the jaffa. Just sat there, not saying anything, just quietly trying to find a way to work through their personal despair.

Jack leaned back in his chair and scrubbed his face with his hands. He still couldn't believe it – she couldn't be dead. Sam never died. She wasn't supposed to die. She was supposed to be alive, working waaaay too hard in her lab, and one day he would retire and they'd - she wasn't supposed to be dead. Especially from a peanut m and m. She didn't even like peanut m and m's! It was all because of that stupid bet – Danny had bet Sam she couldn't go 2 weeks without jello, lollies, chocolate, etc. So she's probably gotten sugar cravings and gotten peanut m and m's, which, apparently, aren't technically chocolate. And so she'd died. It was quite ironic. He wondered if she was giggling at it all right now. Probably.

Jack wasn't a big believer of the whole "heaven and hell" scene, but he couldn't accept the fact that once someone died, that was it. Daniel was proof enough of that. Although he couldn't really see Sam "ascending to a higher plain of existence". Despite himself, he laughed. The thought of Oma Desala trying to convince his former-2IC that she was now "energy", not atoms and cells or whatever, was just too good. A meek knock interrupted him.

"Sorry to bother you, General." It was Walter. "Ah, there's been an incident and you're required in the infirmary."

"Oh for crying out loud…" Jack rolled his eyes. Siler must have electrocuted himself again. Why he wasn't energy by now was beyond him. "I'll be right down."

And life goes on after death…