Author's Note: Sorry this took so long to get out... it's been so hot here, I really haven't felt like doing much of anything but sitting around. Even work is actually a chore lately!)

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A half hour later SG-1 walked into the briefing room, cleaned and freshly showered – without Ian Brooks, but with Sam. Hammond frowned; not because Sam was there – he'd expected that – but because Ian wasn't.

"Where's Cadet Brooks?"

"Doctor Fraiser won't release him, sir."

"What? Why not?"

Jack sat down, and the others followed suit.

"Because he's tired and she wants to make sure he's all right," Daniel said.

"He's fine, sir," Jack said. "It's just that whole healing thing again."

"Healing?" Hammond echoed. "Who did he heal?" He looked at Jack and Daniel, obviously trying to determine who had been injured and had needed Ian's help.

"Not us," Daniel said, quickly. "One of the villagers on the planet fell and broke his leg. A little boy."

"You met the people?" Hammond asked. "Did you find out how they use the rocks in the carvings?"

Daniel frowned.

"No. But I'd like to go back. Without Ian, though."

"What? Why?" Hammond wondered if Ian had caused trouble on the mission, although Jack O'Neill didn't look annoyed or anything – which he would have if he'd been upset with one of the members of his team. Especially the most junior of them. Instead, he looked a little amused.

"Ian's a bit of a distraction to the villagers, sir," Jack said.

"Why's that, Colonel?"

"Because they seem to think he's Jesus Christ."

Hammond was waiting for the smirk that would tell him Jack was joking, but it didn't come. And Sam O'Neill looked surprised, too. Not like she would if she thought Jack was joking around.

"Say again?"

"They believe he's the Son of God, sir."

"Why on Earth would they think that?" Hammond asked, frowning.

"And how would they know about Jesus Christ, anyways?" Sam asked.

"Because they're the descendants of the Roanoke Colony," Daniel said.

"What?"

"The Roanoke Colony was the first British Colony to be established in the Americas," Daniel explained. "But they-"

"Wait." Hammond didn't really mind so much getting a history lesson, but he wanted things to be in order. "Why don't you start at the beginning?"

"Well, the English wanted to establish-"

"Daniel."

Daniel looked at Jack.

"He means the beginning of the mission."

"Thank you, Colonel."

Now Jack smirked, and Sam couldn't help but smile, even though she was really curious to hear what had happened while they'd been gone.

Jack looked at Daniel, giving him the go ahead to start the story. He and Teal'c would pick things up wherever they might be needed, but Daniel knew more about the colony and the villagers – the Brish.

So Daniel started telling Hammond and Sam what they'd done once they left the SGC, and he not surprising any of them, he didn't get through it without several interruptions.

"You let him heal the boy right there in the open?" Hammond asked, frowning. No wonder they thought something was up with Ian.

"He was just a little boy, General," Daniel said before Jack could say anything. "It was the right thing to do. If the leg hadn't healed properly the boy could have been a cripple for the rest of his life, and then he might not have been able to get a wife from one of the other villages, or be able hunt or run properly, or be able to support-"

"I'm more worried about the fact that it was done in the open, Doctor Jackson," Hammond said. "Why didn't you put the boy to sleep or something first? I suppose he saw what happened?"

Daniel looked chagrined.

"Yes."

"Oh, yeah," Jack agreed. "He definitely saw it. It was a good way to get a chance to see the villagers, though – probably the only way." Although Jack hadn't been all for healing the kid, he was going to give Daniel credit where it was due. "But they were definitely giving Ian some odd looks…"

"I bet he loved that…" Sam said.

Jack smiled, but didn't say anything. Of course, he didn't have to; the look said it all.

"Tell me about these people," Hammond requested, and Daniel launched into the story of how they found out about the cave, and what little they'd discovered there, and then about the cave-in and how they'd thought they'd lost Ian under the rocks and had spent the day trying to dig him out only to find out he hadn't been there in the first place.

Sam and General Hammond listened with interest, but not concern. After all, they'd both seen Ian and knew he was alive and well.

"So what happened then?" Sam asked, curiously.

"We followed the dogs, who had Ian's trail pretty quick, and found Ian and another one of the villagers-"

"From a different village," Jack interrupted.

"From a different village," Daniel said. "And found out it was this other guy – Joshua – who took Ian."

Hammond frowned, and Jack knew what was coming next.

"I don't understand, though. Why didn't this Joshua tell you that Ian was okay? Why take him off somewhere else when he had to know you were looking for him?"

"He wanted Ian to get his wife pregnant," Daniel explained, knowing full well that that little comment was going to be taken just as wrong by Hammond and Sam as it had been when SG-1 had first heard it.

And sure enough, both of them stared.

"He just wanted help," Jack explained, unable to hide his own mirth at their expressions. "He didn't want Ian to do everything…"

"Why am I afraid to ask what happened next?" Sam asked.