John Doe

Chapter Twenty-two

Disclaimer: Yeah, whatever. The show and the characters don't belong to me.

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They were all on time for the debriefing at 1000 hours the next morning and for twenty minutes Daniel prattled on about the planet they were headed to and what he thought they would uncover there. Even though he didn't need to, Jack had already explained the situation to them at lunch the day before. Nonetheless for twenty minutes Sam and Teal'c pretended to listen to Daniel and Jack just flat out ignored him, messing with whatever he could get into his hands. Daniel didn't seem to notice any of it.

Forty minutes after that SG-1, along with it's previous leader General O'Neill, entered the 'gate room, suited up and ready to go. Davis' voice called over the intercom, "Chevron Five engaged, Chevron Six engaged, Chevron Seven is locked!" and the wormhole whooshed forward and then snapped right back.

"SG-1 and General O'Neill," his temps voice called over the intercom, "you have a go."

And with that they stepped up the ramp and through the shimmering even horizon, coming out on P3X-053.

"Alright," Sam called out to the boys, taking on her role as CO, "Teal'c and General O'Neill, you two head northwest and check out the building that SG-7 couldn't figure out and Daniel and I will head on to the ruins, we'll rendezvous there at o-one hundred hours."

They mumbled their agreements and took off in separate directions, Jack grumbling to Teal'c about being stuck with him and not Sam and Daniel prattling on about the ruins discursively. Sam wasn't sure which one of them had it worse, her or Teal'c.

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She got her answer at 1242 hours, when Jack came walking up to her and Daniel whining about something. Sam snapped a photo of the ancient artifact she had been studying and turned around to look at him with a sigh. "What is it, sir?"

"I did it again," he said temperamentally.

"You did what again?" She postulated, looking over at Teal'c for a straight answer. The Jaffa just raised an eyebrow and growled in annoyance.

"Got my head sucked by one of those darn head suckers," he explained with a growl of his own.

"Did you?" She asked, undaunted, studying him incredulously.

He nodded, "Yep."

Daniel, in his credulity dropped what he was doing and began to walk over to the three precipitately. But, before he was halfway there he tripped over a rock in his ineptitude, and went crashing down to the ground with a surprised curse. He bounced back up, brushed the dirt off of his pants, and carefully walked over to his teammates. "You did what?"

"General O'Neill claims to have had his head "sucked" again." Sam explained, looking at her CO skeptically.

"Really?" He asked, letting his own suspicion take over- Jack could easily be pulling their legs. "So, I was right? There was an outpost here?"

"Oh, yeah." Jack replied. "How's the kozars?" he asked, motioning towards Daniel's still dusty legs.

"Kozars?" Daniel asked, "...Oh, oh. They're fine, Jack. I'm just clumsy." It was his turn to look at Teal'c for answers, "When did this happen?"

The Jaffa did not answer; he just stood stoically and once again let out an annoyed growl.

"Sir, if you really did have the knowledge of the ancients downloaded into your brain, again, we'll have to return to work immediately and contact the Asguard so they can remove the knowledge." Sam told him with a sigh.

"I understand, Colonel," he replied unrelenting.

Neither her or Daniel were buying it. "You and Sam go ahead," he told Jack, "Teal'c can take me to the outpost so I can study it more."

"You don't want to come and make sure I'm adert?" Jack asked, a hurt expression on his face.

"Adert?" Sam asked with an amused smile.

"Yeah, adert, you know, fine, healthy, not in physical danger?" he explained.

Daniel just shrugged, "It's happened to you twice before, the Asguard can take care of it."

Jack scowled, aware that they didn't buy his act, "Damn you two. You're no fun."

Sam and Daniel just laughed in reply.

"Come on sir," Sam exclaimed, "did you really think we'd buy that?"

"I was planning on it," he replied. "You are both too smart for your own good." He scowled again, "This is boring."

"You wanted to come, Jack." Daniel reminded him, "You knew it wouldn't be any fun for you, but you insisted on coming."

"I know," Jack told him. "I only came so I could order Carter to spend the day with me on the beach."

Sam went back to the artifact she had been looking at before Jack interrupted her, "I didn't bring a suit, sir."

"I brought one for you," he said with a grin.

She threw a look over her shoulder, "You're being serious?"

He nodded.

"Alright, I guess if it's an order...." she set the artifact back down and followed Jack to where he left his bag. "Teal'c will help you, Daniel" she called over her shoulder as they walked off. The Jaffa nodded at him and walked off towards a different end of the ruins, pausing only to grab the camera where Sam had left it.

Daniel watched Teal'c as he walked off, he was studying the camera attentively. In his study of the object he must have pressed a button, because a flash went off right in his eyes and it caused him to stumble a bit, which was very uncharacteristic of him. He had worked with camera's before and Daniel wondered why he was having so much trouble with that one in particular. It was newer, so maybe he just wasn't used to the model? Nonetheless a few seconds later another flash went off.

And Daniel scowled.

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Jack spread the blanket down on the shore and laid down on it, slipping on his sunglasses and sighing with content. "Isn't this better?" he asked Sam as she lay down next to him.

"Better than what?" she inquired, turning on her side to face him.

"Looking at rocks."

She grinned, "Yes, sir. Much better."

"No sir," he ordered. "We're relaxing Carter, my name is Jack."

"Fine, then no Carter's either."

"I can live with that," he told her.

She laid back down and wriggled around until she found the perfect spot and then she was still for about ten minutes, whereupon she flipped around and lay on her stomach, pushing her sunglasses up to the top of her head. "You really thought of everything, didn't you?"

"Oh, yeah."

"And this is the only reason you came?"

"No," he explained, "It's been awhile since I've been off-world with you guys, and the last time I did things didn't exactly turn out great. There is no room for disaster here. We're in paradise, what could go wrong?"

"Well, Jack..." she said, "the last time we went to a planet that looked like a paradise we returned with Urgo."

He groaned, "I'm relaxing Sam, don't mention that ... thing while I'm relaxing."

She giggled, "Sorry."

He turned and lay on his stomach, as well. Taking his sunglasses off he sighed, "This is different, this is real."

"Maybe," she said with a grin. "Who knows?"

He snorted, "You're too difficult, you know?"

"I know," she replied, kissing him briefly, "and you love it."

"Yeah," he sighed, "I do."

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They only spent ten minutes tanning after that before Jack convinced her to go into the planet's clear blue ocean with him. She was hesitant at first, who knew what kind of creatures lived in it. But, after he begged for nearly five minutes, promising that if anything should try and eat her he would save her, she gave in. Although, she made him promise they wouldn't go into the water farther than waist deep. He agreed.

Five minutes after they got into the ocean Sam felt something brush against her legs and shouted out to Jack in surprise. In one swift movement she had nearly jumped on top of him, looking down at the clear blue water. The thing that had brushed up against her leg was still swimming in the area she had been standing, it looked like a clown fish, only much bigger. Laughing at herself she backed away from Jack and went closer to the fish to inspect it, it swam away as soon as she was within ten feet of it.

"It's just a fish," Jack told her amused. "Don't get so worked up, Sam."

"Well, how do you know it's not a pirana of some kind?" she asked him, only half serious. "It could have taken a huge chunk out of my leg."

"That's true, but not likely."

"We've seen stranger things, Jack." she scolded.

"Also true." he made his way through the waters towards her. "Relax, Sam. We came here so that we could relax on a beautiful beach with nobody to interrupt, and you're gonna ruin that because of some big honking orange fish?" He kissed her briefly and then smiled mischievously before leaning forward and causing her to fall backwards all the way under the water. When she came back up her hair was stuck to her face and a look of pure shock danced in her eyes.

"Jonathan O'Neill!" she cried out before lunging at him, pushing him under the water.

When he came back up the look on his face mirrored the look that had been on Sam's only a few seconds prior. He hadn't been expecting her to retaliate, at least not like that. For at least ten minutes after that they continued to dunk each other under the water, then attempt to escape while the other retaliated. It might have been a bit juvenile, but they were making up for lost time.

Almost two hours later Daniel and Teal'c came walking down the beach, looking a bit worse for wear. Sam and Jack had long since left the ocean and found their way underneath what looked very much like a palm tree. The shade provided relief from the hot sun, as well as kept them from burning badly. Then again, they had put on sunblock, but this planet's sun was much closer in proximity than that of earth and it's sun, so they weren't taking any chances- at least, Sam wasn't.

"So, Danny boy," Jack asked when the two came into view. "Found any interesting rocks?"

"As a matter of fact, I have." he replied with a smug grin. "But, that's not why I'm here."

"Oh?" Sam asked, "What's up?"

"Nothing," Daniel assured her. "Teal'c and I wanted a break. If you two can soak up the sun, why can't we?"

"Nobody said you couldn't," Jack informed him.

Daniel sighed and sat down next to Sam, "Teal'c broke the camera."

"He what?" she asked, surprised. "How?"

"He hurled it at the ground."

Jack looked over at the annoyed Jaffa. "Why?"

The large man looked at the three and raised an eyebrow, "It did not take photographs."

"What do you mean, it wouldn't take the pictures?" Sam asked, trying to hide the smile that wanted to spread across her face. She was doing her best not to picture Teal'c throwing a camera at the ground.

"Indeed."

"Why not?" this question was directed towards Daniel.

The archeologist sighed, "Batteries went out."

"So, you threw it at the ground?"

"Indeed."

"Oh, ok. As long as you had a good reason."

Daniel sent him a look, "Jack!"

"What?!"

"We only brought two camera's with us."

"Then why are you here? Shouldn't you be out taking pictures of rocks or something?"

"I told you- I wanted a break."

"Right. Soak up the sun.... Then why are you in the shade?"

"I burn easily."

"Of course you do."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing."

"Don't you 'nothing' me, Jack. What did you mean?"

Sam glanced over at Teal'c, he looked about as annoyed as she felt. With one nod of the head she told him she was going to head back into the ocean, and he nodded in his normal way and followed her. Even though he was still wearing his fatigues. Anything was better than listening to Jack and Daniel argue over nothing.

"It doesn't mean anything, Daniel. That's what 'nothing' means. Not anything."

"Jack, what did you mean buy that?"

"By what?"

"You said 'of course you do'. What did that mean?"

"It meant, of course you do."

"Jack!"

"What?!"

By that time Sam was already in the ocean and Teal'c was standing by the shore, watching the waves roll in. He had never been to the beach on earth, and this was only one of the first few beach planets he had even been able to really enjoy. There was a light breeze coming off the water and from the looks of the sun it was getting ready to set. For Sam and Teal'c everything was peaceful, except for the occasional shout they could hear coming from by the palm like trees.

"What did you mean?"

"What do you mean, what did I mean?"

"Jack!"

"What?!"

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A/N: Sorry if that was terrible. It's early, I'm tired. I really wanted to get this chapter over with, so I just.... Well ... you know what I mean. Muse takes over, things go from there. Anyway, I wouldn't even be updating this if it wasn't for the fact that I remembered I had half of this chapter on a disk somewhere. Like my profile says, the laptop I got for Christmas doesn't have a floppy disk drive, so I am having trouble updating. Although, I'm getting the internet on it soon, so I'll update my other stories then.

Anyway, please tell me what you think. Even if it's bad.