Colonel Jack O'Neill saluted an air-man and took his usual seat in the SGC commissary. SG-1 always ate lunch together.
As Jack settled his tray, Daniel looked up from his green jell-o and asked, "So, how was your week-end?"
This earned him and odd look. The archeologist usually spent his off time with his nose in some book about ancient Egypt. Apparently he'd realized that not everyone did.
"It was just peachy!" Jack groaned, "Darn river."
Teal'c tilted his head inquisitively and asked, "What happened?"
"I have this old friend, and he asked me to come river rafting with him. Not white-water rafting – that's what he told me – and he knew this great fishing spot. They get this big!" He demonstrated, holding his hands apart. "But, to make a really, really long story short, there were no fish, kept looking, got completely lost, found some rapids which led to this waterfall. When we went over..."
At about this point Major Sam Carter sat down. She looked at him, shocked, as she had only heard his last few words.
"Oh, it was only a small waterfall." Jack said in a reassuring tone that did nothing to remove the horror from her face.
Daniel thought this was just hilarious.
"How is this funny?"
"Your reaction!" Daniel replied, and glanced at Jack who barely managed to keep his straight face. Unlike his blonde teammate, Daniel had become very good at telling when their friend was serious and when e was exaggerating or sarcastic.
Teal'c, on the other hand, always took everything he said quite literally. He told them, in all seriousness, "Once on Chulak, when I was a boy, I jumped over a waterfall."
Sam decided that they were just trying to mess with her. She glared at her Colonel and focused on eating her blue jell-o. She didn't really like the idea of Jack going over a waterfall. Or Teal'c. Or anyone, for that matter.
"... in the absolute middle of nowhere. About 20 miles downriver we found this little park environmental tour place with a little greeting center. So I called a taxi. Oh! I almost forgot! While I was waiting, I got you all souvenirs!" Jack rummaged in his pockets.
Sam and Daniel looked up, surprised.
Teal'c asked, "What is this 'souvenirs' you speak of?"
"A souvenir is like a little trinket you get to remember where you were or if something happened." Sam explained.
He handed Teal'c a leather chord necklace with a sharp fish-tooth fossil and colored Indian beads, similar to the one he'd gotten for himself. Daniel got a National Geographic poster depicting the history of the region. There had used to be an Indian tribe that lived in the nearby mountains and hunted in the river. He handed to Sam a leather chord bracelet with Indian beading and river stones.
"Wow! It's beautiful!" She grinned, "Thank you, sir!"
"Thank you, O'Neill."
"Yeah, this is great!"
Jack leaned back and smiled, satisfied with the reception of his gifts.
Soon lunch was over and they headed off to the Gate room. Even though she knew it was against the dress code, Sam hid her bracelet under her sleeve. Jack saw, but said nothing.
"Chevron seven locked!"
"All go!"
The team walked up the ramp towards the glittering blue-white Stargate.
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