When they arrived at the temple after ages and ages (thirty minutes) of trekking across a merciless desert, under excruciating heat (85 degrees), Jacob secured the perimeter and plopped down on the nearest stool.

Yes, thank God, or Oma, whatever civilization had built the temple, installed stools as well.

They were smooth white curved semi-circles of ivory that perched on a short stone column. The strange seating was arranged in an alcove like fashion near a larger version of the chairs placed at the center of the main room SG-1 had walked into.

"Interesting" Amanda murmured, admiring the architecture before she walked back outside.

"Hey…" Jacob called, jumping off the stool, "Where do you think you're going?"

Amanda turned and raised her eyebrows at him from the temple's entrance, "The scrolls were found outside the temple, Jacob," she said, gesturing around her. "This is where I have to dig"

He groaned, "But if you're out there, that means I have to be out there"

She shrugged "If you had been paying attention to me during the briefing, you would've known that before you got too comfortable in the nice, shady, temple" she turned and walked a foot more away from where he was standing.

She scanned the area around the temple and found where she thought would be the most likely place to start digging according to the information SG-12 had supplied. She took off her pack and rummaged through her work utilities.

Jacob and Lif'kel found the most shadowed spot directly next to the temple, and stayed there to watch her.

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Unsurprisingly, Jacob was bored.

Lif'kel offered no indication to how he felt about standing in the middle of a cooking wasteland for so far two hours.

Amanda didn't seem to notice the heat, or her uncomfortable teammate; she was too busy finding nifty new books to read.

So far she had managed to uncover two more stones and another scroll, but her progress was tedious.

Jacob was finally tired of having nothing to do so he started talking, "Hey, remember when we were sent to the past?"

"How could I forget, it happened a week ago" Amanda mumbled distractedly as she delicately brushed sand and dirt away from yet another stone.

"Well, there's something you don't know… while you were playing Guess-What-The-Rock-Says with your dad, I was in the commissary with Davis and Siler…"

"So…"

"Sssoo…do you happen to know anything about the Zay'tarc incident?" he asked gleefully.

"Enlighten me" Amanda responded, although she knew she probably, most definitely would not care, but if she got Jacob talking it might just give her an extra hour mission time to use in exploration of the temple.

"Well, we're all familiar with the infamous Tok'ra Anise, yes?"

"I believe we are, Jacob O'Neill" Lif'kel said.

"Right…good. Well we also know about her research into a Goa'uld mind control device known as a Zay'tarc, and how it can affect people…Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away, the President and the head hauncho of the Tok'ra arranged a meeting on earth. However, a Lt. Simmons, during a meeting to arrange that meeting, went bonkers and tried to kill the Tok'ra guy, due, Anise suspected, to this Zay'tarc technology."

"I think I've heard this one…" Amanda mumbled, "Everyone at the SGC that came into contact with the Goa'uld of the previous month had to be tested by her…for lack of a better word, lie detector"

"Yea, yea, but what you did not know, is that my parents tested positive for being a Zay'tarc the first time around"

This received the response that Jacob had wanted to glean.

Amanda raised her head from her work for a moment to give him a questioning gaze.

Lif'kel raised both eyebrows.

Jacob smiled smugly, "Wanna know why? Because apparently they had suddenly realized they were in love with each on that mission a few weeks before to destroy that big ass ship. The Zay'tarc detector wouldn't except their memories as compatible with their subconscious until they admitted their feelings"

"Oh" was all Amanda said, "How romantic" she was being sarcastic. She returned to digging in the dirt and Jacob frowned.

Lif'kel watched Jacob watch Amanda and frowned himself. He wondered at Jacob's retelling of the Zay'tarc event and noted that the Major had obviously set out telling it to them in hopes of a certain response from their female teammate.

Apparently, he hadn't gotten the reaction he'd hoped for, because he slumped down further against the wall of the temple he was leaning against and began pouting.

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Light-years away, orbiting a planet in another galaxy, floated an Asguard ship named The Hammond.

The ship had been a gift to Daniel Jackson from Supreme Commander Thor. The motivation behind it though had more or less been so his wife, Vala Malderon, would quit stealing every other space worthy craft she could lay her hands on.

The Hammond had been tailored for human inhabitants to occupy for lengthy amounts of time. So it was perfect for the traveling couple.

Daniel sat on one of the chairs that were perched on the bridge, reading a book that he had discovered during adig on the last planet him and Vala had been to. The locals on that world, Daniel believed, had been from an obscure Asian culture on earth that had died out centuries ago, probably after the Goa'uld had captured most of the people living there.

The planet they were orbiting now was supposedly abandoned, but from what Vala could tell from a scan of the surface, there was also loads of precious treasure just under a particular spot in the northern most continents.

"C'mon, Daniel" she had complained to him, "We've done nothing except scout around for your precious rocks for weeks…let me have a little fun…we'll dig up some jewels, and then I can go shopping on the nearest planet with an advanced civilization"

He'd given in easily enough. After being with her for so long, he knew that she would basically do what she wanted anyway, the only thing she ever needed to know isif it was going to be done with or without him.

Today, he had decided it would be without. He had a lot of research to catch up on from the most recent worlds that they had visited, and he needed time to catalogue and read everything they'd collected.

So Vala was currently on the planet displayed on the ship's view screen, digging up as much treasure as her mind could fathom, and he was reading a book.

"I can't believe I married someone so boring" she griped on numerous occasions.

"It's because you're insane" he would reply, "And only an absolutely insane person would marry someone, who, in every respect, is their complete and exact opposite"

"No…that's not it…I think it was for the passionate and wild sex that would be at my constant disposal," she would counter.

Daniel's concentration on his book was interrupted when a voice crackled over the communications system.

"Danny, me and my new lovers are ready to be transported up" Vala sounded ecstatically giddy.

Daniel rolled his eyes at the comment, and leaned forward to grab his discarded radio that stood on one of the control counsels, "Find a lot of shiny trinkets?" he asked into the walkie-talkie.

"Enough to fill the whole space ship" she replied.

"Remember our little agreement?" Daniel asked.

He heard Vala curse and mutter to herself before answering, "You never let me forget"

They'd had a deal between them that Vala could not have more than a room full of treasure if she happened to stumble upon a large find, and in return, Daniel would not take up more than that much space for any artifacts he discovered.

"Just ring me aboard" was how she ended the transmission.

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Vala was so happy about the load she had uncovered that almost immediately after having her gold and gems moved to a secure area on the ship, she jumped Daniel with a fierce hug.

Daniel nearly fell over from the sudden exuberant affection.

"Let's take a vacation for a while," Vala said, in a sultry voice, pulling back from him far enough to look him in the eyes and fiddle with the collar of his leather jacket.

"Somewhere sunny, near the water" she kissed him, "Where we can spend all this treasure" she kissed him again.

Daniel didn't say anything. He would've only been able to stutter anyway. Vala still made him a bit senseless with her kisses, even after all this time.

His wife pulled away, "Well, you think about it, and I'm going to roll in gold" she said chirpily.

Daniel groaned in frustration, wondering why in the galaxy he had married such a crazy woman.

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