Daniel and Jack enlightened Doctor Frasier of the situation, how to find the odd-colored fruit, and what led them to this find. They could tell Frasier was intrigued. They even let her have one of Jack's stock of Boraples. They wandered around the plant-infested level for a bit while they explained the odd fruit.

"So, you want me to find out if this fruit actually does work and if it's actually safe?" Frasier grinned; she'd added the last part. Daniel and Jack balked. They'd both eaten so many that they, of all people, by now would know if it was dangerous. They noticed the look on her face and realized that she must have been kidding, right?

Now with a job to do, instead of plant-watching (which was actually Jack's job), Frasier took off to her lab. Daniel and Jack continued down the hallway to the stairs.

"Ya know, military bases with stairs, what's the world coming to?"

"I know! I didn't even know we had stairs, much less this plant that seems to be growing around here."

"Yeah, I asked Hammond about that…"

"You did?"

"Yeah, he said it was left over from St. Paddy's Day – didn't I tel him about those Marines and their partying habits?"

"That you did."

"Well, look what good it's come out of it." Jack waved his hand at the once barren walls of the stairwell. Jack tripped and went sprawling down to the bottom of the floor. Daniel gleaned and smiled wryly. It was usually he that fell down things. Jack looked at the descending Daniel and scowled. The colonel picked himself up, dusted himself off, and continued down.

"Those pesky stairs – I knew there was a reason I never knew about them," Jack muttered unhappily.

Daniel pushed his glasses up his nose before responding. "Actually Jack, I believe it was that pesky plant tendril back there that… umph!"

Jack shoved the younger man and he too went falling down the stairs, except Daniel was holding the fruit. The purplely-pink fruits went flying. Daniel slumped against the wall, disheveled. One of the last Boraples bounced down the stairs and hit him in the head. It was too funny. Jack smiled.

"Rank hath its privileges Danny boy, rank hath its privileges," Jack admonished, not caring that Daniel didn't belong to the military chain of command. Jack grabbed his basket from Daniel's hand and started to rescue his beloved fruit. The archeologist reluctantly helped. When all the bouncing fruit had been recovered, Daniel stood tall against Jack.

"Do we have to take this outside?"

"I think so."

"Bring it on, fly boy," a common insult Daniel had picked up from the Marines en route to Air Force officers. The faced each other, fruit in a basket on the ground. They squared off.

"Knock it off you two." The voice seemed familiar. It was Hammond. They'd been caught in the act and both had very practiced innocent faces plastered on.

"Who me???"

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Jack, Daniel, and Hammond arrived back in the Briefing Room, Boraples and all limbs attached.

"Colonel, aren't you supposed to be plant-sitting?" Hammond asked. Jack cocked his head and raised an eyebrow – a movement they'd all picked up from Teal'c.

"Actually, Frasier sorta dismissed me from it, sir."

"Doctor Frasier? Are you talking about the same woman as I am Jack?"

Jack nodded, sure of himself. "Yup, short, brunette, runs the infirmary like a napoleonic power-monger… yeah, I think so sir."

Hammond looked enlightened.

"Anyway, these fruits-"

"'Fruits' isn't a word, Jack."

"Yeah, it is."

"No it's not."

"Yeah it is, anyway these fruits seem to… uh… make people feel better?" Daniel nodded. Something like that. "So ole doc Frasier is working on them right now to see if they actually help or if they're-"

"Poisonous." They finished together. Hammond's eyebrows shot up.

"Poisonous?! You eat this fruit on an unknown plant and you don't even know if it's poisonous or not?" Not to mention the fact that the plant was living on base, which in itself made the thing unclean.

"Actually we do know if they're poisonous or not, the scientists working on it upstairs tested them for me and said that everything in the fruit such comply with human physiology."

"Basically, sir, I think it's safe…right?" Jack looked at Daniel and Daniel looked slightly lost for a minute and seemed to need time to think. A few seconds later he answered.

"What? Yeah, they're safe." Hopefully.