Title: A Tuneful Harmony

Author: P.L.S.

Disclaimer: Stargate SG-1 and its characters are property of Stargate (II) productions, Showtime/Viacom, MGM/UA, Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Productions. This story is for entertainment purposes only and no money was exchanged. No copyright infringement is intended. The original characters, situations and story are property of the author.

Summery: AU- The first mission briefing of the newly dubbed SG-15.

Warnings: Uh, Jack's a general (which to me is scary even if is canon.) Really, you just need to worry about the severe AU factor. And dead slash relationships- I can't write a straight Daniel. So, he has exes in the forms of Davis, Raynor, and Gardener (which is canon het.)

Author's Notes: It's kind of short, but I really didn't want to write the mission too.

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Jack smiled to himself. While technically the team leader was Major Davis, in reality it was a joint ruler ship from Bra'tac, the father of the Jaffa rebellion, and Dr. Daniel Jackson, the three time PhD who also doubled as a front man and piano player for a very weird punk group. The Pentagon was having fits over the team, not to mention loosing their shining star to the mysterious entity that was called Project Blue Book. Supposedly, the team made a wise choice with their last member, Lt. Jennifer Haley. Fresh out of the Academy and probably voted 'most likely to blow up the planet to prove a long accepted theory wrong'. She was young, smart, and from what he saw yesterday in both the commissary and the gym, she was already corrupted by Daniel.

Bra'tac was already in the briefing room, looking thoughtful as he looked at the glass star map that Hammond had put in before he also put in for retirement. Jack always had a soft spot in his heart for the individual Jaffa he knew, not that he understood why. It wasn't because they were alien, after all, Nyan was alien too, but all he did was creep Jack out and make him fear to go up to the academic floors when word hit him that coffee or sugar was had by the Bedrosian.

"'Sup?" Jack asked as he walked in. Bra'tac actually smiled at him.

"Ah, O'Neill. I was just thinking of the wonder I first felt when I was young, learning of the empires made of stars. I think I almost feel the same wonder now." Bra'tac said.

"Yeah, it's a hellva thing, ain't it?" Jack said with a grin.

"Indeed. But that isn't the whole of it, I believe." Bra'tac shook his head, "This time I am truly just becoming an explorer, not a scout, not a conqueror. It is a new path." Jack smiled.

"Glad we could find something that you haven't done yet." At that moment Daniel came in, resplendent in his own mix of punk and military concessions. Davis followed with a tentative smile and an unconscious touch to the patch on his BDU's that declared he was part of SG-15. Soon after they came in Haley bounced in with a sugar sweet grin. Jack secretly loved creating new teams out of people who were once just on the sidelines. They always seemed to have that wonder and bone deep understanding of why the SGC was there that no one else could seem to match.

Daniel pulled Haley down to sit next to him while Davis and Bra'tac sat on the other side of the table, leaving the general to sit at the head. Davis was the one who was going to be doing most of the work on this mission and as such he was the one who had the piles of notes, while everyone else had simple outlines and the bare essentials. Jack sighed as he saw Daniel play with the thick ring in his right ear.

"Dr. Jackson? Are you going to try to scare the natives?" asked Jack. Daniel grinned at him unrepentantly.

"General, you know I'll only look this out there for your favorite neighbors." He said and with a grin pulled out a mirror to brush an ivory and crimson lock out of his naturally blue eyes. "Besides, I would think aliens, such as those you are making us meet, would be more tolerant of fashion choices. Besides, look what Sam made me." Daniel such out his tongue to show off a small disk that flashed different colors.

"Carter? God, what have you two been up to?" Jack exclaimed and Davis laughed.

"General, Major Carter and Dr. Jackson have bonded over their mutual brains, age, and love of good leather shops. Besides, neither of them do anything but work or work on their hobbies." Davis said. Haley nodded.

"Oh, yeah. Totally, sir. They kinda make me wish I had a friendship like theirs." She said. Daniel hugged her with a smile.

"Aw, Jenny, you know we wuv you." He teased and she hit him on the shoulder.

"Cut it out. Geez, you are such a kid." She said and Daniel laughed. Bra'tac was looking at them with a look that seemed to be affectionate exasperation and Davis was grinning in his own restrained military way. Jack was actually ecstatic to see the dynamics so family-like without all the life or death junk that SG-1 had to get through to actually bond. Then again, as he thought about it, Daniel was already friends with Davis and Bra'tac. Haley was the only really unknown, sort of. Besides Bra'tac had used the previous weekend to camp in a bit of woods just out of the way on the mountain. Between Daniel's ability to get anyone to like him and Bra'tac's vast experience in his own military, it was a given that the weekend would do some good. They were isolated from everyone but the team and as such, Jack knew that they had already done the bonding they needed to do.

"Okay, so you folks are off to see the Tok'ra?" asked Jack. Davis took his queue gracefully.

"Yes, sir. As it is the Pentagon has expressed concern over having such an informal and useless treaty with an ally that seems to request so much of our resources and people. Despite the fact that General Carter is a host and a high ranking member of their governing body, we have seen very little benefit from this current agreement, and as such must seriously question the wisdom of how we conduct business with a rather mysterious race. Hopefully, with this trip we will begin a more formal round of talks that will culminate in a treaty that both Earth and the Tok'ra will find to be more suited to our mutual goals. Also to that end we hope to start to form a friendship not too unlike that which we enjoy with the Free and Rebel Jaffa." Davis said in a cool professional tone that Jack was almost impressed by.

"Okay, you seem to know what to do. Anything else?"

"Nah, I'm going to be doing cultural translations, and maybe try to find out if they have an archive." Daniel said "Oh, yeah, I'll be there if they try to step on toes or worse, like forgetting that plain old Tau'ri humans might not be the most technologically advanced, but we do have brains." Daniel had already talked with a representative of the council and was not impressed at all. Jack had heard that shortly after Daniel had left the meeting the anthro department was treated to an impromptu lesson in about twenty languages worth of curses, oaths, and swear words.

"I'll be bugging Anise-Freya, that and making sure that the treaty includes technological sharing that will work out for us." Haley said. Jack smiled a bit at the first part. He was almost sure it was Carter who was sicing Haley on the mad scientist.

"I will represent the Jaffa, as well as ensure that the treaty does not abuse the Tau'ri military's warriors." Bra'tac said with gravity and Daniel grinned at the Jaffa.

"And you promised to accidentally break a few toes if they get too annoying." Daniel said and Bra'tac nodded.

"Indeed I did."

Jack wished he wasn't a general because at that moment he would have given his right arm to join SG-15 for the mission to Vorash.