7 After Covenant

C1: Theory

Around lunch time- SGC

An image of her superior flashed in her mind, and she turned from her journal. With her eyes closed, she envisioned him running to rescue her from Fifth's evil clutches. A phrase played in her mind, "we never leave one of our own behind."

Her mind then turned for a moment to when Ba'al had captured Jack and was torturing him with acid and daggers for information. Jack had returned because of a girl that his Tok'ra symbiont left behind. The symbiont was gone now and Sam was sure that he would have gone back for anyone, but a twinge of jealousy rose up inside her.

Sam wondered… Would he retire so we can be together?

Sam remembered a DVD that Janet had let her borrow before she passed away. A phrase came to mind… When reason ends, love begins.

Sam determined she was taking it to their SGC movie night get together.

SGC: Earlier that morning

Jack folded his arms. "Daniel, tell me again why you need to go back to that planet. Oh, and cut to the chase this time. You lost me after the first fifteen minutes."

Daniel rolled his eyes and looked at Sam who shrugged her shoulders. "Yeah, just before we left yesterday on the last scheduled day to be there, we discovered a chamber with a symbol that is from the Ancients. With some more time I believe we could open…"

Jack held his hands up into the air. "What your saying is you want to go hang out for another week and look around the new room you found?"

Daniel squinted his eyes for a second then looked around then back to Jack. "Yeah, basically that's it."

Jack slapped him on the back. "See wasn't that easier. Ok, you can leave in an hour and take SG-3 if ya want. Hey Carter, were you and Teal'c wanting to go with him?"

Carter stood up. "No sir, I don't think we need to be there. Besides, Teal'c is helping out with the lab guys in order to try out the new armor that might divert the energy of a staff weapon. I was actually going to go over some of my notes for the next book I am writing. It is about a new theory of Strings that they believe form the basis for everything at its most microscopic…"

Jack held up his hands again and shook his head with a smile. "Let's try that again. Do you want to go? The answer is no I'm guessing. Then my answer is ok. Well, my work here is done. I have to gather some stuff up for a report the President is waiting for."

Daniel and Sam gazed at each other.
"Carry on and don't forget dinner tomorrow tonight is at my place, love barbeque." Jack turned around and waved over his shoulder, "Carter, it's your turn to pick a movie, so no documentaries on India or quantum stuff. Daniel, be back for it ok? Ok."

Carter's Office: back to lunch time

Sam sat down in her office and clicked her computer to life. She glanced over her files on how one person wrote that Einstein was simply ahead of his time. More than half a century later, his dream of a unified theory has become the Holy Grail of modern physics. Sam closed her eyes, everything going on here at the SGC is ahead of our time, she thought.

The strain she felt to understand the depths of other being's technology pressed on her at times, but she loved it. Sam was the type of person to bend and adapt to new information and ideas to improve on them with her imagination and intuition.

Sam turned from her computer and retrieved her journal from a locked desk drawer. She wrote the date and continued writing:

The T.O.E does seem to explain the properties of the fundamental particles and the properties of the forces by which they interact and influence one another. An atom with its neutrons and electrons at the center with electrons spinning around it looks similar to a sun with planets spinning around it. The same could be said for cells within the human body…Jack.

Sam could not get the General out of her mind.

She typed a few codes into her computer, and it gave her access into her personal files. She clicked on one photo in the files.

There before her was a picture that Daniel took of Jack and her laughing together. She had digitally altered the picture putting a border on it to form a large picture of them as wallpaper for her computer, but she did not have the strength to display at work for fear of someone finding it. She did have it set to her computer at home.

Lost in her thoughts of Jack as she stared at her computer screen, she leaned back and sighed. How could I ever deceive myself into thinking that any other man could ever fill his boots?

"What ya doing?" A low and masculine voice spoke in a whisper behind her.

A/N: Aha! Who walked into the office? We shall see. Smile as the Stargate Turns.