They were in Carter's living room, packing up her living room exchanging anecdotes about their years in the field- remembering trivial habits that would be missed. After a few minutes, Sam motioned them to sit down. "You shouldn't have to help me pack. I'll just pull an all-nighter or something."
So, they sat.
He wanted to tell them. They were like his family, and he couldn't tell them. How could he explain to them that he had done this so that he could be with them, see what they saw, save their butts from the evil that plagued that galaxy?
"So, we're all leaving Colorado Springs." Sam said.
"I guess even the best bands end up going their separate ways for a while." He replied.
"Well, it's a little different than that…" Daniel started. Sam and Jack just glared at him, and he didn't finish.
"You know what I'm going to miss?" Sam asked.
"What?"
"The General's e-mails when he's bored."
He didn't just e-mail her because he was bored. He e-mailed her because he missed seeing her almost every moment of every day…the next best thing was to talk to her.
The group chuckled.
"Daniel running into my lab with some theory or new understanding from some translation he's finished."
Daniel turned red as the rest of the group just nodded in understanding.
"And Teal'c…Teal'c being there whenever I needed something that I wouldn't…couldn't admit to anyone else."
She started to cry. "I'm really going to miss you all."
He hadn't expected this to turn into such a sentimental gathering; he would have gotten pizza and beer for that.
"Well, when you least expect it, we'll all see each other again." He replied.
"Yeah, well I don't know how we'll keep in touch." Daniel said. "It's kind of hard to get mail to the Pegasus Galaxy."
They chuckled.
"Or to Chulak." Teal'c added.
"But you'll be able to find us whenever you come back to Earth…and we do have that beaming technology that the Asgard gave us. Maybe we could arrange a few get-togethers every once in a while."
He shrugged. "I don't know. We're all going to be really busy."
Her face fell. "I know." She looked down, and then looked back up. "If any of you…and I mean any of you, ever find yourselves in Nevada and need a place to stay…call me."
"And I've got the cabin in Minnesota, and I'd like to keep this place here. So, if you need to stay in Colorado Springs for a few days, give me a call…at the very least, I can find you some place to stay." He added.
"Actually, Jack, I'm keeping my apartment. If I'm not back in a year, the Air Force is going to let it go, but until then, they're going to pay for it out of my paycheck that I'm not really going to be getting." Daniel said.
"Yeah, well…the offer still stands."
There was a thoughtful silence. "So, after tomorrow…that's it, huh?"
He put his hand in his pocket and touched the small device. "Yeah, I guess it is."
He's gone through so much trouble to reunite the team, and now they were all leaving…Cameron Mitchell would be so disappointed.