AN: I wish I could say I had intentionally made Teal'c think and talk a little less formal to portray the change he has undergone from being at the SGC for 8 years (and around Jack). I did however think of that, but more in a way of blaming it on that then anything else ;P. I just don't write Teal'c well, he's a tough guy to write for me with the overly formal ways and all. Which is why I won't be using his POV very often. I however don't want to leave him out of the story completely either, or his POV that is. Also, didn't have anyone to spell check this chapter, so I'm truly sorry if there are some big errors in it. I'm dyslexic myself, and English isn't my main language either. So some phrases may come across a bit...weird if I used the wrong word or something, I hope that it's not to bad though.
Also, I'm not sure how often I will be able to update as of now. But i'll try to keep it updated regularly :)

Chapter 7 - Chaos

I was starting to drift into a more conscious state, but long before I reached that point of total awareness I could feel the overwhelming sensation of pain flooding my mind. I forced myself to wake up completely, so I could see how severe the situation was. Groaning I tried to sit up, and failed miserably. The pain in my head was too much.

"O'Neill, you should remain put for now until we can determine the severity of your injuries. Daniel Jackson, is Colonel Carter awake yet?"

"I think she's starting to come to, from the looks of it she's pretty battered up though."

"As is O'Neill."

Jack? Oh thank god, he was awake too. Opening my eyes and expecting to see Daniel hovering over me checking my vitals and injuries, I grew confused as I saw Teal'c doing just that. Now more determined to sit up and get a better view of the situation and the state Jack was in, I literally yelped when my knees cracked when I tried getting up.

"O'Neill, you must rest. It is not wise for you to stand up so soon."

What the...I looked down at myself. No. No no no. NO. This couldn't be happening. This simply could NOT be happening. Groaning again by the effort of sitting back down I managed to get a quick look at... myself. Lying on the floor opposite the room, but as it was small it was still close by enough. There could be no mistake about it; I was literally looking at myself lying on the floor unconscious. With Daniel hanging over...me? No. Not me apparently. Jack. From the shock that followed the realization that we had apparently switched bodies, I blacked out, falling to the floor again.

"Jack...?"

"O'Neill. O'Neill you must wake up."

"Ughh..Jack.."

"What? Jack, Jack wake up, come on! Sam seems to be in a pretty bad condition, you have to wake up. Jack!"

Opening my eyes and taking in the worried looks on both Daniel and Teal'c I instantly knew it had to be a bad sight, and I highly doubted that...I..or my body... Jack? Was in any better condition then my actual body. Thinking that alone was starting to give me a worse headache. I realized they had to know, and forced myself to clear my mind and ignore the pain. From the way it felt, I probably had a couple of bruised ribs, a concussion, and some bad cuts and bruises, but I doubted it was anything more serious then that. I tried to speak, but my throat was to dry to actually make anything beyond some hoarse croaking sounds. Daniel quickly gave me his canteen, and after a few slow gulps I was starting to feel slightly better. Before I could say anything Daniel looked behind him again and tended to... I couldn't even finish that sentence in my thoughts.

"Teal'c..Daniel.., that's not me. I mean it's me, it's just not me. Argh I mean.."

O-k... explaining was going to be a little bit more confusing then I thought. By the worried looks they were exchanging they probably thought I'd either gone mad or had become a goauld or something alike. Actually...no...That Jack had gone mad or became infested. Taking a deep breath to relax myself and focus, I tried again.

"This is me; Sam. I think...I think Jack's in my body. That whatever happened somehow switched us."

Looking at their confused and worried glances between my body and well...me, I could tell they were having a difficult time believing it wasn't the blow to my head -Jack's head-, that made me talk nonsense. Daniel's expression slowly changed to something of a cross between recognition and something else I couldn't quite determine. Teal'c quickly seemed to have accepted the fact that he was now helping 'Sam' sit up and not 'Jack'. Just when I was about to ask Daniel how Jack was doing, something that sounded like a pain filled moan seemed to come out of 'the other me'. This was going to be so confusing.

"Owww..."

"Sir? Sir wake up! Are you all right...Sir?"

"Sam?"

I was a bit startled by the use of my name. Especially when it was said with my own voice. Concern taking over quickly again, I forced myself once again to get up and move closer to him.

"Sir?"

"Carter? Carter, what the hell happened?"

"Please tell me this is a particularly weird dream."

I was momentarily at a loss for words, I knew it was quite a shock to take in the...change. But I just couldn't think of any way to make spelling it out that it really was happening a bit easier. Daniel however had no such problem. I quickly determined what the 'other' look had been when he had finally recognized it was me in Jack's body. Pure amusement.

"Ahh good morning there, nice of you to finally join us. And no, sorry to burst your bubble, but this is no weird dream. You're really in Sam's body, and she's really in yours."

I shot him a 'better hide behind Teal'c now' glare and at least he had the decency to turn his full out grin into a small smirk now. I started checking on Jack's wounds. On my body. God how weird. I was relieved to see he seemed to be no worse off then I was. A couple of painful but no real life threatening injuries.

"Sir, can you sit up?"

"Carter..do you realize how weird it is for me to hear ME saying 'Sir'. To myself?"

"Well sir, probably about as weird as it is for me to hear myself calling me 'Carter'"

"Ah..right. Again. What the hell happened?"

I tried remembering what had happened.

- We had gone inside the temple, and immediately noticed that other then the statue in the middle of the small room, there didn't appear to be anything else. No entrances to other chambers, no writings or anything else on the walls. Just the one statue of a motherly looking woman holding out both hands as if to urge her children to take her hand. Except there were no children. She was dressed in what appeared to be a Greek or roman type of dress, had flowers in her hair and appeared to be pregnant. There had been some inscriptions at the bottom of the statue, but that looked like a name, not instructions. I remembered doing a few quick energy readings to try and determined where the energy from the device came from, and I couldn't pinpoint a specific location. It seemed to be all around us. I guessed the device was under the temple, and the statue was covering the way to it somehow. After a failed attempt to find any triggers or buttons to open the doorway up, we had simply tried moving the statue...-

I gasped as I realized that must've been it. We had each grabbed a side and arm of the statue with the intention to move it aside that way. That was when the deep rumbling sound had started from below the ground. I tried letting go of the statue, but seemed to be welded to it. It was like everything around me no longer existed. All I remembered after that is being thrown away from the statue and hitting the floor before everything had gone black.