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Summer Knight: You got me so confused with your review! But I think I have now figured it out (correct me if I'm wrong). The guy from Star trek was Patrick Stewart, who played the king in Men in Tights. I was referring to the "Scottish James Bond", which was Sean Connery – the king in Prince of Thieves. I had to go and check which film I had been referencing in my other chapters – but it was Prince of Thieves. And it would take a lot more than that to offend me, no worries!

Take my science here with a pinch of salt here. Unless anyone is willing to experiment with these ideas, we shall just have to pretend that this is what happens.

And please don't flame me if you don't like Daniel's choice in music… what can I say? My muse steals my body and writes crazy things.

Now I have you all thoroughly confused and intrigued…

Chapter 22

"Allergic reaction!"

"Sort of, Sir."

General Hammond cleared his throat and studied the Doctor in front of him. "Just run that by me again would you Doctor? Slowly."

Janet nodded and began explaining to the General again. "Whatever food the Colonel ate on that planet reacted with the, ummm, Jello the Colonel had for lunch, which caused his digestion and kidney function to alter, resulting in a considerable rise in sugar and endorphin levels in his blood. That's why he seemed rather 'chatty' in the debriefing, and also why his symptoms hadn't appeared when he got checked out."

"Right." The General nodded. This was ridiculous. It could only happen to SG1. "And the others?"

Janet smiled. "It appears that the Colonel took the last two Jellos and refused to share them, much to the amusement of the others."

The General bit back a smirk and looked over to where his 2IC was fast asleep on a bed.

"And is he going to be ok?"

"Yes Sir. I've given him a shot to reduce his sugar levels, and sedated him until his digestion and kidney function return to normal."

"And when will that be?"

"He should be ok after a few hours without eating anything. I would think he'll be up and about by tomorrow morning."

"And Major Carter, Daniel Jackson and Teal'c are good to return to duty?"

"Yes sir."

"Excellent. I'll send them home then. Thank you Doctor."

"You're welcome sir."

The general turned and left the infirmary, leaving Janet to look at her patient. 'Cassie will never believe this' she thought to herself.

X x x x x

Sam paused at the entrance of Daniel's lab, watching the archaeologist filing notes and humming to himself. It was the first time ever, in her memory, that she had seen him looking so distracted while at work – and not because of impending doom or such. She allowed herself a few minutes silence to watch him, and recap the mission they had just come back from. If she had seen a glimpse into the future prior to going on the mission there is no way she would have believed what she saw. SG1 fulfilling roles in an old tale is one thing, but actually assuming the role of Marian and Robin? Though now she was back on Earth the feelings hadn't gone away. She had known they wouldn't.

Daniel was right of course, about not mentioning the Marian and Robin thing just yet. She could imagine the comments that would fly around the base. Not to mention the added pressure it would put on a relationship that hadn't properly started.

Daniel interrupted himself mid-hum and turned round. "Sam?"

Sam's eyes focussed on his face and she smiled. "Hey."

"What are you up to?"

She smiled again. "Just thinking." She entered the room and sat down on a blank space on Daniel's desk. Daniel stood awkwardly with his notes in his hands, wondering what she was in his office for. Not that it wasn't a pleasure to see her, but he had just been caught humming show tunes, and he really couldn't see any way out of explaining that.

He needn't have worried though, Sam chose to spare him the embarrassment - for now. "General Hammond said we could go. Apparently-" she let out a small snigger, "-apparently Jack had an allergic reaction to the jello he had at lunch."

"What?"

"Yeah, a combination of the food on the planet and the jello made his sugar levels rise, or something."

"Gosh." Daniel looked serious for a moment. "He'll be ok?"

"Yeah."

"Good." He burst into laughter and Sam joined him, not feeling the least bit guilty about their sedated CO lying in the infirmary.

When the humour of Jack's situation had been exhausted, Sam cleared her throat and looked steadily at Daniel. "I was wondering if you wanted to head off base now. I mean, I don't have much work to do, and you had almost finished humming 'My defences are down'". She smiled again as he turned a charming shade of pink.

"Ahhh, yes. Brilliant musical. Seen it?"

"Annie get your gun? Daniel, she was a woman who single-handedly challenged male opinion with a rifle. Of course I've seen it."

"Of course you have... Yes I can finish up here now. I only had one song left to hum anyway."

Daniel pushed his glasses back up his nose in what he hoped was a dignified manner and put his notes back down on his desk, switching off his desk lamp as he did so.

Sam stood up and straightened her BDU's. "And what was that, dare I ask?"

"'Your song'."

Sam held back a smirk and mentally made a note to correct Daniel's taste in music before they developed the relationship much further. "Really? Moulin Rouge?"

"'The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in return.'" Daniel quoted softly, heading towards the exit and switching off the main light.

"Daniel?"

He paused and looked up at Sam's face, engaging her in a beautiful smile.

"Hmm?"

Sam studied him, silhouetted in the doorway by the light in the corridor and closed the gap between them. "I do love you."

"I love you too." He casually laced his arms around her waist and pulled her closer. "Guess that means we can learn together." He slowly kissed her, the passion from the other night not lost, but downplayed as they explored each other.

Hearing footsteps approach a few minutes later they pulled apart, watching as a technician passed hurriedly by. He barely gave either of them a second glance and Daniel shrugged. "Where did you want to go?"

"Park?"

"More trees?"

Sam smiled and squeezed Daniel's hands with her good one. "I just feel like I need to get out and relax."

"Park it is then."