"Bye, Daniel." Sam said as one of the Daniel Jacksons hurried past her.
"Bye, Sam." She could have sworn that he had added a "Good luck...you're going to need it" under his breath, but she couldn't exactly be sure.
"Oh, Sam! The one that just entered, and is resident to this reality!" Janet said, waving her over to the desk, when she about twelve different heads turned to face her.
"Okay..." She approached the desk. "You come up with something?"
"Yep."
"Great. What are we looking at?" She asked as she flipped open the laptop.
"Actually, that's not where the information is. It's a little side-note to our research. You know, blow off a little steam. I thought I might help your... Dr. Lam with the strict schedule for all of you Carters who just won't take a break."
Sam smiled. "Okay, what'd you do, take a poll of who's married to whom?"
Janet grinned sheepishly. "Actually..."
Sam paled. "Oh, you didn't!"
"My Daniel helped."
"That's why he was running away, wasn't it?"
"Actually, I don't know why he was running away, but it certainly could have had something to do with my...research."
"All right hand it over. I suppose I should at least take a gander at what you've got."
"Go ahead. Take all the gander you want..."
Sam flashed an unamused look at Janet who placed one hand on her hip. "You know, you could at least be grateful for the help. It's not everyday that a scientist can look at her love life as a simple probability match."
"Excuse me? I told you my love life has nothing wrong with it."
"Except the fact that you and Jack are still scared stiff about taking it...to the next level."
"Our level is just fine, thank you!"
All of the Samantha Carters turned to look at the two bickering women. Suddenly, she heard one of the Samantha Carters mutter, "More like sub-level if I know anything about them..."
Sam blushed. "So, everyone knows the status of my love life?"
"Well, not exactly...they just know that you're...a little confused right now."
"Great! Just what I wanted my...counterparts...to think about me."
"That's okay, they already thought you were clueless, given the fact that you're still on the base and it's Friday night."
"Hey...maybe I just couldn't get out of being on duty tonight! Besides, how did you know that it's Friday night?"
"The calendar on the wall and the clock on the desk. And you can't give me that bull about being on duty. I KNOW your Jack is a Major General and is your boss's boss." Janet grinned evilly. "I can get some pretty impressive things out of your Daniel."
"Now, that's just manipulative! And EVIL!" Sam said, folding up the list and putting it in the pocket of her BDUs. "So, let's get back to the problem at hand. We already decided that it's a tear in the space-time continuum. Any ideas of how we can fix it?"
A few hours later, Janet was in the cafeteria when her Daniel approached her. "What's it going to take for this woman to listen to reason!" Janet demanded of her husband.
"I don't know, an act of God, maybe?" He asked facetiously as he dove into his chocolate pudding.
"Which god?" Janet asked sassily, taking a sexy bite of carrot cake.
"Well, it sure as hell isn't going to be Apophis. Now, is it? Or Cronus, Hathor, Ra, Sokar, Yu, Anubis, Ba'al...the list is endless. Now, Thor, on the other hand..." Daniel replied, dryly.
"Oh, so no response, to my attempt at seduction?" Janet asked.
He winked. "Maybe, and maybe not."
She raised an eyebrow. "Is that a challenge?"
"Not in the middle of the cafeteria." Daniel said, faking a look of shock at her sultry look. "Somehow plastic chairs just aren't condusive to romance."
Janet giggled, despite herself. "And your idea about contacting Thor is a good one."
"What? Where did that come from?"
"Sorry, I'm kind of on one train of thought. I just can't handle thinking about our relationship when I know that Sam doesn't have one."
Daniel sobered up alongside his wife. "Not our Sam. An Alternate Sam. Our Sam just had a baby girl. She and Jack are very happy."
"I know, but...I can't help but think that in the grand scheme of things, we're going to owe them Earth's survival. They offered me the cure for the Prior plague."
"Oh...that's still on your mind, isn't it?"
She turned a somewhat helpless look to him. "How can it not be? I mean, I can keep my mind occupied with setting Sam up with Jack, but...in the end, I'm still just worrying about whether or not it's going to be too late for Earth. If we even get back at all."
Daniel looked at her. "Come here." He said, opening up a space next to him so that she could cuddle up to him. She smiled. "Thanks, but I'm gonna go see what I can do to help the Carters."
Daniel watched her walk away, somewhat dejected in his own right. She had refused to open up to him. It hadn't been this bad since Cassie had been sick with that Hanka disease that had begun to transform her. He closed his eyes. They'd get out of this one too, wouldn't they?
Props to Lee Davies...she insisted, I tell ya! J/K!