Chapter 3: Fusion
Sam hovered at Jack's side, arms crossed, watching the seemingly sleeping young woman. Part of her envied the unconscious specialist, asleep Mary didn't look a day over twenty plus, she wouldn't mind letting that Jake Rossini hold her. Sam sighed like she didn't have enough problems with her own certain Colonel. Tightening her arms around her chest Sam recognized Rossini as a member of the "I Care About Her More Than I Should" club. She shuddered and hoped that the med team would get here soon.
Daniel was pacing. He didn't pace often but it was coming up on the almost two and a half minute mark and the med team still hadn't arrived. He looked across at Sam who hadn't really moved since she had reached Mary's side, her eyes were glazed over and she had a thoughtful look on her face. Daniel looked back at the woman who had fainted. He had recognized her the minute she stepped foot into the mess, her flaming red hair, clear piercing green eyes, and extremely feminine physique had given her away immediately but really that was just the surface of the wondrous Mary Green.
The intensity of her lovely physical attributes was matched by her equally intense personality. Her mother was Italian and her father Irish, when he said passionate he wasn't kidding, in the slightest. The first time he had met her she had come tripping into his lab coffee in one hand, binders, folders, and papers overflowing in the other and hair everywhere. After she had tied the beast back they spent three hours discussing and debating Coronus and the possibilities of the other Greek Gods as Gou'alds.
He shook his head, the thing that had stayed with him after all of that was not the points she had made but her reaction at the end when Sam and Jack had come to retrieve him for lunch.
Flash Back: Daniel's POV
Mary had her hands set firmly on his desk. "WHEN has Aphrodite EVER been recounted as VINDICTIVE?" Daniel leaned in to match her stance.
"When was Thor ever described as a four foot gray alien?"
She laughed mercilessly. "Exactly. Looks at Norse mythology, it corresponds much better to Greek than Egyptian. The actions and characteristics of the Greek Pantheon is much closer to those of the Norse gods. The Pantheon fought against Coronus and the rest of the Titans, hell for all we know those similarities could mean that the Asgard and the Greeks were allies!"
It was Daniel's turn to laugh. "So what you think all of the sudden we'll just FIND ATLANTIS?"
"YES!"
Sam and Jack had chosen that moment to enter, both with looks of incredulousness painted on their faces. Though Sam had taken one look at the woman and just adopted a look of pity and amusement. Jack not knowing who she was just raised his eyebrows and shoved his hands in his pockets.
"Specialist, you beating on my archeologist?"
Mary had raised her eyebrows at Daniel in question for a split second before turning around. "Beating on Colonel?" she had replied sweetly in her think Italian accent "That sounds a little violent for me." She smiled evilly. "No no, we were just having a really rather interesting rational discussion." Then her eyes had moved from Jack to Sam and her hands unconsciously to her stomach. Offering a half smile Mary had approached Sam quietly, about two feet before she reached her Sam stepped forward and the two women embraced each other warmly. Mary whispered something in her ear before stepping back and smiling. Retrieving just one of her binders she made her way to the door. "Doctor Jackson, I will leave my files her for you to catch up on. But I really will need them back when your done." She turned to leave then seemed to think better of it. Tapping her fingers on the door frame she called over her shoulder. " And Doctor Jackson? When we DO find Atlantis you WILL owe me five hundred dollars." And then she had just walked out, still proud, still passionate.
End Flash Back
Daniel had never learn what the exchange was between the two woman but Mary's unflinching strength and pride before ¾'s of SG1 was definitely impressive.
