A/N Well, I was going to submit thison Thursdayso that it would be a week since the first chapter, but I couldn't because SOMEONE WAS ON THE COMPUTER ALL NIGHT! (glares at older brother)

Anyway. Here it is. The next update might be two weeks because next week I'll be away at music camp.

(ignore all spelling errors)

Disclaimer – I didn't invent Stargate SG1. (or did I?)

"But I'm right here!" Sam said in frustration, as everyone besides her commanding officer continued to ignore her.

"I think you'd better explain what happened." General Hammond said to Daniel, obviously believing he was the sanest person in the room. Jack had his head in his hands and appeared to be humming the "Futurama" theme song, and Teal'c looked, oddly enough, like he might cry. Sam found this all very disturbing and wished that she was at home on her sofa watching a nice documentary on quantum physics.

"The locals were suspicious of us, they didn't like us because apparently we were extremely rude." He fixed Jack with a glare. Jack wasn't paying attention and missed it. "Anyway," Daniel continued, "they were willing to trade for the device at first, but during the negotiations it became apparent that they were also trading with the Goa'uld, and thought that giving technology to us that would be used against the Goa'uld would be breaking their trade agreement. So they locked us in a cell, we escaped, separated, and while we were trying to escape… Sam was killed."

"You didn't see Major Carter when she died?" General Hammond asked Jack.

"Actually I wasn't with them at the time. And she's not dead." The colonel replied.

Sam was frowning.

"That's not exactly how I remember it. What about you, sir?"

"I don't know, I wasn't there!" He said again. Everybody else looked at Jack strangely.

"But what about earlier? I don't remember them ever saying they were trading with the Goa'uld."

"Exactly! Daniel, you're wrong." He looked at Daniel smugly.

"About what?" The archaeologist replied.

"They weren't trading with the Goa'ulds! They gave us the device, and we left peacefully."

"No we didn't."

"Yes we did!" Jack and Sam said together. There was a confused silence.

Janet, who had been watching from the corner of the room, walked over to the table and fixed Jack with a piercing look.

"Are you sure that this isn't just a reaction to grief?" She asked him.

Jack looked bewildered.

"What grief?"

Daniel and Janet exchanged looks. Then they looked at General Hammond. He looked back. Teal'c looked at the table. Jack looked annoyed.

"Carter is alive! She's right here, sitting next to me. I think you're all confused."

"I saw her die, Jack!" Daniel said tensely. "So did Teal'c. And no one else can see her except you. Maybe you're just…" He stopped.

"Just what?"

"Maybe you're imagining her."

Another silence. More looks. No one seemed to know what to say.

"Colonel, it's a common reaction when you lose someone to pretend that they're still alive. I think your mind has shut out your memories of Sam dying."

"I'M NOT DEAD!" Sam cried, at the same time as Jack also cried out:

"SHE'S NOT DEAD!"

Janet and Daniel shared looks of helplessness. Sam and Jack shared looks of impatience. General Hammond was starting to get a headache. Teal'c has still not moved or showed any signs that he was even awake.

"I have an idea." Sam said suddenly.

"It had better be a good one!" Jack glared.

"What would be a good one?" Daniel asked.

"Carter says she has an idea."

"What?"

"I'm going to tell you things about me that you couldn't possibly know." Sam explained.

"She says she's going to tell me things that only she would know." Jack repeated. Daniel looked suspicious.

"How do we know what you know about Sam?"

"They'll be really obvious." Sam reassured him, forgetting that he couldn't here. Jack repeated it for Daniel's sake. "Okay," she started, "last week I went to see Janet about um… a rash…"

Jack told everyone this. Janet almost looked amused.

"That's true," she said, "and considering where the rash was I really can't see any reason why she would have told Colonel O'Neill about it."

"So where was this rash?" Jack asked interestedly. Both Janet and Sam ignored him.

"This still doesn't prove that Major Carter is really here." Hammond reminded them. "We have no proof that the Colonel didn't know that except for his word, and at the moment that's not much to go on." He gave Janet a look that was definitely not comforting.

"And when I was 13, I failed a science exam. Did you here that? Yes I actually FAILED a science exam! I got 24! And when I was 15 I went out with some guy called Steven who had awful acne but I broke up with him after I found out that he was cheating on me with some girl called Louise, and when I was 16 I went and…but wait, you probably don't want to know that…" Sam said frantically.

Jack gave her a curious look. "He was cheating on you! Why!" But before she could reply, Hammond decided that this was a sign that Jack was definitely out of his mind, and called the briefing to an end.

"Doctor, I think you'd better take him along to the infirmary." He said firmly. Jack looked indignant. Janet looked grim. Daniel looked lost. Teal'c looked like Teal'c. Sam looked very, very, frustrated. She swore loudly.

"I'm so very glad for your sake that no one else heard that." Jack remarked dryly to the air in front of him.