Sam and Jack stepped through the event horizon and were faced with the strangest sight they had seen since their exploration of the universe began.
The scene looked as promised by the Tok'ra; tress, mountains, river and an orange sky. But what they had neglected to mention was that there would be a young girl of around 20 wearing jeans and sneakers and looking pretty scared, and man of around 40 wearing a really cool leather jacket and the widest grin that either Jack or Sam had seen.
They looked like regular average humans, but they were on another planet; which usually meant trouble.
"Carter, that doesn't look like the normal Tok'ra get up." Said Jack keeping his trained eyes on the two people in front of him.
"No, sir. And that blue box doesn't look like their technology, either." She replied nodding to the 4x4x7 foot box blue in colour and the words 'Police Public Call Box' lit-up at the top.
The horizon shut down behind them.
"Where's Daniel when we need him." He murmured moving forward, his P-90 pointed down but his finger very near the trigger should things take a turn.
Which they tended to when SG-1 was around.
"Hey there!" he called.
"Hello!" the man replied still grinning.
"Nice jacket." Jack said as he came to a stop 5ftin front of the strange pair.
"Thanks." The man said grinning even more, and glancing at the young girl who smiled back warmly.
"Right, we'll I'm Colonel Jack O'Neill, this is Major Sam Carter and we're peaceful explorers from Earth." Said Jack matter-of-factly and ever so slightly bored from the over use of this little spiel.
"From Earth?" the girl replied in shock, at pronouncing the 'th' in Earth as 'f', in a familiar accent which neither of the SGC officers could place at the moment.
"Yeah, green and blue, home of great lakes, fishing, the Simpsons and the doughnut, about 80 light years in …which direction Carter?" Jack asked turning to his 2IC for a moment.
"That way, sir." She replied pointing with a smile and a glint in her eyes.
"Americans?" Then turning to the older man and gripping hisJacket so that he faced her she continued, "Doctor, what year is it?"
"2002." He answered dutifully.
And by the expression on her face you could see her shock had increased ten-fold.
"I can't believe it.Americans havebeing going to other planetssince 2002without the rest of the world knowing." She said in awe and glancing at them.
Needless to say all this talk of times and years got peaked Sam's interest in the exchange.
"Wait a minute. You asked what year it is." said the ever switched on and thinking Carter. "Have you been time travelling?"
The girls jaw dropped at that point.
"They know about time travel too!" she exclaimed.
"Well, it was an accident that one time when we ended up in 1969." Jack replied.
"Good year." Said both Jack and the 'Doctor' in unison.
"So you're from Earth, travelling to other planets, through a Stargate." Said the young girl thinking out loud to process what seemed like new information, Jack noted that she got over the shock pretty quickly as if she was no stranger to new, interesting and bizarre things.
"Yeah I think that about covers us, so what's you story?" asked Jack.
"Your names sound familiar somehow." Said the man in the leather coat, a vertical line appearing between his eyebrows as he thought deeply, observing the two before him as if trying to jog his memory.
"Really?" asked Sam, Jack could tell that she was obviously curious. It was not the first time since they had had their reputation precede them. Though most of the time it didn't bode well, perhaps this was the reason for their large reputation.
"Well, Jack is a common name." said the colonel matter-of-factly which earned him a playful punch on the arm from his 2IC.
"Ouch." He said feigning hurt at the reasonably hard punch before smiling one of his more charming grins.
"SG-1!" the man cried aloud, once again grinning.
"How…eh…?" asked Sam confused and at a loss for words for the first time in a long time.
"Doesn't matter," the man interrupted, the then continued, brimming with excitement, "Ha, ha it's SG-1! Well half of it. Where's Daniel and Teal'c, with a c?"
"Somewhere else, how do you know this?" Asked Jack instantly becoming suspicious. Though his initial instinct that the pair was more likely to be allies than enemies was still present in his mind.
"He's the Doctor, he just knows everything." The young girl said grinning with caring a warmth in her eyes.
"Rose, now that's not… well it is true, I do know everything." He grinned once more at the bemused humans before him.
"I think it's about time we heard your story." Said Jack, hoping to get a complete answer this time instead of getting more questions.
"I'm the Doctor, this is Rose." The man said introducing themselves.
"Doctor Who?" asked Sam.
"Just the Doctor." He said simply.
"Right, so where you from?" Jack asked, removing his hand from his P-90 and taking a more relaxed stance with his fingers entwined and resting on the butt ofhis gun. Sure he was still on his guard, but there was just something trustworthy about these people. When he looked at the Doctor he saw something that reminded him of the Nox, a kind of outward naivety but ultimately the harbour of a great natural intelligence. He still remembered his lesson learnt, 'The very young do not always do as they are told.'
"London." the young girl said, breaking the colonel's reverie.
"What!" said Sam, "As in London the capital of England London, Earth?"
"Solar System, Milky Way." Added Rose, "Yep! That's home!"
"This job never get's dull." Muttered Jack to Sam, then louder, "So how did you get here?"
"My ship." The Doctor said proudly.
"Your ship?" asked Jack.
"Yes."
"Where?"
"There."
"What that?" the colonel asked slightly confused, inclining his head.
"Yeah."
"That blue box thing?" said Jack surprised
"Yeah, my ship, the TARDIS." The grin returned once more.
"TARDIS?" asked Sam.
"Yes, Time And Relative Dimension In Space."
"It's all rele…" the colonel began.
"Don't, sir." Said Sam. Her tone was warning but a glint appeared in her eyes at the old joke.
"What?" he said turning to her, then shrugging.
"Time And … holy hannah!" said Sam, her right hand moved to cover her mouth as she gasped. "Doctor? Can…Can I see it?"
Authors note; this is a two part work with each set in different points of view of two shows, both Stargate SG-1 and the most recent series of Doctor Who (ie Doctor number 9), this other part should you wish to read it is called 'The TARDIS and the Stone Ring'. NOTE this will mainly be an SG-1 fiction at the moment then hopefully move into more Doctor Who
