"How do you know General O'Neill?" Sam asked, wincing as Dr. Lam took her blood.

"He's good friends with my parents. All my life he's been a father figure to me." Jackie responded easily.

"General O'Neill has spent most of the last 10 years here in Cheyenne Mountain or off-world. How could he have been a father figure to you in England?" Cameron asked as he looked up from what the nurse was doing.

"I'm not British Colonel." Jackie stated, speaking uncharacteristically with an American accent. She couldn't contain her laughter at the surprise and disbelief on SG1's faces. "I spent two years working in the American Embassy in London."

"How the hell did you manage to learn 30 languages and dialects, finish all but your dissertation on a second Ph.D., and spend two years working at an American Embassy, all by the age of 24?" Daniel exclaimed. "It's…humanly impossible!"

"Dr. Jackson…" Jackie paused searching for the right words.

"Please, call me Daniel."

"Call me Sam."

"Cameron."

Jackie smiled. It was almost like… but she couldn't think about that now, she had to focus on the reason she was in Colorado Springs. At this point the mission was her first priority. With that in mind she had to be very careful how she said things.

"Well, if we're all going on first name basis around here, you should call me Jackie." Moving over to the empty gurney near her, she hopped up and continued, "To answer your question Daniel: I've been learning languages since I could talk, but I only picked up on Goa'uld and Ancient recently. As for the rest of it; I graduated from high school at 16, had my undergrad in science and history by 19, finished my masters at 20, my first dissertation in London, and started taking classes for my second Ph.D. at Oxford." Jackie shrugged, meaning that they could figure the rest out for themselves.

"You're free to go SG1." Dr. Lam said monotonously. This was something she was way too used to. Not that she wanted to jinx anything and complain about the sameness, but she really could do with a change of pace.

The four members of SG1 all jumped down from the gurneys and headed out of the infirmary in a hurry, almost as if they were afraid Dr. Lam would change her mind.

"I believe that it is almost time for our debriefing with General Landry." Teal'c said matter-of-factly as they walked down the halls of the SGC. Everyone else looked down at their watches, confirming what he had said, and changed direction to the debriefing room.

"Um, Daniel?" Jackie asked almost timidly. He turned around and raised his eyebrows in question. "I don't suppose you have a translation or something that I could work on while you're all at the debriefing, I don't exactly have clearance to sit through it."

Daniel smiled in understanding. Turning back towards the others, "You guys go on ahead, I'll catch up." Then he turned back towards Jackie and led her down to his lab.

"How's it coming, Jackie?" Daniel asked as he walked back into his lab after the debriefing. It had been longer than he would have liked, but he also knew that it had been shorter than it could have been, so he wasn't going to complain too loudly.

"Great." Jackie responded without looking up. The pictures were so engrossing, and she was right in the middle of a key passage. Daniel could understand that, so he sat quietly, waiting for her to finish. "Daniel, where did this writing come from?" She asked unexpectedly, just barely looking over the edge of the picture at him.

"Um, I believe they came from P3X…"

"Not the planet Daniel." Jackie said, impatiently interrupting him. "What was the writing on?"

"Um…" Daniel started rummaging around on his desk. Lifting up a picture from the mess and handing it to Jackie, he continued, "This device."

Jackie's eyes got really big as she looked back and forth from the picture Daniel had handed her and the one that she had been translating when he walked in. "Where is it now?" She asked in desperation, the look in her eyes matching the concern in her voice.

"Sam's got it. She was heading to her lab after the debriefing to turn it on." Daniel replied not understanding Jackie's reaction.

"Turn it on?"

"Yeah. If you look here on the device there's a little button that seems to turn it on." Daniel said pointing to a spot on the picture of the device. Without any explanation Jackie grabbed the translations she'd been working on and ran out of the lab. "Jackie? Jackie where are you going?" Not getting any response, Daniel took off after her, not liking the feeling that something was terribly wrong.

"Don't touch anything!" Jackie exclaimed as she rushed into Sam's lab. Sam, who had been about to work on a device that SG7 had picked up the previous day, stopped with her hand poised right above it. Jackie had been running so hard through the halls that she had only come to a complete stop after half running into the door frame of Sam's lab. She now stood there panting, trying to regain control of her breathing. "You…that…" Taking a deep breath to calm herself down, very glad that she had gotten there in time, Jackie walked further into Sam's lab, hearing Daniel running down the hall behind her.

"Jackie what is going on?" Sam asked impatiently.

"That's what I would like to know." Daniel seconded from the doorway. "What's with the marathon sprint through the SGC?"

"That's not the on switch." Jackie finally managed to say, not tearing her eyes away from Sam's hand as it hung suspended above the offending 'button'.

"What are you talking about? Of course it is." Sam said, anger beginning to replace her impatience.

"No it's not." Jackie stated firmly, raising her eyes from the device to Sam's eyes. "While you were all at the debriefing I was working on translating the writings on this device." Jackie held up the pictures that she'd brought with her to emphasize her point. "That 'button' is a diversion. You touch that and this whole section of the mountain will go up in smoke." Sam's eyes widened in surprise as she slowly moved her hand away from the device. "It was a tactic used by the Ancients for this particular device. They didn't want just anyone getting their hands on it. Apparently they felt that if one was smart enough to figure out that the 'on switch' was a diversion, then one was capable of handling the device."

Daniel came up behind Jackie and took the pictures from her. Both women were silent as he studied the writing that the pictures magnified. "My god, she's right." He finally sighed. "These writings don't actually say what would have happened if you pressed that 'button', but it does suggest that it would not be good. And to think that I was going to take my time in translating this – didn't feel that it was a priority." Daniel's face was filled with horror as he turned towards Jackie. "If you hadn't come with Jack…" He couldn't finish the sentiment.