So, here I am with another chapter, I know I've neglected this story slightly but now that I've finished 'Against the Wall' I'll be able to dedicate all the time that I do find to write fic to this story.  Hopefully that means that the updates may become slightly less sporadic, fingers crossed!!

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Don't think I've got anything else to say except…Are you sitting comfortably?  Then I will begin…

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Sam shook the remnants of sleep from her brain as she realised that the phone was ringing. 

"Hello," she answered, her voice still slightly thick with sleep.

"Hey Carter," came the jovial voice of her commanding officer.

"Colonel," she replied.

"So Carter, pizza, beer and a movie?"

"Sounds good Sir," she replied after a moments thought.  It would give her the opportunity to find out if any of the others had been having flashbacks, subtly of course, lest they think she had finally lost it.

"19h30 alright you?"

"Yes Sir," she replied after a quick glance at the clock.  She still had time for a shower before it was time for her to leave.  She was stiff from her day at the SGC and her brief nap combined with the strange dream had left her feeling tenser than ever before.  Standing under the hot spray, letting it beat down on her stiff shoulders; some of the tension that had built up over the day was released.

The dream had been the second time she had heard the voice but she could still not recall it ever happening during their mission.  She wondered if there was a chance of it being a flashback of something that had occurred but due to her lapse in memory she could not recall the actual event.  She strained to recall more but could remember nothing additional except Alamagor's harsh and angry voice which was still ringing in her ears.

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Sam pulled up into Colonel O'Neill's drive and shut off the engine, after a few seconds she saw Daniel's car pull up beside her. Daniel appeared to be deep in conversation with Teal'c who was seated in the passenger seat.

Daniel looked up and saw Sam still sitting in her car.  He smiled quickly in her direction, as a way of greeting, and Teal'c turned and nodded to her. 

Sam quickly pulled her hand away from the door and grabbed the keys that were still in the ignition.  She had seen the look that Daniel had given her, he was nervous.  It was obvious to her that he was talking about her with Teal'c.  Teal'c was no better, the look of pure pity he had given her when he had turned only served to confirm her suspicions that her friends were talking about her behind her back.

She was about to turn the keys so that she could get away from her duplicitous team-mates when she heard Daniel call her name.  She pulled her keys from the ignition and stepped out of her car.

"Hi guys," she said cheerfully as she locked her car.

"You had a relaxing day?" Daniel asked with humour as they walked up to Jack's door.  He knew that Sam could never relax when she was being forced to stay off the base, not that it happened often.

"Not really.  The computer system at the SGC got hit by a virus, the whole thing shut down.  I spent all day trying to fix it."

"You're serious?" Daniel asked, nothing like this had ever happened before.

"Yep.  Everything was down, including the dialling computer.  Because the iris was shut SG-5 had to gate to the alpha site, apparently they didn't get the most friendly reception on P4Y-792."

"Has the problem been rectified?" Teal'c asked as Daniel knocked on the door.

"Yeah,  I wanted to make some improvements to the security systems but General Hammond ordered me to leave again."

Jack opened the door, his face adopting a definite look of dismay as he caught the tail end of the conversation.

"Carter, please tell me you haven't been at the SGC again," he said seriously.

"I have Sir but…" Sam started.

"Do I need to remind you that I ordered you to get a life?"

"No Sir but as I was trying to say, General Hammond called me in when the entire computer system shut down this morning," she replied, trying to keep any smugness out of her voice.

"Right," Jack said slowly as he let them in, Daniel laughed slightly as he stepped past.  "The computers went down?" he asked, his eyebrows raised, as he grasped the potential consequences.

"The whole system was down for over six hours."

"Good thing the Goa'uld didn't come knocking, that could have gotten messy."

"No actually.  It's the strangest thing; the iris shut itself just before the system shut down.  It must have been programmed into the virus."

"Your politer computer viruses will do that," he joked.

"Yes Sir," Sam said politely, ignoring his joke.  "I just don't understand why a virus that freezes the dialling computer, shuts down the entire base systems and wipes a massive amount of data, effectively shutting down the SGC but still closes the iris first."

"Well as…fascinating as all this is.  We are on leave and so can this all wait until Monday, please," he implored.

Sam shrugged and sat in her usual seat on the couch.

Jack was glad that Sam had not gone into great detail about the state of the computer systems.  The mild headache that had been in the background all day probably would have erupted into a full blown migraine, courtesy of a Sam Carter explanation.

With a sigh, he acknowledged that he was definitely feeling his age today, his knee and back were aching, much more than they usually did, Goa'uld torture not withstanding.  He could not even blame bad weather; it had been a warm and sunny day.

He grabbed an assortment of drinks from the fridge, staring at the artificial light spilling out over the floor he suddenly felt angry.  His grip on the bottle in his hand tightened as he fought the urge to throw it across the room.  His sudden anger was directed not towards those who had imprisoned them but at his team, his friends.  They should not have allowed themselves to be captured and he blamed Sam, Daniel and Teal'c for it.

He put the bottles down; they rocked and clattered as he deposited them with unsteady hands.  He thumped his fist against the counter as he felt the inexplicable anger boil in his veins.

"Jack?" Daniel called from the living room.

Jack blinked quickly and shook his head before he grabbed the bottles and took them through to his guests.

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Jack and Sam were in the midst of a good natured debate over the scientific military inconsistencies on the film they had just finished watching.  Sam was notorious for picking holes in movies, especially those with science in them.  Jack had been drawn in and was now trying to make her see it for what it was, a movie and not a documentary.

Daniel excused himself with a vague mumble, Jack and Sam barely heard him.  Sam had launched into a tirade about 'Independence Day' which had brought an exclamation of 'For crying out loud' from O'Neill.

Daniel shut and locked the bathroom and leant heavily back against it.  He had experienced the overwhelming need to get away from them, from Jack and Sam and their petty incessant squabbling.

His initial instinct had been to leave the house completely and go where he wanted, do what he wanted to do.  Where he would not be asked to compromise on anything, what film to watch, what pizza to get, what to drink.  It bitterly occurred to him that he was always being asked to compromise, he was forced to neglect translation and miss archaeological digs which could prove vital because of his 'duty' to SG-1.

He heard Sam call his name as he washed his hands.  He opened the door and was met by a concerned face.

"You okay?" she asked.

"Sure," he replied slowly, not understanding her concern.

"You were in there a while," she clarified.  With a shrug she went back to the living room.

Daniel stood and thought it over for a moment.  As far as he knew he had only been in there a minute but he quickly shrugged it off and went back to his friends.

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Ooooh…anyone intrigued yet???  As you said Dark_Faith, I'm going to keep you guessing until I want you to know what's going on, I promise you all that you'll find what's happening with SG-1 soon…just as soon as I've worked it out myself!!!! And it's funny because I'm not joking, maybe one day I'll plan a story…and on that day chocolate will be considered a low fat, healthy snack!

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