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Have A Nice Day, Jack!

by Lingren.

Previously:-

"Yes Sir. I think I will." she said weakly, trying not to pass out.

Chapter 9 – All's Well, That Ends Well.

Daniel entered the briefing room, somewhat bleary eyed and apprehensive, having been summoned to appear before the General and escorted from the holding cell by a couple of guards. When he took in the fact that it was 05.00 hours he stared in disbelief at the General, Sam and Teal'c who were sitting round the table drinking steaming cups of coffee, wondering what on earth was going on.

"Dr. Jackson," Hammond welcomed him with a smile. "come and join us."

"Ah. Thank you General. What's going on? Has something else happened to Jack?"

"Yes, and no son. Come and sit down, we have a lot to talk about."

Daniel walked slowly to a chair and sat down. He looked at them suspiciously, and nodded his thanks when he was passed a cup of coffee.

"Well...?" he asked, waiting impatiently for them to say something. Anything!

"Dr. Jackson I'm sure you will by pleased to know that Colonel O'Neill is going to make a full recovery. However, it didn't look like it just about an hour or so ago."

"I don't understand Sir, you told me he was doing okay. Wasn't he?"

"That is correct son, I did." Hammond paused for a moment before continuing. "Let's start at the beginning Doctor. You and the Colonel were not having a very good day..."

"That's one way of putting it, so, yeah, definitely not a good day."

"There was unknown to us at that point in time, on this base, someone, who shall we say, wanted to exploit that information, and use it to their advantage. They had in their possession this device." Hammond passed the device over to Daniel, hoping he would recognize it. He was not disappointed with the reaction.

"This... this is the same device that was used by Nerrti, when she came on the base to get to Cassandra. But...what has that to do with Jack and myself?" He looked up at the smiling faces around the table and was even more puzzled by his friends reactions.

"This someone, a Captain McDougall, used this devise to execute a cunning ploy to rid the SGC of Colonel O'Neill and use you as the instrument in which to do it. Thereby eliminating you also from the programme, because if the Colonel had died, you were the person who stood to take the blame. He was transferred here a month ago from NID, so we can probably all guess where his orders came from."

"What? I mean How? How was being invisible able to get rid of Jack and myself? I'm not sure I'm following much of this." He sounded a little bemused still and Sam stepped in to help explain things.

"It's easy really Daniel, when you think about it!" stated Sam with a smile.

"It is?" Daniel was still wondering if he hadn't stepped through that mirror after all. Nothing was making much sense.

"All those little trips and shoves you bugged the Colonel with on base... That wasn't really you Daniel. When the Colonel fell down the stairs, did you really think you had tripped up over your own feet? You said yourself that you saw 'nothing'. And as for beating him senseless, I couldn't really believe you had done that. Although circumstantial evidence pointed directly to it. You knew you didn't do it. But how could you prove to anybody that you weren't in fact responsible, especially with the damage you had supposedly done to your hands. Captain McDougall or whoever was behind all of this, really wanted you to take the blame. And unwittingly both you and the Colonel played right into his hands. Constantly arguing, and at odds all day long. What better way than to kill off one and let the other take the blame. He played you against the Colonel and he would have been the winner."

"If Major Carter hadn't spotted him."

"You mean it was this Captain all the time. God...I...I really thought I was having a bad day. I was packing up my gear, ready to leave. Then what happened? I mean how did you find out about all this?"

"I was sitting with the Colonel, after his beating, in the ICU. I couldn't stay awake, and dozed off, but something woke me up. Then I saw the Colonel's IV line moving all by itself. I was about to call Janet when I was hit over the head and I ended up unconscious too. Fortunately Teal'c heard me yelp, and peered around the doorway in time to see me being dragged away by...well, no-one. So he put two and two together and came up with the right answers."

"I do not recall having to do any calculations Major Carter, I do not understand how you came by this statement."

They all laughed and Sam said she would explain to him what she meant by it later.

"In the meantime the Colonel had gone into crisis and all his alarms sounded, waking Janet and the other nurses."

"Teal'c called the General and they caught the Captain still in the ICU, by using the TERs the Tok'ra gave us. When It was all over and the Captain was dead, it was then I woke up and told Janet what I had seen with the IV line. It was soon discovered that the Captain had injected Insulin into the Colonel's IV and this is what set the alarms off. It was at this point we realized what had been happening all the time. That you were not to blame for all those mishaps that happened to the Colonel. Someone was out to kill him. Why? is another matter. I doubt if we will ever know the reason or who was really behind it all."

"I would like to take this opportunity to apologize son and hope you can forgive me for not believing you were as innocent as you protested. We should have known better than to think you would even consider harming Colonel O'Neill"

"Well it's going to be difficult after what's happened...but...seeing as you're all I've got... then I guess it's okay. I'm just glad this is all over, and that Jack is going to get better. He is isn't he?"

"He is indeed son. So, SG-1, from now until further notice, you will consider yourselves on down time. I strongly recommend you all get some rest because the Colonel will be needing each one of you while he's recovering. Dismissed."

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Sam, Daniel and Teal'c, although they were officially on leave, never left the SGC. Instead they took turns in sitting with Jack. After a week Janet took the decision to finally let him wake up. His wounds were healing nicely and the deep colour of the bruising was beginning to fade, turning to a dull yellow. Sam was half asleep when she discovered that he had closed his hand around hers now and his grip was warm and much stronger. She looked up at his face and found herself being studied by soft brown eyes.

"Sam..."

"Colonel... Hi, glad to see you're awake." she smiled at the use of her first name.

"What happened?" he asked, his voice quiet and husky, a residue left over from the use of the ventilator which Janet had removed a few days ago.

"You were beaten unconscious in Daniel's Lab sir."

"Oh yeah. Remember now...there was no-one there. Invisible..."

"It's okay Sir. We got him. He was using that Goa'uld hand device that made him invisible, just as it did for Nirrti. I'll explain it later, you should rest now." She could see his eyelids drooping again.

"Good. Sonovabitch..." He was asleep again barely finishing his thoughts.

Sam alerted Janet and she was pleased to be able to report to the General that the Colonel was doing just fine. He had woken up and appeared to be quite lucid.

His team were gathered round him when he awoke more refreshed than before, and his voice was stronger now.

"Hi Jack. Welcome him back to the land of the living," Daniel grinned, happy to know his friend was going to be okay.

"Hi kids," Jack croaked, reaching for a drink. Sam obliged by helping him take a sip.

"How are you feeling now Colonel?" asked General Hammond, happy to see Jack awake and alert.

"Oh. Just peachy Sir. Tired, but just peachy."

They all smiled at his favourite terminology as Janet came up to the bed to check his vital signs once again. She had her wounded arm in a sling, and Jack frowned up at her.

"Doc? What the hell happened to you? Just what did I miss?"

"This Colonel is what I got for trying to save your life." she quipped.

He looked so confused, they all had to laugh.

It fell to Sam to explain all that had transpired, while he had been out of it, as best she could. He was amazed at the way things had turned out.

"Whoa... I really did have a nice day. NOT." he sighed, but picked up on one point.

"One thing though Major. I never said that it was Daniel that had tried to kill me!"

"But, I'm sure you did Sir."

"I did not!" Jack insisted.

"I asked you who did this to you...don't you remember? You mumbled something about it being him. You said... 'Was Daniel' Sir. Teal'c heard you too."

"Yeah, I do remember...but what I said was...'Where's Daniel? And anyway, I never mumble."

"Oh! You sure Sir?" she asked again, and he nodded gingerly. "Sorry sir, but you did mumble Sir."

"Did not!" Jack was adamant. "I was worried about him, yeah. But I did not accuse him! Why the hell would I do that? He's one of my team for cryin' out loud!"

"Sam? It was you! Well, thanks very much. The General very nearly had me frog-marched to the gallows, thanks to you." Daniel exploded, waving his hands around wildly.

Sam at least had the decency to look so abashed by this, they could all laugh now. It had been like a travesty of errors, but one which they all had much rather forget happened. Everyone was so relieved and happy to see Jack recovering well.

General Hammond reminded them that they were on down time, and now that the Colonel was on the mend, even though he still bore the marks of his earlier encounters with Daniel. Maybe now's the time they should take their leave and have a break.

"Where will you all go?" asked Jack who was feeling a little envious of them being able to escape while he was tied to the infirmary.

"I might just go see my Brother and his family. I haven't seen them in a long time." Sam was glad to have the conversation changed to something lighter.

"Oh! Okay." He was disappointed that she was going to go and leave him to amuse himself. Something he wasn't so good at stuck where he was. "So, Teal'c ! How about you? Where will you go?"

"Actually Teal'c will be coming with me." Teal'c raised an eyebrow at the comment and turned to face the youngest member of the team.

"Well, okay, so, where are you and Teal'c going to go Daniel?" asked Jack, silently hoping that they weren't all going to go and leave him to himself in the infirmary...he'd go nuts all on his own.

"I think I'll take Teal'c to visit the Zoo. I'm sure he would like that, wouldn't you Teal'c, especially if it means we get to see the Giant Panda!"

This time the whole room, with the exception of Jack, burst into laughter, including Teal'c and the General.

"Daniel!"

The End.

Just like to say a big thank you to all of you who reviewed and sent personal messages... All you comments mean a great deal to me. I hope you enjoyed this story and maybe the sequel "If At First You Don't Succeed...!" ...should you wish me to post that too? I will say, that although it follows on from this storyline, it can be read as a complete story in itself.