A/N: I'll bet a lot of you guys thought I forgot about this! Nope, just busy, busy, busy with school and preparations for Sukkot.

Sam snorted, "Now, now, Lexi, don't get mad at me. You're the one that thought it would be a good idea to just stop near the France/Germany boarder until mid-August."

"Now, now, Sammie, don't get mad but your husband and friends get to hear about how you can't hold your tequila," Alex said with a smile.

Daniel's head shot up, "I knew there was a reason you'd only do rum shots with me."

"You mean, beside the fact that you have the alcohol tolerance of a rabbit?" Scott asked snidely, cocking his head to one side.

Vala snorted, "Aw, Daniel, no wonder you always opt for the water when you take me out on those dates."

"THEY'RE NOT DATES!" Daniel cried, exasperated with how quickly the conversation had turned to bashing him. Quieter he said, "They happen to be the only way I can get out of the mountain without dying."

Vala rolled her eyes, "Daniel, you're so melodramatic. At the very worst you'd have fainted and been rushed back to the SGC and my awaiting arms."

Cassie laughed at the banter, although it was a little odd. "Why can't Daniel leave your side, Vala?" she asked after the laughter subsided.

Vala shrugged, "Well ... we're stuck together."

Daniel snorted, "That's the nice way of putting it. Vala stuck these bracelets on us that make it impossible to leave the side of the other person wearing the bracelet. Then we took a little trip using an Ancient transportation device, and when we got back and Vala took the bracelets off we found out that the effects of the bracelets are now embedded in us."

"What?" Bobby asked, not sure he understood at all what his friend had just said.

Sam smiled, having been on the team trying to reverse the side-effects of the bracelets, "There's a forcefield surrounding Daniel and Vala. Think of them as two magnets - Daniel, south; Vala, north. When she slapped the bracelets on them, they became stuck together, like two magnets." She grinned at her friend, "And now they have to wait for the force field to dissapate before they can leave each other's side otherwise the magnetic force will collapse and both of them will die."

Cassie snorted at the thought of Daniel being stuck to Vala forever before looking at her watch. Noticing the hour, she nudged Scott gently before getting up, "We'd better get going. I don't want my roommate to worry any more than necessary."

"Oh, we already called her," Bobby said, putting her mind at rest on that account, although he knew that there was another reason the young woman was chomping at the bit to leave with the clone of his friend. "And all your … professors."

Cassie smiled her thanks, "Lucy won't stop worrying until she sees me. It's just the way she is. Uncle Jack, Aunt Sam … Dad, make sure to stop by and see me before you leave, okay?"

Sam gave Cassie a tight hug, "No problem, sweetie. We're here 'til Sunday unless something happens."

"Which it always does," Scott and Jack said in unison, causing the original to glare at the clone menacingly.

Scott just glared back before preceding Cassie out of the room, leaving the rest of the group in silence.

After a few minutes of silence Teal'c broke the spell, "Colonel Carter, do you not require nourishment in your present condition?"

"What are you trying to say, Teal'c?" Sam asked, a little offended by her friend's word choice, although she completely understood his concern.

Teal'c's head cocked to one side again as he raised an eyebrow flawlessly, "Only that it is a most common occurrence for you to forgo supplying your body with nourishment in times when your mind is otherwise occupied."

"HEY!" Sam protested, "I've been working on that since Janet …"

Bobby and Alex exchanged a glance when Sam suddenly fell silent, unable to say the word all knew would end the sentence. The sad, lost puppy look that flashed across Daniel's face caused Bobby to wonder again just what his friends had been up to.

"Chinese or Italian?" Alex asked Sam, bringing their attention back to the present and off a long dead woman named Janet.

Sam furrowed her brow, "Thai. Are there any good Thai places around here that deliver? I really don't want to leave."

"There's a place a few blocks down that delivers," Alex said thoughtfully. "There should be a menu in the phone book."

Soon enough the menu was found and everyone circled what they wanted before the menu ended up with Bobby, who took out his cell phone and ordered.

"Oh, shit!" Sam said after Bobby hung up.

"What?" Jack asked, concerned at his wife's uncustomary exclamation.

"Pendergast didn't give me any time to pack. I don't have any clothes."

Just then there was a knock on the door to the hotel room. Jack got up to answer it and a few moments later the group heard the unmistakable sound of Jack's laughter. He walked back in with a middle-aged man by his side, in dress blues.

"Look who just stopped by?" he said with a smirk, pointing to the man by his side, "Apparently Davis here is our delivery boy."

Lt. Colonel Paul Davis looked at the General with a mixture of concern and amusement before turning to Colonel Carter and the rest of the group. He handed her a suitcase and said, "Vice President Hammond thought this might be useful, Colonel Carter. And Colonel Pendergast sends his sincerest apologies for the beaming incident."

Sam took the bag warily, "Who went through my clothes to pack?"

"Lt. Hailey." The name immediately put Sam at ease.

"Oh, okay. Thank you, Colonel."

Davis nodded once, a slight smile on his face, "My pleasure Colonel … did you ever get around to changing your last name to O'Neill?"

Sam shook her head, "No, not yet, Davis. We're not entirely sure it would be a good idea for me to change it in the first place."

Daniel turned to Jack and Sam, "You told Davis before me? I thought I was your friend."

Sam rolled her eyes, "Davis was passing by in the hall when Jack proposed, Daniel – he was one of the witnesses. It has nothing to do with your friendship to us that you found out this late. I've been friends with Alex for over twenty years and she just found out a few hours ago."

Alex nodded, "That's true, Daniel. Although, I've had my suspicions that Sam was in a relationship with Jack since our last high school reunion."

Sam grinned at that, "Well, I wasn't exactly subtle about it, was I?"

Alex smirked as she looked at Sam, "Getting shit faced within two hours and proclaiming to a room full of your old high school peers that you thought your new CO … how did you put it, Sam? 'Has a nice ass that you could stare at for hours'. It's not exactly a discreet way of saying anything."

A/N: Okay, okay, hit me! I want to know what you all think... it'd be an excellent Sukkot present for me. Please?