AN sorry for the wait guys but I'll do the next chapter soon ( and by soon I mean probably tomorrow) I struggled to decide what to do with them, cause I had a few possible ways for it to go.

When Teal'c woke, he kept his eyes shut. He had learned over his many years that this was a smart thing to do. It is also not as easy as it looks usually because if you wake from a really deep sleep you can never put your finger on the point at which you stopped being asleep and became aware of the fact that you were awake and usually these two points are quite a few minutes apart.

He listened. Nobody moving nearby, no voices and no breathing within his hearing distance. There was something though...a very faint whining hum. He opened his eyes and without moving his head could see nothing of danger in his line of view. He also couldn't feel any pain and so... he sat up. Looking around he saw that the place he was in was very dark put as his eyes grew accustomed to the lack of light he could see unconscious people on the floor beside him. Colonel O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, both disarmed ..but no Major Carter.

Locating his commander he gave Jack a rough shake to wake him and Jack helpfully rolled over onto Daniel waking him and saving Teal'c the trouble.

"Woah! T? Wha.. Ack, Daniel! Get your glasses outa my ass for crying out loud!"

There was a muffled sound which sounded quite a lot like Daniel cursing at Jack's backside before he managed to extricate himself.

"Dammit Jack I would, if you kept your ass off my glasses, I – "

"Shut up Daniel, Carter's missing."

"Yeah well, she'd say the same thing cause.. what?"

Jack had been going through his mental checklist which, if everything was ticked meant that he was mostly okay and was happy to goof around. He had made it through number 1 (alive) and had tried to check off number 2 ( which was double barreled: consisting of check Carter's okay and check Danny and T are okay)when he'd hit a snag. Carter wasn't here. This meant that he definitely wasn't okay and was in no mood to goof around with Daniel.

"She's not here genius we've been split up!"

"Oh no."

"Ya think?"

"It is likely she has been taken for interrogation O'Neill."

"Yeah, I was afraid of that." Jack murmured as he made his way around the tiny, dark room they were trapped in, running his hands along the walls trying to find a way out. What he found in one wall seemed to be the edges of a door but it had no handle or lock and was wedged tightly into it's alcove that it didn't budge when he and Teal' threw their shoulders against it.

"Dammit."

Meanwhile Daniel had been inspecting the opposite wall when his fingers ran over something smooth and circular like a eyeball set into the wall, just above head height.

"Hey guys. I think this is a camera here."

"That's nice Daniel, be sure to smile."

"Jack don't be an ass, just try to get them to let us out."

"Thanks for the invitation and all but you tend to be better at the whole persuasion and general human communication thing than me."

"Well ...I did think about that, but I figured that you'd butt in after the first few seconds anyway so why not just do it yourself." The sarcasm in his voice rose to a height that would have made Jack proud if it hadn't been directed at him.

Though he wouldn't show it Teal'c was growing irritated with his teammates antagonizing each other and since Major Carter wasn't around to put a stop to it, as was usually her place to do he stepped in.

"O'Neill, it would probably be productive to make a direct request for freedom." He chose his words carefully to make sure that it didn't sound like he was just agreeing with Daniel, which of course he was, but he understood O'Neill's frustration. All three men on the team had an instinct to protect Sam, as the only woman on the team but none of them would voice it for fear of offending the headstrong major. With O'Neill however, Teal'c believed there was something more. Something not quite as fraternal as the way he and Daniel Jackson felt.

Jack sighed, and thrust his face up close to the camera in the wall May as well give 'em a fright.

"Hey!" he waved cheerfully " We're awake in here. You should probably let us out soon or uh Daniel's diaper's gonna honk something awful!" Daniel rolled his eyes and turned to knock on the door again.

"Hey c'mon, be a sport, open up and we can all be friends again." The door clicked. Jack turned quickly away from the camera and Daniel backed away from the door. When it opened then three squinted into the light as it pierced through the darkness and a man in the familiar gray uniform stepped into the doorway, an interesting looking weapon in his hand, pointed at the remaining members of SG1.

"You are to be taken to the institute." Jack stepped forward toward the door, raising his hands when the man jerked his weapon in Jack' s direction. Outside a group of six more guards stood waiting to escort them.

" Yeah... always knew I'd hear those words some day." He stepped out of the door at the guard's gesture to do so, followed by Teal'c and Daniel.

"Hey uh, just one question" Jack turned his head back the guard who had first entered the cell, as they walked down the long corridor. " ..the other member of my team, Major Carter? Were the hell is she? Just outa curiosity." Jack kept his tone light and sarcastic. It was what he was best at, pissing off the guys with guns.

"Silence!" The guard walking beside Jack swiftly hit him around the head with the butt of his "gun".

Jack grimaced at the man and swiped some imaginary saliva out of his eye as the guard ahead opened a door in the wall and ushered the group through.

AN Soooo.. I quite like the banter in this chapter but you can tell me what you think. Next chapter we'll find out what happened to Sam and what kind of "institute" the guys have been sent to. Till next time...