The next morning saw everyone back pretty much in the same place as the day before, Sam and Jack in engineering while Daniel and Teal'c were back in the conference room, working on the translation.

By the time lunch came around the repairs were mostly done and Daniel had completed the translation. B'Elanna had lead Sam and Jack to the mess where they had met up with Tom, Daniel, Teal'c, Tuvok, the Captain and Chakotay. They had all said hello before heading towards the counter where Neelix was stood beaming at all of them.

"It's nice to meet you all, I'm Neelix and you must be the people from the other reality."

Sam smiled at him and he smiled back before turning his back to them to pick something up, saying as he did so, "I had a look in the ships data for food from the later 20th century and I came up with this."

He passed the four SG1 members a bowl of food each and Jack looked down at it before looking at Sam and smiling, "Spaghetti bolognaise."

Sam smiled at him, "Thank you Neelix, you didn't have to though."

"It's not every day you meet someone from the 20th century, even if they are from a different reality," Neelix said, "And I made enough for anyone else who wants some."

Chakotay, Tom and B'Elanna both shrugged before saying that they would try it too, while Tuvok and the Captain both went for something else. Once everyone had food they made their way to a group of empty tables.

As they sat down Daniel handed Sam his note book saying, "I finished the translation and I found the instructions on how to work the machine although I hope they make more sense to you than they did to Teal'c and me."

Sam nodded and took the offered notebook, as well as pulling one of her own out of her vest which had a pencil on a string attached to it. With one hand she ate the spaghetti, rolling the pasta around the fork before sticking it in her mouth, and with the other she took the pencil and began to work through Daniel's notes, occasionally making notes of her own, or at least she did until Jack slid the two notebooks away from her and put them beside his plate.

Sam raised an eyebrow and Jack shook his head, "You eat, then you work Carter, just this once." Sam grudgingly nodded and began to eat more. "Anyway," Jack said, spinning his fork in his pasta, "It's not like you can do anything anyway, the machine disappeared remember."

Sam nodded, "I've been thinking about that and I have an idea about how to find it, whether or not it works is another question entirely."

Everyone looked at her expectantly, even the crew who were sat with them. Sam looked at her food, not wanting to answer but Jack laughed, "Come on Carter, you blew up a sun, how much more difficult can this be?"

Sam just shook her head, "Seriously, you blow up one sun and everyone expects you to walk on bloody water and feed the five thousand."

Jack smiled at her, "Nope, don't need to do that Carter, just need to get us home, that's it."

Sam huffed and ate another forkful, sucking up the pasta strands that didn't quite go in.

"You blew up a sun?" B'Elanna questioned, "How, and why?"

"Well we were on a planet helping the Tok'ra move their gate from one planet to another when a mole told the system lord Apophis where they were and he came with his fleet. We took one of the mother ships up and dialled a gate that was on a planet that was in the process of being sucked into a black hole and sent it into the star. The stargate took some of the matter out of the sun which caused its reaction to become unstable and then…"

"Bang," Jack finished for her, "Really really big bang."

Sam laughed lightly while Daniel shook his head and Teal'c sat back in his seat, having emptied his bowl completely.

B'Elanna then threw her fork down, "I give up, how the hell are you meant to eat this?"

Sam smiled at her and went to pick up a spoon which she then handed to B'Elanna. The half Klingon woman took it in her hand and Sam retook her seat beside her. She then gestured to B'Elanna hands and she passed her back to the spoon as well as the fork. "Do you mind?" Sam questioned, gesturing to B'Elanna's plate.

B'Elanna shook her head and Sam leaned across and showed her how to eat the pasta. She put the spoon into the bowl and then stuck the fork in too and twisted it around so that the pasta on the spoon was soon wrapped around the fork. She let them go and went back to her own bowl. B'Elanna smiled at her, "Thank you Sam."

Sam just smiled again and ate some more. Everyone ate in silence for a few minutes and when they had all finished Jack rubbed his stomach happily and smiled, leaning back on his chair. Sam shook her head and Daniel smirked, "You got a little something there Jack," he said, gesturing to Jack's check.

Jack reached his hand and rubbed at his check then looked at Daniel. Daniel shook his head, still smirking, "Nope, still there."

Jack narrowed his eyes at the archaeologist and turned his attention to Sam instead, he knew from experience that Teal'c wouldn't be much help either, the Jaffa just found it too funny to watch him struggle instead of helping.

Sam shook her head, "He's right, you missed a bit sir. On your cheek."

Jack pulled the cuff of his jacket down and rubbed at the side of his face. Sam looked around the table; everyone was watching the Colonel try and tidy himself up. After a few more rubs Jack pulled his hand away and turned his cheek in Sam's direction.

She shook her head again, "Still there sir." He huffed and Sam took pity on him and reached across the table, pulling her cuff down as she went. As she gave Jack's cheek a quick rub she said, "I never did understand how you could make such a mess when eating spaghetti sir, every time I ever made it you ended up looking like my niece."

Jack just shrugged and Sam pulled her hand away, "All good sir."

Jack nodded and handed her back the two notebooks. Sam gave him a beautiful smile and opened the notebooks once more. B'Elanna watched over Sam's shoulder as the Air Force scientist continued to scribble down notes and numbers and equations. On her other side Janeway also looked at the notebooks. The two women then shared a look behind Sam's back, they could see how complicated it was, they didn't understand much of it, but they could see that Sam was quite happily working through it.

After everyone had finished what they were eating Sam looked at the Captain and said, "Captain Janeway, would it be possible for me to use some of your equipment so that I can find the machine that brought us here?"

"What do you need it for?" Janeway questioned.

"The machine is made out of the same material as the stargate, an element we all naquadah, and the same element is in my blood. I think that if I can get a clean enough sample out of my blood then I should theoretically be able to pull particles of the same element back into this reality. I know how it's done it's just a case of doing it myself."

Janeway thought for a moment then nodded, "We will help you as much as we can. You cut down the repair considerably and we owe you something for that."

Sam smiled at her, "I was also wandering if it could possibly borrow Seven of Nine, I know she has some knowledge of the equations and theories behind what the machine does."

The Captain nodded again, "I will ask her to come and meet you in the infirmary, I'm sure the Doctor will be the best person to help with taking this element out of your blood safely."

Sam then looked over at Jack and said, "With your permission of course sir."

He nodded, "If you think you can do it without harming yourself Carter, go ahead, I trust you."

So the spaggetti bolignase is in this chapter for the pure fact that one it's my favorite and I had it nearly every night last week when I was writing this chapter