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Chapter 5

Cordelia stood watching as Dennis returned Star Wars episode 1 to its case. "I'm glad you liked the movie. I didn't like the movie as much as the original three, although the special effects were cool. I think episode 2 comes out in theaters next year. Maybe Murray would like to see it in theaters, you can come too of course, but no one can see you and I don't want to seem like a looser who can't get friends. Murray seemed to like the Indiana Jones movies. Maybe I'll rent them next. I don't think I'll make a habit of renting sci-fi movies though. He came back to rent the next ones at the same time as I was getting the next Star Wars movie. It wasn't even movie night with his 'team' anymore. He'd already returned the third one when I went to rent episode 1 though. I saw it on the shelf. It was nice talking to him. He's a great listener, like you Dennis. I don't really miss Sunnydale or anything but he makes me think about the good times there. He reminds me of a cross between Xander and Oz. A quiet sci-fi geek with hidden strengths, you know. Though don't ever tell Xander I said that he has hidden strengths."

Cordelia took the movie from where it was floating in front of her and placed it next to her purse so she wouldn't forget to return it the next day. Cordelia knew she'd been talking more lately, but the last three days had been nice for her, she had been able to carry on real conversations with someone living. As much as she liked Dennis and was able to understand most of what he wanted to convey, he couldn't talk or even smile at her. Not that Murray had spoken much or even smiled, but she could read his moods pretty clearly. She hoped she'd run into him again.

She looked up and out the window and saw that next door there were a couple of cars parked there. She was a little surprised at that since she'd thought the house was empty. She'd never seen anyone over there. Admittedly she didn't spend her time spying out the window or anything but she'd been living there for a month and had never run into anyone or even seen a car parked outside. Spying on the neighbors was a tacky thing to do after all and a Chase was above that. Cordelia moved to the back door, some fresh air would do her good. She walked outside and was surprised to hear a familiar voice.

"Murray?" she called out softly, not really loud enough for the people in the neighboring backyard to hear her. She walked over to the fence and stood on the lower horizontal piece of wood that was nailed in place to keep the vertical fence in place. She looked over the fence and called out again as she recognized Murray from the movie rental place. Four faces turned towards her as she waved at Murray. Then three of them turned to look at their tall friend.

"Hello Cordelia Chase. It is unexpected to see you here," Murray said in his deep voice.

"Well it's unexpected to see you here too. I thought that no one was living here."

"Actually I live here," said the older man standing at the barbeque grill. "I'm Colonel O'Neill, but you can call me Jack. You're my neighbor? What happened to the Chapmans?"

"They sold the house to me a month ago," Cordelia said. "It was perfect, I had to get it."

"I'm Samantha Carter, please call me Sam, and this is Daniel Jackson. How did you meet Murray?" Sam asked suspiciously, although her face revealed nothing but a cheerful face. She didn't trust the convenience of Jack getting a new neighbor who had befriended Teal'c. This sang of the NID to her.

"We met at the department store and we've run into each other a couple of times renting movies. OH! Are you the people he was getting a movie night movie for?"

"Yeah," Jack replied, he too was suspicious about this new girl, though he would give her the benefit of the doubt since he could tell Teal'c liked her and he was a good judge of character.

"Did you like it? It was my idea for him to get Indiana Jones, though to be honest I haven't seen it yet."

"It was alright," Daniel said as he walked over to the fence. He was still a fairly trusting man and didn't have any suspicions about her. "I'm an archaeologist so it was kind of interesting to see how people sometimes can interpret what I do."

"You're an archaeologist and your working for the military in Deep Space Telemetry?" Cordelia asked with her forehead wrinkling up for a moment before she smoothing it out worried about premature wrinkles.

"Oh, um, I'm also a linguist," Daniel said panicking for a moment.

"Oh, I can see that. Linguists can be useful. Sometimes being able to recognize the occasional obscure word in another language can save a life. So you like work as a translator while dealing with other countries doing deep space telemetry?"

"Something like that," Jack said before Daniel could reply. "Would you like to come over? I'm grilling up some steaks."

"Sure!" Cordelia said with a large smile. She lifted herself up, her hands resting on the top of the fence. She then used the incredible balance she'd developed from years as a cheerleader to swing her legs over the fence, ending up in the arms of Murray who caught her.

End – Chapter 5

REVIEWS INSPIRE ME!

It's weird jumping between calling him Murray and Teal'c. I hope I caught their characters okay. I felt Cordelia was a little out of character in the beginning, but I wanted you all to know they'd met a couple more times. I had no idea how to really continue their conversations over Star Wars and Indiana Jones since it's been so long since I've seen Indiana Jones. So you'll just have to imagine those meetings.

I had a lot of ideas for this chapter and decided that the events of the barbecue would have to be the next chapter. - Please look forward to it.