A/N: Thanks for the reviews guys! Here's just a short one to tide you over... :)


Sam stared down at the collection of notes in her hand and shuffled through them one last time before adding them to the box at her feet. The photo was next, and she picked it up, knowing that she had deliberately left it till last. Fingering the frame, she couldn't help but smile. It suddenly felt weird, knowing she had something to go home to. Someone, she corrected herself. Funny how that never got old...

A quiet knock on the open door had her suddenly stuffing the frame into the box.

"Hey," Jennifer cried, pushing herself off of the door frame and into the room. "Thought you might need a hand..."

"Thanks," Sam glanced at the doctor before giving the room another quick sweep. "But I'm almost done..."

"I meant the boxes," Jennifer motioned to the few remaining at Sam's feet. "Unless you really wanted me trawling through your stuff...?"

Sam smiled and simply shrugged away her folly.

Together they piled up the remaining boxes and considered how to transport them back to the gate. Not wanting to make more than one trip, they each took two and wandered down the corridor.

"Did you ever work out that code?" Jennifer asked, nodding to the letters peeking out of one of the boxes she was holding.

A sudden grin lit up Sam's face."Yeah..." Jennifer's eyebrows suddenly shot up. "Well," Sam continued, "It was kind of obvious after a while..."

Jennifer merely stopped mid stride, causing Sam to slow and turn back to the woman behind her.

"What?" Sam asked.

"I can't believe you figured it out and you didn't tell me!" She cried indignantly.

If she weren't carrying two boxes, Sam would have shrugged. "He didn't exactly make it difficult," she continued, ignoring the other woman's dazed expression. "Besides... he never actually finished it."

"What do you mean?" Jennifer asked, joining Sam by her side and picking up the pace again. "He didn't finish it?"

"Well, after all those consonants, he started on the vowels..."

"So it was a sentence?" Jennifer enquired.

Sam tilted her head slightly, "Well, more like a question actually..." A small laugh escaped when she turned and saw the puzzled look in Jennifer's face. "But, he missed off a few letters so..."

"So... what?"

Sam tried to hide the grin on her face. This time she did pause and shrug. "He never finished his question..."

"But you are going to answer it... right?"

Sam lost her battle with her inner self and beamed at the doctor before disappearing around the corner.

Jennifer's voice appeared strained as she hurried after her commander. "Right...?"