NON REVERSABLE EFFECTS
CH7
I skipped down the halls of the SGC as I made my way to the mess hall to meet Jack for our designated lunch. At the moment I was on Cloud 9, probably feeling the way teen boys do when they finally have sex. And I'm telling you . . . things were awesome! Colonel Carter was back from Area 51, Daniel was going to stay and Teal'c was going to split his time between SG-1 and Dakara—and even Mitchell was turning out to be an okay guy. Today they were on their third mission, and even though it had been about two weeks, I was still up there in the sky.
The first thing that I did when I entered the mess was get my tray. Usually I would get an assortment of raw meats, like ground beef chicken ect., but today I went for as much Human food as I could consume. I took a few meat sandwiches, a bottle of orange juice and a bottle of water, a yogurt and a small bag of plain chips. I wasn't sure if it was really considered allot, it seemed little compared to what Teal'c always seemed to pile on his tray.
Jack looked up from his own lunch as I slid my tray on the table and took a seat across from him. I gave him a disappointed look. "You started without me." I pouted slightly.
"You were late." Jack said through a mouthful.
My brows furrowed slightly as I looked down at my watch. "No." I was astonished. "I'm on time."
"I was early and you were taking too long." he shrugged his shoulders nonchalant
"That's not my fault!" I exclaimed, my arms crossing over my chest.
"Well, I'm the General." Jack said cockily in turn.
I glowered at him. "That's cheating." I told Jack, but he just smiled at me. But then again he was right and there was no way that I'd be able to trump that, so I did let it go and started on my lunch. "Sooo. . ." I started after I finished my first sandwich. "What do you think of Lt. Colonel Mitchell?" I asked.
Jack paused for a millisecond, picking at his pie before he continued to chew his bite. He shrugged his shoulders. "He's fine as far as Colonels go."
I looked at him with my mouth agape, my expression full of amazement. "You're jealous!"
Jack's head snapped up and he looked around the mess with wide eyes, no one was paying one bit of attention to us. "Watch it, Lieutenant." he had on his General face.
I did watch myself, by laughing quietly instead of loudly. This time it was Jack's turn to glower. "I can't believe that you're jealous of Mitchell. You could have prevented this, you know. But you let Mitchell have free rein over who he could choose as his team. You were so confident that Daniel was going to make it to Atlantis, and that Colonel Carter would want to stay at Area 51, and that Teal'c would stay and help with the preparation's on Dakara. But what you didn't think was that they love this place, and that they love the adventure and that they *you, Jack. This is their home and their family, and they just adopted a brother." I paused. "You shouldn't be jealous."
"They're my team, and they've been my team since the beginning." Jack said.
I nodded. "I know." I told him. "They still are your's, just someone new joined the team. It'll take a while to get used to, but once you do I know that you won't regret it."
After that, I went to my quarters and changed into my gym clothes. I know that I didn't really eat that much and that all of those calories would easily burn off if I just walked around the base, but I felt like I needed to burn off energy. I wasn't fat by any means, but I still worked out every day, keeping myself in shape and up to par on my fighting skills.
I put on my ear buds, took off my shoes and took to the treadmill. I know that it was weird, but I felt more comfortable if I did these types of thing in my bare feet, and today I could because the gym was actually empty besides myself. So I turned the speed up to five and closed my eyes.
I didn't know how long I was like that for, but I was covered in sweat and gasped in surprise as SG-3 was called to the briefing room immediately over the PA system. I turned off the treadmill and grabbed at towel, wiping as much sweat off myself as I quickly made my way to the briefing room. I didn't have time to change clothes because when SG-3 was called, another team was MIA. I worried for a second that it would be SG-1, but then decided that this was their third mission so it couldn't be possible.
I made it just as the rest of SG-3, glad that I wasn't last. There was no time for sitting as Jack told us out mission, and by the look on his face I knew that he was really upset—and the only way that Jack would be that upset if the team that was missing was—
"SG-1 has missed their last two scheduled check-ins." Jack said. "I don't know what their status is, but I want you to go out there and I want you to find them."