For A/N and disclamer, please read chapter 1

Chapter 5

Jack, Daniel, Teal'C, Doctor Frasier, and SG9 were seated around the briefing room table when General Hammond walked through the door. The general was just getting into his chair when one Samantha Carter rushed down the corridor and almost slid up to the door. "Sorry I'm late, sir." Sam said as she went to her seat.

Hammond look towards her as he said "That's all right, Major, we were just beginning anyway. Doctor Jackson and SG9, would you like to begin?"

Daniel nodded slightly as he opened up his file on the mission.

"Well, the Trinite people were very compliant. Even so however, we felt that we should look into their culture further."

"Is that really necessary?" asked Hammond.

"I believe so."

The CO of SG9, Colonel Markus, decided to pipe up at this point and collaborate with Daniel. "Doctor Jackson is correct, sir. It did feel like we don't know everything we could about the place."

"Ok then, I give you permission to check out the planet and it's government, but with limited resources."

The group at the table continued to go over the plan for the upcoming mission. They would go off-world at 0800.

Throughout the whole of the mission briefing, however, there was something that was noticed by Daniel, Teal'C and Doctor Frasier. It was that Jack and Sam never actually looked at each other in the eyes once. To anyone else this would be nothing to worry about, if to be noticed at all. But with SG-1 and their resident physician, things were different. They knew when something was up.

Daniel and Teal'C decided in their own minds that they would simply watch the pair and make sure that it was just a fluke. But Janet Frasier had other ideas.

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"Hey, Janet," Sam said while looking through the end of a microscope. "...I'll be with you in a second, I'm almost done."

"Ok, that's fine." Janet said, and proceeded to look around Sam's lab at all the things she was working on. and Her eyes soon spotted, seated on a desk in the corner, a stuffed parrot.

Janet picked it up and began to eye it up. She stared at it straight in the eye and wondered where exactly he had come from. It wasn't every day that you found soft toys at the SGC.

"What's this, Sam?" Janet said, still looking at the toy.

"Oh, it's from the zoo. Colonel O'Neill bought it for me," Sam responded while putting away the sample she had been studying.

"Hmmmm..."

"What?"

"Nothing… just… I would never have expected Jack O'Neill to be the sort of man to buy a soft toy for somebody."

"Did you need something, Janet?" Sam said sweetly, trying to move away from the subject.

"Not really, I was just wondering how your day at the zoo went."

'No such luck,' Sam thought. "It was good."

"Just good?"

"Well it was fun as well. How was your weekend, anyway?"

"Not bad. I had a movie night with Cassie yesterday. That was fun. Fattening as well, though – we ate a load of treats, cookie dough, M&Ms, maltesers… anything with a lot of calories, we ate it."

"Sounds fun."

"It was. I was thinking we could have a girls' night tonight, just you, me, and Cassie. What do you think?"

"Erm… well, I have to get ready for the mission tomorrow. So do you, in fact."

"We won't stay up late, and if you bring your stuff, we can just come to the mountain straight from my house."

"Ok, then. What do you want me to bring?"

"Yourself, and some snacks perhaps? I'll get some drinks and something to entertain us."

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In the gym, Teal'C, Daniel, and Jack were working out together. Teal'C and Daniel were lifting weights, and Jack was punching a well worn punchbag.

Daniel sat up from weight lifting, grabbed his towel from beside him, and patted himself down with it. "Hey guys, what do you think about having a guys' night? I'm sure Sam won't mind, I think she is going to see Janet tonight anyway."

"Daniel, we have a mission tomorrow," Jack said tiredly.

"We don't have to do very much, just watch some movies or something."

At this point Teal'C immediately sat up from his bench. "Star Wars."

"Sorry, Teal'C, not Star Wars, but yeah, lets watch a few films. I'll bring some beer," Jack said, and then turned his attention back to the punchbag.