Sam tinkered with the crystals in the control room. Someone had tried to replace them but had misplaced nearly every one of them. She had stalked into the room just in time to grab the last crystal out of their hand before they had blown the whole ship up. "Major." She looked up to find the two Joint Chiefs standing near her; they'd probably been trying to get her attention if their expressions were anything to go off of. She corrected the last crystal and closed the panel before standing up to face the two men.

"Sirs, what can I do for you?"

"You hurried off after the 'challenge' rather quickly," Schwartz offered. "We wanted to speak with you about the matter."

"Of course," Sam offered with a tight if polite smile. "I do apologize for disappearing but I was needed here."

"Are the crystal's really that difficult," Schwartz asked.

"No Sir, but they require a great deal of attention –"

"Sam, I'm so sorry," Dr. Grant Marks offered as he walked in, his head buried in a report, not noticing the two generals. "I swear, it won't happen again I –" He had finally looked up and his mouth was left hanging open at the sight of the general's.

"Grant. Grant," Sam offered as she stepped forward and took the report out of his hand. "You are overworked. Go, get something to eat and then go get some sleep. I don't want you back here for the rest of the day."

"But I –"

"You have a team that takes their lead from you. None of you are any good to me if you are sleeping on the job or blowing yourselves up," she teased lightly with a smile. "Now go."

"Who will take care of the tests?"

"I'll take care of it. Can I read through your reports? If I get called back to the SGC I want to know everyone's expertise for assignments?"

"Of course, everything's on my computer, you know the password. But I really can stay-"

"That's an order Grant." Grant was a civilian, not a military man. But, he was also under her command on base and had received this posting on her recommendation. He knew who he reported to; he also knew she never made orders unless she felt she had to. He gave a nod before he went to the other parts of the room. Sam and the General's could hear him tell the others they were to leave and not to report until tomorrow.

"Sorry about that –"

Sam was cut off as Amos stepped closer to her. Her head tilted just so in her confusion as he eyed her. "I need to know something Major."

"Yes Sir?"

"Why in the hell did you join the Air Force when you could have been a Marine?"

"General," Schwartz barked. "Don't you dare try to steal the AF's expert!"

Sam tried hard not to laugh at the two General acting like, well like Jack. The two kept bickering like a married couple. Sam wanted to go back to the ship so she could hide her laughter but, she hadn't been dismissed.

"Hey kids," Jack offered as he interrupted and Sam shot him a great full look as she tried not to smile. "You know we can hear you two all the way down the corridor, right?"

"It's fine Colonel," Schwartz offered. "Amos is just trying to steal our Major from us."

"After the display I just saw are you kidding? I'm not gonna try, I am gonna steal her! She's too smart and to talented to be wasted on the Air Force. Besides, if she was a marine she'd be a Lt. Colonel by now."

"If that's the best you can offer her I've got you beat," Schwartz offered before turning about and walking out of the control room with Amos stalking off after him. They came face to face with Daniel at the doorway but quickly moved past him.

"What was that about?"

Sam shook her head as she battled against her laughter but she couldn't contain it. "I'm sorry. I never thought I'd meet anyone with your sense of humor Sir, let alone two generals!"

"What were they talking about," Daniel asked as he moved to Jack's side.

"Oh they were joking about General Amos stealing me away from the Air Force," Sam offered with a nonchalant wave as she moved to another console.

The two men watched as Sam got to work, still chuckling to herself. "So …" Daniel started. "Amos wasn't kidding, was he?"

Jack shook his head as they continued to watch Sam practically crawl into the console, half of her body disappearing. "And Schwartz wasn't kidding about the promotion either."

Daniel laughed, drawing Jack's attention away from Sam. "What? You know it's funny, she doesn't have a single clue about what's going on."

"When there's a doohickey involved? Of course not."