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"Jack?" Daniel looked at him. "What's going on here?"
"I'm afraid I'm not the Colonel, Daniel. I'm Sam ... "
"But ... What? ..." There wasn't anything else Daniel could say and he just looked back and forth between Jack and Sam.
"Never expected to see you speechless, Danny-Boy. For that alone, the whole thing has yet been worth", came a sarcastically comment from Sam. But it sounded so not like her.
"You really don't joke?", asked Janet, also totally incredulous.
"Do I look as if I was joking?", was answered in an absolutely annoyed tone they all knew quite well, only the voice didn't fit. They all would have sworn that it was the colonel's words, but the words clearly came from Sam.
"Okay, just so I do understand correctly ...", Jacob said, still confused, and he looked at Sam. "You are Colonel O'Neill?"
"Yes."
"And you are Sam?", he asked and turned to Jack.
"Yes, Dad. I don't know exactly how this happened, but it's me."
"How can we reverse it?", asked Teal'c. He had long only listened to the conversation. And not only Teal'c was interested in the answer to this question, that's why now five people looked at the person who was responsible for the whole mess: Anise.
"Honestly, I do not know. I cannot say why it was not working properly. The computer displays no interference ..."
"Well, but that obviously isn't the result that was expected, right?!", asked a completely unnerved Jack and Sam's voice dripped full with scorn.
"I assure you, Colonel, that actually should not have happened. I will check the computer to find out what happened. And then I hopefully will find a solution..."
"Hopefully?", was now said by a mix-up of different voices.
AN: Despite the body exchange - Sam continues to be Sam, just in Jack s body and the other way around. Unfortunately, I can't exclude certain confusion ;-)
"But you can undo it?", Sam wanted to know.
"I hope so. Maybe you can help me with the error diagnostics?", Anise asked.
"No, she cannot!", Jack said with a tone that allowed no contradiction. The others stared at him.
"But Sir, I might ..."
"No, Carter. Anise has screwed up and she will be the one to fix it. We'll return to earth and see that we somehow teach Hammond this news." With that the matter was done for Jack and he stood up.
"Jack, where are you going?", asked Daniel.
"Away..." Sam Carter's body furiously stumped by the others leaving the laboratory and a sinister murmur was heard. So, Daniel and Teal'c decided to follow Jack quickly.
Janet meanwhile was at Sam's side, whose memories now apparently were in the body of Colonel O'Neill. She still couldn't believe it.
"How are you, Sam?", the doctor asked.
"Um, actually quite good. Almost normal. I know everything I knew before - I think. Only that it's not my body." With the last words Sam looked down at herself. That really was kind of strange. "Anise, I'll try to come back. But the Colonel is right. First we have to go back to earth. Maybe you're able to find a hint of a solution while we're gone", said Sam and looked at Anise.
"I very much hope so. I am honestly sorry about what has happened. And I will try anything possible, so we can get your memories back into your bodies."
"We stay in touch." Sam nodded to Anise once more and then also left the room, followed by Janet.
On their way to the gate, they all were silent. No one really dared to say anything. But what should they have said to that? They all were kept in their thoughts and not a few wondered silently what would happen if this situation wasn't able to be undone.
When they exited the stargate they were directly welcomed by General Hammond.
"Welcome back SG 1, Dr Fraiser." He nodded at them all. "Nice to see you safe and sound. Debriefing in one hour, Colonel." Hammond already was to turn around and walk away when he heard Major Carter's voice.
"Yes, Sir", Major Carter replied. "There's only one small problem, Sir."
He turned back to them. "And that would be, Major?"
"Well, Sir, I'm not Major Carter but... Colonel O'Neill", Jack said quietly. He didn't want the other soldiers in the room to hear these things. Hammond looked confused and with big eyes to Major Carter. Then he frowned.
"What do you mean, Major?", Hammond asked.
"Well, Sir, unfortunately something went wrong in the experiment", Jack explained.
"That's probably a bad joke!", Hammond answered angrily and looked back and forth between his two officers.
"No, sir. Unfortunately not", replied Colonel O'Neill. "While the attempt to download data from my brain to transfer our own memories back to each of us, unfortunately the false memories have been uploaded into our minds. I have the memories of Major Carter, Sir."
Hammond was still looking back and forth angrily and with increasing confusion between his two officers. He still thought this to be a rather bad joke. But when he looked at the others and saw the concern on the faces of Dr Jackson, Dr Fraiser and even Teal'c, he took into consideration that it perhaps wasn't a joke.
"You really mean it? Seriously? You have the memories of the other?", he asked incredulously and turned to Jack and Sam.
"Yes, Sir", replied Colonel O'Neill, in the body of Major Carter.
"Okay, go change your clothes and then to the infirmary. Dr Fraiser, I want a detailed report. Meeting in two hours. Dammit, I want to know exactly how this could have happen." Hammond turned around and left the gate room, shaking his head.
SG1 and Dr. Fraiser also left the gate room and made their way to the locker room. Once there Sam and Jack had to face the first challenges. As Jack was about to enter the men's locker room - like he always did after a mission - he was held back by Daniel.
"What?", Jack asked stroppy.
"Um, I think you shouldn't go in there, Jack", Daniel said and looked down at him. "What shall the colleagues think when you enter the men's locker room in the form of Sam?" Two blue eyes looked confused at Daniel.
"He's right, Sir", Sam now piped up.
Puzzled blue eyes looked into knowing brown eyes.
"For me, the same is true", she noted, adding that it wouldn't work the other way around neither - that Jack went into the women's locker room and she into the men's locker room. So Sam therefore suggested that they give their equipment to their friends and that they should give them their uniforms. To change they could then use their quarters. So, said and done. After they had their stuff they made their way to their quarters. At level 23 Jack wanted to get out, after all, here was his quarters. But Sam stopped him.
"What?", Jack asked again. Why the hell did everyone hold him back from doing anything?
"I think you should go to my quarters to change." Two big blue eyes looked at Sam. That was really strange but at the same time kind of fascinating. Her own eyes looked at her confused.
"Why this?"
"Well, what shall the others think when they see Major Carter entering the quarters of Colonel O'Neill and the other way around? The rumor mill wouldn't come to a stop. And before they all know what's going on, the whole thing comes to the boil."
Despite all the misery Jack now started to grin and he whispered to Sam "They wouldn't be that wrong".
Sam rolled her eyes and said, "I go now and you go on to level 22, Sir". So Sam got out of the elevator on level 23 and walked into Jack's quarters. And Jack kept out of mischief and went on for another level, just as Sam had told him to do.
After changing their clothes Sam and Jack went to the infirmary. Janet did her checkup and couldn't, at least, detect any physically abnormalities. About the psyche of them both she didn't want to speculate.
An hour later they all met in the conference room and Hammond directly wanted to know what exactly had happened. Sam began to explain and Hammond looked surprised and confused at the same time to the person who just told him everything in detail. He still couldn't believe to hear such things from the mouth of Jack O'Neill. Even if he had somehow understood that all knowledge of Major Carter stuck in the colonel's brain, the sight of a shop talking Jack O'Neill was just hard to take.
"And what can we do now?", asked Hammond in the round.
Janet reported that both Colonel O'Neill and Major Carter were physically well and mentally they currently showed no abnormalities. Sam reported then that the Tok'ra were going to analyze the whole process again to find out how it had come to this situation. Once they have sufficient information they would try to reverse the whole process. Until then they had to live with the current situation. Sam also asked to return to the Tok'ra in a few days to support Anise in analyzing and troubleshooting. Hammond didn't mind and agreed to the request. Then he let them all dismissed. He'd probably have to make a call. And he really could have lived without the paperwork he was forced to do now.
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