Chapter 13

"Daniel, you lucky son of a… Ouch!" Jack said as the nurse put another stitch into the back of his leg where the rock had fallen. Daniel was lying in the bed next to him in the infirmary back at Stargate Command.

"Well I don't know how lucky having two broken legs, a sprained wrist, three cracked ribs and a massive concussion is," Daniel replied.

"A lot luckier than being dead," Jack said. "Oh wait, that's right, you never die!"

"Is that why you were refusing to leave, because you knew that I have a habit of not dying?" Daniel inquired.

"I said it before, and I'll say it again, I won't buy it that your dead. You just don't know how to die."

"That sounds like something that men have wanted to be able to say for centuries now," Grissom said as he got off of his cot with the help of a set of crutches. Sara and Greg had been beside him and were now walking just ahead of him towards Jack and Daniel, as well as Carter.

"Well one of these days I'm sure to prove you wrong. What with all the messes you get me in," Daniel said.

"Messes I get you in? Boy do you have your facts backwards," Jack replied as Sam tried not to laugh from where she sat.

"Well at least we all made it out of there," Sara said. "That's more than can be said for most of the Tok'ra."

"Yes, it's a good thing that most of them weren't at the base, but away on missions when the attack came. But this coupled with the last attack upon the Tok'ra at Revanna has drastically cut into their numbers. They are a dying race," Daniel said.

"It's really is sad, they seemed like such a wonderful people," said Sara.

"Well, once you get to know them, you get over that," Jack said.

"You have to admit that having two distinct consciousnesses within one body is very intriguing," Grissom said. "It's no wonder that, given the opportunity, Agent Mulder chose to become a part of that."

"Hey, where are Agent's Mulder and Scully anyway?" Greg asked.

"They chose to stay with the remaining Tok'ra to help search for a new home base and to help spread the news to the remaining Tok'ra who are still out there," Sam answered. "Agent Scully even said that she may one day even take a Tok'ra symbiote herself, though she didn't sound very optimistic about it."

"Yeah, she didn't strike me as the type who would like to share her body with someone else. And I don't think that she liked having to share her partner's body with someone else for that matter," Greg chuckled.

"Well, whatever she decides, she at least is going to remain with Mulder and the Tok'ra for some time."

"Well, that at least takes care of them talking, now what are we going to do about you three?" Jack asked the CSI's.

They looked at each other with a conspiringly glance before Grissom answered, "We have already discussed this matter and what it would take to keep us quite."

"Oh you have, have you?" Jack said skeptically.

"Yes, you see we figured that the body of the man we found must have been some type of spy sent by one of those Goa'ulds," Sara said.

"And the body of the man that appeared to have been a jumper probably was his informant. Since we know that the jumper was a lieutenant at Nellis Air Force Base, we figure that there must be something Stargate related going on there," Greg picked up.

Jack and Sam exchanged a look before Jack said to her, "Do you want to tell them?"

"Not unless you do, sir."

"Be my guest,"

"Alright, yes Nellis is where we are storing and experimenting with all of the technology that we bring back through the stargate."

"Which is what we hoped," Grissom said. "Now since we have already gotten top clearance, we have figured that the best way to keep us quite about the whole thing is to involve us in it."

Sara picked up the thread next, "Since we all three live and work so close to the base, we thought what better for three scientists to do when they get some time off or are bored then to go down to the local Air Force base and experiment with some alien technology?"

"So I take it that you want to be able to be included in the scientific staff at Nellis then?" Jack asked.

"Yup, top clearance and able to mess with all the really neat toys," Greg said.

"And, in exchange for this you three will keep your mouths shut about the whole Stargate program?"

"Yes. We will not tell a soul of what you have at Nellis or here under Cheyenne Mountain," Grissom answered.

Jack hesitated for a moment as he tried to decide if this was really worth it. "Jack," Daniel said. "I think they certainly deserve this. I mean, Greg here may have been the reason that I am here at all and Grissom and Sara are the ones who came up with the idea of how to get you two out of your cave in."

"Daniel's right, sir. I think that they have proved that they are all fast thinkers and highly intelligent as well as trustworthy," Sam put in.

"Alright," Jack finally said. "You can have your clearance and jobs at Nellis. But if you so much as think too loud about our little operation here, you'll be working in Siberia before you know it."

"Yes sir," Sara and Greg said together and Grissom said, "You have our word."

"Now clear out, I want at least two hours of uninterrupted sleep before I have to go back on duty. You guys have gotten me into a bigger mess then even Daniel can and I am going to need to sleep this off," Jack said.

"I shall take you to the surface where a car is waiting to take you to your plane," Teal'c said as he entered the room.

"Thank you Teal'c" Sara said as she, Greg, and Grissom filed out of the room.

"Teal'c, Greg," Daniel called.

"Yes Daniel Jackson?" Teal'c said as Greg stopped and turned back to look at Daniel.

"I just wanted to say thank you for staying to get me out of there. I wouldn't be alive now if you hadn't."

"You're welcome, Dr. Jackson," Greg answered.

"You would have done the same for me," Teal'c replied. He then turned and motioned for the three CSI's to walk in front of him to the elevator at the end of the hall.