this is the last chapter of this story... hope you like it!
The man had gone to drastic measures and he knew it. Worst of all, his team knew it. The man in question sat in his office, idly passing time by going over translations from some planet… out there.
"Daniel-"
"DON'T even say a word. Get over here," Daniel ordered. Jack followed blindly to a lie detector. The Black Ops colonel smiled wryly, he did know how to trick these things… especially if they were cheap enough. What were the chances that Daniel would know a good one from a bad one anyway?
"Sit."
"Yes sir, Dr. Archaeologist sir." He sat in the seat provided as Daniel started. "Do you promise not to speak in third person around me ever again?"
Jack shrugged. "Sure." The needle moved.
"Do you swear that you won't get Sam or Teal'c involved in this either?"
"Yep." The needle moved again.
"Okay Jack, get up. Um, results please doctor?"
The doctor smiled slyly. "You old dog you, you lied on all of them sir! You thought you could fool this machine… no can do." The doc pet the machine lovingly. Well… that was weird. Anyway, how had he failed? Jack snatched the paper from Daniel's hands and looked at it.
He was right; Jack had failed the test completely. Daniel looked up and whined.
"Jaaa-ack!" By then, the man in question was out the door.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
"Carter, don't get near Daniel's office."
"Why not sir?"
"He's got a incredible lie detector in there."
"A what!" she exclaimed startled. What was Daniel doing with a lie detector in his office?
"Yeah… he's checking all of us."
"Did he get you?"
Jack nodded vigorously. "Oh yeah. That means you too Teal'c. You stay away from Daniel."
Once again, the Tau'ri had him confused. "If he is not happy, should we not go and make things more pleasurable?" The tilted eyebrow came with that one all right.
"No…" Sam trailed off realizing the double meaning in Teal'c's words. She coughed to clear her throat. "Um Teal'c, you might want to rephrase your sentence." The Jaffa looked confused and shifted a bit. "Uh… we would say, make things better…. Not more pleasurable. That means something else entirely."
"I believe I understand Major Carter. Thank you." He bowed his head a bit.
"No problem. Now, back to Daniel."
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Three knocks came at the door at the same time. Not Jack again. He went to open his lab door and almost had three people knocking on his face.
"You guys came all at the same time so you couldn't be tested right?" he asked wearily.
"Nah, just to see you, is that a problem?"
"Not at all, unless you speak in the third person."
"Sounds good."
"Indeed." Daniel smiled at Teal'c. That deep voice seemed to make him a bit happier than everyone else.
"Now," Daniel rubbed his hands together, "don't we have a debriefing of some sort in a couple minutes?"
Jack and Sam checked their watches and to their surprise, he was right. So the team headed off down the hallways of the SGC to the Debriefing Room.
"Have a seat SG-1, be there in a sec," Hammond ordered as he headed back into his office to finish a conversation with someone. Finally, he popped out to start. "So the planet P75-686, what do we have major?"
Sam talked for a while before actually explaining, in Jack-simple terms, why exactly they were going there.
"WHAT! That's crazy if I understand you right!" Jack protested.
"No sir, it's not really. See if-"
"Major, Hammond thinks Jack's right. It's a bit to dangerous to go in without gearing up properly." Daniel started at the general in disbelief.
"Hammond thinks that we should send a probe through first to-"
"Gods, NO! Not you too sir!" Daniel ran out, hands in hair. The military minds and Jaffa smiled profusely at each other. What fun!