[for Daniel]

[gate_expert]

She'd gone for a run first thing, spent the rest of the morning working on Ba'al's computer core--still nothing useful--and finally decided to give up on that for the day and go and see Daniel. They had some catching up to do, not that Sam thought she needed an excuse to see a friend

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[theunascended]

He wasn't occupied. In fact, he'd started the morning the same way that she had. He'd gone for a run and had stayed inside with a shower and food instead of heading home. He was surprised - and pleased - to see Sam at his front door when he finally made the effort to head home. "Hey!" He waved. "I have, unfortunately, turned into a morning person. Long hours with no lights in huts tend to do that."

Even with electricity, they didn't have lights. Only what they could filch from the Compound without anyone noticing.

[gate_expert]

Sam had pretty much always been a morning person, and if she hadn't been, the Air Force would have cured her of it, so she just grinned. God, she'd missed him.

"I just came to say hi," she said, with a sheepish half-shrug. She had missed her friends, yes, but she was also very quickly going nuts with boredom. Sam liked work, and there wasn't much in the way of her kind of work to do here other than futz with Ba'al's computer.

[theunascended]

"Just to say hi." Daniel shook his head and laughed. "I'm guessing you're probably bored to tears and you haven't quite gotten to the point where you're willing to hit up Rodney for something to do. Am I right? I'm your fallback plan," he teased.

"Did you have something in mind or...have you been down to the waterfall, yet?"

[gate_expert]

"Damn, you're onto my evil master plan," she said, with a fake sigh of disappointment. "Okay, yes, I'm bored, but I'm not desperate, and you are definitely not a fallback plan."

She shook her head. "I haven't looked around that much yet. Why don't you show me?" At the very least it could be a new and interesting detour for her morning run.