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This story is, at its heart, a romance between John and ELizabeth (Sheir, Sparky, whatever you choose to call it) with a tiny spattering of Sam/Daniel (SG-1 characters) on the side, but, nothing overly overt.
The Daedalus had already started on its way back, the eighteen day journey having begun as soon as the ship was ready to make it all the way back to the Milky Way, and John and Elizabeth were busy assembling the files that they needed to bring back to Earth with them while Rodney and the other scientists worked feverishly to identify as many artefacts as possible before Rodney, Elizabeth, John, and Carson went back to Earth to report to the SGC and bring back increased staff in every department.
�I thought we sent all this stuff in that burst transmission a few weeks ago, the one with the letters and everything,� John complained as he loaded a large shipping crate with files that he was sure Elizabeth had already sent to Earth in data stream form.
�Most of it was, but Colonel Carter sent a message with the troops. Apparently some of the data was somehow corrupted. All our personal messages were fine and were passed along after checking to make sure that no one let anything classified slip�Zelenka�s was destroyed, and one of the Botanists� message had to be edited a little in the middle�but some of the actual files, especially mission reports, were incomplete or garbled in some way. Colonel Carter thinks it might have something to do with the compression program we used and the program that they used to open the files� I didn�t quite follow, to be honest. Unfortunately, since she wasn�t specific about which files were messed up, we�ve got to bring them all.�
John cursed before getting to his feet, his back cracking loudly as he stretched his arms over his head. �That is not normal,� Elizabeth frowned, cringing at the sound.
�A couple of hard landings and a pretty bad crash� I�m lucky this is all I have to deal with,� John said.