In The Pink 2 - Somewhere Over The Rainbow
In The Pink 2 - Somewhere Over The Rainbow
by Julia Alien
Summary: Repost. The team and the aliens eat dinner, with very interesting consequences.
Warning: This story includes Daniel and Jonas in the team.
Category: Humor, Romance, Series
Season: future Season
Pairing: Jack/Sam
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: Stargate SG-1 and its characters are the property of Showtime/Viacom, MGM/UA, Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Productions. I have written this story for entertainment purposes only and no money whatsoever has exchanged hands. No copyright infringement is intended. The original characters, situations, and story are the property of the author(s).
Archived on: 11/02/03
In The Pink 2 - Somewhere over the Rainbow By Julia Alien
A Note From Julia:
OK you read the first part right? Well here's the second part: BEWARE SEASON 5 AND 6 MINOR SPOILERS.
So you know what happens by now right? If you are about to read this story, then please send feedback, I want lots of it. If I don't get any, the story will be rubbish. It's as simple as that. So Read and Feed people!
Thanks for reading, Julia
So SG1 and The High Council of Calorosa were sitting round a table eating strangely coloured food and drinking Tilama, a drink with alcoholic type effects.
After the main course, Lindona, Eghet and Commander Kantono left the table to help prepare for the evening's activities. (Don't worry; we'll see more of them later.)
"So Amarelle, you were saying you have a ball later. What does that entail?" Daniel was very interested in the culture of this planet, as usual, and decided to bore the pants off everyone on the table with a discussion about the customs of the people.
So Amarelle explained, "The festival for the summer solstice lasts for two days. On the day before the solstice, today, as you can see a feast is eaten by everyone in their separate places of abode. The high council feast together."
Daniel was, of course, fascinated. "That sounds..."
"After this feast," she interrupted again, "is a formal ball in the great hall of the palace for the council, their guests and staff, and a large party in the streets for the people. Tomorrow, in the large town square, there is a communal feast with the whole town. Everyone plays his or her part in making the feast enjoyable. Then, on the eve of the solstice, everyone parties until the sun is set. At the time of the sun setting, sacrifices are made, and we worship the Creator and the spirit of the sun. We then sleep under the stars until the sun rises again."
"Umm... Amarelle..." Daniel started. Now it was Jack's turn to interrupt. "Then you tidy up? Ouch!" Colonel O'Neill exclaimed, making a mental note to leave the planet before tidying up time.
"On the contrary Jack. On the morn all the mess has vanished." Carter and O'Neill looked suspiciously at each other, but Amarelle reassured them that there was nothing fishy going on. "Thor uses his technology to clear up for him."
"Wow, why can't he clean up my house once in a while?" Jack was annoyed and intrigued. "How come he does that for you?"
"As I informed you, we make sacrifices."
"Sacrifices?" Daniel looked horror struck. "Human sacrifices???"
"Oh, no Daniel, not human sacrifices." Amarelle looked shocked and reassured him. "We are not so primitive. In return for him saving our planet from the Goa'uld Apophis and placing us in the protected planets treaty, we give him gifts of our labour, surpluses from our harvest."
"Oh for crying out loud," thought Jack, "is there nothing wrong with these people?" He wanted a good fire fight; it was ages since they had one of those. Recently they had only met nice, peaceful people with suicidal tendencies, and ones that crushed up Goa'ulds. (See season 6).
"Did you say, Amarelle, that you worshiped a sun god? Ra? And also who is The Creator?" Daniel was interested still. However, the others were not. Jonas was making puppy eyes at Lara, Teal'c's eyes had glazed over, and Sam and Jack looked like they were about to fall asleep.
So Amarelle just had to explain the most important cultural significance of the sun and the creator in their beliefs. (Brace yourself, here comes the boring bit.) "In the past, we believed in the sun god, yes, Ra. Then Ra deserted us, and Apophis became our "saviour", if you will. We now know this to be untrue. When we worship the sun we are actually paying homage to our ancestors who were made slaves by the sun god. We thank the sun for always lighting our skies and remember that dark time where on our old planet we were forced to live where the sun did not shine." Sam snorted, and then looked very confused. "Sorry," she whispered and went back to counting the flower patterns on the ceiling.
"The Creator," Amarelle continued, throwing a suspicious look at Sam, "is what we believe in now. We believe in a higher being, someone who is on a higher existence to us. The Creator is she who put us on this earth, looks after us, and takes the souls of the dead when they are deceased," she said solemnly, as is she was giving a grand speech.
"Did you say she?" Daniel asked. That description sounded rather like someone glowy he knew.
"Yes, she calls her self `Oma Desala'. Do..." THUMP
Jack's head had just hit the table in a fake sleep, and he was now pretending starting to snore very loudly. Teal's raised his eyebrow, and Sam giggled and nudged him. She then looked very confused again.
"Teal'c, did I just giggle?" asked Sam, looking across the table at him.
"I believe you did Major Carter."
"Oh." She looked blank. "What's in this stuff?"
"Tilama," Lara piped up. This was the first time she had spoken at the table. She had mostly been preoccupied by blushing and batting her eyelashes at Jonas. "Is a drink made of fermented plants and fungi..."
"So basically it's alcohol. Right?" Jack had caught on with the whole interrupting thing.
"I think it is Jack, yes, based on the description and sour taste..." Daniel started. Jack held up his hand. "That's all I needed to know, Dannyboy!" and promptly drunk a whole glass in one breath.
"Um, Sir?"
"Yes, Carter?"
"Are we allowed to drink this, I mean on duty?"
Jack shrugged his shoulders. "Sure. If Ol' Hammy asks us any questions, we'll just say the aliens made us do it."
After that, normal conversation restarted, and Eghet got up and left the table. In a short while, as Sam was bored again with this conversation about ancient culture and Ra...zzzzzzzzzzz....... Sorry, where was I. Oh yes, anyway, she started to hum, "Somewhere over the rainbow." Unfortunately, Jack also had this song stuck in his head and joined in softly on the second verse. (He just knew the words. Don't ask) On the chorus, the words of which Sam knew, she joined in. This amusing and completely unpurposeful rendition got louder and louder. To everyone's surprise, on the reprise of the chorus, who should join in but Teal'c!
Jack and Sam stopped singing and everybody round the table looked at him, stared at him, and blinked at him. Teal'c had carried on, on his own, but realised he was alone in the singing of the song, and stopped, then looked down into the glass of Tilama in his hand.
"I believe this substance is having an effect on me. How irregular."
Jack, Sam and Daniel looked at each other, and then simultaneously raised their left eyebrows.
At this point, Eghet came back in to the room, carrying a large tray of bowls with pink sticky-looking puddings in them.
"This is Shula, our favourite pudding. Try it, it is very sweet to taste." Eghet placed the puddings on the table, and while everyone timidly tried the sticky pink cake, and liked it, Eghet sat down next to Sam, a lot closer than he was before.
"So, Sam, what do you like to do when you're not tagging along with these guys?" To Sam this sounded distinctly like Eghet was trying to come on to her. Very scared, she edged her chair away from him, and into Jack, causing Jack to take an interest in the nonexistent conversation between his 2IC and the freaky scientist guy called "Egghead".
This, however, caused Eghet to creep even closer to Sam. Amarelle did not notice these goings on as she was in deep conversation about rights and humanity blah blah blah.... Teal'c was eating pudding and Jonas was puffing out his chest and batting his eyelids at Lara. Eghet continued with his "chatting up", if you can call it that.
"There are some great things to do round here, I can show you a good time" And he waggled his eyebrows again. Jack managed to turn his laugh cleverly into a loud cough.
"Is something wrong Jack?" Amarelle was slightly concerned.
"No, no, nothing at all, Amarelle." Jack was amused and wanted this to carry on. Sam, though, didn't and elbowed Jack sharply. "Owww!"
"Are you sure there's nothing wrong?" Inquired Amarelle, confused. "You say there is not, yet you cough and complain of pain. Are you ill?"
"Err... no." Sam stared meaningfully at him, willing him to stop Eghet. "But there is something the matter." Jack struggled to find the words through his amusement.
"Egghead here..."
"Eghet" Amarelle corrected
"Yes, him. Well, he seems to be... making advances... (Daniel sniggered) at Carter." It seemed that Amarelle had three main traits, interrupting, hugging and being confused. Right now she was still confused.
"What is wrong with that Jack? Surely it is alright for him to do that. Why do you object? On this planet a man may flirt with a woman unless either of them is married. Is it not so on your planet? Why do you mind so much?"
`Partly because Carter is kicking me under the table,' thought Jack. He quickly thought of the first excuse that came into his head.
"I mind so much because... she is married. To me."
Dum Duh Duuuh (imaginary shock music)
There was a loud clang as Jonas and Daniel simultaneously dropped their "forks" on the floor. Teal'c just raised an eyebrow. `D'oh,' though Jack. He hadn't meant to say that. He could have said she was married to Danny or Jonas, or even Teal'c, but he just had to say him didn't he. Oh, this was gonna be awkward. Sam just blinked at him.
"Ooooohhh." Amarelle now understood (finally). "Is this true Sam? Well, of course it is. I was not aware of this before. I should have seen the signs of course. How you looked at each other and help each other. Of course, that explains it now."
`Holy Hannah!' thought Sam. `This is going to be an interesting few days!' And she promptly drank two glasses of Tilama without taking a breath. Jack also copied her, gulping it down.
Again, I'm sorry but you'll have to wait until the next part- "The Belle of the Ball"
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