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Introduction to Archaeology, 5th Period

The TV is once again in pride of place, and there's a different selection of snacks and soda.

"Okay, today, we're going to be watching Time Team: Live in Canterbury," Daniel explained. "Time Team is a popular British show, which deals with the process of field archaeology in the UK.

A bit of background on Canterbury. It's a cathedral city in south-east Kent. It's home to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is the primate of the Church of England.

In Latin, it was known as Durovernum Cantiacorum, and it lay at the junction of roads from three of their ports; Regulbium (Reculver), Dubris (Dover) and Lemanis (Lympne)

The Cathedral was where Thomas a Becket was murdered in 1170. After this, Canterbuy became a major pilgrimage site, which lead, or leads," Daniel looked slightly confused at the tenses. "Chaucer to write The Canterbury Tales.

Okay, I think I've talked enough."

The lights were dimmed, and the show started.

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Blair signs in

Molly signed in.

Pippi signs in.

~~Ignore any resemblence the host (http://www.unofficialtonyrobinsonwebsite.co.uk/) may bear to that bloke who works at All and Sundries in town~~

Pippi watches the video and, while the reenactments by the school children look like fun, she's having trouble staying focused.

[[ooc: The mun may have seen an episode of this show from another site and while it wasn't exactly garbage I was not exactly impressed at the producers attempts to interject some "drama" into the dig. If this is that show, Pippi feels pretty much the same way.

[[ooc: Time Team's not actually that bad. From what I remember (I don't really watch TV!), it's pretty accurate on what archaeology is like. Although sometimes the trying to solve a mystery bit can get old pretty fast.

Uh. No pun intended *g*]]

[[ooc: Yes that was it exactly. In the episode I watched they were exivating a Roman ceramics "factory" and they had a guy in a building somewhere away from the site making a replica of a type of bowl the factory produced. They kept cutting away from the dig to this guy making the bowl, which was pretty cool, but it was like... "The site has to shut down in three days! WILL HE GET THE BOWL DONE IN TIME?"

And watching the process of how the bowl was made was cool and illustrated very well what it was they were excavating, but all the drama about the bowl was completely unnecessary.

[[ooc: make that "excavating"

[[ooc: We're apparently still not at the point where academic programs can simply just be academic unfortunately. Probably because an actual pure archaeology show would bore a lot of the potential viewing audience to death!]]

[[ooc: Yeah, I suppose you have to do sometehing to mollify the "money people". To bad "money people" tend to be stupid. :)

Make that "something".

I'm going back to bed.

...

Sam was waiting outside the door to Daniel's office, hands in her pockets, no books or coffee to be seen. She still hadn't slept.

Daniel glanced up from shuffling his books around. "Hey, Sam."

"Hey. You busy? I could come back."

"I'm never too busy for you," Daniel assured her. "Come on in. Do you want a soda, or something?"

Sam shook her head and sat down in one of the chairs, pulling her knees up under her chin.

"Jack's an ass." Unfortunately, this wasn't the first conversation they'd had that started this way.

Daniel moved out from behind his desk, and crossed across to Sam. He placed his hand gently on her shoulder. "What's he done now? Or not done?"

"Nothing. I haven't seen him in weeks. So I," she blinked back tears. For whatever reason, telling Daniel made it real. "I ended it."

"Sam, I..." Daniel blinked. He really wasn't good at this sort of thing. He moved his hand, wrapping his arm around her shoulders and pulling her close. "I know you won't have done this without thinking it through, and believing it's for the best for you, so I'm proud of you. I can't imagine how difficult that must have been for you."

Sam leaned her forehead on his shoulder, taking comfort from him. Normally being smaller sucked, but at moments like this, she really enjoyed being teenage-sized again.

And his dryer must be broken--the shoulder of his shirt was damp. She should look into fixing that. She chuckled, wetly. "Until a few minutes ago, I was actually okay with it."

Daniel reached across to his desk and presented her with a box of tissues. "You will continue to be okay with it," he said. "You're amazing, Sam, and there will be other men who will treat you like you deserve."

Sam took a tissue and sniffled into it, then crumpled it into her hand. "I know. And you're not alone in thinking that," she smiled slightly, "but you know what we went through to get here, so you really know what it means."

She lobbed the tissue towards the garbage can. "But enough about me. I haven't seen you in forever. What's going on?"

Daniel nodded thoughtfully. "I know," he said. "But you got to end it on yourterms, which should hopefully make it easier. It's not like he died unexpectedly." His voice cracked slightly, and he inwardly berated himself for bringng that up. "And anything I can do to help, you know where to come, okay? If you need a night away from the dorms, or a shoulder to cry on... anything."

"Uh, the usual really," he said. "I cooked for Janet on Valentine's Day, and didn't poison her, so that's always good. Was called back to the SGC last week to help save the world again. Tried to catch up on some of my journal reading, which didn't go so well. The boring life of Daniel Jackson, I'm afraid." He just grinned, seemingly quite happy with his boring life.

Sam wasn't completely convinced that she'd ended things on her terms, but she didn't want to debate that.

"I know," she said, wincing slightly at the mention of what Janet and Daniel had gone through. At least it wasn't that bad. It was good to get some perspective on the situation. "And I do know. It wouldn't be the first time I've borrowed your shoulders, would it?"

She laughed and turned her head to the side, looking up at him. "Yes, not poisoning Janet is definitely the way to go if you're trying to make a favorable impression. Wait, you had to help save the world again? What happened?"

She sat up straight, expecting a full ~~handwavey~~ rundown. "And you wouldn't know boring if it bit you."

Daniel grinned. "That's what being a big brother is all about, or so I hear," he said.

"And there were no rings, and no freaking out." He sounded proud of himself there.

Daniel ~~handwaved~~ the rundown involving an Ancient artifact. He grinned. "I don't know. I think I could learn to like boring. A nice house in the suburbs somewhere. A family."

"I'm impressed," Sam said. Had she considered it, she would have been positive that Daniel would have done something like that. "And you're a great brother, even if you are still younger."

"Well, I'm glad that turned out okay, though I really wish they'd give us the head's up when stuff like that happens," Sam said after he'd finished his explanation. "You? In the suburbs?" She started giggling.

Daniel looked slightly embarrassed. "Thanks. And it's easy to be a great brother when you've got such a great sister." He hugged her again. Because he could.

"It's a good team there. As long as you don't know that something's happened, then they're doing their jobs correctly," he said. Daniel pouted. "It could happen. I could be a stay-at-home dad quite happily."

She hugged him back, tightly. And there was maybe more sniffling.

"I know how it works," Sam muttered, "I just wish it didn't seem like they'd forgotten us completely out here. Our bodies may be younger, but our brains aren't." She hugged him again. "I'm sure you could. Just you, your kids, and a whole bunch of dusty artifacts they keep trying to eat."

"It'll be okay," Daniel assured her. "These things seem to have a funny way of working out."

"I'm sure they've not forgotten you," he said. "Maybe they think it's easier if you don't have the weight of the world continually on your shoulders. It'll give you a chance to live this part of your life over again without all the difficult questions you'd be getting back at Cheyenne."

"Ah ha," Daniel said triumphantly. "That would be what the office would be for. The locked office!"

Sam sighed. She supposed if anyone would know about things working out, it would be Daniel. "I don't know that the load's lightened any, y'know? Now I just worry more, since I don't have any idea of what's being done."

She giggled again. "Okay, right now? You're too cute for words. And you're no better about remembering to lock your office than I am."

"Well, just take the fact that you're still here as a good sign, okay?" Daniel said. "You trust yourself, right? It's not as if there's not a you there still.

And I'll try and keep you in touch, whenever they drag me out there to translate something."

He blushed slightly. "Thankfully, opening doors will be beyond them for the first few years," he nodded. "And I will have to learn."

"Thanks. I hate being so out of touch. It feels weird."

Sam nodded. Yeah, too cute. "You will. Especially since I bet any kids of yours ~~and Janet's~~ will have a tendency to get into stuff that looks interesting. I predict a very high curiosity factor."

Daniel nodded. "Even though I do go back now and then, I'm not a part of it anymore. I'm a visitor, which is odd.

But if you made me choose between here and there, at the moment, I'd pick here."

Daniel looked thoughtful. "Yes, that is true. Although maybe I'd be able to teach them early not to touch Daddy's artifacts..."

"I don't know which I'd pick," she mused, "each has its pluses and minuses."

Outright laughter now. "Good luck with that, Daniel. Seriously." She'd have to share that with Janet and Elizabeth sometime. Or maybe just Elizabeth, since Janet would probably run for the hills if she were to think about kids right now. "You're how old? We can't get you to stop doing it."

Daniel shrugged and said simply "Janet." For him, she was reason enough for anything.

Daniel pouted. "That's why I'm going to train them from a young age," he insisted.

It was entirely possible that Daniel needed more experience with children.

"Point." Yeah, if she had to give up Janet and Charlie, not to mention all the other great people she'd met here...well, maybe she wasn't going to be in such a big hurry to leave either.

Sam kept right on laughing. Yep, she'd definitely have to share this gem with someone. Once she recovered, she got out of the chair and hugged him again. "Thanks, I needed that. I'm gonna go, but don't be a stranger, okay?"

Daniel looked slightly perplexed at all of Sam's laughter. "You're welcome?"

He hugged her back. "I'll try not to be. And remember, if you need me - day or night, you know where I am."

[[ooc: I now have such a great desire for Daniel to have to babysit a small child for the weekend or something...]]

"I do know. But I tend to forget." She shrugged. "You know how it goes."

[ooc: I share that great desire with you. Now all we need is a small ~~victim~~ child.]

Daniel nodded thoughtfully. "I do," he agreed. "So, I'll just have to keep reminding you."

[[ooc: I might be able to find one. From a random throwaway thing ages ago *goes hunting*]]

"Deal." She walked out of his office, feeling a great deal lighter.

[ooc: *suddenly very, very ~~scared~~ gleeful*]

Canterbury was chosen because I used to live right near it :)

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