Drabbit drabbit, I got muddled and thought I had more time to do the challenge story... until I saw a post saying "it's due!" So I have been scribbling madly, got 1000 odd words done and will hopefully get it finished tomorrow... well, I have to! Luckily, when really pushed I found I could TOO write something on the diplomatic chocolate idea... it won't be great but it will be something.

You would think - and Daniel has not only thought but mentioned it at length, and more than once - that in their secret billion dollar budge, the SGC would find the wherewithal needed to hire one or two professionals.

But you would be wrong, and for years he, and Stan Kovacek (a military attorney, wasn't that close enough?) and the two or three anthropologists who could be trusted offworld were it. For the entire planet. After all, what does a Highly Classified Secret Military Operation normally need with an official diplomatic core anyway? As Jack O'Neill says way too often and with way too self-satisfied a smirk, they can get by with charm, coffee, chocolate... oh, and C-4.

Or not.