“You'll have a damn long list by the end of it,” Caleb joked right back, he still had his own list of stuff he didn't quite believe he'd seen, it had gotten a lot longer since he'd gone out to Atlantis.
He did however nod in acknowledgement of the Airman's comment about keeping each other safe, that was probably the one big thing Caleb had found with everyone new he had met at the SGC. No matter there skills, profession etc., they all wanted to keep people safe, it seemed that, that was a standard requirement to join the programme. He had the same thing, wanting to keep people safe, but his was tucked away safely, he only showed the skilled, charming weapons expert people had come to know and expect of him. Well everyone but Claire, but that was different and not something he was going to divulge at the moment.
Caleb smiled at Chris as he replied, “Yeah keep away from the Gate, gives us time, unless they come in ships of course,” he didn't mean to come across as sarcastic, his sarcastic side very rarely showed, maybe it was all the walking they were doing. It did feel like they had been walking for a few hours now.
“Sorry, didn't mean that,” he said, “I supposed they keep us away from the Gate so that it's not obvious we're here, there's plenty out there that have ships though, so just because we've walked for a while, don't go thinking it's completely safe.”
Caleb wasn't meaning to scare the new recruit, but he'd seen a few people go around thinking everything was fine only to land themselves in trouble, damn he'd done the same when he'd first joined. Gone off world that first time, gotten himself a one way ticket to the infirmary, because he had been a bit too cocky, a bit too full of excitement.
It seemed that Chris had done talking for a moment, especially if the coin he was flipping around was anything to go by, Caleb watched as the piece of metal seemed to flow almost smoothly across the other mans hands. Caleb himself had never picked up a habit like that, sure he was pretty good with his hands, he had to be, but he'd never found himself fiddling with anything like that, not even in a nervous tick kind of way.
He did however have to laugh as Chris said it took the fun out of a new place if you had a long drive, “Trust me you get use to that,” he said, “A long walk to and from the stargate, it keeps you fit,” he was joking of course.
At the question about whether he had anybody or not, Caleb realised he hadn't actually ever been asked that before, everyone knew of him and Claire, or rather everyone knew the rumours about him, then when he'd started going out with Claire it had just sort of become common knowledge on the base. He forgot that there would be new people coming into the programme that wouldn't know of him, his reputation or what had happened in the gym a few years ago.
So yeah he was kind of stumped for a moment, him and Claire had always kept things discreet, well as discreet as they could, and he didn't want to lie to Chris, but he didn't want to tell about his relationship either. Or at least not name, names so to speak, it was an odd place to be.
“I will tell you this, there is someone,” he answered, almost tripping over his words, “someone very close to me, but before that, lets just say you don't want to sleep with a Jaffa, they leave bruises.” he smiled at Chris, there that was good enough.
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