The small, quiet red-head looked up when she noticed a shadow loomed over her. Her face broke into a smile. "Jack!" she said excitedly as she got up and ran to him and threw her arms around him.

Jack smiled as he absorbed the impact and reached down and hugged the girl. "Hi there, Sweetie."

"What are you doing here?" Cassie asked, looked up at him. Suddenly her face got serious and she pulled back and glanced around. "Where's Mom?" She asked anxiously.

Jack kneeled down to look her in the eye. Cassie saw a strange look, almost as if he was in pain when he kneeled. She heard a popping noise come from his knees.

"Well Cass, she is still at work and asked if I could pick you up from school." Jack replied.

Cassie looked thoughtful a moment. As if she was deciding she was getting the whole story. Already, since coming here, she had noticed there were times that she was not told everything. At first, it had really bothered her. Her mom had once told her it was to protect her from as much of the nastiness of the universe as possible and hopefully have a normal childhood from now on. Cassie was not sure how much more nasty things could be than losing her entire family, her entire planet to the Goa'uld and then be turned into a bomb. But Janet had quickly picked up on the fact that Cassie, who had bonded with all of SG-1, got very agitated and withdrawn if she found out something had happened to them, so she made a point to protect Cassie from some of what went on at the SGC. Of course none of SG-1 dared do anything but follow the diminutive little doctor's example, less they incur her wrath.

"But she is okay, right?" Cassie asked, anxiety creeping in her voice.

Jack smiled at her as he took her hand and led her to his truck. "Yes, Sweetie, she is fine. She just had to finish treating someone and turn it over to the next shift and she didn't want you sitting here wondering."

"Oh." Cassie replied. She looked thoughtful again. "What about Sam?"

Jack laughed. "Everyone is fine. In fact, Sa—Carter is headed home as we speak to change, then she is coming over to visit with you and you mom when Doc gets done."

Cassie smiled. She glanced up at Jack. She had noticed his almost using Sam's first name. "So….you are going to visit with us too right?"

"I will probably give you women a night to yourselves." Jack replied.

"Come on Jack, you can stay. Besides, Sam would probably love to have you stay."

Jack unlocked the door on the truck. "Cassie, I am sure Sam wants to visit your with you and your Mom. She doesn't want me in the way."

Cassie noticed his face was beginning to flush. "Jack, we could watch a movie. All of us." She already had it in her mind how she was going to get Jack and Sam to sit together on the couch.

Jack sighed as he helped Cassie into the truck and handed her backpack to her. "We will see, Cass."

As they drove Jack contemplated how to get out of sitting and watching a movie with Sam while Cassie sat contentedly looking out the window. As they came up to a stop sign, a mischievous gleam came to her eye. "Sam is pretty, isn't she?"

Jack slammed on the brakes and the truck skidded to a halt. "What?"

Cassie glanced over at Jack. "Oh, I just said Sam is very pretty, isn't she?"

Jack looked at her closely, trying to figure out where this was going. Cassie merely looked back innocently. The car behind Jack beeped and he was forced to return his attention to the road as he pulled away. "Uh, yes, she is pretty."

Cassie noticed he shifted uncomfortably in his seat. She could tell the feelings that Jack and Sam had for each other. She did not understand why they went to such great lengths to hide it. All her mom had said was they had to be professional, whatever that meant. Well as far as Cassie was concerned, they needed to be happy and she was to going to do what she could to help them see they were happiest together.

Since Janet had made Cassie memorize the route to the house, she noticed Jack turned several blocks before the turn to her house.

He smiled. "Ice Cream?"

"You betcha!"