Thanks to Wendy again for being an awesome Beta. Sorry this took so long. Wendy had it ready and I was at the beach...back now so hopefully the last 5 chapters will be posted like clockwork. R&R:-P

O'Neill showed up with the girls exactly at noon. Picking up his cell phone he dialed the number for the base, and then dialed Carter's extension. When she didn't answer he hit the star key, and then the extension for the lab where she had been working with Fraiser and Warner.

"Hey, Doc, is Carter in there?" O'Neill asked, getting a negative response on the other end. "You know where she is?" He continued, as he looked at the two girls playing one of those school-girl hand-clapping games with each other. "Nah, that's alright. I got it." Closing his phone he dialed the base's number again and Daniel's extension. "Daniel? Yeah, hey, do ya know where Carter is?" He started. "Yeah, she was supposed to meet the girls and I for lunch," he started to sound frustrated. "Yeah," he fell silent for a moment; listening to Daniel prattle on. "Daniel, never mind." As he hung up the phone, he turned towards the two little girls.

"Hey girls, I'm going to need to go and find her. How would you like to play in the nursery for a little bit while I go grab her?" O'Neill asked, knowing that save calling every extension in the base, this was the fasted way to find Carter.

"Sweet," Liz answered. "I can finish my drawing!"

"Oh, me, too!" Grace followed. O'Neill walked them towards the nursery and signed them in; telling the head teacher that he would be back in little bit before heading back out the door towards the elevator.

He made his way down the hallway towards the control room to find Carter, at least he hoped she was there since Daniel seemed pretty sure that's where she said she was headed when she left his office. Walking up the steps he saw her hunched over the computer talking to Walter.

"Carter, you forget something?" O'Neill said in his best commanding voice.

"Sir?" she questioned, as she looked at her watch. "Oh, Sorry, Sir. Where are the girls?"

"Upstairs," he answered.

"Oh, do I have time to finish this?" she asked. "It will take 10 minutes, I promise."

"That's fine," he said, as he noted the time, he sat down in one of the vacant chairs in the room and started to spin around.

5 minutes later Hammond walked down the stairs from the briefing room and started to talk to one of the technicians in the back of the room. O'Neill looked at his watch and realized he may have to pull her away from her computer. The phone rang in the room and O'Neill turned to see Walter answer the phone.

"Sir, it's NORAD," Walter answered. Hammond took the phone from his outreached hand.

"Thank you, Sergeant," Hammond said, as he put the phone to his ear. "Hammond. I see. Thank you, Major." He handed the phone back to Walter and then turned towards Carter.

"Major, I hope you have good news on the antidote because NORAD just spotted 7 ships dropping into orbit," He told her, with a serious tone.

"It's a match. In fact before I came here, Dr. Warner was sending the formula to the CDC," Carter answered.

"Good, now I have a phone call to make to the President," Hammond started, as he started to walk up the spiral staircase. "Sergeant, have SG-12 in my office in 10 minutes; we need to send messages to the Asgard, the Tok'ra and to Bra'tac. Carter, O'Neill; briefing room, 20 minutes."

"I guess lunch is out, sir," Carter stated simply.

"I guess so. I'll call the nursery and see if they can watch the girls for a bit longer," O'Neill said, as he made his way towards the door.

"Thank you, sir."