Jack and SG-1 were playing ball with the twins in the park, the older man frequently picking up one of the twins under his arm and tackling his friends, resulting in a lot of laughs, and cries of 'Jaack!', 'Sir!', 'General!', and 'O'Neill!'. Vala joined in for short periods, as long as her staff blast wound would allow.

When Jack sat down, breathless but still laughing, Daniel sat down next to him. Watching the rest of SG-1 and the twins, Jack said as he calmed down,

"I haven't had this much fun since I antagonised Baal… to be honest, that wasn't fun anyway…"

"Yeah… I imagine."

Jack said, suddenly coy,

"So… just a couple of months left… I trust I'm invited…"

Daniel chuckled, replying,

"Don't be an ass Jack… of course you're invited… if it gets off the ground. I get the feeling that something else is going to come up."

The younger man hugged his knees to his chest as he stared unseeing into the grass in front of him. Jack smoothed Daniel's hair back as he replied,

"Well, as Grandma O'Neill used to say, chin up young man."

Daniel chuckled sardonically, remarking,

"I'm hardly young."

"You're younger than me."

Daniel smiled slightly as he remarked,

"That doesn't necessarily make me young."

Jack pretended to look offended as he retorted,

"So… insulting a senior officer, eh?"

"Come on Jack… I'm a civilian."

"Damn fine civilian if you ask me…"

Their peaceful moment was shattered by the sudden sound of crying. Both men looked up to see Cammie sat down, bawling her eyes out, and the rest of SG-1 running towards her. Daniel immediately stood and quickly picked his daughter up, asking as he gazed down at her,

"What's wrong Cammie?"

She babbled incoherently, the only discernable word being 'Daddy'. He kissed her forehead, smoothing her hair, and asked Cam, who had reached them just as Daniel had picked her up,

"Did she fall over?"

"Yeah… she just went flat down on her butt… reminded me of my niece, Lyssa. She ok?"

Cammie had calmed down somewhat by then and was making Daniel's shirt front wet with tears and mucus. Daniel replied with a chuckle as he reached in his pocket for some tissues,

"Yeah, she's ok."

As he proceeded to tenderly mop her face, and his shirt, he felt a tugging on his trouser leg. He looked down to see James with tears in his eyes, looking up at him and Cammie. Jonas said with a smile,

"James is just like you, Doc… ah, Daniel."

Teal'c added, "Indeed. JamesCarterJackson impacted heavily on his mik'ta just now but was concerned more with enquiring after his sister."

Jack remarked as Daniel knelt down to the boy's level so the younger Jackson could see that his twin was alright,

"Just like Dannyboy."

James reached out to touch Cammie's red face, saying, "Cammie."

Cammie babbled something to her brother, and he smoothed her hair. Vala remarked,

"Wow… that's some one year old… when my brother was one, he stole my father's golden jug before selling it for fifteen Jebeles in the Floriana system… father was so impressed that he wept every night for a week."

Everyone exchanged odd glances at the story before gradually surmising that she could have meant a year on a planet with a different orbit rate. Before Daniel or Cam could make a remark, Cam's phone rang. He pulled it out, taking a look at the CLI. He quickly said before answering, "SGC."

"Mitchell… oh. Ok Sir… they're with me now… Yes Sir. Will do… Right… Bye."

He disconnected and quickly said,

"Landry wants us all on base - apparently SG-3 has come under attack on 835."

Everyone murmured in discontent, and Cam said,

"Jackson, you can sit this out if you want…"

Daniel glanced down at his children, unsure,

"Uh…"

Jack slapped Daniel on the back, saying with a smile,

"Go do your job Daniel… I'll take the twins home… Vala - you wanna help? I can't imagine Landry lettin' you go on a mission."

Vala replied with a smile,

"Of course…"

Cam beat Daniel to the cautionary remark,

"No influencin' 'em."

Vala just grinned at him as the active members of SG-1 sprinted towards Cam's SUV. Daniel hugged the twins, whispering, before joining his other friends,

"Be good for Uncle Jack and Auntie Vala."

Vala smiled at being referred to as 'Auntie' and she ruffled James' hair, picking him up and asking loudly,

"Are you any good at Pau'mac?"

Jack chuckled as he picked up Cammie, remarking as they made their way to his SUV,

"I see Teal'c's been teaching you the finer things in life… a word of advice though - don't play it with the big man himself - he can screw you out of a month's salary in three minutes flat."