Hello! Can you believe it's me again?

Enjoy!

M.

Wait! What?

The moment Sam entered the room, she leaned against the door, and her hand found that warm spot where Jack's lips had been. Against all logic, her lips were tingling as if he had thoroughly kissed her and not merely caressed the tip of her lips. She sighed happily.

"What are you going to do now, Samantha Carter? Huh?" She berated herself as she tried to control her body. "Ugh! How is possible for a man to have this effect on you, come on! You are not a teen, nor you are fangirling over your favorite actor. Geez."

Six doors away, Jack was grinning. He flopped himself on the bed and chuckled as his weight made him bounce a little on the mattress. He couldn't believe how much he had come to feel on the past 24 hours and the way his body felt alive. Jack touched his lips, remembering the way her soft skin felt against them and laughed at his silliness.

"My, my, Jack O'Neill. You are in too deep," he said but couldn't stop the silliest of the grins to keep attached to his face because he had her between his arms and planted a barely their kiss and she hadn't slapped him away. No, it was even more than it, he had read her like an open book and knew she was as disturbed as he was. A good disturbed. He grinned and shook himself out of the state in which he was to start getting ready for the family day that was about to happen.

Sam walked from the living room area to her room with a huge smile plastered on her face, and then, she frowned. Her cell phone was ringing, and there were two reasons for that to happen when everyone knew she was off: Rodney or issues. She swore, and for the first time in a long time, she hoped it was Rodney calling her in one of his amorous outburst when he wanted to conquer her or wanted her to come and clean up the mess he had done with either a girl or the press.

The Doctor closed her eyes as she grabbed the phone and brought it to reading level and breathed deeply. She was wrong, oh so wrong. The smile she had before started to fade as the impossibility of pushing the ordeal further along the week settled. She checked the clock on the bedside table and noticed that the timeline to get herself to the front desk was rapidly ending. She was still on the phone trying to come up with something, anything, to avoid it knowing fully well that there was nothing on Earth that would push it away while going downstairs to try and caught with her family answering as cryptically as she could so the secret part of her work would remain that.

"I understand the importance of this call and the whole issue. However, General. I do need to end this call, not only because, as I've said the moment you started going on the situation this isn't a secure line; but because I'm in a public situation, sir. The moment I'll establish a secure line I'll call you back to arrange the way we are going to go about this, General Jumper." She hung the call and sighed before she smiled apologetically at the young man at the front desk.

"Doctor Carter, what can we do for you?" He asked.

"Ah, Jamie. As I think I've been saying to all of you, it's Sam. But I'm pretty sure I'll still be Doctor Carter or ma'am by the end of the weekend." She grinned as the youngster nodded eagerly. "To answer your question, I'll need to call to the other Carter room."

"Jacob Carter or Mark Carter, ma'am?"

"Mark," she said. She needed to talk with her sister-in-law to get her in the loop before she disappeared on all of them for what it seemed would be a good chunk of hours and hadn't occurred to her to stop by their room before getting down. Sam tapped her fingers on the desk and smiled at the woman that was standing close to her waiting.

"Excuse me," the woman told her, grinning at her. Sam frowned.

"Yes?"

"I'm sorry, I couldn't help but overhear the call and your conversation. Are you the Doctor Sam Carter? Astrophysicist, Inventor and CEO and owner of Carter & Mckay?" The woman asked in awe. Sam blushed.

Carter nodded feeling fully self-conscious. It was rare for someone to recognize her since she avoided pictures and newspapers like anyone by the 14th century would try and avoid the black death. For that reason alone, she still had Rodney around and hadn't kicked him in the butt years ago when she could've kept going without him as her business partner.

"Among other things, that would be me. Yes," Sam managed to smile and steal a glance towards Jamie who was still on the phone.

"Oh my God! Is such an honor to meet you, I'm a major fan of your work!"

"Really?" That raised some alarms in her head, and Sam used the skills gained on her past trough ROTC to school her features to try and not give away anything. Her work officially was CEO and, besides providing the schemas for most of the products she wasn't the one developing them. So, her brain told her that the woman was either from the inside or someone in search of news. And the woman seemed awfully young for either. "Which one it's your favorite?"

"I'm a huge fan of the work you did at Cheyenne mountain, that's an amazing feat. It should be at the top of the list of everyone; I mean, allowing our men and women to go such a length on their service." She said with an awed expression. "I'm also aware of the developing of the X-301, 302 and the current work on the 303," Sam simple eyed the woman.

"Ma'am, no one answers, and I've called several times."

"It's okay, Jamie. They should be down soon anyway, thanks." She grinned. "Miss…"

"Johnson. Kerry Johnson," she said extending her hand and smiling.

"Miss Johnson. I'm waiting for someone to come down."

"Oh, I'm too waiting for someone," Kerry grinned. "If you don't mind me joining you, it will be amazing getting to know you a bit more." Sam looked at her assessing her. "Oh, I'm CIA by the way, that's how I know," Kerry explained noticing that by then, everything pointed towards someone looking for confirmation of something that could blow wide open a top-secret mark. After a moment of internal deliberation, Sam nodded.

"Would you mind showing me your id?" She asked as they walked towards the seating area. Kerry grinned.

"Sure!" She said rummaging through her purse. Sam took the id and nodded, taking a seat with her back towards the elevator. If Jac saw her, she would know in a second that she was going to work and not join them on their day.

"Thanks. You can never be too sure." Sam said returning the document to the owner after making sure all the marks that confirmed that it was, in fact, a real CIA document was there. "I didn't know the CIA was aware of the Program?"

"Ah, yes. It's a new development, roughly a couple of months since the relationship was forced into the SGC. I'm the Liaison between the SGC and CIA."

"At Cheyenne?"

"No, originally at DC. But I'm moving to Colorado soon."

"Oh, I see. I guess CIA agents have the same issue that military personnel on the moving around the country, right?"

"It was a personal choice," Kerry shrugged.

"And you are here on business or personal?" Sam asked noticing the willingness of the girl to share that allowed her to keep her mouth closed.

"Personal!" Kerry giggled. "My fiancé took the weekend off to spend some time with his daughter before we get married. I wanted to come and give them a surprise."

"If they took time to spend it together wouldn't you be intruding?" Sam asked her and Kerry shrugged

"I haven't got the chance to get to know his daughter, you know?" Someone on the way she said it, made Sam think of her like a dog marking territory. "I've met her, but we haven't spent that much of a time getting to know each other. So, the sooner we start getting acquainted the better, right? For all of us." Kerry finished.

"I'll guess so," Sam shrugged, trying hard to keep the image out of her mind. A group of people walked by them then, and Kerry's eyes widened. Pulling out what Sam thought was an unnatural smile, she stood up walking towards someone in the group. Sam rested her head back on the seat and pressed the bridge of her nose. Trying to prepare for what she knew was going to be an awkward introduction of complete strangers who had nothing in common.

A couple of meters away and out of Sam's hearing range, Kerry stopped waiting for him to notice her. She thought he might have seen her already once she spotted the smiled on his face, but she frowned when he didn't walk towards her.

"Jack!" She called him while getting closer to him. O'Neill blinked, and his eyes widened before he schooled his features to show a blank expression.

"Kerry? What are you doing here?" He asked frowning, he had all but forgotten about her.

"Well," She grinned. "Aren't you happy to see me here?" She asked as seductively as she could manage and he looked at her. A week earlier he would've fallen for that smile, but now, his mind provided him with the image of Sam biting her lower lip unaware of how mesmerizingly seductive she was.

"Yes, of course. But how?" Jack asked. The Colonel was pretty sure he could kill whoever had managed to ruin his weekend by telling her his whereabouts.

"I don't know why General Hammond wouldn't tell where did you go, but I managed to get it out of one of the Reynolds kids," she shrugged. He clenched his jaw knowing full well that he couldn't kill the kid or blame the child for falling into one of Kerry's smiles when he had fallen so easily before. "Oh, love, come! You won't believe whom I've just met!" She added taking his hand and all but pulling him towards the seating area.

The only other user in the area was occupying the couch that covered the figure, and more than the black pants she was wearing he didn't get to see anything else. But soon, they reached the woman, and even if she was covering her face with her hands, he knew who she was before Kerry called her.

"Doctor Carter!" Kerry grinned, and Jack blanched as Sam's hands lowered down after tiredly rubbing her face. Something was wrong, and he knew by the way she pressed the bridge of her nose before opening her blue eyes and looking at Kerry. "Jack! This is Doctor Carter!" Jack frowned

"Jack?"

"Sam," he said, and she frowned because it sounded a bit too close to his apologetical tone.

"Of course you know each other!" Kerry said facepalming herself, "Duh! You are the 2IC at Cheyenne, and she is the owner of the company that provides you with the software and hardware you use, it was so obvious!" Jack looked at them both with a frown; it was Sam's turn to pale.

"You've got it wrong, Kerry. Sam is one of the scientists working for the company," he looked at his ex-wife, guilt was written all over her face. He straightened up to cover up the fact that he was hurt. "You are the owner?" Sam nodded once, "And that thing about the company paying for the hotel and school?"

"Kate did submit this as a company expense, and Jac's school is part of the company budget," Sam stood up squaring herself up on full height, and they moved unconsiously entering each other's personal spaces as they usually did before when talking or discussing.

"What else you didn't tell me?" He barked lowly, Sam flinched.

"Exactly how good you know each other?" Kerry asked noticing how close they had come to stand. Sam was about to apologize for not telling him sooner when something clicked in her mind.

"Wait a minute! Miss Johnson, you've told me you came here for personal reasons. Meeting your fiancé, if I recall correctly?" Kerry beamed.

"You were paying attention to me," She grinned and nodded eagerly. Sam unwavering eyes never left Jack's sorrowful ones, but then, Sam didn't need the answer she had already read it in his eyes. "Jack's my fiancé, we are getting married in a week," but the moment it was out of Kerry's lips she felt as if someone had punched her in the stomach and all the air was taken away from her.

"Really," she whispered, and he inhaled. "And you dared to ask me what else did I hide?" She hissed preferring to hide behind angriness than over the pain she was feeling.

"Mom! Dad!" The girls came shouting followed by the whole crew. Daniel noticed their stances, something he knew too well from a time long lost, and pulled Sami towards him. Kate saw him and noticed the way they were almost fuming at each other, but it was too late to grab Jac.

The words entered their bubble, and even with all those feelings bubbling up they both took half step back and turned towards the voices. Jac approached her mom slowly. And they exchanged a glance noticing how the other was trying to reign their will. Kerry cleared her throat.

"Mom? Dad?" Kerry asked once Jac joined the duo embracing both at the same time. Utterly blind to the fact that Jack could see how Sam's walls were built up to cover the betrayal she felt. Or the way Jack's jaw clenched tightly to tell her he felt hurt because she didn't trust him with such silly thing.

"Kerry?" Jac asked with a raised eyebrow, and somehow, she figured out that Kerry had something to do with the turn of the events.

"Sami! I thought I would join you and Jack for the weekend! I didn't know the whole crew was here." She said looking at Daniel and Janet, and a disappointed expression showed on her face. From the position she was at, she never saw Sami who was still being held by Daniel. Jac grinned.

"I'm Jacqueline Carter," Jac told her. "That's Sami." She added pointed to her sister and waving Sami to join them.

"Jack? Exactly how much you didn't tell me?" Kerry giggled nervously.

"Did I ever mention that Sami is a twin?" He asked her, not taking his eyes out of Sam's.

"No."

"Don't worry, he didn't mention it to me either," Sami told her. "He also left out that my mom is super awesome." Kerry looked at the twins with something akin to fear in her eyes.

"Your mom?" She asked, thinking that the girls had a mom was something good for her, especially if she could convince Jack to give his parenthood rights to the mother of his children.

"Yes, Samantha Carter," Jac said. "Doctor Sam Carter."

"Turns out your decision of coming will give you time to get to know your fiancé's daughters. Both of them," Sam added with a smile that only was heartbroken to Jack's eyes. Before she kneeled, "Jac, Sami, I've needed to stay behind to fix something. But, I'll call Aunt Kate's cellphone the moment I finish, and I'll join you wherever you are. Okay?"

"But mom!" they both complained at once.

"Take it as a chance to spend time with your dad, as you wanted too." She caressed Jac's face and placed a loose strand behind Sami's ear. "And your future stepmom. Please, be good." The girls nodded, and Sam stood again. "Well, since you are the 2IC and you will learn about this anyways, can I talk to you in private?" Jack nodded, and they separated from the crowd. They stood silently clenching jaws nervously.

"The Supreme Commander is here and needs me. I still don't know exactly for what because General Jumper called from an unsecured line. As I've said, I'll call Kate the moment I'm free to join you." Jack nodded, and they returned to the group. "They are going for a walk, Miss Johnson. I would recommend you get some more comfortable shoes." She added before she turned around, more than ready to get lost in work.

"Sam, what's going on?" Mark asked as he and Kate reached her.

"Need to know." She grimaced. "And on the other hand, the girl is Jack's fiancé, make sure to learn if they are in good hands."

"Your daughters'? Or Jack?" Kate asked Sam. She looked from Kate to Mark and then, from the corner of her eyes to her family.

"All of them," she added with a sad smile. Kate nodded.

"Are you sure, Doctor Carter? We can wait for you," Kerry offered loudly. Sam turned around to look at the woman. Kerry had to be at least five years younger than herself, Sam thought.

"Look, Miss Johnson. If things go as planned they will be yours in a week," Sam added before she risked a glance towards Jacks. Their eyes locked and she could read the I'm sorry from a mile. "Hey, you know what they say, Jack. Third time is the charmed, right?" Sam added before she turned around and walked away.