"Look, Teal'c and Daniel and I have it all worked out. We'll go grab him, bring him back here, have him dig up whatever he can, put the screws on that asshole and take him back to his happy little kingdom." Jack was explaining to Hank in Hank's office.
"Jack, that's still a terrible plan. First, you don't know if there's any dirt to dig up. Second, you haven't been in the field for almost a decade. Third, do you want Sam to kill me for letting you do this because she will kill me."
"He's dirty. I just need to know in which way."
"Well, he's a congressman Jack, of course he's dirty. But half the stuff they do these days, the constituents just don't care."
"Yah but the state attorney's office might be really interested in the matter, or the US attorney depending on what he's been up to."
"Can't you get that CIA agent you were friendly with to check things out first?"
Jack looked at him hard. "No Hank, I am not asking Kerry Johnson for anything involving Sam's career."
"It was just a thought. Jack, you need to find something, anything out before I can green light this idea of yours. Yes I know you have every right to override me and probably will if I drag my feet but dammit Jack, if you get injured in the field that woman really will kill me and make it look like a suicide."
Jack chuckled. "A year ago she was afraid of her own shadow."
"A year ago her marriage was falling apart and she was desperate. You did a good thing Jack. I felt like I was losing one of my best people by inches with the way things were going."
Jack nodded. "It was Mark that called me. Filled me in on what had been going on the last few years. Told me we never should have let her go through with the wedding and he was sorry he ever introduced them to each other."
"It just would have been someone else Jack."
Jack nodded sagely. "Yah, but at least it might have been someone who loved her. I'm not saying I'd have been happy about it but I could have been at peace if he'd really loved her."
"You're a liar and you know it Jack."
Jack smiled ruefully. "Yah, but it was worth a shot. I'll see what I can dig up but I'm telling you, the guy we want will already know."
"He hasn't been back to earth in a decade Jack. How do you know he'll even help?"
"Because it's Carter, Hank."
On the other side of the country a congressman received a courier packet from the Colorado Springs Police Department. Inside was a note and a thumb drive he knew his people had already examined for computer viruses.
You don't know me, but we have a common enemy and I think I can help both of us to eliminate that enemy. On this thumb drive are audio recordings of conversations and various other details indicating a particularly troublesome General is committing an egregious frat reg violation up to and including fathering two children with another man's wife.
"Well, isn't that interesting." He said as he looked through the contents. There were photos of both the boys, O'Neill with his doxy clearly in his lap. He hadn't even gotten to the recordings. "Well, well, well. Isn't it just my lucky day?" He said gleefully.
Halfway across the known galaxy, an average looking man of about Jack's age received intel from one of his many informants. "Earth?"
The young man nodded. "Jack and Sam to be exact, my lord."
"Really?" I figured they would be off the radar and have settled down and had a bunch of kids together by now." He said as he thumbed through the information. "That idiot." He exclaimed. "I'm going to kill him."
"My lord?"
"Nothing, nothing, just some moron on my home planet doing exactly what I told him not to do."
"This intel came from our NID informant." The runner said helpfully.
"Not the SGC?"
"No, my lord."
"Why am I not getting any information out of them directly?"
"I'm sorry my lord, I don't have an answer to that."
"Didn't expect you to, just thinking out loud. All right, you can go, make sure you grab something to eat." He said kindly.
"Yes my lord." The boy told him with a smile. King Akhan was a kind leader.
He sat and thought for a long moment. Landry was too good at plugging holes. He'd have to talk to Jack about that. He couldn't protect his people if he didn't know what was going on and apparently a lot had gone on. Sam had married someone else. A situation the king of Akhan found objectionable as he'd specifically offered them positions in his kingdom to avoid exactly such a situation. They could have settled down and started making ridiculously brilliant, crafty little mini Sam and Jacks. In a couple generations his planet could attract an army of geniuses. The Tollans, if they were still alive, other than the handful of isolated individuals he worked with, could kick rocks. He'd have the smartest people in the galaxy.
Looked like Jack might be the father of at least one of the boys anyway and the youngest sure looked like Charlie so probably him too. He never took Sam for the kind of girl to run around but the heart wants what the heart wants he knew all too well himself.
At any rate they seemed to be sorting things out pretty well themselves other than some loose ends that shouldn't have come loose in the first place. He'd told those idiots to leave Carter and O'Neill and Jackson alone. As long as you didn't draw their attention or cause them any trouble everything would be fine.
Jack apparently had panicked. That was the only reasonable conclusion he could come up with on this. When they went after Sam, Jack panicked as he always did when it was about her and because he hadn't known he had an ace in the hole here at the time he hadn't thought to call in the standing marker they owed each other. He'd done what he could to put out the fire on his own and done pretty well at it even if it had cost his heart.
But it looked like there would need to be a coming to Jesus conversation with a particularly shady Kentucky lawmaker before things could go back to as normal as it got for the hopefully future O'Neill's.
King Akhan stood and called an attendant "Fetch my travel clothes, would you Ryloth?"
"My lord?"
"I need to go see a man about a horse."
