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To borrow a phrase: SG-1, Star Gate and Alias no mine, no permission, no money, no sue...please?

AN: Hope you enjoyed the last story, "New Arrivals" This is kind of a cross over with the ABC tv show "Alias" Remember that no " marks means telepathic speech. Also, can anyone tell me what Teal'c's wife's name is? Let me know if the format is too wierd! Hope you enjoy, and make sure to let me know!
Previous stories for background reference: "The Alternate Daughter", "Cassi, Cassie", "2-D", "What If's, Maybe So's and Could've Been's" and "New Arrivals"


Brrriiinnnggg!
Brrriii.......
"Hello?"
"Daniel, is Cass there?"
"Yeah. Cass...the phone's for you!"
The cordless phone floated across the apartment to land in the girl's outheld hand.
" 'Lo?" she said, flipping the page of one of her Uncle's oldest journals.
"Put it down, Cass" her friend ordered her over the phone.
"What?" Cass looked up from the book, not sure she'd heard Cassie's entire sentence.
"I said put it down. I know you're reading one of Daniel's journals, you always try to read and talk at the same time"
"All right, all right! I put it down!" Cass laughed and shut the book, "What's up?"
"Do you and Greg wanna go to a concert or something this weekend? It's my last weekend of freedom, Mom made me get a summer job"
"Did you get hired at Wal-mart?" Cass asked her friend, pouring a glass of lemonade for herself from her spot on the couch. Daniel turned around and almost knocked it out of the air.
"Jeeze!"
"Yeah, I start Monday"
Sorry Uncle Danny! "That's sucks, but hey at least you'll be getting some money" Cass said outloud into the phone.
"I guess" her friend admitted, "So, do you and Greg wanna go or not?"
"I'm sorry Fray! I'm going to visit R'yac with Tik and Greg's off world this weekend" Cass could feel her friend's disappointment even over the phone.
"You're so lucky, Cass! You go off world every week while I'm stuck here on boring Earth! And you get paid for it!" Cassie complained. They had become great friends when Cass had died and joined Cassie in her body. And it was true that Cass was often off world, especially it seemed when Cassie wanted or needed to do something.
"I don't get the money since I have no real identity. Dad get's it. Maybe you can come with me and Tik" Cass suggested, "I'm sure I could talk Hammond into it."
"Yeah, maybe. I've gotta go, Mom wants to call your mom"
"Bye" Daniel looked up from his work in the kitchen.
"Why don't you just move in?" he asked playfully, taking his glasses off.
"It would free a room up for either Amanda or Richard" Cass laughed back. She put her book away and pecked her Uncle on the cheek cheerfully.
"I'm going home now!"
"Which one?" Cass just laughed and made herself disappear. She reapeared in the hall because she did have range problems, especially porting herself. She couldn't port any other human anywhere, the process would be too complex, or so she believed. Her father had pulled some strings and finally gotten her a "fake" identity, with hospital and school records and everything. So she had gotten herself a driver's license and keys to her mother's car.
See ya tomorrow Uncle Danny! she called as she drove away. When she got home, Amanda was crying and it sounded like Ricky (as they sometimes called Richard) was laughing. They were often like that: If Richard was sleeping, Amanda was up. If Amanda was sleeping, Richard was up. The only ti really worked was feeding time, as Sam couldn't hold two infants at once. She was back on active duty, which had at first proven to be somewhat difficult, especially when they went on overnighter's. General Hammond had offered to move her to another team, but Sam had refused. Instead, Janet and Cassie took the twins while the rest of their family got themselves in and out of dangerous mission after dangerous mission. Sometimes Greg, with the aid of Lor and Batai, would take them. Everyone seemed satisfied with the arrangment and a regular (ex-Air Force) babysitter was found for during the days.
"Oh, Manny, what's wrong?" Cass carefully picked her baby sister out of her play pen.
"She's been crying for an hour" Jack said, coming out of the kitchen with a bottle and handing it to his (oldest) daughter.
"She's cold" Cass told him and "lifted" an extra blanket from the play pen to wrap around her sister. She rocked her a bit and blew softly in her face. The infant stopped crying.
"For cryin' out loud!" her Dad muttered.
She was! Cass laughed in his head. Her sister was asleep already and she placed her softly back in her play pen. Beside her, Richard gurgled happily, sucking on his toes.
"Where's Mom?" Cass asked quietly, following her dad to the den where they could talk without waking the fussy child. She didn't have to ask, but she found using her abilities for small things made life boring.
"Sleeping, thank god" her father answered, "What were you doin?"
"Over at Uncle Danny's buggin him" Cass laughed, "No, I was rereading R'yac's rescue. I'm going with Tik tomorrow for the big game"
"Is that this weekend?" Jack slapped his forehead. He had introduced R'yac to baseball and R'yac had started an entire league on the planet he and his mother took refuge on. Teal'c visited when he could, but that was still nowhere near enough for him. Still, it was better than them being on Chulak. However, a big "final" game was this saturday and Teal'c had promised his son he would be there.
"Yeah. You think Mom'll want to go?" Cass asked.
"I don't know. We'd have to take the kids" her father answered.
"That'd be okay. Fraise says it doesn't hurt them physically and I can't see any mental affects. Plus, you know the People of the Light or whatever have been wanting to meet them" Jack sighed. His youngest two had gone through the gate mere hours after they were born, about 5 months ago now. Other than their slightly speedy development rate, there appeared not to be any harm to their young selves. Yet.
"Well, we'll have to wait and see how your mom feels" he answered and left it at that.