"Thank you for lunch." Sam said as they walked out of the restaurant. "It was fun."

"You're welcome. So what are your plans for the rest of the day?" He asked.

"I thought I'd go home and catch up on some journal articles I should read and then probably do some paperwork."

"You're way smarter than those people. So I'm kidnapping you for the afternoon." He said taking hold of her wrist.

"Kidnapping me? To do what?" He asked.

"We're going to have fun. I no it's a strange concept when we're not talking about one of your doohickeys and all. But we're going to try whether you like it or not."

"I give in. So what are we going to do?"

"You give in to easily. First we're going to burn off lunch." He said taking her hand and almost pulling her across the mall.

"Ja.Colonel where are we going?" She asked, he stopped and she bumped into him.

"What did you just say?" He asked.

"I asked where we were going?"

"No before that you said Jac. See you can almost say it if you try. Jack. Say it with me. Jack."

"I don't think so sir. Nice try though. So where are we going?"

"I think we need some target practice." He stated.

"Don't we get enough of that at work."

"Yeah, but this is more fun. Laserquest means you can't get hurt, well not really except if you run to walls that hurts."

"I would expect so. Come on. Let's go."

~ ~ ~

"I can't believe you beat me." Jack said. "I have way more experience at this than you."

"Maybe I'm just that good. It comes from learning from the best."

"I'll take that as a compliment." Jack smiled.

"Actually I was talking about Dad." She bit her lip to keep from laughing as he frowned. "But you're not bad either." She kissed his cheek. "So what now?"

"Movie?" He offered.

"Only if you buy me a box of milk duds." She teased.

"You know you're a hard woman to please."

"At least don't want popcorn too." She smiled.

"Deal. A movie and milk duds. Then I'm sending you home before your Dad starts to worry."

"Dad knows I can take care of myself. He even thinks one day I might even save the world."

"Really that'll be a hard task to accomplish all by yourself and what are you going to save it from exactly?" He joked.

"Frog infestation." She stated adamantly. "There are way too many frogs for my liking."

"I like that setting your aspirations high. You can start with frog spawn and work your way up."

"My thinking exactly. Then I thought I might start on fish and the Simpsons."

"Hey, no way lady. How about Danny's rocks?"

"They're artefacts sir."

"Same difference. Most of them are made from rock like materials, they just happen to have writing and little pictures on."

"Good point. But I think Daniel would prefer it if you called them artefacts anyway."

"Maybe I will on the day I start calling neutrinos neutrinos and not Nintendo's."

"See I knew you were a big fake." She said with a smile.

"That's a not a nice thing to say about your CO there Carter. If people underestimate you, it can give you an advantage. Besides the combined IQ of the base takes out the rest of the state of Colorado. So what do you want to see?"

"Anything with a little bit of action."

"So you're not a fan of romantic comedies?" He asked.

"I don't mind them, but it's the only thing Cassie ever hires so it can get a bit much. Besides you need a few car chases in your life every now and again. You pick I just have to go to the bathroom, I'll be back in a minute."

A few minutes later she return. Jack held out a box to her.

"Milk duds as requested."

"Thank you so what are we seeing?" She asked.

"It's a surprise. We can got straight in though. Can't miss the trailers, they're the best bit."

"I thought the film was the best bit?"

"Na, trailers mean you get to see the best bits of the film, without having to pay to go and see them. If you like the trailer you go see the film."

"Thanks for that pearl of wisdom sir."

"Switch off your cell phone." He whispered as they made their way to their seats.

~ ~ ~

Every now through out the film Jack would sneakily try to steal a milk dud but always noticed and didn't say a word. By the time the film was three - quarters over Sam's throat was dry. She lent across and whispered to him.

"Colonel, can I have some of your drink?" He didn't respond. "Colonel." She asked again. She took a deep. "Jack." He handed over the drink without question.

"See that wasn't too hard." He whispered to her.

"Sorry sir. One time deal. Thanks." She handed back the drink.

"Them's the breaks." He smiled and settled to watch the end of the film.

~ ~ ~

"That was fun. I've had a good day sir. Thank you." Sam smiled as they exited the theatre. She grabbed her cell phone and switched it back on, it rang instantly. "Carter." She said answering it. "Sorry sir, I was at a movie.. I'll be there in about twenty minutes. I'll do that. Yes sir." She hung up.

"The base?" Jack asked.

"Seriously they're worse than children. I leave the base for the day and they break something. They've been trying to call me for the last hour."

"Do you want me to come with you?" He asked.

"Er, no. But can you do me a favour?"

"Sure."

"Can you go to my house and keep Dad entertained he should be back by now. I'm not sure how long I'll be."

"Yeah. I'm sure we'll find something to talk about."

"Hey no digging for information and I may reconsider the name thing everyone in a while."

"Then I guess I'll have to put up with being called Colonel or Sir." He teased. "I'll see you later."

"Yeah thanks."

~ ~ ~

"General, what seems to be the problem?" Sam asked as she entered the control room.

"Sgt?" He asked Davis.

"The targeting interface seems to be out of alignment. The chevrons enter but the wrong one appears on the gate."

"How many are they out by?" She asked.

"Two." Sgt Davis replied.

"Left or right?" She asked.

"Left."

"Shouldn't take long to fix sir." Sam said to General Hammond. "How many teams off world?"

"Two, but they're on safe planets. Mineral surveys."

"Sgt can you get me the tool box. I need to remove a panel."

"Yes Major." Sam pushed the chair out of the way.

"If you'll excuse me sir."

"I'll be in my office." Hammond started up the stairs. "Oh Major, I don't suppose you've seen Colonel O'Neill?"

"He's at my house, keeping Dad entertained sir."

"Thank you." Sam lay down on the floor under the console.

~ ~ ~

"Hey Dad. I'm home." Sam called as she entered her house.

"In here." She heard Jacob call. She walked to her living room. Jacob and Jack were lazing on the couch with their feet propped on the table watching a hockey game.

"Having fun there?" She asked leaning against the door.

"No they're losing." Jack moaned. "So did you fix the problem?"

"Yeah. Good thing two or we'd have ended two step to the left of where we were supposed to be. By the way did General Hammond get a hold of you?"

"No. Why?"

"He asked me if I knew where you were. I thought he'd call here."

"He would have called if it had been important. So are you coming to watch with us?" He asked sipping a beer that Jacob had obviously given him.

"I'll change first." She returned a few minutes later after a quick shower, climbed over Jack's legs and sat between them with a beer in her hand. "So did you have a nice day Dad?"

"Yeah caught up with a few friends, couldn't tell them anything about my life the usual. You?"

"I took Cassie shopping this morning, but ended up with a flat tyre so Colonel O'Neill came and rescued us as the spare tyre was in the garage. He took me back to the car and challenged me about how long it would take me to change it. He lost so he bought me lunch. Then insisted I couldn't spend the afternoon working so he challenged me to a game of Laserquest and took me to a movie, before I got called back to the base."

"That's nice. Did you used to be the base Laserquest champion when you were seventeen? I remember lots of disappointed airmen moaning about how they were beaten by a girl until someone pointed out you were my daughter."

"Yeah, well Colonel O'Neill didn't know that until you just told him." Sam shot Jack a smile.

"Maybe I should have asked Jacob about those little things you didn't tell me." Jack said.

"What you didn't? I thought that would have been the first thing you asked."

"You said you'd work on the name thing if I didn't. I figured you'd get round to tell me eventually."

"That was very presumptuous of you sir." She smiled.

"Yeah well. Watch the hockey game."

"Yes sir."

~ ~ ~

"He's asleep." Jacob said as he got up a few hours later.

"Yeah. Leave him where he is, I'll get him a blanket. He'll wake up in a couple hours and either get more comfortable or go home."

"Sound like he does that a lot." He commented.

"He has bad days like the rest of us. He gets drunk and sleeps it off on the couch. Leave him be."

"You're a good friend to him Sam, always there when he needs you."

"We need him as much as he needs us. We have this kind of symbiotic relationship. We don't work as well as we do together when we're apart. We're good at rallying around for each other."

"That wasn't what I meant but it doesn't matter. Goodnight."

"Night Dad." She quickly got a blanket and laid it over him. "Sweet dreams Jack."