Summary: Cassie comes home from school and observes what's going on. "Cassie, honey, what are you doing in there?" "Hiding from y'all and your mischievous looks." All vs. one and one vs. all.
Author's Notes: I hope this chapter doesn't get confusing. I switch back and forth between locations a lot. Thank you for the reviews!! This chapter came quick. It kinda wrote itself.
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It was a lovely spring day. The sun was shining; not a cloud in the blue sky as Cassie walked down the street to her house. She was happy. She had no homework. Everything was going just great. She heard yelling and shouts of laughter coming from her house.
She heard Sam's faint voice from the backyard, "Jack!"
Cassie ran around the side of the house and hid behind the shrubs, in perfect view of the battle.
"The Perfect Kodak Moment." Cassie remembered an assignment she had to do for her photojournalism class. She rummaged through her purse for her camera. She only had few more pictures left to take.
She smiled as she took a picture.
*Flash*
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"Hey, did you see a flash of light come from behind the shrubs over there?" Sam asked as she hit Jack with another water balloon.
"I did," Janet replied.
"So did I," Jonas said.
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"Oh crap! Forgot to turn off the flash. I think they found me." Cassie quickly turned around and shoved her camera in her purse. "Why aren't they coming after me?"
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"Anybody really accurate?" Jack asked. By then they all stopped and had their backs to her.
"Let me do it," Sam volunteered.
"Good luck." Jack placed the last water balloon they had available in her hand. Sam quickly turned around and launched the balloon.
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*Splash*
"Ah!" She turned around as the balloon broke over the shrub, covering her face in water. She stood up and wiped her face with her hands.
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"Cassie!!" They all exclaimed as she made a run for it.
"Make sure she can't get into the house," Jack ordered as they all ran after Cassie.
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She checked the front door.
"Locked."
The door in the garage.
"Locked."
She ran to the other side of the house.
"Thank god trash pick-up was a couple days ago. They never find me here."
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"Teal'c and Jonas, block the back door. Don't let Cassie get in. Daniel and Janet, search the garage. Sam and I will check around the house." Jack gave orders to everybody.
They split up, going their separate ways.
"So Sam, where do you think she is?" Jack asked.
"I have no idea. Check around cars." They ran to the parked cars in the street.
"Do you see her?"
"No."
"We know she can't be in any shrubs. It'd be pretty hard to hide." Jack used some logic. They ran over to the house again. Jack lightly kicked the big durable plastic trashcans. He kicked the first one, it sounded empty. He kicked the second one, empty. He kicked the third one. It had trash in it, or so they thought.
"Janet!" Sam called.
Daniel and Janet came running out of the garage.
"What's up?"
"When's trash pick-up?"
"A couple of days ago."
"Okay."
Jack lifted the trash can lid to see an angelic face looking up at him.
"Cassie, honey, what are you doing in there?" Janet said sweetly.
"Hiding from y'all and your mischievous looks."
"Well, since we've found you, and you have no chance of escaping, I think it's time you should clean up." Jack smiled mischievously as he tipped over the trashcan, making Cassie tumble out of it. Jack picked her up. They all caught up with him and a hollering teenager in his arms as he walked up the deck steps.
"Let go Cassie." She had her arms wrapped tightly around his neck. He was standing at the edge of the pool.
"Nope," she smiled.
"Let go Cassie."
She replied firmly again. Then she went up to the side of his face whispered in his ear, "If I'm going in... you're going in with me."
"Okay, if you insist." Jack jumped in, taking Cassie with him.
"You have to admit it was an unseasonably warm spring day. Mom, I think you opened up the pool a little too early. The water's really cold," Cassie said.
"I've already been in, but Teal'c hasn't." Sam and Janet pushed him into the water.
"Got him. Yes!" They gave each other a high-five.
"And we got you." Daniel and Jonas pushed Sam and Janet into the pool, but the ladies grabbed their arms in mid-fall and pulled the men in as well. They went splashing each other in the picture noted as "The Perfect Kodak Moment."
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A/N: The trashcan idea… yep, the crazy idea, all mine. That idea wasn't my muse's. Hope you still like it, the story, that is. Epilogue to come....
