The Home Stretch

The group in the infirmary were at their wits end. Seanait wanted her question answered as Gwen tried to sneak out of the infirmary, but Nirtia began to serenade them yet again. "Mi AMOR!!!" she sang out. Seanait glanced Daniel's way again with a look that suddenly became...err....crazed? and Seanait sang along. Daniel understood Nirtia's condition and is kind of flattered by the attention, yet humble enough to blush. Though Nirtia had the strength to keep a full-blown song going, Seanait fluttered towards fainting....again. OH NO! Nirtia thought. Daniel went to call for Frasier immediately. Seanait winked at Nirtia before her fluttering finished. Nirtia considered, Was that a wink?? That was sad... Sad? OH Dear! Nirtia thought to herself, although she still wasn't coherent enough to do much. Gwen came back into the room anyway, maybe telling Seanait the answer to her question will wake the girl up... Nirtia thought to herself. "Right! I know what'll wake her up." She stopped and sucked in air. "OH MI AMOR!" she sang loudly. Seanait winced. Daniel came over to Seanait's bed and leans over...

"Hehehe," Nirtia giggles. "You know I think the room is spinning."

"You okay?" he asked. Nirtia hit the bed with a thump. "Ummm, someone?" Daniel looked to Gwen for assistance. Gwen dumped VERY cold water on Nirtia then Seanait.

"YELPPPPP!!!" Nirtia shook it off "HEY!!!!!!!!!!!! GWEN!!! That wasn't very nice. I am in pain, you know."

"Ditto," Seanait pointed out.

Jack quipped. "How was the bath?" he asked a little too cheerfully.

"Well gosh! Thanks for caring colonel," Nirtia mused. Seanait giggled as did Gwen. Jack spun.

"What are you giggling at Lt.?" Gwen couldn't stop laughing.

"I think she figured us out, Nirtia," Seanait giggled. Nirtia gulped deeply. "OH do you think so?"

"Look how she's laughing..."

"We are sooo going down!" Nirtia spouted.

"Hey, generally, that's my line," Jack answered.

"You think she'll tell Jack and Daniel? Or maybe Frasier?" Seanait whispered.

"Well you know Gwen. What do you think?" Nirtia pointed out blatantly.

"Maybe not Jack and Daniel, but probably Frasier....?" Seanait quipped.

"OH yeah, Gwen is definitely gonna fill Frasier in," Nirtia warned. Seanait began to fidget.

"Gwen, come here, please," the younger asked the Lt. Gwen meandered over to the girls. Jack and gang watched the meeting with interest. Seanait muttered to Gwen while Nirtia prayed for a miracle. "Whatever you do, DO NOT tell Frasier or anyone about this, maybe you can make a story if Nirtia and I allow it," she looked around nervously, and continued. "But! You have to change the names..." Gwen considered the request with great interest. Meanwhile Gwen laughed at the girls' embarrassment. Seanait blushed furiously. Nirtia was wailing her arms excitedly. Gwen finally nodded. Seanait sighed and Nirtia relaxed, a little.

At about the 2nd day, it was decided, since the girls seemed to be recovering, that they would be moved to a different facility. Nirtia looked pleadingly.

"NO! Don't make us leave." Seanait pulled a puppy face. "You know?" Nirtia turned back to her friend. "That didn't help us then and isn't helping us now."

"What if we re-break our legs on the way out?" Seanait glared at Nirtia. Oy! "What you can't move us, we know too much..." Hammond stopped dead.

"What do you mean?"

"Only if you let us stay, sir," Nirtia said. She glared at SEANAIT.

Seanait shrugged, "It's true though..." Oy, Nirtia buried her face. Jack looked tired and Hammond was a little fume-y.

"Fine, they can stay," he fumed. Nirtia raised her hand.

"Umm, don't get me wrong, this has been fun and all," she paused for effect. "But now that I have thought about it... IF I spend one more minute with this maniac, I may have an aneurism." Seanait pouted now. Gwen was worried, maybe. Frasier nodded.

"Extreme mood swings are a common sign of injury, sir."

"Hmm..... " The general considered this.

"I say we be done with 'em sir. They're not gonna tell anyone," Jack retorted causally as only he could.

"Tell what?" Nirtia asked sweetly.

"Ya see Sir! I think they're okay," Jack replied. Seanait growled.

"Time to break it to them," she muttered.

"You do it!" Nirtia said, wide eyed. Seanait cleared her throat and again all eyes were on her.

"Uh, sirs, we know about the Stargate, all about it." Nirtia nodded her head, as did the people in the room.

"You told us that before, ladies," Daniel reminded them as he tilted his head.

"Right."

"And the attack on my car?" Jack asked thinking that the girls would give it away in their openness. Now it was Nirtia's turn.

"Well..." piped Nirtia hesitantly. "Ummm, that was sort of my idea sir."

"Oh?" Hammond was now highly amused, though it didn't show.

"Well?.......... We were kind of bored," Nirtia explained. "And after work I suggested we do some exploring."

"Soo?" Jack prompted. Seanait blushed once again, but it came and went.

"I told Seanait that there was a good chance that..." Nirtia began to fidget and looked around the room for a certain someone. She saw Daniel Jackson and immediately blushed. She turned back to Seanait who was blushing with her. "To be honest there was a good chance we would catch someone leaving the base."

"We wanted to try and be a team at the SGC..." Seanait muttered as a joke, unfortunately Jack and Hammond heard her.

"Well she is sort of right..." Nirtia added "It's just that we admire Dr. Jackson..." she paused and then immediately added, "And all of you so much!"

"¡Le amamos todo!" Seanait put in.

"Si! " Nirtia said in agreement. "Adoramos ustedes." Jack thought he got it, Teal'c had no idea…

"Daniel?" Jack asked.

"Um, they love us all....." he answered, also blushing slightly.

"Ah. That's what I thought." Hammond got serious again.

"What do you know about the gate?" Nirtia answered him.

"It's a big, round, metal thing and it kind of splashes to the side and there's pretty red lights that come on," she answered cheerfully.

"And????????" the General continued.

"There's a wormhole, which has nothing to do with giant worms tunneling through space, and you can see the event horizon - its blue!" Nirtia said quickly.

"Oh come on, everyone knows that," Jack sassed.

"Like who? People in the SGC?" Seanait asked quietly.

Jack paused and looked at her oddly, "What's your point?"

"OH NO!" Nirtia moaned.

"What?" Daniel asked.

"Nothing," Nirtia sighed. "Sometimes Seanait gets out of control!"

Daniel laughed precariously. "I know how that feels." Jack threw a look at him. Seanait blushed again...

"There's so many people to talk to in here.... it's creepy…" her eyes widened slightly, like a scared horse. Seanait counted the people. "1...2...3...4...5...6...7.., oh."

"See what I mean?" Nirtia asked the group. "Seanait!!!!!!!! Get a grip!"

She quickly nodded. "Ok, ok....I'm here!" "Want a pain-killer, Seanait?" Frasier asked as kindly as possible as she held an enormous needle. Seanait cringed and fell apart at the sight of it.

"ACK! Nooooooo, no needles!" Frasier was taken back by the outburst.

"As I was saying!" Nirtia added loudly. "Dr. Jackson? You unlocked the mysteries of the gate so to speak."

"Brilliant job, by the way," Seanait stated, calming down. Nirtia looked ruffled and ignored the comment and continued.

"And now you all travel to different worlds and fight off bad guys too."

"Like the Goa'uld," the next bed over from Nirtia's piped up again.

"And any other baddie that comes along," Nirtia concluded.

"Like the Tollan…?" Seanait said questioningly.

"Err… well maybe," said Nirtia. Seanait shrugged nonchalantly.

Teal'c was curious now. "How did you obtain such knowledge?"

"That's easy!" said Nirtia. "We saw it on TV, you know, Wormhole Extreme?" Seanait coughed to cover up a laugh, of course that's not where'd they had seen it, but the actual SG-1 wasn't to know that.

Jack moaned, "Gawd! I hate that show!"

Nirtia continued, "Of course, yours is much better, I imagine."

"Uh yeah," Sam added cautiously.

"Actually, Major Carter, it was all your fiancée's fault that we know soooo much about the gate," Seanait added. "He split all the top-secret beans." The girls waited for it.

"UH OH! Here it comes!" Nirtia choked. Seanait managed, somehow, to keep a straight face while Sam's changed at least 3 different colors… and at this point, Nirtia denied all knowledge of Seanait, for now. But Nirtia knew that it was true that Pete had done that. "Ahem" Nirtia coughed at last. "But that's all we know, sirs." Seanait nodded in agreement.

"I see," Hammond exhaled in thought. The world could see that Major General Hammond was seething. Jack looked at Sam and his CO. Both, he thought, want to kill Pete… yes! Daniel quickly ushered the group out of the infirmary and into the hall. Seanait, Gwen, and Nirtia were left alone for the moment. Nirtia turned to Seanait.

"Way to go Seanait! I had to spill the beans!"

Seanait looked nervous, "Was that sarcasm, Nirtia?"

"You better believe it!" Nirtia growled. She was like a tiger locked in a cage.

"Hey hey, ladies," Gwen added to the mayhem. Seanait scooted her bed away. "If you two weren't up to mischief, this would never have happened."

Seanait nodded at Gwen. "She's right you know." Nirtia harumphed and folded her hands across her chest. Seanait scooted a little farther away. Nirtia increased her pouting, but was beginning to come around. "You have to admit that we're seeing more of Daniel than we would on Stargate Monday and Friday combined," Seanait pointed out.

"Yeah," Nirtia considered. Gwen nodded in approval.... it was like taking care of her own kids...these two... "LOL." At that, the three started to laugh. Then Nirtia bumped her leg. "OUCH!"

Gwen ran over, "You okay?" Daniel poked his head in to see what the commotion was and Nirtia grunted.

"I will be…" Gwen waved around a needle.

"Does Nirtia need some more knock-out drug?" Seanait quivered at the sight of it.

"No!!!!!" Nirtia moaned unhappily. Daniel approached and looked down at poor Nirtia.

"Hey? What'd you do to get yourself in such a state?" he pondered.

Nirtia winced a little and answered. "I guess I am just accident prone.. that's all." Seanait gave Nirtia the oddest look.

"Doesn't he know about the 'tree' incident?" Nirtia smiled back.

"It wasn't a tree." Gwen quickly hid the needle and smiled falsely. Daniel didn't seem to notice.

Daniel smiled at Nirtia "You know what?"

"What?" Seanait rolled her eyes.

"I have been known to have some accidents too."

"Yeah," Nirtia grinned. Gwen started to whistle. Nirtia and Daniel were quite engrossed in each others eyes when that whistle snapped them back into reality, sort of…

"Hey Dr., would you like to read my language..." someone muttered. But the two star-struck beings paid the world no mind. Seanait didn't realize yet, but there was someone waiting for her just outside. A very cute clone named Jack, who stopped in to check up on things. "Colonel O'Neill, this man claims he is... Colonel O'Neill," said a voice outside the room. (Seanait goes to school with him…) Seanait gasped. See, he can be my OWN Jack O'Neill! Thank you!!!!!!!! She thought. Nirtia and Daniel laughed.

"Hey!" Daniel said.

"Yeah?"

"Uumm, I know this place that has the best coffee in the world."

"Really?" Nirtia swooned. Seanait quivered with happiness.

"Yeah."

"Where, praytell, is this paradise?" Nirtia asked with a husky voice. Just the right O'Neill, right age too, Seanait pondered.

"The cafeteria believe it or not," the other love-struck pair continued.

"Looks like Seanait has found a friend," Jack Sr. laughed. "Yes, go forth young man." The team watched and waited. Seanait and Jack Jr. locked eyes. A calm part of Seanait realized that poor Gwen had no one... oh well. Seanait didn't care at this point.

"The cafeteria?" Nirtia acted surprised.

"OH yeah! It has a wonderful blend of coffee there. How about I get us some and we can talk," Daniel compromised.

Jack2 looked at Gwen, "Got crutches?"

"Thanks I'd like that," Nirtia smiled at Seanait's mate. Jack Jr. smiled....

"For both of them, Lt." Daniel reluctantly left to fetch the coffee and now Col. Jack knew that his counterpart was happy. And he also knew he would never hear the end of this tale from either of them.

50 years later

Nirtia was wrapping up the tale for the little ones and Seanait finally had her own 'original' Jack O'Neill.

"Grandma Jackson!" A 6 year old cried. "Is that really how you met Grandpa?" Seanait and Jack laughed as did Daniel.

"Yeahsureyoubetcha," Daniel pulled a classic 'Jackism' on his grandson. "I saw your grandma and I could not take my eyes off of her." Seanait was rocking a wee baby in her arms. Seanait's and Jack's youngest kid is also enthralled with the tale.

"Mom?" their older daughter called from the kitchen.

"Yeah?" Seanait responded.

"Umm, are you gonna be alright holding little Jackson?"

"Sure, honey."

"Okay that's good," Sam, the daughter, replied. "Cause this turkey is taking some time." The little grandson of Nirtia started to gobble.

"GOBBLE GOBBLE!!!" The whole room lit up with laughter.

"What have you guys been teaching him?" Seanait asked sarcastically. She'd picked up way too much of her husband's behavior. All friends and family gathered at the home of Seanait and Jack O'Neill. SG-1 had long since retired and now a new generation of explorers was continuing the journey of a lifetime.

Fin

Soooo.... how'd ya like it??? Hm, hmmm??? HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!! (its a little late, but oh well...)