"Where's Jack, Teal'c?" Jack asked the Jaffa, still pinning Ian down. Before the Jaffa could answer a streak of blonde came rushing over chased by Jaffer, and bowled into the Colonel, knocking him off Ian and into the snow beside the cadet. Ian rolled over and sprang to his feet while he had the chance, then started kicking snow onto Jack (o'neill, not the dog) before he could regain his feet.

"Hey!"

Jaffer jumped out of the way of the shower of snow, and Jack followed his brother, leaving O'Neill to take the brunt of Ian's assault. Unable to help himself, Daniel jumped into the fray, kicking snow on Jack, too, knowing he'd pay for it later, but figuring what the heck – it'd be worth it.

"Teal'c! Help!"

OOOOOOOOOOOO

"Hey everyone," Sally called, walking into the door as she heard the beginnings of some serious scuffling coming from behind her.

Sam, Cassie and Janet all poked their heads out from the kitchen at the call, and smiled.

"Hey, Sally. Where's Daniel?"

"Outside with Jack and that poor Ian guy."

"Uh oh." Sam smiled. "What's Jack doing to him, now?"

"He's got him pinned in the snow."

Cassie decided she'd had enough of the warm kitchen for a while and was ready for some fun. She grabbed up her jacket.

"I think I'll go help him."

Sam and the others followed, but when they opened the door they saw it wasn't just Ian who was in trouble.

Teal'c had jumped into the fray as well, joining Jack's side – since he was the one who was outnumbered. The Jaffa wasn't all that great at playing, but the longer he spent with Jack and the rest of the humans, the better he was getting at it, and his sense of humor was becoming more and more refined as well. More importantly, the time he was spending with Andrew Stephens was teaching him how much a human child and adolescent could take without being injured, and he was now able to gauge just how much force to use when playing – which was a lot different from actually battling someone. And this time Ian was his target.

Again the cadet found himself pinned – although this time he didn't have a chance. Teal'c was stronger than him, massively outweighed him and was far more solid than Jack. Knowing that the snow wouldn't hurt the young man – it hadn't hurt O'Neill, after all – Teal'c was holding Ian down with one hand and was stuffing snow down his shirt with the other.

Jack had Daniel pinned in the same fashion and was giving him a similar white-washing – even though Daniel was struggling mightily.

Cassie dove into the snow fight with typical youthful exuberance, jumping on Teal'c's back and grabbing him around his muscular neck with a battle cry that told the Jaffa who was attacking him. Abandoning the boy, he caught Cassie's attack, allowing her weight to pull him off Ian and letting her pin him to the snow beside Daniel.

"Run, Ian!" Cassie called, giggling as Teal'c held her arms firmly enough to keep her from giving him a similar treatment with the snow. Playing was one thing, allowing himself to be white-washed was completely another.

Ian didn't run, though – and from where they stood in the doorway, Sam wasn't surprised. He jumped on Teal'c, recognizing that the big man was more than able to take anything Ian could throw at him without taking injury. While Teal'c was occupied with Cassandra he was unable to completely defend himself from the snow that Ian started scooping at him, and soon the Jaffa was as snow-covered as Daniel and Jack were.

It didn't last long, though. Teal'c rolled out from under Cassie, and pulled Ian down with one hand and Cassandra down with the other, pinning them both neatly.

"Jack!"

The blonde lab came rushing over at Teal'c's call, whuffling them happily, and Teal'c' simply held them down and let Jack have his way with them – and he was just as lethal with his tongue as Jaffer was.

"Sam!" Ian sputtered, trying to wriggle out of the Jaffa's grip and failing. "Help! Sam!"

She knew better. Sam knew the minute she stepped off the porch she was fair game, and she wasn't wearing a coat, and wasn't wearing shoes, and Jack was just waiting to get her into a snow bank of her own. She was glad to see that Ian seemed to have lost whatever bleak mood he'd woken up in, though. Even though her driveway still wasn't shoveled.

"You're on your own, Mister," she called, laughing.

"Mom!" Cassie was just as willing to call for help as Ian – although she was thoroughly enjoying herself.

"Better go save them, Janet," Sam said, smiling.

"Are you nuts?" Janet knew that Jack had already subdued Daniel and was just waiting for another target – although he was pretending to be occupied with the archeologist.

"Sally?"

"Uh uh."

"Ah well... I have a pie to finish..."

She and the other women went back into the house, closing the door firmly behind them, leaving the young people to their fate, and Daniel to Jack.

OOOOOOOOOOOO

"Do you yield?" Teal'c asked, finally.

They didn't have a choice, and even Ian's stubborn pride had to admit that there was no way he was going to get free. He nodded, and Teal'c relinquished his hold on both Ian and Cassie, who had nodded as well. She was cold and wet, and was ready to go warm up.

They all staggered to their feet, and Jack rolled off Daniel, who looked like a prone snowman, and pulled him to his feet.

"Well, I was hoping for a chance to get cold and wet before breakfast," Daniel said as he tried to brush the snow off his jacket. Of course, his coat was stuffed with snow as well, so it wasn't much help.

"You came to the right place," Jack told him, handing him his glasses.

Cassie giggled, and looked over at Ian, who was as snowy as Daniel was.

"You should go get dried off," she told him.

Ian shrugged.

"I'll finish the driveway, first." He gave her a smile – a real one that reached his eyes and made Cassie all warm inside. "Thanks for coming to my rescue."

She blushed, and was glad that no one could tell with her face already cold from the snow.

"It looked like you needed the help," she said.

"We'd better get started on that driveway," Jack said, sighing. It was one thing to be cold and wet from goofing off; it was another to have to shovel snow.

"Go ahead and go inside, Jack," Ian said. "I can do the driveway."

"Do you have extra shovels, Jack?" Daniel asked. If they all did it, then they'd be done quicker, and people were going to be arriving soon – since the road crews were already out doing a great job of plowing the roads so people could get around in the deep snow.

"Nah, just the two. Go inside you guys, Ian and I'll be there in a bit."