A/N: This was all written at one time but it just got too long to keep for one chapter, hope you enjoy my second half of the story. Please do review.
Disclaimer: I do not own the show or any of the characters (Except Kit and Dotty) nor do I own anything to do with the Simpsons!
Kits face went very pale as Daniels went redder, without saying a word she dropped everything but Bertha as she ran back to her room where she promptly burst into tears.
'Everything okay up here?' Jack asked as he came up the stairs only seeing the little girl run back to her room, walking on a little way he saw why she had run, ' Daniel haven't you ever heard of shutting the door when you shower!' he exclaimed closing the door on the very embarrassed archaeologist.
Going along to the room where Kit was hiding. Opening the door he was greeted with the sound of quiet sobbing and a figure hiding under the duvet. Pulling the duvet off he sat at the top of the bed.
'Is Daniel angry?' She asked in a small voice trying to wipe away her tears.
'I think he's more embarrassed than angry!' Jack replied with a smile. 'Why didn't you knock on the door?' he then asked more seriously.
'Don't at home. There aren't any locks on the doors and when I was younger I always opened every door so Mommy got used to me walking in on her and I never knocked so I never learnt to knock and Dotty always locks her doors I'm sorry!' Kit rambled on trying to explain in her nervousness that Daniel would hate her.
O'Neill just laughed, 'Maybe you should apologise to Daniel.' He told her when he finally regained the ability to speak.
'What's so funny?' She demanded in her most serious voice.
'It's just that Daniel is the one who is more nervous around children and you happen to walk in on him!' Looking at it this way she two began to giggle.
'I suppose it is slightly funny!'
'Don't worry about Daniel being angry; I'm sure he won't be. Shall we go make some pancake for breakfast?'
'Can we?!' In awe that she could have something cooked for breakfast.
'You've never had pancakes for breakfast before?'
'Have you tried Mom's cooking? Dotty tries to cook sometimes but she normally sticks to cereal cos were running late for school and she says she can't make pancakes.'
Jack laughed again; he had tried Sam's cooking! Taking her hand he led her and Bertha downstairs where he began to make pancakes with Kit helping where she could and watching in awe for the rest of it. She gasped in fascination when the Colonel flipped it in the air and deftly caught it again.
Finally she got to try her first pancakes with lemon and sugar on. She was about to eat her second when she saw Daniel standing watching her from the corner of the room, enjoying the child's excitement about breakfast.
Her face instantly lost the healthy glow it had gained while he had been helping. As fast as she could she got off the chair, muttered a sorry and ran and hid in the downstairs toilet.
'What?' Daniel asked the other man, mystified about the child's reaction to seeing him.
'She's scared your angry at her for earlier.' Jack explained.
'Oh. I'd better go and see her about that.' Daniel replied, a slight tinge of red crept into his cheeks as he remembered what had passed earlier. Following the path the six year old had taken a few seconds later, he softly knocked on the door.
'Kit, it's Daniel, can a talk to you a moment?' He requested, not at all angry as Kit assumed.
'You are talking.' Kit replied trying to avoid having to face him.
'I mean face to face. I'm not angry, really.' The door opened and a shame face girl came out, she was still dressed in her Lisa Simpson pyjamas while her hair was flying in every direction.
'You mean it?' She asked timidly.
'Of course I mean it.' He told her kneeling to her level. 'It was just a bit of a shock you opening the door on me!' Kit gave a faint smile.
'I'm sorry; I won't do it again. I don't have to knock at home since Mommy is used to me always walking in on her and Dotty locks the door so I didn't know I was supposed to here and…' Daniel cut her ramble off understanding where she was coming from.
'It's okay Kit, next time I'll lock the door and you can try to remember to knock okay?' Daniel proposed. An enormous smile spread across her face and she finally made eye contact with the man. Taking her hand he lead her back to her cooling breakfast. 'But if you wish to do it to Jack just to make it even I won't stop you!' He then added causing her to giggle.
'You two made up?' O'Neill asked as they sat at the table.
Kit nodded 'We agreed that he'll lock the door and I'll try to knock except if you're in there in which case I can walk in!' Kit told him causing him to make a mental note of always locking the door when she was over.
'So when are you going in?' Daniel started the conversation recognising the signs of Jacks frustration of not starting to look for Sam earlier.
'One minute, I just wanted to make sure you two would be okay on your own.' He gulped down the last of his coffee before grabbing his jacket, saying goodbye and leaving the other two to finish their breakfasts.
'What are we going to do today?' Kit asked Daniel as she finished her last pancake and drank the last of her milk.
'Well, for starters you are going to get dressed then we'll see.'
Getting down from the table she ran up the stairs, grabbed her discarded clothes from the floor, and went into the bathroom. After a few moments of hard searching she managed to find some clean towels and how to turn the shower on.
Half an hour later she was back downstairs with Bertha and a hairbrush.
'Daniel please can you do my hair?'
The colour faded from his cheeks at doing this daunting task. 'Can't you do it yourself?' He kindly requested. She shook her head and handed him the hairbrush before standing ready for him to do something with her messy hair.
It took almost twenty minutes for him to finish brushing it all and he hadn't even tried to style it.
'Why don't you wear your hair down today, I'm sure it will look very pretty.'
'Okay.' Kit replied realising Daniel was even worse than the Colonel with her hair. As she returned her hairbrush she opened her second to last door on her calendar. Jack would approve, as it was a Christmas Simpsons edition. Going back downstairs she happened to catch a glimpse into the Colonels bedroom. One thing made her smile: a chocolate Christmas Simpsons Calendar!
'So what are we going to do?' Excitement filled her voice.
'We could go to the mall if you wanted or the park, what do you want to do?' Daniel suggested not really sure what the child would enjoy doing.
'Both!' she replied with all the energy she had. Daniel realised this was going to be one very tiring day!
She jerked awake as she heard heavy footsteps closing in on her position. As quietly as she could she slipped out of the sleeping bag and got her weapon ready, she couldn't use her usual gun because of her arm so she grabbed her Zat while placing a hand gun by her side.
The footsteps came closer and closer. Unconsciously the Major began to hold her breath. Closer and closer they came until they were almost directly above the Majors position.
CRASH!
The two Jaffa fell through the thin covering over the hole, causing the small drip of water to turn into a downpour of rain that Sam hadn't noticed the muddy banks instantly turned into torrents of runny mud, and knocked the woman against the muddy walls causing her to scrape her head against the jutting out rocks as well as have the wind knocked out of her.
Reacting on impulse she shot them twice each, fortunately the fall had knocked them out. About to shoot them a third time, her radio suddenly crackled into life with a voice at the other end.
'Major Carter this is General Hammond, please respond.' Pulling the radio out of her vest pocket she replied
'This is Major Carter.'
'What is your position?' General Hammond requested.
'I'm trapped in a large hole that looks to be part of a collapsed mine. There is a large hole above me now thanks to some Jaffa dropping in on me.'
'Are you okay?' This time it was O'Neill's voice that came through. Putting her hand up to her forehead she felt a sticky substance. Drawing her hand away she saw it was blood.
'I've a broken arm which makes getting out difficult and a cut on my forehead that may need stitches. Other than that just bruises Sir.'
'We're sending a rescue team as soon as we can Major.' General Hammond told her.
'Thank you sir, there are still Jaffa patrols, however I'm not sure how long it's going to be before this hole fills with water, it seems the soil is very crumbly and muddy however it doesn't absorb the water. At the moment its ankle deep but it's rising fast!'
'Will do Major.' Although she couldn't swear to it, it sounded as though there was a hint of panic beneath the Generals cool voice. The radio went dead.
It was then she heard the sound again, more footsteps of Jaffa patrols.
'So what would you like to do here?' Daniel asked as they entered the shopping mall.
'Can we look in some of the shops, Mommy left me a little bit of money before she left?'
'Okay, where first?'
'Comic mania!' Kit replied spotting a store that sold every type of magazine merchandise. (A/N: All of these shops are made up!)
The two of them headed over to the shop and began to look around. It wasn't long before Kit found what she was looking for.
After making sure Daniel wasn't paying attention she paid for the gift, making sure it was well wrapped up, then put it into her rucksack before going back to the archaeologist's side.
Holding hands, they looked around a few more shops before deciding they needed a mid-morning snack. After finally finding the food court, he bought each of them a cookie, himself a cup of coffee and Kit a glass of milk.
They had just sat down when a voice spoke beside them.
'Kit?' The woman stopped beside their table. She was a tall plump-ish lady with her dark hair framing a heart shaped face. By her side she had a daughter about the same age as Kit although slightly taller.
'Mrs Willard!' the young girl cried out recognising the woman.
'Where's your mother?' Mrs Willard instantly asked.
'She's missing.' Daniel answered not really sure who Kit was talking to.
'Oh no, I take it you're a friend of Sam's? I'm Mrs Willard, Hannah if you please.' She introduced herself.
'Dr Jackson, Daniel, please come sit down if you wish.' He offered seeing how well Kit and the other child were getting on, it also gave him a chance to talk to another adult.
'Thank you.' taking up the offer she sat next to him after telling the child to sit next to the other six year old. 'So Sam's missing, how's Kit holding up?'
'She seems okay mostly, I'm just trying to keep her mind off her.'
'You look as though your in over your head. Have you got children of your own?' The woman told him after studying him for a few seconds. Daniel had done the same coming to the conclusion that Hannah seemed to be a very friendly person who loved children and could size people up very well.
'No I don't!' He replied with a sigh. 'A friend and myself are trying to look after her but it's not as easy as we first thought. She seems to be very energetic!' Hannah gave a short laugh.
'Where's your friend?'
'He's looking for Sam, Jack's her Commanding Officer so he feels it's his duty to find her as quickly as possible so I'm left with Kit for the day.'
'Well if you want any help give me a ring, anytime. Otherwise I would suggest not too much sugar otherwise she'll be extremely hard to handle, a good lunch and a run around to burn off all her excess energy.' Hannah advised him handing him her telephone number.
'Thanks; I'm probably going to need all the help I can get!'
'Well, I've got to be going; need to wrap the last of the Christmas presents. It was nice meeting you Daniel, I hope you find Sam soon; tell her to give me a ring. C'mon Grace, say goodbye.'
Hannah's daughter did as she was told and went to her mother's side. Wishing them a Happy Christmas they left.
'So how do you know Hannah?' Daniel tried to start a conversation as they ate their elevenses.
'Mommy told me they met in hospital. Mrs Willard's husband had just died and they talked for a long time about being single mothers and they became friends.'
Finishing their snack they began to wander which led took them to a video arcade.
'Can we go in there?' Kit begged.
'Why not?' Going inside they changed up two dollars into gaming coins.
'Let go on the shooting game!'
'Err Kit are you sure about that, aren't they a little old for you?' Daniel asked not wishing to do something Sam would disapprove of.
'Grown up ones are but the one I mean isn't.' Kit replied dragging him to a section with games for younger people.
Putting the coins in for a two-player game, a screen full of animals with small targets on appeared. Kit beat him easily!
'You've played this before haven't you?' He accused her jokingly. A huge grin spread across her face.
'Mommy and I usually play this game,' her smile faded a little but soon came back, 'She normally beats me by miles but I'm improving. She says it's just time until I can beat her!'
'Are there any other talents I should know about?'
'Only that I'm learning how to play Chess, but I can't really play yet!'
Shaking his head he learned very quickly not to give her a chance at the games, however she still managed to beat him on most of the games.
Leaving the arcade, they were about to go back to the car when they spotted a Santa's grotto.
'Do you want to visit Father Christmas?' Daniel asked the child. She nodded her head vigorously.
Kit climbed onto Santa's knee while Daniel stood slightly outside the room on the beginning of the exit carpet.
'And what's your name?' Father Christmas asked.
'Kit.'
'What would you like for Christmas?'
'Mommy' Kit told him simply.
'You want a new Mommy or to have a Mommy?' Father Christmas asked misunderstanding the request.
'No, my Mommy's missing and I'd like you to bring her home for Christmas safely.'
'Oh, well are the police looking for her?'
'No, she's in the Air Force, they're looking for her.'
'Well, I'll do what I can. Here you go.' Santa told her, then handed her a wrapped present.
'Thank you!' Kit thanked him excitedly, hoping that he would succeed to bring Sam home.
'We're just going to make a slight detour to your house to pick up a few things, then we'll pick up some lunch and eat it in the park. Is that okay?' Daniel laid out his plans to Kit when they were back in the car and heading to Carters home.
'Good luck Colonel!' General Hammond told O'Neill as he, Teal'c, SG-6 and SG-3 prepared to mount their rescue attempt.
'Colonel! Good I got here before you left,' Dr Frasier called out as she ran into the gate room, medical kit in hand. 'I was told Major Carter was injured, for her head wound clean it with the wet antiseptic cloth and put the gauze patch over it. Her arm you need to make sure is splinted so I've added a splint in the kit.'
'Tell me why you aren't coming again!' Jack asked as he stowed the box away in his kit bag. Janet just smiled and wished them good luck.
Going up most of the way on the ramp after the wormhole had been activated, two of the men threw smoke bombs through the gate.
'Lets move out people!' O'Neill commanded and through he gate they went.
Reaching the other side the entire crater was filled with smoke. Staying close to the gate they spread out and waited for it to clear.
As it did, the awaiting SG teams took out the Jaffa who had remained. Seeing the area directly around them was clear, the Colonel motioned for SG-6 to guard the gate while the others went to search for the missing Major.
Heading off in the direction SG-1 had been running from earlier, they began to search for the hole Carter had mentioned.
Two hours later they had still not found it, even with them quite widely spread out. Switching to Zats to keep the noise down, they had reduced the Goa'ulds guards quite considerably.
'Colonel, we've found signs of a lot of Jaffa going in a direction from our position. If Major Carter has been taking down as many Jaffa as we have, there is a chance she is in this direction.' Major Samuels spoke over the radio.
'Roger that.' O'Neill told him, 'We'll be there in a second.'
Signalling everyone to co-ordinate their search in the direction suggested; they began to follow the Jaffa's tracks.
It didn't take too long to find the hole.
Four of SG-3 took positions around the hole to ward off any more Jaffa who decided to come this way while Colonel O'Neill, Teal'c and Colonel Sanders peered over the hole.
'Hello Sir!' Carters voice came from the waters with a little too much cheer in it to be sincere.
'Hey Carter, how you doing?' O'Neill asked playing a long.
'Oh you know, little wet, arm aches a little, slight headache, nothing much.'
'You've been around me way too long Carter!'
'Thank you Sir! Any ideas how to get me out?'
The Major was neck deep in the extremely slimy and muddy water. Her good arm held up her Zat while other pieces of her equipment floated around her. Unfortunately she was still quite a few feet from the top of the hole. The rain had fortunately stopped before the rescue team had reached the planet.
'Well, we have rope. Can you tie it around yourself?' Jack called down.
'I can try sir.' Sam shouted back up trying her best to stay afloat, but still gong under the water regularly, causing the others to wince in sympathy as she came back up muddier and muddier.
Stepping away from the hole, the three men tightly tied the rope they had brought around a nearby tree then slipped on their rubberised gloves to help them grip the rope more easily.
'Major Carter I am lowering the rope now.' Teal'c called down as he lowered it to where she was treading water.
'Carter you can let go of the Zat now!' O'Neill ordered her seeing it would be impossible to hold the weapon she was never supposed to drop while in enemy territory and trying to tie the rope.
'Yes Si…' Carter did as she was told but her words were cut off as she once more went under. She came up gasping but grabbed the rope and wrapped it around herself. Trying her best, she tried to tie a knot in the rope, but try as she might she couldn't. 'I'm sorry Sir, I can't do it!'
Pulling the rope back up, the other Colonel, Colonel Sanders, suggested putting the rope into a very loose slip knot that the Major could get into then pull tight.
'Go for it!' O'Neill replied. It was the only other way he could see them getting her out.
Minutes later the rope was once more lowered in, only this time she managed to have it tied around her waist. Pulling as hard as they could, the three men managed to pull the woman out.
'Thank you, all of you!' Sam gasped out as she lay on the ground trying to get her breath back.
'Any sign of the enemy?' Jack asked before doing anything else. All four of the lookouts shook their heads but didn't move positions.
'Okay, old Doc Frasier said I have to clean your cut and splint your arm!' O'Neill told the tired Major. Fortunately the planet had warmed up and the water wasn't cold so she wasn't shivering or in danger of catching a cold.
Taking the antiseptic wipe out of the first aid kit and a bottle of water, he cleaned her forehead gently so as to find the bleeding gash, then cleaned it up and bandaged it. Smiling he moved on to the arm.
'At last, I can get my revenge for my leg!' Jack joked causing her to smile. The other two men had joined the lookouts.
Bringing out the splint, he carefully took off the makeshift split she had applied the day before then put on the one he had been given.
Although she winced a lot and sometimes drew in a deep breath at the pain, she didn't cry out or try to stop him as he had done to her.
'Show off!' He muttered to her, noticing this behaviour. Carter just smiled and didn't tell him that she had taken some painkillers for her arm earlier!
After checking in with the people on gate duty, he informed everyone of their positions.
'We have problems, the gate has been compromised!' O'Neill told them before handing his Zat to the dripping Major.
Carter nodded showing she was ready. Silently they headed back to the gate.
'When is Jack coming home?' Kit asked the sprawled out form of Daniel on the sofa. Kit had defiantly worn him out more than he thought possible that day.
'The answer machine message said they had made contact with your mother and they were going to rescue her. Jack did mention that he may not be back tonight, it depended on how quickly they found her.' Daniel replied.
'When's Cassie coming here?'
'Any minute. Janet has to be on infirmary duty all of tonight so Cassie will be spending the night.' A few minutes after Jack had left a message, Janet had left a message to say she would be dropping Cassie off after she had seen the teams off and prepared things for when they returned. That had been three hours ago so it had given Daniel plenty of time to find the clean sheets and make up an extra bed.
As if by magic, as soon as he had said that, the doorbell went.
Kit, who was already bouncing off the walls that it was Christmas day tomorrow and there was a very good chance her mother would be home very soon, leapt to her feet and opened it.
On the doorstep were Cassie and her adopted mother.
'Hello Kit, Daniel around?' Janet asked motioning for Cassie to go in. Although the alien girl had at first not looked too happy about having to spend Christmas Eve away from home, she could not help but feel excited when she saw Kits enthusiasm and glee at seeing her.
'Yes, he's trying to rest, I wore him out today!' Kit replied causing both of the women to smile.
'She's not wrong about that!' Daniel added as he came to where the others were standing, rubbing his tired eyes before replacing his glasses.
'Thank you for doing this on such short notice, normally I would ask Sam but…' Janet trailed off leaving the sentence to hang. They all knew what wasn't being said. 'Anyway, I have to go; they could be back any moment. Be good and don't tire Daniel out too much' She told the two children (A/N: I'm not sure how old Cassie is in the series so I'm guessing her to be about 13?) who tried to look very innocent as though the thought had never crossed their minds!
'I'm sure they'll be fine.' Daniel reassured her as much as himself.
'Kit, I know your mother will be on Earth soon, however she won't be coming home tonight. I'll keep her in until tomorrow morning just to make sure she's okay. Okay?' Kit nodded before taking Cassie to her bed in Kit's room.
'Don't let them stay up too late!' Janet told the archaeologist before returning to work.
All too soon from the children's point of view it was time for them to go to bed. (They had been fed their dinner later than usual because of the time Cassie had arrived at.)
Still hearing voices half an hour after he had sent them to bed, Daniel sighed and went up to check on them. Opening the door he was instantly bombarded with questions.
'Where are our stockings?' Cassie asked while Kit was requesting Scintiller Scintiller.
'Okay okay one at a time please. Okay your stockings are outside the room to make it easier for Father Christmas to find them and so he doesn't disturb you and if I sing Scintiller Scintiller will you promise you will instantly go to sleep with not another word. Kit agreed instantly while Cassie just looked confused.
It was then that it hit Daniel that something was different about the room; the two girls had pushed the beds together.
'What's Scintiller scintiller?' Cassie asked, confused.
'Twinkle Twinkle little star in French.' Daniel answered.
'Okay, I promise!' Cassie also answered, but mostly just to hear him sing!
Once again in his shaky voice he sang the nursery rhyme 'Scintiller scintiller petit étoile, comment je merveille qu'est-que tu est, dans au-dessus le monde tellement haute, ressembler une diamant dans le ciel, scintiller scintiller petit étoile, comment je merveille qu'est-que tu est.' Looking at the two girls again, he saw both of them were asleep. The song worked like a charm!
Closing the door to the room, he went to his room and started to make sure Father Christmas visited that night, remembering to separate Sam's presents from the pile.
Pausing a little way from the gate, the team had waited until nightfall, getting into positions so they could see the Jaffa and the hostages as well as surrounding the enemy.
With their watches synchronised, at eight o clock sharp they stormed the gate.
Sliding down the slopes, SG-1 quietly took out the Jaffa who weren't being looked at by another Jaffa while the other members of the rescue party freed the hostages.
It was then clear for the rest of the Jaffa to be taken out without the possibility of SG-6 being hit.
As soon as the coast was clear, they made a run for the gate. It was dialled and the code was sent through with no trouble at all. Within no time at all they were back on Earth.
'Welcome back!' General Hammonds welcomed them as he stood at the bottom of the ramp. 'Good to see you are okay Major!' He added after seeing his very muddy and injured Major come down the ramp.
Sam barely had time to breathe before Janet whisked her off to the infirmary while General Hammond as filled in on Sam's adventure an the last mission.
Kit and Cassie opened their eyes together. CHRISTMAS DAY!!! Was the first thing they thought of. Grabbing their clothes they dressed as quickly as they could before slowly opening their door. Father Christmas had been.
Creeping along the corridor, they realised they both had the same idea. With stockings in hands (along with an extra bag with a few presents in) they slowly opened the door to Daniels temporary room (they had already checked and seen Jacks bed had not been slept in). Grinning the entire time, they put the stocking down at the end of his bed before leaping onto Daniels bed yelling 'IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!!'
Daniel awoke with a start to find the two people he was supposed to be looking after were leaping on his bed! Groaning he sat up and looked at the clock. It was six in the morning! Forcing himself awake he pulled on a tee shirt and his glasses from the chair next to his bed.
'Okay okay I get the point, if you take your stockings downstairs I'll be down in a moment!' He told them.
Realising the quicker they went the quicker they got presents, they grabber g their stockings and ran the door leaving behind a very tired Daniel.
A short time after the archaeologist stumbled down the stairs to where the girls had spread out their gifts and were looking under the tree where Daniel had laid out all of his and Sam's presents to other people.
It didn't take that long before the entire of the stocking presents were opened, wrapping paper was all over the floor and half of the chocolate was eaten before they had even thought about breakfast. It wasn't even half past seven!
'Please can we open Mommy's present so when she comes here she can see I really like it?' Kit asked in her most pleading voice that made Daniel relent.
'Okay, you and Kit can open Sam's present and I suppose mine as well.'
Grabbing the presents from Daniel and Sam, they opened Daniels first. Cassie received a black watch with a silver face while Kit received a large poster of the night sky filled with stars. In the centre however was the two versions of Twinkle twinkle little star, the English and the French.
'Oh thank you Daniel, it's beautiful!' Cassie gasped quickly followed by Kit's equally grateful thank you. Both of them hugged him before opening Sam's present.
In Cassie's was a large black make up box filled with every type of make up imaginable. Kit's on the other hand was a very smart deep red velvet dress with a small flower in the middle and a pair of black strappy sandals.
'Shall I make breakfast while you put all of this away?' Daniel suggested as he started to pick up the shredded wrapping paper.
Nodding, they placed all of the stocking presents into the bag before running off into their bedroom with the other two gifts.
It wasn't until the scrambled eggs, sausages and bacon were ready that he began to get nervous; he hadn't heard a single sound from them sine they went upstairs.
'Breakfast!' he called up to them. The reassuring sound of footsteps came as he returned to the kitchen and served the meal. Looking up however he was not expecting to see Kit dressed up in her new party outfit…and in the make up Sam had bought Cassie! Reassuringly though Cassie had done herself up as well and was wearing the watch he had gotten her.
'What do you think?' Cassie asked as the two of them twirled around to show off all that they had done. He was also grateful that the older girl had done Kit's hair both the evening before and now.
'Very nice.' Daniel told them tactfully as he guided them to their breakfasts.
They had just finished when they could clearly hear a key in the lock.
Running to the door they met Colonel O'Neill, Teal'c, Janet and Sam entering the house. They had barely gotten in before their children were hugging the two women.
'Mommy!' Kit yelled as she crashed into the sore Sam. Feeling her wince she pulled away and saw the visible wounds; a few stitches on her head and a broken arm the bruises were hidden underneath her jeans and three quarter length sleeved shirt. 'Mommy what have you been doing?' she asked in her most grown up voice causing everyone to laugh.
'So how has she been Daniel?' Sam asked him teasingly knowing how exhausting a six year old could be.
'Lets just say I won't ever be having kids of my own!' he answered as he leant against the kitchens doorframe.
'She only caught you only wearing you bath towel once!' Jack commented causing the poor archaeologist to blush yet again about the incident.
'I must teach you about knocking!' Sam told the child before turning her attention back to Daniel. 'What time did she wake you this morning?'
'Six!' came the answer.
'Gosh, you're getting later, last year it was five!' Sam mocked her daughter causing Daniel to wince at how lucky he had been that morning.
'Shall we move this into the other room?' Jack interrupted them motioning for them to go into the living room.
'I see you two have been opening present already!' Sam commented as she sank down into the sofa.
'Thank you Mommy, what do you think?' Kit asked giving a twirl. Cassie also thanked the woman as she sat by her mother.
'Very nice, let me guess, Cassie did your make up and hair.' Cassie nodded.
'Daniel and Jack had a go but they weren't very good!' Kit told her causing the three women to laugh, Daniel and Jack to blush and Teal'c to raise an eyebrow.
'Thank you Sir and Daniel for looking after Kit.' Sam told them seriously.
'Our pleasure although I have to say Daniel did most of the work.' O'Neill told her.
'Can we open some more presents now that everyone's here?' Cassie asked excitedly.
'I don't see why not?' Jack told her, 'Why don't you and Kit try and hand out everyone's, they're hidden around the back of the tree.' He added.
After all the presents had been handed out and opened, the thank you's said and a start on the Christmas lunch made, Kit suddenly disappeared to her room.
Moments later she returned with two shop wrapped presents, handing one to Daniel and one to Jack. In her best handwriting she had written Thank you Kit.
Opening them, O'Neill received a Simpson's mug while Daniel had a small tablet with hieroglyphics on it.
'Thank you Kit, its brilliant!' O'Neill told her.
'Yes Thank you, I take it you bought these yesterday when you kept disappearing on me in the shops!' Daniel thanked her.
Kit nodded but the smile never left her face.
'So Carter, about your comments of my Simpsons enjoyment.'
'What about it sir?' Carter replied doing her best to look confused but she had a good idea what he was about to say.
'Only that it turns out you're a fan as well!'
'I never denied it sir and you never asked me if I liked it, you assumed I didn't because I said it wasn't exactly the most grown up programme to watch!' Sam retorted causing the room to explode into laughter once more at the Colonels expense.
The day continued on in the same manner, jokes made laughter had and more shredding of wrapping paper. Even two unexpected guests arrived, General Hammond and Dotty each with gifts for Cassie and Kit. (From Dotty, Cassie received a make up removal kit while Kit received an air force uniform with 'Kit Carter' written on the front. It was of course at Major level! From General Hammond they both received a set of hair accessories that they then spent the afternoon trying out on everyone! It wasn't just the hair accessories that everyone (Except Teal'c of course, no one had the courage to touch him!) was allowed to wear; the make up was also put on everyone. The men were made up as they slept much to everyone's amusement. Many photos were taken of this!)
All in all, it was a very happy Christmas. By the time the children were put to bed, everyone was exhausted however Kit and Cassie still wanted the song.
'Did Daniel sing it to you while I was away?' Sam asked the sleepy children. They both nodded.
Much to Cassie's surprise, and Daniels since he had just walked in the room, Sam had a very strong and beautiful voice that helped lull them off to sleep.
It wasn't until Sam had left the room that either of them spoke, 'I didn't know you had such a good voice!' Daniel told her quietly. Carter smiled.
'Well I can't revel all my secrets now can I. Thank you Daniel for everything you did, you were amazing!' She told him, her voice equally as low.
'It was fun, but I was serious about not having kids of my own!' He joked causing them both to smile.
'I suppose the next argument is who has to sleep on the sofa tonight!' Sam commented as they walked down the stairs. Fortunately the Colonel had invited the Carters to stay the night (Dotty had left half way through the afternoon claiming jet lag!) after seeing how tired his 2IC was. What was also fortunate was that Sam had packed a few of her own clothes in Kit's bag for emergencies so both she and Janet didn't have to go home before accepting the invitation.
And so Christmas day was finished. I hope you had a good Christmas and have a happy New Year!
A/N: I hope you enjoyed the story; I spent the best part of the last week on it!!! This was supposed to be only one chapter but it kinda spiralled into this! I must now go and see my family, if they still remember me that is and work out the cramps in my hands!!!!