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"Do you still remember where the commissary is?" Hailey asked Stella when they were all in the elevators.

"Yes ma'am."

"Why don't you take them down there and get some breakfast… I'm going to go get Daniel."

Stella turned to face her friend, "He's here?"

"Yeah, he just got in last night. He's going to be doing the historical briefing… if I can wake him up!"

The elevator stopped and Colonel Hailey moved to get out, as the doors were closing Stella called out, "Make sure you use his coffee blend!"

When the elevator doors shut, all the cadets looked at Stella silently for a few seconds before the barrage of questions began, "Where are we?… What's going on down here?… How do you know what's going on down here?… You've been here before?…"

"Calm down guys! Yeah I've been here before, I've known about this place since I was a kid. My dad was the base XO before he retired, and my mom took over eight years ago. My brother and I grew up in this place."

"What do they do here?"

She tilted her head back as she led them off the elevator to go to the commissary, "Sorry guys, I've been sworn to secrecy!"

Twenty minutes later the group of ten cadets were finishing up their breakfasts at a large table. The other cadets were continually amazed by the amount of base personnel who kept coming up to Stella and greeting her.

Jennifer and Daniel were just then making it to the commissary. Daniel was still in the process of waking up when he was walking up to the table of cadets. He quickly noticed the head of blond hair in front of him. His eyes went wide though when he saw that Stella's hands were playing with the hands of the man sitting next to her below the table. He paused and watched the affectionate touches for a few seconds before he walked up behind her and placed both his hands on her shoulders, "What are you doing?"

As soon as she heard his voice she quickly withdrew her hands from Kyle's and turned to look at the man who was standing and looking down at her, "Uncle Danny!" She swallowed the lump in her throat as she saw that he was now staring at the man she was sitting next to.

"Who is he?" he demanded of her.

Stella got up and faced her 'uncle' as she began to lead him away from the other cadets, "Uncle Danny calm down!"

"Calm down! You were holding hands with that guy!" he accused her as his arms flailed beyond Stella and pointed at the man next to the empty seat.

"Yes we were!" she adamantly told him. "We're dating and there's nothing wrong with holding hands!"

"Dating?!" he stammered out as he stared at her in wide-eyed shock. His duty as godfather to Stella kicked in as he spoke in angered tones, "What's his name?"

"Kyle," she calmly told him trying to keep her own emotions in check.

"Who the hell does he think he is dating you?"

"Excuse me?" she asked him shocked by his question. "I am not going to let you or anyone else ruin my relationship with Kyle!" she told him as she turned on her heels and walked back to the table where her fellow classmates all stared at them silently. Daniel watched her retreating form before he left the commissary to make a phone call. After all, he did have a duty to his best friends, he had to protect his goddaughter!

As Stella rejoined the others at the table Kyle met her and whispered into her ear, "Is everything all right?"

Hailey walked up to the pair and spoke quietly, "Do your folks know about the two of you?" When Stella didn't look up Hailey's shoulders fell, "This is going to be ugly! Why didn't you tell them Stella?"

Stella looked up at her friend, "Come on Jen, you know what happened with my last boyfriend!"

She did remember Stella's last boyfriend, who had the unfortunate luck of being introduced to the extended Carter-O'Neill family, specifically the men, all at once. The boy had left not knowing what had hit him, granted he hadn't been right for her after all, it had still embarrassed Stella.

"Oh yeah…" she commented as she looked between Stella and Kyle who was unsure of what he had gotten himself into. With an un-envious look she spoke to Kyle, "Cadet…" She shook her head, not knowing what to say to the man, she didn't know if he would survive the day. She finally settled on pity, "I'm sorry…" She then turned to Stella, "I'll see what I can do to calm down your parents…"

"Thanks Jen, I really appreciate it! I was going to tell them last weekend, but I wasn't able to make it home…"

"I understand, but we better get going, we need to start the briefing soon…"

Five minutes later the cadets were all in the SGC conference room learning about the SGC's mission. To say that they were all shocked was an understatement. They all raptly paid attention to Colonel Hailey's presentation on the SGC, except for Stella. The secrets of the SGC were old hat for her and so she only heard a few words from the Colonel's mouth. Instead her attention was directed at the door, she was just waiting for her father and her uncle Danny to come charging through the door.

Twenty minutes later the klaxons of the base went off, "Off world gate activation!" Hailey rushed down to the control room as the cadets all stood at the window and watched the Stargate in action. Before she'd left, Hailey had told her to wait up there, and if it was her mom coming through, then she would tell her that she wanted to speak to her.

A few minutes later Sam and Jennifer entered the conference room. Sam briefly greeted the new cadets before signaling her daughter to follow her into her office. In the privacy of her office mother and daughter shared a long hug, they hadn't seen each other in over three months, since the start of the semester.

"How've you been sweetie?"

"Good, things are going really well for me… But we might have a problem…"

Sam raised an eyebrow, "We do?" she skeptically asked her daughter.

"I need you to hear me out before you say anything," she told her mom. When her mother consented, Stella began her story. "I've been seeing someone for the past couple of months. It was pretty casual in the beginning, and then a couple of weeks ago we decided to see each other exclusively. That's why I was anxious to see you and dad last weekend, I wanted to tell you about Kyle, but then Kelly's accident prevented me from coming home… Before you start, I didn't tell you or dad I was dating Kyle because I didn't know if we had a serious relationship going. And I wasn't going to scare him off before we decided where we were by introducing him to dad… You know how he is! You remember what happened to my last boyfriend that I brought home!"

"I know honey! It's okay, I'm sorry to say this, but I knew this would happen to you from the day you were born!" she told her daughter with a sympathetic smile.

"There's a problem…" she hesitatingly spoke.

"He hasn't hurt you has he?" a concerned Sam asked.

"No, Kyle is wonderful. He would never hurt me and I think you'll like him. But he's not the problem… Kyle's last name is Young."

Sam remembered the files of all the cadets who were visiting that day, "He's here?"

Stella nodded her head, "Yeah, and uncle Danny saw us holding hands in the commissary already, he was pretty upset. I have a bad feeling that he called dad!" she told her mom.

Sam was really concerned now, "You're right, this isn't good… I better go have a chat with the Cadet before your dad gets here then."

TBC