"Why would you ever think that I would do such a thing?"
She glared at him. "Jack, would you at least give him a chance! J.D. approves of him, he even introduced them, he can't be all that bad!"
Jack's eyes went wide, "J.D. knew about Kyle and he didn't tell us? I am so going to have some serious words with your son when he comes home next time!"
Sam shook her head in mild frustration, "Jack, you will do no such thing to our son. And you will not terrorize our daughter's boyfriend! Am I understood?"
"Hey, I'm just looking out for my little girl!"
"Jack!" she threatened as the last chevron locked into position as the event horizon formed.
"What? … Oh, fine I promise!"
"And Daniel!"
"Yeah, yeah!" he told her as he gave her a quick kiss and headed down to the Gate room.
Once they were all gathered before the Stargate, most of the cadets were staring at it open mouthed, Sam gave them the go ahead for their overnight mission to the Alpha base. Jack and Daniel were the last ones to start up the ramp. She keyed the intercom before they stepped through, "Jack, Daniel. No terrorizing him!"
Jack turned back to his wife and smiled sweetly at her, "I promise we won't do anything to him!" he told her as he motioned between himself and Daniel. Before he stepped through the Stargate, he flashed her one last look.
Sam saw the sneaky look on his face, the one where he thought he would outsmart and pull something over on his wife. As the wormhole disengaged she continued to stare at the space that her husband recently occupied. She muttered to herself as she headed for her office, "Why do I have a bad feeling about this..?" She was halfway to her office when it dawned on her and she rushed back to the control room. "Where's Teal'c?"
The startled Sergeant monitoring the Gate looked up at his CO. "Ma'am?"
"Where's Teal'c at currently?"
"Uh," he stumbled as he called up the files on his computer. "Uh… he's been visiting with his son Rya'c for the past week… And, he's…" his voice trailed off as he silently continued to read Teal'c's next mission.
"What is it Sergeant?"
He looked up at Sam and hated to have to be the one to tell her the news that she already suspected, "Uh, he and Rya'c are going to the Alpha Site, ma'am. They both wanted to see Stella…"
Sam looked up and glared once again at the spot where her husband had been standing not two minutes ago. "Damnit Jack! This is going to be so much worse for Kyle!" Part of her wanted to dial up the Alpha Site and warn her husband not to sic Teal'c and Rya'c on the young cadet. The other part of her wanted to see how he would hold up. She had a good feeling about the young man and felt that he could handle his own against the men in Stella's family.
Then again, Kyle was walking into an ambush set up by the best of them, and two aliens! Two very strong and intimidating, at least to the casual observer, aliens! "Dial up the Alpha Site!" she ordered Sergeant Williams.
When it finally connected, she had the Sergeant open a video channel with the Alpha Site, "This is General Carter-O'Neill, I need to speak with Jack O'Neill right away!"
The face of the airman manning the controls was replaced by a familiar face. "Sam, is everything all right?" he asked his old friend with concern.
"I hope so! Is Jack around?"
"He just left to take the cadets to the training facility, is there a problem Sam?" General Paul Davis, CO at the Alpha site asked.
"Can you send someone for him?"
"Yeah, no problem." There was a pause as he issued a command to an airman. "What's going on Sam?"
"I have a feeling that Jack is going to terrorize one of those cadets through Teal'c and Rya'c."
"What? Why?"
Sam closed her eyes as she told him the truth, "Stella is dating one of the cadets there now."
Paul's eyes went wide as he quietly mumbled an, "Oh…"
"Yeah! Paul do me a favor and make sure that they're on their best behavior!"
Paul raised an eyebrow, "You want me to stop Teal'c from trying to 'protect' his goddaughter?"
Sam couldn't help but let a small smile show on her face. He was right, it was often next to impossible to ever stop Teal'c from pursuing a noble course of action, and making sure that men stayed away from Stella was one of them in his mind. "Yeah… Right… Okay, I'll talk to Jack… Can you talk to Daniel though?"
"And say what to him?"
"That if he makes Stella unhappy or allows anyone else to make her unhappy, that I'm going to have a nice long chat with Janet who will be very disappointed in him if he makes her goddaughter unhappy!"
Paul couldn't help but smile at the idea, they both knew how much Daniel was scared to make his wife upset. "Okay, I'll do that. What's the cadet's name?"
"Kyle Young."
"Okay, I'll keep an eye out for him and make sure he doesn't end up in the infirmary! Okay, Jack's here. I'm going to go… do that favor for you Sam!" he smiled as he slid out of the camera's view frame to head to the training facility.
Jack's face came into view on the video screen at the SGC, "Jack you lied to me!"
"I did no such thing!" he innocently stated.
"You said you weren't going to terrorize him!"
"And I won-"
"But you're going to make sure that Teal'c and Rya'c do!" she told him.
Jack shrugged his shoulders with a small smile across his face, "Well…"
Sam shook her head at her husband, he could be so smug sometimes and she just wanted to wipe that lop-sided smirk off his face. Unfortunately she couldn't because he was a few hundred light years away. When she spoke again, she was calm, "Jack, would you please give the man a chance?"
"Why?"
"Because I trust Stella…"
"Come on you remember her last boyfriend!"
"Jack, she was 17!" Sam closed her eyes and gathered her emotions and calmed down. "Jack, she's grown up a lot since then… And Kyle seems like a nice man."
"You hardly know him!" he reminded her.
"I know… But Jack, please," she pleaded with him, "do this for me?"
"I am. I'm making sure that our little girl doesn't get her heart broken," he told her matter of factly.
Sam closed her eyes as thoughts of killing her father reentered her mind. As the images floated across her mind, she got an idea. Maybe she did have one more card to play, "Jack…"
Jack squinted at her as he detected the mischievous tone in her voice, "Sam…"
"Jack, don't make me bring my father into this…"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means… he won't be happy to know that you are making his daughter and granddaughter unhappy."
Jack stared at her and tried to laugh it off, "Your dad loves me! And besides I'm just looking out for his granddaughter!" He tried to express his confidence in his voice, and for the most part he was doing a good job with it. "He'll probably thank me for this!"
Sam detected his false bravado as she stared straight into his eyes, "Not when I'm done with him! Never underestimate the power of Daddy's Little Girl!" she warned him.
Jack tried to laugh it off… But she was serious he noted. "Do you remember what he told you about hunting you down across the galaxy if you made me unhappy?"
Jack's eyes bulged out of his head, "You wouldn't dare!"
"Try me Jack!" she challenged.
"You wouldn't…" he continued to gauge her face. "… You would…" he finally accepted as he swallowed a lump in his throat.
Sam slowly and silently nodded her head.
"All right, fine… I promise not to let anyone hurt him!"
Sam's face softened as she smiled warmly at her husband. "Thank you Jack!"
Jack looked at his wife and melted under her smile as he had done many times in the past thirty years of knowing her. "Yeah, yeah… I'm still going to reserve the right to see if he's good enough for her!"
"Fine, but only within reason and you will not treat him any differently than any of the other cadets!"
"Fine…" Jack grumbled.
"Jack," she called out.
Jack looked up and saw her smile affectionately at him again, he couldn't stop himself from smiling back at her. "I love you Jack."
"I love you too, Sam… I'll see you tonight?"
Sam nodded her head, "Yeah, I'll be heading to the Alpha Site at around 1900 hours."
"Okay, I'll see you then," he told her.
"Yeah, bye," she told them before they both disengaged the video feeds.
TBC
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