A/N: As promised, another chapter for tonight...

"You actually know him, it's Jack O'Neill."

"Jack?" Ryan was shocked. "I was at his and Sara's wedding! Sara and Cathy were best friends from college… He's running the SGC?"

"Yes sir. When I was the base CO he was the team leader of our best team, SG-1. When I was transferred to the Pentagon under the previous President, he got promoted."

"He hates working behind a desk as much as I hate being President!"

"I don't know about the last part sir, but you're right he doesn't like it too much. But he makes a point of going out into the field every once in a while."

"I can't believe he's a General… I lost touch with him after Charlie…" he quietly added.

"A lot of people did sir. He was actually the one that led the first mission to Abydos. It was right after Charlie, the only reason he agreed was because he knew it was a suicide mission."

"Jesus! I know Sara took it pretty hard, but I had no idea…"

"Not many people did," Hammond reassured him.

Silence settled on the room for several minutes as Andrea and Jack continued to process the information. Jack finally spoke, "I want to see it."

Arnie and George shared another look with each other- things were going well. "We already have that scheduled."

"When?" he asked.

"Next week, you're doing a rally at NORAD and you were scheduled to go on vacation with your family for the next four days. If you'd like, we have it all set up for you to go to the SGC and no one will know about it."

"What?" Andrea asked. "You've been planning an under the table trip for the President and you didn't tell me about it? I'm head of his security detail! I need to know these things!"

"What was I going to do Andrea? Tell you about what was going on under that mountain before I told him?"

Andrea opened her mouth to speak, but she couldn't find words to express her frustration, she knew he was right. She was still having a hard time accepting the fact that there were aliens out there in the universe who were bent on enslaving or killing every human on Earth. "I just hate surprises!" she told them.

Jack looked over at Andrea and smiled slightly at her, "Me too! … How do we do this? How do we go about letting the proper people know about this?"

"Who do you want to tell first?" Arnie asked him.

"Well Tony and Robbie need to know… It'll be easier to tell the Joint Chiefs if they know about it already."

"They can come with us to Colorado," Hammond told him.

"I'd also like to tell Cathy."

"Uh, Jack, I'm not sure that's such a good idea…" Arnie began.

General Hammond interrupted, "No, that's okay. Jack said it'd be okay for her to know, he knows how close you two are."

"Thank you… She's not going to believe this… Hell, I hardly believe it myself!" he added with a slightly hysterical laugh.

"Most people have a hard time believing it without seeing it. May I suggest though that we don't tell anyone before we get there?"

Jack nodded his head, "That'll be fine." He leaned back in the couch and sat staring at the pictures, he finally spoke in a quiet voice, "I'd like to go through."

TBC