Author's Notes: So here are a couple more chapters to this story... In case you haven't noticed, this story is starting off with a lot of background and setup for an eventual union between Sam and Jack... So please bear with me...

A week later
SGC

Cathy leaned over to Jack as they rode down in the elevator, "Jack, where are we going?"

"To see the most amazing thing," he told her cryptically.

All the inactive military personnel shared an unsure look with each other. Ding quietly whispered to his partner, "Why are we bodyguards again?"

John shrugged his shoulders, "Because he asked us to Ding," he told him as he pointed to Ryan.

"Yeah, but he's got the Secret Service Mr. C."

John didn't have time to reply as the elevator came to a halt and the doors opened. "If you'll follow me," General Hammond told them as he led them out of the elevator. They walked down a long corridor and made a few turns before he led them to a conference room guarded by a Sergeant.

The guard snapped to attention when he saw General Hammond, "General Hammond."

Hammond smiled, "Sergeant Matthews. How've you been? Jack tells me that you're a new father."

The man beamed back with pride at his former CO, "Yes sir. A little baby girl, her name's Janet Alexandra."

"Congratulations Sergeant!" All the members of the entourage were now in the conference room looking around and wondering what they were doing there. The blast doors were down at the moment. George walked over to the controls and asked the guard a question, "Where's General O'Neill, Sergeant?"

The man hesitated before answering, "Uh, he's down in the control room. SG-1 is overdue by four hours."

General Hammond looked back with concern, "Do we know anything?" The guard shook his head. "Would you go tell him that we're here but that I can start the presentation?"

"Yes sir," the man snapped as he raced down to the control room to find hisCO.

Robbie was the first to ask the question that was on most everyone's mind, "Where are we? And what's SGC stand for?"

General Hammond faced them all, "What you are all about to see is the most highly classified secret in the world. We are twenty six floors below ground level in the heart of Stargate Command." He then turned and flipped a switch that retracted the blast shield so that the occupants could look down into the embarkation room.

Everyone stepped forward to take a look. Except for Ryan and Andrea's face, there were only blank confused expressions, they didn't know what they were looking at. Tony Bretano asked the obvious question, "What is that?"

"That ladies and gentleman is a Stargate. It is-"

"Off-world Gate activation," the speakers blared as the klaxons started and the Stargate came to life.

"Excuse me!" Hammond told them as he rushed down to the control room to see what was going on.

"Off-world activation?" Ding whispered as they watched the ring of the Stargate rotate and start to light up.

TBC