Ok, just a note, the little mention of a cross over was inspired by my 4 yr old little boy. He loves MacGyver, and I couldn't help it. Also, I apoligies if my Russian is off, I just used an online translator.

Chapter 3: It Was Just Dinner!

'Crap. It's 5 till 6; I'm so going to be late.' Kristi thought as she finished getting changed out of her BDUs and in to some civies. She had gotten a little too interested in some of Colonel Carter's experiments and totally lost track of time. Now she was going to be late for dinner with Daniel.

"Hey Jack." Daniel said walking in to the General's office. It was exactly 6 o'clock, and he knew it. He didn't show up early and he was ready early enough so there was no way he could be late. Although if you asked, he would say he was just being a good friend to Jack by taking Kristi out, but really the young Major intrigued him.

"Hey Daniel. You guys getting ready to go to dinner?"

"Yeah. Where is Kristi?" he asked trying not to sound to enthusiastic.

"I don't know. Last I saw her was at 1500 when she left here heading for Carter's lab….ahh, give her a few minutes. Knowing Kristi, she got caught up with whatever Carter is working on."

Kristi was quite proud of her self. Within 15 minutes she had changed, touched up her make-up, and was heading back down the elevator from the locker room. By the time she got to Jack's office she could hear the guys deep in conversation.

"So, why haven't I, your best friend, ever heard of her? I know you don't talk too much about your family, but I've known you for almost 9 years now!"

"I'm sure I must have mentioned her a few times, maybe you just weren't listening."

"Knock, knock. You boys having fun?" Kristi purposely interrupted, partially to save Jack, and partially so that she wouldn't have to hear the rest of the conversation. They had an unspoken agreement that it was ok not to tell other people about each other. No one she worked with, with the exception of McKay, ever heard her talk about Jack either.

"Oh, tons." Jack answered with his famous sarcasm. "Hey, look, you're dressed like a girl!"

"Yep, I guess time changes all."

As Daniel turn to see her in the doorway, his jaw dropped. "Wow, you look great." He slowly stuttered out. She was wearing a pair of black, slightly healed sandals, nice fitted jeans with a black sleeveless shirt. Her hair which before was pulled up in a tight french twist was now down revealing its true length, half way down her back. Her makeup had not really changed, except the slightly tinted gloss was now replaced nicely with a neutral shaded lipstick that complimented her lips perfectly.

"Thanks. So, Jack, are you sure you don't want to play hooky, and come with?"

"No, I wish I could, but a General's job is never ending. Watch out and don't let Daniel drink too much, he's a light weight."

"Ha, ha very funny, Jack." Daniel said half annoyed.

Kristi giggled at the face making going on between the two men. "Ok, boys, enough. I'm getting hungry." She said walking around the desk and giving Jack a quick kiss on the cheek.

"I'll see you tomorrow Jack, and thanks for letting me crash at your place."

"Hey, no problem. You kids don't get into to much trouble, ok?"

"Yes, sir." She replied with a mock salute as they walked out of the office.

"So, what was the whole dressed like a girl comment about?" Daniel asked walking towards the elevator.

"Don't ask. I need to grab my pack real quick, I'll meet you up top, OK?"

"Alright, but don't take to long."

With that Daniel went up, and Kristi turned around back towards Jack's office, where her pack was conveniently left outside the door.

"Не будьте ишаком, Jack."

"I have no clue what you just said, but don't gripe at me in other languages." He smiled at her.

"I said don't be an ass, and it was Russian. Don't make fun of me just because I grew past the way my brothers taught me to dress."

"And I thought we were doing so well, why you have to bring him up?"

"I'm not, I'm just telling you not to make fun of me, and I wanted to see if I could meet you for breakfast in the morning?"

"Yeah, we can do that, as long as its in English only, ok?"

"I think that's doable. I'll see you tomorrow." She said walking out, pack in hand, to the elevator.

The ride to O'Malley's was fairly uneventful, mainly just Daniel asking Kristi a million questions about Antarctica and the work in Russia. As they got out of the car in the parking lot she was at her wits end.

"Hey, Daniel?"

"Yes?"

"Do me a favor, while were in the restaurant, lets not talk about work, ok? I've talked about work all day; I just want a night off." She was giving him a sympathetic smile, and trying not to hurt his feelings. She could tell he was just trying to make conversation with out sounding to forward.

"Ok, not a problem." Smiling back into the now awkward silence, he held the door of O'Malley's open for her.

Luckily, since it was a weeknight they didn't have to wait for a table. They sat glancing over the menus not quite sure what to say. Kristi decided to break the silence first.

"So.."

"Yeah…"

"Maybe not talking about work wasn't the best suggestion."

"No, it's ok. We can think of something. Hey, what are you thinking about getting to eat?"

"I don't know. Jack said that I should try the sirloin. What about you?"

"Sounds good. So, did you enjoy your afternoon with Jack?"

"Yeah, we had a pretty good talk, but you know him, nothing to deep. We just seemed to skim on the surface."

"Yep, that's Jack alright. I've realized over the years that it take a lot of work to get Jack to open up," he paused and said with a chuckle, "Well, that and alcohol."

"Ah, now I hear that you are not one to hold your alcohol, Dr. Jackson." She said smiling with a mocking look.

"See, now that's not fair. You know a lot more about me then I know about you."

"Very true, so what do you want to know?"

"Hmm, I know. Tell me five things about yourself that I wouldn't find in your military files."

"Ok, let me think for a minute. Well, even though I'm a girl, I know how to fix a car and prefer to drive a stick over automatic."

"Interesting, but not very deep."

"When I was 10, I was suspended from school."

"For what?"

"For making explosives out of ordinary household items in the 8th grade science fair." She said quickly, and followed by bashfully taking a sip of her drink.

"Making explosives? Wait, you were 10 in 8th grade?" he said, practically choking on his beer.

"Yeah, I was a little accelerated in school, and the exploding science project was not my idea."

"I can guess whose ides it was. So, how far ahead were you?"

"Probably too far, I graduated High School when I was 14, and I had finished my biochem BA when I was 17. After that I joined the Air Force and went to the academy, and here I am 12 years later."

"Wow, so Jack wasn't kidding when he called you a genius."

"Nope, I defiantly take after my brothers."

Daniel's "What?" was abruptly cut off by the waitresses timing.

"Are you ready to order? Or do you need a few minutes?"

"No, I think we're ready." Kristi said, realizing her pluralizing slip, and hoping he wouldn't notice ordered quickly.

After they ordered Daniel just looked a Kristi with a sly smile. 'Crap. He heard. How in the world am I going to explain this to Jack? How am I going to explain this to Daniel?' Kristi thought giving Daniel quite a different forced smile.

"So, what did you mean by brothers?"

"Slip of the tongue?" Her forced grin and slight wince were a dead give away that it was not.

"Nope, you're not getting out of it. Explain."

"Fine, but first you must swear not to tell Jack that I told you."

"Fine, I swear."

"Alright, you know Jack's Dad died when he was really young, a few years later his Mom got remarried. They had another son."

"Ok, and why has Jack never told anyone?"

"Well, him and Angus don't really get along. At all."

"Why?"

"Angus, or Mac as everyone calls him, has a major problem with the military, and guns, and fighting. Sufficed to say he doesn't really talk to me either. Military runs in the O'Neill family, Jack's Dad were air force, as was my Dad, and our grandfather. Mac just never got the importance to us. The funny thing is how similar Mac and Jack are, they look almost exactly alike. They look just like their Mom, the reason Jack and I don't look too much alike, because I look just like my Dad. If only they could get their heads out of their asses for 5 minutes they might just realize how little of a family we have left."

"So, what does Mac do?"

"Last I heard he was working for the Phoenix Foundation, he's always on some mission to save the world. Sounds familiar, huh?" She giggled at the thought that her brothers were doing the same thing, only in slightly different ways.

"Yeah, so now what's the other thing about Jack being smart? I know he's smarted than he lets on, but how much?"

"You don't know that he has a Masters in Chemical Engineering?"

"Wow, a Masters? In a science field?"

"Yeah, Mac was a chemist, also. They both like to blow things up."

With that the uncomfortable part of the evening was over, and they began to talk as if they knew each other for years. It wasn't till 11 o'clock that either one of them noticed the time and Daniel took Kristi to Jack's house.

"I do have to ask you one more thing. What's with Jack and The Wizard of Oz thing?" Daniel asked her as they pulled up to the house.

She immediately started to giggle. "He still quotes it huh? Well, right after my parents died Jack bought it for me to try to cheer me up. I used to make him watch it over and over. Eventually I guess it grew on him. I used to watch it when ever he was gone on a mission and when I missed him."

When they got to the house, Daniel got out and walked Kristi to the door. They stood there for a moment just in a soft stare before Kristi spoke again.

"Would you like to come in for some coffee?"

"Uh, sure, that would be nice."

They were both thinking they should go inside, yet they stood there looking straight into each others eyes. Neither one of them was consciously aware of moving, but they ended up moving closer together. Silence enveloped them, stretching a moment into eternity, until their lips gently brushed up against one another for only an instant. Startled, they both pulled away.

"So," Kristi said, barely being able to cover the quiver in her voice, "how about some coffee?"

"Good idea." Daniel replied as they finally went in still looking her straight in the eyes.

It was about 5:30 in the morning when Kristi woke up. 'God, how I would love to be able to sleep more than 5 hours at a time" she thought looking back at the fact that her and Daniel stayed up talking for another hour before she went to bed. 'Well, at least I have time for a run and a shower before I need to report at the base.' After changing in to her running clothes she headed downstairs as quite as possible, as not to wake Daniel.

When she finished her run she put on fresh pot of coffee and walked to the couch to wake up Daniel.

"Daniel," she spoke softly as she gently shook his shoulder, "you might want to wake up."

"Huh?" he replied, not quite awake. "What time is it, and do I smell coffee?"

"It's 0630, and yes I put on some coffee. I need to jump in the shower, but I though you might need to start getting up."

"Yeah, thanks."

As she went upstairs to the guest bathroom and into the shower, Daniel got up and poured him a cup of coffee. The phone started to ring right as the shower water started running.

"O'Neill residence." Daniel said trying his hardest to sound awake.

"DanielJackson, what are you doing at O'Neill's residence?"

"Hey Teal'c. I'm here to take Kristi back up to the base." 'Wow' he thought 'can't believe I thought that up so quickly when I'm this tired.'

"Ah, I see. GeneralO'Neill had requested me to call and see if the Major required a ride, but I see that she does not." And with that Teal'c hung up.

'Aw, crap what is Jack going to think?' Daniel contemplated as he started sipping his coffee. 'Damn, where does Jack keep his extra toothbrushes? Oh, yeah in the guest bathroom.'