When everyone was finally seated around the elliptical table in the back room, Laura brought out the cake and set it in the middle. True to her word, it said Monkeys have brains too, Elise on it, with red frosting over white. Upon seeing her best friend's creation, Elise broke out in laughter that.

"I do not see the humor in the writings, Elise Small," Teal'c said confused.

"It's a long running inside joke," Elise replied. "When we first met, Laura was failing her math class. I gave her a simple trigonometry problem to solve and I said that if she couldn't solve it then she was a monkey."

"Needless to say I didn't get the right answer," Laura said, as she took up the story. "Ever since that day my nickname has been 'Monkey'. When I graduated valedictorian from college I closed my speech by saying, 'Monkeys have brains too'. No one beside Elise, Mike, and Tony had a clue what I was talking about."

Elise suddenly realized that their party was missing some very important people, "L.? Where are Tony and Mike?"

"Mike will be just a minute, he was changing out of his work clothes I think." She looked down, unwilling to meet the gaze of her best friend, "Tony isn't here."

"Where'd he go?" Elise inquired. She had asked all three of her friends to be here – including Tony.

"Umm, he went to California to visit his sister."

Elise suddenly found her fingers very interesting, "Oh, okay."

Mike chose that moment to grace the room with his presence. "Elise! It's great to see you again."

"It's great to see you, too Mike," she replied, a smile appearing on her face.

His eyes glanced over the others there and came to a rest on Sam. "And you must be Elise's mother. I must confess that I was rather worried that she was going on a wild goose chase. But now that you're actually here, I can see that I was wrong."

Elise shot him a glare, "Thank you for your input, Michael." After a few seconds of silence in which to compose herself, Elise spoke, "This is my mother, Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter, her fiancé Brig. General Jack O'Neill, and their two friends Dr. Daniel Jackson and Teal'c Murray." Each person nodded his or her head in turn when being introduced. "Guys, this is Laura and her husband Mike."

Laura looked wide-eyed at her friend, "The Dr. Daniel Jackson?"

Elise grinned, "Yep. The one and only."

"Hey! Wait a minute! Why does everyone know about Daniel?" Jack asked, annoyed with the attention the younger man was getting.

Elise looked at Jack; "Because one of the papers he wrote was required reading in a class that we both took before our majors were decided upon."

"Oh, okay," Jack said, as he went returned to eating the big piece of cake in front of him.

Laura sat down by Elise and said, "Sooo."

"Soooo," Elise mimicked.

"Time to share stories?" Laura asked hopefully.

The other woman sighed, "Okay, but only if you promise to keep them short. No rambling."

"No rambling."

The group proceeded to spend the next few hours telling stories about their childhoods. After about five hours of talking, eating and plain hanging out, Sam announced that it was time to go if they were going to get home before it got dark.

That night, as Sam got into bed beside the man that she loved and wanted to spend the rest of her life with, she thought about everything that had happened to her over the past two days.

"Jack?" she asked, after a few minutes of silence.

"Hmm?" he responded, as he tightened his grip around her waist.

"Are you mad at me?"

Jack made her face him. "Why would I be mad?"

"Elise."

Jack sighed, "I'm a little sad that you didn't tell me about her sooner, but I could never be mad at you."

Sam smiled and kissed him passionately, "Good, 'cause I've got another secret to tell you."

"What? Are you secretly married to Daniel or something?"

Sam giggled, "No… I'm pregnant."

"You're pregnant?" Jack asked, making sure he heard properly.

"Yep."

Now it was Jack's turn to kiss Sam as passionately as she kissed him only moments before. He smiled into her hair when their lips broke apart. "I'm going to be a daddy again."

"Yeah, you are," she said, moving one of his hands to rest on her stomach. "We're going to have a baby."

Jack's face bore a shit-eating grin. "Sam, I must say, that is one of the best secrets you've ever told me."

-Fin

A/N: Well, this is the end of this one, unless you all REVIEW and beg me enough to write an epilogue. I hope you liked it and thank you for reading.