Chapter Two -- Getting to know you
"Well apart from the fact that her DNA is slightly different from us she is defiantly yours" Janet said looking over at Jack. He closed his eyes and nodded his head.
"And she doesn't have anything...in her?" Jack asked looking up at Janet and seeing that she got what he meant.
"No, there is no reason to think she is some part of Goa'uld trap" Janet said shaking her head. "She's a healthy four year old, well she's not really four yet in our years. The years on Edora are slightly shorter then ours. She's only about three and a half"
"Ok" Jack said nodding his head. He wasn't really paying that close attention to Janet, after she said Kiara was healthy his mind had wondered off a little. He was thinking about what he was going to do with a four year old girl? I mean a little boy was easy, you played ball and built forts and took them fishing. What did you do with a girl? Maybe he should ask Sam or Janet, hell Daniel probably knew more about little girls then he did. Daniel, that brought something to mind.
"Hey Danny boy" Jack said looking up at Daniel. "How did you know to open the iris?" Daniel shifted in his chair and looked really uncomfortable. The general looked over at Daniel.
"Yes I was wondering the same thing" He said waiting for an answer.
"You're all going to think I've gone crazy" he said "Again"
"You are crazy Daniel" Jack said smiling at him. "I just want to know how you knew"
"Ok" Daniel said nodding his head. "It was like a picture in my head, one that hurt quite a bit I might add, I could see them standing there on the other side getting ready to go through." He looked around at the faces of every one, they didn't look very skeptical.
"A side affect of being ascended?" Janet asked looking over at Daniel. "Maybe Oma left a little something in there" She said looking thoughtful. "Some kind of power only the ascended have?"
"Yeah that was my conclusion too" Daniel said nodding his head at her.
"Is he ok though?" Hammond asked looking at Daniel.
"Well we should do a few head scans, and make sure it's not something else" Janet said hoping it wasn't something bad.
"Alright then" Hammond said rising. "Do it, until we find out what's going on with Dr. Jackson I'm taking SG-1 off the mission list." He looked around and smiled. "Dismissed"
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"Sir what are you doing up here?" Sam asked walking over to the table Jack was sitting at. "It's passed 0400 hours Sir"
"So it is" Jack said nodding his head and watching the fly on the table walk around.
"Is Kiara asleep?" Sam asked sitting down across form him.
"Yeah" Jack said nodding his head and looking up at her when the fly flew away.
"What if she walked up in the middle of the night?" Sam asked. He held up a walkie talkie and smiled.
"I showed her how to use it" Jack said looking back down at the table. "She's really smart for a four year old" He looked up at her and smiled. "You're a girl" Sam laughed and nodded her head.
"Yes" She said rolling her eyes at him. "What about it?"
"Well what do I get for her?" He shook his head. "What I mean is...I've never...little boys are so easy, play ball and wrestling around. I know how to do all that" He took a bite of the cake he was eating.
"You've had more experience with girls then you think" Sam said smiling. "I mean there are Cassie and Marin. And I've seen you with the general's granddaughters Kayla and Tessa, they adore you." Sam said smiling at him. "Don't be so hard on your self Sir" Sam said standing. "You'll do fine, just do what you do with them"
"You want me to get her a puppy?" Jack asked thinking of Cassie.
"What ever works" Sam said shrugging her shoulders. "But your not going to do her any good if you can't stay awake, go get some sleep, Sir" She said smiling as she walked away.
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He wasn't sure if he was dreaming when he first heard the soft sounds of some one crying. He opened his eyes and looked around the room. He could still hear it so he wasn't dreaming. Who could be crying? There wasn't anyone else in his rooms was there?
"Shit!" he said jumping up when he came fully awake and knew who it was. He threw on a shirt and ran out the door to the little room connected to his. She was curled up on her side crying into her pillow. 'Ok' He thought as he walked over. 'This can't be too bad, she probably misses her mother'
"Kiara" he said sitting down on the side of the bed. She rolled over and looked up at him. He smiled and she crawled over to him and wrapped her arms around his neck. He pulled her into his lap and rocked back and forth a little. "It'll be ok" he said rubbing little circles in her back like he use to with Charlie. 'Maybe this isn't so different' He thought as her cried died down. 'Love them, care for them, that's all she needs' He nodded his head to him self as she fell asleep. "I can so do this" He said out loud and smiled when she stirred. He sat back against the head board and after a few minutes they were both fast asleep.
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"Sir" Sam said smiling at the scene before her. "Sir wake up" She said shaking him a little.
"Wait Sam" Daniel said pulling out his camera.
"I don't think you should do that" Sam said smiling at him.
"Yeah probably not" Daniel said snapping the picture anyway. Jack shifted and moved with Kiara sliding down onto the bed. Daniel handed Sam the camera and leaned over Jack and smiled. He picked his coffee up off the table and waved it under his noise.
"Coffee" Jack said sitting up a little and looking at both of them. "What are you two doing here?"
"You weren't in your rooms Sir" Sam said when he looked over at her she saw him look down at the camera in her hands.
"You taking pictures of me?" he said with a little smile and a wiggle of his eyebrows.
"No" Sam said hastily handing the camera over to Daniel. "He was" She said pointing at him.
"Tattle tail" Daniel said smiling. "The general wanted to talk to you, I told him I'd come get you. I ran into Sam on my way. You want me to watch Kiara while you're up there?"
"Yeah would you?" He said sliding her legs off of him and standing. "I'm just going to go change; I'll come back after I see the general.
"Right" Daniel said nodding his head. "Have fun"
"Thanks" Jack said walking back into his room and shutting the door behind him. Daniel smiled at Sam who was just looking down at Kiara.
"She looks a lot like him" She finally said smiling as Kiara's eyes started to open.
"Yeah she does" Daniel said nodding his head. "Hopefully she doesn't get his hair though" Daniel said smiling when Sam giggled.
"Yeah lets hope" Kiara opened her eyes completely and smiled slyly at them.
"Hello sleepy head" Sam said smiling at her. "You remember us?"
"Yes" She said nodding her head. "You are Daddy's Sam" She said matter a factly. Sam blushed a little at the way she said it and nodded.
"Something like that" She said nodding her head.
"And you're...Danny" She said after a second. She looked up at him as if to ask if that was right.
"Sure" He said nodding his head knowing that's what Jack must have called him. Well at lest it was that and not Space monkey. "How did you sleep?"
"I had a bad dream" She said closing her eyes, Sam could see she was trying not to cry. She took and small breath and looked up at Sam. "But daddy made it better"
"Well that's good to hear" Sam said smiling at her. "I have some work to do; will you two be ok here?" She asked looking from Kiara to Daniel.
"Yeah" Daniel said nodding his head. "I thought maybe we could color" He said looking over at the table Sam had set up the day before.
"Color?" Kiara asked looking up at Daniel. "Color what?"
"I'll leave you to it" Sam said smiling at Daniel. "Have fun" She said walking out the door and smiling as Daniel tried to explain the finer points of coloring to a four year old.
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Daniel sat and watched as Kiara colored a picture in one of the many coloring books. She had picked the Cinderella book after Daniel told her the story behind it. She said that her mother use to tell her a story that was very similar. Daniel had thought that was very funny, that half way across the galaxy they still had fairy tails.
"Danny I'm all done" She said smiling up at him. She held up the picture and Daniel smiled.
"That's very nice" He said smiling at her. "You didn't go out of the lines at all"
"Well you said not to" She said smiling at him. "Right?"
"Yeah, you did real well" Daniel said nodding his head. He looked down at his watch just as her stomach growled.
"Are you hungry?" He asked smiling when she nodded her head and stood. "Ok then to the mess hall." She took his hand and they headed fro the door.
"Wait" She said letting go and running back to the table. "I want to take this with me" She said looking down at the picture she had colored of Cinderella and Prince Charming. "I want to give it to Sam" She said looking up at him and smiling.
"Alright" Daniel said nodding his head and walking back over to the table.
With the picture cut out and folded in her hand they started for the mess hall. "How old are you?" She asked as they walked down the hall. She had been asking questions since they stepped out of her room.
"I'm 39" Daniel said smiling at her. They stopped in front of the elevators just as they were opening.
"Hey Teal'c" Daniel said when he saw him standing there, Kiara inched behind his leg. "We're just headed to lunch, care to join us?" He said stepping on to the elevator with Kiara right behind him.
"Very much" Teal'c said smiling down at Kiara. "How are you today Kiara?"
"I'm well" She said smiling shyly at him. "Are you going to eat with us?"
"I am" He said nodding his head.
"Ok" She said nodding her head and coming out from behind Daniel. "What is that on your head?" Teal'c looked to Daniel and he shrugged.
"It is something to remind me" Teal'c said nodding his head. 'Indeed to remind me' he thought to himself.
"Oh" She said nodding her head. She was silent for a moment then looked up at Daniel. "What is this?" She asked pointing around them.
"An elevator" Daniel said smiling at the look on her face. "You see" he said bending down so he was at her eye level. "We're way under ground here"
"Under ground?" She asked looking a little shocked.
"Yes" Daniel said nodding his head. "And this helps us get from one floor to another."
"Floor?" She asked still not getting it.
"Um..." Daniel looked up at Teal'c who just raised an eyebrow. "Did you have a big house?"
"Yeah" She said smiling a little. "When mother and I went to live with Garan I lived up the stairs with mother"
"Ok, good" Daniel said nodding his head. "Well here we call those floors, do you see?"
"I think so" She said nodding her head.
"There are many, many floors here, and it would be a lot of work to use stairs" He said smiling. "So this takes us from one to the other"
"Oh" She said looking to Teal'c to confirm what Daniel had said. "Really?"
"Indeed" he said smiling a little at her.
"Ok" She said as the doors opened. There were people all over the place down here. She looked up and took Daniel's hand then not wanting Teal'c to feel left out she took his hand too. Teal'c looked down at her then to Daniel who just smiled and shrugged a shoulder. They walked like this to the mess hall where Kiara let go of Daniels hand and smiled up at Teal'c.
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"How's my new little patient?" Janet asked sitting down at the table next to Daniel and across from Kiara.
"I'm well" She said thinking these people asked that a lot. She looked passed Janet and smiled wide. "Daddy" She said jumping up and running to him across the mess hall.
"Hey there kid" He said look down as she plowed into his legs. He picked her up and walked with her to the table. "So what's going on?"
"Well if Daniel's all done eating I thought I'd take him and run some test to see if we cant figure out what's going on with him" Janet said smiling at Daniel. Daniel looked down at his lunch and nodded.
"Yeah I'm done" He stood with her and smiled down at Kiara. "I'll see you later, ok?"
"Ok" She said nodding her head at him.
"See ya Doc" Jack said smiling at Janet. Janet smiled and waved to Kiara. Teal'c stood and smiled.
"I too must go" He said smiling at Kiara. "Thank you for having lunch with me"
"Bye Teal'c" She said smiling at him. She turned to Jack and nodded. "I like them" She said taking a bit of her sandwich. "Where's Sam?" Kiara asked looked around.
"Probably in her lab looking at some new doohickey" Jack said as a sly smile spread over his lips. "Let's go take her something to eat"
"Ok" Kiara said jumping off her seat and running towards the door.
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"Just...just...don't touch it!" Jack could hear Sam yell as they approached her door.
"I'm sorry" An airman said backing out the door. "I'll just..." He trailed off and jumped when he turned and saw Jack standing there.
"Something wrong?" Jack asked smiling at him.
"No Sir" He said side stepping around him and running into a wall. Jack laughed and looked down at Kiara.
"That man was funny" She said looking up at Jack. "Is Sam in there?"
"Oh yeah, she's in there" Jack said kicking the door because his hands were full of food.
"I said..." She trailed off when she saw Jack and Kiara standing there. "Oh hi" She said as she backed out of the door way. "What are you doing here Sir?"
"Kiara wanted to bring you some food" Jack said setting down the tray. Kiara shook her head and looked up at Jack.
"No, you said she was stuck in here working on another doohity, and probably hadn't eaten in days" Kiara said smiling sweetly. Sam looked up at Jack with a smirk on her face.
"Well anyway thanks" Sam said taking a drink of the coffee still half amazed that Jack knew just how she liked her coffee.
"I brought you this" Kiara said pulling something from her pocket and unfolding it. She smiled at Sam and handed it to her.
"Oh it's beautiful" Sam said taking the picture. Jack just stood back and watched as Sam took the picture. She was so good with kids; she may seem the hard military women on the outside but under that she was a mother just waiting to happen.
"It's Cinderella" Kiara said incase Sam didn't know 'because you could never be sure with grownups' "Danny told me the story" She said smiling at her. "Do you have a Prince Charming?" She asked.
"Oh" Sam said looking up at Jack for a brief second then back down at Kiara. "No honey I don't"
"Oh" Kiara said looking a little sad by this news. "Well I'll get you one" She said nodding her head and smiling. "Ok?"
"Sure" Sam said nodding her head. "You do that"
"Colonel O'Neill to the briefing room" The speaker announced. Jack looked down at Kiara.
"I'll watch her Sir" Sam said smiling at him.
"Thanks" Jack said looking down at Kiara. "I have to go work; will you be ok with Carter?"
"Yes" She said nodding her head. Jack walked out the door and Sam knelt down next to Kiara.
"Why does he call you that?" Kiara asked looking confused.
"It's my name" Sam said smiling at her.
"No" Kiara said shaking her head. "Your name is Sam" Sam laughed and rumpled her hair.
"That's my first name, my last name is Carter" Sam explained.
"Well it's silly" She said looking thoughtful. Sam smiled at her; it was so easy to see her mother in her. Sam had always hoped somewhere deep down inside that someday she had Jack would pull it together and...well, do something. Now that seemed like a faraway dream, unreachable.
"What should we do?" Sam asked picking up some of her things so she could do something with Kiara. Kiara climbed up on one of the stools and looked over the table.
"What does that do?" She asked pointing to a small black box with funny writing all around it.
"We're not sure yet" Sam said smiling and picking it up. "Daniel has been trying to decipher it for about a week."
"Oh" She said smiling. "Is it a doohity?" She asked having a little trouble with that one word, which made Sam smile.
"Yeah it is" She said picking it up. Sam ran her hands around the edges as Kiara looked around.
"What about that?" She asked pointing to the phone on the desk.
"Well that's how we communicate with each other" Sam said picking up the phone. "Do you know where Daniel is?"
"He's with the Doc" She said smiling. Sam smiled at how she was picking up on all of Jack's nicknames for them. Sam picked up the phone and dialed a few numbers.
"Hi Janet is Daniel there?" She asked smiling at Kiara. "Ok, could you put him on?" She wiggled her finger at Kiara and she walked over. "Thanks" She smiled as Kiara looked up at her. "Hi Daniel...no nothing, I'm just showing Kiara the phones...yeah here she is" Sam said handing Kiara the phone.
"Hello?" She said holding it like Sam. "Danny!" She said smiling big and looking up at Sam. "Cool" She said echoing Jack again. She nodded her head and smiled. "He wants to talk to you" Sam took the phone and nodded her head.
"Ok talk to you later" She hung up the phone and smiled at Kiara. "Neat huh?"
"Yes" She said nodding her head. "When can we go out side?" Kiara asked sitting down on the desk.
"Well Hammond has to get permission first from some really important people" Sam said sitting on the edge of her desk. "We could..." She trailed off. 'What do you do with a four year old on a military base?'
"Can we color?" She asked smiling.
"Yeah that sounds like a good idea" Sam said nodding her head. "We can go get some stuff from your room"
"Ok" Kiara said taking Sam's and as they headed out the door. Sam looked down at the little hand in hers and smiled. 'I could get use to this'
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"Up again Sir?" Sam asked sitting down across from him in the mess hall. "You know you shouldn't get in habit of this, it's not good for you"
"Thanks Doc" Jack said sarcastically looking up at her. "I just had some paper work to finish up and I wanted something to eat" Jack said looking down at his untouched cake.
"Something wrong?" Sam asked smiling at him.
"No" Jack said shaking his head. "Just thinking" He looking down at his cake and took a bite. "I need to take Kiara shopping, she needs stuff, Hammond told me that she's safe to leave the mountain and that I can take her home"
"Well that's good" Sam said smiling at him.
"Yeah" Jack said smiling. "I just...what do you buy for a little girl?" Sam smiled as she realized what was bothering Jack.
"Sir would you like me to come with you?" She asked smiling when he looked up. "I am as you pointed out a girl, I know what she needs"
"Would you?" Jack asked looking so relived. "That would be great, I was thinking about taking her out tomorrow"
"Ok" Sam said nodding her head and smiling. "Go get some sleep, and I'll meet you by the elevators at 1000 hours"
"Ok" Jack said standing up and smiling at her. "Thanks"
"Hey what are friends for?" Sam asked smiling to her self as he walked away. 'So what do you get for a four year old?' She thought as she stood. 'I think I need to call Mark'
A/N- So what do you think? Is it any good? Let me know what you think. Sorry it took so long to get out, but I haven't had a whole lot of time, I'll try to work on that...Maybe if I get the worm hole just right I can add more hours to the day? You think? Anyway let me know what you think... :-)