Johnny hurried down the hallway, pretending to look for his errant sister. The truth was that he already knew where she was but she didn't want to see him. He had felt it when she was being comforted by Sean, and through their telepathic connection had found all to be well. Sean would help Thora cope with the lose of her child.

Johnny had let Thora take the spotlight since their arrival back home. He was always the twin in the shadows, trying not to draw an attention to himself. 'The quiet one.' That's what he was called. 'The talking shadow.'

Well, he thought. It's better for me if they think that. At least then I can deal with the pain in a silent way.

In the past four months that they had been at the SGC, Thora had been right at home in her new surroundings. Almost everyone loved her out going nature. The accountants especially loved the fact that the speed at which Jack got paperwork done had tripled. Thora had begun to read most of the reports, and attach a post-it on top with a brief summary. Things just got done faster.

With Johnny, it had been nearly the exact opposite. Sure, he helped his mom out in the lab a lot of the time, but more often than not, even her lab assistants would forget that he was even there. Sometimes it just got so damn frustrating when everyone but six people even remembered that you were alive. The six that did remember were his parents, Daniel, Teal'c, Dr. Brightman and Thora.

Suddenly, he found himself en route to his father's office. He knew that that was where he would find the busy General. When he reached the door, he stopped and took a deep breath before knocking.

"Come," a muffled voice said from inside.

Johnny opened the door to find his father playing his gameboy. "Can I help you, Johnny?" he asked in a concerned voice.

Johnny sat down in one of the chairs in the office and suddenly found it very hard to speak. When he finally got his emotions under control, he said, "Dad, I want to go to public high school."

Jack's head shot up from his game. "What?"

"I want to go to public school."

Jack was in shock, "Why? You never said anything about this before, why now?"

Johnny took a deep breath and continued, "Before, it was important that I help Thora with the pregnancy, but now…" He paused, realizing how selfish he must sound to his father. "I need to know what's beyond this mountain if I am ever going to have a life on this planet."

Jack was silent for a while, taking in what his son was asking of him. He understood where he was coming from; Jack himself could never give in to a life confined to the base when on world. Even Teal'c had needed to experience the outside world before resigning himself to a life inside the base.

"Okay, you can go to public school. We'll have to call the president to get the legal documents – like your birth certificate – changed." Jack picked up the red phone and spoke into it, "This is General O'Neill, I would like to speak to the president...Really? He just got out?… That's wonderful… Yes, I'll hold…Hello? Mr. President?…Yes, this is Jack. Listen, I would like to ask a favor…Yeah, one of those…Well, anyway, can you fix the legal documents pertaining to my children so they can be legal citizens of the US?… Really?….Thanks…Yeah, Sam's doing great, the baby's fine….Thora?…Oh, well, she just lost her baby actually…Yes, she's really distraught about it…Well, thank you again…Yep, I'll try not to cause any interplanetary wars, then….Bye, Mr. President."

Jack hung up the phone and smiled before turning back to his son, "I haven't caused an interplanetary war in over two years." He nodded at his son, "The president actually had all of your and Thora's documents changed a few months after you got back. He's having them sent over now." Jack paused, "It's too late in this school year for you to start now, so you are going to have to wait until September to start. Is that alright?"

Johnny grinned, "It's perfect."

"Great. Now, do you know where your sister is? Because we should probably find out if she wants to go to school also."

"I talked to her while you were on the phone. She's on her way right now."

As if on cue, Thora came through the door at that moment and sat down by her brother.

"So, Thora? How do you feel about going to school next year?" Jack asked bemused at his children's' antics.

Thora grinned like a maniac. "I'd love to. From everything that Uncle Daniel has told me about the education system of this planet, it sounds like it would be fun."

"Excellent. We'd better go and find your mother, it's already 1800 hundred, and she wanted to go and see a movie tonight."

A/N: Well, it's probably not as long as most of you would have liked, but it is only a little under two pages on Microsoft Word. Hope you liked it, and remember REVIEWS get Bertha into a good mood.