A/N: Sorry this was late, but for some reason this chapter took a while longer and I'm still not quite happy with it. I might change it a bit at a later date. Thanks to BkwrmDancer, crissy, orange-straw, C.M. and Lara Kingsley who reviewed.

Chapter 4

Jack had told Carter and Teal'c about Daniel's aunt before take off. Now Carter was watching Daniel in amusement, who hadn't stopped pacing the aisle since the seatbelt light came off two hours ago and it was driving Jack nuts. He was about to strangle Daniel and throw him off airplane at thirty thousand feet. "Daniel! The plane is not going to get there any faster with you walking back and forth, so why don't you sit down in one of these nice comfy seats and relax. Pull out one of your dusty books and read for a bit."

Daniel stopped at the top of the aisle and blew out a breath, "I know, I should relax, and calm down. It's not like I'm meeting for the first time, long lost family."

"Ach! There you go with the sarcasm again." Jack looked over at Carter and asked, "Didn't someone write that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, or something like that."

He got a cheeky reply in return, "Well, sir. If that's true, then you must not be feeling very witty lately." Carter paused as she glanced over at her CO. "or ever."

Jack scowled at her, "No respect, I tell ya. What's the point in being General if you don't get respect?"

"So you can boss around the whole base instead of just us three." Daniel answered while getting comfortable in the seat across from Jack.

Jack grinned, "Oh yeah." He nodded, "Good times."

Daniel shook his head at him and then took a look at the plane they were in. He was too anxious before to notice. What he saw was a lot of dark blue and white. White leather chairs, deep blue plush carpet, and dark cherry wood panelling. "How come you never let us use the jet before?"

"Because any time we went anywhere in the last year, which was what? Once? It wasn't for business." Jack looked up from one of the reports he was reading, that he couldn't leave behind. No matter what Danny did he still had to work.

"But it's not business, it's personal."

"Yes, well. When I talked to General Hammond about taking a week to go with you to Hartford, he said to take the jet because I was going to take myself and SG1 and make it a public appearance when the President makes a scheduled stop there at the end of this week." Jack shifted as Daniel, Carter and Teal'c all scowled at him, "What!"

"How come we have to make a public appearance? We're on a classified project. Wouldn't it draw suspicion on what we do if we're with the President?" Carter asked.

Jack pointed a finger at her, "Yes! See that was the point I was trying to make to General Hammond but apparently since we're going to be in the area Hammond said to be there. President Hayes also wants to see us the day before when he flies in, wants to ask our opinion on something."

"Huh. I wonder about what?" Daniel settled further in his seat as he thought about and absently put his seatbelt on at the light came on.

"Ready to meet the family?"

Daniel looked up at Jack, "Huh?"

Jack nodded at the window as the plane descended and the city of Hartford came into view. Daniel's eyes focused, "Huh? Oh…oh crap. Dammit Jack! I almost had my mind off it!"

Jack sat back and chuckled. He couldn't wait to meet Daniel's family, he wondered if they can be as offbeat as Danny can be at times.

Emily was slowly driving Richard insane. If she wasn't pacing the front parlour, she was fidgeting in her seat, if not that then she was fixing the flowers on the side table, or making sure there was liquor and other drinks on the drink tray but she could not stay still. Richard sighed and put down his paper he was trying to read. Normally, he would be in his office on a Monday morning, probably on the phone conducting business deals but his wife's nephew was coming and Richard was not going to miss out on meeting this stranger coming into his house. Long lost relative or not. "Emily. You're going to wear yourself out at this rate."

Emily sighed and sat down on the loveseat, "I can't help it. He's going to be here any minute. What if I missed something?"

"Oh well, then it's the end of the world isn't it?" Richard smiled as Emily glared at him, "Relax, I'm sure he's not going to care about what might or might not be missed. He contacted you to meet you, and that's what's going to happen."

"I suppose." She twisted around in her seat to look at Richard, "Have you seen Rory around? I've left messages on her phone this weekend but I haven't heard from her or seen her around the pool house. I wanted her to be here to meet Daniel."

"She called Friday while we were out and left a message that she was going to spend time with Logan all weekend." Richard replied as he picked up his newspaper.

Emily bolted out of her seat as the doorbell rang and hurried to the door before Kitty could open it. She drew in a deep breath and nodded to Kitty to open the door. What she saw took away that breath, it was like looking at her older brother all over again. Daniel was tall, broad shouldered, lean and fit, but his face was Mel's. Strong jaw that complemented the nose, light brown short, spikey hair and his bright blue eyes was a mixture of his mother's shape and his father's color. Emily stepped forward with her hands out, "You must be Daniel."

Daniel smiled at Emily and took her hands in his own, "Yes. Thank you for this."

"Oh believe me, the pleasure is mine." They stood there a moment smiling at each other and taking in the other's presence, "Well, where are my manners. Come in." She ushered Daniel across the threshold, then turned to look outside again in confusion, "Where are you're friends that you said were coming with you? And your bags?"

"My friends thought it would be better if I meet you alone first. They dropped me off and said they would be back in two hours for us to get acquainted with each other."

"Isn't that thoughtful. I have to make sure to thank them when they return." She started walking towards the parlour, with Daniel following her, "Would you like something to drink?"

"Ah, just water for now, thank you." He stopped in place as a large, older man unfolded himself from delicate looking chair. Emily walked up to the man with a smile on her face.

"This is my husband Richard." Richard came up to Daniel with a hand outstretched which he grasped with his own, "Richard this is my nephew, Daniel Jackson."

Daniel tried not to flinch as Richard squeezed his hand, and he saw a warning light in the other man's eyes which Daniel understood quite well. He would feel the same if anyone came to Sam or Cassie claiming to be a long lost relative.

He nodded to the man that topped him by several inches. "It's good to meet you."

"Yes, you too." Richard squeezed his hand once last time before dropping it and nodded, "Well, I'll leave you two. I have some work that needs to get done before the end of the day."

Daniel watched him walk out the room and turned back to Emily as she walked up to him with his glass of water and then gestured to the chairs, "Why don't we sit down?"

"Thank you." Daniel said as they got comfortable with seats across form each other.

An awkward silence settled between them. Both Daniel and Emily looking at everything else in the room but each other, neither knowing how to start the conversation that both wanted.

Daniel cleared his throat and Emily looked over at him, "So…" he trailed off as he couldn't think of what to say. He knew over twenty four languages and didn't know what to say to his aunt.

"So…" Emily perked up as she thought of something, "What do you do exactly?"

"Ah, I'm a civilian consultant working for a military project based out of Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado."

"And what type of schooling did you need to become…a civilian consultant?"

"I have doctorates in Archaeology, Anthropology and Linguistics."

"Really? So you followed in your parents footsteps after all." Emily was pleased. Not only did her nephew had one PhD but three! She couldn't wait till her next D.A.R. meeting so she can brag about Daniel and maybe Mandy Cullson will finally shut up about her son receiving his doctorate.

"Well, I guess being born in Egypt and then having the first few years of my life there, watching my parents on the digs made me want to do the same." Daniel shifted in his seat a bit thinking how he can put his thoughts into sentence, "Emily…why didn't you have any contact with my father after you're wedding?"

Emily sighed and put her drink down on the table in front of her, "You have to first understand Daniel that some years before that, your father had a terrible fight with your grandfather and the result was that Melbourne was kicked out of the house, and not only that but also disowned. I was seventeen at the time and Mel just finished with his doctorate in Archaeology and now wanted to do something with it. He wanted to explore the world and the history behind it. Father was furious. He was a Jackson and for father, a Jackson meant you live a certain way for high society. Not following flights of fancy.

But that wasn't what made Father disown him. At college he met your mother Claire and to my young, romantic, teenage heart, they fell in love it seems as soon as they meet. The few times I met her, your father would glow from the inside out. He was so happy with her and asked her to marry him. She accepted of course." She paused as she thought back in time, "Father didn't like her, he thought of her as too low class, too common, and no son of his was going to marry a woman like that. So he laid out an ultimatum to Mel. Get rid of her or be disowned."

She looked down at her hands, twisting the ring that her mother gave her so long ago. "We know what choice he made. And father told us after that neither Henry nor I could have any contact with him, though I did get a postcard here and there."

"Who's Henry?"

Emily smiled, "Henry Elijah Jackson II. My eldest brother, the one who was suppose to inherit the family business and all that it entails."

Daniel leaned forward in his seat, "What happened?"

"He disappeared. Shortly after your father left, Henry argued with Father and he also left, he went to find Melbourne and bring him back. I never saw him after that. Father died a couple years later from a heart attack and a year later Mother died. Three years after that I married in 1966 to Richard. Your father must have found out somehow and came with your mother and you." Emily watched Daniel as he absorbed her words, "You were a year old and a pistol, you were loved so much by your parents, and it was wonderful to see. I was so happy that day. I was getting married to the man that I loved and I was reunited with my brother."

"So what happened that you lost contact after that?"

Emily smoothed out her skirt of her suit, "I'm not exactly proud of this and I have regretted it since." She paused and closed her eyes for a second before continuing, "It seems it was now my turn to argue with him. I wanted him to stay in the states. I wanted my brother around so I could go to him if I wanted. I wanted you to grow up knowing your aunt. So I told him that he either stayed here or I didn't want anything to do with him at all." Emily exhaled a shaky breath, "I was selfish and I hurt him. He said he expected that from Father but never from me. He stormed out…he always had a bit of a temper and a bit of the dramatic as well. Never heard from him since and I didn't know what happened to him or you until you called."

Daniel took off his glasses and brought his hand to his temple, "Wow."

Emily stood up and went around the coffee table to sit beside him, "Could you tell me what happened to your parents?"

Daniel's rubbed his hands over his face and head which made his hair stand up even more. He was silent so long that Emily was about to say something when he started to speak, "It was 1973 and we were in New York, my parents were offered the opportunity to set up the Egyptian display at the Natural Museum. I was examining with one of the artifacts off to the side, while my parents were supervising the lifting of a cover stone towards the ceiling, I saw one of the cables start breaking loose. I tried to say something. They were under the stone when it fell, crushing them. I was told they died instantly."

Emily let out a choked sob and pressed her fingers to her lips, her other hand grasped Daniels'. "And you were all alone. I'm so sorry Daniel, so sorry that I was not there for you."

Daniel grabbed her hand, "It's okay, and it's nice to know that you would have been there if you could."

They both jumped a bit and looked over at the patio doors when they opened up. A young, thin girl of about twenty with long brown hair and blue eyes came in, she stopped short as she saw her grandmother with her hand in a strange man's. "I'm sorry, am I interrupting?"

"No Rory. Come in!" Emily stood up and wiped the tears from her cheeks, "I want you to meet someone."

"Rory, this is my nephew, your cousin, Daniel Jackson. Daniel, this is my granddaughter Rory." She smiled at both of them as they shook hands, "Rory is living in the pool house, so you'll see her quite a bit this week."

"Grandma, what's going on?" Rory asked just as the doorbell rang.

"That would probably be my friends" Daniel said as he saw the maid heading to the door.

"I'll explain everything at dinner. Your mother should be here tonight as well so I won't have to explain everything twice." She smiled at both Daniel and Rory. "Well, let's go meet your friends, shall we?"