A/N: Timeline Issues: This takes place after Season 8 of Stargate. For the Gilmore Girls it's Season 6 during the episode "Twenty One is the Loneliest Number" which I changed a bit to suit my needs for this fic. Rory's Party took place on her birthday of Oct 6 which is a Thursday and the President's Party is Friday. Rory hasn't talked to the Reverend yet.

Also Pairings: I'm writing this as close to canon as I get, so Lorelai and Luke, Rory and Logan.

Thanks to crissy, orange-straw, ScottJunkie, Sea4Shoes, Queen of the Paperclips and Lara Kingsley who reviewed last chapter.

Chapter 5

Lorelai stood staring at the front door of the Gilmore mansion slowing sipping the coffee from the to-go cup from Luke's wondering how long she could drag the time out before she actually had to go through the door. She had already been standing there ten minutes thinking about what could be on the other side of the door. Granted she already knew it was fire scorching torment of hell with her mother being the star role of the devil, but why was Emily so insistent that she come here tonight. Lorelai couldn't even come up with a plausible excuse to not come it was so sudden and she didn't have her handy list of excuses available at the time, so now she will have to endure her mother's cold glares with comments on her lifestyle, her father's indifferent conversations and the awkward silences with Rory.

She sighed as she thought on how things have turned out for her and Rory; she wished everything would go back to the way they were before Yale. She and Rory would stuff their faces with junk food as they mocked the movies they rented for the night, they would tease Luke together until he gave them the coffee they wanted and she would make him blush, and they would talk as they used to about everything in their lives. Lorelai missed her best friend.

Lorelai tipped the cup for the last delicious drop of coffee, and then looked around where she could stash it before going inside. Her eyes landed on the planter beside the door that had some weird type of shrub. Perfect. With any luck her mother would find it in a couple weeks and go ballistic and Lorelai will be no where to be found.

She took a deep breath and moved her hand to the doorbell, but before she could press it the door swung open to reveal a large dark man with a golden tattoo on his forehead. Ouch. Why would someone do that to themselves?

"Wow. Did Mom finally get rid of the maids and decided to get a Lurch?"

"As far as I know she did not." The deep voice seemed to vibrate through Lorelai, as the man raised an eyebrow as he observed her finger still poised to ring the bell, "I have interrupted you in the pleasure of pressing the doorbell. I shall close the door so you may do so."

Lorelai stood there once again staring at the closed door, flabbergasted and amused that anyone would actually do that. She stored this moment away so she could remember to do it herself to someone at another time. Preferably to Kirk or Taylor but it would also be really fun to do it to Michel. Oh, the possibilities! But first…she pressed the doorbell.

The same mountain of a man opened the door, who then stepped aside to let her enter. He bowed his head toward her, "Greetings, I am Murray Teal'c, a guest in this house."

"Well, greetings to you too. I am Lorelai Gilmore, the daughter who grew up in this house then proceeded to run away with her daughter in tow to get away from being suffocated and managed." She held out a hand to him, "Nice to meet you. So… why is a guest answering the door? Did my mother have a coronary or something?"

"She has not, LorelaiGilmore. EmilyGilmore is waiting for you." Murray turned and proceeded towards the back of the house.

"Nothing unusual there. So, again, but why is my mother letting a guest answer the door?" Lorelai hurried to catch up to him.

"I was merely passing the front door when I heard some giggling. I opened the door to investigate and found you there." Murray announced as they walked into the parlour.

"Oh, um, it wasn't me." She stammered out as her turned a raised eyebrow her way, "The giggling I mean. It was the invisible person beside me that you couldn't see because, huh, invisible and I'll stop now." Lorelai looked over at Murray, "Ever play poker? Cause if anyone has a poker face it's you."

"I have."

Lorelai waited for more of a response but all Murray was doing was looking at her. Huh, is that amusement? And Hah! A smirk right there. She felt proud of herself that she got even that.

"Lorelai! You're finally here." She turned toward the voice to see her mother come towards her with a martini in her hands which she gave to Lorelai. "Here's your preferred drink, and garnished with an olive, just the way you like it."

"Uh, thanks mom." She took a closer look at her mother, who looked…happy? "Why are you in such a cheerful mood?"

"What? I can't be happy?" Emily asked affronted.

"Nooo, you can be happy. I'm just suspicious when you are. Did you finally do it?" Lorelai leaned a bit closer and lowered her voice a bit. "Did you finally kill off everyone who has ever pissed you off, and got rid of them in way that would never point to you? You did it. You committed the perfect murder!"

Lorelai turned toward the sitting area when she heard snort of laughter, and wondered who gave that said snort, because they obviously have a sense of humour and she's going to plaster herself against them all night if she had to survive here. She saw two good looking well muscled men sitting in the chairs. One was about her age with short brown hair and blue eyes hiding behind real unfashionable glasses. The other was about ten or fifteen years older with salt and pepper hair. "Ooooo, company! Hi! I'm Lorelai Gilmore." She stepped forward and offered her hand them.

They both stood up and the older one grabbed her hand, "I'm Jack O'Neill."

Emily hurried forward before the younger one could say anything, "And this is Daniel Jackson." Lorelai shook his hand, "He's your cousin."

"Ah, from what crazy branch of the Gilmore's are you from?"

Daniel smiled and pushed up his glasses, "I'm, ah, not from the Gilmore side." Laughter was heard before Daniel could get any further and Rory came down the stairs with a tall, good looking blonde woman. Jeez, it's like an invasion of the totally hot people…huh, maybe they're pod people?

"Rory! Are you done giving Samantha a tour of the house?"

"Yes Grandma." She turned to Lorelai, "Mom."

"Hey Kiddo." Lorelai opened her mouth to say more but her mother cut her off.

"Lorelai, this is Samantha Carter, Samantha this is my daughter Lorelai."

Samantha smiled at Lorelai, "It's nice to meet you."

"You too." Lorelai smiled at her then turned to her mom, "so, mom…what's going on. Who are all these people?"

"Daniel is your cousin from my side of the family." Emily smiled at the young guy, who smiled back.

Lorelai and Rory looked at each other confused, "But you don't have any family on your side. You said all your family was gone." Lorelai said.

"That's what I thought too." Emily sat down on one of the love seats and one by one every one else followed her lead. "Both my brother's had disappeared, and I only saw Melbourne, Daniel's father, once after that at my wedding. I just found out he was alive when he called me after researching his family tree, and found out he had family he never knew."

Lorelai glanced over at Daniel, who was already staring at her and Rory, "Wow, and you voluntarily decided to come and meet us? You are a very brave man."

He smiled and glanced down, "I was eager to meet any family I could. Learn a bit more about my roots, so to speak."

"Again, I say, you are a very brave man." She looked at the other three, "So are you also long lost family, cause I gotta say with this much good genes in the family I may get good looking grandchildren no matter who Rory marries."

The older guy gave another snort of laughter, and slapped Daniel on the shoulder, "There is hope for you yet Danny with someone who actually has a sense of humour in your family."

"I believe DanielJackson has a well developed sense of humour as he had to deal with you for the past nine years."

Both Samantha and Daniel smirked at Jack as Teal'c dry tone washed over them. "They are good friends of mine. I work with them but more than that, they have become my family as I didn't know my own." Daniel told Lorelai.

"Plus, Daniel can't go anywhere on his own. This one always seems to find trouble."

"Jaaaccckk," Daniel whined, "I'm perfectly fine in going anywhere myself. I did before I met you." He narrowed his eyes at Jack, "Maybe it's you that gets me into trouble."

Jack smirked, "Whatever you say Daniel."

"It does remind me that this trip has turned somewhat into a business trip as well." Daniel told Emily.

"What? Oh dear. I was hoping to spend time with you and I'm sure Rory and Lorelai will want to as well. Even though I may be busy on Wednesday and Thursday getting everything ready for Rory's twenty first birthday party Thursday night." Emily said and smiled at Rory. She turned back to Daniel, "You'll be able to attend right."

Daniel looked over at Jack who nodded, "Yes, it seems we can. But we may be a bit late, we have a meeting to go to on Thursday and then on Friday we have a dinner to go to here in Hartford."

"Really? Anyone I might know?" Emily asked.

"Ah, um…" Daniel looked at Jack again, who yet nodded once again. "It's the dinner for the President, that's who we're meeting the day before as well."

Lorelai looked over at her mother and daughter, yup, totally shocked at well. Her mother looked like one of those crash test dummies after they have already been tested. Very funny, she really wished she had a camera. She sighed; she will look back on this night with fond memories. Not only did she see her mother gobsmacked, which she now has a memory of what that description actually meant. She also met people she might like to get to know and she already started to like the newcomers before they even put that expression on her mother face.

She was distracted by her father coming in rubbing his hands together like a business deal went right, "So, what did I miss?"

"Richard! Daniel was just telling us that he and his friends will be in attendance at the President's Dinner on Friday." Emily told her husband, her eyes not yet leaving her nephew.

"Really! Why Emily had been trying for a couple months to get invitations to that dinner, how did you get them?" Richard asked them as he poured himself a scotch.

"We only knew about it since this morning actually. And we were more or less ordered to show up." Daniel said. Lorelai almost giggled with glee as she watched her mother's face, this is even better that VH1!

"Um, question?" Rory spoke up, "What do you guys do that the President of the United States would order you to come to a dinner? And in Hartford for whatever reason? What is he planning to reveal?"

"That wasn't a question. That was three questions." Jack said as he took he took a gulp of beer. "We do deep space radar telemetry. No idea about Hartford or the President's plans."

"Deep space radar telemetry?" Rory said disbelievingly, "Sam I could see as she is an astrophysicist and you as a General, they need to have someone in command and you have a masters in astronomy. But Daniel is an archaeologist and a linguist and I couldn't find anything on Murray so I wouldn't know where he would fit. And why would you be under NORAD if you were doing telemetry?"

Lorelai looked over at the visitors, "You should see some of her articles. She can become a great journalist." She said proudly, if only she would go back to Yale.

Jack leaned over to Daniel, "Great, another one in your family that is determined to find the truth." He looked over at Rory, "Tell you what, why don't I ask the President when we meet Thursday if you would all like to come on Friday? But before I do, how did you get all that information?"

Rory smirked at Jack, "It's amazing what you can find on the internet, and I did it all while you were unpacking and settling in your rooms."

"Huh, well, I don't know if the President will agree but I'll see if he can extend the invitation to all of you." Jack said as he looked over at Richard and Emily.

"That would be wonderful!" Emily said as she brought her hands to her chest.

At this point Kitty came in and announced dinner was ready. As they all got up to follow the maid, Lorelai sidled up to Daniel, "So any plans for tomorrow?"

"Not that I know of, why?"

"Well, I thought it might be a good time to get to know my cousin enough to see if he could be my favourite." Lorelai said, "Why don't you come to Stars Hollow where I live? I'll show you around small town America and you haven't lived until you meet some of the people there. I would also like to introduce to you my fiancé."

Daniel smiled, "That sounds great. I look forward to it."

"Great!" She smiled back at him, "Ten o'clock? I'll give you directions. Also it will give me time to hide all the skeletons in my closets."

"It's a date."