The SGC was in chaos, what with over 30 refugee children on the base and their 14 year old leader. It had been a week since their arrival on earth, and there had been much talk over what to do with the children. There had been talk of splitting them up into groups and keeping some on earth, and sending some to live with their allies. But nothing had been decided yet. Although Hammond had a feeling that quite a few of the children would be adopted by SGC personnel. Especially Janine, who Major Carter and Jack O'Neill had become quite attached to. She showed great intelligence in science and also could go toe to toe with any number of the men on the base, except for maybe Teal'c.
When the children from another galaxy showed up, the first thing they had done was call down all the medical personnel and give them all physicals. Their DNA was surprisingly similar to humans in this Galaxy, some even possessed the Ancient gene. A lot of the staff on the base with children, young or grown up, brought in toys, clothes, and games for the many children, although most were brought in through the weekly supplies. The children were classified as refugees fleeing from a hostile, and were all given temporary Visas until they could be placed.
This was a sticky situation for the SGC, for while it would have been easy to call Social Services to help find the children homes, there was that little situation about the children being from another Galaxy. None of the children were siblings, although many of them were as close as any set of siblings being as they had grown up in what they called the temple since they were very young.
The older children, aged from 5 to around 8 were occupied with simple board games, blocks, legos, play doe, and other toys that had been brought in Jack along with a few Airmen with children had spent some time explaining the rules to the games, Chutes and Ladders, Sorry, Pictonary Jr, Candy Land, to name a few, as well as show them how to work the legos.
They brought in extra medical personnel to take care of the younger children who required more direct attention. But at this moment, SG-1 and General Hammond were talking to Janine about their future. "You have to understand, Janine, this facility is classified, that means that it is a place not known to the rest of the planet. So it is a delicate thing. We can't let a huge group out loose playing, because it will take notice."
"I understand, but it's just that the kids, they are bored being cooped up in those small rooms."
Jack thought of something. "Sir, I could take Janine and Cassie and between the three of us and Sam, we could take the older kids to a local playground. We could go somewhere out of town, so that I wouldn't be recognized. There are what, 15 kids over the age of 5? We could take them, and between the four of us, we should be able to keep an eye on them."
Hammond leaned forward, "Have you ever looked after 15 kids at one time, Colonel?"
"No, how bout we bring Daniel, Janet, and Teal'c. Between the five of us, plus two teenagers, we should be able to handle them. Anyway, if anybody asks, they are kids of ours and some of their friends. Which they probably won't."
"All right, you can take them to a playground, but no swimming, and you'll have to get all the kids some normal clothes."
"Will do, sir." He answered with a big smile on his face, "We've brought in enough clothes for all of them, and Cassie let Janine here borrow some of her clothes."
Hammond stood up, "All right, you have a go on Operation Playground."
Jack just smiled and said, "Very good sir."
TBC…
A/N: Next chapter things get crazy when Jedi children meet a playground. REVIEW!
