"So, what do all of you do for a living?" Sam asked as everyone sorted through the big piles of presents they had brought to exchange.
"As you know, I'm a rocket scientist," Manny said, informing everyone again just how smart he was.
"I'm a garbage man," Nathan said. "It's kinda gross, but the hours are the same, and the pay's not bad either."
Gabriel smirked, "Yeah, but you smell like cr…poo every time you visit. I'm an income tax collector."
Sam raised her eyebrows, "Ah. So, you bust people for tax evasion?"
"That's about it," Gabe nodded sagely. He was so full of himself.
Luke smiled warmly at Sam, "You've probably already guessed that I'm a history teacher. Hence the fascination with Dr. Jackson."
Sam nodded, "You're not the only one. Just about everyone we meet sooner or later falls for the 'Jackson charm' in one way or another."
Jack grimaced, "Don't remind me! Wasn't that how the whole 583 thing got started?"
Sam nodded, seeing the confused looks from those around her she explained, "It's a classified incident but basically Daniel was being his regular charming self and ended up getting kidnapped by an Amazonian tribe of women who all wanted to have his children."
Everyone laughed at that. Most of them didn't even know what Daniel Jackson looked like, but all found the situation he had found himself in humorous.
"What do you do for a living, Samuel?"
"I'm a rabbi."
"Oh."
The day went by rather swiftly for the O'Neill family; the children played in the snow while the adults prepared for the first night of what looked to be a wonderful and peaceful Hanukkah. Sunset was supposed to be around 1645 (A/N: Estimating here, I live on the ocean.) so Sam and Jack told Daniel and Teal'c to get there around 1600 for the start of the festivities.
It was nearing 1600 hours and right on the dong of the clock the front door opened and Daniel said, "Knock, knock? Jack you really shouldn't keep your front door unlocked!" as he hobbled in on crutches with Teal'c in tow to make sure he didn't fall – again.
Sam squealed when she saw Daniel, plowing into him and giving him a really big hug. "Daniel! You know you're not suppose to be walking around yet!"
"Yeah, that's what Jan – Dr. Brightman told me. She was not impressed when I told her I could be a worse patient than Jack."
Sam grinned, "That's probably because Jack's only ever been under her supervision at the infirmary once since she got here. She's not Janet."
Luke, having not heard the discussion, only hearing from Jack that Daniel was there bounded into the hallway, stopping short of plowing into Sam as she had Daniel, "Dr. Jackson! Oh this is so cool! I never actually thought I'd really meet you!"
Daniel shook his hand, nervously wondering whom the psycho was. Sam giggled at Daniel's face, "Daniel, this is Jack's youngest brother, Luke. Luke, you're right. This is Dr. Daniel Jackson."
"Okay, kids! If you want to talk, you're going to have to talk in the living room, everyone else wants a chance to meet him too, Luke!" Jack called from a few feet away.
"Is it necessary to raise the decibel level of your voice indoors, O'Neill?" Teal'c asked stoically. Jack just glared at him.
"Come on, come on! I want to go see Uncle Jack's and Auntie Sam's friends!" a little boy dragged his older sister behind him into the living room where everyone had congregated.
Sam smiled, "Jesse, is it really necessary to drag Mary all over the house?"
Jesse huffed as he walked over to Teal'c and Daniel, inspecting the newcomers with great care. "She didn't want to come."
Ziporah and Priscilla came bounding in from playing in the snow, "Uncle Jack!" Cilla cried happily. "We found this in the snow!" She happily handed her uncle a small black box (which the twins had opened previously to discover the contents). Much to the chagrin on Jack, who took it, quickly putting it in his pocket.
Nathan grinned at his brother's thoughtlessness, "And you said I needed lessons in the art of subtlety! Ha!"
"So…pudding anyone?" Jack asked, trying to change the subject.
Tam glared at him, "You know that we don't eat anything until after the candles are lit! Shame on you, Jonathan! Aren't you going to make introductions?"
Jack sighed, his joy deflated, "Fine, fine. Daniel, T, this is my family Gabe, Nathan, Samuel, Luke who you already know, Tamar, Deborah, Michael, Lydia, Manny, Stephanie, Tris, Ziporah, Priscilla, Jesse, Mary, this little one is Phebe, and those three trouble makers are Joel, Timothy and Noah. Everyone, this is Daniel and Teal'c."
"Teal'c," Ziporah said, trying to get the sound of the name in her mouth, "That's an interesting name. Where are you from?"
"A small tribe in Mozambique," Teal'c said to the young girl. There was a lot more people there that there was yesterday!
Mary climbed up onto Teal'c's lap; it surprised almost everyone that the burly man was receptive to her request, "Uncle T, can you tell me a story?"
Teal'c smiled down at the little girl who looked so much like her mother with bouncy blonde curls and sage green eyes, "Indeed, little one. What genre of story would you prefer?"
Mary smiled, she liked this man, "Can you tell me one about Uncle Jack and Auntie Sam, please?"
Daniel grinned, this was going to be interesting. "Tell them all about the time with the thing, and that race with that weapon, at the thing in the temple with the one thing."
Teal'c smiled at the younger man, "Which occasion are you referring to, Daniel Jackson? The first, second or third occasion?" Sam and Jack were both terrorized that Teal'c might tell a story about what they thought he was going to tell it about.
Daniel's grin grew impish, "The first time."
"Very well. Listen carefully; once in the not to distant past, we were traveling in a far away land…"
"Where were you?" Mary asked curiously. The room had grown completely silent to hear the tale Teal'c was weaving. Sam and Jack looked about ready to bolt for the door, but they wanted to see how Teal'c was going to tell this story without giving away any national secrets.
"In a far away land, Mary O'Neill," Teal'c responded patiently. "We were traveling, and we came across a temple in the middle of a desert wasteland. Going inside, we found a group of tribesmen and women who thought then Major Carter was a goddess. At O'Neill's insistence that she wasn't anything more than a human, they proclaimed that he was her mate and a god. It took us three days to retrieve the two of them from the highly guarded rooms they were given."
Cilla looked at her mother, winking, "So, why didn't they think that you or Uncle Daniel was her mate, Uncle Teal'c?"
Teal'c loved being called uncle. As he was an only child, this new title made him feel all warm and fuzzy inside (although he would never admit that to anyone). "Daniel Jackson and myself were seen as the gods' servants and protectors."
This idea thoroughly confused Joel, "Why would a god need a protector?"
Jack looked at his young nephew, "I thought the exact same thing."
A/N: So? What do you think? You can tell me in a review. Really! It's true.