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Days later… they arrived in Colorado springs five minutes ago, the whole trip here had been almost silent. Jack turned on his street, it was the day before Christmas, it was snowing lightly and the traffic wasn't bad, most families were most likely visiting family members or having someone visiting them. Jack pulled into his driveway, his pathway had been shoveled.

"Hmm" Jack said as he got out of the car and followed the kids into the house, the fireplace was going, and the living room was cleaned up, on the coffee table was a note.

Merry Christmas! I would have left some hot coco out but I didn't know for sure when you would be home. Packages arrived and I put them in the kid's rooms. Well if you need anything, you know where to reach me. Carter.

Jack smiled and stuffed the note in his pocket.

"Who's that from uncle Jack?" Justin asked.

"Umm, Carter" Jack answered.

Justin smiled.

Jack shook his head. "You guys hungry?" Jack asked as he headed for the kitchen.

"A little" Justin said, and Dylan nodded.

"No," Paige said.

"Well, you're coming in the kitchen anyways, I want to keep my eye on you." Jack said.

Paige looked at the ground then followed him into the kitchen, Jack began making some soup.

"Soup again?" Justin asked.

Jack smiled. "Yeah, Paige are you sure you don't want some?"

Paige nodded.

"It's really good," Justin said.

Paige shook her head. "No thanks"

Jack frowned.

"Can I please go up to my room?" Paige asked, she was starting to get really bored, she was also tired, her head hurt and she wanted to take a nap.

"Not now, I'd rather be able to keep an eye on you." Jack said.

Paige sighed.

"You can go get a book or something" Jack said.

"Thanks" Paige mumbled then she got up, and walked out of the room, she returned a minute later reading some kind of math book, she flipped the page and looked up at her uncle, he was watching her like a hawk.

"Sorry" Jack said.

Paige ignored him and went back to her book.

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The next morning, Jack woke up early Christmas morning he got out of bed and went down to the kitchen to make cinnamon rolls for breakfast, he had made Paige keep her door opened last night, he hardly slept a wink because he kept going to her room to make sure she was still there.

Justin and Dylan walked down the stairs, Paige was sitting on the couch reading a book, by the sounds from the kitchen Justin guessed that his uncle was in the kitchen, Justin walked over to his sister and sat by her. "Hi" he said trying to get her attention, it didn't really work.

"Hi" she muttered not even looking up from her book she was reading, she flipped the page.

"Merry Christmas!" he said cheerfully.

"Mmm hmm" she flipped the page.

"Hello? Earth to Paige!" Justin said waving his hand in front of her eyes.

Paige swatted his hand away and continued reading.

Justin sighed and gave up trying to get her attention.

"Morning campers!" Jack said as he walked into the room with a plate of cinnamon rolls with a lot of icing on them. "Merry Christmas!" he added as he sat the plate on the table and took one for himself and began to eat it. "It's good if I do say so myself"

Justin smiled and leaned over and took one. "Hey, it's good!" he said as he took a bigger bite into the roll.

Paige lifted her eyes to see what they were talking about, her eyes winded when she saw the amount of icing, she rolled her eyes and went back to reading her book.

"Paige here!" Dylan said as he handed her one.

"No thank you" Paige said.

"Paige you should eat something" Jack said.

"I'm not hungry" Paige said, she wasn't, she had snuck about midnight and made herself a beef sandwich, somehow without someone catching her.

Justin looked helplessly at his uncle.

Jack shrugged. "Ok presents!" Jack shouted as he took a package and handed it to Dylan, then he gave one to Justin and put one besides Paige who insisted on finishing her chapter.

Justin unwrapped his PS2. "Thank you uncle Jack!" he shouted looking at the cool games that came with it. "Thanks!"

"You're welcome" Jack replied, that was the first time Justin had ever sounded… happy.

"Thank you uncle Jack" Dylan said as he ripped open the boxes to get the cars out, he lined all of them up in a line and slowly moved them around the room.

Paige sat her book down, and began unwrapping her gift, it was a gameboy SP, a small smiled spread across her face. "Thanks" she said quietly, but loud enough that everyone could hear her.

Jack smiled, maybe this wasn't the worse Christmas after all…

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The next morning Jack had a hard time moving around the house, Justin was in the middle of the living room floor playing his PS2 and Paige was sitting by the front door playing her gameboy and occasionally would pick up her book and begin to read it, then Dylan would be all over the house playing with his cars, since he couldn't really play with his baseball set because it was so cold outside.

Jack on the other hand was busy trying to get the house looking decent, he didn't know why he should even bother because it would get messing in a couple hours with Dylan's cars crashing everywhere, he walked over to the TV and picked up the empty mug that was once filled with hot coco, and now had stains.

"Uncle Jack, pick up a controller!" Justin said as soon as he noticed his uncle.

"Not yet, I have to pick up a few things in here first" Jack said, then walked into the kitchen to try and save his favorite Simpson's cup with Bart all over it, he turned on the water just as the phone rang, he sighed and turned off the water and picked up the phone. "O'Neill"

"Hello general, I was just wondering how did your Christmas go" Carters voice said cheerfully.

"It was ok" Jack said. '

"Ok, oh yeah, Cassie thanks you for the new game, and Janet said she's going to poke you with the biggest needle she can next time she sees you"

Jack gulped, he had gotten Cassie the newest Simpson game for her PS, and Janet hated the Simpson's. "Umm, so I take it the 'Doc of the year award' certificate didn't work?"

"Nope, sorry sir. I guess I will see you Friday" Carter said.

"Friday?" Jack repeated.

"Umm, you know work…"

"Oh, damn!"

"What's the matter sir?"

"What about the kids?" Jack asked.

Carter paused. "I don't know sir"

"I mean, they don't start their new school for three weeks, thanks for getting them signed up and everything by the way"

"Sir, Justin's old enough to baby-"

"I don't trust Paige" Jack said.

Carter paused again she didn't blame him. "I don't know sir, unless you find a babysitter"

"Carter, the problem isn't finding someone, I don't trust someone that much, I mean, I trust you, but you have work too, I trust Cassie but she can't baby-sit because she's away at college…" Jack said as he gave a heavy sigh. "I-I don't know what to do, because I can't bring them to-"

"I know" Carter said. "You might have to sir, I'm sure there is someway to explain what it is, just keep them away from the control room, you can hook a TV up in a guest room or something"

"Maybe…" Jack said, he didn't like the idea of three kids in the most classified complex on the planet!

"Well you better think of something, Friday is only three days away general" Carter said.

"I know, thanks Carter"

"Bye general" she said then hung up.

Jack stood there staring at the phone, what was he going to do?

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Ok, got another chap posted…. If you like my stories at all, please read 'Fall out'! I think it's my best yet!

Anyways, hope you liked this chapter!