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Janet was doing the dishes when her phone rang. She quickly turned off her water and dried her hands; she picked up the phone. "Doctor Fraiser" she said into the phone, her eyes widened. "I'll be right there," she said and quickly hung up, she ran into the living room. "Get your shoes on kids."

"What's going on?" Justin asked as he quickly stood up and turned off his game and slipped on his tennis shoes.

"I'm going back to work," Janet answered as she helped Dylan put on his. "Where's Paige?"

"In Cassie's room," Justin said. "I'll go get her." He ran out of the room. "Paige!"

Paige looked up from the bed. "What?" She snapped.

"We have to go, come on!" Justin said as he picked her crutches and handed them to her. "Come on!"

"Why?" Paige asked as she followed him out of the room.

"I don't know, I think it's something about our uncle!" he said, Janet and Dylan were already in the mini van, so they hurried out there.

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"What's going on?" Janet demanded as she entered the infirmary, she had a guard escort the kids to the VIP room.

"It's ok Janet," Carter assured her. "We're all fine." she brushed her fingers through Beth's very dirty hair.

"Who's this?" Janet asked as she walked over to them.

"This is Beth. Beth this is Janet," Carter said, she gave Janet a hug.

"Hi Beth sweetie, I have to do a check-up ok? To make sure you're not sick." Janet said.

Beth nodded.

Janet smiled. "Good."

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"There you go, all done!" Janet said as she stepped back from Beth.

Beth smiled.

"Come on, lets go get something to eat." Carter said as she took her hand.

"Doc, where's my kids?" Jack asked.

"In the VIP room, they all have been worried sick about you," she said with a small smile.

Jack smiled back and hurried out of the room.

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"UNCLE JACK!" Justin shouted as soon as he walked into the room. "We were so worried about you! What happened? Where have you been?"

"I'm fine, I just got stuck on the P-L-A-N-E-T for a while."

Dylan looked as if he was trying to figure out what the word spelt, but gave up.

"I'm just glad you're ok," Justin said, he never thought he would be this happy to see his uncle in his life!

"Me too." Dylan said.

Jack turned to Paige, she was in the corner of the room playing her game boy.

"Come on, let's go home, we're having a BBQ party tonight."

"We are?" Dylan asked.

"You bet."

The little boy grinned. "Cool!"

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Beth followed Carter into the commissary; she looked around. There were a lot of people sitting around eating. "Come on" Carter said as she tugged on her dress. "Let's get food,". Beth nodded and followed into the line for food.

"What's that?" Beth asked as she pointed to pizza.

"That is pizza, kids love it on this planet, here try it" Carter said as she put a slice on Beth's plate.

"What's that?" Beth asked as they got to the end of the line.

"That? That is one of the best things in all of the galaxy," Carter said as she lifted two bowls of blue jello off of the tray of jello.

"What's it called?" Beth asked as she sat down and looked at it.

"It's blue jello," Carter said as she began to eat her food.

Beth watched how Carter used her spoon for her jello; she dipped her spoon into the jello and the piece dropped off of the spoon and onto the floor. "Sorry," She quickly apologized.

Carter smiled. "Don't worry about it, try again."

Beth dug into the jello and pulled up the spoon and shoved it into her mouth. "It's good!"

"You sound surprised"

Beth smiled.

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"Come on, shopping time," Carter said, they were in her lab. "But first put these on." she said as she handed her some of Cassie's old clothes. "They probably will be a little big…"

"Ok," Beth said disappeared behind the door. "No, they sort of fit."

Carter smiled. "Come on let's go…"

They reached the parking lot a few minutes later.

"What's that?" Beth asked as she pointed to a car. "It looks like a big bug or something…"

Carter laughed. "It's a car, you go places in it."

"You mean like to other planets?" Beth asked.

"No, to like stores and stuff." Carter replied.

Beth raised an eyebrow but said nothing.

"Here hop in." Carter said as she opened a door to her car.

Beth nodded and sat in, Carter buckled her up and went to her side of the car and buckled herself. "Why'd you tie us both down? Both of us could very easily get out of this," Beth said rather disdainfully.

Carter laughed again. "No, I didn't tie us down, this is for safety."

"Oh."

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Carter and Beth walked into Mervyns; Beth hadn't stopped asking Carter questions about earth and how electricity worked and everything. Beth followed Carter into the girls department; Carter picked up a pink blouse and held it up next to Beth.

"Perfect!" she said as she draped it over her arm.

"What's this?" Beth asked as she pointed to a shirt that said. 'You can never watch to much TV!' it showed a picture of a TV on it.

Carter smiled. "That's a TV, you'll see one tonight…" Carter said.

Beth smiled. The two added more clothing to the little girls wardrobe and then, stopping by the grocery store and grabbing a loaf of bread, proceeded to the O'Neill's.

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Jack flipped over the hamburgers and steaks for the adults; Justin had made the O'Neill famous German chocolate cookies, and lemonade. Ding-dong, Jack put down the spatula and wiped his hand, then went to the door and answered it. "Carter, Beth…" he said, he was a little surprised that Carter had brought Beth. But he didn't say anything. "Come in, come in," he said as he moved out of there way. "Beth I love your outfit!" Jack said as she looked down at the black pants and pink T-Shirt.

Beth smiled.

"Your hair is clean!"

Beth smiled again. She had been so scared at first when she had went into the shower, it had taken what seemed like forever to wash everything out of her hair.

"You guys hungry?"

Carter and Beth nodded.

"Good!" Jack said. "Come in the kitchen, hamburgers are almost done!" he said as he hurried into the kitchen.

Carter smiled and followed, with Beth right behind her.

"Thank you Justin" Jack said as he took the spatula away from him. "Would you get the plates ready?"

"Yeah," Justin said as he moved to the plates.

"Sit down, food will be ready in a minute," he said as he pointed to the empty chairs by the table.

Beth sat next to Paige who was reading her math book, and Carter sat next to Dylan.

"What's that?" Beth asked as she pointed to Paige's math book.

Paige looked up. "It's a book," she answered.

"I know that, but what is… Math?"

Paige stared at her.

"It's what you learn in school," Carter explained.

Beth nodded her head. "That's cool."

"What planet are you from?" Justin asked coming closer.

Beth looked over at him.

"Justin! That was rude!"

Justin looked over at his uncle. "Sorry."

"I'm not the one who you should be saying sorry to," Jack said pointing to Beth.

"But! She's like stupid!"

"JUSTIN!" Paige and Jack shouted.

Beth looked down.

Carter looked over at her.

"Justin, go to your room." Jack ordered.

Justin stared at his uncle. "Fine!" he said loudly then stalked out of the room.

"I'm sorry about my brother Beth," Paige said as she turned to her.

"It's alright."

Jack watched as Beth and Paige talked. Paige hadn't talked like, really talked in a long time.

"General, I think the hamburgers are burning," Carter said bring his attention back to the slightly charred hamburgers.

"Oh! Right!" Jack said he turned back to the hamburgers and turned them off.

Beth and Paige giggled.

"Ok, so who's hungry?" Jack asked as he held up a plate of hamburgers.

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"That was nice of you Carter," Jack said.

"What was?" Carter asked.

"That you brought Beth."

"Oh, about her, umm... I'm going to adopt her." Carter said in a rush.

"What?" Jack asked, positive he had misheard. "You… are… adopting… BETH?"

"Yes."

"Was that the deal? Was that the only way we could get off the planet?" Jack shouted.

"Yeah, well no, yes but-"

"Carter! We could have figured it out!" Jack shouted. "You didn't have to give your life away!"

"Did it occur to you that maybe I didn't give my life away? And that I just got a life?"

Jack stared at her. "You wanted to adopt her?"

"... Yes…"

Jack looked down at the ground. "I'm sorry"

Carter shook his head. "It's fine, I think it's time I get going," She said as she stood up. "Beth!"

"Coming!" Beth shouted. A moment later she appeared. The two said their good bye and hurried away.

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So? How was it? It was extra long, just for you nice reviewers!