Be warned, this is a rather wordy chapter.

The three of them arrived at the house falling out of the car, quite literally. All of the men, well the man and the two 'children,' were beet faced from laughing so hard on the car trip.

Sam, Teal'c and Hammond peered at them like they all had multiple heads. Of all the things they'd seen, this was undoubtedly one of the strangest. Jack, Daniel, and Chris caught the look on their faces and that spawned another bout of laughter.

"Oh?" Sam asked suspiciously.

Hammond, Carter, and Teal'c all had the raised eyebrow look on that they'd learned.

All of three minutes later, Jack stopped laughing. He was the first. Actually, he'd been startled. It wasn't like him to open up like that so much - laughing that damn hard – though it had been fun. He grinned at the thought.

Jack had been having problems letting his other side possess half his brain, as Janet had put it. He wasn't entirely comfortable with the childish-not him emotions coming to front. He'd been learning to hide it all behind a stone mask for all these years. Now it just came tumbling down. All the others seemed to be taking pretty well.

He didn't want it all coming suddenly. Jack wanted to relax into the "condition" if he had to. And Janet said he did. Jack gave an inward sigh that was resigned. He would let himself take on these new emotions and feelings – but very slowly and only very slowly. He wanted time to adjust.

If his teammates could deal with it, he could too, but it wasn't that easy. Jack wasn't ready to expose himself that much. It was hard, but to keep fighting it was to make things worse for himself and, ultimately, his team.

The micro-colonel looked back at his old friend and new friend, still wheezing and smiled at them.

Ya know, I really like that guy! Jack thought happily then checked himself. Whoa… that was weird. But he is pretty cool… despite the fact he's Daniel's friend. Hold on, I'm also Daniel's friend… oops. He chortled to himself and ran to Hammond.

He grabbed his keys from the general and ran to the house to open it up again.

"Welcome back to m- the general's house!" He said it with such enthusiasm that Hammond had to grin. He shuffled the kids and one other adult into his 2IC's house.

"Everyone's welcome to crash. Including you Dr. Parson." Hammond smiled warmly at the man. Daniel immediately felt better that the general liked his best friend. The general wouldn't have just let anyone into the "family."

Chris shook the general's hand gratefully. "Chris will do just fine sir."

Hammond smiled back. "Then George will do fine too. I guess we'll drop the ranks for now." Then he turned to his charges. "That is until I see you at the base soldiers!" he said mockingly. They all giggled, except Teal'c who smiled in his peculiar way. Immediately they all straightened and threw off a salute.

"Sir yes sir!" they yelled in their scrawny voices. Chris was amused and amazed, to say the least.

"Can you teach me how to get my kid to do that?"

They just laughed.

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"So whadda want to talk about Chris?"

He shrugged. What was there to talk about with a ten year old? Especially one that wasn't, but Chris didn't know that. Daniel suspected that Chris hadn't caught on yet. It was only a matter of time until someone figured it out.

"How old are you Danny?" Chris pondered out of the blue. Daniel didn't actually know, so he made it up. He was going to be nine.

"I'm nine!" he said proudly, showing that many fingers. Chris "mmmm"ed. Daniel became kind of surprised, maybe Chris had caught on! That would be bad.

So far the man hadn't made any attempt to tickle him or do anything childish. Daniel would have if it was Chris' kid… dang.

Chris had noticed a certain kind of intelligence behind those childish eyes. The kid knew a lot for being Daniel's nephew. For God's sake, he didn't see his nephew enough where he told him that much about his own childhood.

I don't think my nephew even knows about Daniel, does he? No, I never told Jason about him… Daniel most have spent a huge amount of time with this kid.

Daniel started bouncing on the bed, a sign of impatience, but it was leading up to something.

"Hey! Wanna drink Chris?" the archeologist (shrunken) asked his pal. Before he could answer, Daniel ran out of the room. Chris smiled and followed more slowly.

Daniel ran straight to the kitchen where Hammond and the others stood. So he voiced his findings.

"Hey guys, I think Chris guessed something here."

"What do we do sir?" Sam asked Hammond. Hammond peered at Chris standing by a chair, scratching his neck.

"We wait until he thinks he knows for sure."

So, you guys like it still or what? I dont think I'm writing as well as I was... but thats up to you! Review please!