(grovels) this is SUPPOSED to be the 1/7/06 anniversary piece, but the comp wouldnt let me post blah blah blah and so here i am... this WAS written on 1/7/06 tho! i beg for your forgivenness in my tardiness.

americanCHICK41 - thanks a bunch! (blushes)
SilverRider - oh yeah... super typical... and i mean it!
Darth Tater - or maybe you review cuz your nice? LOL, ah, no more real HHGTTG things, only one in this chappie
nightpheonix - dang it, i told you to put the food off! lol, only glad that your immortal and can come back to life!
SG-Fan - i hope by now all of you are well? me hopes...
BookWorm37 - the goodies was the nice feeling you get when you do something nice... i think...

thank you for all your kind reviews and am looking forward to more... (hinthintnudgenudge) and they will get home... eventually... HEHE

this week's treat... iBrownies!

"Woooooooww!" said the three collective voices of the children as they looked on in awe and total shock.

"That is most impressive Jacob Carter," Teal'c stumbled out. The other three children glared at him for a moment then resumed looking at the end of time and everything.

"It's so depressing." Jack looked around for the voice that was disturbing the show. "It's the end of everything and anything," it sighed.

"Jack found the source. "Shut up you tin can." He kicked the robot lightly. The robot scurried for the door.

"Look at that, violence everywhere. It's inherent in the system." The robot sighed again and it was gone. Jack turned his eyes back to space to see the "grand finale" of the universe. With a sudden collapse of color and utter silence, cheering and clapping broke out in the Restaurant and the children with Jacob and Teal'c were among the loudest.

"Daddy, thank you sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much for bringing me here. That was so cool. It was…" she seemed to be in deep thought, "astronomical, to use exactly the right word!" Sam knew she'd heard that phrase said at least once before. The blonde hair, blue eyed mound of energy shook with giggles.

Jacob tousled his daughter's hair and smiled. Jack and Daniel walked up behind his daughter. The Tok'ra eyed them warily.

"Yes?"

"Umm… Jake… we're sorry for the pain we've caused you in the ship," Jack said first.

"Yeah, real sorry about that. I know I would have hated it," Daniel added. "I am sorry as well," Djari also put it.

"That's okay. I guess I forgive you because you're little and don't you deny it," Jacob mentioned when the two little boys started to open their mouths in protest. They smiled.

"We have one thing to ask you general," Daniel said kindly.

"What?"

The boys chorused together with huge smiles, "Where's the bathroom?"

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Back on the ship, the children slept. Well all except Sam, but she was trying to. Sudden headaches kept hitting her with waves of intense memory recall. The end of the universe show had reminded her of when she had to blow up a sun and how nervous she'd been.

"Well, it's just that I've never blown up a star before sir."

"They say the first time is the hardest." She looked at him strangely. "They say…"

Although Carter could feel the tension of the moment, that little phrase made her smile. She wished desperately that Tok'ra got headaches so they could store aspirin onboard. Sam rubbed her temples violently in order to release the memory.

Hearing a small groan, Jacob looked over his shoulder at the children and saw his beloved Sam rubbing her temples so vigorously that her skin might have fallen away.

"Honey? What's wrong?"

"Advil!" she gasped. He chuckled and slowly pulled out a box from inside his Tok'ra garb. Jacob walked back up front and grabbed the water bottle he carried in the water bottle holder he'd made last year and handed it to Sam.

"Thank you… oh what a headache," his daughter replied. She looked as if she was on the verge of crying.

"Hurt that bad?" he asked. She nodded with tears leaking out her eyes. With a bear hug from her teddy-bear-like father, she let those few tears out from the pain and sighed happily. There was no other place she'd rather be right now.

Slowly, the two fell asleep with Sam lying in her father's arms, snuggled up and warm.

just a question for you to review about... is this getting too long-winded? just tell me...

1/7/06