A/N: Okay, all i did was change just a few spots my beta pointed out. if you find anything we missed, let us know! thanks!

Sam paced the living room floor as Jack tried dialing his cell phone for the fifth time. Nate wasn't answering the phone and both were starting to worry. It had started snowing a half hour before and when Nate hadn't come home Jack had seen the worry in Sam's eyes.

He stood and threw the phone down on the couch, scrubbing his face with his hand. "Sam! Sit down, fer cryin' out loud!"

He hadn't meant for it to come out that harsh, but not only was he concerned about Nate, it wasn't good for Sam to pace the room as she was. Stress could harm Sam and the twins never mind aggravating her condition. He grasped her upper arms and moved her to the couch, sitting next to her to help her settle.

"I can't help it, Jack. It's been over three hours. Where could he be?" she cried.

Sea entered the room and flopped into the chair across from his brother and sister-in-law. He'd just put Tommy to bed and the little boy had been full of questions. Most of them were stall tactics, things he remembered going through with both Sean and Jenny, but one threw him completely off guard he hadn't been able to answer it.

"We have a problem, Jack," he said seriously.

"Nate's missing." That jolted his head up.

"I didn't know that, but no, that wasn't what I was thinking."

Jack cocked his head.

"Tommy heard you talking to Levi," Sea said.

"Yes?"

"Levi, Jack, not Nate."

Jack's eyes widened in an unusual display of emotion. During briefings SG-1 and Hammond could never quite tell what he was thinking, other than when he was bored or aggravated.

This was a problem. A BIG problem. Shit. What were they supposed to do now? He could kill Murphy right about now, if he wasn't already dead that is. He stood and started pacing, causing an amused look to appear on Sam's face.

"Okay. One problem at a time. Tommy's in bed and Nate's still out there. We'll deal with Tommy in the morning, maybe we'll come up with something by then. It's getting late, I'm gonna take the truck out and see if I can find Nate anywhere."

Sam tried to pull herself up to face him. "It's snowing out there, Jack! There's at least three inches on the ground."

"And if he got hurt, he could be lying in that snow." He gently pushed Sam back down, not letting her get up all the way. She was really starting to push it today.

"Sea, gimme your cell. Keep trying Nate, I'll call you if I find him."

Jack took the phone from Sea and kissed Sam, rubbing her cheek with his hand. Their eyes spoke volumes and Jack felt safe leaving her there and heading out into the storm. He pressed another kiss to her forehead and stood, throwing on his heavy jacket and heading out to the truck.

As he hopped in, he dialed his own number yet again.

Across town, Daniel stopped Janet on her doorstep, interlocking his fingers with hers. She turned in his arms and brought her free hand up to the back of his head. They both knew what that posture meant, even if Janet's fingers barely reached high enough to run through the hair at the base of his neck.

"I had a wonderful time tonight," she said softly, gently pulling his head down towards hers.

A small smile spread across his face. It was a long way down after all.

The look didn't get past Janet, though. "What are you thinking?"

"Nothing that won't get me in trouble," he responded with a surprisingly Jack-like smirk.

She laughed at the look on his face. It was absolutely adorable, and so not like Daniel. Ever since Sam's disappearance, she'd thought he was retreating back into the shy young man she'd first met almost five years ago. She laughed again, just happy to be with him.

Daniel loved the sound of her laugh. He often felt himself feeling intoxicated in her presence, addicted to one short, stubborn doctor. Before he could think about what he was doing, he leaned down and brushed his lips against hers. He was surprised when she reacted almost immediately to his touch, and not unfavorably either.

He leaned in to deepen the kiss, but felt Janet shudder in the cold. It was then he realized just how deep the snow had gotten and pulled away.

"Uh, yeah, we should, uh, I'll let you get inside." He kissed her once more and moved to leave her for the night.

Janet grabbed his hand to keep him from walking away and pulled him close to her. "Why don't you come inside and warm up before you go home?"

Daniel smiled. Sure, he liked that idea just fine.

Janet turned and unlocked the door, opening it into the front room. They clomped their boots off on the door mat and took them off by the front closet.

Daniel helped her remove her coat and hung it up, along with his own. He was about to close the closet door when a soft ringing reached his ears. He poked his head in and pulled out what looked like one of Jack's coats, holding it out to Janet with a confused look on his face. She just shrugged as she took the coat and removed the phone from the pocket.

"Hello?"

"Doc?"

"Colonel?" She shot a questioning look up at Daniel, who shrugged his shoulders in return.

"Where are you?"

"At my house," she replied sarcastically.

A heavy sigh came over the line.

"O-kay. Listen, we're looking for Nate. Obviously, he's there, I'll be right over."

"Wait, Colonel, let me make sure he's here. Call me back."

With that, the line went dead and Janet closed the cell. Daniel stared at her, his eyes begging to be filled in.

"Nate's missing, and I'm assuming the Colonel gave him that jacket," she said pointing to the one he still held in his hands.

"So, he came here? Why would he do…" His eyes widened. "Ooooh. They wouldn't be that stupid. Cassie's smarter than that, right?"

"Yes, but they're teenagers and hormones make them do stupid things." She held up her hand to stem Daniel's protests. "No, I don't think Cassie would do something like this, I trust her enough."

"Do we know Nate well enough?" Daniel was skeptical of the entire thing. Finding a young man's jacket in the house with a teenage daughter didn't exactly drive up his hopes.

"We need to find them," Janet sighed, grabbing Daniel's hand. She'd pretty much figured out where they were, but jumping to conclusions always made a sticky situation that much worse.

They searched the house top to bottom, both avoiding Cassie's room until the last possible minute. Neither exactly wanted to be the one to find them.

As Daniel made his way through the living room making sure they hadn't missed anything, the phone rang. They were both so concentrated on the problem at hand that neither thought of Daniel answering the phone until he had it in his hand and said, "Hello?"

"Boy, Doc. Maybe you're gettin' sick. You're sounding like a Space Monkey to me."

Daniel rolled his eyes and shifted the phone.

"Hi Jack."

"D'jya find him?"

Janet came storming into the room at that moment, fury written across her face.

"Oh, I'd say we did."

"I'll be there in a couple minutes."

Jack hung up on his end and Daniel clicked off the phone. He looked over to Janet and pulled her into his arms.

"I'm sorry, Honey." He knew what she must have found and how disappointed he himself felt at the kids lack of common sense. Cassie was smarter than that and Nate had Levi to stop him.

"I just saw their heads poking out of the covers. They're both asleep. I want to wait for the Colonel to get here before I do anything I might regret." She leaned into Daniel's embrace. She didn't have a clue how they'd handle this situation. She wanted to throttle Nathan Tanner about now.

Daniel pulled her to the couch and held her in his embrace. She didn't need the comfort, not really, and he knew that, but it was more to keep themselves busy until Jack got there and they could decide what to do with two stupid, hormone driven teenagers. He remembered being that age and that definitely didn't include any close contact with members of the opposite race. He hadn't even kissed a girl until college.

The front door opened without even a knock and Jack headed straight for Daniel and Janet.

"Where is he?" Jack looked… panicked?

Janet stood up and faced Jack, the same look on her face she got when the Colonel was being a very grouchy patient.

"Your… charge is about a hair's breath from death, or at least getting a harpoon shoved into a butt cheek, Colonel!" She stood her ground, hands on hips and stared into his eyes.

Jack sighed and rubbed his eyes with his finger and thumb. Now that he knew Nate wasn't in danger, well that was still to be determined, he could relax and let his guard down just a little.

"Where is he?" This time the question came out more as an exasperated sigh. He wasn't sure he really wanted an answer, not with the fire shooting out the little doctor's ears.

She turned and headed up the stairs, indicating they should follow her. Jack understood her fury when she stopped outside Cassie's room and silently opened the door. The two men peeked in. Jack's first reaction was to be just as upset as Janet was until he took a closer look.

He stepped into the room and approached the bed, utilizing his stealth training to make sure he didn't wake the sleeping occupants. Cassie, unlike the majority of American teenagers, kept her room immaculately clean and in the moonlit darkness Jack could see absolutely no sign of any misplaced clothing.

He let out the breath he hadn't realized he was holding and stared at the sleeping couple. Nate was laying on his back, his arms wrapped protectively around Cassie, holding her to him, and his hands were both visibly grasping her back. Her head was resting on his chest and both looked to be sleeping peacefully. He wasn't quite sure how, though, since the covers had been kicked off sometime during the night, revealing to their onlookers that both teens were, in fact, fully clothed.

Jack was about to back out of the room when he saw something on the floor by Cassie's bed. Since nothing was ever out of place, he was curious and bent down to pick it up. He recognized the object immediately and placed it on her desk by the door, the memories rushing through his mind. He ushered the other two out of the room and closed the door behind him.

"I think I know what happened," Jack said as they headed back downstairs.

The group settled again in the living room and Daniel brought two beers and a cranberry juice from the kitchen.

"Cassie still has the body tag." Jack took a swig from the bottle and sat back in one of the chairs across from the couch.

Daniel handed the cranberry juice to Janet and sat down next to her, almost immediately jumping back up again. He leaned down and pulled a zat from the couch cushions, bouncing it in his hands as he settled back down.

"I think it's safe to say Cass found out about Levi," Daniel said with a grin, trying to add a little humor into the situation. It fell flat, humor being more Jack's forte.

"I already jumped to conclusions once tonight, we should hear them out in the morning."

The men nodded in agreement, but Jack had a more devious thought come to mind.

"That may be, but what happened tonight… Dammit! Sam was really scared and that's not good for her. Sea was doing everything he could to keep her calm. And to top it off, Tommy heard Levi talking to me." Jack's voice was elevating quickly. Putting his family in danger was something that pissed Jack off more than anything, and Nate's disappearance had done exactly that.

Daniel, being the most reasonable in the room at that moment, spoke up. "So, what do we do about it?"

"Scare the shit out of them," Jack answered without another thought.

Janet peered up over her glass to stare at the man. "And how do you suppose we do that, sir?"

"Oh, I have a few ideas up my sleeve."