A/N: Okay i decided to give you two tonight cuz i don't think i'll be able to until wedn. so enjoy!

Jack still wasn't quite sure how he was going to handle this situation, but he needed someone else's opinion. Heh, that was amusing. Jack O'Neill needing help from someone. Sara would have laughed at that. Would have, if she was still alive. She probably would have been able to help him out with Sean.

Sean, ah yes, back to his current problem. Well, he couldn't really ask or talk to Teal'c. Yeah, Teal'c was a great guy, but this was just something he didn't really think he could bring up with the stoic Jaffa. Nor could he talk to Sam. Not with what he had planned anyway. Of course after the next few weeks were over, he'd probably tell her. Yeah, especially after he'd been given the file by Hammond.

"Knock, knock, Danny boy!" Jack said, rapping on the door frame. He entered the room and sat across the desk from the preoccupied archeologist.

"Oh, uh, hi, Jack. What are you doing here? Besides fiddling with the tablet from P7C-090." Daniel sighed and let his notes fall to the desk.

"Training simulation's cancelled until we can find a new evaluating officer."

"What? Why?"

Jack threw the folder Sean had given him the night before across the desk to Daniel and leaned back. It was always easier to just show someone. "You were closer to the mark than I thought you were."

Daniel flipped open the folder and started rifling through the documents. The photos were what really convinced him, just like with Jack. "Um, Jack, you didn't know about them?"

"Not a clue. My parents knew though."

Daniel started studying the photos of the boys later in life. He stopped when he reached the picture of Sean and Trish in the hospital with their baby boy. "A grandchild, Jack?"

"He, uh, died, six years ago. He was three months old."

"Oh, sorry."

"Yeah, well, I never got to meet him." Jack leaned back in his chair and rubbed the bridge of his nose.

"Who's taking over the evaluation?" Daniel asked, his curiosity taking control.

"I'll still be the training officer, but Makepeace is the only other Colonel on base right now. Jarheads can't evaluate Air Force officers, so we've been given permission to look into the lower ranks. Here's my idea." Jack handed over the other file as Daniel closed the folder on Sean and Colin. He picked up the other folder and paled at the sight of the first page.

"She's not going to like this," he said, leafing through the rest of it.

"Ya think? God, Danny, I knew this was a possibility, but she's young, and healthy. This is the sort of thing that takes down an old fogy like me. She should have been able to recover from this." Jack slammed his hand down on the desk and stood up angrily. "I figure I can give her three more weeks before she's officially discharged. Hammond's gonna bring her on as a civilian scientist when she's able to come back."

Daniel just nodded, still too shocked to speak.

"I'll be in my office the rest of the day. The recruits are wandering the base, if any of them are looking for me." Jack grabbed the two folders from the desk and left just as quickly as he'd arrived.

A/N: sorry to just leave you at a cliffie, i just realized that. please r and r.