Author's Notes: Thank you so much my many readers and my reviewers. I hope you like this next chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate SG-1. I do however own Alex and Kira.

Jack could hear talking outside of his room. A few minutes later it stopped. Rolling onto his back he felt like he was being watched. He couldn't get the feeling out of his head, so he opened his eyes to see bright brown eyes looking at him.

"Ahh!" He said jumping away. "I was trying to sleep! What are you doing here?"

Alex's face turned a mild red. He cocked his head to the side and smiled a little, "I just wanted to see how you would react."

Jack looked towards the door and saw Kira and Sam snickering at him.

Pinching the bridge of his nose, he got up. "Let's just go down and eat."

"Thank you for the food and hospitality, Kira. We really appreciate it." Teal'c said.

"Your welcome."

"Colonel. We should probably check the Stargate." Sam suggested.

Nodding he got up and started to walk towards the door, but Alex jumped in front of him and started saying, "Can I come? Can I? Huh? Huh? Huh?"

"Alex you're doing it again." Alex gave him a questioning look. "Never mind. You can come, just calm down a little."

"Ok. I will. I'm just happy you're staying at my house tonight."

Once they got out of the city they looked around to see which way to go.

"Hey, Alex? Why are some of the trees green?" Sam asked. "They were grey yesterday."

"I don't know." He replied almost instantly and started walking faster.

Jack shrugged his shoulders when Sam looked at him. "Come on we're almost there."

"I see it!" Alex yelled from a few yards away.

In an undertone Jack asked, "And how old is he, Carter?"

"I believe he is around 20, sir. Why?" She replied.

Teal'c raised an eyebrow.

"Oh it's nothing. It's just he doesn't really act his age." He looked up and saw the DHD. "Well here we are. Carter could you dial home?"

"Yes sir"

"I've never seen you do this before. "Alex said, standing near the side of the DHD that was closest to the Stargate.

"You should not stand there." Teal'c told him.

"Why?" He asked.

"Just move!" Jack yelled, making Alex flinch.

"Ok I'll move." He said scurrying away.

There was a small smooth cuchunk noise when Sam pressed the center button. After hearing the noise again Jack said, "I guess it's not up yet."

"Well technically, sir, it would take about 2 days for them to get permission to bring the Antarctic Gate to the SGC. They would then have to hook it up and then see if it worked. So we'll probably be home in about a week." Sam explained to everyone.

"What did she just say?" Alex asked Teal'c. "All I heard was well and week."

"Yeah, that's all I heard too." Jack said in an undertone to Alex.

"She just told us when we would be able to go back to Earth."

Hold his nose, Jack said "Let just go back to Kira's and see if we can help out with anything."

Teal'c went first, followed by Jack, Alex and then Sam.

Walking down the path, Sam looked up and saw a bright green lizard-like creature jumping through the trees. Shaking her head she looked up again. It was gone.

"Carter, you alright?" Jack asked her.

"Yeah I'm fine. I just thought I saw something." She replied.

"O'Neill! My symbiode is sensing something near by." Teal'c told him. Stopping the group.

"You can go searching for it after we get the guns"

"You don't have to!" Alex said before they left. "It's probably nothing."

"I'm going to let them go check it out. Just to make sure it's safe."

"But-"

No 'buts'" Jack interrupted him.

Alex slowed down a little to stay close to the end of the line. He looked worried.

"Carter. Teal'c. I want you back here by sunset." Jack said to both of them. "I'll stay here to help out."

It was already a couple hours past high noon. SG-1 wanted to help Kira and Alex with some work around the city. It noon they had some lunch. Now they were ready to search for the woods.

Alex was trying to stop them from going.

"You guys really don't have to do this. It's probably nothing to worry about." He said one last attempt.

Jack sighed, "Alex. I know you don't want them to go, but they are very well trained. I wanted them to check it out to make sure everything's alright."

Shaking his head frantically, he said, "No, no, no! It's not safe. They might get hurt by the-"He put his hands over his mouth.

"Alex what would they get hurt by?" Jack asked nicely.

"I-it's nothing!" Alex said in a scared voice. He ran off after that.

Jack looked out to the woods to see Sam and Teal'c walking farther in.

Throughout the next couple of hours, Jack hung around with Kira a little more. Noticing Alex wasn't there he asked,

"Where's Alex? The last time I saw him was when I sent Sam and Teal'c into the woods."

The drink Kira was drinking at that moment came spraying out her mouth. "You what!"

"I sent Sam and Teal'c into the woods. Why? Is there something wrong with that?"

"N-no it's nothing." She replied quickly.

"Well it's sundown. They should be getting back soon."

Getting up he headed out to the city gates. The city was deserted, except for one other person walking in the same direction.

O'Neill!" The other person said.

"Oh! Hey Alex. Where have you been?" Jack asked him.

"Uh…I was…at my house, sorry I ran off I had to check something." He said after a few seconds.

"Let's wait by the gate for them to get back." Jack offered. Alex looked devastated, but nodded in agreement.

Forty-five minutes pasted since they were supposed to get back. Jack was playing with some grass and Alex was looking at the woods like it was the end of the world.

"They're really late. Are alright?" He said to Alex. When he didn't respond he said a little louder. "Alex!"

"Huh? Oh. Yeah, I'm fine." He said snapping out of it.

"I wonder what's taking so long. What do you think?"

"I- I don't- I can't take it anymore!" He yelled and grabbed some of his hair.

"Alex what's wrong?" Alex shook his head in response. "Alex come on! If you know something about this, you should tell me!"

"No! I'm not supposed to!" He gasped as he said that. "I wasn't supposed to say that."

"Alex, what do you know?" Jack said, while standing up.

Alex shook his head some more, while Jack walked closer.

"Alex." Jack said in a slight growl. When he didn't answer, he grabbed Alex's toga and brought him close to his face. "If something happened to them and you aren't going to tell me, I'm not going to be nice anymore."

Just then, gunfire was heard from a couple hundred meters away.

"What the-" Jack asked sort of confused. He dropped Alex, who scurried away in the opposite direction, and started to run towards the woods. "Teal'c? Carter? What's happening?"

Looking into the woods, he saw a silhouette of a figure running towards him. Occasionally, turning around to check behind him. On his shoulders was a limp figure.

"O'Neill!" Teal'c yelled. "It is recommended that we get inside the city!" He called over to Jack.

Once Teal'c was close enough, he could see who was on Teal'c's shoulders.

It was Carter.

Author's Note: This chapter had a bit more action. I hoped you like it. I'll probably update in about a week.

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