Daniel sighed and put the mug down. "Sam, they're going public."
The woman sitting beside him didn't even need to ask what he was talking about. "And, what does that have to do with me? I left everything related to the SGC behind a long time ago. I'm a physics teacher at an university for Pete's wake!"
Daniel raised an eyebrow at the exclamation, but said nothing concerning it. Instead he answered her question; "The president wants you back as head of the science department. He feels that it would be a good move to have a friendlier face for the SGC than our current CO."
"Who's the CO now?" By the look in Daniel's eyes she already knew the answer, "Oh God, no! There was a very good reason behind my actions sixteen years ago that I don't expect him to understand. I'm not going back just to be the 'friendly face' of the SGC. Get one of our humanoid allies or Kerry Johnson," she spat out the woman's name like it was a curse…which, in their house it was.
Daniel was shocked that Sam would mention such a classified matter in the presence of civilians. "Uh, Sam? It didn't go public yet."
"We already know about it, Uncle Daniel," Jonathan explained. Abigail gripped the table as if it was her only connection to life as a glazed expression crossed over her face and her breathing almost completely stopped.
"Esther, go get her panic attack medication," Sam ordered as she watched her son try and elicit some response from her daughter. When Abigail finally took in a sharp, rigid breath fear and horror covered her eyes.
"What did you see?" Esther asked her kindly as she passed her two pills and a glass of water.
"Fire. Screams." The frightened girl replied swallowing the pills before downing the water as her eyes welled up with tears she refused to let fall. "More pain than when Dad was tortured by Ba'al. There were so many screams, so much death. Mommy, it was war."
"What else did you see, sweet heart?" Sam coaxed gently, scared out of her mind that what her daughter had seen would come to pass, yet refusing to let her children see that fear in her eyes.
Abby closed her eyes to stop the tears. "There were soldiers dressed in Jaffa armor and staff weapons." Her streaming eyes found her mother's face, "They bore the mark of Ba'al. They set fire to so many cities and homes. It was so bloody. So very bloody."
Jonathan and Esther hugged their sister tightly, trying to bring her thoughts back to reality. "I think we should watch The Princess Bride before Batman," Jonathan said quietly, doing the little he could to take away the pain his sister felt, before going into the other room to set up the movie.
That was the one thing all of them knew too well – pain. The one thing they couldn't share. Esther had her private pain that her siblings knew but couldn't help with; Abby had her pain that came with her visions, only lessened by sharing it with her mother and siblings; and the pain JJ suffered from was that he wasn't able to protect his sisters and mother from their pains.
"Sam, what the hell was that?" Daniel whispered fiercely, as the three teens got ready for the movie in the next room.
"Abigail gets premonitions – sometimes just hints of feelings and such, other times strong ones where she can even smell what's happening. This was a relatively large one – the worst was when Ba'al captured Jack, she couldn't eat or sleep for five days without help. Esther is telekinetic and Jonathan is telepathic. When I contacted Thor shortly after their birth he said it was a mixture of the naquadah in my blood, and Jack's Ancient gene that caused the abilities to take root."
Before Daniel could fully process what he had just been told, there was another knock on the door. "I'll get it!" Esther called on her way to the door. When she opened it she squealed in delight at who lay in wait on the other side.
"Grandpa George!" she cried in joy as she flung herself into his arms.
"Esther," General George Hammond chuckled as he embraced his honorary granddaughter with as much ferocity as she gave him. "It's good to see you again."
"You just saw me last week!"
At the proclamation that it was their Grandpa George at the front door, Abby and JJ both dropped what they were doing and jumped into his waiting embrace. When Sam came into the living room to find out what all the commotion was about, she laughed outright. There in the doorframe stood one General George Hammond being squashed in the middle of three over excited fifteen year olds.
Daniel, who was just getting over the shock phase of finding out about the triplets abilities, was pulled straight back into a state of shock at the sight of Hammond being so affectionately greeted by the teens.
Hammond spotted the young man and with a few quiet words to the three 'monkeys' attached to him, he was able to disentangle himself from their arms and walk over to Daniel while the younger man perfected his impression of a fish.
"Hello, son," the general said calmly. "I see you got my letter."
Daniel was barely able to respond, "What letter?"
"The one with Sam's address on it."
"That letter had no return address on it. It didn't even have a name on it to tell us who it was from!" Daniel cried.
Sam looked at the younger man pointedly, "I asked him not to put a name on it. George would be thought a traitor if everyone knew right away that he knew where I was for the past twelve years. I didn't want him to risk all of his friendships over that."
Abby chose this moment to intervene, "Mom? Uncle Danny? Grandpa? Can we please save this conversation until after at least the first movie? I want to see Indigo beat the crap out of the count."
George chuckled, that girl was so much like her father, "Sure, Abby. I take it we're watching The Princess Bride first?"
Abby grinned, "Yep!"
"What other two movies are we watching today?" he inquired with amusement.
"Batman. The original one, not any of the newer ones," Jonathan replied, pretending to be grossed out at the newer movies.
"What about you, Esther?"
"I can't decide between The Ninth Gate, The Major and the Minor, or Masada." The girl turned to her uncle, "What do you think, Uncle Daniel?"
Daniel felt very honored that the girl had asked his opinion. "I think that I can't believe that Sam would ever let you watch The Ninth Gate, I've never seen The Major and the Minor or Masada. So, when choosing between two movies I've never seen before…choose the one that has better action scenes."
Esther giggled, "That would be Masada, Uncle Daniel. Don't worry – you'll like it. It's got history in it."
The two former members of SG-1 made themselves comfortable on the loveseat, while George and the three teens squeezed onto the sofa. It was a tight fit, but everyone was comfortable throughout the entire movie.
As it happened every year, Abby burst into tears as soon as Wesley started being tortured and when he 'mostly died'; JJ mouthed the words during Indigo's fight with the Count; and Esther made fun of the priest when his scene came on.
The small family was just finishing the first movie, when another knock at the door brought everyone back to the present. This time it was JJ who answered it.
The man and woman on the other side were greatly taken aback at the appearance of a young man who looked so much like Jack O'Neill. "Hi, Uncle Teal'c, Aunt Janet," the boy said, his voice raising slightly so those inside could hear him. "Won't you come in so we can explain all this to you?"
"Indeed," was the stoic Jaffa's only answer. Janet just stared, unable to say anything.
A/N: Dun dun dun! Wanna know what happens next? Only my beta and I know the rest of the story - and I doubt most of you know who she is! Blast! I reveiled her gender! Blast! There I go again! Anywho, review and I'll see what I can do about posting again soon.