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A woman in an immaculately pressed uniform and heels sat behind Jack's desk. "Colonel," she said as he walked through the door. "You know, you have something jammed in your disk drive?"

"Kinsey... why are you checking my disk drive?" he asked in a light tone, kicking her out of his chair.

She moved to sit on the edge of his desk and crossed her legs while brushing her dark bangs out of her eyes. "I hear you have a new little alien friend living at the SGC," she commented lightly. "Well, not so much the SGC as with Maj. Samantha Carter. And you named her Carter, how sweet."

He narrowed his eyes at her. "She won the coin toss. The meeting's not until tomorrow, what do you want?"

"Tom Cruise, but that ain't happenin.' Nope," she sighed. "I'll never get that man. I guess I'll have to settle for your girl's files and medical record."

"So why don't you bother Fraser and Carter?"

She smiled cutely. "'Cause I like bothering you more! And I thought I'd warn you, if Vice President Kinsey finds out anything of interest about your girl, even I'll have a hell of a time keeping her out of a permanently monitored facility." She winked conspiratorially. "I'll be back for the files at 1600. I just had a manicure and I'd hate to ruin my nails on dirty paper."

He smirked after her as she hopped off his desk. "I'll make sure to dust it off for you."

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"Sammie, sweetie-darling!" Tessa called out in a fabulous British accent as she made her way into Sam's lab. "Cooped up in a lab when I'm at Cheyenne Mountain? How very."

"Tessa, light of my life," Sam responded, her voice almost completely devoid of inflection. "How very indeed. How do you keep getting promoted? Do you do any real work?"

She pretended to think. "It depends on your definition of the word real."

Sam laughed. "I like to think I have a pretty loose grasp on the word real. After all, I do have an alien living in my house."

"Yes, you do," she smiled. "Speaking of aliens... where is your girl? I want to meet her."

"Come on, I was just about to see how she's doing with Teal'c," Sam said, ushering Tessa back into the corridor. "Teal'c offered to teach Andie some self-defence... and I just want to make sure he's not treating her like a young Jaffa."

Tessa grinned. "Aren't you turning into the mother hen," she teased. They walked around a corner and Tessa stopped dead in her tracks. "Let's wait here for the next elevator."

Sam looked at Tessa, the amusement clear in his face. "Tess, have you met Maj. Davis?" he asked, highly amused. "You didn't hit him, did you?"

Tessa quickly gave her a look but her gaze returned straight back to the Major. "We met briefly. And I didn't hit him, but... well, let's just say he's not too fond of who I work for. I was still married, so there was no reason for me to apologise to him at the time. It's a shame... he's really cute." Maj. Davis got into an elevator and Tessa continued down the corridor, her contemplative mood disappeared. "So, where is this little girl of yours?"

"You do realise that she's about fifteen... maybe sixteen?" Sam asked as they continued towards the elevator.

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Sam and Tessa made it to the work-out room just in time to see Andie fall backwards onto her butt. "Ow! That hurt!" she complained as Teal'c reached down to help her up.

"If you would learn to anticipate your adversary's moves, you would not be knocked to the ground," he told her.

"Sam! Teal'c keeps knocking me down!" she whined.

"A true warrior would not run to their mother when they are bested in sparring," Teal'c informed her.

"Well, I'm not a true warrior!" Andie retorted. "I'm a little girl, and very delicate."

Sam snorted. "If you're delicate, then Teal'c is verbose." Andie gave her a dirty look.

"Who are you?" she demanded, looking over at Tessa.

"Andie!" Sam exclaimed.

"I'm Lt. Col. Tessa Kinsey," she replied evenly.

Andie looked her over carefully. "You don't look like you'd be spawned from the Devil himself. You look kinda nice, not crazy at all."

"Let me guess, Jack?" she asked rhetorically. "But I'll take that as a compliment, all the same."

"Actually, Daniel told me you're crazy," she informed her. "Jack told me to be sweet to you so you'll want to help save me from the evil-Kinsey who Sam says is your dad."

Tessa chuckled. "Kid, I adore you already. And even if I didn't, it's my life's work to mess up anything the Vice President wants to do. Now, if you don't mind, I'm off to harass Daniel," she said with a malicious grin.

"I like her," Andie said as Tessa left to find Daniel.

Sam chuckled. "Most people around here do. And delicate my butt. You get to work, and stop whining."

"Yes, Master," she muttered sarcastically as Sam moved back to watch the progress she and Teal'c had made.