A/N: Sorry this took me so long to get up. I would have had it up on Thursday, but I got this terrible migraine that lasted (and got progressively worse) until I went to the ER on Friday night. I'm still in some pain, but updating because I'm in a pretty good mood. I hope this chapter makes sense...


Sam looked back at the man neither of the other sisters had seen before. He was doing a fairly good job at impersonating a gold fish. "Daniel, these are my sisters."

He pointed at them, still pretending to be a fish, "They … they … they …"

Jack nodded, smirking at the younger man, "Just say it. It gets easier after you say it."

Daniel glared at Jack, "They look like Sam!"

"Indeed, Daniel Jackson. Both of Colonel Carter's sisters resemble her a great deal."

Sandra furrowed her brow in confusion, but it was Sue who asked the question, "Okay, you guys know who we are - and we know about General O'Neill … but who are you two?"

Sam groaned, knowing where her sister's thoughts were headed but answering anyway, "This is Dr. Daniel Jackson, and T. Murray."

Sandra looked at her sister wide eyed, "What's the T stand for?"

"We are not at liberty to reveal that information," Teal'c said seriously. Both of Sam's sisters cocked their heads at Teal'c in a fashion so Sam like that Jack and Daniel could help but laugh at them.

"General," Sam said calmly as he laughed at her and her sisters with Daniel. "Did I mention to you that Sandra's a self-defense teacher and Sue has level four advanced training in hand to hand?"

Daniel immediately stopped laughing, now very intimidated by the three women. If these other two were anything like their Carter … heads would roll if they felt someone was making fun of them.

Jack glared at her, "You left out that little bit of information, Carter."

"Will you just stop calling her that?" Sue rolled her eyes in exasperation, "It's annoying as hell!"

Jack looked like he was about to yell at her when Sam stopped him, "Sir."

Sue looked at her sister like she was crazy, "And stop calling him that! Holy Hannah, Sam! I know about the regs the military imposes on its officers – but this is taking it a bit far, don't you think?"

Sandra put a calming hand on Sue's arm as she said, "I think she's right, Sam. You are taking this a bit far."

"Whoa! Wait a minute here!" Jack said, holding up his hands as he got up from his seat, "How did this become about the way I talk to my subordinates and how they address me? That's frankly none of your business."

Sue grinned, "Actually, General, it's very much so our business."

Jack glared at her, "And why is that, Sue?"

Sue just smiled maliciously at him as Sandra answered, "Because Sam's life is our lives, too, Jack."

Daniel furrowed his brow; "Now I know why Sam looked familiar the first time we met!"

"What are you talking about?" Sam asked, sharing a worried/confused look with her sisters as they sat down next to her on the sofa. Jack thought it was kinda funny as he reclaimed his seat: three women sitting next to each other that looked so alike, and the one he couldn't have was the only one he wanted.

"What were you guys doing the winter of '89?" Daniel asked, getting excited as he asked his question.

Sue, Sandra and Sam shared a look of foreboding: they all remembered too well what happened that winter when their Dad was in D.C. and they all flew in to visit him.

"We were in D.C., why?" Sandra finally said, remaining calm outwardly but secretly afraid of what he'd say about their time in D.C.

Daniel leaned forward, "You were Santa's little helpers at the mall, weren't you?"

It was Sue who answered him, "At least we weren't the grown man who asked if he could take a picture with Santa Claus and his little helpers."

It all clicked in Sam's mind, "That was you? Oh, God, I'd forgotten about that."

"What?" Jack asked, curious as to why Daniel's face was crimson and the triplets were looking like the cats that ate the canary.

Sandra pulled out a picture from her wallet and showed it to Jack who couldn't help but laugh at the sight: the nerdiest Daniel Jackson he'd ever seen was surrounded by two of the Carter sisters on one side with the other Carter on the other side with a man dressed like Santa Claus.

"Who was Santa that year?" Jack asked, noting that the man dressed in the suit looked a little familiar.

"Dad," the three said in unison.

Teal'c took the picture from Jack, "I do not believe this man resembles Jacob Carter, O'Neill. Is not Jacob Carter without hair on the top of his head?"

Sam looked down to hide her smirk while O'Neill answered, "He's wearing a wig, T. I can't believe you never told me this, Colonel."

"You never asked, sir."

Daniel looked at Sam, "I can't believe you never reminded me, Sam!"

"Daniel? Did you really want me to remind you?" Sam asked seriously. "You have the picture on your mantle, for Pete's wake!" Sandra and Sue looked at Sam curiously when she said the slightly different version of the catch phrase, but they said nothing.

Daniel looked down, "I guess not. So, Sue, what is it that you exactly do? Sam just said that you had level four advanced hand to hand training."

Sue looked at her sister, silently asking if it was safe for her to reveal the true nature of her job, Sam nodded slightly, but Sue decided to have a little fun first. "It's classified."

Jack raised an eyebrow at her, unbeknownst to him however was that his eyebrow was in unison with Daniel's eyebrow and Teal'c's. Sandra looked down to hide the smile the crept onto her face.

"We all have really high clearance levels," Jack said, prodding for more information.

"Is it hard to breath?" Sue asked, her face straight, but her eyes dancing. Daniel found it just so eerie that she could look and act so much like Sam. It scared him a little.

"Mt. Everest," Jack said in response, "Has a lot of oxygen compared to how high up we go, Sue."

Sandra and Sue looked at Sam in wonder, "That's new," they said in unison.

Sam's grin was very fake, "Yeah, well, remember when we went to the lake two years ago during the summer with Dad?"

Both nodded and Sam continued, "It turned out, the guy staying next to us, that needed help with his water heater ran for the White House … and he won."

Sue looked at her sister with a mix of incredulity and anger, "And you knew this a year and a half ago when I was trying to get the support for my case? Can you now explain to me, Samantha, why I didn't get the support and that case was shut down?"

Sam looked down at her hands, unable to meet her sister's gaze, "Sue … that case went a lot farther up than you think. There was nothing I could do to help you out with what happened in that case."

"Sam, that drug was being secretly distributed to an entire town. How is that something that should go unpunished?"

Sam's male co-workers thought back in their minds to what was happening a year and a half ago. Daniel had been ascended…Jack was stuck with that Canaan Tok'ra who caused that horrible Ba'al situation, and Teal'c was…being Teal'c.

"Look, Sue, I would have done something if I could have," Sam began, but Sandra cut her off.

"Sam, this is just like that time last year when I said I needed you to come watch the kids for me because Andrew was in the hospital. You said sure one day and then half an hour later called back to tell me you couldn't make it!"

Sam opened her mouth to respond, but before she could utter a sound, there was a blinding flash of light and all three women vanished. Jack looked at Daniel and Teal'c before all three of them shouted in unison: "THOR!" A brief second later the three of them were then transported to the little alien's ship.


A/N: Any guesses as to what Sue does for a living? Think Stevenson, Oregon.