AN: So today in Goat news... I was 2 hours late for work because I red my schedule wrong. My boss was not mad persay... She laughed as I'm usually on time or early. Then my pants ripped open along the entire back seam so thankfully I work in a craft store and could crab walk to the back grab thread and needles and sewed my pants back up. Then because someone dropped a wall hook by the stairs I came down on it, twisted my ankle and bashed my knee. So how was YOUR day at work yesterday? lol...

Chapter 6

Jack, now scruffy with several days facial hair, sat on the edge of town watching people go in and out of the gate set in the high stone wall. They had arrived on the planet a few days ago and kept a low profile. "On the up side, they are just letting anyone through." He said to Harry and Teal'c.

"What is not the up side?"

"I think we better hide that." Jack said, pointing to Teal'c's forehead.

"We could fake a head injury." Harry said.

Jack nodded. It was a good plan. For realism, he'd shank Harry and apply said blood to the bandages for effect. He grinned evilly at the other man.

Harry, noticing Jack's expression, backed away.

Teal'c however ignored them both and cut a shallow wound in his own forehead. Even without a symbiote, he'd heal quickly enough. While the blood was still dripping, he wrapped a strip of fabric around his head quickly so some of the blood would soak through and tied off the ends. "Is this sufficient, O'Neill?"

Jack nodded.

"So tell me about this Gibbs guy you left Sam with, Jack?" Harry asked him.

"Naval Intelligence. Knows his shit... Owns a boat…" Jack said vaguely as he watched more people pour in and out of the town. "There's our guys." He said and handed Harry the binoculars. They were up on a hill dug in under some shrubs.

"Yah, those look like the guys." Harry agreed. "So are we just going to follow them?"

"Let's let them get nice and settled first. They got weapons rules going in?"

"Not that I know of." Harry said.

"That never means anything." Jack told him, aggravated.

Two days nearly on the dot, Cassie showed up at the Craftsman her uncle had owned longer than she'd lived on this planet. The door was open so she just came in. "Aunt Sam! Whose car is... oh hi Uncle Mark!" She said excitedly to the balding man she found in the kitchen.

"Cassie! Sam told me you were coming for a visit." She'd told him after she'd introduced him formally to his new niece.

"That your car?"

"Which one?"

"The other one is Uncle Daniel's. Aunt Sam told me some of the guys were helping her and Uncle Jack with a case."

"Not the usual guys." Mark said.

"Huh."

"Your aunt Sam is in the den with Daniel and the baby."

"Cool. Is Aunt Nancy here too?"

"Yah, she took the kids to the park."

"Think Lisa might want to be a junior bridesmaid?"

Mark grinned. "She might."

"So how mad at her were you?"

"What?"

"For ditching that guy you set her up with for Uncle Jack."

Mark gave her a hard look.

"What, you think we don't talk?" She made a rude noise with her lips and headed for the den, grabbing an apple on her way, and biting into it.

Mark shook his head. Sam seemed to collect family. Sometimes he thought she liked Daniel more than she did him… but Daniel probably didn't get on her ass about who she slept with either.

"Where's my new favorite cousin?" Cassie said, holding her arms out to the baby, as she made a beeline to Gracie. She had only met Gracie once but they had bonded instantly.

Daniel chuckled and handed Gracie over. "She's going to be so spoiled with attention by the time Jack gets home she won't have missed him at all."

"Nonsense. You can't spoil babies and Gracie won't forget her father. It's the first thing babies learn, their parents' smells and voices." Lonnie said, coming into the room. "Let me know if she needs changing. I feel like Sam is paying me to hang out lately." She admitted.

"Hi Lonnie. Want to help me plan the wedding?" Cassie said grinning.

"I think I'd be as much good at it as your aunt is." Lonnie admitted.

"That bad, huh?" Cassie said as she bounced Gracie. "That's okay. Your mommy and daddy will have the daughter of the wedding master planning their wedding." Cassie said to the baby in a sing-song voice.

Daniel chuckled. "Janet did have a knack for setting up quickie weddings."

"She what? Why?" Lonnie asked, confused.

"We uh… kind of had a few incidents. It was just quicker to have someone be transferred and get married then come back with a join-spouse then it was to keep shuffling crew." Daniel said with a shrug. He looked thoughtful for a moment. "I wonder why she never suggested it to Jack and Sam."

"She did." Sam said quietly as she came into the room.

"There you are." Cassie said and handed Lonnie the baby so she could hug Sam tightly.

"She tried to talk you guys into a quickie wedding?" Daniel asked.

Sam nodded and blushed a little. "It was a long time ago." She said.

Daniel looked at her thoughtfully. Had Janet suggested it too soon or had they been denied, he wondered. And why had neither of his best friends ever mentioned it to him?

"Well, let's get this over with. What do you need from me so I can delegate this?" Sam asked Cassie briskly.

Daniel handed Cassie a steno pad and a pen without a word. He knew Sam would have a list. Cassie took it and sat on the edge of the couch.

Sam paced holding Gracie. "A dress, obviously I guess. A venue, a minister."

"A cake." Daniel pointed out.

"Oh yah, a cake. Dark chocolate, something simple. I don't care what it looks like really and Jack will only care what it tastes like."

Cassie chuckled. "What colors were you thinking?"

"What color do you like?"

"Sam, it's not up to me."

"Oh, yes it is. You're the maid of honor. Pick something you like."

Cassie shrugged. "Flowers?"

"Minimal and um… fake. Daniel is allergic."

Daniel gave her a smile of thanks.

"Okay, I'll call Tammy and see what we can cook up." Cassie said.

"Tammy?"

"Tammy Harriman."

"Walter's wife? Why would you call Walter's wife?"

"She was friends with mom and is super creative. If anyone can get this shindig off the ground in… how long did you say I had?"

"Four weeks." Sam said softly.

"Seriously? Yikes. Okay, four weeks. That's cutting it close, Aunt Sam, even for you guys."

"Yah, yah, I know." She grumbled. "But we weren't given any choice."

"No, no, I get it, but I'm definitely calling Tammy now, especially if we have to get you an off the rack dress, Aunt Sam."

Sam sighed and shook her head. She didn't even know if she'd be in town next week.

"It's fine. Really." Cassie told her and started making notes. She'd see what colors Lisa liked, see if she could talk Walter into getting the SGC staff to bake the cake and the base chaplain to marry them. Cassie tapped her pen on her chin thoughtfully.

Kissing Cassie on the head as a way of thanking her, Sam handed the baby back to Lonnie and went back to the kitchen to make more calls.

Daniel and Cassie exchange a look. "I haven't seen her this stressed out in a long time." Cassie admits.

"Not since the time…"

"That's the one." Cassie stops him. Really any time Jack is in danger qualifies but Ba'al was the topper. Also Daniel wasn't supposed to be able to remember any of that. Had something changed or had Teal'c just filled him in?

Lonnie looked at them both curiously and walked out with the baby, seemingly uninterested in the conversation or knowing it was classified.

"So how long did they know each other again?" Jack was asking Harry as they joined the line of merchants and others entering the town.

"From what I could find, they met as kids, went to the same grade school."

"Was it a school for snakes?"

Harry nodded his head a few times in agreement.

"And you didn't go there?" Jack asked him.

"Jack…" Harry's tone was injured.

"Silence, both of you." Teal'c told them. "Tak mal tiak, tap pikate in'trom."[1] He said to a guard.

The guard looked the three of them up and down. "Pikate te kra aab't."[2] he said dismissively.

"Joma."[3] Teal'c said to Harry and Jack and strode forward.

"He answered Teal'c in Goa'uld, Harry." Jack hissed at the other man.

Harry shrugged. "Well, he asked him to enter in Goa'uld." Harry whined.

"Rin lop!"[4] Teal'c barked at them.

"Sorry." Jack hissed and jabbed Harry with an elbow.

Teal'c gave them both a 'stop being childish' look.

"We will find lodging then search for our quarry." Teal'c told them having assumed lead in both word and action.

Harry canted his mouth thoughtfully and nodded his head. Jack just bit the inside of his cheek so he wouldn't slap the man who had a lead on their missing Trust flunkies. "Come on, I know a place that's cheap.' Harry said and lead them towards a seedier part of the town. The irony being it was likely their sell outs had probably gone to the same part of town.

"I'm going to have fleas when we leave Harry." Jack said of their accommodations.

Harry shrugged. "I'm going to go look for these guys, try to figure out which way they went."

After he left, Jack, who had flopped on one of the beds, looked up at the stained ceiling and noticed some kind of lizards copulating. "Charming." He said.

"Indeed." Teal'c agreed.

[1] Greetings, we wish to enter

[2] Go to the inside

[3] Follow

[4] Silence both (of you)!