Jack and his old team found themselves back to the briefing room inside the bowels of Cheyenne mountain two days after the incident. General Hammond entered the room followed by top officers who had flown from the Pentagon under strict orders.
"We are waiting for one more officer before we can start," Hammond explained to the people in the table.
"Whoever he is, sir. He better has a good reason to explain why he is late," Simmons hissed.
"Who's this officer, General?" Jack asked
"I am," Everyone turned to the voice as Sam walked into the room. "General Hammond, sir. I'm sorry for my delay there was a problem with the bomb which needed my undivided attention." She explained.
"Is it sorted, Captain?"
"Yes, sir."
"Then, please take a seat."
Sam walked down to the spare seat which happened to be just across from Jack; he smiled at her before they started the meeting.
"Colonel, I know you are used to choosing whoever is on your team," Hammond said standing half an hour later,
"however, for this mission, Captain Carter is going with you."
"Sir? No," Jack said firmly.
"Sorry Colonel, the orders come from the top," Hammond told him showing him he too wasn't very fond of the idea.
"Don't worry, sir." She grinned.
"I can take care of myself. Besides, sir… It's only for one mission."
"Alright, Captain." Jack squinted at her.
"But you will do what I say."
"Yes, sir." She smirked. The others around the table noticed the looks they exchanged.
"One mission, Captain," he warned.
"Yes, sir." Sam nodded.
"Alright."
"If you are done. You leave in an hour, dismissed." Hammond said shaking his head walking out of the room.
"So, Captain," Kawalsky started with a grin on his face, "you are the geek who built the bomb?"
"The bomb and the dialing program for the Stargate, sir." She smiled.
"That was you?" Ferretti asked astounded.
"Yes."
"Wow! Smart and beautiful, Captain," Kawalsky grinned mischievously.
"I would watch what I said, if I was you, sir." Sam smiled looking at Jack from the corner of her eye.
"Why would that be, Captain? I mean, what I've said is nothing but the truth."
"Oh, thanks but my husband might get jealous." She explained.
"Ah, the married thing." He shook his head and sighed. "If you are a geek, what does he do?"
"You know what he does, sir. If you all agree we should get some lunch before we leave. Care to join me, Colonel?"
"I'll love to," He agreed. They turned around, and he waited for Sam to walk in front of him before he added.
"You know? Kawalsky forgot to mention that you are not only smart and beautiful, but you look too darn sexy in your dress blues, Sam." To Kawalsky and Ferreti's surprise, Sam only laughed.
"So do you, Jack. So do you," she chuckled. And they stopped turning around to find the shocking members of their team.
"Are you coming, guys?" she added with a soft smile as they nodded without uttering a word
"oh, by the way, Kawalsky? Did I ever introduced you to my wife?" He said, motion towards Sam who grinned.
"I don't believe you did, Jack," she grinned.
"Oh crap! I'm a dead man," Kawalsky muttered making the others laugh.
An hour later, it was finally the time they were going to step through the gate and into Abydos. On the other side, they were welcomed by the people of Abydos and Daniel. After speaking for a while, Daniel told them he had to show them what he found, and they walked out to the other complex. They took a while getting there and back, and when they finally were close enough to the pyramid. They head firefight.
They sneaked in, trying to help and they saw a man wearing a gold armor talking. Then, he and the other armored man, walked to the opened wormhole before it was closed again.
"The message, Jack!" Sam exclaimed. "Same snake head, two planets." Jack thought about it
"So, that must be the one who was on Earth." He frowned.
"I think so, the question is, what is he after?" she said chewing her lower lip.
"I don't know, Sam." He mumbled.
"Women," Sam said after a while.
"What women?" He asked looking around.
"No! He's after women, Jack! Remember the message: no females on level twenty-eight? And the warning for Daniel to ask all women to leave before we left? It makes sense… He's after women."
"Okay, but why would he be after women?"
"Maybe is searching for a Queen?"
"You think so?" He frowned.
"You tell me what else can it be…" she looked at him.
"I don't know, Sam."
Once they sorted out the place and helped out the injured, they returned to Earth with Daniel, who went to their home for the night. He was surprised to know that Jack had not only met Sam but married her and got not one but two boys.
"And what are you going to do, Captain? Will you ask for your transfer here? Or you plan to return to DC?" Daniel asked her once they were the only ones in the room.
"General Hammond is trying to get me transferred here," she answered as Jack entered the room.
"This is the letter we were talking about, Daniel." He said giving it to him. Daniel looked at it and opened it. Shortly after, Daniel looked up to them.
"There's another one for me; it says 'numbers' on the envelope. Have you got it?"
"Yeah, I'll get it," Jack said as he stood up and walked out of the living room.
"Daniel, are you okay?" Sam asked looking at the archeologist.
"It's a letter to myself…" he shook his head. "the envelope I mentioned…. It's for me. The numbers are important gate addresses," he explained to her.
"You coded them in numbers?" She asked.
"Apparently," he shrugged. "This says I know how to break it."
"Then I'll better get you a pen and paper," she grinned standing up. She walked out as Jack walked in.
"I heard," Jack said winking at her as he walked into the room and gave the envelope to Daniel.
"Oh, my gosh! How many gate addresses are there?" Sam asked when she saw Daniel spreading the papers on the coffee table
"I have no idea, the first two are important according to the letter," he explained. He looked at the spread pages for a while until he spotted one with gate symbols on it and grinned. "Got it!" He said, drawing each of the symbols.
"The note said these are important to you, Jack."
"Me? Why?"
"I don't know. It only points out where to go for the first one."
"Ok" Daniel returned to what he was doing for the next couple of hours. Until Jack pulled the pen out of his hand.
"Hey! I was using that!" He looked up at Jack
"Tomorrow. It's late. I'll put these away until then." He said picking up the papers.
"Oh, sorry. I got carried away."
"I bet," Jack said placing the last papers in a pile. Daniel looked around with a frown.
"Where's Sam?"
"She went to bed an hour ago." Jack grinned.
"Oh."
"Go to bed, Daniel," Jack told him before walking out with the papers; he placed them on the safe before walking out to his bedroom.
The next morning, they showed up at the SGC for a briefing in which they explained what they found out with Daniel's letter. General Hammond agreed to send the same two teams except for Sam to the addresses.
For the next twenty-four hours, Sam worked on upload what Daniel had decoded onto her program, and her transference was completed. The team returned on time, with an alien in tow. And once cleared, Jack went straight to find Sam, who was where he left her working in the assigned lab.
"Hey," he whispered, and she looked up with a smile.
"Hey! You are back! How did it go?"
"Good. The snake head got away, but we pissed him off."
"Why? What happened?" Jack rolled his eyes.
"We got caught thanks to Daniel." He sighed.
"It was for good tough when we were in there; he gave the second in command the envelope."
"The one he asked for before we left home?"
"Yeah. The guy name is Teal'c, he read the letter and walked away. We were sitting there trying to figure a way out, then we heard a fight, and the door of the containment room opened. He ran into the cell holding theses long firing sticks. He looked at me. I asked for help to save the people. He threw me one of those sticks and told me I believe you. Using the, what did he call them? Staff weapons, we blew a hole in the back wall and escaped."
"He helped you escape?"
"Yeah, he defied his God. Apophis, that's the name of the leader. He killed the one who was his queen, cut her in half before escaping."
"Wow, what is general Hammond going to do with him?"
"Not sure yet. Anyhow, what have you been doing?" Sam smiled
"Well, I've been uploading the addresses Daniel gave me, and I was notified of my permanent transference to Cheyenne Mountain."
"That's great news!"
"I know! I'll be flying back to DC tomorrow to get things sorted out. Then, I'll be back here with the boys." He frowned in concern
"Are you going to be on a team?"
"No," she smiled. "Not at the moment, maybe later depending on how things go."
"What about the boys?"
"General Hammond has given me a phone number of a day care center. I've already spoken to them, and they can look after the boys during the day."
"Colonel O'Neill to General Hammond's office," the PA system announced.
"I'll better go." He said walking away.
A week later, after arranging all their things to be transferred to Colorado. Sam returned to the SGC once she delivered the boy to the day care. During that same week, Jack and other two teams, where helping the refugees who they had helped escape prison back to their home planets.
"SG-1," Hammond said as Sam sat in the briefing room. "You will be going to PYX384 for your first off world mission." He finished looking at the four man on the table.
"Ah, sir?" Jack started. "Which one is PYX..."
"three eight four," Sam affirmed.
"That one!"
"It was first on my list," Daniel said.
"Oh! That one, ok."
"Colonel O'Neill, from what Dr. Jackson said whatever is on that planet is important to be brought back here."
"Ok, who knows maybe is a big honking space gun," he wriggled his eyebrows and Sam grinned.
"Colonel," Hammond sighed.
"Sorry, sir."
"You leave in an hour," he finished standing up. Sam, Jack, and Ferretti stood up as he walked away.
"A big honking space gun...Sir? Really?" Sam asked smiling at him.
"Hey, why not?" Sam shook her head and picked up her files before walking out of the briefing room. At the marked time, SG-1 stepped through the wormhole.
"Looks like earth," Ferretti said looking around the land.
"Yeah." Jack agreed. "Daniel, which way?" The archeologist took his compass out and pointed to his left.
"That way."
"Daniel, you take the point. Ferretti, you go second. Teal'c, you are third, and I'll watch your six," Teal'c raised his eyebrow confused.
"He means our backs, Teal'c," Daniel explained before he started to walk. They followed Daniel into the trees for over an hour, until Daniel stopped when he saw something shining behind some vines moving forward he pushed those away.
"Jack, this must be it," He said, taking his knife out and started cutting the vines away. Noticing it was some sort of ship, the others helped him.
Noticing they were all working on clearing the ship, Daniel took his camera and recorded the outside of the ship and found a pushed a button he found at the back. A door opened, and the other three quickly raised their weapons.
"Daniel!" Jack shouted.
"Sorry," he smiled sheepishly. He walked inside and recorded the inside.
"Jack, I think it's damaged," Jack walked in a while looking around.
"We are going to need some help fixing it. But who might be capable?" Jack said out loud.
"What about Sam?"
"I don't think so, Daniel, this would be all new to her."
"Good point. Well, at least now we know where it is."
"Okay, let's cover it up for the time being and let General Hammond know about our findings," Jack said, and they walked out and started to help Teal'c and Ferreti to cover it again before walking back to the Stargate.
"O'Neill."
"Yes, Teal'c?"
"That ship, it's the right size to go through the Stargate."
"I think you might be right, Teal'c." He said giving it a last look.
Once on Earth, they briefed General Hammond, and he asked Sam to join them. Daniel showed them the recordings of the ship, and Jack noticed she was already analyzing something. When the video stopped, she turned to look at Jack and then to General Hammond.
"Sir, I would like to have a closer look at it."
"I knew it!" Jack frowned. "I knew you were going to say that." Sam turned towards him and gave him a 'really?' look which made him grin at her.
"Later, Captain. In the meantime, I need you to let me know when we can send the MALP out again."
"It's ready, sir. We will have four more available by the end of the month."
"Excellent. SG-1. I'll be expecting your reports by tomorrow," he stood up and walked into his office.
"Sam? Do you think you might be able to fix the ship?"
"I don't know Daniel. It's all new to me," she answered as they walked out of the briefing room.