Okay, sorry this took several days. Fluff is not that hard to write so I shoulda gotten this up sooner, but was busy with other things and all...so yeah, here's the next chapter. This one is pretty much just fluffy too, but I I have decided by now to definately go with the more involved plot, so that will really start in the next chapter, but please review this one so I know how I'm doin' so far. Thanks and enjoy!

Chapter 2

"All right, she's here! Everybody hide!" Jack O'Neill announced nine minutes later as he peeked out the window into the parking lot. When he turned back around everyone else was staring at him. "What?"

"Uh, Jack, we're not hiding," Daniel explained. "She knows we're here."

"Oh! Well, I knew that…"

"Sure you did."

"Are we done?" Vala said suddenly. "Did we do everything? Are we ready?"

"Yeah, I think we've got everything," Sam assured her.

Vala sighed and sat down. "Good."

"So now we-" Cameron started to say something, but was interrupted by and exited call from the doorway and a speeding bullet that rushed past him.

"Daddy! Mommy!" Janet said, colliding with her father, who hadn't sat down yet, and sending him stumbling back a couple of steps.

"Whoa!" Daniel cried in surprise. "No running inside Janet Sha're Jackson!"

"Sorry, dad," Janet replied as he pulled her into a hug. He bent down and she planet a kiss on his check. Daniel returned the gesture and then straightened again.

"So, did you have fun at Cassandra's?" he asked, looking up and smiling at the young woman as she came to sit down next to Sam and Jack.

"Hi dad, hi Sam" Cassie smiled, giving both hugs before she sat.

"Hey," Sam replied brightly.

Meanwhile, Janet was nodding vigorously. "Yeah, we had a lot of fun. We watched three Star Wars movies in a row last night!"

Vala raised an eyebrow. "You did?"

"We sure did! You shoulda been there, Uncle Teal'c!"

The jaffa smiled. "Indeed. Which trilogy did you choose?"

"We watched the second one; episodes one, two, and three. Those are my favorites. I think Padme and Anakin are much cooler than Luke, Han and Leia. Not that the older movies aren't cool too…"

Teal'c nodded. "It has been in my experience that the younger generations on this planet prefer the ones that you do, though I myself am partial to the first films."

Janet laughed. "Oh, okay."

"You watched three of those movies in a row? You didn't stay up too late, did you?" Daniel inquired.

"No sir!" Janet assured him. "We started early, and I went to bed at ten like you told me to, I promise. Right, Cassie?"

Jackson glanced over at Cassie, who nodded. "She did. She was a very good girl the whole time. I didn't have any problems with her." She shrugged and smiled. "That's my report."

"Good," Daniel nodded. "Then I'm glad you two had such a good time. You ready to get started? Eat some pizza and cake? What did you have for breakfast?"

Janet grinned. "Doughnuts!"

Vala rolled her eyes. Daniel pinned his on Cassandra again. "You gave her doughnuts for breakfast before a birthday party?" He asked the question seriously, but a shadow of a smile hid just below the surface.

Cassie giggled. "Come on, Daniel, it's her birthday!"

"I'm eight!"

"Actually, not for another…three minutes," Vala said, looking at her watch. "It's 11:03. You were born at 11:06."

"You kept up with that?" Jack asked incredulously.

Vala shrugged. "Why not?"

"I know when ours were born," Carolyn beamed.

"Well, I know that they were seven minutes apart…" Cameron said.

Sam grinned. "So basically, when it comes to the exact times, I'm guessing…"

"The men don't bother," Carolyn and Vala sighed together.

"Or ours didn't anyway," Carolyn filled in.

"Hey-!" Daniel protested.

"Ah," Jack said.

"Okay, okay," Janet said impatiently. "Can we start now, daddy?"

"Yes, we can start now, honey. Why don't you go sit with Zach and Tiffany?"

"Okay!" she agreed, and then crossed to the table to climb into a chair in between her two young 'cousins', opposite her parents.

"Food's on the way," Cameron supplied. "Want to open presents first? I would highly suggest that."

"Wait a minute. Wait until I'm eight. How much longer, mommy?" Janet asked.

Vala held her wrist across the table for the girl to look at, and Daniel looked at his own.

"Just a few more seconds," Vala said, and then started counting down from ten. Daniel joined in, and soon everyone at the table, including even Teal'c and the twins, who were giggling, was smiling and counting, as Janet eagerly stared at her mother's watch.

"Three…two…one…"

"Now I'm eight!" Janet whooped suddenly, bringing several laughs and more than few shushes. Once she had calmed down Jack spoke up.

"All right; way to go Jay-girl!" he grinned teasingly.

The girl frowned in annoyance. "Uncle Jaaaack," she whined, just as proficient at it as her father. "You know I don't like that name. Besides, I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm eight."

Daniel laughed. "Janet, Jack still calls your dad 'Danny-boy'. I don't think you're going to deter him from calling you a similar name."

Sam smiled. "He's right; you'd better get used to it."

Janet sighed and sat back. "Oh." But then she sat up again, a smile back on her face, getting over it quickly. "Okay, can I open presents now?"

"How much longer do we have?" Jack asked an hour-and-a-half later. Presents had been opened, pizza eaten, cake cut and half of it consumed, and now the adults still sat around the table chatting and eating ice cream while the three children ate theirs and played with Janet's new things on the floor near them.

Daniel looked at his watch. "Well, we have this room 'till two, so about another half hour." Then he looked back up at O'Neill. "But don't change the subject on me, Jack. You can't do any complaining. I haven't died in years," he grinned.

"Well, technically you died once last year," Carolyn supplied. "But we got your heart started again."

Daniel's brow furrowed at the memory. "I thought we decided not to count that one."

"It was really close call, Daniel," Sam said.

Vala wrapped her arms around one of her husband's arms. "We thought we'd lost you there for a minute."

"Ah, well…"

"And you're still just as accident-prone aren't you?" Jack asked mischievously.

"Uhm, well-"

"You can say that again," Cameron said, ignoring Daniel. "Just last month he got bitten by some bug on a basic reconnaissance mission that turned his hand purple for a week!"

"Oh really? I didn't hear about that one," O'Neill said.

"It was really funny!" Janet piped up from the floor.

Vala smiled. "It looked really weird, so he couldn't go anywhere besides the SCG but home. Not that that was a bad thing…"

"Uh, yeah," Daniel said quickly, his face turning red. "It was just…strange, and…well, seriously, Jack. You can't expect us to report everything to you. You're retired."

"Ah yes, and I'm staying that way this time."

"You say that, but in ten years of retirement you've never been able to go more than six months without worming your way onto a mission somehow."

"Daniel Jackson is correct, O'Neill," Teal'c smiled.

Jack shrugged. "What can I say?"

Daniel only smiled and rolled his eyes. There wasn't really anything Jack could say about that. Jack was Jack.

They continued to talk until they were had to get and clean away their things so they could leave. Hugs were exchanged all around, kisses to the birthday girl were given, and then they parted, those that worked at the SGC promising to see each other the next morning.

Daniel and Vala Jackson climbed into bed that night tired but happy after a long of the birthday part, taking Janet shopping with he birthday money, and dealing with the girl's overall hyperness. She had still been literally jumping up and down when they'd tucked her into bed and Daniel had smiled, more than glad that his daughter was growing up with both parents to take care of her, unlike he had.

"Well….that was…interesting," Vala sighed.

"That's what you say every year," Daniel laughed. "I take it you didn't do those kinds of things on your planet."

"Well, we had birthdays, of course, but nothing quite like your earth birthday parties." She grinned. "And the presents weren't that great either. My family wasn't that rich."

"And if remember correctly, your step-mother wasn't very nice."

Vala laughed. "That, Daniel, is an understatement."

Daniel smiled, leaned over, and kissed her, and then was about to say something else when something landed on top of them, giggling. Both cried out in surprise.

"Yow!" Daniel yelped, scooting backwards on the bed to get his daughter's knee out of his ribs.

"Janet, be careful," Vala scolded.

"Sorry," the girl answered, pulling up the covers in between her parents and sliding under them. "Can I come in here with you guys tonight? I can't sleep."

Daniel raised an eyebrow. "I thought you were a big girl now?"

"I am, daddy. But since it's my birthday, can I, please?" When her father didn't respond immediately she kept going, babbling on so quickly she could almost rival Daniel. "I mean, I had a day off of school today, and you got off work, but tomorrow's Tuesday, and we both have to go back, and even though your job is cool school's boring, so come on, just this once, please, daddy, please? Come on, mommy…"

Daniel and Vala smiled at each other knowingly. "All right," Daniel said finally.

"Yay!" Janet cried happily, snuggling farther under the covers. Her parents settled back down as well, and all was quiet for a few minutes, until Janet softly spoke up again. "Daddy?"

"Hmm?" Daniel replied sleepily.

"Well…last year when I was seven I found out about the Stargate, and where you really work at the SGC and where mommy and Cassie really came from and everything, and I saw it once, but…when do I get to go through the Stargate with you and mommy? I just wanna go once--somewhere you know is safe or something. Please? When can I?"

"When you're older," Vala answered, her eyes still shut. "Go to sleep, Janet."

Daniel and his daughter muffled giggles behind their hands, and then Daniel lowered his voice to a whisper. "She's right. Maybe when you're a little older?"

"How much older, dad?" Janet whispered back. "Cassie was nine when she went through the first time. She came here. Can I go through when I'm nine?"

"Maybe," Daniel replied. "I don't think I would mind, but we'll see what General Landry says then, okay? But for now, that's a year away."

"I know, I know," Janet said, and then yawned.

"You should go to sleep now, okay?" Daniel said, kissing her forehead.

The girl's eyes were already closed. "Yes, sir…" she mumbled, and seconds later was asleep.

Daniel glanced over her at Vala, who was also asleep. Turning over, he punched his pillow back into the shape he wanted it, and soon drifted off himself.