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Chapter 3- Short But Loud

"Carter," Jack walked into Sam's lab, "Is our plan in motion?"

"Yes, sir," she answered proudly, "I was just about to call Janet."

"Well then, get on with it."

"Yes, sir." Sam walked over to the phone in her lab and dialed a series of numbers, "Janet? ... Hey, it's Sam ... yeah, um I just wanted to know if you could come over tonight? ... Well, I'm having some trouble with re-decorating my living room and I would really like some help with it ... Of course you can bring Cassie ... Okay, great. See you tonight at 19:00. Bye." She hung up and turned back to Jack, "All set, sir. Good thing we called Cassie about this first."

"Yeah, wait a minute, re-decorating your living room? Carter, I'm sure you could've come up with something better than that."

"Like what, sir?"

"Uh ... never mind, I haven't called Daniel, yet," he walked over to her phone and dialed, "Danny-boy, glad I caught you in your lab ... yeah, I know. Your almost always there but that's not the reason why I called, we're having a team night at Carter's house tonight ... Yeah, I know it's not the regular team night but we're SG-1, what's regular about us? ... Yes, I know I'm right. So be there around 19:05 okay? ... Because I said so, be there. Bye," he hung up and turned back to Sam who was smiling at him, "What?"

"'Because I said so'? What was that all about, sir?"

"Well, he asked why it was 19:05 and not just 19:00 so that's what I came up with."

"Yeah uh sir, I'm sure you could've came up with something better that because I said so'."

"Shut up, Carter."

"Yes, sir."

At 19:00 on the dot, Janet and Cassie knocked on Sam's door, "Hey Janet, Cassie," she said and hugged them, "Would you like some coffee?"

"Sure."

"Thanks."

They walked into the kitchen and talked as Sam poured their drinks. A few minutes into the conversation the doorbell rang, "I'll be right back," Sam walked to the door and saw Daniel standing outside.

She opened the door and let him inside, "Hey, Daniel. Janet and Cassie are in the kitchen, why don't you join them? I just have to go to check on something. "

"Okay, I didn't know they were going to be here," he said and walked into the kitchen.

Sam walked down the hall to her room and stopped in front of her walk-in closet, she nonchalantly opened it to reveal Jack O'Neill hiding inside. "Carter, I have a question, " he said stepping out holding a short black dress, "Why have I never seen you wear this?"

Sam glared at him before snatching the dress from his hands and replacing it on the hanger, "Sir, I thought you promised not to go through my closet when I allowed you to hide in there."

"Yeah, but this sort of jumped out at me when I fell down."

"Anything else jump out of you, sir?"

"Actually..."

"Never mind," she then peered around the corner and looked towards the kitchen, "Both Daniel and Janet are here, are you ready, sir?"

"Yes, ma'am," he answered before saluting her. She smiled back at him and they headed out with two pieces of rope, fortunately both Daniel and Janet were seated at the table with their backs towards the two officers approaching them. Cassie saw them coming and got the two blindfolds she had in her pockets ready.

They moved as one. When Jack gave the signal, Cassie jumped up and started to put the blindfolds on her mom as Jack put the rope around Daniel's wrists, tight enough so he couldn't get out but loose enough so that he wouldn't get hurt, Sam did the same thing to Janet until they were both tied and blindfolded.

"What the hell is going on here?" Daniel asked.

"Yeah, I would like that question answered too!" Janet yelled.

"Wow, Mom, you should come with a warning: short but loud'." Cassie said.

"Cassandra Fraiser! Get me out of this now!"

"Sorry, but this is for your own good."

"Okay, okay," Jack said, "Let's get going. Carter, you help Janet, I got Daniel and Cassie." He threw her the keys, "Go open the car"

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