Sorry about taking so long to update. I got delayed first by schoolwork and then by DH. I had to redo this chapter a bit to make sure it stayed cannon.

Chapter 4

Teal'c raised an eyebrow. The Tau'ri were a confusing people, that much was certain. However, they were fierce warriors worthy of respect.

"Daniel, if you need to, you and Sha'uri could stay at our place until you find one of your own," said Samantha Carter, O'Neill's betrothed.

Teal'c was still unsure as to why O'Neill had no problem with his betrothed being a warrior. On Chulak women learned to fight so that they could protect themselves and their family should another false god attack. They did not become soldiers. It was not that he found the idea of a woman warrior disturbing so much as he found the reality of it a bit confusing.

Perhaps it was a Tauri custom. He could certainly see both the benefits and the disadvantages of having women used as warriors in the military. Although from what he understood, military service was not obligatory in this clan-uh, country.

"Shit!" said O'Neill. "How long has Luna been with your father?"

Samamtha Carter visibly paled. "I don't think Dad will mind too much. He's already said that he considers Luna just as much one of his grandchildren as he does Mark's kids."

"But four days alone with Luna would be enough to drive anybody to the brink," said Jack. "I love her, really I do, but that girl's head is not in the same world as us normal humans."

"Who's Luna?" asked Dr. Jackson.

"My daughter," said Jack.

"You have a daughter," Dr. Jackson stated. "Why didn't you tell me about your daughter?"

"I didn't find out about her until after Abydos," explained Jack. "Her mother had decided not to tell me about Luna and marry another man. They only told me about Luna because after Eos and her husband died, they couldn't find any other family willing to take her in."

"When you meet her, don't mention her mother and stepfather," said Samantha Carter. "She has nightmares for weeks after they're brought up." She glanced at O'Neill, who gave a slight nod. "Luna, Luna saw them die."

Teal'c's respect for O'Neill grew in that instant. Obviously family was very important to the man. Few would take in a bastard child, even if it was their own. Samantha Carter's father was worthy of respect as well. To consider the child of his son-in-law on the same level as his own grandchildren was generally not done. At least not on Chulak.

Mary O'Neill had been more than a little surprised to find out that she had another grandchild. And more than a little disappointed in Jack when she'd done the math. Sarah had been pregnant with Charlie when the girl was conceived. At least her boy had done the responsible thing and claimed the girl as her own when her mother and step-father had died.

She'd been sad when Jack and Sarah had their marriage annulled, shortly after their divorce was finalized. At the time Mary had thought that Jack would never have any more children. That he'd die alone.

But he'd certainly pulled it together after Luna came into his life. He was engaged to a very well educated woman from a good family (Samantha Carter was a General's daughter). And even if she was Episcopalian and had a full time job (as a Captain in the Air force), Mary was just happy that she would once again have a daughter-in-law.

The rest of the family… Well they'd come around eventually.

Sam bit her lip, trying not to let her nervousness show. This was the first time she or Luna would be meeting Jack's family (although she was quite sure that they would have nothing against Luna).

She couldn't help but feel relieved that Jack's sister Mary and his brother Robert couldn't come. Why did Jack have to have so many relatives?

John let out a sigh. If he hadn't known that Jack had truly loved Sarah, at one point, he would have thought he was merely trading up for a better model. Sam Carter was his eldest son's type. Short blonde hair, long legs, blue eyes. He had to wonder what somebody like her saw in Jack.

Oh, Jack was a good person. But he played the part of both the fool and the cynical asshole far too well for most to see.

And they were assigned to the same base as well. From what jack had told him, he and Sam had had to get a special dispensation of some sort. Luckily they'd already sent out wedding invitations by the time they were assigned to Cheyenne Mountain. And Sam's father was a very well connected General.

Although since his son was the second in command of this… Deep Space Radar Telemetry this, John had to wonder how it worked without breaking fraternization regulations. Then again, Major General Carter was well connected.

Sam tried not to show her fear when Jack's sisters, Lucy, Layla, Jane, and his sister-in-law, Catherine approached. She just knew they were going to question her. And with Jack speaking to his father, she couldn't hope for a rescue anytime soon.

"Sam, right?" said Lucy. "Jack said you were in the Air Force…"

Sha'uri watched the little girl play with her pet-what was the word again?-dag. Luna was, according to Daniel, unusual even for a child of the Tau'ri. However Sha'uri found the girl absolutely charming.

General Hammond had been most kind, helping to arrange for Daniel to buy a house near O'Neill's. Sha'uri rather liked the house. It was unlike anyplace she'd ever lived in. It had taken a bit for her to understand how to work the appliances, but Daniel and Samantha had been most helpful in that regard.

Since both SG-1, the team O'Neill was in charge of, and SG-2, the team Samamtha was a member of, were off planet, Sha'uri was watching Luna. Initially, Sha'uri had offered to watch Luna because she didn't want to be alone while Daniel was off-planet with SG-1 searching for Skaara, but in the month she'd been living on Earth, Sha'uri had grown very fond of the girl.

"Luna!"

"Hello Ginny," said Luna, in her usual dreamy tone.

The two girls hugged. Jacob smiled to himself, then went to greet the Weasleys. As far as Jack or Sam knew, he'd offered to let the Weasley family-and Luna-stay with him during the week leading up to the wedding. It was a cover to make sure that they didn't betray themselves in front of so many members of military personnel.

"Mr. Weasley, Mrs. Weasley," Jacob said by way of greeting. "And this is…"

"A pleasure to meet you, Mr. Carter," said Mrs. Weasley. "This is Ron, our youngest son. The others are off at school."

"This is Mr. Murray."

Teal'c looked down to see Luna O'Neill and two red haired children he didn't recognize. "Greetings, Luna O'Neill."

"Hello Mr. Murray. These are my friends, Ginny and Ronald Weasley."

"Greetings," said Teal'c with a slight bow of the head.

"You're really tall," said Ginny Weasley.

"Indeed."

Ginny watched the wedding, wondering the entire time what was happening. It was completely different from any wedding she'd ever seen before, and was more than slightly confused. What was the purpose of those rings? And was there some sort of religious service as well? Ginny wasn't really sure.

She knew her parents were equally confused, but none of them said anything either. Luna was right. Muggles were strange.

Luna waited until he was alone before she approached. This needed to be said, and it would probably best if nobody else heard.

"Hello Mr. Murray."

Mr. Murray looked down at her. "Greetings."

"You need to go back before it's too late."

An eyebrow was raised at her.

"He's sick, and if you don't go within the next week, he'll be too ill for anything short of a primta to heal him."

"What do you know?"

"You need to bring him and you wife back here. They'll be safe here while he heals. General Hammond will make sure of that. Then they can go stay with Bra'tac."

With that, Luna walked away.

Mark Carter let out a sigh as he watched his sister dance with Jack. He wasn't sure yet if he liked the man, but he wasn't too bad for a military man. And Sam did seem to be very happy with him.

Ten minutes in his new niece's presence was enough to prove his father's concerns. Luna was certainly no ordinary witch. She was definitely a seer. And a good one at that. He'd had the girl read his tea leaves, tarot cards, a crystal ball, and his palm. He would have suspected her to be a natural legilimens, but he was the second highest level occlumens (It was important, as a lawyer, that his clients believed him capable of keeping their secrets).

The poor thing. Being a seer certainly wasn't the best thing for the girl. History was filled with seers that had been used, killed, abused, for their powers. And with a gift as strong as this girl had… she was in even more danger than the average person with the "inner eye".

Sitting at his son's bedside, Teal'c was left to wonder what Luna O'Neill was. If not for her warning, Rya'c surely would have died. Not only did he suffer from what the Tau'ri called Scarlet Fever, but also Drey'auc had been in the process of securing a primta for Rya'c.

How had Luna O'Neill known this? It made no sense.

Sam bit her lip, trying not to worry too much. After she and Jack had spoken at great length, they'd approached Luna about the subject. Luna had declared that a sister was a wonderful idea and they could go to Hogwarts together.

She still wasn't quite sure what to make of that. Even after Jack had explained that Hogwarts was the secondary school the Weasley boys attended. Some boarding school up in Scotland.

It had been relatively easy to arrange, once Jack and Sam had come to an agreement. So long as the girls didn't try to kill each other, they were going to adopt Cassandra.

Not that Sam thought the girls would try to hurt each other. It was more a worry that Cassandra wouldn't like Luna and vice versa.

Luna tilted her head to the side, giving Cassandra an unreadable look. Cassandra shuffled a bit, looking down at the floor.

"What games do you know?" asked Luna. "Do you know any jump rope games?"

Cassandra shook her head a bit shyly.

"Wait here," said Luna. She ran out of the room, reappearing a moment later with two jump ropes. "Come on."

The next thing Sam knew, the two girls and Hypatia were in the yard. From the sound of it, Luna was teaching her a game with strange rhymes involving counting and magic.

That had gone much better than she'd even hoped for.

Ginny,

I have a sister now. Mother and Father adopted her. Father said she's from Toronto (that's in Canada), but he was lying. They found Cassandra on some sort of military mission.

I think you'd like Cassandra. She's really very nice and she's the same age as us. She'll be in the same year as us at Hogwarts, even though she doesn't know it yet. She's Muggleborn.

The children at school don't like her much. It's because she doesn't know about NSync or the Backstreet Boys or Britney Spears. I don't know what anybody would want to know about demon possessed, whores or boy bands that have signed deals with the devil to become famous.

Luna

P.S Mother said that if it was alright with Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, you could visit for the last two weeks of August. We're going up to Father's cabin.

Jack couldn't help but be very satisfied by the way his life was going at the moment. He had a wife, two daughters, good friends. What more could a man want or need?

Alright, so Luna and Cassie had the strangest arguments (he still didn't know why they were talking about transfiguration or charms), but they invariably made up by the end of the day, if for no reason other than the fact that it was nearly impossible to remain angry with Luna for long. And Sam was still unsure about having children. Although that was more because she wanted to continue going off planet and was unsure as to whether or not Hammond would allow her back on SG-2 or another team after her maternity leave was up. Sam had no problem working in the labs while pregnant, but did not want to give up going through the gate.

At first he'd been a bit worried about who would watch Luna, and then Cassie if both he and Sam were stuck on base or off planet, but that fear had quickly been put to rest. Sha'uri was always more than willing to watch the girls, as was Jacob, and oddly enough, Dr. Fraiser. Then again, Janet Fraiser was probably Sam's closest friend in Colorado Springs.

For lack of anything better to do, Luna and Cassandra watched patiently as Mrs. Jackson tried to teach them to weave. Anything was better than worrying about what might happen to Jack and Sam. Not to mention that both girls came from societies where women were expected to fill very traditional roles.

Sha'uri had provided them with smaller looms than the one she used, designed specifically for those still learning and had left the design up to the girls. Which was why Luna was weaving various protection runes into her design. It was the only thing she could think of doing.

Oh, unlike Sha'uri and Cassie, Luna knew exactly what was happening. All three of them knew that Jack, Sam, Daniel, Teal'c, Lou Ferreti, and Charlie Kawalski had gone on a suicide mission to protect Earth, but they had not been given any details. Luna tried hard not to think of the ship she could feel far too close to the planet. She tried hard not to think of what could happen if they failed.

Instead she worked on carefully weaving a soft blanket with as many possible protections on it as she could manage without using a wand. Cassie, having picked up on what Luna was doing, paused in her weaving.

"What's that for?"

Luna merely gave her a serene smile. "Four will be five. Lisa or Bart will need to stay warm."

Sha'uri gave them an odd look while Cassie's eyes widened in understanding. "What do you think I should put in mine?"

Luna gave her a quick list of runes for pleasant dreams.

Not even three days into Cassie's stay with the O'Neills, she'd shown her first sign of accidental magic by making a monkey bar disappear. Luna had quickly begun telling Cassie about magic after swearing her to secrecy (until Sam and Jack knew about magic).

Cassie had told Luna about the Stargate and Hanka in return. It had been unnecessary to tell Luna how big a secret what Cassie had revealed was. Honestly, Luna thought the Stargate explained quite a few things (particularly about Merlin).

From what Luna understood, most on Hanka had considered Cassie to be something of a freak. Admittedly, their high priestess had shown an interest in training Cassie when she was older, but that had only made the girl more of an outcast than she already was.

Jack was a bit surprised when both Luna and Cassie had requested more weaving lessons not even a day after their return. But Sha'uri was very fond of the girls and teaching them to weave was obviously something all three enjoyed. As a result, nobody had objected.

Daniel had apparently bought or made several looms for Sha'uri not long after she first came to Earth. Although unfamiliar with Earth, she'd already begun to make a bit of money selling the cloth she made. Her rugs sold amazingly well.

Anything was better than thinking about Sam. SG-2 had been on some planet, Jack couldn't remember the designation, helping the people flee from the Goa'uld. Somehow Sam had been infected with a damn snake.

His wife, the woman he loved, was locked up with a snake in her head. Jack had never felt more helpless in his life. Not even when he'd been taken prisoner in Iraq. At least in Iraq he'd been able to something, even if it was just mouthing off to his captors.

Sam could die and there was nothing he could do. She could die just like the man on SG-2 had shortly after their mission to Chulak. They'd been unable to save him and they could very well be unable to save Sam.

What was he going to tell Luna and Cassie? Oh, Cassie could be told the truth, but Luna… He'd have to lie to her. And could he even ask Cassie to lie to her sister?

Luna,

Mum said that it was alright for me to stay with you in August. I think she wants a bit of time with Ron before he leaves for Hogwarts. It will be his fist year, after all.

What's Cassandra like? Is she nice? Do you two get along? Does she like history or science or math or reading? Is Cassandra really a Muggleborn?

Mum was really excited when she heard. I think she expected Mrs. O'Neill to have a child instead of your parents adopting, but she's happy for you.

Ginny