Chapter 5 - A Name Has Arrived

A minute later in the infirmary, O'Neill runs in and stops next to the girl, followed by Carter. Teal'c, and Daniel have been there, talking to the girl for a while.

"Has something transpired O'Neill?" Tealc asks.

"Ah...no, just wanted to drop by, see how everyone's doing. You know, the usual,"O'Neill answers, wanting to tell his 'daughter' something important but not wanting to make it a huge deal.

"So," the girl started, "I know that was a lie, what's really going on?"

"Sir," Carter jumped in, "I would like to know that as well."

"Well Carter, for once, I'm a step ahead of you," O'Neill states, being very proud of himself, then turns towards the girl, "I think we have found the perfect name for you," and he pauses for suspension.

"And that would be?" both Carter and the girl say, which surprises all three of them.

"Hope," O'Neill tells them.

"You hope what?" the girl asks as Carters smile grew into a full grin.

"I think he means," Carter starts to explain, "he hopes you like the name Hope. Is that right sir?"

"Yes! Exactly"

"I love it! But I have to warn you, I'm not used to having a name so you might have to call to me a few times before I answer," the girl, now Hope, warned them.

"Of course, that's understandable,"Teal'c replied.

"Yeah, we still have to do that for some other people I know," O'Neill said while trying to discretely point to Daniel, but failing. Daniel just gives him a look saying, 'yeah right.'

"So," Hope started hesitantly, "what do I call you?"

"What do you mean?" O'Neill not understanding what she meas, but of course Carter does.

"Well, we're her parents so..."

"So maybe mom and dad?" O'Neill asks both Carter and Hope.

"Sounds good," Carter says trying to lighten the mood in the room.

O'Neill, wanting to get in on the lighten mood, "and Danny and T can be your uncles!"

"That's sounds good." "Yes, indeed," Daniel and Teal'c reply.

"Okay," Hope says obviously happy it went smoother then she thought. "And I'm guessing you don't live together."

Both O'Neill and Carter started to shuffle their feet, both wishing they wish they could live together. "How about you split it equal? Hope go to one of you houses half a week, and the other the rest of the week? And she'll still be able to come here to work with us right?" Daniel answered for them, trying to make it easier for them.

"Sounds good," said Carter, happy to get that out of the way quickly. "Sir?"

"Yup, sounds great. I wish I can talk more but I forgot to call the President on this whole thing so I better go do that. I'll see you both later,"said O'Neill and he went out the door.

"The President?" asked Hope.

"Oh, he's.." began Daniel when Hope interrupted him. "I know who he is, it's just that, how can you forget to call the President?" Teal'c answers, "General O'Neill can forget a few important things when it does not matter that much, but when we are on a mission, he does not forget anything." "Nice," was all what Hope had to say.

Carter, just realizing something, "How do you know about the President? You've never been here have you?"

"No, I haven't. When I was on the planet with Oma, she told me everything she knew about Earth, which was a lot. I'm a quick learner so I understood most of it."

"Okay. So, are you hungry?"

"Starving, I didn't get a wide variety when living with Oma. I've actually had this craving for this blue squishy stuff at times."

"Is now one of those times?"

"Most definitely. Wait, are you telling me I'm not crazy and there is such thing as a food that's blue and squishy?"

"Most definitely, it's called jell-o," Hope starts to get out of bed.

"Ah, doctors order, you or not to get out of bed. I'll go get us some food from the commissary, don't move," Daniel tells Hope before he heads out of the room leaving Hope smiling to the others.