I know I haven't updated in awhile but summer's coming now so hopefully I'll be able to update more!

Chapter 16 - Weird

"Hey, Uncle Daniel," Hope bounced into Daniel's lab the day after the Tok'ra incident.

Daniel jumped up from his seat, having not heard his niece' enter. After all, her father had been in the black ops for years. "Hey, Hope, what's up?"

"Oh, nothing, I just have a question that I think I know the answer to, but I just want to make sure I'm right."

"Okay, what's the question?" he asked before turning back to what he was doing before.

"Well, I've noticed things and well … my mom and dad love each other right?"

Daniel started to choke and Hope patted him on the back to help' him breath normally again, "What do you mean?" he asked once he was done coughing.

"I'm not stupid, I can see the signs."

"What signs?"

Hope rolled her eyes in a Carter-like way, "They act like teenagers! They're always staring at each other when they think the other doesn't know, but oh … they know. They share food like they know what the other is thinking, but they don't even think about it when doing it. Oh, and they're always checking each other out!"

Daniel looks up wide-eyed, "What do you mean?"

"Come on, Uncle Daniel. You mean you've never seen my dad check out my mom's ass or vice versa, and it's just a little, um what's the word I'm looking for ... weird."

"Oh, maybe I'll call in Teal'c, see if he's noticed anything."

Daniel maked a call and in less than three minutes, Teal'c arrived in the lab.

"What is the service you wish me to perform, Daniel Jackson?"

"Hope here, has a question," the archeologist explained.

"Okay, do my parents love each other?" she asked bluntly.

"Indeed."

"That's all you have to say, indeed?" Hope asked unbelievingly.

"I have known your parents for many years. I believe it was, as you call it, attraction upon the first visual encounter."

"Ah Teal'c?" Daniel cut in; "It's love at first sight."

"Is that not what I said, Daniel Jackson?"

"Never mind."

"So, they've loved each other that long and haven't done anything about it!" Hope exclaimed. "I should be living in one house by now! This is ridiculous, we have to do something about this."

"Hope, we have been trying to do something, but nothing works."

"But you haven't had me before," she said a little arrogantly.

"We do now seem to have an increased chance of success with Hope fighting along side ourselves to accomplish the goal." Teal'c informed Daniel.

"Hmm, so what do you think we should do, Hope?"

"Well I've been thinking..."

"This could be dangerous Teal'c."

"Indeed."

"Okay, okay, I get it, just hear me out. We should..."

Thanks so much for the few who review to my beta reader Bookworm37 because my grammar really sucks!