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Chapter 21 - Little Black Book

For the first time in her life, Hope actually felt like a little girl. She was so excited by her parents' engagement that, when they arrived at the base the next day, she ran ahead to the control room and grabbed the base intercom from in front of Siler.

"Attention all S.G.C. personnel, this is Hope O'Neill and I would like to announce the official engagement of the General Jack O'Neill and Colonel Samantha Carter. Thank you and have a nice day." After letting go of the intercom button, she remembered something important and pressed the button on the microphone again.

"Oh, and I forgot, all bets on the wedding date are to placed with Walter, and if you don't know who that is, well then...you have a problem because everyone knows who he is. Thank you."

After her second the announcement Siler got up from his chair and raced up the spiral

stairs to Walter's desk.

There was a flurry of chaos near the poor, aforementioned man's desk while he took out his little, now very thick, black book to write down the numbers while he secretly began to plan his revenge on Hope O'Neill, with two l's.

After her very blunt announcement, Hope knew her parents would be looking for her. In pure genius fashion, she decided to hide in the least likely place they would look for her.

Meanwhile, Jack and Sam searched all possible locations they thought Hope would go to hide from them, even checking the infirmary as a desperate attempt, constantly being stopped to be congratulated by everyone they passed. As a last effort, they headed for the control room so Jack could make an announcement to the facility, "Hope O'Neill, if you do not get your butt in here right now, there will be no more jell-o or going off-world for a really long time."

Hope rolled her eyes from her hiding place before popping up with a serious look on her face, "You know, if you want to sound serious about your punishment threats, then we're really going to need to give me a middle name."

Jack and Sam looked up through the control room window to see Hope come from behind the Stargate with her hands on her hips.

"Jack, she has a point. Whenever my dad used my middle name, I'd run high for the hills," Sam said as they watched Hope head for the control room.

"We'll talk about that later."

The three of them were standing around in Sam's lab discussing what Hope had done.

"I did it because I thought it was the easiest and quickest way to inform the whole base about the engagement. I don't see why your so angry: it's not like you being together is against the regs anymore."

"Hope, we're not angry, we both just wanted to tell people our own way so there wouldn't be so much commotion about the whole thing and now everyone has a bet on when we're going to get married," Sam replied.

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry. How 'bout this: we take Walter's black book and see who bet what?"

"But why would we need that?" Jack asked.

"I think I know where this is going," Sam said as she looked at Hope.

"Exactly," Hope replied.

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