"General O'Neill."
"I've told you before…it's Jack."
"Jack."
"What can I help you with?"
"Are Nick and Lena here?"
"Yep. So are the kids…and everyone else in the neighborhood." He laughed. "Come on in! Seems like we're having a party, though the reason why is still somewhat elusive."
"Well, sir, it's your house, and Nick and Lena are staying here…what more did you expect?" Ria asked, chuckling as she and Tony walked in.
"You definitely have a point there. And again, it's Jack." He smiled. He walked to the basement door. "Hey, Nick! Lena! Tony and Ria are here!"
"TONY!" The kids yelled as they ran toward the newly married couple, seemingly climbing out of the walls.
Nick and Lena walked up from the depths of the basement. "Tony! Ria!"
They grinned. "Nick. Lena."
"Where've ya been?" Nick asked, casually, almost expecting that he knew the answer and that Tony would skirt around the issue.
"Vegas." Ria answered, surprising everybody.
"Vegas? As in Las Vegas?"
Tony bit his lip as he tried not to laugh at Nick's comment. "No, it's a new place…it's here in Colorado. Real nice place."
Ria chuckled at her husband's sarcasm.
"You went to Las Vegas, Nevada…"
"I think we've established that." Sam said with a smile as she noticed the rings on the couple's left ring fingers. "And if I'm not mistaken, it was to get married."
"Married?" Nick asked, even more surprised if possible.
Ria and Tony both blushed a little bit, looking at their intertwined fingers in embarrassment.
"Yeah, Nick…as in…Mr. and Mrs. Dovolani." Tony said, turning a loving gaze to his wife who returned it whole-heartedly.
"You've known each other a whole…six weeks?" Nick asked, still in shock.
"When you know, you just know."
"Congratulations, guys!" Jack said, giving them both a hug.
Tony grinned sheepishly. "We would have invited you all but it was rather...spur of the moment..."
Ria giggled as Lena stepped forward and gave them both a hug. "I'm so glad to see you two together." She said, warmly.
"Not as glad as I am." Tony replied softly, looking at Ria, a tender expression in his eyes.
Her stomach turned in knots as she returned the tender gaze. "Or me."
"Yeck!" Danny said, wrinkling up his nose.
They turned back to the group. "Sorry..." Tony said, clearing his throat.
"Mushy stuff." Tommy sighed.
"Yep." Lena said, pulling the kids toward the other room. "Let's go get the legos out..."
"Let's before I get scarred again." Danny muttered, following his mother willingly.
The adults chuckled. "So...Tony's moving to the Springs?" Jack asked, lightly trying to figure out whether or not the SGC would be losing one of their best nurses.
"Actually...I'm relocating to New York with him...he's already got his studio established there."
"Ah..." Sam and Jack turned thoughtful glances toward one another. "Good for you."
"I can get a job anywhere...and for Tony, it would mean losing his students, plus his partner is there as well." She said, shrugging.
"We understand. And Janet will too..." Sam said, smiling. "Now, I think I recall making some chocolate cake...anyone up for a piece?" She asked, lightly.
"Oooohhhh...cake..." Nick said, practically salivating.
She laughed. "I didn't know it was going to be a wedding cake, but...it'll have to do...for now, anyway..."
Both Tony and Ria laughed. "You'd better give us a piece first before Mr. Dough Boy eats it all!"
"Mr. Dough Boy?!" Nick huffed.
His friend turned and cocked an eyebrow at him. "And just who made himself sick on my mami's cookie dough 4 years ago, hmmm?"
"Okay...okay...you can have your cake..."
"Can we eat it too?" Ria asked lightly.
Nick laughed, putting his arm around the woman's shoulder. "Since you decided to allow yourself to be my best friend's better half...I suppose you deserve all the cake you want..."
Tony smirked before turning to the rest of the questioning group. "He ate a bowl and a half of my Mami's dough...ever since then, she calls him her " vogël brumë djalë"."
Ria pulled away from Nick and placed her arms around her husband before laughing as she shook her head. "You're really going to have to get me an Albanian-English dictionary..."
"Her "little dough boy"." Her husband translated with a laugh.
"That's what I thought. But sometimes I can't make heads or tails of what you say..." She chuckled.
Sam handed them a couple of plates of cake, and Ria got a mischievous grin on her face.
"Uh oh..." Tony said, not liking where this was going.
She cut the piece of cake into quarters and took one of the quarters into her fingers. She offered it to her husband who leaned in to accept it, cautiously. She laughed as he "accidentally" got frosting on his nose.
"Okay, I see how this is." Tony said, dipping his finger into the icing on his piece and smearing it on her cheek.
She giggled as she shoved another quarter toward his face, not really caring where it went.
Tony ended up with frosting on his chin. Picking up his piece, he rubbed it all over Ria's face.
"Anyone else think it would be better to leave than to stay and watch the fall-out?" Nick asked, quietly.
"Let's leave." Sam said quickly.
"Yep..." Jack agreed.
Nick tiptoed out the door, closing it behind him.
Tony saw the blush on Ria's cheeks as he leaned toward her intent on retrieving his mashed piece of cake.
"What?" He asked innocently.
"Nothing." She said, with a grin rivaling the one he'd tried to hide.
"Now...do I get to eat my cake?" He asked, his accent very thick and his eyes smoldering.
She got up onto her tiptoes, slinking her arms around his neck. "Ladies first, dear..."
"I see."
She looked him in the eyes as she leaned in and placed her mouth on his chin, taking her sweet time about taking the chocolate cake from it.
His pulse was racing. "Oy..."
She raised her eyebrow as she kissed his mouth and then headed up to his nose, and began her work there. Before long, she'd made her way back to his mouth, one of her long fingers caressing his cheek as she released him. "That was some good cake..."
"I think it's my turn now." He growled, his voice low.
"Excellent..." She said, closing her eyes as he leaned in and began his "clean-up".