Chapter 8

Samantha Carter was pouting, not that anyone could tell since Teal'c and Daniel wasn't there, Jack with a look ordered her to go, as her mind was busy with this new alien weapon and how it worked.

The kids, no min-soldiers, the thought made Sam ache in grief for their childhood innocence, were focused on getting to this 'colony'.

Then her attentive was completely fixed onto the amazing place she found herself. She had to laugh at the sight of Daniel being Daniel.

If a hawk could looked exhausted and frustrated at the same time, it was that one who was if her mind was hearing right was grumbling. That must be Tobias.
Daniel caught sight of her, "Oh Sam you wouldn't believe what just happened!"

Tobias slumped, 'Oh thank you! I'm off to hunt.'

Sam thought it was just to get out of Daniel's nonstop talking. She didn't blame him.

"Now what?" She thought out loud.

"We wait." Rachel said with a growl but she softened when Tobias landed on her shoulder. Marco had become human again and was teasing Cassie who started to pace once she became human.

Daniel tilted his head a certain way which Sam recognized. They went across the clearing within eyesight but not, hopefully hearing.

Daniel had an unusual serious look on his face, "Your brother has connections with other police throughout the country right? Tobias and I were talking about family and he has a mom somewhere. Apparently he's the uncle of Ax. His home life was not great. If push comes to shove I might end up adopting him. I sense a kinship with him. After," Daniel stopped talking as Sam knew he was thinking about Sha'uri and his endless search that ended in tragedy.

"But that's up to him. At least now we have a name to go on. Loren Smith Fangor, wife of Alan Fangor. Her sibling are nasty pieces of work, just like my foster homes." Daniel said dryly.

"I'll see what I can do. If she got injured in any way maybe that's why she hasn't been around." Sam frowned, suddenly smelling BBQ smoke.

Jack's voice suddenly came through her trip down memory lane to realize that in fact, it wasn't ten years earlier but ten years later and she was officially burning the monthly BBQ.

"This is why I am in charge of it." Jack said as he hip pushed Sam out of the way and saved the day.

"Any of the kids here yet?" Sam asked in return as her husband sighed as he had to do quick work to save whatever Sam had been doing. That was Senator Robert Kinsey's doing. A sort of thank you. It was amazing how much of a turn around that guy did. It was probably because he was a unwilling host.

"I hear the slam of car doors now and the sound of the bickering young." Jacob or was it Selmak quipped.

The kids were the nickname that the team gave the animorphs since after a Chee, a high form android, the Erak Chee who Sam had been working with since day one of his introduction into the Stargate program, came to warn the Animorphs about the other brain slugs like aliens who wanted to take over Earth.

"I can't believe that joke worked. I mean it worked, but" Daniel was saying as his second wife, Loren, Tobias's mother who they found and help heal her mind and body using the tech they had, put a peach pie on the groaning food table in the backyard of the O'Neil's expanded lake house.

"No who would have thought two separate races that had the same goals would turn on each other?! Completely shocking!" Rachel Fangor deadpanned as Tobias had somehow got stuck with Uncle duty as he lead his little adorable toddler niece, Anna to her grandma, Janet Fraiser who praised her walking.

"That and having the Yeerk Peace movement letting the species know that their territory was being threatened. The wormhole to the Taxxons homeworld really help speed up things. Who would have thought that the Taxxons would jump at the chance to become endangered species of Earth? Not to mention the other Yeerks?"

"It probably helped that we had tight, tight, tight control over the morphing cube." Jake who grinned at the cheers after Cassie showed them her engagement ring. He ignored his cousin's 'finally' comment.

"That and mom tried to get into the SG1 program." Marco said as he snagged a hot dog from the grill. He was just grateful that his dad's thing with Nora went nowhere.

"Many things could have gone wrong. But did not." Ax said eyeing the napkins thoughtfully. Not to eat them per say, Cassandra had weaned him off of that habit but on the other hand, wood could be eaten if prepared properly.

He'll ask Teal'c when he came. He will know.

Ax was distracted by a cupcake thrown at his face. The world was at peace, or at least enough to relax once in a while and life went on.

That is until the quantum mirror turned on and Loran Fangor walked through asking for help to save her husband Alan. But that's another story all together.

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