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Charlie Carter
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The Next Best Thing - TF

The not-so-long-awaited sequel to 'Breaking the Rules'

It was cold and stormy that night. The cold crept up her
already-chilly arms as she walked home. They hadn't met her where they'd
said. She was not happy. As the wind lashed across her face, she produced a
key from her pocket and unlocked the door. The wind closed it behind her as
she took off the multitude of layers she had on for warmth. She stormed into
the kitchen. No one there. The bedroom? No. The living room? Nope. She
scoured the whole house. No one. Where were they? Finally, she crept into
the cellar, the scariest room to be in when a storm is raging. She flicked
the light on. Still no one. Where were they?
The phone rang. She picked it up cautiously.
"Hello?" A petit pause.
"Hi. Okay, don't shout at me. I'm at the hospital. Don't panic, it's a
routine check-up. I'll be home soon, 'kay?" She sighed.
"'Kay. See you later."
"Bye." She placed the handset back in its cradle and slid down the wall,
groaning. Who knew when he'd be back? And where was she?
The phone rang. It wasn't her. Nuts.
"HIYA!!!!!" Jo screamed down the phone. Charlie paused, then took a deep
breath and replied.
"HIYA!!!!!"
"How are you? And how is everyone else? And are you coping without me?" Jo
had been at home recently, with her mother sorting out the Tok'ra counsel.
"I'm good, Jack and Sam aren't home yet, and noooooo!" Charlie laughed. It
was great to hear her friend's voice again.
"Well, Sam's here at the SGC. She's takin' us home today. She says sorry
with icing, castor sugar, hundreds and thousands and a cherry on top. With
cream. And ice-cream. Or whatever."
"Tell her I'm mad."
"Okay." A mumble and a scuffle.
"I'm sorry Charlie, but I told Jack to pick you up when I realised I couldn'
t. Where is he? I'll have words."
"He had a doctor's appointment."
"Oh. Okay, well I'll see you in a while, 'kay?"
"'Kay." She hung up once more. This life was too confusing.

"Woo!" Jo proclaimed, as she crossed the threshold of Charlie's house. Sam
followed with Freya and Jacob in tow. There were words, and a video was
produced from behind Sam's back. A knock at the door. It was Jack, who was
nearly ex-Jack, as everyone went to strangle him.
Charlie took Jo away for a moment.
"Hey, I just thought. Who's your dad?" Jo looked at her best friend.
"I dunno."
"You don't?"
"Well, Jack's the next best thing, right?"
"S'pose. Come on!"
Confusion, laughter, and popcorn started the film. It happened to be Star
Wars, the one film Jack still hadn't seen. When Darth Vader turned up on the
small television screen, the phone rang. Groans accompanied this as the
video was paused and Jack struggled out of Sam's grasp and went to the
phone.
"Yellow?" A pause.
"Colonel."
"Uhh, who is this?" A pause.
"You do not recognise me?" Hmm, sounds like a Jaffa. Wait.
"Bratak?" A sigh.
"Yes, it is I, master Bratak. I hope you are well."
"Yeah. We're cool. Uhh, what's goin' on?"
"I cannot explain. Please meet me at Stargate Command in ten minutes. With
Major Carter, Selmak, Anise and the two children." Bratak hung up. Jack put
the phone back and grabbed his coat.
"Come on, kids," he shouted. "Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to the SGC we go!"

There they were. Six people in one car. A tight squeeze, made worse by Jack'
s constant cursing at the bad traffic. By the time they pulled in to the SGC
car park, he'd been gagged with a sock.

"Danny boy!" Jack's shout bounced off the gate room walls as Daniel turned
to face him.
"Hey Jack, hi Sam. What are you doing here?" Sam stared at him.
"Bratak sent for us."
"Bratak?"
"Yeah," intervened Jack. "You know, old Jaffa? Teal'cs mentor?"
"Yes, I know who he is, Jack. He's not here."
"What?"
Well, he's on Chulak."
"O-kay. Who's been doin' reaaaaally impressive Bratak impressions?" A door
opened.
"It was I." A Tok'ra walked in. Selmak grabbed his neck.
"Chifu! What are you doing here? We told you to stay with the counsel."
Chifu glared at him.
"I was sent by the counsel," he growled. "Anise is needed." Jo groaned.
"This cuts our holiday short, doesn't it?"
"Yes, sweetie, but I don't understand why the counsel need me." Anise looked
at Chifu, who forced Jacob's grip loose. He coughed.
"I don't know. They wouldn't tell me. They need to talk to Selmak on a
separate matter, although that is not as urgent and will wait until you
return." His work done, the symbiote let the host speak.
"Look, don't ask me, 'cos you know I'm the last person to be told anything.
And sorry about cutting your holiday short, Jo." She smiled at him.
"S'okay. It's not your fault." Charlie stared.
"You know him?"
"Yeah. I know most of the Tok'ra."
"Figures. I know most of the SGC staff."

"Anise, we have to talk. Alone." The counsel made a point, and Jo was
ushered out of the room.
"Stupid counsel, think they're sooo high and mighty, don't tell me nuthin.
Typical." She muttered darkly, and thought of last night. Charlie's
question. Who was her father? Who could it have been? Daniel? Naah. Teal'c?
Naah. Selmak? NAAH! A Tok'ra operative? Maybe.
An hour passed as Jo weighed up the options. Several people crossed her
mind, until she was interrupted by Anise.
"Time to go."
"'Kay." Jo got to her feet. She thought of asking her mother, but she'd wait
until tonight. She ran up to dial in Earth's co-ordinates.
One wild trip later, she almost tripped on the ramp. Chifu grabbed her arm.
He glanced at Anise, who smiled. As she passed him, Jo heard her mutter.
"Chifu, this changes nothing." Jo frowned. What didn't change? She stored
the memory and raced Charlie and Jack to the lifts. Jack won.

Jo lay in bed that night. She had random thoughts for a while, until she
couldn't ignore it anymore. She thought long and hard about the fact that
Chifu could be her dad. If it were true, which was likely, it'd be cool.
Chifu was the Jack O'Neill of the Tok'ra. Except he was smart. And he wasn't
a colonel. But apart from that.it made sense. Chifu was the only Tok'ra who
ever let her know anything, and he was the friendliest. She smiled at the
thought that Chifu, aka Ben Piper, the actual host, was her father. Cool.

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"Hey, Ben, wait up!" Ben turned in his tracks at the familiar voice of Jo.
She ran up to him.
"What's up?"
"Anise wants you to 'make yourself useful, seeing as you're here'" she said,
mimicking her mother perfectly. "You get to come on a mission with us."
"Cool. Details?"
"Briefing's in ten minutes."
"Alright." He smiled and left her kicking herself. Why didn't I ask him
then? She sighed, feeling that today would be a bad day.
"Alright, so if this were true, the next attack could be more severe." Jo
heard Sam's voice. She turned the corner to see Sam, Charlie and Ben.
Charlie shushed her before she opened her mouth, pointing to her head. This
meant beware, intellectual discussion in progress.
"Yes. But I think I know a way to beat them," Ben elaborated. "See, if we
don't raise our shields that early, they'll assume we're giving up, so they
don't attack just then. But then, as soon as they do that, we power up
weapons and raise shields simultaneously, they'll be caught off guard,
giving us."
"The advantage?" queried Jack, as he wandered around the corner. "Hey,
gorgeous." He kissed Sam. Charlie pulled a face.
"Urrrgh, please, stop with the mushy crap." Jack grinned.
"Make me." Ben coughed. Jack looked up.
"Anything to declare, Jack?"
"Oh! Yeah, time to be briefed." Charlie rolled her eyes, and followed the
procession.

"What?" Jack's reaction went unnoticed; the Tok'ra operative Ketlix was
explaining scientific terms about the details of the new planet that the Tok
'ra thought they could inhabit. Ben paid direct attention to him. Freya didn
't. She was looking at Ben. Jo was looking at Freya and Ben. Charlie was
looking at Jack. Jack was looking at Sam. Sam was writing a simpler version
down for Jack. She was also looking at Ketlix, and at the board. Daniel was
looking at the report. Teal'c was looking at the board. Ketlix noticed that
few eyes were on him. He tested this out.
"And in the southern hemisphere, I understand that Colonel O'Neill kissed a
fish." Ben's eyes widened. Freya didn't hear. Neither did Jo, Charlie, Jack
or Daniel. Sam's eyebrows creased into a frown.
"Really?" She looked at her boyfriend.
"What?" cried Ben, on the verge of laughter. Teal'c looked bemused. Jack
looked up.
"What? What did I do?"
"Apparently, you kissed a fish."
"Wha.wha. WHAT!?!" Jack was outraged. But Ben twigged.
"Oh, I see. Ketlix was testing to see who was listening. I'm sure he didn't,
Sam," he assured her. Sam, winking at Charlie, stood up.
"Yeah, I believe you," she half-cried, storming out the room. Charlie warned
Jack not to follow, the dirty two-timing animal kisser. She followed Sam
out, as did everyone except Ketlix, Teal'c and Jack. Jack was fuming.
"Look what you did!" Sam's giggle could be heard. This was bizarre, thought
Jack. He crept through the door and along the corridor. He heard their
conversation.
"That Ketlix is so mean!"
"Not as mean as Sam!"
"Or you!"
"True."
Jack came behind Sam and kissed her head. Everyone broke into a fit of
giggles. They were soon ended as the general came around the corner,
demanding an explanation.
"Don't ask me, I'm a fish-kisser," said Jack.
"I'm a fish-kisser's girlfriend," said Sam.
"I'm a fish-kisser's daughter," said Charlie.
Everyone laughed again. Hammond, puzzled, simply walked away.

There was a brief session, in which everyone kitted up to go to P4X-726. The
Stargate activated, and the girls waited for the boys on the ramp. The doors
opened, and Jack, Daniel, Ben and Teal'c entered.
"Oh, boy," sighed Charlie and Sam. Freya and Jo frowned.
"Reservoir Dogs. It's Jack's favourite film at the moment." The boys
approached the 'gate and paused, looking at Jack for instructions. He
nodded, and they went together. Sam sighed and followed.
P4X-726 was a peaceful planet on the MALP. The reality was far from
peaceful, though, as SG-1 and the Tok'ra crew stepped through. Jaffa were
everywhere, shooting the residents.
"Uh oh," was Jack's initial reaction, before turning into the military man
he was. Sam followed suit, as Charlie and Jo hid behind the DHD. There they
found a corpse of a child, not much younger than them.
"We can't hide here," whispered Jo. "The Jaffa know this hiding place." She
spotted a hole in the ground and dived in. Charlie looked behind her, then
jumped in after her.
Chifu started to ferret round for a staff weapon, found two and passed one
to Anise, who was by the ramp defending herself with a dead Jaffa.
"Charlie! Jo! Dial home!" Jack shouted. Sam glanced back as Jo took control
and started the dial-up sequence.
A Jaffa took advantage as Freya's defence dropped, and fired a shot at her.
Ben dived to push her out of the way, onto the ramp. But Jo had finished
dialling up home, and Ben and Freya were engulfed in the backwash. Jo
screamed, but she was too late. They were gone.
Jack shot the final Jaffa. Then, silence, broken by Jo sobbing on Charlie's
shoulder. They packed up and went through the 'gate, quietly remembering
Freya/Anise and Ben/Chifu.

The funeral had been and gone. Jack and Jacob had said some pretty nice
things. Jo was getting over it. The wounds were healing.
"Mornin'" yawned Charlie. Jack looked up from his bowl of fruit loops.
"Mornin'. Oh, me and Sam were thinking last night, and we were wondering if
you wanted a sister." Charlie stopped and turned.
"WHAT?"
"Well, we were gonna adopt Jo, if you were okay with it." Charlie beamed and
nodded. She picked up the box of fruit loops and stopped.
"Ya know, this means less fruit loops for us."
"Oh. Hey, you're going to Daniel's tonight. I'm going to cook Sam a nice
romantic dinner."
"Jo too?"
"Yeah."
"Ooooooooo! Jack cooking romance!"
"Shut up."
"Ooooooo!"
"Shut up!"
"Alright, what's going on?" Sam asked as she entered the room.
"Nothing," chorused Jack and Charlie.

"Colonel Jack O'Neill, you foxy devil."
"What?"
"I refuse to believe you know how to cook lobster."
"I do! With a recipe book." Sam laughed. It had been a perfect evening. Jack
cleared the plates away and pulled a box out of his pocket.
"Look, I have a reason for all this. Sam, I love you. And I can't see me
being with anyone else. Ever. So, Major Samantha Carter," he said, opening
the box and getting on one knee, "will you marry me?"

The End.

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aaaaaaw, that proposal was so foony, but sweet and THANK you for killing Anise!!!!

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Oh poo just when i'm getting into the story you end it...Gimme gimme gimme more more more. Is that a nice enough request. ???

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hehe! i wanted to kill anise 'cause she bugs me... ya know what i'm saying? YAY!

And i will check the next one thru and post it later, or 2moro, depending on how fast i get thru it.

I'm so glad you peeps like the stories! I will tell Jack's Hat and I know she will be chuffed too!!!




(Very cheesy, but genuine!)

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U put this one on as well U don't tell me anything.
What ever I love these ones anyway they crack me up everytime I read them. And u know how much I read them, again and again and again and again....etc. Great.



By the way as J.O'Neill: I HATE DRESSES
but of course u knew that.

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oh, stop moaning, you found out....

Anyway, if i had told you, i would have exploded. Proven fact.

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I would not Charlotte Carter all I was moaning about was the fact that u didn't tell me I just feel a little undermined that's all

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Undermined??? Oooh, get you...

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Ok we over this now I think just tell me next time OK

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Okay.








Undermined... Ooooh, get her.... Hehehe!!!

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I'm taking that it. ok to post more so do it ladies.

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We will once she has checked it through.

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