Wanted
by Charis
Disclaimer: Nothing here belongs to me.
Notes: "Wanted: contractor to re-fence yard with alacrity." Or perhaps "Wanted: one adoptive mother." I hate inventing titles. Just a quick little drabble for the tail end of "Singularity".
"Hey, Samantha. See my new dog?"
"Wow. Your new dog?"
"It's an Earth rule. Every kid has to have one. But I don't mind."
- Cassie and Sam, "Singularity"
Leave it to Jack O'Neill to, with his idea of subtlety, suggest that Cassandra needed to stay on Earth. Sam had told her about what happened in the park -- an Earth rule, indeed! Janet shook her head in fond exasperation. The colonel really was just too much sometimes.
After an extended discussion with General Hammond, she had agreed to take the girl in. It was not what she'd originally intended; she'd expected Sam to push for adopting Cassie herself, but though it obviously pained her friend, Sam had admitted that with her frequent off-world trips, she'd make at best an absent parent. It had been she who suggested, quietly, that they should look for someone within the SGC -- with a significant glance Janet's way.
She was going to be a mother. Not unheard of at her age, and it wasn't as though she was dealing with an infant, but at the same time it was strange. She had all but given up hope of a family when she joined the Air Force, doubly so when parting ways with her husband not long after. The chance here, however startling, was not unwelcome.
But really -- a dog?
She was definitely going to have to get the yard re-fenced. That puppy promised to grow a fair bit, and she knew the kind of energy dogs -- and children -- exhibited. There was no way it would hold up to years of rambunctious play.