After the details are discussed, Anis returns to Vorash to do a few things and make the travel arrangements. Jacob remains on earth with his daughter. They rarely spend time together and want to take advantage of the opportunity. Sam, with her thoughts, is quite somewhere else and does not even notice her father asking her a question. He looks at her with a worried look.
"Sam?"
"Sorry Dad, I was just thinking," confesses the young woman to her father.
"About Colonel O'Neill? I'm sure we'll find a solution to help him, "he says in a rock-solid voice, pulling his daughter into his arm.
She enjoys the rare closeness to her father and presses firmly on him.
Then she looks at him apologetically and Jacob takes the opportunity to conduct a small conversation with his daughter.
"Sam, I can imagine this is a tough situation for you. Just do not say anything, I'm neither blind nor dumb, my child. I see exactly how you two always look at each other. I hope you are wise enough, and know what you are doing or rather do not. Jack is a good man, but your superiors, child. Think about what is at stake for you! We'll try to do everything to help him, I promise you. And now, go and see for him. That's what you want. "
Sam sighed at his words, she'd never thought her affection for Jack O'Neill is so obvious.
"Thanks Dad," she says, giving him a kiss on the cheek.
He nods at her and Sam immediately sets off for Janet to the infirmary. Jacob, on the other hand, takes the path to General Hammond's office. The general and he are good friends and Jacob hopes to be able to conduct a conversation privately with his friend.
Sam almost rushes into the hospital. Janet is in her office and telephoned. She waves Sam in and points to the chair in front of her desk. After she has finished the conversation, her friend teases her.
"Uh, love must be beautiful! Janet, when will I finally meet him, the dream prince? You do not hide him from me? "
"I want to have him alone for me," she laughs.
"Come, tell the truth Jan, he has three heads and only one eye."
"You're impossible Sam." She replies, gently biting her arm.
"He's coming back from a seminar tonight. For the first time he will stay with us. I'm so glad Cassie likes him. He can be so great with children, well, he is also a pediatrician. Cassie and I will be cooking for him tonight and then we'll watch a movie together. "It bubbles out of the doctor.
"Does he know about the baby?" Sam asks worried.
Her friend smiles at her.
"Not quite yet. On the phone I did not want to attack him now. I just told him that I have a guest at the moment. "
"A very tiring guest, I'd say." Sam laughs.
Janet lays her head slightly and smiles mildly. The two women talk for a while and then look for Little Jack, who keeps the nurses pretty busy.
"Are you crying again?" Janet groans as she approaches.
She grabs the young man and holds him in her eyes.
"Where is the problem, my friend? Just once again protest against the whole world? I think our Jack is a little tired and needs a nap. No wonder after this night! We two go home now, and keep a nap, sweetie, "she says, in a sweet yet stern tone.
The little one looks at her with his deep brown eyes and suddenly becomes quite still.
"God, you're just too cute, isn't it Major Carter? But we'd rather not tell you that too often, "the doctor whispered and winked at her friend.
Sam blushes slightly and hopes no one looks at her embarrassment.
After they have said good-bye to each other, Sam makes his way to find her father.
Jacob Carter is still in General Hammond's office. Sam sees the two through the window in his office and both seem to discuss something. Sam never saw her father as wildly gesticulated as in this conversation. She just hopes it's not about her and Colonel O'Neill. But that would never bring her father up before her boss, would he? Maybe not in front of her boss, but maybe in front of his good friend? At the thought of the young woman is very queasy. She does not notice at all that Dr. Jackson is standing next to her.
"What is going on in this conversation?" The archaeologist wonders.
Sam just shrugs and says nothing else. Daniel puts on his glasses and looks at Sam.
"Are you worried about Jack, Sam?"
"You not?" She asks.
"We'll bring him back to his normal form," he says confidently.
"Normal form? We're talking about Colonel O'Neill, Daniel. And not about an object, "she whispered angrily.
Daniel shrugs, startled, apologizing for his speech.
"Where is he at all, the pouting scream?" Asks Daniel.
Sam gives the young man a bitter-eyed look. Daniel nearly shudders and looks ashamed at his feet.
"Sorry Sam, but I can not stand babies and they do not me either," he whispers.
Sam smiles at him and gives him a little slap.
"You're just imagining this, Daniel. Dr. Fraiser went home with the Colonel. He was tired and quivering. "
Before Daniel can release a comment, Sam looks at him admonishingly.
"Just do me a favor Sam, do not always talk about the Colonel, if you mean the baby, that sounds strange."
"Okay, you're right Daniel," admits she.
At that moment, General Hammond's door opens and Jacob Carter and General Hammond come out. Both laugh and are in a good mood. The General says good-bye to everyone and goes back to his office. Then Sam sees that he takes the red phone and dials a number. She has a queasy feeling in the stomach.
"Sam, can we go now? I'd like to make something fresh and eat a bite, "Jacob asks.
"Of course Dad."
Sam and Jacob finally left the base. On the way home, the young woman is extremely quiet, which is also not hidden from her father. He hesitates, however, to start a conversation. Suddenly, he lowers his head, his eyes light up and Selmac makes a statement.
"Major Carter, your father is worried about you. He can not hide it from me, but he can not handle it. I do not want to interfere, but it also weighs on our friendship. "
Sam does not know how to react to it and says nothing.
Meanwhile in the house of Janet Fraiser:
Little Jack is in his bed and has been sleeping peacefully for some time. Janet works in the kitchen and makes her first preparations for the planned dinner with her new love, the resident pediatrician Dr. Jeff Flowers. Both of them got to know and love at a medical congress. Cassandra has also closed the man into her heart right now, quite to Janet's relief.
They have already undertaken a few joint activities before he is to stay overnight for the first time. Janet hopes that he will react just as positively to little Jack. She has already made a story of where the little one comes from and why he temporarily lives with also introduced the details to Cassie. After all, the man can not know the truth. Actually, she don't want to lie to her lover, but she has no other choice. After the preparations are finished, Jack is already noticeable. Initial quenching rapidly transcends into heartbreaking shouting. Janet rolled his eyes.
"No sparks of patience, typical Jack O'Neill." it slips out of her.
After she took him out of bed, the little rogue smiles at her.
"Really, you little crook, you!" Janet laughs.
She presses the laughing boy to herself and gives him a kiss on the head.
"I would not have thought I'd would kiss Jack O'Neill," she giggles to herself.
After the boy is awake, it is up to Cassie to keep the young man in a good mood. Janet tries to do everything in the remaining time. She is so tired that she could sleep smoothly while standing. Even Cassandra can hardly look out of her eyes.
Little Jack, on the other hand, seems to be fit like a sneaker after his short nap and calls on Cassie's attention. The girl struggles to do everything to his satisfaction, so that he does not become restless again and intercepts to cry. The whole thing works for about half an hour, then Jack suddenly starts to scream.
"Mom, Jack is crying again!" The child calls desperately.
As if I did not hear it, Janet thinks and hurries into the living room, where Cassie with Little Jack lies on a ceiling and tries to distract him with a few toys.
"He's hungry," Janet says to her daughter, kidnapping the screaming and struggling child.
In the kitchen she puts him in the high chair and stirs the milk. With loud shouting and impatience, he runs up crimson and Janet loses her patience, goes to the bathroom and yells out loudly. She is close to tears. After a few minutes, she caught herself again and went back to the kitchen as if nothing had happened. Jack is still screaming in his chair. She remains quite calm, takes him out of the high chair and tries to give him the milk. After some to and fro, the fidgeting child drinks his milk quickly and calms down slowly. After being saturated, he bravely babbles and smiles at the doctor. She can not help but take the child tightly in her arm and cuddle. At times Janet Fraiser feels a bit overwhelmed. The unaccustomed deprivation of sleep is badly conceded to her, she must admit. Nevertheless, these are moments that give you indescribable feelings of happiness. Deep inside her, Janet longs a long time for a baby. She loves her adoptive daughter, like her own child, she always calls her, as her child. Nevertheless, she would like to have her own child with a man whom she loves. That is what most women dream of. At the moment, however, she is not sure if she would bear this in the long run. Today she feels indescribably old. The doorbell rips her out of her thoughts. This will be Jeff. Excited, like a young school girl, she goes to the door. On the way to the front door, she puts the baby back on the crawling blanket and pushes a rattle into his little hand. With big eyes, Jack looks at the rattling toy and chuckles at every noise of the rattle. Janet smiles at him and then quickly opens the door.
Immediately she rushes into the arms of the handsome man at the door and hugs him strongly while she squeezes him a long passionate kiss.
She pulls him into the house and closes the door. Dr. Jeff Flowers grabs the little doctor and returns her kiss.
"I missed you infinitely," he whispers between two kisses.
"And I first," she laughs.
The doctor looks at his girlfriend and frowns.
"You look tired Janet! Are you all right? "He asks anxiously.
"Yeah, I'm fine Jeff. I have told you about my temporary guest. He's stealing my sleep. "She grins and leads the astonished man into the living room, where Little Jack still fascinates admire his rattling rattle.
The doctor is surprises when he sees the little boy.
"May I introduce you to Jack," she says cautiously.
She tells him that Jack is a child of a resident Air Force officer who is currently missing and she takes care of Jack until the father is back. Jeff is more than impressed by her care for the strange child and her magnanimity. Even more reasons to love this woman are his first thoughts.
He bends down to Jack and crawls him on his tummy. Jack's eyes went quite large and in a reflex he hits his rattle against the man's head. For a moment, it is totally silent until Jeff breaks out into laughter. Little Jack still looks at him with big eyes and does not know whether he should laugh or cry, then begins to laugh heartily.
"I'd say you passed the sympathy test, Dr. Flowers," Janet laughs.
Cassie has now noticed that Jeff has come and is also running. She almost stumbles into his arms. He catches the young girl and whirls them around. Janet loves to see how well the two understand each other. She has also fallen a stone from the heart, which Jack has responded so well to him. He has so far only reacted positively to a few male persons. Jeff is a natural talent, which affects children, she thinks half grinning.
While Janet cover the table for dinner with Cassie, Jeff takes care of the little one.
"So you're the reason why my Janet is so tired? Not that this becomes a habit to me, little fellow. We do not want her to get rings under her eyes, right? Such a great woman needs her beauty sleep, you have to know. I can teach you a few things about women, if you want that, "jokes the doctor, while he has the boy in his lap and looks into his eyes.
Jack almost stares at him and listens attentively. It almost seems as if he understands what the man tells him. Janet almost laughs and grabs serious looks from her lover.
"Do you have any objection, dear?" He asks.
"You guys, really believe you know about us women, right? Do not dare tell him any stories, "she giggles.
Cassie rolls her eyes.
"Why are you always so silly when you have been together?" she asks bluntly.
"Are we?" Janet giggles again.
"Sam says this is so when you are in love."
"Does she say that? Well, she's kind of right. You'll even know that yourself, "says her mother.
"Yuck!" Replied Cassandra.
"Wait," the doctor calls, grabbing her daughter to tickle her.
A short time later, they all sit together at the table, like a real small family. Janet is just happy and would like this moment never to end. They talk all the time, and even little Jack sits contentedly in his chair and nibbles a piece of bread. Somehow, Janet can not believe her happiness to have found such a great man, he seems so perfect. There are almost tears in her eyes and she must realize that her tiredness makes her only more sentimental.
Jack suddenly yawns heartily. Janet decides to bathe him and then take him to his bed so they can watch the movie Cassie has chosen.
After she has bathed him, she goes into the living room, so Cassie can Jack still give a kiss. She pushes him a fat kiss on the cheek and wishes him a good night and beautiful dreams. His eyes are already falling. Jeff stretches out his hand and hits Jack's hand lightly on his.
"Good night buddy! And do not let the bugs bite you, "he jokes.
Janet pushes him lovingly to him and sings him a little sleepy before she puts him in his bed. Jack's eyes are already closed as she extinguishes the light and leaves the room.
Jeff and Cassie made popcorn in the time and put the film in. With a good glass of wine, the two lovers will enjoy the evening with Cassandra. The girl is visibly tired and it does not take long and she lies sleeping with her head on her mother's lap. Janet is also almost falling at sleep..
"I think it's time for bed, ladies." says Jeff Flowers after a while.
He kisses Janet on the forehead, stands up from the couch and carries the little Cassandra into her room. She does not even wake up when her mother is change her clothes.
After a while Janet and Jeff are also in bed. Jack sleeps peacefully in the childbed next to them. Jeff kisses Janet passionately.
They lie cuddled in their bed and it does not take long before Janet sleeps. Jeff is still awake a little while before he succumbs to sleep.
A few hours later, little Jack begins to squirm restlessly in his bed. It does not take long and he murmurs miserably. The whimpering goes on quickly in tears. The doctor is terrified and takes a moment to realize what is going on. Even her friend is already sitting in bed and rubbing his eyes tiredly. The baby is completely sweaty. Janet takes him to her bed.
"Have you badly dreamed little man?" She asks quietly.
Jack trembles properly and his small body is completely tense. She wonders how much of Jack O'Neill's memories are in Little Jack. She would rather not know. Apparently the poor child had a bad dream. Jack can not calm down and Janet is just as helpless as she should only calm him. Suddenly, Jeff takes the little one off and puts him on the blanket in front of him. He pulls him out and asks Janet to take his bag. While Janet looks for the bag in the corridor, Jack roars. Suddenly she hears Jeff:
"What for heaven's sake?" He almost cries.
Janet runs back to the bedroom, frightened, and sees what frightened the man. Damn, she forgot. The man sits with tears in his eyes before the weeping child and just shakes his head incredulously. Janet sits beside him and puts her hand on his shoulder. The shocked man takes his bag and takes out a small bottle and rubs his hands with it, then starts to massage the small, screaming Jack. After a short time, the child becomes calm and his small body becomes relaxed. Jack seems to enjoy it and after a while his eyes were closed. Jeff stands up without a word and disappears for a while in the bathroom. Janet puts the little man back in his bed and covers him lovingly. Then she waits patiently until Jeff is back.
"Who did this, Janet?" He asks quietly, barely audible.
Janet can see how shocked he is. She wished she could tell him the truth and that it was not as it seems. But she can not!
"I'm sorry Jeff, I just did not think about it. I should have warned you, "says Janet guiltily.
"You must not apologize. You did not do this to him. What kind of monster does it do? I just can not understand such things. Was it his father? Then maybe it's better for him if he does not come back! "Jeff says angrily.
Janet would like to explain to him from where Jack has all the scars that adorn his little body. But she can not. And she can understand his anger, just as things seem.
"Jeff, believe me it's better if you do not know too much. Only so much, his father has nothing to do with it. You have to believe me. Jack's doing well. "
"He's fine? Janet, he is not doing well, you have seen that he is not doing well. Or? "He whispers.
"Jeff, I do not know what to say ..." she says sadly.
He takes his girlfriend tenderly in the arm and kisses her.
"Let's sleep, we'll talk about it again tomorrow," he suggests.
Janet cuddles up to him and they lie arm in arm in bed. She is annoyed by the way things have gone, and she still thinks for a while about how to explain it to him only plausibly. Jeff hardly comes to rest, what he has seen makes him just incredibly angry and sad. At some point, both sleep again.
With the first rays of sunshine, Little Jack begins to loll in his bed. Some time later, he is awake and cheerfully cheers. Janet groans and turns to the other side. Jeff is also already awake and decides to stand up.
He bends over Janet, gives her a kiss and whispers into her ear:
"Stay a little bit longer, I'll take care of our guest."
Janet smiles in half sleep.
"Thank you sweetheart."
Jeff takes the little boy out of bed.
"Come on, we'll take care of breakfast for our ladies. Women must be pampered. At least until you have won her heart. "
At that moment a pillow has flown in his direction. Jack looks surprised behind the pillow and frowns.
"Remember, little one, if women have not slept well, do not joke with them," he jokes and puts Jack on his stomach on his arm and flies with him through the apartment towards the kitchen. The little boy is happy with joy.
Janet is lying in bed, thinking only what a great man she has fished. She can not help but grin at herself.
From the kitchen a wonderful scent penetrates through the whole house. Janet drags out of bed and floats towards the kitchen. There she sees Jeff and Jack working at the kitchen table. Jack sits in his high chair and is dusted with flour. When Jeff sees his girlfriend, he shines over both cheeks and knocks his fists on his chest.
"The men have made breakfast!" He shouts.
Jack looks at Janet with his dusty face and laughs at her. She can not help laughing heartily.
"Oh God, I hope the men do it all again clean!" She laughs.
After Cassie woke up, there was breakfast. She is very enthusiastic about the homemade rolls and the delicious scrambled eggs. She wonders about the restrained mood at the table and asks what happened tonight.
"Did you wake up, darling? I'm sorry. Jack did dream badly, "she tells her daughter.
"Was he afraid?" The child asks.
"I'll guess,he had ,Cassie," her mother replies.
"It's no wonder," Jeff murmurs to himself.
"Not now Jeff and not before the kids," Janet whispers.
"Oh, nightmares can be really scary. I had many after my real mom died, "she says quite freely.
"I know my darling."
Jeff looks under himself, he has completely forgotten that Cassandra also had a terrible fate. He changes the subject with skill. Since today is Saturday, and they have the whole day for themselves, they decide to go to Cassandra's pleasure in the park. There is a fair with many attractions this weekend. Janet thinks that would do well for everyone. After they have finished and the children are already in the car, Jeff looks his beloved one deeply in the eyes and speaks quietly and quietly to her.
"I admire you so much, for your courage and strength Janet. To take a child with such a heavy blow of fate and to take care of another child who has certainly lived the hell on earth in his so short life. And I believe you, if you say I should rather not know everything. But I'm very close, you have to understand. Just because I work professionally with children and have seen a lot, but that really surpasses everything and I could cry when I think of it. You can believe me. But now let's give the kids a nice day. "
Janet says nothing at first, she is visibly moved over his open reaction and kisses him simply.
"I love you Dr. Jeff Flowers" is the only thing she gets out.