"Good morning, Samantha!" Jonas rubbed his eyes tiredly as if he too was also waking up.
"'Morning, Jonas." Sam mumbled as she opened her eyes. Then, she realized she was not on the mattress she had selected as her own. "Oh…did I?... I didn't realize I was going to fall asleep…"
"It's alright. You were tired, I understand. Now, don't make to much noise; Most of the kids are still asleep." Jonas helped Sam up.
Sam smoothed out the wrinkled blue uniform she slept in and whispered, "I'll be in my lad if you need me. I have to finish that vaccine for SG-5 by 0900."
"Not until you've had some breakfast." Jonas pointed to the kitchen.
Sam checked her watch for the time. It was 0600. "Okay, maybe a quick breakfast." As Sam and Jonas walked to the kitchen, they were careful to not step on any of the kids who sprawled themselves all over the floor.
"Good morning, Major Carter." Teal'c greeted when she entered the kitchen. Teal'c was standing over a large pot of bubbling ooze which Sam figured was breakfast.
"Hi, Teal'c. What's for breakfast?"
"Oatmeal. The coffee will finish brewing momentarily."
"Oatmeal sounds delicious. I'll have a bowl."
Seeing that Sam was not afraid to eat the bubbling ooze, Jonas added, "And I'll have one as well." He then whispered to Teal'c, "It is good, right?"
Teal'c answered, "Indeed."
Teal'c then dished out two bowls, he had eaten earlier. Both Sam and Teal'c watched Jonas take a spoonful. A smile quickly spread over his face. "It's my first time eating oatmeal."
Jonas quickly downed his bowl and asked for seconds. Sam had hardly finished her second bite. "I just don't get it. Why one year old? Why not any other age?
"I don't know, Sam." Jonas sat down beside her.
"With the death of Nirrti, the reason may be impossible to determine."
"Yeah, I guess you're right, Teal'c."
Jonas finished his second bowl of oatmeal and held it out towards Teal'c silently asking for thirds. Teal'c just shook his head slightly and Jonas withdrew his request.
Sam finished her oatmeal and walked out of the kitchen to go to her lab, grabbing a steaming cup of coffee on the way. Jonas watched her as she left and sighed quietly to himself as she walked out of the commissary doors.
"Why do you not inform her of your intentions, Jonas Quinn?" Teal'c handed Jonas a tray of filled bowls and took a second tray to carry himself.
"What? There's nothing to tell." Teal'c turned to face Jonas and looked him in the eye making Jonas relent. "Okay, okay… but it's not that simple."
"Well, the girls on Kelowna always expected me to be someone that I wasn't, so I'd play along. With Sam it's different, and it freaks me out."
After they set the food on the table, Teal'c and Jonas went back for more until they had enough to fees all the kids.
Back in her lab, Sam mumbled various techno-babble under her breath. After a successful test of the vaccine, she ran to the control room. Just as she entered, the dialing computer recognized SG-5's iris code. She opened the iris and SG-5 stepped through.
"Colonel Madison, have you and your team stay in the gate room." San said over the intercom. After closing the iris, the gate shut down and she ran to the gate room to administer the vaccine. Then they went to the conference room to debrief the current situation.
"Uh, Teal'c, how exactly do you feed one-year-olds?"
"The experience is not pleasant."
"So, what do we do? Give them all spoons and let them at it?"
"Indeed. Such course of action may be most efficient."
Spoons were passed out and Teal'c and Jonas helped the kids up on their seats. Jonas watched in utter disbelief. He never imagined such little people could create such a huge mess.
One the bowls were empty, even though there was no assurance of how much the kids actually ate, it became clean-up time.
"The clean up crew has arrived!" Sam announced as she and SG-5 walked in.
"Sam! Thank goodness!" Jonas exclaimed, but Sam was already teaching the kids the clean-up song.
"Clean-up, clean-up, everybody everywhere. Clean-up, clean-up, everybody do your share." Jonas just kind of looked at her, unsure of what to do. Sam laughed. "I find it usually helps when everyone is helping."
The little kids tried to sing the song as they washed their faces with damp cloths. The tune was distorted and not all the words were right, but Sam was confident that it got her point across.
Soooo sorry I didn't get this up earlier. Anyways, thank you for the reviews, I love them sooooo much! Hope you like this chapter and please please please R&R!
