"So Piper let's go to your new house, is it alright sir" Carter asked the
General.
"Go ahead Major, Oh and take one of the car seats from my car it's one of my niece's you will need it " The General then turned to leave the gate room.
"Well Sam I'll see you later then"
"I to must leave to visit my wife and son I will see you later Daniel Jackson Major Cater" Teal'c bowed his head and left to go prepare to leave.
"Hey Daniel why don't you come over to Jacks say tomorrow if you want you can help me buy stuff with Jacks Credit Card" She said the last two words with a sly tone in her voice.
"You mean for Piper of course don't you Sam?" Daniel questioned smiling happily
"Oh of course what did you think I meant??" Sam said smiling a very sly smile.
"Oh nothing. Hey Sam"
"Yeah Daniel."
"I just noticed something."
"What's that Daniel?" Sam asked playing with Piper's hand so that Piper was tapping Sam on the cheek.
"You like Jack" Daniel smiled at his last remark.
"WHAT where did you get that from Daniel??" Yelled Sam.
"Well Sam you see first it was that kiss to the forehead you were smiling not to mention you looked like a real family. You know the husband being Jack you the wife and little Piper there the little baby." Daniel said with quite the bit of satisfaction in his voice.
"Daniel it was a mistake, that doesn't mean anything." Said Sam with worry in her voice 'Oh no I think he knows that I like no wait that I love Jack if this gets out I could be court marshalled oh this is not good' "What else you got Daniel?"
"Well when we were talking about him you kept calling him Jack when you know that you are really supposed to call him Colonel O'Neill."
"Daniel I..I...I." Sam couldn't say anything at the moment she was to shocked the she could give herself away that easily.
"Don't worry Sam I wont tell anyone." "Oh Daniel am I that transparent?"
"Well only to those who are looking! Come on Sam you have to take little Piper here home it's almost her bed time it's already 8:30"
"Daniel it's no where near her bedtime"
"Well how do you know"
"Daniel.. Its Jack's kid do you think she even has a bedtime?" Sam said looking up at Daniel with a questioning look on her face.
"Oh yeah I suppose not" Daniel and Sam left the gate room to the topside.
Back at Jack's house around 20-25 minuets later Sam had just arrived with Piper at the house they would be staying in for the next little while. "Well Piper were here.Piper oh your asleep ok then how about I take you inside huh." When they got inside Sam had a decision to make. "Hmm well Piper since we have yet to get you something to sleep in you can where one of Jack's shirts ok." She went to open Jacks closet and found nicely folded to her surprise in one of the drawers. "Ok this one will do.. Um it's a little big but that's ok we just have to roll the sleeve's up a little. Ok now a bed well since you don't have one we will have to share and obviously Jacks is the biggest so we will take his." Even though the bed in the guest room and his bed were the same size Sam couldn't help but want to sleep on Jack's bed, sure she was a little disappointed that she would be sleeping with a baby in Jack's bed instead of Jack she was ok with it.
1 year and 8 months later
Sam and Piper had been living together at Jack's house since he left them. Piper still had her bright blue eyes and blond hair only now her hair was about shoulder length and had curls at the bottom she was now 2 year's and 2 months old and could walk and talk (well she could say some things). Sam still brought her to the SGC and Piper learned to like everyone there so when Sam went off world someone would watch her it was usually General Hammond who had now become Gamp. Piper wasn't to good at pronouncing all letters yet but everyone on the base loved her for it. Piper now had her own room in the SGC, which was painted baby blue and had a lot of toys for her in it.
"Incoming Traveller"
"Well who is it" General Hammond asked
"I don't know sir it might be SG-4 there due back anytime now but there's no GDO code sir"
"Close the iris"
"I can't sir"
"What do you mean you can't" General Hammond was furious due to the fact they couldn't close the iris and had no idea who was on the other side. "Sound the alar.."
"A sir look someone's coming through"
At that moment Jack stepped through the gate "Hey guy's did you miss me?" Jack said with a smile on his face. General Hammond ran down to the gate room " Colonel we thought you were dead."
"What dead sir I've only been gone for 2 weeks." Jack laughed at the thought that he had DIED after only 2 weeks.
"Son you've been gone almost two years" General Hammond at this point had a puzzled look on his face.
"TWO YEARS???" Jack yelled "Thor said there was a small time difference he didn't say I would be gone for 2 years" Jack started going red "Where's Piper is she ok did you give her away"
"Ha, ha Colonel we did no such thing Piper has been with Sam the whole time, at your house, Piper has gotten really close to the people here at the SGC. She has grown a lot you should really go and see her."
"Well where is she?" Jack asked he sounded so excited.
"She and her Mom or I mean Major Carter are watching a movie in the quiet room. Go on now" Said General Hammond
Sam was on her way back to the quiet room from her little bathroom break to finish the movie with Piper, all the while thinking to herself 'Jack can't be dead I'm mean what would Piper and I do without him sure we've gotten by for this long but I don't know how much longer Piper can go without her dad. How much longer can I go without him GOD I LOVE HIM so much'
Jack was walking trying to figure how he was going to walk in and see them when he saw Sam walking. "HEY CARTER" He yelled.
"Huh" Sam turned around to see jack standing there smiling at her with his hands in his pockets rocking back n' forth on his feet. "JACK" She yelled and ran up to him swings her arms around him he of course hugged her back. "I've missed you so much Jack why did you leave for so long?" Sam asked
"Well Sam I didn't know that I was gone for that long to me I was only gone for 2 weeks."
"Oh Pipers going to be so happy to see you." Sam reluctantly let go of Jack took his hand and lead him to the Quiet room.
When they got to the door Jack saw his Angel sitting on the couch hugging a teddy bear watching "Sleeping Beauty" he thought it was funny whenever the witch appeared Piper would make a pouting face and cover her eyes. He just stood there looking at his little girl she was wearing a baby blue top that had a little turtle on the front and had blue and white shorts to match. "Piper" Sam called she walked in to the room a little ahead of Jack. Piper turned her head when she heard Sam's voice. Her eye's sparkled when she looked at her. Piper immediately jumped of the couch and ran towards her. "Mommy" Piper yelled she pronounced the ending in a very long e sound.
"Hey baby how's the movie?" Sam asked taking Piper in her out stretched arms.
"Juc peees" Piper always said like she wanted a kiss and she couldn't really pronounce her L's yet.
"Ok but first I want you to meet someone ok" Piper nodded in agreement
Sam picked her up and walked over to Jack who was just watching the two. He couldn't believe that Piper who had once only wanted him had grown up so much.
"Piper do you remember who this is?" Sam asked in a gentle voice. Piper shook her head and squirmed out of Sam's arms and ran past them both yelling "Juc, juc".
"I'm sorry we better follow her" Sam and Jack went running after Piper. When Piper was running with her bear. Its arm got caught on a pipe and ripped. Piper turned and saw her bear was damaged and began to cry. "Oh no Piper" Sam called they turned the corner to see her standing there with her bear in her arms and one of it's arms on the floor. Jack walked up to Piper "Piper sweetheart don't cry daddy will fix it ok" he knelt down and with his thumb gently brushed her tears away like he had done when she was a baby. She looked up at him and walked into his arms placing her head on his chest. Jack did what was natural and wrapped his arms around Piper and picked her up. He turned to face Sam who was smiling at the scene. "Thank you Sam," he said
"No problem Jack."
"Oh I have one more favour to ask"
"What is it?" Sam asked
"Um could you take Piper home for me and put her to bed I have to finish up here with the General?" "No problem Jack. We were just about to go home anyway. Weren't we Piper?" Piper smiled and reached over to Sam. When Sam took her Jack walked up and kissed Piper on the head and then kissed Sam but this time it was on the lips not the forehead. As soon as they realised what they were doing and where they were doing it they stopped. Smiled at each other and left in opposite directions.
When Sam got back to Jack's house, which had now been known to her as her second home. She had a dresser full of her stuff in Jack's room so that every morning she didn't have to bring Piper to her house and then go to the SGC, however she did believe that Jack was coming back so she didn't move in completely or sell the house like other people had suggested to her. When they stepped in Sam was glad that Jack was home but she was also upset because she didn't want to leave his house or Piper. Sam knew that Jack wouldn't take Piper away from her and she would still be able to see her but she was still afraid. About 15 minuets later she had given Piper her bottle and put her to bed. Jack still wasn't home so she decided that she would go to bed like she had done for the past year. She got changed into her pajamas and climbed into bed.
"Well were glad to have you back Colonel especially Sam,"
"What do you mean sir?" Jack asked looking puzzled at that statement.
"She never believed that you were dead like everyone said she even refused to sell her house and move into yours like we all told her to. I don't think that Sam has been to her house in awhile she spent the entire time at your house with Piper."
"Has she" Jack was surprised that Sam would really do that "Um sir how have they been? I mean how did she do it. You know she kept Piper and stayed here all this time how?" Jack asked.
"Well colonel at first it was a little hard what with Piper not wanting anyone but Sam but she got used to us so that Sam could continue going Off world. We even decided to give Piper her own room here. Would you like to see it??" Asked General Hammond.
"Uh yes please sir" General Hammond led Jack to one of the old guest rooms. When he opened the door it was like they were in someone's house the walls were blue instead of the cement colour that all of the others were and there was a carpet. Against one of the walls there was a crib and directly opposite was a changing table with a dresser under it there were shelves filled with toys and toy boxes filled with toys but what caught Jacks eye was on one of the shelves was a picture of Sam and Piper. In the picture Piper was only about a year and was resting her head on Sam's chest smiling and Sam in turn was resting her head on Pipers head and was also smiling. The General saw what Jack was looking at "Ah the picture was taken here about 3 months after you left they look so happy together don't you agree colonel"
"Yeah they do. Well sir speaking of them I should really be getting home to them now if I'm aloud to leave?"
"Well I don't see why not."
"Thank you General" Jack started to walk away.
"She really missed you, you know" The general said.
"I know I missed Piper to" Jack said turning around to look at the General but not stop walking.
"No not Piper I mean Sam"
"Oh she did" Jack asked with a questioning look on his face.
"Yes she did. You should tell her Jack."
"Tell her what sir?" Jack asked
"That you love her. Because I know that she loves you to"
"Uh sir I don't know where you got that idea from but, even if we did love each other, we couldn't do anything because of the reg's remember??" Jack asked
"Yes I know but you see you two have a child together and are my BEST team therefore the reg's as so thoughtfully put it have absolutely no jurisdiction here understood."
"Um yes sir but what do you mean we have a child together we don't?"
"Well Colonel you see when you didn't come back a year later we decided that Sam should adopt Piper in case anything would happen that would need a parent. Now Sam loved Piper and she knew that you would come back for her so she didn't do it until I told her that she either signed the paper or had Piper taken away and she did now we both know that I would never do such a thing but Piper needed her to do you understand?"
"Ah yeah I do but I should really be going now there waiting for me" With that jack left when he was driving home he thought to himself ' So Sam loves me still after so long I never thought she would and HEY she's been living in MY house' The next thing he knew he was home but he thought it was strange that all of the lights were out. Jack got out of the car and headed to the door when he stepped in the house and found that nothing had changed. He was walking to his room when he saw a sign on one of the old guest room doors it said Piper in big bold letters and had one of her baby pictures on it. Jack walked into the room and saw a crib he walked over to it and looked inside he saw Piper fast asleep inside she had kicked off all of her blankets and looked so cute and innocent and yet still so fragile. Jack took the blanket and put it over her so she wouldn't get cold then he took his hand and gently stroked her soft hair. When she started to stir Jack thought it best to leave. "Uh Sam where are you" called Jack in a low whisper. 'I guess I'll go to my room and change into something normal and then look for Sam' Jack thought.
"Go ahead Major, Oh and take one of the car seats from my car it's one of my niece's you will need it " The General then turned to leave the gate room.
"Well Sam I'll see you later then"
"I to must leave to visit my wife and son I will see you later Daniel Jackson Major Cater" Teal'c bowed his head and left to go prepare to leave.
"Hey Daniel why don't you come over to Jacks say tomorrow if you want you can help me buy stuff with Jacks Credit Card" She said the last two words with a sly tone in her voice.
"You mean for Piper of course don't you Sam?" Daniel questioned smiling happily
"Oh of course what did you think I meant??" Sam said smiling a very sly smile.
"Oh nothing. Hey Sam"
"Yeah Daniel."
"I just noticed something."
"What's that Daniel?" Sam asked playing with Piper's hand so that Piper was tapping Sam on the cheek.
"You like Jack" Daniel smiled at his last remark.
"WHAT where did you get that from Daniel??" Yelled Sam.
"Well Sam you see first it was that kiss to the forehead you were smiling not to mention you looked like a real family. You know the husband being Jack you the wife and little Piper there the little baby." Daniel said with quite the bit of satisfaction in his voice.
"Daniel it was a mistake, that doesn't mean anything." Said Sam with worry in her voice 'Oh no I think he knows that I like no wait that I love Jack if this gets out I could be court marshalled oh this is not good' "What else you got Daniel?"
"Well when we were talking about him you kept calling him Jack when you know that you are really supposed to call him Colonel O'Neill."
"Daniel I..I...I." Sam couldn't say anything at the moment she was to shocked the she could give herself away that easily.
"Don't worry Sam I wont tell anyone." "Oh Daniel am I that transparent?"
"Well only to those who are looking! Come on Sam you have to take little Piper here home it's almost her bed time it's already 8:30"
"Daniel it's no where near her bedtime"
"Well how do you know"
"Daniel.. Its Jack's kid do you think she even has a bedtime?" Sam said looking up at Daniel with a questioning look on her face.
"Oh yeah I suppose not" Daniel and Sam left the gate room to the topside.
Back at Jack's house around 20-25 minuets later Sam had just arrived with Piper at the house they would be staying in for the next little while. "Well Piper were here.Piper oh your asleep ok then how about I take you inside huh." When they got inside Sam had a decision to make. "Hmm well Piper since we have yet to get you something to sleep in you can where one of Jack's shirts ok." She went to open Jacks closet and found nicely folded to her surprise in one of the drawers. "Ok this one will do.. Um it's a little big but that's ok we just have to roll the sleeve's up a little. Ok now a bed well since you don't have one we will have to share and obviously Jacks is the biggest so we will take his." Even though the bed in the guest room and his bed were the same size Sam couldn't help but want to sleep on Jack's bed, sure she was a little disappointed that she would be sleeping with a baby in Jack's bed instead of Jack she was ok with it.
1 year and 8 months later
Sam and Piper had been living together at Jack's house since he left them. Piper still had her bright blue eyes and blond hair only now her hair was about shoulder length and had curls at the bottom she was now 2 year's and 2 months old and could walk and talk (well she could say some things). Sam still brought her to the SGC and Piper learned to like everyone there so when Sam went off world someone would watch her it was usually General Hammond who had now become Gamp. Piper wasn't to good at pronouncing all letters yet but everyone on the base loved her for it. Piper now had her own room in the SGC, which was painted baby blue and had a lot of toys for her in it.
"Incoming Traveller"
"Well who is it" General Hammond asked
"I don't know sir it might be SG-4 there due back anytime now but there's no GDO code sir"
"Close the iris"
"I can't sir"
"What do you mean you can't" General Hammond was furious due to the fact they couldn't close the iris and had no idea who was on the other side. "Sound the alar.."
"A sir look someone's coming through"
At that moment Jack stepped through the gate "Hey guy's did you miss me?" Jack said with a smile on his face. General Hammond ran down to the gate room " Colonel we thought you were dead."
"What dead sir I've only been gone for 2 weeks." Jack laughed at the thought that he had DIED after only 2 weeks.
"Son you've been gone almost two years" General Hammond at this point had a puzzled look on his face.
"TWO YEARS???" Jack yelled "Thor said there was a small time difference he didn't say I would be gone for 2 years" Jack started going red "Where's Piper is she ok did you give her away"
"Ha, ha Colonel we did no such thing Piper has been with Sam the whole time, at your house, Piper has gotten really close to the people here at the SGC. She has grown a lot you should really go and see her."
"Well where is she?" Jack asked he sounded so excited.
"She and her Mom or I mean Major Carter are watching a movie in the quiet room. Go on now" Said General Hammond
Sam was on her way back to the quiet room from her little bathroom break to finish the movie with Piper, all the while thinking to herself 'Jack can't be dead I'm mean what would Piper and I do without him sure we've gotten by for this long but I don't know how much longer Piper can go without her dad. How much longer can I go without him GOD I LOVE HIM so much'
Jack was walking trying to figure how he was going to walk in and see them when he saw Sam walking. "HEY CARTER" He yelled.
"Huh" Sam turned around to see jack standing there smiling at her with his hands in his pockets rocking back n' forth on his feet. "JACK" She yelled and ran up to him swings her arms around him he of course hugged her back. "I've missed you so much Jack why did you leave for so long?" Sam asked
"Well Sam I didn't know that I was gone for that long to me I was only gone for 2 weeks."
"Oh Pipers going to be so happy to see you." Sam reluctantly let go of Jack took his hand and lead him to the Quiet room.
When they got to the door Jack saw his Angel sitting on the couch hugging a teddy bear watching "Sleeping Beauty" he thought it was funny whenever the witch appeared Piper would make a pouting face and cover her eyes. He just stood there looking at his little girl she was wearing a baby blue top that had a little turtle on the front and had blue and white shorts to match. "Piper" Sam called she walked in to the room a little ahead of Jack. Piper turned her head when she heard Sam's voice. Her eye's sparkled when she looked at her. Piper immediately jumped of the couch and ran towards her. "Mommy" Piper yelled she pronounced the ending in a very long e sound.
"Hey baby how's the movie?" Sam asked taking Piper in her out stretched arms.
"Juc peees" Piper always said like she wanted a kiss and she couldn't really pronounce her L's yet.
"Ok but first I want you to meet someone ok" Piper nodded in agreement
Sam picked her up and walked over to Jack who was just watching the two. He couldn't believe that Piper who had once only wanted him had grown up so much.
"Piper do you remember who this is?" Sam asked in a gentle voice. Piper shook her head and squirmed out of Sam's arms and ran past them both yelling "Juc, juc".
"I'm sorry we better follow her" Sam and Jack went running after Piper. When Piper was running with her bear. Its arm got caught on a pipe and ripped. Piper turned and saw her bear was damaged and began to cry. "Oh no Piper" Sam called they turned the corner to see her standing there with her bear in her arms and one of it's arms on the floor. Jack walked up to Piper "Piper sweetheart don't cry daddy will fix it ok" he knelt down and with his thumb gently brushed her tears away like he had done when she was a baby. She looked up at him and walked into his arms placing her head on his chest. Jack did what was natural and wrapped his arms around Piper and picked her up. He turned to face Sam who was smiling at the scene. "Thank you Sam," he said
"No problem Jack."
"Oh I have one more favour to ask"
"What is it?" Sam asked
"Um could you take Piper home for me and put her to bed I have to finish up here with the General?" "No problem Jack. We were just about to go home anyway. Weren't we Piper?" Piper smiled and reached over to Sam. When Sam took her Jack walked up and kissed Piper on the head and then kissed Sam but this time it was on the lips not the forehead. As soon as they realised what they were doing and where they were doing it they stopped. Smiled at each other and left in opposite directions.
When Sam got back to Jack's house, which had now been known to her as her second home. She had a dresser full of her stuff in Jack's room so that every morning she didn't have to bring Piper to her house and then go to the SGC, however she did believe that Jack was coming back so she didn't move in completely or sell the house like other people had suggested to her. When they stepped in Sam was glad that Jack was home but she was also upset because she didn't want to leave his house or Piper. Sam knew that Jack wouldn't take Piper away from her and she would still be able to see her but she was still afraid. About 15 minuets later she had given Piper her bottle and put her to bed. Jack still wasn't home so she decided that she would go to bed like she had done for the past year. She got changed into her pajamas and climbed into bed.
"Well were glad to have you back Colonel especially Sam,"
"What do you mean sir?" Jack asked looking puzzled at that statement.
"She never believed that you were dead like everyone said she even refused to sell her house and move into yours like we all told her to. I don't think that Sam has been to her house in awhile she spent the entire time at your house with Piper."
"Has she" Jack was surprised that Sam would really do that "Um sir how have they been? I mean how did she do it. You know she kept Piper and stayed here all this time how?" Jack asked.
"Well colonel at first it was a little hard what with Piper not wanting anyone but Sam but she got used to us so that Sam could continue going Off world. We even decided to give Piper her own room here. Would you like to see it??" Asked General Hammond.
"Uh yes please sir" General Hammond led Jack to one of the old guest rooms. When he opened the door it was like they were in someone's house the walls were blue instead of the cement colour that all of the others were and there was a carpet. Against one of the walls there was a crib and directly opposite was a changing table with a dresser under it there were shelves filled with toys and toy boxes filled with toys but what caught Jacks eye was on one of the shelves was a picture of Sam and Piper. In the picture Piper was only about a year and was resting her head on Sam's chest smiling and Sam in turn was resting her head on Pipers head and was also smiling. The General saw what Jack was looking at "Ah the picture was taken here about 3 months after you left they look so happy together don't you agree colonel"
"Yeah they do. Well sir speaking of them I should really be getting home to them now if I'm aloud to leave?"
"Well I don't see why not."
"Thank you General" Jack started to walk away.
"She really missed you, you know" The general said.
"I know I missed Piper to" Jack said turning around to look at the General but not stop walking.
"No not Piper I mean Sam"
"Oh she did" Jack asked with a questioning look on his face.
"Yes she did. You should tell her Jack."
"Tell her what sir?" Jack asked
"That you love her. Because I know that she loves you to"
"Uh sir I don't know where you got that idea from but, even if we did love each other, we couldn't do anything because of the reg's remember??" Jack asked
"Yes I know but you see you two have a child together and are my BEST team therefore the reg's as so thoughtfully put it have absolutely no jurisdiction here understood."
"Um yes sir but what do you mean we have a child together we don't?"
"Well Colonel you see when you didn't come back a year later we decided that Sam should adopt Piper in case anything would happen that would need a parent. Now Sam loved Piper and she knew that you would come back for her so she didn't do it until I told her that she either signed the paper or had Piper taken away and she did now we both know that I would never do such a thing but Piper needed her to do you understand?"
"Ah yeah I do but I should really be going now there waiting for me" With that jack left when he was driving home he thought to himself ' So Sam loves me still after so long I never thought she would and HEY she's been living in MY house' The next thing he knew he was home but he thought it was strange that all of the lights were out. Jack got out of the car and headed to the door when he stepped in the house and found that nothing had changed. He was walking to his room when he saw a sign on one of the old guest room doors it said Piper in big bold letters and had one of her baby pictures on it. Jack walked into the room and saw a crib he walked over to it and looked inside he saw Piper fast asleep inside she had kicked off all of her blankets and looked so cute and innocent and yet still so fragile. Jack took the blanket and put it over her so she wouldn't get cold then he took his hand and gently stroked her soft hair. When she started to stir Jack thought it best to leave. "Uh Sam where are you" called Jack in a low whisper. 'I guess I'll go to my room and change into something normal and then look for Sam' Jack thought.