Chapter 4

Everything belongs to GEKKO, MGM, Double Secret etc. I don't make any thing for it - sigh!!! It would be payment enough to have an 11th season, and have some serious RESOLVED SEXUAL TENSION between our two favourite characters (well Dah, Sam & Jack of course!!). It was pointed out to me by an ANONYMOUS reviewer (come on people take the time to log in) that the final scene was pretty unreal and not in a good way and after I read it again and again, I kind of thought that it was a bit lame (a bit!!). Anyway this chapter is a repost without the final scene. I still want to use a scene like that at some stage (no spoilers about what it was for those who haven't read it yet). Please let me know what you think - I want to try and do some drama/angst but always have difficultly with that, but the end always has to be Happily Ever After.

SPOILERS: SEASON 8 THREADS

Jack watched nervously as Sam lead SG-1 through the Stargate on her first official command of the unit as his wife. Three weeks previously, when Jack's retirement from USAF was official, they had married almost immediately, but not before he had accepted the civilian command of the facility. They had just returned from their honeymoon where they spent a very lazy and sexually satisfying couple of weeks at Jack's cabin in Minnesotta.

Jack had found it hard enough to send her into dangerous situations when he was secretly in love with her, he just sucked it up because the regulations could keep him at arms length, but now they were no longer in play and he had trouble sending her through, even though it was supposed to be a routine mission offworld, but when was anything SG-1 did, "routine". He had a nagging feeling in his gut, that old soldier, bad feeling way down deep, and he couldn't shake it.

"SG-1, you have a go," he said into the microphone, "Sam,.. Carter., stay safe, Ok?"

"Yes Sir", Sam replied and before she stepped through the event horizon, she turned at looked at him, adding "been home in time for dinner...Sir".

That horrible feeling returned again, he just couldn't shake it and as the wormhole disengaged he turned on his heel and headed into his quite solitude only his office could provide.

At 8pm Jack had all but paced a hole in the floor of the command centre. SG-1 was 2 hours overdue and they hadn't been able to establish radio contact. Jack, outwardly was his professional self, going through the routine, checking out the possibilities, perhaps there was fault with the gate on the other side, or the dialling device, but these seemed unlikely as Sam would've responded when the SGC established a worm hole to try and contact them.

Sam knew that Jack would be worried out of his mind, but she couldn't help it. They were trapped in a cave, having barely escaped a horrendous electrical storm, great rolls of thunder and lighting strikes keeping them where they were. They were now 4 hours overdue and Sam was worried about Jack. She knew, he'd be worried about them, but especially her, especially now, but he knew procedure, he'd be sending a UAV through soon to boost the radio signal, they should be able to contact him them, providing of course the storm dissipates enough to stop interfering with the radio signals. When the SGC had opened the worm hole a couple of hours ago, Sam had heard them, but couldn't respond as their radio wasn't strong enough to penetrate the electrical interference, she knew all they would have heard was static and that would've scared the crap out of Jack.

Jack held his breath at the UAV went through the wormhole. Video came through immediately and soon enough they could see why SG-1 hadn't reported in. There was a fierce electrical storm on the planet and they were obviously stuck. Jack sent a message through, hoping Sam would hear it and be able to respond and sure enough just as the UAV was struck by lightening, he heard her voice, "Jack, …. Ok, .. cave. Late for dinner" and then they lost her. Jack released the breath he didn't realise he was still holding and sighed with relief. "Thank God" he whispered to himself. The other people in the control room just looked at each other and smiled, they knew how relieved their "ex-general" was.

It was close to 3am when SG-1 could finally leave their cave and dial the gate. The came through soaking wet and freezing cold.

"Hey guys" Jack said to Teal'c and Daniel

"Hey Sam – you Ok?"

"Yes Sir, just a bit cold".

"Sir?"

"Yes Sir, I'd like to go take a hot shower and get into some dry clothes"

"Oh, Ok Sam, you don't wanna go home?"

"No, I think we'll spend tonight on base, too tired to drive home"

"Sure thing"

Daniel and Teal'c had already left the gate room and as Sam followed them out, she glanced over her shoulder at Jack and said "coming, no fun having a hot shower on my own now that I don't have to".

"You betcha".!! Jack responded as he quickly took off after her.

Of course now that Jack was in command of the facility, he had his own personal bathroom, so he was getting quite excited at the prospect of sharing a shower alone with Sam.

As they neared their quarters, Jack heard the claxon's sounding from the gate room - "Damn", I'll have to take a rain check on that shower babe".

When Jack finally returned to their quarters it was about 4.45am, he found Sam was sound asleep on their bed, she must have been exhausted as she was hadn't even pulled the covers back. Jack sat and wondered at the sight before him. This gorgeous, intelligent woman was asleep in his bed and would be forever. He marvelled at his luck and deep down felt utterly complete. As tears of joy and a fulfilment that he never thought possible, began to well in his eyes, her crystal one's opened to find him staring at her. Hurriedly he swiped at the tears, but not before she saw them. She didn't question him though, because she knew what these tears meant, he was feeling and that was a good thing.

Sam didn't speak, she just held out her hand for him to join her on the bed. He quickly divested himself of his clothing and lay down beside her, taking her in his arms and holding her to his chest. He desperately wanted to make love to her, but he knew she was exhausted and before long both were asleep entwined in each other's arms.

Sam awoke several hours later to find herself alone again. She quickly dressed and went to find Jack. She found him in the infirmary, checking up on SG-11 who had come in hot just a few hours prior. As Sam took her place beside Jack, she took her hand in his and gazed lovingly into his eyes. All of a sudden, her face contorted and she fell into a dead faint, caught only by a quick reaction from Jack.

"Doc, get over here, there's something wrong with Sam". he commanded.

"Ok, Sir, let's lie her down over here. Are any of the other members of her team showing any symptoms?"

"Don't know, I'll send someone to check on Teal'c and Daniel".

15 minutes later Jack found himself standing in the infirmary with Teal'c and Daniel by his side. Neither was ill, so whatever was wrong with Sam, was probably not associated with the mission.

"Doc, any ideas?" Jack asked.

"None yet, Sir, I've taken several tests, I should know something soon"

"I have to go upstairs for while, Daniel can you sit with her until she wakes up"

"Sure thing Jack" he replied.

Jack was at his desk doing some of his "much loved" paperwork when his phone rang

"O'Neill"

"Sir, I have some test results about Colonel Carter ..O'Neill I'd like to discuss with you".

"Be right there"

Just was back in the infirmary just few minutes later and found the Doctor standing next to Sam's bed.

"what's up Doc" Jack smirked as he took a seat on Sam's bed, taking her hand in his.

She just rolled her eyes as she began "I have some of the test results back and something very interesting appears to be happening. Colonel Car..O'Neill, sorry this is quite confusing, I get rid of one Colonel/General O'Neill and now I have another!!"

Laughing, Sam replied, "I know what you mean, I have trouble thinking of myself that way, call me Carter, the name's hyphenated anyway"

"Oh, Ok, anyway as I was saying one of the test results gave me some interesting information. The protein marker left by Jolinar appears to be disappearing"

A surprised Sam asked "how can that be?"

"I can only speculate that the marker and the naquadah in your system is being absorbed by the baby"

"Huh" was Jack's response

"What" was Sam's response

"Baby?" Jack said

"Yes, Baby. Colonel Carter, you're pregnant"

"Huh???" was Jack's response again.

"Pregnant" was Sam's response.

"Yes, I believe that's what I said, you're pregnant, congratulations"

"How can I be pregnant, we've only been "together" for six weeks"

"Colonel Carter, you should know that conception can occur at any time, so based on that assumption, I'd say you got "together" at the right time, so to speak and here are the results, you're going to be parents".

Jack was having trouble taking it all in. He still hadn't said a word. Sam looked at him "Jack you OK?"

All he could say was "baby, pregnant, parents". and then he exclaimed "hell, I'm gonna be a daddy again"

"Jack, is that Ok?" Sam questioned

"Ok, baby, it's more than Ok, its fabulous, I'm gonna be a daddy again, Wow - I gotta sit down".

"Jack you are sitting down"

"Oh, then I gotta lie down".

TBC: