Two weeks later:

Sam sat in her lab, staring at the computer screen in front of her.

"That function is not possible." Thor's hologram intoned.

Sam closed her eyes as irritation bubbled up inside her.

"Hey, Sam. How's it going?" Cam asked, walking over to her.

"You too?" She snapped, jumping up from her seat.

He looked genuinely surprised by her outburst. "I was just trying to find out how you were feeling. I know you weren't feeling well there for a little while."

Sam inhaled. "I'm fine, and I'm sorry. I thought you were jumping down my throat about how long it's taken me to figure out how we can safely get out of this thing alive."

"Was on my list, but I'll take it off right now." Cam said, nodding seriously.

"Thank you." She said, curtly.

"You sure you're okay?"

She glared at him.

"Right. You're fine. I'll let you get back to work."

"That..." She began, too calmly to be anything other than livid, "would be great."

As he hurried from the engine room, she returned to the keyboard. She typed for a few seconds before Thor's voice interrupted again. "That function is not possible."

She threw her pencil at the hologram, narrowly missing Daniel as he walked in the door. "Whoa..." He said, watching the pencil roll out the door. "What's going on?"

"What's going on is that Thor won't stop telling me that I can't do this." She said, angrily. "And I'm not even smart enough just to turn him off!"

"You'll figure it out, Sam." He soothed. "You are smart enough. You can do this."

She gave him a look that made him wish he had worn heavy body armor. "Tough day, huh?" He asked, cautiously.

She sighed as she sat back in the chair. "You could say that."

"Do you want to talk about it?" He asked, pulling up a chair across from her.

She felt her lip quiver. "This is hard." She admitted.

"What's hard? The technology? Sam, you'll have that figured out in no time." He said, rubbing her arm. "You always do."

"I miss them..."

"Who?"

"Thor, Vasjir, Heimdall, Martouf, Janet, General Hammond, my parents...Jack..." She whispered as tears slipped down her cheeks. "I know it sounds crazy since I'm not all by myself, but I still feel alone."

Daniel pulled her into a tight hug. "Oh, Sam..."

She sobbed in his arms for several minutes before she managed to pull herself back together. "I'm sorry, Daniel..." She cried, wiping at her eyes with the back of her hand. "I feel like such a fool."

"Hey," he soothed. "It's okay. It's stressful. But we've got all the time in the world, okay."

She turned her teary eyes to him as she shook her head. "No, Daniel. We don't. At some point - albeit a long time from now - that blast is going to hit us."

"Like you said, it's going to be a long time from now. It's not going to take fifty years to figure this thing out."

"No, but it will probably take at least one..." She said, feeling a torrent of emotion begin to flood her.

"That's okay." He said, gently.

"What am I going to tell Jack?" She asked, tearing up again.

"That you were stuck in a time dilation field, and that you're one year closer to his age." Daniel said with a teasing grin on his face. "See...no problem."

"No, Daniel." She said, shaking his head. "What am I going to tell him about the baby that I bring home a year from now?"

The smile on his face faltered. "The what?" He asked, stunned.

"I'm pregnant." She whispered, feeling more and more isolated.

He inhaled. "Oh."

"I know...it's too much. I just...need to get us home right now." She said as her mind moved at a frenzied pace back to the work she felt obligated to continue.

"Sam..." Daniel interrupted as he turned her back to look at him. "Breathe."

She took a deep breath.

"Okay. Jack's been down this road before. He probably didn't like it the first time, and probably won't like it when you get back, but he'll get over it. He loves you, and he's going to love that baby. You know it's true." He said, looking her in the eye.

She nodded as she blinked away tears.

"I'll help you until we get home." He promised.

"Thank you." She said, giving him a grateful smile.

"Now, why don't you go, and take a little break?"

"I don't..." She began to protest.

"Sam, you're probably hungry and tired, right?"

"Only tired." She said after thinking for a moment. "I've been snacking on these saltine crackers I got the Asgard core to make."

"Good." He said, seriously. "Now, things will look differently after a little rest. Trust me."

"Okay." She said, nodding. "I'll take a break. Just a little one, though. I need to get back to work as soon as I can."

He nodded. "I understand."

"Thanks, Daniel." She said, earnestly.

"You're welcome, Sam." He said as he gave her a smile. "And you're going to do just fine. You're going to get us home, and we're going to be laughing about this in no time."

"I hope so." She said, seriously.