Ch. 10
Jack walked into the cabin to find his very pregnant wife and two young children eating lunch.
"Have an interesting afternoon, dear?" Sam asked, with a gleam in her eye.
"Thor, says hello. And after lunch we should pack. We're going home!"
Several hours later, Sam, Jack, Gracie, and little Jack are standing in their backyard, staring at the gateway home. Gracie and little Jack are fidgeting. Obviously nervous and very excited. Sam leans into Jack, who turns to face her and wraps his arms around her.
"The baby?" she asks.
"Thor assures me the baby will be fine."
"And us?" she asks.
"Samantha" he so rarely used her full name, "I am your husband now. Not your CO. That will not change. I love you too much. I love us too much" he gestured to the children. "I will never leave you on this planet or any other."
He leaned down and kissed her.
She relished the kiss and the feeling of reassurance he provided her.
He dialed Earth and transmitted the proper codes. With the wormhole active he turned on the walky-talky.
"Stargate command, this is SG1, requesting to come home." He figured the codes had been updated and he didn't want his family walking into the iris.
"Jack, Sam, is that you?"
Sam smiled. "Yes, Daniel, It's us," she said.
They hear General Hammond on the other side. "Open the iris. Come on home, SG1."
They walk through the stargate and are greeted with a huge warm welcome.
"Welcome home, SG1"
Jack was somewhat thinner and scruffier looking than when he left. Sam, well Sam was very very pregnant and her hair, still blonde, was nearly to her waist. And then there were the two new O'Neill's. A small girl with blue eyes and blonde hair who looks just like Sam, and an even smaller boy. He looks just like Jack.
After the initial greetings, they were escorted to the thoroughly checked out all of them. They had blood tests, which made the kids scream, scans, and psych evals. The kids were in perfect health. Jack was great except for being mildly underweight and slightly malnourished. But Sam wasn't doing so well.
Janet called Jack over to his wife's bedside.
"Her blood pressure is up. There's protein in her urine." Janet knew that Jack was familiar with these clinical indicators of pre-eclampsia. She knew Sara had trouble when pregnant with Charlie. Sam, however, was clueless.
"How high?" Jack asked.
Sam just looked back and forth between her doctor and her husband.
"What's going on?" she asked.
Janet looked at Sam and said, "you have pre-eclampsia. Right now, it's not to bad. Your blood pressure is 152/92. We can treat that with medicine. But we are going to have to keep a close eye on you. If the blood pressure becomes to high then we may have to deliver the baby early."
That really caught Sam's attention.
"Early!?" She knew that couldn't be good.
"Let's go ahead and do an ultrasound and see how the baby is doing. You think you are about seven months, right?"
Jack spoke up. "That's our best guess."
They rolled in the ultrasound machine and turned down the lights in the room.
As nervous as they were about the baby's health, they were also excited to have a chance to see the baby inside her.
Janet started the scan.
"Ooh!" she exclaimed.
"What, what is it?" Jack asked. "Is something wrong?"
"No, nothing's wrong. But you're not having just one baby. You're having twins!"
"Twins?!" they said in unison.
"Do you want to know their sexes?"
Jack looked at Sam and saw her give an ever so subtle shake of her head. "No, I don't think so. We've enjoyed being surprised." He squeezed his wife's hand. "Twins," he whispered.
Janet finished up the scans and said that everything looked good with the babies. Their weight is appropriate for being about seven months, and that is especially good for twins.
"Sam, you're just going to have to take it easy and keep your feet up. We want to keep you pregnant as long as possible. Twins often deliver early on their own and the pre-eclampsia could also be a problem."
"Thanks, Dr. Fraiser," Jack said.
"Your welcome, but it's Dr. Jackson now."
"Jackson?" Sam said with a grin.
"Daniel and I have been married a little over a year now." she said with a twinkle in her eye.
"Well, Congratulations, a little late" Jack said. And with that he took his family to the VIP guest room on base. They were to be quarantined for a while, just as a precaution. Sam was just happy she wasn't going to have to cook. It never was something she truly enjoyed and now she could use the cafeteria to ease the burden. And Jack was releaved that his wife and babies would receive proper medical treatment. He knew that many women died from eclampsia if left untreated. He felt confident in Janet's care. 'Twins,' he thought. 'Wow. I never would have guessed.'