Chapter 37Evolution

"Come in." Rebecca called, not even glancing up from the paper that she was signing.

"Becca, I need to talk to you." Daniel said coming into the room.

"What's going on?" Rebecca asked, putting her pen down.

"I have to go to Honduras." Daniel replied, going over to her. "Hammond is going to keep an eye on you since Jack has to go through the Stargate."

"I hate this." Rebecca said softly. "I should either be going with you or going through the Stargate with Daddy."

"Maybe I can convince Hammond that you should go with me to be my military escort." Daniel said with a small smile.

"Please don't be joking." Rebecca responded. True to his word, when it came time for Jackson and Dr. Lee to board the plane headed to Honduras Rebecca was with them. When they landed in Honduras they learned that Spanish was not a language that Daniel knew well. Luckily for the trio, it was a language that Rebecca knew well so she was able to get a guide to take them to the temple. "Even my dad knows Spanish." Rebecca grumbled when they were heading towards the temple.

"Then let's not tell him that I don't." Daniel replied squeezing Rebecca's hand.

"But it might make him feel more intelligent." Rebecca said with a smile.

"No, it'll just make him difficult to live with." Daniel answered, leaning over to kiss his wife.

"You win." Rebecca said smirking.

"I thought it was genetically impossible for those words to leave an O'Neill's mouth." Daniel said in mock horror.

"I'm making a rare exception for you." Rebecca said, kissing her husband when they reached the temple. "Go be brilliant. I'll stay out here with the guide and watch your six." Daniel nodded and he and Dr. Lee disappeared into the temple.

"Becca." Daniel called as they emerged only to find himself with a gun in his face. He looked around until he spotted Rebecca and the guide both restrained and blindfolded.

"Daniel." Rebecca said softly.

"I'm here." Daniel answered as he and Lee were restrained in the same fashion and led away. He could hear Rebecca speaking softly in Spanish and then her shout as a gun went off. "Becca?"

"I'm fine." She said in an odd voice. "They shot the boy." They blinked when the blindfolds were removed and were thrown into a hut.

"Which one of you should I get answers from?" The guerrilla leader asked, looking over the trio. He moved over to Rebecca and grabbed her by the hair. "Aren't you a pretty little thing?" Her dog tags caught his eye and he picked them up. "Your value just went up." He ripped them off of her neck.

"Are you sending those to our government?" Daniel asked, trying to ease over to Rebecca.

"Of course. They will send money to save one of their officers." The leader answered.

"I pity you." Rebecca said. "My father will come after me and he will kill you." She spit in the man's face.

"You have spirit." The man said, before punching her. He barked out orders and Daniel and Rebecca were brought into a main hut where they were tied to chairs. "You will answer my questions." He held a gun to Daniel's head.

"Why don't you come and threaten me." Rebecca said. "He's just a civilian."

"What is the box?" The man asked, moving over to her.

"Jackson, Rebecca Christine. Captain. United States Air Force. 03 …" Rebecca stopped when he hit her in the head.

"Whenever I ask you a question are you going to answer me like that?"

"Jackson, Rebecca Christine. Captain. United …" She winced slightly when he punched her in the stomach.

"Becca." Daniel called out, pulling against his restraints. He watched her breathe in through her nose.

"Would you give your life for this woman?" The leader asked.

"Yes." Daniel replied looking at Rebecca.

"That's good." The leader answered and then ordered for them to be taken back to the hut.

"You alright?" Daniel asked as soon as they were alone with Lee.

"No." Rebecca gasped, tears filling her eyes.

Back at the SGC, Hammond met the victorious SG-1 as they came through the gate. "Jack …"

The smile on Jack's face faded. "What's going on?" He opened the box that Hammond handed him. "Becca's dog tags."

"Dr. Lee and Dr. and Captain Jackson have been kidnapped." Hammond replied. "The kidnappers sent those as proof."

"I want to be on the first plane to Honduras." Jack said.

"Jack …"

"No, my daughter, son-in-law and a member of this base have been compromised and I'm going to go get them!" Jack roared.

"Fine, Colonel." Hammond answered before Jack left the room.

Honduras. "Can you run?" Daniel asked after breaking a hole in the wall of their hut.

"I can try." Rebecca replied, slowly getting to her feet. When her feet hit the ground outside the hut her adrenaline took over. Daniel was already burdened with the extra weight of Dr. Lee and she didn't want to add to that. "I can't go any further." She said when they reached a line of trees.

"Neither can I." Dr. Lee said gasping for air.

Rebecca fell to her knees clutching her stomach. "God, why didn't they kill me." She groaned.

"You okay?" Daniel asked, falling onto his knees next to her. The three of them looked up when they heard gunfire.

"Daniel." Rebecca called out when a shadow fell over them. The leader had his gun aimed at them. "If you kill me that will be the last thing you do."

"Good advice." Jack said, before shooting the leader.

"Daddy." Rebecca cried out in relief when her father and another man stepped out of the bushes.

"Watch out." Daniel said, looking past Jack. Rebecca scooted over and picked up the leader's gun. She rose up onto her knees and shot the two men standing behind her father.

"Thanks." Jack said softly.

"No problem." Rebecca answered.

"You guys okay?" Jack asked going over to his daughter and son-in-law.

"I need to get back to the SGC." Rebecca gasped out. Jack nodded and tossed his P90 to Daniel and then picked up his daughter. He yelled out some instructions and then the group headed back to town after picking up the box. Rebecca refused to let anyone but Janet examine her so they were forced to just take her back to the SGC.

"How are they?" General Hammond asked when Jack walked into the briefing room.

Jack looked at Sam, her father, Teal'c and Hammond. "Becca's the worst out of the three of them … Janet thinks that she lost the baby."

"Oh no." Sam said, putting her hands over her mouth.

"She's in surgery right now. Becca refused to see a doctor in Honduras so now Janet's trying to cut off the blood flow and see if she can save the baby." Jack said softly. "She almost died."

"She lost the baby." Daniel said dully coming into the briefing room. The room fell into silence. "Damn it." He yelled before punching the wall.

"How's Becca?" Jack asked.

"Physically she's fine." Daniel choked out. He escaped before the tears could start falling. SG-1 followed their archeologist to the locker room.

"Daniel Jackson, you're not doing Rebecca Jackson any good by acting this way." Teal'c said, grabbing the younger man when he started punching the lockers.

"Jack, Rebecca's awake and is asking for you and Daniel." Jacob Carter said coming into the room.

"You guys calm him down; I'm going to go see my daughter." Jack said before leaving.

"Where's Daniel?" Rebecca asked when her father sat down next to her bed.

"He's with the rest of the team." Jack replied.

"I lost the baby, didn't I?" Rebecca questioned.

"Yeah, you did." Jack answered, taking her hand. "Listen to me, you're both young and when you feel ready you can try again."

"You know, we were talking about names on the way to Honduras … if the baby had been a boy we were going to name him Charlie … I'm so sorry Daddy." Rebecca said softly.

"Why angel, why are you sorry?" Jack asked, unaware that the rest of his team, Hammond, Janet and Jacob had come in.

"I'm sorry that I couldn't give Charlie back to you. I was supposed to be watching him and I let you down."

"No baby you didn't." Jack said, squeezing her hand.

"I let Daniel down too."

"Honey, you didn't let Daniel down. He understands." Jack soothed. "Now you listen to me. I don't blame you for what happened to your brother and Daniel doesn't blame you for losing the baby. It's not your fault. I wish I could go back and redo so many things, Becca. The only thing in my life right now that I don't regret is you. If the blame should rest on anyone it's me. The only thing that mattered to me today was finding you three. You lived; you and Daniel have another chance to have a baby. But you don't have to give me another Charlie. You're all I need, my reason for living. If anything had happened to you in that jungle no act of God could have stopped me from putting a gun to my head …" Jack broke off when he felt the tears slip down his cheeks.

"Oh Daddy." Rebecca said softly, grabbing her father's uniform shirt and pulling him to her for a hug. Everyone else in the room watched as the father and daughter hugged and sobbed.

Janet came over to the father and daughter after she shooed the General and the rest of SG-1 out. "Rebecca, I remember you asking me before you left for Honduras about when you could get a paternity test …" She watched the girl freeze up. "I took the liberty of taking some samples from the parties involved and I was able to run some tests on the aborted fetus."

"Janet please." Rebecca pleaded.

Janet nodded then took a deep breath. "There is no way that Daniel could have fathered the child." Rebecca looked at her father. "There was, however, a 99.9 certainty that Major Davis was the father."

"I need to use a phone." Rebecca said softly.

"Becca …" Jack began.

"I told him the last time that I talked to him, that there was a chance the baby might be his … I owe him that much." Rebecca explained.

"He'll be at the briefing tomorrow, tell him in person." Jack suggested gently. Rebecca nodded her agreement.

Jack took Rebecca home as soon as she was released. Daniel hung around to make sure that Dr. Lee would be alright and to brief General Hammond on the device that they found before heading home. "I'm home." He called walking into the house.

"We're in the living room." Rebecca called. He walked in to find Jack and Rebecca looking in a photo album.

"What are you guys looking at?" Daniel asked.

"Pictures of Charlie." Jack answered.

"I was seventeen when Charlie died." Rebecca said, running her fingers over a picture of her little brother. "We were waiting on Daddy to get home from a mission and we were going out for dinner to celebrate me getting accepted into the Air Force. Charlie kept running around and Sara was yelling at him to get ready so she finally sent me upstairs to motivate him. I didn't see Daddy's gun and I just yelled into the bedroom that dad was going to kill him if he wasn't ready when he got home." She trailed off for a moment. "As soon as I heard Daddy pull into the driveway I started downstairs. I … I had made it to the front door when the gun went off. Sara screamed Charlie's name and she and Daddy came running to the door. Daddy pushed past me and went running upstairs. Sara stopped and started yelling that it was my fault and I should have been watching him …" She started crying. "Daddy came downstairs with Charlie in his arms … there was blood everywhere …"

"Becca … it wasn't your fault." Jack said hugging his daughter. "Why don't you two go to bed; you have to debrief in the morning."

The next morning the three of than walked into the debriefing room and was surprised to find Dr. Lee, the rest of SG-1, Hammond, Paul and Kinsey. "What's going on, sir?" Jack asked, looking at his daughter's step father.

"Please take a seat." Hammond said softly. He waited into the trio did so and then turned to Rebecca. "Captain Jackson."

"When we got off the plane in Honduras, I acquired us a guide to take us to the temple. Dan …" She glanced at Kinsey. "Dr. Jackson and Dr. Lee went inside to retrieve the box. While they were gone the guerrillas captured the guide and me. When the doctors came out they did the same for them …"

"Captain." General Hammond said leaning forward.

"They killed the guide." Daniel said softly, squeezing his wife's hand under the table.

Rebecca gave her husband a small smile and turned back to the General. "When we reached their hut … he asked which one of us he should question."

"And your response was?" Kinsey asked, sitting forward.

"Me." Rebecca answered. "I didn't tell him anything." She licked her lips and looked at her hands.

"Captain Jackson, there have been reports that the device that you pulled out of the jungle was compromised to the guerrillas. Who revealed the information to them?" Kinsey asked.

Dr. Lee started to open his mouth but Rebecca interjected. "I did."

"Captain Jackson, you were in Iraqi prison for almost five months and never told them a thing. You expect us to believe that you couldn't stand two days in that encampment?" Kinsey questioned.

Rebecca looked at Kinsey. "When I was in the Iraqi prison, I wasn't pregnant and they had a gun to my CO's head not my husband's. I was the military escort and I did what I had to do to keep my men alive."

"Especially your husband?" Kinsey asked.

"You son of …" Rebecca said softly, standing.

"Becca." Jack cut her off.

Rebecca glanced at her father and then turned her attention to the Senator. "I was sent to Honduras with two archeologists. I returned with two archeologists and the device that we went to retrieve. The men that captured us are dead, unless you can bring them back to life they won't talk."

"Your relationship with Doctor Jackson has clearly clouded your judgment Captain." Kinsey said standing.

"My relationship with Doctor Jackson has kept us both alive time and time again." Rebecca shouted, slamming her palm onto the tabletop.

"Captain Jackson, you are out of line." Hammond said quietly.

"My apologies General." Rebecca said, resuming her seat.

"Shouldn't you apologize to the person you've insulted?" Kinsey asked.

"I have nothing more to say to you." Rebecca replied.

"I should have …" Kinsey started.

"What killed me when you had the chance? Yes, you probably should have." Rebecca replied softly.

"I am ordering reassignment for Captain Jackson, she has been compromised." Kinsey said turning to Hammond.

"Wait." Dr. Lee cried. "Captain … Rebecca I won't let you ruin your career for me."

"Explain." Hammond said, turning to Lee.
"I was the one that compromised the device. The guerrillas figured out that while Dr. and Captain Jackson would die for each other that wouldn't make them give up the information. They took Daniel back to the hut that they were holding us in and brought me to where Rebecca was. I knew that she was pregnant because I heard them talking about baby names on the plane. She was weak from where they had been beating her. The leader asked her a couple more times what the device was for and she started to give them her name, rank and serial number but only got as far as her name. Each time they hit her she bit her lip raw to keep from making a sound. The leader turned to me and told me that I could save her by talking. She just looked at me and shook her head. He asked me the questions and I stayed silent …" Lee faltered and Daniel leaned forward. "I'm so sorry Becca." Everyone looked at Rebecca who had tears rolling down her bruised cheeks. "The leader hit her in the stomach with the butt of his gun. She grunted but didn't say anything. He asked me again and again I was silent. This time when he hit her she screamed …" Lee looked at Rebecca. "I was scared for her and her baby … so I told them." The room was silent except for Rebecca's occasional sob.

"Captain Jackson, I am so sorry." Hammond replied.

Jack wrapped an arm around his daughter's shoulders. "It's okay, Becca." He kissed Rebecca's forehead and looked at Kinsey.

"Are you finished here Senator?" Hammond asked. He looked over to where his second in command and primary archeologist were trying to calm down their daughter/wife respectively.

"Yes, I think we're finished here." Kinsey said, looking at Rebecca.

"Dismissed." Hammond said, standing. "Dr. and Captain Jackson, I just want to say on record that I am sorry for your loss."

"Thank you sir." Rebecca said softly.

"Janet wants to check you over again Becca." Daniel said softly. "Jack you want to go with her and I'll meet you there."

"Sure." Jack said. He nodded at Paul and the two men escorted her out.

"Senator Kinsey." Daniel said, following them into General Hammond's office.

"Doctor Jackson." Kinsey said turning around.

"I know that you have a problem with my wife and my father-in-law but don't you ever threaten her job again." Daniel said quietly. "Our team is successful because we all care about each other and want to protect each other, but I guess that's something that you wouldn't understand. If you go near my wife again, I'll kill you myself and that's not a threat, it's a promise."

When they left the briefing room, Jack steered the other two into his office. "Colonel, when did your office become the infirmary?"

"I need to talk to you first Paul." Rebecca said as Jack slipped out. "Remember the conversation we had a couple of weeks ago?"

"About you not being sure who the father was?"

"Yes, that one. See, I mentioned my concerns to Janet before I left for Honduras, when I came back she took the DNA that she had for all three of us and ran some tests on the aborted fetus."

"Why do I have the feeling that I don't want to know what you're going to tell me?"

"The baby … the baby was yours. I'm sorry Paul."

Paul looked like he had been punched in the stomach. "Becca, can I hold you for a minute … so I can … so I can process what you're telling me?" Rebecca nodded and allowed Paul to pull her into his arms. The Major took a few moments to compose himself while he held the woman that he loved in his arms and then pulled away. "I'm sorry for your loss Captain Jackson, please pass my sympathies onto your husband." Rebecca nodded, understanding that he was simply trying to put the distance between them that they needed. While she was sad for the loss of her child, she was also happy to have this chapter in her life over. She was sure now that her whole heart belonged to Daniel and no one else. Paul Davis would be nothing more than just a pleasant memory for that point on.

After Rebecca was given a clean bill of health from Janet the three of them left the mountain. Rebecca and Daniel stopped to go grocery shopping and Jack went straight to the house. Rebecca froze when they entered the house and she heard a familiar voice singing a familiar song. "Daddy, what are you watching?"

"You." Jack answered from the living room. He turned to Daniel. "Her senior year of high school she was Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde."

"We should invite Sam and Teal'c over to watch this." Daniel said sitting down as 'Good and Evil' started. "Wasn't Lucy the prostitute?"

"Yes." Rebecca answered taking the grocery bags into the kitchen.

"You were a prostitute?" Daniel asked.

"I played a prostitute, there's a difference." Rebecca retorted.

"Wow." Daniel said when he got a good look at her outfit. "Good or evil, which do you choose?" He called after her.

"Heaven and hell is a hell of a gamble to lose." Jack put in.

"I hate you both." Rebecca called from the kitchen.

"I love you light of my life." Daniel called back.

Rebecca came back out of the kitchen. "Bite me, both of you."

"Okay." Daniel said grabbing her hand and pulling her onto his lap. He bit her gently on the shoulder.

"You two have a bedroom for a reason." Jack said, turning his attention back to the television. Rebecca leaned against her husband's strong chest and watched her younger self dance on stage. She also began devising her plan of attack to get back at the two main men in her life.