Hi! As someone pointed "it doesn't appear as complete yet." So, here you all go, one more. I promise I'm trying my best to finish it!

Enjoy!

M.

Space

Two months later

When Sam told him, she was needed at DC for a month; he never figured he would feel so depressed getting back home after work. SG-1 was scheduled to be out, for a set of three days missions along the month, so they had decided that getting the girls to DC with Sam was the best course of action. So, the last weekend they had together, the foursome packed everything in several boxes, and took the chance to make the changes they wanted in both houses, now that they were sharing it as a family.

After he dropped them at the airstrip, he drove home and found it dark and empty, and exactly then, Jack had decided he was going to stay at the mountain while they weren't there. He took some extra lunch hours here and there to check the house remodeling advances but then, he filled himself with excuses to return to the base and not be alone in the house, missing them.

Jack had called his women and talked to them every night he was on Earth. And he rushed to video call them after debriefing, knowing exactly how worried Sami used to be with him going on missions for long. It wasn't hard to spot those same traits in Sam and Jac.

But tonight, Janet had kicked him out of the base stating medical orders, and General Hammond had agreed with the Doctor. He tried pouting, menacing to leave Daniel behind in the next planet and finally, he settled with glaring at his petite friend. But Janet just told him the construction was over and he had no real necessity to stay in base any longer.

So outnumbered by his orders, and out of excuses, he rode the elevator up and drove to the empty casket he called home just weeks before. He grinned as he parked in the driveway, and his heart pounded quickly in his chest; the house lights were on, and he felt a surge of happiness filling him.

They were home.

He rushed to the front door and opened it enjoying the warmth that spread to the coldish outside air. With widened eyes, he realized the boxes that were delivered a few days earlier went he went to give his final approval weren't clogging the entrance anymore.

"Honey, I'm home!" He yelled, and he heard noises coming from downstairs and upstairs at the same time while the smell of food reached his nostrils.

"Dad!" Jac shouted from the top of the stairs and rushed towards him forcing him to take a step back to keep standing. Sami rushed from the bottom of the stairs towards the pair, and soon they started to talk together, and Jack had no idea what they were on about, but he sure had missed them.

Sami stopped talking and noticed her dad's eyes were fixated in the area where the kitchen was hidden behind the wall, almost as if he expected to see thru it. She elbowed Jac so she would stop talking.

"Mom is cooking," she told him as Jac rubbed the sore area.

"Huh?"

"She wanted it to be ready for when you arrived, I guess she's still at it," Jac added. "It took her forever."

"The longest I've seen her in the kitchen," Sami rolled her eyes, and then they noticed he wasn't listening to them at all and chuckled when he took one step after another only stopping when the kitchen was in his sight area. He leaned against the frame and observed her move around it as if she had done it all her life.

The girls giggled watching their mom so concentrated in the food that she wasn't noticing anything but it. Jack winked at them and waited until she was somewhat far from anything that could be burnt or broken to walk towards her and embrace her from behind.

"Holy Hannah, Jack! You scared the bejesus out of me," she said raising a hand to her chest and at the same time, leaning against his form.

"Sorry," he grinned sheepishly, making the kids giggle. "I couldn't help it; you were so concentrated that you would miss the Armageddon." He placed a kiss on her neck. She shook her head and took a step out of his embrace and towards the food. She turned the stove off and then she smiled brightly. "Girls, can you set the table."

"It is already …" Sami started but a pointed look told Jac her mom wanted space, she placed a hand over Sami's mouth and chuckled.

"We are on our way, yeah, nothing wrong here…" Jac added nervously chuckling as she dragged Sami out to the dining area.

"Can you help me?" Sam asked turning around so Jack would see the knot of her apron. He untied it, and she took the apron off, and he opened his mouth to say something, anything at all, but he was speechless. Somehow, he didn't notice she had the sexiest dress he had ever seen, or maybe it was just that he considered all she wore like that. She turned around to face him and bit her lower lip. "Do you like what you see, Colonel?"

"Yes, ma'am." He whispered, as she backed him against the counter and flattened her body against his. She looked up, and her hand found his head lowering his lips to hers before she kissed him hungrily. "Welcome home, Colonel," she panted once they broke the heated kiss.

"Welcome home, Doctor," he answered in the same fashion.

"We better get this to the dining room, before Sami comes wondering why I asked them to set the table I've already set before."

"They are smart kids; I'm sure they have some idea of what's going on here." He said kissing her softly at the end. "But we don't want to spoil the dinner that they said took you forever to make."

Dinner was a lovely affair for Jack after sharing meals in the commissary with Teal'c, Daniel and Janet; where conversation seemed to be unstopping chattering from Daniel about some other rock he found, and Teal'c nodding in the precise places. Or he alone, with the others just avoiding him not quite knowing the reason behind his demeanor. But now, with Sam close to him and the girls chattering excitedly about the month in DC, school and how awesome both houses were now, he felt like he finally had something that not even the meanest of the Go'auld would take from him.

They made of cleaning dishes a family task, and soon everything was out of the way. It was Wednesday, but the girls convinced them to watch a movie in the newly renovated family room.

"They were very excited about it," Sam said as they watched the girls disappear upstairs. "I haven't seen it yet."

"What about the other part of the top floor?" He wriggled his eyebrows.

"Well, both master bedrooms look quite nice. Sadly, I only had tested them alone so far," she pouted.

"Oh, I can help you with that," he winked as they settled in a love chair, and the girls laid on the floor in front of the enormous screen that now took half the wall.

"They will be out before the end," Sam whispered snuggling cozily half above him.

The remodeling of the house was not needed but highly appreciated. Kitchen, living room, dining room, and a guest room were now at the ground level. The guest room there was for Jacob, Jack had said. And since they still couldn't decide if they wanted the master room at the attic or the basement, the couple agreed they wouldn't ever agree on that and took the top floor. Along with the master room, there was a family room and two guests room and between them, a vast space that was both his office and her lab.

After spending the first few weeks cramped in Sami's room, the girls figured that sharing a room with someone that looked exactly like you but was extremely different was awkward and led them to several fights for space, they decided to ask for separated rooms. So, now, Sami got the attic and Jac the basement. And the girls convinced them, that a pool was a must for them now that Sam was in the house and it was one of her favorite activities.

Jack wasn't sure how the contractors managed to get everything fixed, what he knew was they were at least hundreds of them working in all levels taking things out and bringing them in later. And despite Sam's great taste, the lack of time was one of the main reasons they decided to go for an actual interior designer to make things happen. So, furniture and electronics were in place, but their actual collection of personal items was still waiting to be unboxed.

An hour after they settled at the family room, the girls were softly snoring below them, and Sam rolled her eyes for the thousand times to the never-ending clichés that the rom-com the girls had picked reached the climax. Jack chuckled and kissed the top of her head.

"We should take them to bed."

"Take them?" she raised her eyebrow. "As if your knees will allow you to take one of them either downs or upstairs."

"My knees are great, thank you very much," he squinted at her.

"Oh, well. Then maybe I'm just being a bit egotistical and want to test them myself." She grinned mischievously.

"Sami! Jac! Time to bed!" he screamed quickly, standing up and trying to wake the girls so they will drag themselves to their rooms. It took them a while, but they successfully reached both the top and bottom of the house after mumbling their goodnights.

"Holy Hannah, Sam!" Jack said as he opened the door. "When did you manage to do all this?" he asked noticing their room was all fixed, there were no boxes, their items were on display and the bed was neatly made. She shrugged.

"We got home early," she said turning around and linking her arms behind his neck. "You know, I have no idea how I lived all those years without you," Sam confessed before she kissed him softly.

"Why I have a feeling you had something to do with Janet's orders?"

"Huh?" she feigned innocence, but the way she was biting the inner part of her lower lip told him otherwise. He looked at her and waited until she sighed. "How else would I've known that you would get your bum back home? You haven't been here since we left."

"How on Earth you know that!"

"CCTV," she rolled her eyes. "I've sent two of my most trusted people to install the cameras. I know this town is safe and all but, with all the things I plan to bring here, so I don't have to be in DC, I can't exactly hope for the best."

"So there are cameras here?"

"Not here, but yes. The rooms and bathrooms are camera free. Corridors, entrance, and garden are covered. I can show you that later," she grinned. "I did change everything to make it secure."

"You mean that when we go around the house doing adult things in our birth suits, no one else will have access to video?"

"Yes, that's exactly what I've meant."

"Boomer, we could become famous and all," he joked, and she chuckled before her eyes found him again.

"Now, talking about this adult thing done in our birth suits," Sam grinned, and her hands caressed the way to the hem of his shirt and went under it, slowly pulling it up as she touched his naked chest with her nails. He groaned. He allowed her to take his shirt out of the way before she turned around and grinned at him. "Can you help a lady, Colonel?"

"Yes, ma'am." He said reaching for the zipper of her dress and slowly opening it while pressing soft kisses on her back. The dress fell on the floor, and he noticed there wasn't anything else in her but a necklace, and then she turned around. "Oh God," he managed to mutter before he sauntered to her and all but thrown her in the bed and then there was no space between them anymore.