Chapter 19 – You Can Do It

"Major, are you all right?" Chloe asked her in concern. Sam didn't look so good.

Sam shook her head. "I think it's just Braxton Hicks again." She'd covered her discomfort when she had them around Jack because he fussed but Chloe just calmly accepted the situation.

"Ok. Dr. Frasier told me to keep an eye on the contractions should they get closer together." She reminded Sam.

"I know what Janet asked you to do." Sam huffed. She was so irritable right now she was even snapping at Chloe who was equal parts likeable and competent. Fortunately, Chloe informed her she had three sisters and nothing Sam did or said while pregnant was going to faze her in the slightest.

Sam idly kept track of the time between contractions and they were still erratic and mild but she noted that they were getting closer together than they had been. The guys weren't due back until tomorrow unless they hit a snag in which case they would come in hot.

Sam winced again.

"Those are getting closer together Ma'am. Should you go down to the infirmary?"

"I think I'll try walking around for a while actually Chloe. If anyone needs me, tell them I'll be back in about half an hour."

"Yes ma'am." She told Sam and went back to recording the results on Sam's current experiment.

"Are you all right Major?" Siler asked her. She'd gone to level sixteen and found him running routine diagnostics on the emergency bunker.

"I'm fine, it's just false labor." She said as she slowly breathed out through her teeth and tried not to wince. "Don't you have people to do that for you?"

Siler was Master Sergeant and normally his staff would handle running non-emergency diagnostics on backup systems. "I needed the peace and quiet." He admitted. "Not that I mind the company Ma'am." He said quickly. "Those have gotten closer together thince you got down here." He said of the contractions a few moments later. Comfortable with her, Siler didn't try to avoid words that exposed his lisp.

"Yah. I noticed that too." She admitted.

"Are you thertain those are Braxton Hicks contractions?"

Sam looked at him thoughtfully. "No, but they aren't even enough in length or time apart to worry just yet." She said reassuringly.

"Well, the infirmary is only five levels down tho it's a short ride if your water breaks." He told her smiling.

"That's reassuring." She said dryly and grinned at him then winced.

"Tham I really think you should go thee Janet." He told her firmly.

"I've got a week to go yet. It's just an unusually bad day that's all." She tried to tell him.

Sylvester however wasn't buying it. "Tham, I know you enjoy living dangerouthly, but Jack would probably kill me dead if I let you give birth in the auxiliary command thenter." He huffed at her but his eyes were kind and full of concern. "Pleath go get checked ma'am." He pleaded with her.

Sam sighed. "All right, if it will make you feel better."

"Thank you. I hope it's just falth labor Tham but it's better to be thafe than thorry."

"Ok, ok… I'm going." She told him chuckling a little as she left the room. "Bad as Jack and Daniel." He heard her lament in the hallway.

Sylvester grinned. It looked like Sam would be a mom in a couple days. He wondered how Colonel O'Neill would feel about being a father. He didn't know who the actual father was as the circumstances had involved the Asgard performing a very questionable not to mention unsanctioned experiment on the Major but he knew Jack pretty well. Well enough to know the man had strong feelings for his 2IC. She was already borrowing his BDUs because hers didn't fit this late in her pregnancy and Siler was fairly certain that was his t-shirt too. Sam's baby wouldn't grow up without a father in its life.

"Sam, what brings you in?" Janet asked her as she walked past to another patient."

"I went for a walk because I was having some Braxton Hicks but they got closer together and Siler made me come here." She admitted.

"Are you feeling any pain?" Janet asked her.

"Some, it's mild but, fine. Yes." She admitted.

"All right. You're a little early but still full term so it's nothing to worry about. First time labor can take a while so let's get you checked out and you can go wander or do some work until your water breaks." Janet told her.

"I really don't want my water to break in my lab Janet." Sam said pointedly.

"Well, if you want you can go pace around in one of the VIP rooms on twenty five." She suggested.

Sam glared at her a little.

"You're the one that said you don't want amniotic fluid on your lab equipment." Janet pointed out and Sam huffed. "Tough crowd." She decided. "When does SG-1 get back?"

"Tomorrow." Sam said, worry edging her voice.

"I'm sure they are on schedule." Janet told her reassuringly as she helped her lay back on the exam table so she could do a quick check. She knew Sam's real concern was Jack being there for the labor. Picking him for a labor partner had been a stroke of genius she'd planted in Daniel's head and then Sam's so she would ask him. The baby's father should be there in general but especially as Jack was likely to tear the walls down if he wasn't allowed to be anyway. She knew as long as she was there, Jack would follow orders to the letter when it came to the birth process. She was fairly certain had Sam been using a civilian doctor in a regular hospital Jack would have been a problem.

Hopefully if this labor went well, if they had a second child the old fashioned way Jack would be calmer. As it was she suspected if he was still off-world he was going to hit the gate at a run and plow through the halls of SGC like a linebacker to get to Sam this time.

Not that Janet could blame him. It was their first child together. Cassie had been angry at them when Jack and Sam had admitted they weren't getting married any time soon. It had taken a lot of patient explaining on Janet's part to get Cassie to understand that the people they were fighting would not hesitate to specifically target their child to hurt them if it got out that Jack was the actual father.

"Sam, you've lost your mucus plug." Janet told her.

"Is that what that was?" Sam said as though a mystery had been solved.

"Do you remember when it happened?"

"Yah. I was in the shower yesterday morning." She told her. What Sam didn't tell Janet was that she'd been in the shower with Jack feeling each other up. With all the water and their hands fondling every inch of each other she'd noticed the odd slither of goop down her leg but it wasn't much thicker than her discharge when she ovulated so she had shrugged it off and gone back to demonstrating her skills at oral manipulation on Jack's cock. He hadn't even noticed other than to groan when she'd paused for a short time.

"Well, you're about two centimeters dilated and your little guy is in position so it's just a matter of time. You've got several hours before you need to come back here though so go for a walk Sam. Come back if your water breaks or they get to be five minutes apart or last a minute or longer."

"I know Janet." Sam huffed.

"And stop being moody with me, young lady. I'm not the one that decided to go through with this. I'd have taken Thor up on the easy way out." Janet told her chuckling.

"And miss out on all this?" Sam asked her snarkily.

"Put your pants back on before you leave." Janet joked and left the room to go deal with her other patents.

Sam huffed a sigh. "You stay put." She told her stomach as she pulled on Jack's BDU pants and hooked the elastic loop Janet had sewn in for her across the button.