AN:The final chapter of the story unless you like mucking everything up.
Saturday April 3rd:
It was early morning at the mountain; Jack stood in a black suit and dove grey tie talking to Daniel in front of a floral covered arbor outside in a little clearing in the wood near the base.
"Does this seem sort of vaguely familiar to you Jack?" Daniel asked him.
Jack looked confused. "No. Why?"
"Nothing. There's just something familiar about all this. Like we've done exactly this before."
"Well, we were ushers the last time."
"And Vala wasn't here." Daniel agreed as Cassie and Vala stood outside the pavilion set up for food but also for Sam to finish getting ready with the boys. Vala wiggled her fingers at Daniel and dimpled at him.
"How much did you have to bribe the kids to behave?"
"Georgie is getting an X-Box, Jake is getting a drafting table." Jack admitted.
"Have you told them about the…?"
Jack shook his head. "Keep it down will yah? Right now that's classified."
"Well someone's bound to notice she's not heading out with us on missions." Daniel pointed out.
"Would yah keep it down?" Jack said, adjusting his tie and checking his pink boutonniere before clapping his hands impatiently and facing front again.
With a huff Daniel reached over and fussed over Jack's flowers and tie until Jack swatted him off. "Keep doing that and people will think it's you I'm marrying Daniel."
"Why would they think that?"
Jack rolled his eyes in the same way Sam often did and Daniel snorted in amusement.
"Woulda been nice if Thor was around yah know?" Jack said sadly.
Daniel didn't answer. Any reply would have made Jack maudlin anyway.
The orchestra started playing and Jack quirked an eyebrow. "Is that?"
"Yup."
Mitchell and Teal'c were sitting in the front on Sam's side snorting in mirth. Clearly the perpetrators behind the change in music from Canon in D to some odd combination of the Wormhole X-Treme! theme and the wedding march by Mendelssohn.
Walter was sitting next to Landry wiping at his eyes and sniffling. Jack blew out a breath as the base Chaplain silently walked up to stand under the arbor and wait for the bride to join them. Jack gave the man a short nod.
Georgie headed up the aisle first, stopped when he saw his brother was still standing at the end of the aisle staring up at his dad in awe and went back to grab him by the front of his suit coat and drag him along, much to the amusement of the assembled guests and their father.
"The oldest is definitely your kid Jack" Daniel told him out of the side of his mouth.
"I still have my doubts about the other one being yours Danno." Jack quipped at him as he watched his youngest boy develop a querulous expression for being manhandled.
Cassie and Vala followed in strapless burgundy dresses holding pink flowers that matched the ones Daniel and Jack were wearing.
Mark sat grinning ear to ear at Jack, his wife holding his hand while David and Lisa, now young adults looked around in interest at all the uniformed officers attending the relatively quiet wedding.
Everyone rose as the music swelled in time to Vala stopping to hug Jack gently and give him a light kiss on the cheek that she thumbed off the wisp of lipstick she'd left behind and whatever Jack said made her laugh softly before going to her position on the bride's side.
And then Jack only had eyes for Sam in an ethereal chiffon concoction that made her look like a fairy princess as she walked towards him, her smile nervous until she reached him and he took her hand reassuringly. 'Relax Carter' his eyes told her and her smile went from nervous to beaming.
"Ready sir?" She asked him.
"Carter…"
She smirked. She'd clearly been screwing with him. "Well Jack?"
"Not funny Samantha." His voice was barely a whisper as he rocked on his heals betraying his own nervousness.
Jake took that moment to lean forward on the bench between Cassie and Vala and wave happily at his dad, making both his parents bite back snorts of mirth.
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today…" the chaplain intoned. Jack supposed he was lucky the guys hadn't talked him into starting out with 'marriage, that dream within a dream'.
Moments later he was holding Sam's hand promising he'd cherish and love her forever but he doubted she was listening to his words, they stared at each other, as always having their own conversation about their vows that meant far more than any words. It was why both had declined to write individual vows.
Belatedly a plan formulated in Jack's head as Sam agreed to love honor and cherish him always. When the chaplain told him they could now give each other a sign of their affection for one another his hands slid into her hair as he captured her not quite startled lips with his own. When her arm came around his waist then slid up his side to pull him tighter he dipped her to the collective cheers of the assembled SGC and family.
Right about the moment things might have gotten a tad out of hand Jack eased them back into a standing position and grinned at Sam.
"Why does that seem familiar?" Sam asked him, her expression perplexed as though she was trying to remember something.
Cameron was out of his seat though and standing by Daniel. "Here. You were right, neither of them chickened out." He handed the other man several bills that Daniel stuffed in his breast pocket without counting.
"I did warn you not to take that bet Colonel Mitchell."
"Thanks Teal'c." He told him querulously. "Congrats guys." He told the bride and groom affably and patted Jack's arm.
The chaplain trying to get control of the end of the ceremony all but yelled "Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you General O'Neill and Colonel Carter O'Neill."
The cheering got louder as everyone rushed the arbor to congratulate the bride and groom.
An hour later Sam swayed, her head comfortably on Jack's shoulder. "Do you need a little break?" He asked solicitously. She'd hit the exhausted all the time stage of pregnancy and was hiding it well but Jack was an expert at reading his wife. His arms tightened just a little at those last two words.
"I'm all right. This is almost as good." She admitted.
"Are you trying to say I am as exciting as a nap Carter?" He rumbled in her ear, amusement in his voice.
"More as comfortable as one." She admitted. "I love you Jack."
"That's convenient as I never stopped loving you Sam. I never will." He promised.
She could have taken it as an admonishment but it wasn't one. He knew she'd never stopped loving him either.
If you like satisfying endings this is the end. If like me, you cannot leave well enough alone and feel the need to just retcon perfectly good plot… read the Scooby Do Ending.
