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Beef tips and Mushrooms

They had opted for simple all the way. Marge, who was the only one of them skilled at driving large vehicles in high heeled shoes, was behind the wheel of Teal'c's black SUV. It sat in the motor pool more than not and the guys had taken Daniel's station wagon that had seen better days and gone to Jack's house. He'd have to sign off on it being watched by the security company the SGC used for long assignments before they left for Groom Lake. Jack would spend a week and a half helping her get settled in the house Sam had rented then head to DC except on weekends. Sam thought about her conversation with him about the baby.

"Jack." She said to him nervously. Cassie had taken Grace with her to Nevada to show her around campus. Sam was willing to let Grace do class sit-ins if she behaved and only during the summer sessions.

"Hey, I put the potatoes in the oven, Sam, but they might take a while, we should wait a while before we start the beef tips and mushrooms." Jack says to her then notices her anxious expression. "What's wrong?"

Sam bit her lip and looked at the floor for a while from the door frame where she was standing.

Jack walked over to her and tipped her chin up. "Hey… talk to me." He said to her gently.

"I found a dress."

"Cool." He smiled but her miserable expression didn't change. "Not cool?" His hands settled on her shoulders.

"I uh… also found out something."

"You like pink?"

"Jack…" she choked out a chuckle that sounded suspiciously like a sob.

"C'mere, Carter." He tells her and draws her into a hug. "What's got you so upset? You haven't changed your mind, have you? Because I'm okay with just shacking up if you want." He says with a pragmatic shrug.

She snuggles against his chest for a long moment. Here is where she's always felt safe. "Remember when we talked about Pete asking me to marry him."

Jack nodded, not sure where this was going.

"Well… I didn't accept the ring but we set a tentative date and I went off my birth control because even though I wasn't sure I wanted more kids or at least not with Pete, he really wanted a baby and I wanted to make him happy even though I wasn't sure what I wanted."

He hummed in response… and then it sank in a little… wait a minute… "Sam?"

"It shouldn't have been out of my system yet." Sam said softly.

Jack rested his face in her hair and closed his eyes. "Sam, if you don't want this baby, you don't have to have it."

Sam lifted her head and looked at him. "It's not that I don't want it… I… Jack, I don't know how you feel about having another baby, we didn't talk about it and…" She bit her lip.

"Ah…. You're worried it might not be mine."

Sam nodded miserably again.

"Sam, I don't love Grace because I made her. Pete has a right to know if it's his or not but if he doesn't want to be part of its life, I'll sign the birth certificate. As far as I'm concerned even if Pete is the baby's biological father, I'm still going to be their dad too."

"You're sure?"

"Sam. God, Sam, I love you. Don't you understand that yet?" He kissed her gently and wiped away a tear from her cheek. "All of you Sam."

She sighed and laid her head back on his chest. "I'm so sorry, Jack."

"You have dated some real jerks." Jack muses. "Sam, honey, you don't need to apologize for this. You didn't do anything wrong."

"Well I got pregnant like an idiot."

"So you're two for two." He says shrugging. "Last one came out awfully cute." He reminds her.

Sam chuckles. "She's smart too."

"Yup." He kisses the top of her hair. "Stop worrying so much, Carter. We're fine." He glances at the timer on the oven. "But one of us should start making those beef tips." He grins. "I did, by the way."

"Uh… did what?"

"Want another baby. I just figured the way you talked about it last time that you didn't want that again so I left it alone. It's not my choice."

Sam looks at him perplexed.

"Well, don't look so shocked, Carter. I love kids and we make really terrific ones so far."

They pulled up to the parking lot behind High Point. Sam saw Walter say something into an earpiece and suddenly there was movement by the red spire of rock as tourists backed politely away to the side and the minister took up position in front of the scrubby little tree in front of the spire. Jack, Daniel, and Teal'c moved to the right of the minister, Jack in his Class As, Daniel and Teal'c in dove grey suits. They all looked incredibly handsome to Sam who felt she might be biased.

They had told Grace about three days before the wedding so she wouldn't just lose her mind the morning of. She had surprised everyone with a loud "I knew it!"

Cassie was trying to keep Grace from bouncing out of her skin. "Chill out, Pipsqueak." Cassie said laughing. "I was never this giddy, Aunt Sam."

"Yah sorry, that's all me." Sam said chuckling.

"Come on, Doll, time to get married." Marge told her and marched all of them off to where Walter was waiting. He motioned to the right and George Hammond, dressed in his blues like all the other Air Force and Marine guests, came around an outcropping.

"I know you asked Teal'c to walk you to your husband, Sam, but I was hoping you'd allow an old Texan to do the honors."

Sam hugged George hard. "Of course, Uncle George!" she tells her father's best friend who offers his elbow.

"I made sure those troublemakers didn't switch out the music on you. Leave it up to Teal'c and you're liable to find yourself marching to the throne music from the end of Star Wars."

Sam giggled. She wouldn't have been mad but yah… "Thank you." She tells him as Marge walks up to the minister to stand next to the girls.

"Ready?"

"Yes sir." She says nervously.

George pats her hand reassuringly and they walk the short distance to Jack. Sam kisses Hammond's cheek and looks shyly at Jack whose expression is both delighted at her choice of dress and reassuring that there was nowhere else he wanted to be.

Sam turned to the minister in her pale blue chiffon dress that skimmed her curves and flared softly around her. She'd worn her mother's pearls and the sapphire and pearl earrings Jack had bought her as a wedding gift and no other jewels or adornment. Even her makeup was understated.

"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to join Samantha and Jonathan in holy matrimony. If anyone here should object, please do so now."

"If anyone objects, I'm shooting them." Walter said matter of factly. There was a rumble of chuckles from the small gathering of friends.

"I know a guy with a pig farm." Siler said from next to him which made everyone erupt in full laughter.

The rest of the ceremony was a blur for the happy couple who couldn't tell you what their vows were. Danny almost dropped the ring. Jack kissed Sam tenderly when he was told to. And then they were off to the Cheyenne Canyon Mesa that was tucked away on Seven Falls Road back in the woods. The wood pavilion was rustic and currently festooned with lilac flowers that matched the girls dusty purple dresses.

Sam couldn't tell you how the food was though everyone agreed after that Hammond had outdone himself. Walter introduced them as General and future General which had made everyone crack up including Mark who had made it out with his wife and kids. Lisa and Grace were sitting on the corner of a table laughing about something. Jon had discreetly shown up at Jack's invitation. He had a pretty blond with him who winked at Sam in amusement. Sam danced with everyone as did Jack even though at the end of the night he complained his knee was hurting and wanted Sam to sit with him. Sam knew what he was doing but let him get away with being protective for one night. She was tired.

They went home to Jack's house for the night. They would go up to the cabin for a week and then she'd be moving to Nevada and him to DC. It was an odd way to start a marriage but not one that surprised either of them.