AN: Almost to the end of this part... and I know everyone will love this chapter because the ending is super cute. Enjoy the fun campers!

Chapter 11

It was the next day when the second prisoner was sworn in. The doctor at least stood with dignity as he was sworn in.

"Doctor Shlontan, was it?"

"Yes."

"What was your position at the rehabilitation facility, doctor?"

"I was the senior physician." His voice was quiet, subdued even. Unlike Snrell, he seemed to grasp that his comfortable life as he'd known it was over.

"Do you recognize the man sitting in that chair?" Harm asked of Jack.

"Yes. I examined him for fertility issues when his sexual partner did not become gravid after some time."

"How much time was that exactly?"

"I don't know how you measure your time."

"A complete rotation of this planet is about three hundred sixty five days broken into twelve units called months each of which is divided into approximately four seven day units called weeks." Harm supplied.

The doctor looked thoughtful. "May I have a writing implement?"

"Bailiff." Kerrigan waved at the young airman working as the court bailiff.

Doctor Shlontan was handed a pencil and paper. He wrote for a few moments and nodded.

"You have an answer?"

"Yes. We waited three of your months before we examined him for fertility."

"How many months after that was it before his partner was examined for sexual activity?"

"I'd say about another three of your months after that. She's a very attractive woman and he seemed fond of her so we thought perhaps we'd simply missed a fertility issue for quite some time."

"Is that common?"

"No, but it does happen from time to time."

"When you discovered they were not sexually active, what happened?"

"We gave them the choice of consummating their partnership or she would be returned to the pool."

"What would have happened to her at that point?"

"What do you mean?"

"Without the protection of a partner, how would she have then been treated?"

"The guards would have let any man who wanted to do so use her sexually until she became gravid."

"It didn't bother you that these women were being raped?"

"It really wasn't my responsibility. Mine was to confirm fertilization and monitor fetal development."

"So you didn't care how the female prisoners got pregnant as long as they did."

"I had no choice. Snrell killed anyone who defied him. The best I was able to do was convince him it wasn't in the interest of his product to allow the women to continue to be raped once they were gravid."

"When Colonel O'Neill was given the choice of sex with his partner or allowing her to be returned to the pool, what was his reaction?"

"Objection!"

"I'll redirect." Harm said. "Were you in attendance when the Colonel was told he'd have to have intercourse with his partner or she'd be returned to the pool?"

"I was the one who informed him."

"What was his reaction?"

"He became despondent."

"In what way?"

"He believed because there wasn't the option of her simply not having sex at all and that it was still rape."

"Did his partner have anything to say about that in your presence?"

"She told him she gave him consent if they were forced and there was no other choice."

"What happened after that?"

"He requested privacy to complete the task. After we examined her to confirm he'd ejaculated inside her, we let them both return to their duties with the admonishment that we'd be checking her specifically for sexual activity from that point onward."

"How did Colonel O'Neill seem afterwards?"

"He seemed very unhappy about the situation."

"Thank you, doctor, you have been very helpful." Harm nodded to the prosecuting counsel.

Standing at her table, Saunders asked, "Doctor, you said women were put back into the pool. Were there any limits on who could take a woman to bed once she was in the pool?"

"Not especially. Anyone could have sex with her. And if someone told her to go to another man so he could also have sex with her she would have no choice."

"So possibly someone on her team could have just scooped her up each night?"

"They could have, I suppose. But then again, they also couldn't have. There were no guarantees."

"I have no further questions."

"Commander, do you wish to redirect?"

"I don't believe so. No." Kerrigan excused the witness who was escorted out of the courtroom by two SFs.

"Anyone else you need to call to the stands?"

Harm thought a moment. He'd planned to call Sam back but it didn't look like he'd need to now. "Thank you, General, but no."

"All right, you can both make your closing arguments tomorrow. This tribunal is dismissed until ten hundred." Kerrigan said and tapped the gavel.

"I think that pig Snrell took the wind out of Saunder's sails when he admitted they just killed anyone who tried to stop the raping or didn't follow the rules." Jack was telling Sam while she nursed Gracie and started to get out of his class As, not caring about the cameras. Walter had seen plenty of his ass in the showers anyway.

"Daniel said Londaris is extremely tempted to just space them both on the way home." Sam told him.

"Kind of shocked the guys aren't here." Jack admitted.

"Teal'c suggested that in case this was our last night together for a while that we might want to spend it alone." Sam said and blushed a little.

"He does know there are cameras in here, right?"

Sam snorted in amusement.

"Samantha Carter, you naughty girl." Jack said, chuckling.

"Oh, like I'm in any condition for that." She said snarkily.

Jack chuckled again and sat down next to her, now dressed in a white t-shirt and his BDU pants. He reached out a finger so he could gently stroke his daughter's cheek. "Would you if you were? Up to it, I mean?"

Sam looked at Jack from under her eyelashes. "You better be glad I'm not." She told him in a seductive voice that made him start a little and gulp. Sam gave a little smile of amused pleasure at Jack's immediate physical response.

"If they make us get married, I'm turning you into a pretzel on our wedding night, Carter." He growled with obvious lust in his voice.

"Promise?" she asked him in a breathy voice as she laid Gracie down next to her.

Jack slid his fingers into the soft hair at the base of her skull and looked at her lips before staring into her eyes. "You betcha." He said and claimed her mouth in a lingering searing kiss that had her moaning low in her throat in less than a minute. He gentled the kiss and nipped her lower lip gently. "Sam?"

"Hmm?" she asked him in a dreamy voice. Her hands had somehow crept into the back of his soft T-shirt he'd stripped down to moments before that he'd had on under his Class As.

"If they don't force us to get married, will you marry me anyway?"

Sam blinked at him a couple times as though she was baffled by the question.

Jack's smile started to fade slightly and turn bitter. Perhaps he'd misread this after all. He stiffened and started to straighten up, his body leaning away from her.

"Jack?"

"Yah?"

"Are you sure that's what you want?"

"Look if the answer is no just say so, Carter. My heart can't really take this."

"What are you talking about? Of course I want to marry you. I just don't want you to do it just because of Gracie."

"Huh?" Jack looked at her in confusion. "Why in the hell would I only ask because of the baby?" He shook his head. "Sam, I'm asking because I love you and no matter how this turns out I'm going to be forced out somehow here. I won't be your commanding officer any more."

"Oh."

"Plus you're already living in my house and that's going to get awkward when we try to sleep."

Sam snorted in mirth then punched his arm.

"So?" He asked her, his soft brown eyes looking deep into hers. "Is that a yes?"

Sam grinned at him. "That is absolutely a yes."

"Will you come to the hearing tomorrow for closing arguments and to the judgment? I could really use the moral support." He admitted. She'd stayed away after her testimony specifically at Harm's recommendation. It showed professional distance and detachment if she wasn't hovering even if the reason she did so was he was the father of her child.

"All right. I'll bring Teal'c and Daniel too so it looks more like a team support thing."

"Bring pennants."

"I will see what I can do." She told him laughing.

And then he kissed her again, slowly, gently.

"Ahem."

Both of them jump slightly at the sound of General Hammond's voice. Hiding a smile, he told them to remain seated as he entered the room.

"Ah… sir… we were just um…"

"Discussing the case." Jack says dead pan.

"Yes! Discussing the case." Sam chirps unconvincingly.

"Colonel, I just came to offer you luck and inform you that everyone who is not on mandatory duty will be in attendance for closing arguments and the judgment. I plan to show that worthless hack who and what this base is made of." Hammond told them with the tone of an avenging angel.

"Thank you sir." Jack said humbly.

"Carry on, Colonel… and congratulations. Colonel Pierce owes me fifty dollars." Hammond told them both with an amused smile as he walked back out, closing the door behind him.

Jack flopped across Sam's lap in deflated fatigue as though he'd given up the ghost.

Sam giggled. "Don't flop. You'll bounce the bed too hard and wake her up." She said of their daughter who was snuggled on the bed next to her mother.

Jack patted the baby's rump gently then sighed, still flopped across Sam's lap. "Doesn't anyone knock in this place? What if I'd been naked?"

"I'm fairly certain General Hammond has already seen your ass, Jack." Sam said in amusement. She patted said ass affectionately.