A/N These are the hybrid children from the chapter Labor and Delivery!
Have fun meeting the hybrid children!
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Jack kept Hannah home while he rested for a couple of days. Now it was time to go back to work. Sam still wanted to stay on the base for a couple more weeks before going back though the gate to catch up on work and Hammond said it was ok. Jacob and Martouf weren't back from the Tor'ka yet. Jack wanted to go with Sam to drop Hannah off at day care.
"Do you have extra pacifiers and clothes?" Jack asked as Sam finished feeding Hannah. Jack was fixing Hannah's bag for Sam.
"I put them in there last night and another tube of that cream she likes. Would you check to make sure I put her name on her pacis for me?" Sam asked as she burped Hannah.
"Sure. Should we take her little doll Bra'tac gave her or let that stay in her crib?" Jack asked he dug for the container the pacis stayed in. Bra'tac had brought back a small ragdoll for Hannah. It was was made from natural materials from Chulak. It was soft and well made.Hannah grasped the little doll the first time Teal'c put it in her hand. She liked the doll next to her face every time she got upset.
"It does seem to calm her down if she's really upset but I don't want them to accidentally lose it or give it to another child. Jack you are making me more nervous than the first time I took her." Sam frowned as he stuffed more diapers into the already full bag.
"I'm sorry! I'm just nervous about leaving her. You are so much stronger than me leaving her by yourself." Jack sighed.
"Jack I cried in the car after I left her. I'm still nervous leaving her but they sent me pictures and she was doing fine when I called." Sam said as she put Hannah in her bassinet and got dressed.
Jack walked over to kiss Sam softly.
"I know she will be fine. I'm sorry you cried dropping her off. Like I said you are stronger than me." Jack took Hannah out of the bassinet to give her a cuddle before going to to get dressed himself.
They pulled up to the child care center. Jack carried the car seat up to the center this time.
"Good morning! Are you signing a child in?" A lady at the front desk asked.
"Signing in Hannah Carter O'Neill." Jack said.
"Go ahead and head back to the new born room." They heard the door click open.
Sam and Jack walked down to the new born room. The lights were on in the room this time. Sam walked through the feeding room and knocked on the door.
"Good morning, Major Carter O'Neill!" Jane greeted opening the door.
"Good morning! This is my husband Jack." Sam introduced.
"Morning!" Jack greeted sitting Hannah's car seat down near a swing.
"Nice to meet you! I'm Jane! How is Hannah this morning?" Jane smiled at the awake baby.
"Her colic hasn't been to bad lately. She should be on her normal feeding schedule. I fed her before we left. She'll probably take a nap soon. She has a very special doll that a good friend made for her in her bag. If she gets really upset just put it up against her face. She will calm down but only take out the doll if she really needs it. The doll can't be replaced." Sam explained.
"I understand." Jane nodded.
"She has plenty of blankets and pacis to try first. She likes blankets rubbed on her face." Jack said as he took Hannah out of the car seat. He laid her on her belly on the play mat on the floor then flopped down besides her.
"Make yourself comfortable, Jack!" Sam chuckled.
"Look Banana you have one of these at home except yours is purple and has puppies on it. This one has zoo animals on. He pressed the crinkled sound next to Hannah's head. Hannah held her head up for a few minutes before she began to scream.
"She doesn't really like tummy time right now but we're working on it." Sam said as Jack picked her up. There was a knock on the door and Jane let Jeremy in the room with Lilly.
"Hey! Look Hannah Lilly's here." Jack stood up with Hannah. Lilly smiled at Jack but Hannah didn't look amused.
"Is this her first day? Tell me about Lilly?" Jane asked Jeremy.
"It is! This is Lilly Hasbrooke she is three months. Her mom just fed her but there is a couple more bottles in her bag. The lady at the front desk told me to put them in the fridge her name is on the bag. I'm not sure when but her mom is going to pick her up. She is a really sweet girl. She likes swinging, music, walking and being read too." Jeremy introduced.
"Is Laney ok?" Sam asked.
"Yeah our pediatrician suggested Ryder be socialized more. He is use to family and the adults and kids from the mom group but that's pretty much it. Laney wanted to find a new pediatrician but then Ry was invited to Wyatt's, the new captain on my team, son's birthday at Pizza Blaze. Ryder has been there a million times with family but the little guy just stood there with his hands in his pockets afraid to move. He finally warmed up to the other kids but it took a lot of coaxing. Laney had a doctors appointment and told me to bring the kids. Which is a good thing because I left Ryder wailing and it's taking everything I have not to go back and get him." Jeremy explained.
"How old is your son?" Jane asked.
"Three!"
"I pretty sure Ashley is subbing in that room today. If she can't get him to calm down then she will call you but she is very good calming kids down." Jane soothed.
"Alright we need to go, princess. Daddy loves you." He kissed Hannah a couple of times on the cheek before handing her to Sam who did the same. Sam then put Hannah in a swing with her paci. Jeremy kissed Lilly and put her in a swing next to Hannah.
The parents walked out of the room together. They were heading back to the front of the building when Jeremy slowed.
"Would you come check on Ryder with me before I go I promise I won't be long?" Jeremy asked hopefully.
They both nodded yes and Jeremy led the way to the three year olds class. Jeremy peek in the large two way window the classroom had. Ryder was sitting on Lola's lap still panting from crying so hard. His face was red and blotchy but he wasn't crying anymore. He was watching Ashley play a game with some other kids. She would hand Ryder the ball and he would roll it back to Ashley. Lola was patting Ryder on the leg comforting him. Another teacher gave Ryder his sipper cup and helped him stand up. With Lola's hand gripped firmly in his Ryder walked to the brightly colored carpet with the other teacher and kids.
"Thank goodness for Lola! She has heard his meltdowns before I'm glad they let her come comfort him." Jeremy sighed.
"Lola is always talking about Davis and Ryder so Ashley must have guessed that was Lola's Ryder." Sam said.
"He'll be ok. Let's ok Major we'll all be late for work." Jack patted Jeremy on the shoulder.
"Yes, sir." Jeremy followed Jack and Sam.
Later that afternoon. Sam walked into Daniel's office to see Daniel leaning over a artifact. Which was a normal but was unusual today he wore baby Simon on his chest in a carrier.
"The writing on the artifacts could be some kind of Latin." Daniel said into his recorder as Simon let out a coo.
"Simon Jackson agrees!" Daniel chuckled as he cut off the recorder.
"Daniel?"
"Hey Sam! What?" Daniel asked looking up from his work at the sound of her voice.
"What's up with the baby on your chest?" Sam asked walking in the office.
"Oh I decided to spend a little time with Simon. I haven't been around and your right they need more than their basic needs met. The others agreed to spend more time with the other kids too. I gave Hammond the name you gave me and he set up a interview for next week! He has to do a clearance check first." Daniel explained.
"That's great! Can I hold him?" Sam asked.
"Sure!" Daniel unbuckled the carrier and took the baby out. Sam carefully took the baby. He was heavier and longer than Hannah. His hair was whispy blonde yet had some grass texture. He looked so much like Daniel. Simon began to whine and rub his face.
"Someone is getting hungry!" Sam bounced Simon.
"Right, sorry buddy." Daniel began to fix the baby's bottle. Sam watched as Daniel mixed the water and powder formula together then put a small amount of green liquid into a bottle before shaking the bottle and putting it a bottle warmer. Simon nuzzled and fussed at Sam's breast.
"I'm sorry little man but those aren't for you. That is Hannah's milk. What was that green stuff you put in his bottle?" Sam asked as the bottle warmed.
"Chlorophyll was the key to what the babies needed to survive but the scientists just weren't feeding them often enough. Chlorophyll is unique in its ability to enable plants to absorb the energy they need to build tissues so it is important to the babies growth." Daniel checked the bottle's temperature on his wrist then handed it to Sam. Simon took the bottle greedily.
"Jack told me some of the information and I read about the nanocytes in Teddy's report but how did it get so far as babies were created from members of the SGC?" Sam asked as she went to burp Simon.
"That is a long story. Well kind of. After we witness the plant given birth and Darius went to try formula with the new born. SG-4 went back the SGC to debrief what they knew and would check with us in twenty four hours. We realized that Darius was missing after not everyone's story about where the scientist with Darius went to. Of course by morning Darius, Teddy, Bill and myself found ourselves in glass cages." Daniel sighed.
Seven Weeks Earlier
Teddy pounded on the glass cage for the hundredth time. There were no doors or force fields but just four walls of glass.
"Come on my first time in the field and I get captured. My wife will kill me if I die I have seven kids. Believe me she can bring me back and kill me again." He kicked the glass weakly.
"Calm down, Teddy. They will come looking for us when we don't check in. Darius are you ok?" Daniel asked.
"Yeah but I didn't like being drugged and my blood taken without my permission" Darius showed his arm that had a bruise from a needle. The others looked at their arms to see see blood had been taken from them also.
Three women in lab coats ran things that looked like handheld metal detectors down the glass case.
"Excuse me ma'ma but did we do something to upset you ladies? Why are we in here? Our friends are going to be checking on us soon. So can you let us out, please?" Darius asked.
"Your friends already called from the ring. We told them that you were helping with something of great importance. They said that they would check back in a few hours. So now we must hurry!" The first woman who enteref pulled a weapon before the glass was removed from around Darius.
"What is going on?" Darius asked stepping out of the cell.
"The child died! Your milk didn't work!" The woman snapped.
"I'm so sorry. Can I see his blood work maybe we are missing something they need." Darius asked.
"Why are you growing hybrid children anyways?" Daniel asked he was starting to get a uneasy feeling about this.
"For many reasons. We want to make them host then eventually weapons for the Goa'uld. They can be like this Tok'ra you told us about. Now we have much work to do before the other pods birth." The woman explained as the other women opened everyone cell.
"What other pods? Please don't tell me you used us to make more babies using our DNA?" Teddy looked panicked.
"Of course! We needed new test subjects." Another woman said.
"You said you wanted to help us." The third woman said confused.
"We met to help keep the babies you had alive. Taking our DNA without permission is illegal on so many levels where we come from. I don't want anything with my DNA becoming a host!" Dr. Lee said very upset Dr. Lee suddenly found himself back in the cell.
"Then we will take care of you!" The woman snapped at Dr. Lee as she made his cell disappeared.
"Wait where did he go? Did you hurt him?" Daniel asked quickly.
"No we didn't hurt him. He didn't want to help we sent him where he wouldn't distract you from the mission." The head woman said.
"We will try to help you save the babies but you can't make them host. They aren't just things. They are living beings that need to make choices themselves." Teddy argured.
"All we ask for is help." The first woman said.
The men were led to a large lab. There was a large plant with a huge pod in the middle of the room. There were three other plants to the side there pods were smaller.
"This one is going to give birth soon we sped up the process so you could help us" the main scientists explained.
"What do you mean about sped up the process?" Teddy asked walking to the plant.
"Here is the information we have gathered before the babies have passed." Another scientist points to the computer screen.
Teddy began to look over the information on the computer while Daniel and Darius looked over some files they were given.
The gate alarms went off and Hammond hurried into the control room.
"Unscheduled activation, sir. It is from the planet Dr. Jackson and the others are on. We are receiving an IDC now it is Dr. Jackson's code." Walter said.
"Open the iris!" Hammond ordered as he headed to the gate room. The iris opened and a glass box came through the gate. Hammond slowly approached the box he could see a unconscious man inside the box.
"Get a medical team in here that is Dr. Lee!'" Hammond ordered as he carefully touched the glass box without a entrance.
Back on the planet.
"This is unbelievable!" Teddy exclaimed.
"What?" Daniel and Darius asked in unison.
"They are using nanocytes to speed up the process. Not only do they grow up quickly but they are going to learn quickly also." Teddy explained quickly still scanning the computer screen.
"That may be why their not surviving. They must have a high metabolism they probably have been unintentionally starving them." Darius said.
"Didn't Sam find a way to slow or stop the process?" Daniel asked.
"Yeah but it could take a little while this is a different process." Teddy frowned.
"Work as quickly as possible I think that pod is going to birth soon." Daruis watched as the plant attached to the large pod began to shake.
"It looks like the chlorophyll is the key to keeping the babies healthy but since they need to eat more do they need more or less chlorophyll? I guess we need to that figure out as well" Daniel nodded.
The plant birthed a little girl an hour later. Teddy hadn't figured out the nanocytes but Darius and Daniel were just going to have to do trail and error with the chlorophyll. They found out that the baby had Daruis's DNA.
"I always wanted a little girl but not this way. Right now she is eating every thirty minutes. I'm going to run out of formula. We're going to have to send for more supplies." Daruis said.
"I'm really surprised they haven't sent reinforcements yet. I hope Dr.Lee is ok." Daniel frowned.
"She's only a couple hours old but look how fast she is growing. She is going to be fully grown in a few days. That's got to be strange for anybody. Imagine only being a day old and understanding everything everyone says to you. I should give you a name. How about Iris? It has always been my mom's favorite flower." Darius asked as he paced with the baby. The baby smiled at him.
"I think she likes the name. Hello Iris! Maybe we should try cows milk with more chlorophyll until we can get more formula." Daniel suggested.
"Yeah we can try that. Something has to be better than nothing. Right baby girl?" Darius cooed.
Cam, Janet, Teal'c and SG-4 came through the gate.
"These people didn't seem suspicious to you?" Cam asked as he shifted he weight.
"No they were really welcoming and wanted our help." Major Clarkson said.
"Yet they sent Dr. Lee back in a glass box. Which was a pain in the ass to get into." Janet frowned.
"I don't know where everyone is usually the town is bustling." Major Clarkson frowned.
"Alright Teal'c and I will look around the outside of the greenhouse. Take your team and Janet inside to look around. We will meet back out front of the greenhouse in thirty minutes." Cam ordered.
Cam went on the left side of the greenhouse and Teal'c went on the right side of the greenhouse. Cam was half way around the greenhouse when suddenly he blacked out.
Iris was screaming her head off. Daniel handed Darius another cup with milk. The baby was already the size of a two year old. The cows milk seemed to be given the child what she needed. She was now eating soild food. Her teeth were thorns and she could do damage with them if she knew how.
Dr. Harbo walked into the room.
"Hello little one!" Dr. Harbo said as iris ran up to her. Iris was extremely trusting right now, which was good and bad. Dr. Harbo picked Iris up and sat her on a table to examine her. She then gave Iris a shot.
"Owie! That burns!" Iris little voice cried.
"What did you inject her with?" Darius hurried over when Iris began to gasp for air. Dr. Harbo was hit by a zat blast seconds later. Teal'c came in room with Janet. Just as Iris began to have a seizure.
"I'm glad to see you guys but I needed to know what was in that needle! What the hell caused that seizure?" Darius growled.
"We believe that they have captured Colonel Mitchell. He did not meet us outside the greenhouse as planed." Teal'c said.
"We told them not to do that. People don't like to be captured!" Daniel shook his head as he took the offered Zat gun from Janet.
"She is unconscious but breathing I want to take her back with us to figure out what was in that needle." Daruis began to wrap Iris in a blanket.
"Who is she?" Janet asked.
"She is my hybrid plant daughter. Her name is Iris." Daruis scooped Iris in his arms.
"How old is she?" Janet asked as she stroked Iris's face.
"Twenty four hours maybe a little more. They used nanocytes to make her grow faster." Daniel looked at his watch.
They were heading out of room when they were surrounded by people with weapons.
"You said you would help us. Yet you keep trying to hurt us and leave!" One of the scientists accused.
"Not only did you use our DNA with out permission but you planned on using our offsprings from the our DNA as weapons and host. We were informed another one of our people were captured. We warned you that if you did not let us contact our people that they would send more and they did. Now let us take this child and our pods go." Daniel said angrily.
"No, please continue to help us. We will release you then. Tell your people to send no more people." One of the people holding the weapon said.
"Let's talk this out you can't hold our people hostage which is what you are doing." Janet said calmly.
They admitted to them that they took Cam's DNA because they want the hybrid to have military training. They talked for another twenty hours before Teddy figured out how to safely stop the nanocytes from aging Iris and the pods. Even though Daruis was upset to find out Iris was injected with a toxin that wouldn't hurt her but would be able to hurt others if she bit someone. Besides waking up hungry Iris was fine. She did not want Teddy to give her a shot. They were all surprised when Iris tried to bite Teddy.
"Iris no you do not bite especially friends. Teddy is your friend remember he gave you cuddles and your first lollipop." Darius reminded her as he picked her up.
"I don't want a shot." Iris whined as she put her forehead on Daruis's forehead. It was something Jordan loved doing he called it a brain hug. Darius had started doing the forehead thing when she was very little.
"You are a very brave girl. Thank you for using your words to tell me how you feel. I can't promise the shot won't hurt but I have another lollipop that might help you feel a little better." Teddy pull out a red lollipop from his pocket.
"Am I brave like Daddy? Can I hold the lollipop while I get the shot?" Iris asked reaching for her favorite treat.
"You are very brave like your daddy! Why don't you hold your daddy's hand in one hand and the lollipop in the other while you get your shot?" Teddy offered as he let Iris take the treat.
Iris took the lollipop in one hand and Darius hand in her other hand.
"Good girl!" Teddy praised as he gave Iris the shot.
"That didn't hurt!" Iris smiled as Darius opened her candy and gave it to her.
"We contacted Hammond and we were brought back like prisoners to negotiate for the pods. They really didn't have a leg to stand on being it was our DNA. We finally agreed that we could and would help them come up different ways to protect them from Goa'uld. You pretty much know the rest." Daniel finished the story as Sam still holding the now sleeping Simon.