A Reason To Fight.
Janet Fraiser lay on her bed in a fetal position, the events of the day weighing heavy on her soul. She was tired and nauseous and just wanted to rest but still found it hard to close her eyes and drift off into a restful sleep, though she knew that if she didn't she would be mentally scolding herself for the rest of the day. She pulled the covers tightly around her and put a hand on her stomach rubbing it tenderly.
"You're choosing a hell of a time to be brought into the world little one." She said quietly, closing her eyes, a protective hand resting on her abdomen.
There was a knock at the door.
"Janet sweetie, it's Sam. You feel like talking?" her friend shouted from the corridor.
There was no response.
"Janet please don't shut me out." She continued. "You know I'm looking really stupid standing here and talking to your door."
Sam sighed and turned ready to leave, but she heard a muffled noise from inside.
"What was that?" Sam asked her friend.
"I said you could come in. But I only want to speak to you okay?"
"Yeah okay." Sam replied confused, slowly opening the door.
Seeing her friend as fragile as she was Sam walked over to the bed and sat down beside her.
"You okay Janet?" she asked putting her hand to her friend's forehead.
"We nearly lost you for a minute in there."
"I'm just really tired and a little dizzy. I'm fine."
"Doesn't sound like you're fine."
"Trust me I'm fine."
"If you were fine you wouldn't be laying here now, looking sick and exhausted."
"No Sam if I hadn't been up all last night and wasn't pregnant I wouldn't be laying here now looking sick and exhausted."
"Wait a second… pregnant?"
"Yeah." Janet replied smiling. "Daniel and I are gonna have a baby."
"Wow." Sam commented.
"Yeah wow." Janet replied shifting on the bed.
"Well it explains why you've been so emotional lately, though with some of the stuff that has happened…boy this must have been hard on you." Sam told her friend taking her hand and giving it a squeeze.
"You could say that." Her friend replied.
"How's Daniel taken the news? He must be really excited." Sam commented.
"Daniel doesn't know Sam. I only found out this morning. Abby Matthews came in and described some symptoms she was suffering from and I did a pregnancy test, then I realized my symptoms have been exactly the same as hers and did a test too…"
"Are you happy about this? I mean with what's happened to Daniel… oh god this must be so hard for you, knowing you're carrying his child and he may never even see it…"
Janet sighed.
"Sam I won't lie this is not the easiest thing in the world to deal with on top of everything else that is happening at the moment. Knowing I could lose Daniel scares me to death… but yeah I'm happy about this. Since I've had Cass and Summer in my life I realized that there's nothing I want more than to have my own child, and to know that Daniel's the father just feels so right somehow. I'm scared to death though Sam, I'm a doctor but having never gone through this myself I have no idea what it's going to be like… and now with Daniel sick and General Hammond not allowing us to help him…"
"Now I understand why you were so desperate to go ahead with this mission."
"I still am." She replied. "We can't just let this happen Sam not just for Daniel's sake but for this child's too."
"You really think we're not going to find a donor in time?"
"No I don't. Sam this virus, it's not like anything I've seen before. From what I can tell it's done all the damage it could do to his kidneys and in doing so took away any chance of dialysis helping him. We need a donor as soon as possible or he will die and I can't do a single thing to stop it."
There came another knock at the door.
"Hey Doc, it's Jack and Teal'c, can we come in?" came a voice from outside.
Janet buried her head in her pillow.
"Come on, we have a plan." Jack shouted.
"Janet they need to know about the baby. So does General Hammond… if he knew than maybe…"
"Sam it'd take a miracle for him to change his mind. I see where he's coming from, I mean yeah we could change people's lives by going to their worlds and asking what we want to ask… but I love Daniel Sam, I love him so much that I feel like my heart is breaking inside and that can't be a good thing for the baby. I'm a doctor, I should be able to help but there isn't a thing I can do, just see him lying there and it hurts." She told her friend starting to cry.
Sam rubbed her friends back.
"Let's tell them okay sweetie, they've gotta know. You can't go through this alone and we won't let you."
Janet looked up at Sam with a small smile.
"Okay." She replied with a small voice.
"Guys, you still out there?" Sam shouted to her colleagues and her lover outside.
"No we had enough and left. You are talking to mere shells of your colleagues who…"
"O'Neill are you not feeling well?"
"Huh?" they heard a confused voice reply from outside.
"You seem to be under some confusion about where we are?"
"Teal'c…"
"Guys look are you gonna come in or not?" Sam shouted with a smile, amused by their conversation.
"Uh yeah." She heard Jack reply before he turned to Teal'c.
"It was a joke Teal'c… you know something to lighten the mood."
"I see." He replied lifting his eyebrow in his customary manner.
Just a few minutes later the door opened and the two men entered.
"Whoa you look like hell." Jack told the doctor as soon as he entered the room.
"You really know how to make a woman feel better don't you Colonel." Janet replied sitting up.
"Indeed you do not look well Doctor Fraiser, maybe you should go to the infirmary."
"Thanks for the concern Teal'c but I'm fine really."
"Look about the General, I think we should go talk to him again." Jack told her sitting down on the bed. "Daniel's too valuable a part of our team and our lives for us not to want to help him."
"I don't think he's gonna change his mind Colonel." Janet replied.
"Well we've gotta try something." Jack shouted.
"Ya think?" Sam replied sarcastically as Jack turned to look at her.
She shrugged.
"Sorry. Too much time with you honey, you're rubbing off on me." She replied.
"So that's your plan. Go and talk to the General again?" Janet asked.
"Well yeah." Jack replied slowly. "Come on Doc he was about to crack."
"Yeah and so am I if we don't get that donor and believe me that is something I don't want at the moment."
"Well what do you propose we do? Take off through the mirror and get Kate ourselves?" Jack replied.
"Well yeah. Look we've gotta do something or he's going to die. We're running out of time sir." She countered. "We have to do this Jack. Please?"
"Doc you know that wouldn't be a good idea. The General would go ballistic." Jack replied
" Look Colonel we have to do this. Please let's help him. Besides since when did you become so bound by the rules anyway?" she shouted.
"Since when did you not?" he shouted back.
"Guys…" Sam replied calmly, worried about an argument that was quickly escalating out of control.
"Oh I don't know Sir maybe since the guy I love got so sick that he could die in a few hours… maybe since I found out I am pregnant with a child who may never get to see his or her daddy because he died before they were born…Oh I think I'm gonna be sick." Janet finished quickly getting off the bed and running down the corridor.
Sam got up ready to follow her friend.
"Sam." Jack asked tenderly getting up "Is this true… she's pregnant?"
"Yes Jack it's true she is, and if I'm honest that little display there didn't do anyone any good least of all Janet. She's carrying a child Jack… she doesn't need any extra stress than what she's already under, it's not good for her or the baby."
"I wouldn't have argued like that if I'd have known." He told her quietly.
Sam put a gentle hand to his cheek.
"I know you wouldn't have, it's just Daniel doesn't know, Janet's scared to death… we need Kate, Jack for all of their sakes. Please just think about it." She replied giving him a tender kiss then leaving to find her friend.
Teal'c opened his mouth to speak.
"Don't even think about it Teal'c." Jack replied knowing that the Jaffa was not happy with the way he had handled the situation.
"I was merely going to say…"
Jack put his hand over the former Jaffas mouth.
"Uh uh." He commented before walking off.
Janet Fraiser lay on her bed in a fetal position, the events of the day weighing heavy on her soul. She was tired and nauseous and just wanted to rest but still found it hard to close her eyes and drift off into a restful sleep, though she knew that if she didn't she would be mentally scolding herself for the rest of the day. She pulled the covers tightly around her and put a hand on her stomach rubbing it tenderly.
"You're choosing a hell of a time to be brought into the world little one." She said quietly, closing her eyes, a protective hand resting on her abdomen.
There was a knock at the door.
"Janet sweetie, it's Sam. You feel like talking?" her friend shouted from the corridor.
There was no response.
"Janet please don't shut me out." She continued. "You know I'm looking really stupid standing here and talking to your door."
Sam sighed and turned ready to leave, but she heard a muffled noise from inside.
"What was that?" Sam asked her friend.
"I said you could come in. But I only want to speak to you okay?"
"Yeah okay." Sam replied confused, slowly opening the door.
Seeing her friend as fragile as she was Sam walked over to the bed and sat down beside her.
"You okay Janet?" she asked putting her hand to her friend's forehead.
"We nearly lost you for a minute in there."
"I'm just really tired and a little dizzy. I'm fine."
"Doesn't sound like you're fine."
"Trust me I'm fine."
"If you were fine you wouldn't be laying here now, looking sick and exhausted."
"No Sam if I hadn't been up all last night and wasn't pregnant I wouldn't be laying here now looking sick and exhausted."
"Wait a second… pregnant?"
"Yeah." Janet replied smiling. "Daniel and I are gonna have a baby."
"Wow." Sam commented.
"Yeah wow." Janet replied shifting on the bed.
"Well it explains why you've been so emotional lately, though with some of the stuff that has happened…boy this must have been hard on you." Sam told her friend taking her hand and giving it a squeeze.
"You could say that." Her friend replied.
"How's Daniel taken the news? He must be really excited." Sam commented.
"Daniel doesn't know Sam. I only found out this morning. Abby Matthews came in and described some symptoms she was suffering from and I did a pregnancy test, then I realized my symptoms have been exactly the same as hers and did a test too…"
"Are you happy about this? I mean with what's happened to Daniel… oh god this must be so hard for you, knowing you're carrying his child and he may never even see it…"
Janet sighed.
"Sam I won't lie this is not the easiest thing in the world to deal with on top of everything else that is happening at the moment. Knowing I could lose Daniel scares me to death… but yeah I'm happy about this. Since I've had Cass and Summer in my life I realized that there's nothing I want more than to have my own child, and to know that Daniel's the father just feels so right somehow. I'm scared to death though Sam, I'm a doctor but having never gone through this myself I have no idea what it's going to be like… and now with Daniel sick and General Hammond not allowing us to help him…"
"Now I understand why you were so desperate to go ahead with this mission."
"I still am." She replied. "We can't just let this happen Sam not just for Daniel's sake but for this child's too."
"You really think we're not going to find a donor in time?"
"No I don't. Sam this virus, it's not like anything I've seen before. From what I can tell it's done all the damage it could do to his kidneys and in doing so took away any chance of dialysis helping him. We need a donor as soon as possible or he will die and I can't do a single thing to stop it."
There came another knock at the door.
"Hey Doc, it's Jack and Teal'c, can we come in?" came a voice from outside.
Janet buried her head in her pillow.
"Come on, we have a plan." Jack shouted.
"Janet they need to know about the baby. So does General Hammond… if he knew than maybe…"
"Sam it'd take a miracle for him to change his mind. I see where he's coming from, I mean yeah we could change people's lives by going to their worlds and asking what we want to ask… but I love Daniel Sam, I love him so much that I feel like my heart is breaking inside and that can't be a good thing for the baby. I'm a doctor, I should be able to help but there isn't a thing I can do, just see him lying there and it hurts." She told her friend starting to cry.
Sam rubbed her friends back.
"Let's tell them okay sweetie, they've gotta know. You can't go through this alone and we won't let you."
Janet looked up at Sam with a small smile.
"Okay." She replied with a small voice.
"Guys, you still out there?" Sam shouted to her colleagues and her lover outside.
"No we had enough and left. You are talking to mere shells of your colleagues who…"
"O'Neill are you not feeling well?"
"Huh?" they heard a confused voice reply from outside.
"You seem to be under some confusion about where we are?"
"Teal'c…"
"Guys look are you gonna come in or not?" Sam shouted with a smile, amused by their conversation.
"Uh yeah." She heard Jack reply before he turned to Teal'c.
"It was a joke Teal'c… you know something to lighten the mood."
"I see." He replied lifting his eyebrow in his customary manner.
Just a few minutes later the door opened and the two men entered.
"Whoa you look like hell." Jack told the doctor as soon as he entered the room.
"You really know how to make a woman feel better don't you Colonel." Janet replied sitting up.
"Indeed you do not look well Doctor Fraiser, maybe you should go to the infirmary."
"Thanks for the concern Teal'c but I'm fine really."
"Look about the General, I think we should go talk to him again." Jack told her sitting down on the bed. "Daniel's too valuable a part of our team and our lives for us not to want to help him."
"I don't think he's gonna change his mind Colonel." Janet replied.
"Well we've gotta try something." Jack shouted.
"Ya think?" Sam replied sarcastically as Jack turned to look at her.
She shrugged.
"Sorry. Too much time with you honey, you're rubbing off on me." She replied.
"So that's your plan. Go and talk to the General again?" Janet asked.
"Well yeah." Jack replied slowly. "Come on Doc he was about to crack."
"Yeah and so am I if we don't get that donor and believe me that is something I don't want at the moment."
"Well what do you propose we do? Take off through the mirror and get Kate ourselves?" Jack replied.
"Well yeah. Look we've gotta do something or he's going to die. We're running out of time sir." She countered. "We have to do this Jack. Please?"
"Doc you know that wouldn't be a good idea. The General would go ballistic." Jack replied
" Look Colonel we have to do this. Please let's help him. Besides since when did you become so bound by the rules anyway?" she shouted.
"Since when did you not?" he shouted back.
"Guys…" Sam replied calmly, worried about an argument that was quickly escalating out of control.
"Oh I don't know Sir maybe since the guy I love got so sick that he could die in a few hours… maybe since I found out I am pregnant with a child who may never get to see his or her daddy because he died before they were born…Oh I think I'm gonna be sick." Janet finished quickly getting off the bed and running down the corridor.
Sam got up ready to follow her friend.
"Sam." Jack asked tenderly getting up "Is this true… she's pregnant?"
"Yes Jack it's true she is, and if I'm honest that little display there didn't do anyone any good least of all Janet. She's carrying a child Jack… she doesn't need any extra stress than what she's already under, it's not good for her or the baby."
"I wouldn't have argued like that if I'd have known." He told her quietly.
Sam put a gentle hand to his cheek.
"I know you wouldn't have, it's just Daniel doesn't know, Janet's scared to death… we need Kate, Jack for all of their sakes. Please just think about it." She replied giving him a tender kiss then leaving to find her friend.
Teal'c opened his mouth to speak.
"Don't even think about it Teal'c." Jack replied knowing that the Jaffa was not happy with the way he had handled the situation.
"I was merely going to say…"
Jack put his hand over the former Jaffas mouth.
"Uh uh." He commented before walking off.