The Touched

Part 15

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"Are you all right?"

"I swear if you ask me that again you won't be all right."

"I don't remember the mood swings being this bad with Sarah."

"Jack…"

"Sorry," Jack raised his hands in defeat and smiled at her. Sam shook her head and bent down to work on her machine again. Jack watched her, took in every detail, but his eyes rested on her stomach. There was a slight bump in her figure, nothing noticeable unless you were certain of Sam's previous figure and knew you were looking for it and Jack was certain of both. He smiled; he was going to be a father, and what was more, he was going to be a father to Sam's child. If there was one thing he would never have believed it was this, it was the one thing he had never dared to hope would happen.

"What are you smiling at?"

He looked at her and shook his head, "Nothing, I'm just thinking."

"About what?" she asked, pulling a chair from under her desk and sitting, looking up at him.

"Just…stuff." He smiled and pulled a chair out to sit opposite her. "I know we haven't really talked about it but…well…what are we going to do?"

Sam sighed, "Honestly, Jack, I don't know." She frowned, "What?"

"I didn't notice before, but you called me Jack."

"Oh…I'm, er, sorry, Sir."

"No, don't be. I like the sound of it." They smiled at each other and Sam absentmindedly placed a hand on her stomach. "Can I, I mean…can I touch it?"

Sam's face flushed, "Er, sure," She sat a little stiffly as Jack reached towards her, his hand lightly brushing against her abdomen before resting against the slight lump. Her entire body seemed to tingle and she wasn't sure, but she could swear that she felt something more, as if something moved through her.

"Woah," Jack looked into her eyes.

"Did you feel that too?"

"If you mean that strange zappy thing running up my arm and into my head, I'd say yeah."

"Think we should go to Janet?"

Jack grimaced, "As much as I just love visiting the doc, I'd say no…at least I would if it were just me. Come on, let's get you and the Bump checked out." He stood and offered her a hand as she raised an eyebrow at him.

"The Bump?"

"Well, we don't know if it's a boy or a girl, so yeah, the Bump."

"Our child is not a bump."

"I hate to argue, but at the moment it is."

Sam narrowed her eyes, but there was a smile on her lips. Shaking her head, she allowed him to pull her to the door, completely aware that he hadn't dropped her hand yet. As they made there way through the hallway, she noted the strange looks they were getting and almost groaned aloud.

"Looks like the SGC Gossip mills have started again."

Jack laughed, "Looks like it."

As they turned the corner, Jack almost walked straight into Martouf and Sam couldn't help noticing the tension between the two of them. "Problem Gentlemen?"

"Nope, no problem." Jack replied stonily.

"There is no problem, Samantha. Are you well?"

"I'm fine, there was just a little tingle in my stomach; we're going to get it checked out."

"Oh," Martouf frowned, "May I accompany you?"

"We got it covered, thanks."

Sam scowled up at Jack, but he wasn't looking at her, "It's okay, Martouf. I'll let you know if there are any problems." Martouf inclined his head and watched them as they continued. "That was completely uncalled for, Jack!" Sam hissed as they approached Janet's office.

"What was?" Jack asked, a little too much innocence laced in his voice, that the snakehead is after you? That's what's uncalled for!

"He is not after me, for goodness sakes, Jack, we're just friends, I carry the love of his life's memories and I'm a good friend, is it so hard to believe that he might be concerned what the hell are you staring at?"

"Eh, Sam, I didn't say that out loud."

"Say what out loud." Sam asked irritably, Men!

"This has nothing to do with gender, I just don't happen to like the guy, okay?" Jack shot back at her. God, if this is the start of the pregnancy, I dread to think what she'll be like at the end of it.

"If that's the way you feel, then why the hell are you bothering to be a part of it? I mean who knows, if this is what I'm like now, I may explode before I reach the end of it!"

Jack stood in stunned silence for a moment, watching as Sam fought her emotions. After a moment, she grabbed her stomach and gave out a cry of pain. Acting quickly, he picked her up and carried her into the medical room, placing her on the bed.

"Janet!"

"I'm right here, what happened?"

"We were arguing and she just collapsed."

"It's okay, I'm okay." Sam sat up frowning. That's weird.

"Totally weird. Hey maybe we could start our own X-Files." Jack smiled a little, trying to lighten the mood.

"All the same, I'd like to run a few tests."

Sam groaned, No needles, please no needles.

"Hey, I though I was the one that didn't like needles." Jack joked.

"Okay, I think I'm going to run a test on both of you." Janet said, looking back and forth between them.

Suddenly Daniel burst into the room, "Eh, guys, I think there's something else you should know." He approached the bed and looked questioningly at Sam, "Are you okay? Is the baby?"

She smiled, "We're both fine."

Daniel nodded, "Good. Eh, yeah, about the book. I've translated more of it and, well, there's more."

"Yeah, I think we've found it already." Janet said scratching her head.

"You did?" Jack asked, "See Sam, no needles."

"How did you know Sam didn't like needles?" Janet asked.

Daniel frowned, "Sam doesn't like needles? Since when?"

"She said so?"

Janet shook her head.

"She didn't say so?" He turned to Sam who also shook her head. Oh boy.

"I'll say." Sam groaned.

"I thought you didn't say? I'm totally lost." Daniel frowned.

"I thought that was what you were here to tell us." Janet said, confused.

"What was what I was here to tell you?"

"That they could read each others minds."

"You can read each others minds?" Daniel asked turning to face them. "Cool."

"Daniel?"

He turned to Janet and shook himself, "Sorry. Eh, no, I didn't know that. I was here to tell you that Jack would go through the pregnancy as well."

"What?"

Daniel turned to Jack, "Well, as part of the bonding between the parents and the child, the father has a connection as well. He goes through the cravings, the mood swings and the labour etc. But the mind reading thing is much more interesting. Can you read my mind as well?"

"Daniel!"

"What?"

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END OF PART 15

I know, I know, it's as ever, short! Well, hopefully things have got a lot more interesting in this part, and I'm hoping to update the next part sooner (Do I sound like a broken record when I say that? ;-p )

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