Part 3.

A/N: Thank you for the reviews!!! This has been a very hard chapter to write. I hope you like it! Please Please Please review and tell me what you think!!!

I love the father/daughter relationship between Sam and Jacob. I wish there was more of that on the show.

Means thoughts. * Means Jacob/Selmac's inner conversation.

--1 Week Later--

Sam Carter looked in the mirror; she had just put the finishing touches to her make-up. She smiled at her reflection in approval. It had been ages since she had been taken out for lunch. Okay, it was only lunch. Nothing major, just nice and causal. Deciding blue jeans and white shirt was a perfect outfit to wear. She completed her look by getting her favourite leather jacket from the closet.

"Are you ready yet?" A voice down the hall called out.

"I will be there in a second!" Sam couldn't help but grin. still impatient, as ever

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"You look great, Sam" He said, smiling.

"Thanks Dad, its really nice to be taken out, its been awhile" She looked at her father from across the table.

"Least I could do for my kid. Your right, It's been so long since we have a meal together and talked" Jacob said, as he waited for the waitress to put their meals down and leave.

Sam smiled back. Two years ago, it would be very unlikely to see her and her Dad in the same room, let alone talk to each other. Now she was with her father at a nice restaurant in a secluded booth, eating pasta. A lot had changed, especially after Jacob blended with Selmac. He had been given a second chance to live. He was no longer dying of cancer. Sam was sure it was Selmac who was the helping hand in repairing their distant relationship and had seemed to mellowed her Dad a lot.

A while into their meal, Jacob couldn't help but noticed whenever the subject of work or the people at the SGC namely SG1 came up in the conversation. Sam could talk easily about Daniel, Teal'c and Janet and Cassie but Jack seem to be excluded. He knew something was wrong there and he hoped she would be able to open up to him, maybe not at lunch but perhaps during his stay.

"Samantha, there is a reason why I came back to earth for a couple of days.." Jacob looked at her daughter seriously.

"Oh." Sam started to frown.

"George, told me everything that happened..."

"Dad, I am fine now...even Janet's pleased" Sam interrupted a little too quickly.

Jacob watched his daughter drop her head and wouldn't met his eyes. His heart ached seeing her like this.

*Something is definitely wrong Sel*

*I know Jacob, General Hammond was right in his concerns*

*Any thoughts on how to approach this?*

*Just be patient, Jacob*

*I know, but she won't talk to anyone about it and look at her Selmac, she isn't herself, she thinks she is good at pretending*

"Look Sam, when George told me about how you made the particle beam generator and how you got Jack home...I just can't tell you how proud I was in hearing that. But I just wished someone had informed me earlier that you were in the infirmary because of it."

*And that's why I am here, to make sure you are okay*

*Your are also here because Samantha has yet to confide in anyone and her friends are really concerned Jacob, they hope you can help*

*I have yet to wonder if she will confide in her old man*

"I'm sorry Dad, look can we talk about this at home" Sam replied uncomfortably, feeling like 10 years old with her father.

"Sure" he nodded, letting it go for now.

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"You care a lot about him, don't you?" Jacob voiced the question that had been going through his mind for some time.

"Care about who, Dad?" Sam turned her head away from the television to face him, knowing full well who her father was talking about.

"Samantha, you know WHO I am talking about"

"Dad, can we please talk about this later?" she asked in hope.

"No Sam, you may have avoided talking about it with everyone else but that's not going to happen with me"

She sighed and gave up knowing her father wouldn't let up.

"I just don't think I can face him right now, you know?" she started.

Jacob nodded, understandingly. He had talked to Janet and Daniel, they told him she had been quietly avoiding Jack but they both wouldn't say why and his conversations with her at lunch proved that. He couldn't help the anger that burned inside as he watched his daughter fighting to keep her emotions from showing.

*We don't know the full story Jacob, don't pass judgement just yet*

*He must have done something bad to hurt my kid this much*

*Just listen and just let her speak*

"...When we rescued him from Endora, I thought he would be at least happy to see us. He just ignored all of us and walked right past me into the arms of another woman. Dad, do you know what the best part was?.It was..overhearing him say after she asked, "you must be very happy to be going home" and he said "no I am not." I worked so hard to get him back and he never actually wanted to go home. It took a night in the infirmary to have him actually notice that he never once thanked me.."

One hour and half later, Jacob Carter sat on the couch with his daughter resting peacefully with her head snuggled up against his shoulder asleep. He was surprised that she had talked so openly about her feelings. He had guessed it was due to the fact that Sam had bottled it all up for so long. Jacob had taken Selmac's advice and listened and been supportive, hugging Sam as she cried and giving soothing reassuring words until she went to sleep. She was never was this open with him, with Jonas Hanson or any of her other boyfriends with him and he was secretly pleased. For once, she saw him as her father, not the General. Jacob still wanted to protect Sam anyway he could, but he knew his interference in this might be more difficult.

The doorbell rang interrupting Jacob's thoughts.

"You expecting company, Sam?" Jacob gently nudged his daughter awake.

"Huh?..Ooh It'll be Daniel..he has been babysitting me for the week, Dad" she joked, as she rubbed a hand over her tired face.

Sam got up to open the door, instead of Daniel being there, she came face to face to the man who was the source of her pain.

TBC.