Disclaimer: Very slight 'The Wizard of Oz' references as with SG-1
characters etc the movie also doesn't belong to me but it helps tell a
story.
Alex Carter was born earlier than Dr Frasier had expected and by some wired twist of fate, even though it wasn't advisable for Carter to travel through the gate in her condition given no one really knew if there would be any side effects harmful to the baby. She decided she wanted to get first hand experience and see what her mother did for her job.
It was of course one of those missions where everything seems fine, straight forward and then some how you'd find yourself 'behind bars'. That was their visit to the supposed to be uninhabited planet P3X597. Daniel had said something that the natives didn't like and SG-1 had to do a little time. While Jonas had been drafted in to keep an eye on Carter back on Earth given that her house had been blown up and for her safety she agreed to move in with him.
Of course the folks on P3X597 just had to be the kind of folks that would only negotiate with the highest ranking female officer known to all the team. Daniel was sent back to the SGC to inform Hammond of what had happened and later returned with Sam, while Jonas and Dr Frasier kept track of her every movement. Even though he had specifically told him under no circumstances was she to come back with him.
After that there was the normal fire fight to get back to the gate. Some of the locals felt that the arrival of SG-1 would cause much damage to their way of life so couldn't allow the gate to be used or let us leave.
And of course in the grand scheme of things it just had to be his luck that he made her take up cover in a near by cave with Dr Frasier, Daniel had to be taken down in the fight which caused Frasier to have to go to work and help him back to the cave where she could check him out, just at the exact same moment some of the shots between the two groups happened to hit the roof of the cave and made it unstable. So being the closet and first to see what was going to happen he ordered Jonas to cover while he went to move Sam to safety. The rocks on the over hand had other ideas causing him to have to quickly push her further into the cave just before the entrance was blocked.
Alex made her intensions known not long after that. But something had other plans. Sam started loosing blood to the point he believed she wouldn't last the night. Things got wired after that, he prayed for a miracle and found a very much alive and health Sam still in labour the following morning. Things got a little fuzzy for a while but he was there the whole time from the painful encounter with her knee, the loss of circulation in your fingers and hands, the 'can't do' and 'don't want it' stages right through to the kiss brought on probably by panic and fear mostly as it didn't exactly go down as the text book birth. After that he'd had nothing more to do with the situation.
He carried her back into the kitchen and fastened her in the seat before continuing with his original task switching the now regular feature to his kitchen the radio on quietly to try to get her to stop fussing a little till her bottle was ready.
He continued thinking about the events over the events that caused the current situation.
When Alex arrived some how things changed, he changed them and he knew it all that time when he told her that he especially after he thought he lost her in the explosion at her place, he would be there no matter what was nothing more than a lie.
Sure he'd done the 'Carter ya staying with me for your safety' speech after clearing it with Hammond and soon after Daniel, Jonas and Teal'c all moved in for her 'protection' and yeah he helped fix everything up from putting the cot together to doing a spot of redecorating, anything she needed. But when Alex arrived it became almost like him against the world or to be exact the good old 'I'm in the room, but your on your own Carter' cold shoulder treatment.
Honestly he hated himself for it, he liked kids really did but some how she was different. Alex wasn't just any kid she was Carter's, it shouldn't have made a difference but it did, mostly probably due to the fact he could still remember Connor and his time with 'her' in that dream or whatever it was.
A song started playing which brought him out of his thoughts again as she seemed to like it at the very least it seemed to have stopped her next crying session.
When the bottle was ready he moved to pick Alex up gently holding her while giving her the milk, stopping now and again to wipe her face clean. When she decided she had had enough he continued with everyone's favorite part of the job winding her and sure enough she was sick all down the back of his shirt.
He put her back in the seat while he discarded his shirt
"Alex you don't really want your Mom to find out her CO is going soft do ya?" he looked at her and a little smirk appeared on his face "I won't tell if you don't"
This was the first time in a week he'd spent any time with her even if he lived in the house. Since Dr Frasier had finally released her from the base after a lot more tests than a baby normally gets, given her slight uniqueness, she was finally allowed home and to everyone's relief including his she was given a clean bill of health, despite the fact her eyes were quite obviously purple in appearance Frasier could only think the small encounter before her birth had affected her some how but in every other respect even given her early arrival she was fine. She'd probably grow up to hate visiting the doctors he thought.
Dr Frasier had offered to do that one test where you find out who the kids father is but Sam refused and he honestly couldn't blame her given that she was right when she said if anyone knew it might change how they saw Alex and she wasn't prepared to do that.
"Right time to get you back to your Mom, before she decides its about time I got a swift kick for all the extra fishing I've done lately and well generally been a pain, trust me I'm sure you'll find out one day"
He carried her back to her room and was just about to enter when she started crying again. Turning around quickly he headed across the hall back to his room with Alex closing the door behind him he started to pace slowly around the room
"Ya know kid me and you aren't meant to be doing this, not now not ever"
"It's not your fault it's mine...I guess some things are just hard to forget, you've still got your Mom, Granddad Jacob, and Uncle Daniel, T and Jonas not forgetting Aunt Dr Frasier and their a pretty neat bunch to hang with they'll always be there for ya"
He moved to sit on the bed, his knee was playing up so it was the best thing to do under the circumstances. Lowering her down from resting slightly on his shoulder he shifted his hold on her so he supported her safely so he could get a better look at her.
'Protector of men' that's what Daniel said her name meant after everyone told Sam she should keep the name she had chosen long before Alex arrived and in a strange way he thought it kind of suited her, even if he had no intensions of letting her become the 'super solider' she was intentionally designed to be to be a 'protector of men'. He'd lived the life of loosing your only kid and he wasn't about to see Sam down that road. He could protect her and not care that was his job, he'd trained for it, it was his life and something in his gut told him he had no choice.
She still hadn't settled down.
"Kid, ya know you're as stubborn as your Mom can be, but if ya get half her brains you know it's really not a bad thing"
"Whatcha want?" he asked searching his memories of Charlie when he was a baby
"Nope sorry I don't do the singing job"
He paused for a minute to think, and then he got his idea.
"A story" he quizzed
"OK fine one story coming up...then you sleep agreed?"
"Right" he cleared his throat "once upon a time.... yeah I know its a lame start to a story but I'm working on it.....there was a set of five brave warriors, sent to save earth from some pretty nasty snakes and other not so good folks almost everyday....the warriors were an odd bunch, a bookworm, two aliens from galaxies far, far away, a beautiful Queen, however warrior like in her ways she seemed and a very old guy that was most hated by all medical staff wherever he went. Anyway they'd go off visit people and places get their arses kicked now and then but still gave more than anyone ever asked for, sometimes with the help of oh err Queen Dorothy's father he's got a good snake in him, that helped the group outta sticky situations but the rest of his buddy's couldn't be trusted.... On day beautiful Queen Dorothy was given a special gift, so the group, most of them talked and had agreed that they would make it home from this day forward to protect someone especially close to Queen Dorothy no matter what....the end"
She was finally a sleep.
"And that's a promise"
Alex Carter was born earlier than Dr Frasier had expected and by some wired twist of fate, even though it wasn't advisable for Carter to travel through the gate in her condition given no one really knew if there would be any side effects harmful to the baby. She decided she wanted to get first hand experience and see what her mother did for her job.
It was of course one of those missions where everything seems fine, straight forward and then some how you'd find yourself 'behind bars'. That was their visit to the supposed to be uninhabited planet P3X597. Daniel had said something that the natives didn't like and SG-1 had to do a little time. While Jonas had been drafted in to keep an eye on Carter back on Earth given that her house had been blown up and for her safety she agreed to move in with him.
Of course the folks on P3X597 just had to be the kind of folks that would only negotiate with the highest ranking female officer known to all the team. Daniel was sent back to the SGC to inform Hammond of what had happened and later returned with Sam, while Jonas and Dr Frasier kept track of her every movement. Even though he had specifically told him under no circumstances was she to come back with him.
After that there was the normal fire fight to get back to the gate. Some of the locals felt that the arrival of SG-1 would cause much damage to their way of life so couldn't allow the gate to be used or let us leave.
And of course in the grand scheme of things it just had to be his luck that he made her take up cover in a near by cave with Dr Frasier, Daniel had to be taken down in the fight which caused Frasier to have to go to work and help him back to the cave where she could check him out, just at the exact same moment some of the shots between the two groups happened to hit the roof of the cave and made it unstable. So being the closet and first to see what was going to happen he ordered Jonas to cover while he went to move Sam to safety. The rocks on the over hand had other ideas causing him to have to quickly push her further into the cave just before the entrance was blocked.
Alex made her intensions known not long after that. But something had other plans. Sam started loosing blood to the point he believed she wouldn't last the night. Things got wired after that, he prayed for a miracle and found a very much alive and health Sam still in labour the following morning. Things got a little fuzzy for a while but he was there the whole time from the painful encounter with her knee, the loss of circulation in your fingers and hands, the 'can't do' and 'don't want it' stages right through to the kiss brought on probably by panic and fear mostly as it didn't exactly go down as the text book birth. After that he'd had nothing more to do with the situation.
He carried her back into the kitchen and fastened her in the seat before continuing with his original task switching the now regular feature to his kitchen the radio on quietly to try to get her to stop fussing a little till her bottle was ready.
He continued thinking about the events over the events that caused the current situation.
When Alex arrived some how things changed, he changed them and he knew it all that time when he told her that he especially after he thought he lost her in the explosion at her place, he would be there no matter what was nothing more than a lie.
Sure he'd done the 'Carter ya staying with me for your safety' speech after clearing it with Hammond and soon after Daniel, Jonas and Teal'c all moved in for her 'protection' and yeah he helped fix everything up from putting the cot together to doing a spot of redecorating, anything she needed. But when Alex arrived it became almost like him against the world or to be exact the good old 'I'm in the room, but your on your own Carter' cold shoulder treatment.
Honestly he hated himself for it, he liked kids really did but some how she was different. Alex wasn't just any kid she was Carter's, it shouldn't have made a difference but it did, mostly probably due to the fact he could still remember Connor and his time with 'her' in that dream or whatever it was.
A song started playing which brought him out of his thoughts again as she seemed to like it at the very least it seemed to have stopped her next crying session.
When the bottle was ready he moved to pick Alex up gently holding her while giving her the milk, stopping now and again to wipe her face clean. When she decided she had had enough he continued with everyone's favorite part of the job winding her and sure enough she was sick all down the back of his shirt.
He put her back in the seat while he discarded his shirt
"Alex you don't really want your Mom to find out her CO is going soft do ya?" he looked at her and a little smirk appeared on his face "I won't tell if you don't"
This was the first time in a week he'd spent any time with her even if he lived in the house. Since Dr Frasier had finally released her from the base after a lot more tests than a baby normally gets, given her slight uniqueness, she was finally allowed home and to everyone's relief including his she was given a clean bill of health, despite the fact her eyes were quite obviously purple in appearance Frasier could only think the small encounter before her birth had affected her some how but in every other respect even given her early arrival she was fine. She'd probably grow up to hate visiting the doctors he thought.
Dr Frasier had offered to do that one test where you find out who the kids father is but Sam refused and he honestly couldn't blame her given that she was right when she said if anyone knew it might change how they saw Alex and she wasn't prepared to do that.
"Right time to get you back to your Mom, before she decides its about time I got a swift kick for all the extra fishing I've done lately and well generally been a pain, trust me I'm sure you'll find out one day"
He carried her back to her room and was just about to enter when she started crying again. Turning around quickly he headed across the hall back to his room with Alex closing the door behind him he started to pace slowly around the room
"Ya know kid me and you aren't meant to be doing this, not now not ever"
"It's not your fault it's mine...I guess some things are just hard to forget, you've still got your Mom, Granddad Jacob, and Uncle Daniel, T and Jonas not forgetting Aunt Dr Frasier and their a pretty neat bunch to hang with they'll always be there for ya"
He moved to sit on the bed, his knee was playing up so it was the best thing to do under the circumstances. Lowering her down from resting slightly on his shoulder he shifted his hold on her so he supported her safely so he could get a better look at her.
'Protector of men' that's what Daniel said her name meant after everyone told Sam she should keep the name she had chosen long before Alex arrived and in a strange way he thought it kind of suited her, even if he had no intensions of letting her become the 'super solider' she was intentionally designed to be to be a 'protector of men'. He'd lived the life of loosing your only kid and he wasn't about to see Sam down that road. He could protect her and not care that was his job, he'd trained for it, it was his life and something in his gut told him he had no choice.
She still hadn't settled down.
"Kid, ya know you're as stubborn as your Mom can be, but if ya get half her brains you know it's really not a bad thing"
"Whatcha want?" he asked searching his memories of Charlie when he was a baby
"Nope sorry I don't do the singing job"
He paused for a minute to think, and then he got his idea.
"A story" he quizzed
"OK fine one story coming up...then you sleep agreed?"
"Right" he cleared his throat "once upon a time.... yeah I know its a lame start to a story but I'm working on it.....there was a set of five brave warriors, sent to save earth from some pretty nasty snakes and other not so good folks almost everyday....the warriors were an odd bunch, a bookworm, two aliens from galaxies far, far away, a beautiful Queen, however warrior like in her ways she seemed and a very old guy that was most hated by all medical staff wherever he went. Anyway they'd go off visit people and places get their arses kicked now and then but still gave more than anyone ever asked for, sometimes with the help of oh err Queen Dorothy's father he's got a good snake in him, that helped the group outta sticky situations but the rest of his buddy's couldn't be trusted.... On day beautiful Queen Dorothy was given a special gift, so the group, most of them talked and had agreed that they would make it home from this day forward to protect someone especially close to Queen Dorothy no matter what....the end"
She was finally a sleep.
"And that's a promise"