"General you wanted to see me." Daniel said tapping on Hammond's office door. It was twenty four hours since Hammond had arrived back from Washington.

"Yes Doctor Jackson, come in and take a seat." Hammond instructed.

As Daniel sat he noticed baby Jacob was asleep in his basket on the floor by Hammond's desk.

"General just out of curiosity why do you have Jacob here?"

"I thought if we were discussing his future, I should at least meet the little guy."

"Have you come to a decision yet?" Daniel asked.

"We are still discussing the details. Although Cassandra informs that that his name is Jacob Patrick Dylan."

"She picked a name then." Daniel smiled.

"Yes."

"So what did you wish to discuss with me?" Daniel asked.

"When we spoke yesterday you said that both you and Teal'c were agreeable to Major Carter being removed as a permanent member of SG-1."

"Yes. Don't get me wrong it won't be the same without her, but this is what she wants." Daniel replied. "What they both want."

"That was Teal'c's opinion on the subject when I discussed it with him."

"So you called me here to confirm that?"

"No, I believe that you had a list of replacement candidates."

"Yes. Jack had the list in the bottom left hand drawer of your desk." Daniel replied.

"Thank you. That will be all."

"General, do you want me to take Jacob?" Daniel offered.

"There is no point moving the boy and waking him up if we don't have to. He's fine where he is."

"Yes sir." Daniel stood and left.

"Let's see what we can do about getting you some parents."

"Jack stop pacing." Jacob yelled it was the twentieth time in the last few hours.

"What?"

"Stop pacing it's not doing anyone any good."

"It's doing me some good."

"Well it's driving Thor and Selmak mad." Jacob scolded.

"Fine."

Five minutes later he was pacing again.

"Jack either sit down or I'll have Thor beam you back down to Earth." Jacob threatened.

"I'm staying." Jack said sitting down with a thump.

"Good. Are you always this impatient?"

"When it comes to Sam yes." Jack replied.

"And you worked together for how many years before you go together?" Jacob said.

"That was different."

"Why?"

"Because we worked....because of the regul.... Just because." Jack said.

"A very succinct response there Jack. No wonder the System Lords are such big fans of yours."

"No that's because we keep killing their snake-headed buts."

"Selmak wish to log a complaint against that statement."

"Let me rephrase. We keep killing their snake-headed System Lord butts."

"She says that's better." Jacob smiled.

"What is taking so long?" Jack sighed leaning his head back against the wall.

"Jack this is her best chance. Unfortunately it takes time, I know you love her, but you are just going to have to be patient."

"You know Jollinar has a lot to answer for." Jack said.

"Jack if it wasn't for Jollinar and her memories I would be dead." Jacob said. "Jollinar knew that she shouldn't have gone into an unwilling host but it was the only option that was available. Sam's come to terms with that, you still need to."

"You weren't here to watch her go through it, or afterwards. We couldn't get through to her for days, in the end it was Cassie forgiving her for scaring her and telling her everything would be okay that gave us a spark of hope."

"I know."

"You don't. I've watched her die, I've watched her been tortured and there was nothing I could do about it. We've been to hell and back literally and I have to live with it, so don't start getting sanctimonious with me. Right now I'm clinging on to the hope that whatever Thor is doing to her is going to work, if it doesn't and she dies I think whatever progress I made since the first time I met Daniel isn't going to be worth a nickel, and I'll go through with what I was planning to do on that first mission."

"Jack."

"Don't Jacob. I'm going for a walk."

TBC