John Doe

Chapter Thirty

Disclaimer: Yeah, yeah, yeah... we've gone through this many times before- the show and the characters are not my property. Although, I wouldn't mind if they were.

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The next morning:

Sam was awakened by the sound of the doorbell ringing and a low, annoyed groan in her ear. Jack rolled over in the bed and grabbed the alarm clock, cursing softly before sliding out of bed and pulling on a pair of pants. She too turned to see the time, surprised to find that it was already after 1000 hours- but, neither of them had really slept much that night, nor early that morning. From what she could figure they had only been sleeping for seven hours or so, and while that wasn't all together a bad thing, on a Saturday (much less, the day after he proposed!) it was a travesty.

From her warm spot under the covers she heard him walk through the living room and open the front door, then the sound of him complaining about how early it was. Her small smile grew into a wide grin when she heard Daniel respond with the fact that it was after ten in the morning, they had slept long enough, and for him to stop being such a baby. If only he knew!

She entertained the idea of ignoring the fact that her friend was over and going back to sleep, but it was a short lived thought- because the next voice she heard would never let her sleep after what had happened the night before. Cassandra Fraiser was already questioning Jack as to where his new fiancee was hiding. With a tired groan she slipped out of bed, pulling on some clothes, and jumped into the bathroom quickly to brush her teeth, as well as her hair. By the time she emerged Cassie was ready and waiting in the bedroom for her, a infections smile on her face.

"Can I see it?" she begged, walking over to the woman who had been like her aunt since she could remember.

"You saw it last night," Sam informed her with slight amusement.

The twenty-one year old shrugged, "Exactly, last night- It's daytime now."

"You were there when he bought it!" she exclaimed with a smile to match her younger friend's.

A guilty expression passed over her face, "So?"

Sam laughed and offered her hand to Cassie, who took it readily and squealed in happiness, "It took him enough time to ask."

Didn't she know it! Of course, she would have waited years with that kind of proposal. Smiling to herself she drew back her hand and led Cassie into the living room, to find Daniel and whoever else he had brought with him- she was expecting at least Teal'c, but she wouldn't have been surprised if the whole house was filled. Thankfully, though, when she made it into the living room Teal'c was the only one standing in it.

"Where's Jack and Daniel?" she questioned, glancing around.

"They are in the kitchen," Teal'c replied monotone, "cutting the cake DanielJackson purchased."

Cake? Why on earth had Daniel bought a cake. Sure, it was a very special occasion, but one that warranted cake? Surely not... cake was reserved for events such as birthday's and well- mostly just birthdays. Weddings, too, but he had only proposed a few hours earlier, the wedding was the furthest thing from her mind. First she was going to enjoy engagement, she was in no hurry. Well... maybe just a little bit of a hurry.

By then Cassie had managed to pull her into the kitchen, where Jack was lost in cutting the chocolate iced cake in front of him, Daniel was standing off to the side, an amused expression on his face. He had, of course, only brought the cake over as a sort of inside joke; he had figured that they would have dinner, then eat the cake afterwards. Not once did the fact that Jack would want to eat the cake immediately cross his mind, though it should have been his first thought- knowing his friend.

"Sam!" the archeologist called out when he noticed her presence. "Good morning."

Jack snorted. It had been a good morning, up until the point where he'd be woken up.

Sam too made a face at her friend. Maybe it was a good morning for him, he probably had gotten more sleep than she had. Which, she wasn't exactly complaining, since her reason for not sleeping had been a very good one...

"Isn't it a bit early for cake?" Sam asked, ignoring Daniel's earlier comment.

A look of horror passed over Jack's face, "Too early for cake? Never."

It was Daniel's turn to snort. Of course it was too early for cake, but there was no telling Jack that. Not even Teal'c could convince him that 10 am is not the ideal time to be eating cake.

Shaking her head with silent laughter she left the kitchen, Cassie following close behind, and went searching for Teal'c. He was still in the living room, only he had sat down by that time, and was watching TV. Sam sat down on the love seat adjacent to the couch, and Cassie sat next to Teal'c. The large Jaffa glanced over at Sam with what only a few people would recognize as a smile and began his own interrogation. "Did you sleep well, Colonel Carter?"

She scowled at the underlying question, "Yes, I did Teal'c... up until the point where the doorbell rang."

He nodded understandingly, "I am sorry, Colonel Carter. If we had taken DanielJackson's plan of action you would have been waken long ago. It was myself and Cassandra Fraiser who convinced him to wait until a later hour."

Nodding she continued, "Doesn't surprise me much."

"What of you and O'Neill's engagement?" he continued with his round of 21 questions. Sam was so amused by his newfound openness that she didn't even mind all of the questions, added to the fact that it was Teal'c asking them and not some busybody who had no right to such knowledge.

A bubble of laughter came from her left and she turned to see Jack walking into the living room, carrying a plate with a large piece of cake toppled on it. "I just asked her last night, T. There's not much to it yet."

When he sat down next to her on the love seat she stealthily grabbed his fork and dug into his cake before he could react, the shoved it into her mouth before he could react. He scowled playfully and stole the fork back from her, getting his own bite of cake and eating it- never taking his eyes off of her. She laughed as soon as she swallowed and kissed him briefly.

"Give us some time, Teal'c," Sam continued for him with a grin. "I don't know about Jack, but I'm not in a hurry."

"How can you not be in a hurry?" Cassie asked, "You've known each other for almost 9 years!"

"We've haven't even been dating for eight months, Cassie," Sam countered. "I'd like to have at least a couple of months to be engaged..."

Jack set his nearly finished cake down on the table and Pandora, who had been lounging in her bed until that point, saw it fit to finish the uneaten food off. Normally Sam would have scolded her for doing so, chocolate is not good for a dog at all, but every now and then she didn't mind her having such a rarity. "I agree with Sam, Cassie," he said with a smile. "There's a reason for the time-period between dating and marriage, planning a wedding is hard work."

"Oh," Sam exclaimed, "like you're going to be doing anything, anyway!"

He shrugged, "We haven't discussed it yet."

"You proposed last night!"

"I know," he assured her. "We'll talk about it later... for now, is anybody else hungry?"

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2132 hours:

"So," Sam questioned, walking over to where he was sitting on the couch and planting herself firmly in his lap. "Let's talking about this wedding thing."

He snaked his arms around her waist and pulled her closer, "Let's."

"Small or large?"

A shrug, "What do you want?"

"I don't know," she confessed. "I'd be lying if I said I hadn't already thought about it– on one hand I'd like to have a small wedding, just family and close friends, but on the other hand I'd love it if all of the SGC could come, and even some of our humanoid allies. Like the Tok'ra, which dad will be there no matter what, and Jonas... you know."

He nodded, "I've given it some thought to. If we have a big wedding, how many civilians who don't know about the SGC would be there?"

She thought about it for a second, "Just Mark, Jane, and the kids. Unless there's somebody that you'd want to invite?"

"Not that I can think of," he said with a shake of his head. No siblings, both parents passed away, and he had never been close to his mother's brother, while his father had been an only child. There wouldn't be anybody for him to invite. "So, why not just have a big wedding? There shouldn't be anything to worry about if we only invite the aliens who appear human, and we could always have some kind of extra reception at the SGC for those who can't come to the actual wedding."

"How about we wait a week... maybe longer, get used to being engaged, and then start on the planning?" Sam suggested, kissing him briefly.

"Sounds good to me," he leaned in for a deeper kiss, and she accepted for a few minutes before pulling back.

"What about kids?" she asked him suddenly, looking a bit uneasy for doing so.

"Kids?" he questioned.

"Yeah, you know... like adults only smaller."

He grinned, "I know what kids are, Sam."

She threw her hands up in mock-defense, "Hey- just making sure."

The joking seemed to calm her nerves a little, because she was actually smiling now.

"I do want children, Sam," he assured her. "Two would be great, three would be wonderful- hell, I'd be happy with only one. I am getting up there in age, though... pretty soon I'm not going to be able to chase little ones around the house."

"I know," she replied. "I was just wondering because of Charlie..."

Jack nodded, a flash of old memories flashing through his eyes. "Charlie is one of the reasons I want to have kids again, Sam. I loved him so much, I loved being a father so much. Of course I want kids, I don't know how I could not want to."

Sam was relieved to say the least. She had always been worried about whether or not he would want more children, and in her eyes the more the better. "Well, old man... if you don't have much time, we'd better get started, right?"

A grin spread across his face and his arms tightened around her body, then he stood up, holding her firmly in his arms. She squealed in surprise as he carried her down the hall and into the bedroom, pausing only to close the door behind them.

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A week and a half later:

Sam had been awake for nearly twenty minutes, just staring at him while he slept. It had been a long night for both of them, SG-4 had been captured off-world and SG-1 and SG-5 had been sent in to rescue them, while he was stuck on earth waiting worriedly. The teams had been on the planet for almost seven hours before they returned with SG-4, and although the team was a bit tattered the worst wound was Lieutenant Erickson's sprained ankle.

After their debriefing around 0200 hours that morning they had returned back home, whereupon Jack had passed out asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow. Sam, however, had too many things to think about to be bothered with sleep. The same thing that had kept her up earlier that morning was what had woken her before. Well, almost the same. She had been roused by a dream- during this dream she was very pregnant. Earlier that morning she had been busy obsessing over getting pregnant, which was a bit hard when the potential father was sleeping.

The night after they first discussed children they had talked about it in further detail. Both agreed that the best thing for them to do would be to try to have a child as soon as possible. Yes, the war with the Goa'uld wasn't slackening any, but they both knew that it wouldn't for quite some time. And he was already in his late forties, and she in her late thirties. If they were going to have more than one then they needed to try and get pregnant soon, add in the fact that they both wanted children already and it was a done deal.

There was a good possibility that she could already be pregnant, they had been trying every night for more than a week, but she would have to wait for a bit longer before they could know for sure. Luckily for them traveling through the 'gate had no ill effects to a fetus, so they needn't worry about her working for the first few months of pregnancy- although Jack wouldn't be sending SG-1 on any dangerous missions for the duration.

She glanced at the alarm clock, it was only 0821 hours, and they had the day off, so what was she doing up? After kissing him briefly on the cheek she snuggled up close to him, half-laying on him, and closed her eyes. He stirred at the motion, drew his arm around her body and pulled her as close as possible, then both settled into a few extra hours of needed sleep.

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A/N: Alright, so I know I said that this would be the last chapter, maybe I was wrong. I still think that it's almost over, but it's just not over yet. Anyway, let me know what you think about this chapter. I love feedback!