John Doe

Chapter Thirty Five

Disclaimer: Nope, not mine.

A/N: Alright this skipped forward like two weeks. In the last chapter I mentioned that Sam and SG-1 were going off world to see the Tok'ra (mainly her father!) That's where we are.

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She stepped through the event horizon and glanced around, her eyes searching for the familiar face that was to be waiting for them. The bald, smiling form of her father was standing just to the right of the 'Gate and when he noticed her come through his grin broadened, no doubt because of the slight bulge that was beginning to show, even through her fatigues. It wasn't much, but since her stomach had been flat before it was fairly noticeable, although some people tended to miss it.

Her father, of course, was not going to be one of those people. Jacob Carter gave his daughter a wide grin, amusement dancing in his eyes, and made his way over to where she and SG-1 were standing, placing his hand on her stomach and ignoring the roll of her eyes. "It's a girl," he told her. "I know it."

Sam rolled her eyes once more, but gave her father a warm smile. "I'm sure Jack will be happy to hear that," she told him. "So far you, Jack, Daniel over here, Hammond, and Cassie all agree with him."

"Not to forget Sel'mac." Jacob reminded him.

Damn. She forgot about that- Jacob counted as two people. That set the score at 6 to 2, in favor of Jack. "Are you sure you think it's a girl?" she asked, frowning.

"Well..." he said with a sigh. "You're forgetting that your mother had both you and your brother- so I know the difference between carrying a girl and carrying a boy, and your cheeks seem a bit rosy. Not to mention the fact that even through those baggy military close I can tell you're carrying a bit high."

"Oh whatever!" she exclaimed with a laugh. "I'm hardly even carrying at all... how can you tell?" At least he hadn't said her face was rounder, which was something Jack and Daniel commented on frequently.

He placed his hand over her stomach again, moving it around to feel the swell. "That's how I can tell, Sammie. Trust me, I'm the kid's grandpa. I know these things."

Obviously not, because he was wrong. She was having a boy.

"We'll see next weekend." she chided. "Wasn't there something else we needed to take care of, though?"

Jacob smiled at the change of stomach and nodded, "Yes there is." With a wave of his hand he gestured for them to head to their right, and he lead his daughter by placing his hand on the small of her back. Sam smiled to herself, what was it about a pregnant woman that had men so high strung? It wasn't like she was fragile glass that could be shattered with the wrong touch, why did a woman instantly become damaged goods when she was with child? It was a bit frustrating.

"So?" Jacob asked as they walked down the tunnel. "How's Pandora doing?"

"She's good," Sam told him. "Finally full sized, too. The bad thing about having a Husky during summer time, though, is the fact that she sheds all the time. I don't mind though, neither does Jack, even though he complains about it... she's spoiled."

"It's good practice for the baby," Jacob said with a smug grin. "Especially because they're both girls."

Sam scowled.

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"So," Daniel asked, after the Tok'ra finished their discussion. "That's all we were called here for?"

Sel'mac nodded, "Indeed, it is."

"Couldn't you just have sent us a message, you know... Another Goa'uld is dead. Something like that."

Sel'mac- Jacob shrugged, "Shesmu was not a System Lord, though he was well on his way to becoming one. Would it have made a difference if the Tok'ra had simply sent a message through the Stargate?"

Well, not, it probably wouldn't have. Except for saving a bit of time, and Sam had wanted to see her father anyway. "So, there's nothing else on the agenda for today, right?" They weren't due to return home until the next morning and she would like to catch up with her father, maybe even convince him that he was wrong and she was having a boy. At the very least she just wanted to talk, they hadn't done so in awhile, and she missed her father. Nothing wrong with that.

"How is Mark doing?" he asked, when they were alone in his quarters.

"Great, they're doing just fine. The little ones are getting so big, you should come home one weekend and go see them. I could probably get some time off, if I asked nice enough," Sam grinned, knowing that no matter how she asked Jack would give her two days off to see her brother and his family. Oh yeah, she had him wrapped around her finger, which was one of the better things about pregnancy. "Do you think you could get away for a few days? I'm sure Mark would love to see you."

"He'd probably rather see his sister and his niece." he said with a smile, his eyes twinkling with humor.

"His nephew," Sam reminded him. "I'm having a boy."

"Sure," he nodded. "So, you're almost three months along?"

"Sometime this week, yeah. Our OBGYN appointment is next weekend, so hopefully we'll be able to figure out what the sex is then, because although the little bet is cute I'd like to get the nursery done before I'm too huge."

"What about the wedding?" Jacob asked, remembering that she had told him they wanted to get married before the baby was born.

"As of yet we're thinking some time next month. We've got almost everything together, but we still have to find a place big enough to fit all of our guest. There's a huge Baptist church down the street from his house and an even bigger Methodist church a few extra miles away, but since we both grew up going to Baptist churches we're probably going to end up at that one. It'll seat everybody on our list, so now all we've got to do is book the church and send out the invitations."

"And everybody from the SGC is invited?" Jacob questioned.

Sam nodded, "Everybody from the SGC, some of the humanoid aliens, the Tok'ra... we're having two receptions. One right after the wedding and one after we get back from our honeymoon. The second one is going to be at the SGC and all of our non human allies are going to be invited to come, at least as many as will fit."

"Where at the SGC is it going to be?" her father asked, running the setting of Stargate Command in his mind. "There's not really that many large, open spaces."

"We're gonna figure that one out, but that' still a month and a half away."

The Tok'ra nodded, "Where are you going for your honeymoon?"

"On a seven day cruise to the Bahamas." she grinned. "I've always wanted to go to the Bahamas and go on a cruise so this is just killing two birds with one stone."

Jacob nodded, a little jealous that his daughter was going on a cruise when he had never been on one. Then he thought about it some more, "You're going to be limited to what you can do, Sammie. You know that, right?"

"I'll be four months along, it won't be that hard. But, yeah, I realize that the hiking and the scuba diving are going to be scratched off the list, but there's shallow water snorkeling and some dolphin encounter thing that will be a lot of fun. I really just want to be able to lay on the beach and relax for a few days." She shrugged, "We thought about doing the Mexican one, and going to the Aztec temples, but we figured once you've seen one set of ancient ruins you've seen them all."

"Isn't that the same as the beach?"

"Nah," she replied. "Not when you've got shore excursions to go on."

"Well, you'll bring you're old man some seashells back, right?" he might as well get something out of it. Most of the Tok'ra had never seen a beach, so they would probably find the seashells and sand dollars of earth fascinating. Plus, he missed earth things like that. It was hard, living on an entirely different planet than the one you grew up and spent most of your life on. Not to mention, the place your children still lived.

"Any morning sickness?" he questioned, changing the subject. "Your mother didn't really get it... but some mornings it hit her bad."

Sam shrugged, "On a few occasions, yeah, but most of the time I'm a bit light headed or nauseous. It only takes a few minutes of sitting down or some water and I'm fine."

"That's good..."

She was about to reply when Anise came into the room. Why again did the Tok'ra find it necessary not to have doors?

"Is there something that you require?" Sel'mac asked, his eyes flashing.

"I came to see Colonel Carter," she told him. "If you do not mind, I would like to speak with her, alone."

With an inward sigh she looked at her father and nodded, might as well see what she wanted. Sel'mac sighed, not like the invasion of privacy any more than Jacob and Sam did, but gave his own nod of approval to Anise. "If you wish."

Jacob left the room, scowling to himself, and Anise entered completely. "Colonel Carter, I wanted to congratulate you on your pregnancy."

Why did she sense that there was more to this than just a congragulations?

"How is General O'Neill?"

"He's fine," Sam told her. "Am I talking with Anise or Freya?"

"I am Anise, Freya is here as well. Would you like to speak with her?"

Oh, there was no way in hell. "That's fine, Anise. Was there something else you needed?"

"It is about Daniel Jackson," Anise told her. Sam finally got it. Yes, Freya had a thing for her fiancé, she knew that much, but Jack had also mentioned that the "snake half" liked Daniel for his "mind". His mind her right foot, Anise was just like all the other women at the SGC. Sure, Danny was good looking, and young, she admitted that much. But, because of her feelings towards him as a brother and her love for Jack the most she saw was an attractive face. Unlike the others who couldn't quit talking about his defined arms and tight butt. Sam shuddered.

"What about him?"

Anise looked around, as if she was making sure nobody was listening. "Is he currently attached?"

Was Daniel seeing somebody? Not anything serious, as far as she knew, but there were a few dates here and there. He just never seemed to be able to settle down with anybody, and most of the time he went out with a woman once or twice before both agreed that there was nothing between them. "Not as far as I know of... why?"

"It is nothing," Anise assured her. "I will not take up any more of your time."

Sam had no objections to that. The further away from that woman the better. "If you see my father, can you please tell him I went to find Teal'c?"

Like she was going to tell her that she was going to find Daniel and make fun of him for Anise's school girl crush.

"I will," Anise promised. "Thank you."

Yeah, sure. She smiled sweetly and then left the room, heading down the corridor for where Daniel and Teal'c had told her they were headed. No doubt that was where her father had gone, anyway.

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Jack was waiting for them just beyond the ramp when they dialed back home. He smiled at Sam, effectively ignoring the other two, not that they cared much. They just wanted to get into a shower, get checked out by Brightman, debrief, then go home (or stay on the base, depending on which one) and sleep. Sam wanted to do all of those things, too, but her first stop was her fiancé.

"He says a girl," she scowled. "And that because of Sel'mac he counts as two."

Jack grinned widely, "What's that now... 6 to 2?"

Sam nodded, yeah, that was the score. "The doctor counts as five votes."

That way if she even guessed that it was a boy Sam would be in the lead.

"Fine," Jack told her. "She's just going to say that it's a girl."

"Well, we'll find out next week."

Daniel and Teal'c were still hanging around, waiting for Jack to tell them what to do. They already knew what he was going to say, but they still had to wait. It was the rules.

"Anise still has a crush on Daniel," Sam informed him. "She wanted to know if he was 'currently attached'."

Jack couldn't help but laugh, "That's interesting."

Daniel scowled. No it wasn't. It was embarrassing. "Well, Freya was asking about you, too..."

"I'm engaged, she can ask all she wants." Jack said. "There's not that much she can do."

"That's she's not already done, that is," Daniel said with a smirk.

It was Sam and Jack's turn to scowl. Both knew Daniel was speaking of when Freya had kissed him during the Zatarc incident. "That was before," Sam reminded him. "If she tries anything she has to answer to me."

Daniel smiled, "I know."

Jack sent them off and then turned back to Sam. "Why don't you go get checked out, then when the guys get done with the shower get one in."

She nodded, "Alright... Oh, I forgot to ask- you know the weekend after next?"

"The one where we're going to watch over twelve hours of Steven King."

Sam frowned, "Yeah... that one."

"What about it?"

"Do you think I could have that Friday off, so dad and I can go see Mark?"

He thought about it, "If I can come with."

"Really?" Sam asked, "You want to come?"

"The man is going to be my brother in law, of course I want to come."

"It sounds good to me."

"Besides, we can see what he thinks the sex of the baby is going to be. Even though it won't do any good- we're having a girl."

Yeah, yeah. Whatever. She had heard it all before.

"We're having a boy!" she called as she exited the room, headed for the infirmary.

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A/N: Well, I didn't know that the Shawshank Redemption was a Steven King movie, but I love it! Still can't say it's better than the Green Mile, but it is better than the Stand and maybe even Storm of the Century...