"They did what?" The Dr. Brightman screamed after hearing the report of what her two new patients were capable of doing.
Sam couldn't suppress the growing grin on her face very much longer. It had been only three hours since they had come back through the Stargate from the planet now know as Tri. Her first stop was to get a hot shower with her husbandin an actual shower– on Tri, if one wanted a hot shower you used the waterfalls located above some hot springs. Teal'c had taken the twins so they could spend some quality time with Uncle T.
"Yes, Doctor, Thora and Johnny controlled the weapons the Amazons were holding. Then they set up a kind of barrier that allowed us to escape without being followed," Daniel calmly explained after seeing the look on Sam's face. They were in the debriefing room discussing what had happened on the planet and what would happen next. Jack was fidgeting in his chair beside Sam as he gripped her hand so hard it would have caused the bones to break if it had been any other woman.
"Can I go now?" Sam asked impatiently because she knew that her father's condition was rapidly deteriorating. Jack squeezed her hand reassuringly and nodded his head in consent.
"There is nothing else that you are needed for here." He whispered, "Go and see your father."
Sam gave her husband a grateful smile and kissed his cheek before quickly exiting the debriefing room and running to the infirmary. Inside she found Teal'c holding Thora while his grandfather was holding Johnny. Jacob didn't look too well to his daughter, but he was trying to hold on for as long as possible.
Jacob saw his daughter standing in the doorway and smiled at her to come in. It was a weak smile, but all he had strength for. Sam, holding back tears in her eyes, slowly made her way over to her father's deathbed.
"So, Sammy, where's Jack?" Jacob Carter asked in a horse voice.
Sam attempted to smile, "He should be along in a few minutes." She wiped a tear from her cheek, "Dr. Brightman wanted to explain everything to Jack that Artemis did to our babies."
Jacob's chuckle soon turned into a cough that brought two nurses to his bedside. The dying man shrugged them off. "And where is Mark?"
Sam looked down, unwilling for her father to see the look in her eyes that was brought up at the mention of her brother. "I don't know," she whispered. "He has refused to talk to me since I broke up with Pete. He didn't even acknowledge the birth of Thora and Johnny." Her light blue eyes forced themselves to look again into her father's dark ones. "He didn't even return my calls to him telling him that you were dying. I guess he thinks you'll pull out of it like last time."
"Last time I had the help of a Tok'ra symbiote, this time that same symbiote is dying and there is nothing that can help me."
"Hey Dad, how are you?" A happy voice asked from the door. The two looked and saw Jack standing in the doorway, looking as if he had been standing there for a few minutes.
Jacob smiled upon seeing his son-in-law. Jack had been calling Jacob "Dad" ever since the older man had become a Tok'ra. Jack was the only one of Sam's love interests that Jacob allowed to call him that.
"I'm doing okay considering," Jacob replied, handing a squirming Johnny to his father.
"Good, that's good," the younger man responded.
"Teal'c to the control room! Teal'c to the control room!" The wanted Jaffa handed Thora to her mother and ran to the room required.
Sam, Jack and Jacob all stared at the last place they had seen the Jaffa, each wondering what had caused the disruption.
It was Jacob who broke the silence first, "Sammy, Jack? I need to ask you two something."
"What Dad?" the man in question asked.
"Are you two happy?"
Sam's eyes filled up with tears again and she responded in a voice that was slightly cracking with grief, "Yes Dad, we're very happy."
"Good, then I can die in peace. I love you all so much," the man whispered. The small family looked on in horror as the heart monitors started a continuous beep, signifying that Jacob Carter and Selmak were finally at rest – six years after Jacob had been implanted with a symbiote to save his life. Six of the happiest years of his life.