Chapter fourteen.
At the hospital, Sam found a car park just next to Jack.
After she got out and locked her car, she went over and opened one of the back doors of the truck and picked one of the babies up, he was awake but quiet.
She still had trouble telling them apart with out looking at their hospital Id's that Janet had put on them when they were born.
She turned her head slightly so she could read the small writing. Lachlan.
After she had pulled the capsule out, she went around the other side of the truck to help Jack with the other baby.
He seemed to be having difficulty. She had surprised herself with being able to put them in and pull them out in the first go.
Teal'c helped Daniel out of the front seat. He really shouldn't have been out of bed but I can see why Janet had let him come.
He was determined to see Megan. He needed to be with her.
They made a strange entourage entering the hospital, Jack with Nick in a baby capsule, Sam with the other capsule with Lachlan inside. Teal'c was bringing up the rear supporting Daniel until he spotted a wheelchair and was helped to put Daniel in by one of the nearby nurses.
Jack walked up to the admissions desk.
"Can I find out where Megan O'Neill is? She would have come in an ambulance with Dr Janet Fraiser no more than half an hour ago."
"Are you immediate family Sir?" The nurse asked.
"Yes I'm her father. Do you know how she is?"
"Ill just check for you. I won't be a moment." The nurse typed a few things into the computer in front of her, and then turned to pick up the phone.
After ringing the desired floor, the nurse pointed them in the right direction.
When they arrived on the floor they were surprised to see Cassie and Caitlyn in the waiting room. Caitlyn saw them first.
"Auntie Sam, what's wrong with Auntie Megan? Mum rang the man who was waiting at the house with us and told him to bring us here."
"I'm not too sure honey, we will have to wait until your mum comes out and tells us." Sam replied.
Johnny awakened in Cassie's lap, and couldn't get off fast enough. He headed straight to Daniel. Calling him Daddy as he climbed up into his lap.
Daniel wrapped his arms around the little boy and kissed him on the head as the toddler wrapped himself around his father.
Everyone sat down fairly close to one another. Teal'c locked the wheels of Daniel's wheelchair right in front of the small group.
Jack put the baby capsule down and sat down next to Cassie, who immediately linked one of her arms with him and rested her head on his shoulder. Jack responded by placing a light kiss on her forehead.
Sam sat on the other side of Cassie as soon as she put the baby down in front of her. Caitlyn climbed into her lap, like Johnny did with his father. Even though she was in her early teens, Sam could tell she needed comfort.
She was almost taking this as bad as Daniel.
Teal'c stood guard at the door to the waiting room after he dismissed the SGC guard that had brought the girls to the hospital.
Almost an hour passed before Janet came to tell them the news.
Teal'c greeted her at the door with a slight bow of his head. He shut the door after she had entered and joined the rest of the worried people.
Daniel had his back to the door and didn't realize that Janet had came in until Jack and Sam untangled the girls and stood up waiting for any news.
Daniel stood shakily at first then he steadied. Johnny was still wrapped around him but he had fallen back to sleep.
"Janet what's happened, is she alright?" Daniel asked on the verge of tears.
"She is still in the operating room. The other doctor is finishing up now." A collective sigh of relief emanated from the room, thanking god that she was still alive.
Janet continued,
"Megan suffered severe blood loss, the stitches from the Caesarean did rupture. She also had internal bleeding. It appears that the stitches on her uterus, also from the Caesarean were ruptured as well. Daniel, I'm so sorry but she may never be able to have any more children but we won't be able to tell for a few hours. We had to remove her spleen, it appears that she had a blunt trauma to her lower abdomen. Like someone kicked her in the stomach. We re-stitched as best we could, but we will know in a couple of hours whether or not we have to do a full hysterectomy, and remove her uterus and ovaries." She paused for a moment to let that sink in.
Daniel had handed Johnny to his grandfather and sat down. He had never though about having any more children with Megan but the fact that he might not have a choice knocked the wind out of him.
He quickly recovered, deciding on the spot that he didn't care.
She was alive and that was all that mattered, he thought of the boys as his own, genetically they were, so as far as he was concerned he had a family. Realizing Janet wasn't yet finished he nodded at her to continue.
Janet sat down in between her daughters and continued.
"Megan also had a gunshot wound on her upper arm, but that was a clean exit. She was also stitched up for that and there was no muscular damage. She also took a blow to the head, but it appears that all she got out of that was a black eye. I've got one of the nurses from the maternity ward mixing up some bottles for the babies. She will bring it in when it is ready. The boys may not take it at first because they are used to breast milk, but Megan won't be in any position to breast feed anymore."
As if right on queue, a nurse holding two bottles of formula quietly came in the room. Sam took the bottles off of her and handed one of them to Jack.
Daniel spoke first, "Janet, when can I go in and see her?"
"Not for another hour or so, they should be finished with her up in the operating room soon, Ill come and get you when she is ready. I better go back and see how she is doing, Ill come and get you I promise Daniel." With that she gave her daughters a kiss on the head each and left the room.
Jack handed Johnny over to Cassie and passed out some money. "Teal'c can you take the girls and get them something to eat. Johnny will be hungry when he wakes up and grab some extra sandwiches or something for us."
Teal'c inclined his head slightly and opened the door for Cassie, Johnny and Caitlyn to pass through before following.
Sam picked Lachlan up and Jack showed her how to hold him properly while she feed him.
She sat down in one of the seats and Jack kneeled in front of her with his hands on her knees to support him self.
Jack watched Sam feed his grandson. He tilted the bottle she was using to more of an angle, putting his hand over hers. As he did so, she looked him in the eye with a small grin spread over her face at her own mistake.
He kept his hand there, slowly turning circles on the back of her hand with his thumb.
Nick hadn't woken up yet so, Jack pulled himself up and went and sat with Daniel, leaving Sam to continue feeding the baby.
"How are you holding up Danny?" He asked putting his hand on the younger mans back in a comforting gesture.
"I um, I don't know. I just want to go in and see her. Why did this happen? It's all my fault. I shouldn't have gone off world, Megan needed me more. I'm going to have to take some leave from the SGC Jack. Megan is going to be in the hospital for a while and she needs me to look after the children. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I have to do it for her." Daniel paused while he composed him self.
"Plus when she gets home she will need someone to help her with everything. I have some money saved up, so I think that if I spend carefully I can properly make the money last for all of us for a couple of months at least. Jack I'm babbling, I'm sorry."
Daniel leaned forward and put his head in his hands.
"Daniel, it wont come down to all that. I think you should take some time off, but it will be paid. I checked just after the babies were born, the four members of SG1 have about two months leave up their sleeve. If you haven't noticed, we haven't taken holidays for a really long time. Ill clear it with General Hammond when we get a bit more information from Janet about Megan's condition. I think we could all use a little time off. Daniel since all the kids stuff is at my house, why don't you just move in for a while. I'm defiantly taking some time off, and I could use the company."
"That sounds like a good idea Jack, I hadn't thought about that, but your right. My two bedroom apartment is way too small for three kids. Plus I think my neighbors would kick me out of the building. Jack what am I going to do without her. It feels like Shar`e all over again. I don't think I can handle loosing her."
"Well, Daniel here's the short of it. Nothing is going to happen to Megan, she is a tough American Air force Captain. If death comes knocking at her door, she will open it and kick his arise. After all she is an O'Neill, and we don't quit. Daniel, think positive. She will be fine, and when she is strong enough she will come home to all the men that love her. All five of us."
Nick woke up at that moment demanding a feed. Jack went to pick him up but Daniel got there first. Realizing that it was properly therapeutic for Daniel to do it he showed him the basics. Jack realized that for the first time he actually knew how to do something that the scientist's didn't.
He was about to voice that fact when Teal'c and the kids came back bearing gifts of food and coffee.
Daniel walked up to the door in the recovery wing of the hospital, a little hesitant to go in. Jack was behind him. Sam and Teal'c were looking after the children.
They were told that they could go in together if they didn't upset or excite Megan.
"Daniel I swear to god if you don't open that door I will push you through it." Jack piped up from behind him, with his subtle charm clearly evident.
Ignoring him, Daniel slowly pushed the door open. There was no body else in the room, just a lot of monitors hooked up to Megan.
She looked so tiny in the bed with tubes and machines everywhere. Daniel made his way over to the side of the bed and gently grasped one of her hands.
Jack followed suit and went to the other side of the bed and did the same.
Her eyes flickered, but Janet said that she might not be fully with it when she gave them the last update. Daniel pulled one of the chairs in the room closer to the bed and sat down. He leaned forward and gently rested his head against Megan's hand.
Seeing that the younger man needed some time alone with her, Jack lent over his daughters head and gave her a kiss on the forehead and whispered something in her ear.
On his way out the door, he patted Daniel on the back to let him know that he would be just outside.
After Jack left, Daniel started sobbing. Being an emotional man was extremely hard on him at times. He could only let his defenses down so much in Jack's presence.
He knew that Jack wouldn't look at him any differently but there were all the defensive walls that Daniel had built up to protect himself from the military in general.
He wept openly in that room for the first time in a long time. He hadn't noticed that Megan had awaken .
She still lay deathly still, trying to work out what was happening. Her eyes finally opened to see Daniel sitting beside the bed crying into her hand.
He hadn't noticed her yet and she didn't have the strength to speak or to move her hand. She felt exhausted. It felt like every muscle in her body was crying out in pain. Daniel was mumbling something.
She tried to concentrate to hear what he was saying.
"I promise Megan that when you wake up Ill make this right. Ill do anything you want. Ill quit the SGC, Ill be a house husband I don't care. What ever you want."
Daniel's head shot up at a slight movement of her hand under his.
When he saw that her eyes where open, he almost fell out of his seat. Putting his glasses back on, he righted himself and leaned closer to her face.
Janet was right she did have a huge black and blue mark across the side of her face. He didn't care, at the moment she was awake and that was all that mattered.
"Megan, you scared the crap out of me. Why did you have to go and do something so stupid?" He was only half heartedly berating her.
Megan tried to talk but her mouth was so dry. She turned her head slightly wincing at the pain and looked at the jug of water sitting on the bedside table.
Daniel understood what she wanted and poured her a small amount of water. Waiting until she had sipped some through the straw for her to reply.
"Don't be an ass Daniel you would have done the same thing." She murmured barley loud enough for him to hear her.
He chuckled at her response.
"Typical O'Neill humor."
"Are the boys alright?" She asked in a whisper.
"They are fine, your dad is showing Sam how to feed them right now in the waiting room. She is almost as bad as me. How do you feel?" Daniel asked pulling his chair closer to the bed.
"I feel like absolute shit. It feels like every bone in my body is broken. Daniel, I'm not going to be able to feed the twins any more am I?" The last part coming out as a sob.
"Janet said that you lost another large amount of blood. Twice in a week is never a good thing. You will be very weak for a while, it is better for you and the babies that they start on formula. Jack has organized with General Hammond a couple of months leave for me so I can stay home and look after Johnny and the twins. I don't know how long you will be in here for, but I will also be there when you are allowed to go home. I'm not going to let anything like this happen to you again. I love you Megan."
He held her hand up to his face and kissed her palm.
"Daniel I love you too. Before I passed out, I realized I love YOU. Not because you are practically the same man I fell in love with all that time ago, but because you are slightly different. Those differences make you a different person. Listen to me I sound like I'm babbling. Do you know what I mean?"
He nodded, realizing that he didn't need to speak. Megan continued.
"Daniel, I still feel a bit groggy from what ever Janet has me on."
"You go back to sleep for a while. Ill stay until you wake up again. Jack and Sam said that they will watch the boys for the rest of the day, I was going to send them home if Janet says its ok."
"Is Dad here?"
"Yep Ill get him to come in, in a minute." Daniel leant down over Megan's delicate form and placed a gentle but passionate kiss on her lips. He put his forehead to hers and stroked the undamaged side of her face.
She lifted her good arm, and grabbed a hold of the front of his T-shirt pulling him back down for another kiss. This one lingered a little longer, before Megan broke away almost falling asleep.
Daniel left the room to find Jack, once spotted Daniel told him that Megan was awake and wanted to see him.
Jack hurried towards his daughter's room.
Daniel sat down in between Sam and Caitlyn, letting Johnny climb into his lap once more.
"Hey, sweetheart how are you feeling?" Jack asked as he entered Megan's room.
"Dad, I feel like I've just been hit by a freight train. Take the boys home and get some rest, you look like shit."
"Coming from the one in the bed that has been sewn together like a patch work rug. You can't make a comment."
Jack sat down beside the bed staring at the big bruise on her face.
"Megan you scared the crap out of me. Please don't do anything so stupid again, and before you start arguing, cause I can see you are about to make a comment. Well before you do start to complain, just remember that you might be trained to kill a man with your little finger but not just after you gave birth to twins. With complications I might add."
"Don't lecture me Dad, I'm a big girl now." Megan stated defensively.
"I know you are an adult and I realize that I was not the father that was there for you for the past 26 odd years but in the short time that you have been here I have come to think of you as my daughter. There fore I worry about you because of it. I hate all this mumbo jumbo, alternate reality crap. From now until I say so, you will do nothing other then what Janet tells you too. No strenuous activity's, no chasing around after children, and no beating up people because they look at you funny. None of that until I say so. OK."
Realizing how deeply he seemed to be worried, Megan didn't want to sound ungrateful for everything that he had done for her and her children so she simply just nodded.
"Good to see that you are learning. Now I'm going to take the boys home. Sam is coming too, and before you make any snide comments may I remind you that you were the one that is to blame for the new familiarity that I now share, illegally by the way with my second in charge. And if I get my arise kicked for this, it will be worth it."
He leaned over and gave Megan a kiss on the cheek and told her to take care of herself, before he left.
Daniel came in a few minutes later and stayed with her until she fell asleep.
Please read and review. Ellie Mae
At the hospital, Sam found a car park just next to Jack.
After she got out and locked her car, she went over and opened one of the back doors of the truck and picked one of the babies up, he was awake but quiet.
She still had trouble telling them apart with out looking at their hospital Id's that Janet had put on them when they were born.
She turned her head slightly so she could read the small writing. Lachlan.
After she had pulled the capsule out, she went around the other side of the truck to help Jack with the other baby.
He seemed to be having difficulty. She had surprised herself with being able to put them in and pull them out in the first go.
Teal'c helped Daniel out of the front seat. He really shouldn't have been out of bed but I can see why Janet had let him come.
He was determined to see Megan. He needed to be with her.
They made a strange entourage entering the hospital, Jack with Nick in a baby capsule, Sam with the other capsule with Lachlan inside. Teal'c was bringing up the rear supporting Daniel until he spotted a wheelchair and was helped to put Daniel in by one of the nearby nurses.
Jack walked up to the admissions desk.
"Can I find out where Megan O'Neill is? She would have come in an ambulance with Dr Janet Fraiser no more than half an hour ago."
"Are you immediate family Sir?" The nurse asked.
"Yes I'm her father. Do you know how she is?"
"Ill just check for you. I won't be a moment." The nurse typed a few things into the computer in front of her, and then turned to pick up the phone.
After ringing the desired floor, the nurse pointed them in the right direction.
When they arrived on the floor they were surprised to see Cassie and Caitlyn in the waiting room. Caitlyn saw them first.
"Auntie Sam, what's wrong with Auntie Megan? Mum rang the man who was waiting at the house with us and told him to bring us here."
"I'm not too sure honey, we will have to wait until your mum comes out and tells us." Sam replied.
Johnny awakened in Cassie's lap, and couldn't get off fast enough. He headed straight to Daniel. Calling him Daddy as he climbed up into his lap.
Daniel wrapped his arms around the little boy and kissed him on the head as the toddler wrapped himself around his father.
Everyone sat down fairly close to one another. Teal'c locked the wheels of Daniel's wheelchair right in front of the small group.
Jack put the baby capsule down and sat down next to Cassie, who immediately linked one of her arms with him and rested her head on his shoulder. Jack responded by placing a light kiss on her forehead.
Sam sat on the other side of Cassie as soon as she put the baby down in front of her. Caitlyn climbed into her lap, like Johnny did with his father. Even though she was in her early teens, Sam could tell she needed comfort.
She was almost taking this as bad as Daniel.
Teal'c stood guard at the door to the waiting room after he dismissed the SGC guard that had brought the girls to the hospital.
Almost an hour passed before Janet came to tell them the news.
Teal'c greeted her at the door with a slight bow of his head. He shut the door after she had entered and joined the rest of the worried people.
Daniel had his back to the door and didn't realize that Janet had came in until Jack and Sam untangled the girls and stood up waiting for any news.
Daniel stood shakily at first then he steadied. Johnny was still wrapped around him but he had fallen back to sleep.
"Janet what's happened, is she alright?" Daniel asked on the verge of tears.
"She is still in the operating room. The other doctor is finishing up now." A collective sigh of relief emanated from the room, thanking god that she was still alive.
Janet continued,
"Megan suffered severe blood loss, the stitches from the Caesarean did rupture. She also had internal bleeding. It appears that the stitches on her uterus, also from the Caesarean were ruptured as well. Daniel, I'm so sorry but she may never be able to have any more children but we won't be able to tell for a few hours. We had to remove her spleen, it appears that she had a blunt trauma to her lower abdomen. Like someone kicked her in the stomach. We re-stitched as best we could, but we will know in a couple of hours whether or not we have to do a full hysterectomy, and remove her uterus and ovaries." She paused for a moment to let that sink in.
Daniel had handed Johnny to his grandfather and sat down. He had never though about having any more children with Megan but the fact that he might not have a choice knocked the wind out of him.
He quickly recovered, deciding on the spot that he didn't care.
She was alive and that was all that mattered, he thought of the boys as his own, genetically they were, so as far as he was concerned he had a family. Realizing Janet wasn't yet finished he nodded at her to continue.
Janet sat down in between her daughters and continued.
"Megan also had a gunshot wound on her upper arm, but that was a clean exit. She was also stitched up for that and there was no muscular damage. She also took a blow to the head, but it appears that all she got out of that was a black eye. I've got one of the nurses from the maternity ward mixing up some bottles for the babies. She will bring it in when it is ready. The boys may not take it at first because they are used to breast milk, but Megan won't be in any position to breast feed anymore."
As if right on queue, a nurse holding two bottles of formula quietly came in the room. Sam took the bottles off of her and handed one of them to Jack.
Daniel spoke first, "Janet, when can I go in and see her?"
"Not for another hour or so, they should be finished with her up in the operating room soon, Ill come and get you when she is ready. I better go back and see how she is doing, Ill come and get you I promise Daniel." With that she gave her daughters a kiss on the head each and left the room.
Jack handed Johnny over to Cassie and passed out some money. "Teal'c can you take the girls and get them something to eat. Johnny will be hungry when he wakes up and grab some extra sandwiches or something for us."
Teal'c inclined his head slightly and opened the door for Cassie, Johnny and Caitlyn to pass through before following.
Sam picked Lachlan up and Jack showed her how to hold him properly while she feed him.
She sat down in one of the seats and Jack kneeled in front of her with his hands on her knees to support him self.
Jack watched Sam feed his grandson. He tilted the bottle she was using to more of an angle, putting his hand over hers. As he did so, she looked him in the eye with a small grin spread over her face at her own mistake.
He kept his hand there, slowly turning circles on the back of her hand with his thumb.
Nick hadn't woken up yet so, Jack pulled himself up and went and sat with Daniel, leaving Sam to continue feeding the baby.
"How are you holding up Danny?" He asked putting his hand on the younger mans back in a comforting gesture.
"I um, I don't know. I just want to go in and see her. Why did this happen? It's all my fault. I shouldn't have gone off world, Megan needed me more. I'm going to have to take some leave from the SGC Jack. Megan is going to be in the hospital for a while and she needs me to look after the children. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I have to do it for her." Daniel paused while he composed him self.
"Plus when she gets home she will need someone to help her with everything. I have some money saved up, so I think that if I spend carefully I can properly make the money last for all of us for a couple of months at least. Jack I'm babbling, I'm sorry."
Daniel leaned forward and put his head in his hands.
"Daniel, it wont come down to all that. I think you should take some time off, but it will be paid. I checked just after the babies were born, the four members of SG1 have about two months leave up their sleeve. If you haven't noticed, we haven't taken holidays for a really long time. Ill clear it with General Hammond when we get a bit more information from Janet about Megan's condition. I think we could all use a little time off. Daniel since all the kids stuff is at my house, why don't you just move in for a while. I'm defiantly taking some time off, and I could use the company."
"That sounds like a good idea Jack, I hadn't thought about that, but your right. My two bedroom apartment is way too small for three kids. Plus I think my neighbors would kick me out of the building. Jack what am I going to do without her. It feels like Shar`e all over again. I don't think I can handle loosing her."
"Well, Daniel here's the short of it. Nothing is going to happen to Megan, she is a tough American Air force Captain. If death comes knocking at her door, she will open it and kick his arise. After all she is an O'Neill, and we don't quit. Daniel, think positive. She will be fine, and when she is strong enough she will come home to all the men that love her. All five of us."
Nick woke up at that moment demanding a feed. Jack went to pick him up but Daniel got there first. Realizing that it was properly therapeutic for Daniel to do it he showed him the basics. Jack realized that for the first time he actually knew how to do something that the scientist's didn't.
He was about to voice that fact when Teal'c and the kids came back bearing gifts of food and coffee.
Daniel walked up to the door in the recovery wing of the hospital, a little hesitant to go in. Jack was behind him. Sam and Teal'c were looking after the children.
They were told that they could go in together if they didn't upset or excite Megan.
"Daniel I swear to god if you don't open that door I will push you through it." Jack piped up from behind him, with his subtle charm clearly evident.
Ignoring him, Daniel slowly pushed the door open. There was no body else in the room, just a lot of monitors hooked up to Megan.
She looked so tiny in the bed with tubes and machines everywhere. Daniel made his way over to the side of the bed and gently grasped one of her hands.
Jack followed suit and went to the other side of the bed and did the same.
Her eyes flickered, but Janet said that she might not be fully with it when she gave them the last update. Daniel pulled one of the chairs in the room closer to the bed and sat down. He leaned forward and gently rested his head against Megan's hand.
Seeing that the younger man needed some time alone with her, Jack lent over his daughters head and gave her a kiss on the forehead and whispered something in her ear.
On his way out the door, he patted Daniel on the back to let him know that he would be just outside.
After Jack left, Daniel started sobbing. Being an emotional man was extremely hard on him at times. He could only let his defenses down so much in Jack's presence.
He knew that Jack wouldn't look at him any differently but there were all the defensive walls that Daniel had built up to protect himself from the military in general.
He wept openly in that room for the first time in a long time. He hadn't noticed that Megan had awaken .
She still lay deathly still, trying to work out what was happening. Her eyes finally opened to see Daniel sitting beside the bed crying into her hand.
He hadn't noticed her yet and she didn't have the strength to speak or to move her hand. She felt exhausted. It felt like every muscle in her body was crying out in pain. Daniel was mumbling something.
She tried to concentrate to hear what he was saying.
"I promise Megan that when you wake up Ill make this right. Ill do anything you want. Ill quit the SGC, Ill be a house husband I don't care. What ever you want."
Daniel's head shot up at a slight movement of her hand under his.
When he saw that her eyes where open, he almost fell out of his seat. Putting his glasses back on, he righted himself and leaned closer to her face.
Janet was right she did have a huge black and blue mark across the side of her face. He didn't care, at the moment she was awake and that was all that mattered.
"Megan, you scared the crap out of me. Why did you have to go and do something so stupid?" He was only half heartedly berating her.
Megan tried to talk but her mouth was so dry. She turned her head slightly wincing at the pain and looked at the jug of water sitting on the bedside table.
Daniel understood what she wanted and poured her a small amount of water. Waiting until she had sipped some through the straw for her to reply.
"Don't be an ass Daniel you would have done the same thing." She murmured barley loud enough for him to hear her.
He chuckled at her response.
"Typical O'Neill humor."
"Are the boys alright?" She asked in a whisper.
"They are fine, your dad is showing Sam how to feed them right now in the waiting room. She is almost as bad as me. How do you feel?" Daniel asked pulling his chair closer to the bed.
"I feel like absolute shit. It feels like every bone in my body is broken. Daniel, I'm not going to be able to feed the twins any more am I?" The last part coming out as a sob.
"Janet said that you lost another large amount of blood. Twice in a week is never a good thing. You will be very weak for a while, it is better for you and the babies that they start on formula. Jack has organized with General Hammond a couple of months leave for me so I can stay home and look after Johnny and the twins. I don't know how long you will be in here for, but I will also be there when you are allowed to go home. I'm not going to let anything like this happen to you again. I love you Megan."
He held her hand up to his face and kissed her palm.
"Daniel I love you too. Before I passed out, I realized I love YOU. Not because you are practically the same man I fell in love with all that time ago, but because you are slightly different. Those differences make you a different person. Listen to me I sound like I'm babbling. Do you know what I mean?"
He nodded, realizing that he didn't need to speak. Megan continued.
"Daniel, I still feel a bit groggy from what ever Janet has me on."
"You go back to sleep for a while. Ill stay until you wake up again. Jack and Sam said that they will watch the boys for the rest of the day, I was going to send them home if Janet says its ok."
"Is Dad here?"
"Yep Ill get him to come in, in a minute." Daniel leant down over Megan's delicate form and placed a gentle but passionate kiss on her lips. He put his forehead to hers and stroked the undamaged side of her face.
She lifted her good arm, and grabbed a hold of the front of his T-shirt pulling him back down for another kiss. This one lingered a little longer, before Megan broke away almost falling asleep.
Daniel left the room to find Jack, once spotted Daniel told him that Megan was awake and wanted to see him.
Jack hurried towards his daughter's room.
Daniel sat down in between Sam and Caitlyn, letting Johnny climb into his lap once more.
"Hey, sweetheart how are you feeling?" Jack asked as he entered Megan's room.
"Dad, I feel like I've just been hit by a freight train. Take the boys home and get some rest, you look like shit."
"Coming from the one in the bed that has been sewn together like a patch work rug. You can't make a comment."
Jack sat down beside the bed staring at the big bruise on her face.
"Megan you scared the crap out of me. Please don't do anything so stupid again, and before you start arguing, cause I can see you are about to make a comment. Well before you do start to complain, just remember that you might be trained to kill a man with your little finger but not just after you gave birth to twins. With complications I might add."
"Don't lecture me Dad, I'm a big girl now." Megan stated defensively.
"I know you are an adult and I realize that I was not the father that was there for you for the past 26 odd years but in the short time that you have been here I have come to think of you as my daughter. There fore I worry about you because of it. I hate all this mumbo jumbo, alternate reality crap. From now until I say so, you will do nothing other then what Janet tells you too. No strenuous activity's, no chasing around after children, and no beating up people because they look at you funny. None of that until I say so. OK."
Realizing how deeply he seemed to be worried, Megan didn't want to sound ungrateful for everything that he had done for her and her children so she simply just nodded.
"Good to see that you are learning. Now I'm going to take the boys home. Sam is coming too, and before you make any snide comments may I remind you that you were the one that is to blame for the new familiarity that I now share, illegally by the way with my second in charge. And if I get my arise kicked for this, it will be worth it."
He leaned over and gave Megan a kiss on the cheek and told her to take care of herself, before he left.
Daniel came in a few minutes later and stayed with her until she fell asleep.
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