A/N: So, so, sooo not mine. And I'm sorry, guys, but this is going to be the last chapter. Hope you all enjoy it. Reviewer replies at bottom.

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Epilogue--"Good Night"

"Do I have to go to bed now?" O'ahka, now "Angel," whined.

"Yes," Daniel said firmly, even though Sam had opened her mouth to give in. He gave her a stern glance, and she shrugged apologetically.

"We did let her eat all that ice cream; how can we expect her to go to bed early after eating all that sugar?"

Daniel frowned and murmured, argumentatively, "She was falling asleep in Jack's lap."

Jack said from Daniel's right, "The History Channel puts me to sleep too."

"I'm not tired!" Angel yelled, hugging Danny Bear to her chest with a little upward jutting of her chin. The stubborn gesture was such a mirror of Sam's unconscious habit that Daniel was slightly taken aback.

"Yes," he said, holding up a finger, "You are."

It was a clashing of two strong wills, and it was bound to end explosively. Sam and Jack saw it coming and edged backward down the hallway a bit. The four of them stood just outside the guest room in Daniel's house.

They'd gotten Angel as far as the door, under the pretense of showing her around the house more. But as soon as she caught sight of the bed, she'd balked in the doorway. Now her eyes filled with rebellious tears, and she stamped her foot petulantly.

"No! I'm not a little baby, and I don't want to go to sleep right now!"

"You're cranky, and that's because you need to get some rest," Daniel told her, trying to sound calm and failing.

Angel burst into full blown hysterics, flinging herself down on the floor in a flurry of tearful screams. It sounded like she was being murdured, and all Daniel wanted was for her to go to sleep. "Sam...?" he said, looking to the only woman present for immediate tantrum assistance.

"Don't look at me," she said, holding up helpless hands.

She pointed to Jack, but he shrugged and said, "I guess just let her get it out of her system..."

What? Just let her lie there, screaming her head off? And what were the neighbors going to think? Previously unmarried, childless man with suspicious noises emerging from his house at around twelve-thirty in the morning... And besides that... Her crying was unsettling to him in a way he'd never felt before.

Sighing heavily, he scooped Angel off the floor, kicking and screaming and all. He carried her into the guest room and sat down on the bed and cradled her on his lap, rocking back and forth ever so slightly. "Shh... I'm sorry... You don't have to fall asleep right away... And I'll just be down the hall if you need anything."

Angel sobbed into his chest. "I don't... wan' Sam and Jack... to... go...home!"

'Uh, oh,' was Daniel's first thought, but it was immediately proceeded by, 'How am I going to get them to stay?' He glanced up at them, and Jack shrugged.

"I can sleep on the floor, I gue--"

"Jack," Daniel interrupted, "You'd be way too uncomfortable on the floor. Just take my bed. I'll sleep on the floor, and Sam can have the couch... Unless she wants the bed?" He gave her a questioning look, and she raised her brow at him in a very Teal'c-like manner. "Or are you going to stay at all?" he wondered, his heart sinking at the thought.

"Oh," Jack said, quickly, "We'll stay... And if you don't mind, I'll take the bed." Now what was that all about? Did Jack not want Sam to sleep in Daniel's bed because of some territorial male testosterone thing?

Daniel shrugged off the thought and said, "That's up to Sam."

Sam blushed and looked at the floor for a second or two. "I guess you can have the bed, sir... I'd imagine a sofa isn't the most comfortable place to sleep for someone your age." Oops... What was she thinking?

Jack looked blank for a second or two than wondered a bit too calmly, "Someone my age?"

Daniel cleared his throat, nervously. Angel said, "Yea!" She hugged Daniel and Danny Bear and then closed her eyes and almost instantly was snoring softly. Daniel blinked and gently lowered her onto the bed. He pulled off her tennis shoes and then pulled the covers out from beneath her and draped them over her.

After that, he got to his feet and turned back to Sam and Jack, "Still staying? I doubt she'd even notice if you left."

"Now that," Sam said, "Was just amazing. As soon as she got her way..." She shook her head disbelievingly. Daniel caught her surreptitiously glancing at Jack a moment later, and thought maybe she was wondering the same thing he was.

He decided to ask despite his misgivings about how Jack would react. "Was Charlie ever difficult like that?"

Jack's straying attention returned as he focused on Daniel. For a second, there was such a look of a deer being caught in someone's headlights, that Daniel almost apologized. But then Jack said, "Sometimes... But he was a good kid." And then his eyes refocused out of the past and he said, "O', I mean, Angel is more like you."

Sam chuckled, but Daniel frowned. "That's not funny," he grumbled, then ushered them out of Angel's room.

Jack retorted, humorously, "You know you throw tantrums when you don't get your way..."

Sam tried to stifle her giggles as Daniel glowered. "I'll get you a blanket and pillow, Sam."

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Daniel was happy with the sleeping arrangements, but Jack seemed to be having a guilt trip, "Look, it's your bed. So you take it, and I'll crash on the floor."

"Sam would never let me live it down if you ended up sleeping on the floor," Daniel mumbled to him sleepily. He'd already situated himself on the carpet of his bedroom with a blanket beneath him and one on top. Jack had just tossed him one of his own pillows before he'd suggested switching spots.

Daniel fluffed the pillow a bit more roughly than it needed to be fluffed, and Jack said, "Well, you could sleep up here with me. It's not like there's not enough room."

Daniel stopped punching his pillow into shape, stared at Jack blankly for a second or two, and then shot back, "I always knew you were just trying to get me into bed."

Jack reacted by first blinking, and then clenching one side of his jaw. He shrugged. "Fine... If you want to spend the night tossing and turning, that's fine with me." He lay back against the pillows and reached out to turn off the lamp. In the darkness, Daniel heard him ask, "You still mad at me, Daniel?"

Daniel said, "No..." after a moment of thought. "Are you still mad at Angel?"

"No," Jack answered. "And Daniel...?"

"What?"

"I'm not going anywhere."

After a moment, where he wondered how Jack had known what he needed to hear, Daniel replied, "Good."

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He was awakened at four thirty in the morning by panicked screams. "Wha's going on?" he questioned lethargically, already sitting up. It was Angel, his semi-unconscious brain registered, and he started to get out of the bed to get up at the same time Jack wondered, "Is that O'?"

Just then, the door came open and Sam burst in, carrying the crying little girl in her arms. "She had a nightmare," she told them, and made her way to Daniel and handed Angel down to him.

Angel clutched her free arm around his neck--she was already holding Danny Bear in one arm. "I dreamed you left, Daniel," she said, tearfully. "You won't leave, will you?"

His heart faltered and he swallowed. "No, Angel... I promise I won't leave." He hadn't thought of it until that moment, but he knew now that he couldn't abandon her. She was his daughter no matter how it had come about.

"Sam," Angel questioned, "Will you stay too?"

"I'll always be there for you, Angel," Sam promised her with a significant glance at Daniel.

"You too, Jack?" the little girl asked. She seemed to need to hear the reassurance from everyone she cared about.

Jack gave her a mock glare. "Don't you even doubt it, kiddo."

Daniel asked, "You feel like going back to bed, now?"

She shook her head and gazed at him with beseeching blue eyes. "Can I stay here with you and Jack?" Daniel blinked in embarrassment over the way that came out sounding, and wondered if she were going to have issues over this when she grew up...

"How about if Sam stays with you in your room?" he questioned. The guest room's bed was large enough to accomodate a child and an adult.

Angel shook her head. "No. Why can't Sam stay here in this bed, and we can all sleep together?"

Sam blushed furious red, and started to say something when Jack put in, mischievously, "Yeah, Daniel, why not?"

Daniel was about to try and explain to O'ahka when an evil thought occured to him. "You know... You and Sam can stay on the bed, and Jack can move down to the floor."

Jack gave him a baleful look, but Sam chuckled. Angel zoomed in on the only one who wasn't in agreement with Daniel's plan. "Please, Jack," she begged, adding a very effective pout.

Jack threw his eyes to the ceiling and sighed heavily. "Oh, all right," he snapped and gathered together a blanket and pillow and moved to the carpet.

Daniel smothered a snicker and watched Sam and Angel get situated on the big bed. At that moment, the feeling of happy, contentment made him wonder if maybe Angel had granted his wish after all.

"Good night, Sam," Angel said, sweetly, when they were both comfortable.

"Good night, Angel," Sam said, reaching over and switching off the lamp.

"Good night, Jack," Angel continued.

"'Night, O'," he replied in a grumpy tone.

"Good night, Daddy," was the last thing she said, and Daniel's heart squeezed inward and then started beating once again.

"Good night, sweet heart. I love you..." He waited for her reply with bated breath.

"I love you too."

the end

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Seeria Nix: Thank you... I hope the reason I picked it is clear in this chap. If it wasn't, I chose that title because O' wanted to grant Daniel's wish, and she ended up doing so accidentally. I'm sorry this fic didn't turn out to be a romance, but that's what I intended in the first place. so I decided to stick with it. Hope you enjoyed it anyway. And thank you. :) I'm glad you like it.

eris86: Thank you. If you have a gift for writing creepy fic, I think that's cool. I'm just not real into writing it, 'cause I like mushy stuff better. :) Sorry it wasn't a Sam/Daniel if that's what you were hoping for. And thanks for all your reviews--they were a really great motivator. (I am the worst procrastinator ever.)

VesperRegina: Hee. I will email you later, but thanks. -- is big sis.

Sort of extra: I had trouble picking the bear's name. Here are the other two runner's up: D.J. and Space-monkey. -Misao-incarnate