Sam was clasping a small paperback in her hands when she heard the sound of rapid footsteps coming from the corridor outside the Infirmary. She automatically knew who it was. Three distinct sets; after nine years you learn to know these details. One set was quick and almost shuffling, Daniel. Another strong, heavy and evenly paced, Teal'c, and the last set she knew implicitly, strong footsteps that had a somewhat lazy feel to them at the same time, hard to explain really, but she knew it was her husband.
Before they even arrived Sam placed the book down by her sides and pushed herself up into a comfortable sitting position. Again she looked over the baby, whose crib was now at the side of Sam's bed, and smiled at the sleeping child. She looked from her child to the door just as Jack entered the Infirmary, closely followed by Daniel and Teal'c.
"Sam!" Daniel practically shouted.
"Shh, shhh. She's sleeping," Sam said in a loud whisper pointing at the baby. Daniel practically pushed Jack to the ground and marched right over to Sam. He kissed her on the cheek and hugged her, when he pulled back he looked down at her and smiled at the woman, who he considered a sister after nearly a decade of friendship. He walked around to the other side of the bed and looked down at the sleeping baby.
"Oh, Sam. She's beautiful." He looked back at the baby's mother and smiled warmly.
Teal'c then walked over to Sam and hugged her also kissing her on the cheek. He walked around to accompany Daniel next to the crib.
"She is indeed a very handsome child, Colonel O'Neill," said the huge Jaffa with, what looked a lot like a large smile on his face. Sam looked from the Jaffa over to her husband, whom the two other men had pushed past, and smiled at the look on his face. A sort of 'so can I can kiss my wife now?' look. He sighed, rolling his eyes and smiled as he walked up to his wife, kissing her tenderly on the mouth as he took her face in his hand. No tongue, just a long tender kiss. The kiss of someone in love. When the pair separated after about a minute, Jack's hand remained on his wife's face he looked into her eyes, they were only inches apart.
"Hey," he said with a smile on his face.
"Hey," replied his wife with an equally large grin on her face. The couple continued to look into one another's eyes until Daniel, not so subtly, cleared his throat. Jack tucked a few stray hairs behind his wife's ear and looked up from her gaze to see Daniel looking at them, his eyebrows raised. He shook his head at the pair.
"Well Sam I have to say, she really is beautiful," Daniel told his 'sister'.
"It is indeed fortunate that the child takes after you Colonel," the ever-stoic Jaffa said to the woman sitting in front of him.
"Hey!" whined Jack, looking from his daughter to Teal'c with a mock-hurt look on his face. Teal'c merely raised an eyebrow.
Sam and Daniel both laughed at the remark while Jack frowned at his friend through narrowed eyes, at which point the baby woke up and promptly began to scream bloody murder.
"Well, she definitely sounds like Jack," Daniel commented over the screaming baby as Jack leaned over, hushing the child as he picked her up and cradled her in his arms. After a few moments of soothing and rocking, the baby calmed down and was gazing up at her father with huge, deep, brown eyes.
TBC…