It is Saturday night and Daniel is still in his apartment; he doesn't get back to work until Monday. He stares at a shoebox that he has just labeled 'Letters' and opens it. He reads the contents of his first letter to his unborn baby, and decides to write more.
Dear baby boy,
Good evening once again. With this next letter, I feel like you've grown so much already, and yet you may only be a bundle of cells. Never mind my rambling; I tend to do that when I'm excited about something, and lord knows I am over excited to meet you. Since I found out yesterday that you were to arrive in nine months, I went and did some research. I know I've always wanted to call you Alexander, but there were so many other names that would match you perfectly. I was thinking maybe I should name you John, which means God's gift, and you are to us. Then Aidan was another choice, which means 'help.' It's a beautiful name. Of course, you are going to be a beautiful, precious, darling child of mine, because your mother was beautiful, precious, and a darling of mine. Her name was Sha're, and I love her so much, but some bad people took her away from me, and I want you to know who she was. She was from a wonderful place called Abydos, where I met her on my first visit there. It's quite a long story, but I'll try and tell it. I was an anthropologist/archaeologist who gave lectures and theorized that the Egyptian pyramids existed longer than most historians knew. Nobody accepted my theories (and they still haven't) but your godmother, Catherine Langford, took me under her wing, and from then on, we discovered the stargate, which lead me to you. I met your mother after I offered your grandfather some chocolate after a strange camel had just dragged me across a desert; it was an interesting and funny encounter. Sha're didn't speak any English, but we communicated through our actions, and I knew, at first sight, that we were meant to be together. She was shy, but she helped me and my friends find a way home. In the end, I couldn't just leave her there, so I offered to stay. You weren't conceived until a long time afterwards, when the bad people came. And now, I'm back at Earth, striving everyday to get you back. I love you, and I know that Sha're would've been so happy to see you today. Know that we love you now and for always.
Daniel contemplated whether or not to sign his name, but considering he had promised himself he would hand deliver these letters, he didn't. His son would know that he had loved him from the beginning no matter what the circumstances, and actually wrote the letters knowing he would find him soon again.
a/n: sorry for my short chapters, but these are pretty long letters if you think about the length itwould look like in handwriting. hope you enjoyed it so far. please read and review...thanks!