Good news, my exams are finished so I can finally start writing again! Love the reviews so hope you keep em coming, this chapter's a bit longer and hopefully more upbeat, hope you enjoy.

Jack rubbed his eyes slowly not sure if what he thought he was seeing was actually there, when he opened them to his relief he found it to be true. Instead of the still body of Sam, with her eyes closed as if she was asleep, her eyes were now struggling to stay awake and focussed on Jack as she looked at him perplexed as to why he was grinning like a maniac. All Sam knew was that her head and leg hurt like hell and she had no idea how she had come to be in a hospital bed or even how long she had been out, the last thing she could remember was driving home to be with Jack and the kids. When she had awoken she could see Jack sat next to her and an open book on her bed, she had been trying to read it when Jack woke up.

"Hi" Jack smiled practically jumping up and down with excitement before going to sit on the edge of the bed to be closer to her and then unable to contain himself pull her into a hug, subconsciously taking care not to jolt her leg which was still in traction or any cuts that had not fully healed like the one on her head. Jack fiercely hugged her, a hug which she gratefully returned but not with the intensity as she felt as if she had no energy what so ever but glad, none the less to be back in his arms after being away from him for so long on the mission. Sam suddenly saw her leg and wondered why she hadn't noticed it sooner, she pulled back slightly.

"Oh god! What happened to me?" She said shocked, Jack looked at her and wondered if he should tell her so soon after waking up that she may not b able to go back to work.

"You don't remember?" Sam shook her head.

"I remember driving home and…." Sam stopped as it all came rushing back to her, the cross roads and the car, she began to shake slightly from the shock so Jack rubbed her back to try and soothe her.

"Your car got hit and you were brought here, it was touch and go for a while because your airbag didn't go off so you got a nasty head injury and you lost a lot of blood but you pulled through and you're getting better now so don't worry everything's going to be fine now that you've woken up, Janet's gonna have you moved to the SGC." Jack sat with her as she gently fell asleep again, too exhausted to stay awake even though she wanted to. He then went to the nurses station and asked one of them to page Janet as she had already left for the SGC and then went to sit with Sam so she would not be alone the next time she awoke.

It was another 20 minutes before Sam woke again, despite the short sleep she seemed much stronger. "Hi." She said as she opened her eyes again.

"Hey feeling better? Is the pain ok cuz I can always go get a nurse." Sam thought for a second and then shook her head, although her leg was uncomfortable it was nothing compared to what she'd been though on Netu whilst being tortured. Sam looked around the room for the first time and realised that she must have been here a while as there were flowers and get well cards all over the place and even some drawings done by Sean and Joey.

"Jack, how long have I been here?" Jack looked at Sam and knew that although he should wait for Janet as she could explain all the technical stuff better if he didn't tell Sam the truth she would get more panicked, Jack took her hand and gave it a gentle squeeze to try and calm her down.

Never a man to mince his words Jack just came right out and said it, "3 weeks and 5 days". Sam felt as if it was some sort of sick joke and any minute mow Jack would grin and tell her she was really fine but she knew just by looking in his eyes that he was telling the truth.

"So I haven't seen you or the kids for nearly 7 weeks?"

"Yeah, I know it's weird and a lot to take in but yeah." Jack said not really knowing what to say.

"Have they changed much?" Jack had to think about this as he had seen them every day so didn't really notice the change. Then he remembered the picture in his wallet and got it out to show Sam. As she looked at it Jack could see her expression change as her eyes began to mist over. "Look at them, they've all grown up so much."

Jakc thought for a minute and then agreed, "Yeah I guess they have, Joey can speak in sentences now; I mean they don't always make sense but she gets her point across. Sean had a hair cut, don't blame me it was Daniel and Teal'c, and he now goes to a day care place on monday afternoons so he's got lots of new friends and Charlie's been made captain of his years base ball team and he now plays for the school hockey team."

Sam smiled but Jack could see there was sadness present behind her eyes. "Jack would you do me a favour?" she said playing with his hand.

"Anything." Jack said truthfully

"Lie with me." Jack looked at the small bed but did it now the less. He perched on the bed careful not to touch either of her legs, he then placed his arm around her and she buried herself into him inhaling his scent, both feeling content to b held by the other.

"I missed you." She said looking into his eyes.

"I missed you too." He returned bringing his lips down to meet hers in kiss full of love and pure emotion, "I love you" Jack whispered as he broke away. Sam looked at him in surprise not sure if he was aware of what he had said; when she looked into his eyes she knew that Jack had meant every word.

"I love you too." She said placing her head on his shoulder and listening to his heart as his hand traced her spine, causing her to fall asleep once more.

Soon after Sam had fallen asleep Janet stuck her head around the door, "You paged?"

"She's awake." Jack said, "I thought you should be here to tell her all the technical mumbo jumbo thingamajigs and also I wasn't sure what to tell her and what not too."

"Ok then, she'll probably fall asleep quite often and only be able to stay awake for short periods of time. I don't think she should know about every thing at once so we'll see how it goes when she wakes up and take it from there."

"Ok doc, you're the boss."

"What shouldn't I know?" Sam asked opening her eyes slowly, having heard every thing Jack and Janet had said. Sha didn't feel worried about Janet catching her and Jack together as Janet was her best friend and she'd have found out about the tow of them soon anyway. Jack and Janet looked at each other, neither knowing what to say and both unwilling to meet Sam's gaze. "I can cope with whatever you tell me."

Janet sighed, knowing that she had lost, "Fine, but this is against my better judgement as a doctor. As you can probably tell the accident did a lot of damage to your legs, now although we've managed to repair much of that damage there is still a good chance that you may never fully recover."

"But there's a chance I will." Sam said resolutely

Janet nodded but wanted to get the severity of the situation across to her friend, "You were lucky you didn't lose the leg completely, all that's holding it together at the moment is the metal, one wrong fall in the field and that will be it for you. And with the time that you've already been immobile it's going to take months before you'll be fit enough to rejoin SG-1, if ever."

Sam felt as if she had taken a staff blast to the gut, she had known that her leg was bad from the amount of pain it gave her and the fact that it was still in traction after nearly 4 weeks. How was she going to cope if she didn't have Sg-1? Seeing Jack, Daniel and Teal'c go off world and know but for one stupid accident she would have been too. Not only that but she had three children to think about, she was no good to them laid up in bed, still Sam felt that Janet wasn't telling her the whole story. "There's something else you're not telling me." Sam looked to Jack and still he refused to meet her eyes.

Suddenly Janet's pager went off causing the slight tension in the room hat had been building to grow further, "I'm sorry but I've got to go, there's an emergency at the SGC. I'm really glad to see you awake Sam, I just wish I had better new to give you." She said leaving sending a sorry look in Jack's direction.

"I'm sorry Sam." Jack said hugging her as she broke down in his arms, glad of his support although Jack had no idea what to say. Then she pulled away from him and turned away (or as best as she could with her restricted mobility) before proceeding to pretend to sleep, ignoring Jack's pleas for her to talk to him. Jack had never seen Sam so utterly defeated, this perhaps felt worse that when he found out she was injured as now she was going through more pain and once more he was powerless to help. Jack got up off of the bed and stood watching her, when he could bear it no longer he said he was going to make some phone calls to tell every one she was awake, not that he got any answer from Sam. Just as he was about to leave Jack stopped and went to his wallet again, this time taking out the picture of Charlie, Sean and Joey; but also the one behind it. Jack placed them on the bed next to Sam then said, "You need to fight Sam, not for me or you but for our kids they need their mom, they don't care what job you do as long as you're around for them." Jack then left to call everyone and tell them that Sam was awake.

When Sam was sure that Jack had gone she got up slowly to see what he had left behind, the Air Force was Sam's life; there was nothing that could make her feel the same as when she stepped through the gate. Jack had showed Sam the first picture a few minutes before, the three children all looked so different, perhaps Joey the most as she was growing and changing all the time. Sean's hair cut suited him and as he sat next to his brother with it gelled and messed up much the same they both looked exactly like their dad. The second picture was in black and white and pretty hard to make out all Sam could really see was a white mass in the middle of the picture, the writing on the bottom did help out a lot though. It said 'Baby Carter-O'Neill, 6 weeks', this image once again brought tears to her eyes, but this time not in a bad way. Sam gently stroked her stomach as she stared at the picture; this new life gave her the determination Jack had hoped it would, as she felt that if something so small could survive through so much then she could as well.

When Jack returned from giving everyone the good news he was pleased to see Sam sat up in bed staring at the pictures in front of her. "Hey" he said sitting next to her one the bed and smiling, a smile that she returned.

"Hey" she said stroking her stomach and staring at the sonogram. Jack sat next to her captivated by the sight in front of him, he slowly brought his hand up to cover hers and they both broke out into infectious grins, "We're having a baby", said Sam.

"Yeah we're having a baby." Jack said, glad that it was finally real and that Sam seemed just as excited as he was. They then began to kiss passionately in response to show each other just how happy they really were about it. After a few minutes they heard someone clear their throat several times to get their attention, they pulled way quickly slightly embarrassed at getting caught. When Jack saw who it was one thought went through this mind; 'Oh crap'.

Sorry bout the language at the end but when you see who it is you'll know why.