Thanks for the reviews, here's the next chapter. It takes place straight after the last one.
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Jack gently woke Sam up and relayed what Janet had just said to him. If it were up to Sam she would have gladly stayed in Jack's warm and comforting embrace for as long as she could; but she knew that Jacob had not fully forgiven Jack for taking his only daughter away from him and worse than that, impregnating her. Because of this she begrudgingly sat up which allow Jack to free his arm from around her and move to sit back on the chair next to her bed. His hand, however, did find its way to her own grasping it tightly, although this only seemed like a small gesture to those who did not know them, this act of togetherness and unity gave Sam great strength.

Jacob entered Sam's infirmary room a few minutes later and took in the site of Jack and Sam together in front of him. He still wasn't completely happy with the idea of his daughter choosing someone in the military but at least he knew and trusted Jack and he seemed to make his little girl happier than he'd seen her in a long time. "Mark sends his love." Jacob said standing next to the couple and bending over to give Sam a kiss on the forehead.

Sam just nodded at her father, afraid that if she spoke she would be sick due to the anxiety building up inside of her as her fingers nervously played with Jack's. "Let's get started then, shall we?" Jacob said to Sam knowing how uncomfortable she was, Jack looked at Jacob and nodded for Sam, "Right Jack do you want to leave the room?"

Jack once again looked at Sam and could see her pleading with him to stay. He also felt her grip on his hand tighten so he couldn't have gone even if he had wanted to; not that he had planned on going anywhere. "No thanks Jacob, I'd rather stay."

Jacob had been expecting this so nodded, glad to see that Jack was standing by his little girl, "Fine, but stand back and don't be alarmed if she seems in pain at all." Jack did as he was told and stood next to Janet who had materialised by Sam's monitors; ready to step in if anything went wrong. Jacob bowed his head allowing Selmak to take control. "I will now begin." He said.

The light of the healing device illuminated Sam's skin as Selmak slowly worked his way down Sam's body beginning with her head and then lowly sweeping down to her torso. The healing device stayed on her stomach a fraction of a second longer than anywhere else and Selmak's eyes narrowed in concentration before moving on again. He hoped that the others would not have noticed his pause as he did not want to have to tell them that there had been a problem with their baby's organs as he had now fixed it and they did not need any more aggravation.

He then moved onto her legs, doing the less severely damaged one first as it had already almost completely healed back into its original position all that would be needed now was exercise and physiotherapy to regain full mobility. Her other leg, however, was a different story. It had not healed correctly and there was nothing he could do to rectify the position as it had already healed too far for him to do anything. Instead he tried to strengthen the new bone but stimulating new bone to grow where it had broken and repairing the damage to her ligaments and tendons connected to it.

When Selmak had finished, he was exhausted and dreaded having to tell Sam and Jack what he had found out. Jack moved back to Sam's side as soon as he saw the device turn off and took her hand once again. "So…" He said looking at Jacob expectantly.

Jacob retook control of his body, both he a Selmak felt the news would be better coming from him, "Well the good news is that I think you'll be able to go home soon…" He said stalling for time, not wanting to be the bearer of bad news.

"But…" Sam whispered staring at her father, her eyes as big as saucers, glimmering in the light due to the unshed tears than awaited.

Jacob was unable to look her in the eyes as he continued, "The one legs going to be fine, it's all healed it just might be a bit stiff for a while but there's only so much I can do…the other leg hadn't healed straight and because of the number of breaks it will never be as strong as it used to be."

"Will I be able to go back to SG-1?"

"Ah, Sammy I'm so sorry but I don't know, I mean there's a chance but I'd say it's pretty remote." He said, his voice breaking slightly with repressed emotion.

Sam looked like she had been hit by a truck, she had known that there was only a slight chance that her father could fix her but it still felt as if she'd had her whole life taken away from her. "Thanks for trying dad" she choked as the tears that had been threatening finally began to fall. Jack had his arms around her in an instant, just as shocked as she was. They seemed to totally forget about Jacob and Janet standing next to them as they hugged in their own little world, Jack whispering things to Sam sobbing on his shoulder to try and calm her down. Jacob felt he was intruding upon something private so made his excuses and left, not that either of them realised.

Eventually Sam's tears subsisted, and she was able to draw her strength from Jack. "You know you're getting really good at that." She said quietly as she pulled away from him.

Jack smiled, glad to see that she was feeling better, "well I have had a lot of practise, I mean first Cassie cried on my shoulder and then Charlie and Sean and Joey cry on my shoulder whenever they're cranky or have hurt themselves and you seem to be making it into your hobby." He teased gently enticing a small smile as he stole a quick kiss.

"What did I do to deserve you" She asked wistfully, no matter how sad or upset she felt Jack could always life her spirits.

"I know, you must have been real bad in a previous life to be punished with me." He grinned and then turned serious, "so what are you gunna do?"

"I don't know, dad said that there's a chance I could fully recover but how long's that gunna take and after all this I'm not sure that I even want to go back to risking my life every day of the week, I mean in these few weeks I've missed so much of our kids lives. I think it was just the shock of being told that I can never rejoin SG-1."

"So what do you want to do?"

"I honestly don't know, I think I might take some time off work to recover and spend time with the kids, and the baby and then who knows? I couldn't leave here, I mean the SGC is my home, the people here are like an extended family but I don't know if I can face coming to work here everyday and knowing that I can't go thorough the Stargate."

"You'll figure something out, you always do." Jack said and then paused, "hey you could always come and work with me I need a new secretary." He joked causing Sam to hit him mock-playfully on the arm.

"Be careful" she said seriously "or you may find yourself sleeping on the couch when I get home." She then pulled him to her for another kiss, they pulled back breathlessly.

Sam was defiantly back to her usual self, thought Jack happily, "How long 'til you come home?" he said kissing her again.

"Janet said if everything was ok on my tests then I could go home tomorrow." Sam said when he finally released her lips from his.

"Tomorrow is way too far away." Jack pouted slightly causing Sam to giggle, he looked so cute when he pouted.

"What have I told you abut giggling?" he said as he pinned her to the bed, his mouth duelling with hers once again.

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C'est fini, or the chapter at least. Don't know when the next one's gunna be up or even what's in it yet but when it's finished you'll all be the first to know.