Thank you all for being so patient! My sister FINALLY arrived home yesterday. So, she edited my chapter, and now you can read it! That's good… right? Anyways… back to the story.

Ch 27: Baby shopping

Sam touched her new oak leaves on her jacket and smiled. She was now a Colonel. She remembered when she was a Captain, it seemed forever ago, and at the same time just like yesterday. She smiled and put it on a hanger and put it away inside her closet.

"Sam! Sam! Breakfast is ready!" Jack's voice called from the kitchen. "Come and get it."

Sam smiled. "Coming'!" she shouted, she hurried into the kitchen. "Your omelets?"

Jack smiled sheepishly. "What can I say?"

Sam sat down at the table. "How much beer did you use?" she grinned up at him.

Jack looked at the half empty beer bottle on the counter. "I didn't use that much, I drank the rest, only a couple of teaspoons." He grinned at her. "So how does it feel?"

Sam looked up at him. "How does what feel?" she asked.

"Being a Colonel…"

"Um, not different right now…" she answered; she stared into the pan of eggs, sausage, cheese, beer and whatever else he put in it.

Jack flipped the omelet onto her plate and pushed it to her.

"Jack! That's enough food for five people!" she complained.

"You're eating for two." Jack reminded her, he picked up his fork and began to eat his food.

"This little baby doesn't eat enough food for four people, Jack." She took a bite and looked up at the clock. "Holy Hannah! We're got to get going Jack! There's a briefing-"

"Not until you eat half of that," Jack said pointing his fork at her.

Sam groaned and began to eat.

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Another week past.

Sam and Jack decided to start on the baby room, but of course, they would need to know the gender. But none of them wanted to find out, they wanted to be surprised, so they decided to get green and yellow items, it looked more cheerful anyways then 'boring' pink or blue. Daniel and Teal'c decided they would join them shopping. So, they all loaded themselves into the truck and drove to 'Babies R Us'.

Sam walked into the store and about passed out. There was so many outfits and toys, beds, everything you would need for a little baby, but there was too much stuff! She looked at a camouflaged outfit that read 'My mommy saves the world!'. She smiled, knowing she had to have the outfit. She found another one with 'Daddy' instead of 'Mommy' and placed it in the cart.

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Jack was looking at beds. He grinned upon seeing a wooden crib with stars panted all over it, another one was filled with teddy bears, how was he ever going to choose? A saleslady walked over with a smile on her face. "Can I help you?" she asked sweetly.

Jack turned to her. "Yeah, I was wondering, do you have a selection for cribs that can be used by both genders?"

The lady smiled and nodded. "Right this way, actually, it's the biggest selection you'll find anywhere." She said as she began to walk away. Jack quickly followed; he walked into a room half full of baby cribs, and the other with toddler beds.

"Thank you so much!" He said as he began to look around for the right bed.

"Do you have something in mind? Of what you want?"

"No, just looking right now, thank you though."

"No problem. Just let me know if you need anything." She said and began to walk away.

"Will do."

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Daniel and Teal'c were shopping for baby toys. Teal'c found some toys fascinating, he chose all the ones that were 'supposed' to improve your mind, that a baby probably wouldn't use until 'it' was three, but Daniel wasn't going to say anything.

Daniel filled his cart with teddy bears, and any other kind of stuffed animals, he picked out an alien one that reminded him of Thor, he smiled. "Hey Teal'c! Look!"

Teal'c turned around and stared at the alien thingy in Daniel's hand. "I thought your world did not know of aliens." He said.

Daniel smiled. "They don't know that they actually exist."

Teal'c raised an eyebrow. "I see."

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Sam walked over to the blankets; she had picked out enough outfits to not have to do laundry for a month. She hadn't been able to decide on which ones to pick, so she picked them all.

She reached out her hand and felt a blanket… it was so soft… she pulled it to her face and rubbed it. Her baby had to have one! She put the yellow and green one in the cart, and smiled, this was too much fun.

Half an hour quickly passed, and everyone was done shopping, Jack carried 'the' crib (Inside the box of course) to the counter while Daniel, Teal'c and Sam pushed their carts. They waited about twenty minutes for the items to ring up. Sam was rather surprised at the amount of toys, but the men convinced her that she would need them.

The total rang up, $735.22.

Sam suddenly realized she hadn't even thought of the cost. She slowly pulled out her credit card but Daniel stopped her and slid a card he had in his hands down the slot. She turned to him. "Daniel, I'm not letting you pay for all of this!"

Daniel smiled and shoved the card into his pocket. "I'm not. It's a gift- from the President." He said happily.

"The President?" Sam asked. "That was nice of him!"

The lady behind the counter nearly dropped the bag of baby picture frames. "The President?"

They all turned to her. Sam bit her lip. "Yep, the President. We have to go, have a nice day!" she carried as many bags as she could handle and walked out of the shop, Daniel, Teal'c and Jack did the same.

Once all in the car, Sam turned to the men. "Who's hungry?"

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They were all seating at a small table in McDonalds ten minutes later, waiting for their food. Sam and Jack laughed at a joke Daniel had made, while Teal'c sat their looking a little confused, he still did not get their jokes. "Number thirty-four!" someone called into the microphone. Teal'c reached over and took the receipt from Sam and went to go get the food. He was back a minute later with a tray of cheeseburgers and fries.

"Yum!" Sam said grabbing a box of fries and began to eat them. Jack took his cheeseburgers and began to eat; Teal'c took his five hamburgers and two large fries.

"Where's my chicken sandwich?" Daniel asked looking underneath cheeseburgers.

Jack spat out a piece of his cheeseburger. "I think this is it, Danny-boy." Jack said looking at it in disgust. He tossed it over to him and grabbed a cheeseburger.

Daniel looked at the big bite out of it, his face scrunched up. "Thanks Jack." He said breaking off the pieces around the bite, and then began to eat it. "Anyways… where are you putting the baby room?"

Sam looked at him. "In the bedroom…"

"Which one?" he asked pushing his glasses further up his nose.

"The-"

"Why does it matter?" Jack cut in.

Daniel shrugged and took another bite. "It doesn't, so… What are we doing next?"

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"STRIKE!" Sam shouted happily, she walked over to the scoreboard and grinned. "Your turn Jack."

Jack groaned and stood up, he slowly walked over and picked up his blue bowling ball. "Lucky ball…" he muttered then acted like he kissed it, he walked down the lane and let it go, it started rolling to the right. "NO!" Jack shouted, it kept going to the right and rolled into the gutter. "Darn it!"

Sam grinned. "Shut up," Jack muttered. After a second's deliberation, he walked over and scooped up Sam's ball and bowled it.

"Hey! That's mine!" she hurried after him, but she was too late, he'd let it go and it was rolling down the lane.

"STRIKE!" Jack shouted. "Ha! I told you your ball was rigged!"

Sam rolled her eyes. "Whatever…"

Daniel grinned and picked up his ball, he swung his arm back and accidentally let go, the ball began to roll backwards.

Sam, Jack and even Teal'c burst into laughter. Teal'c looked up from the video camera. "I have got that on the video camera, Daniel Jackson." He said smiling.

Daniel groaned and hurried after his ball before it ruined something. Sam managed to stop laughing. "I'm going to go get some nachos," she said as she began to walk away.

"I'll join you!" Jack said, following her. "We'll be right back guys!"

"Okay…" Daniel said, anyone could tell he was pleased that they had left him to bowl with just Teal'c.

"I'd like some nachos, and a pickle… do you sell just a pickle?" Sam told the man behind the counter.

"Yes ma'am, it'll be right out, and what can I get for you. sir?"

"Ah, give me a beer."

The man nodded and rang up the order. "That'll be-"

"Just charge it to our game." Jack interrupted.

"Yes sir," he went back to get the food. "Here you go, have a good day!"

"We will, thanks!" Sam said walking away with her pickle and nachos; she jumped her pickle into the nacho cheese. "This is so good!"

Jack looked at her with disgust. "That is totally… disgusting… you know."

She nodded. "It sounds gross, but it's good, want to try it?"

Jack shook his head. "No, thank you." He said, he took a sip of his beer and sighed. "Teal'c just got a strike… again."

"His score is going to be three-hundred." Sam muttered.

"Yeah," Jack agreed. "Great job, Teal'c!"

"Thank you O'Neill, Colonel Carter. It is your turn, I believe."

"Thanks, Teal'c," She put her food and down grabbed her bowling ball.

By the end of the day, everyone was worn out, Teal'c had managed to bowl a perfect game, it wasn't bad, seeing it was his first time playing…

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They arrived at the O'Neill house to find a unmarked van parked outside of it, Daniel looked a little worried, Jack and Sam seemed confused, and Teal'c, well he seemed like Teal'c. "Uh- anyone want to go get some ice cream? After all, there's still money on the card…"

"No, I'm stuffed for now, thanks though." Sam said pulling into their driveway.

"How about we go… umm…" he rubbed his forehead. "Why don't we go… TO THE SGC! Yeah, we might want to go see if everything's okay there, you know, we have been gone all day and-"

"Daniel, is there a reason you don't want us to go into our house?" Sam asked as they all unbuckled.

"No, I just think-"

"It's fine!" Jack said. "Called at the bowling ally."

"What if something happened aft-"

"Daniel!" Jack said, getting rather annoyed at the archeologist annoying insistence. "Will you please knock it off? Who's going to help me unload all this baby stuff?" he said as he looked inside the back of the truck. "Boy, we got a lot of stuff."

Teal'c walked over and picked up the box containing the crib and walked towards the front door. Jack shrugged and took a couple of armfuls of bags. "Daniel, can you get that for me?"

Daniel took the other bags while Sam opened to door for Teal'c. "Why does it smell like paint in here?" she asked looking around.

Daniel sniffed. "I don't smell anything, do you Teal'c?"

Teal'c hesitated. "No." he answered finally. "O'Neill, please lead the way to the baby room."

"Yeah, sure thing!" Jack put down the bags and hurried down the hall, pushing the door opened. He froze.

"Colon- Mr. O'Neill!" a man said standing up quickly, paint dripped off of his roller onto the newspaper on the floor.

"Siler? Lt. Elliot? Lt. Br- What are you all doing here?" he looked at the walls they had just painted.

"We arrived a little late, sir, we were supposed to get it done before you came back, sorry, sir." Siler said.

Sam walked into view. "Wow!" she said admiring the walls. "Thank you guys!"

Siler blushed. "It was Dr. Jackson's idea, we just helped with it." Daniel stood next to Sam. "I'm sorry, we tried to-"

"No, no, no, it's okay." Daniel said raising his hand. "It looks great, thank you guys."

Teal'c walked into the room. "It does indeed look cheerful."

The men put down their rollers. "We're done."

Jack smiled at each of them. "You guys hungry? 'Cause I could order pizza…"

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Note from beta: I did this after an exhausting day, so, all errors are mine and I apologize for them… anyways, review!

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