Jeff's eyes were wide with shock. "You-you're what?"
Kris's brow creased in worry at his reaction; "I'm pregnant. With our baby."
"How can you tell?"
"I haven't been feeling well lately and I did a scan of my body to find out why." At his dumb-founded look, she continued, "It's another perk of having the Ancient gene."
Jeff's grin drowned out the rest of his face. Happily he picked up his wife and spun her around. All the while he was chanting, "We're gonna have a baby!"
Kris laughed quietly at his antics, "Put me down, be quiet! The kids are asleep!"
Jeff put her down as requested, but still kept his hold on her. "I love you."
"I love you, too."
"So… what are you going to tell Sam and Jack?"
Kris looked at him with her brow scrunched up, "What do you mean 'you'? We're going to tell them the truth. And help them find another surrogate mother or something."
Jack looked confused between his niece and nephew. He turned back to Kris, "So, you're pregnant?"
"Right," she replied.
"And you have healing powers."
"Right."
"And Sam can't carry a baby."
"Right." A smile graced Kristie's tired face.
"But you want to try and 'fix' her uterus using your healing powers that you didn't tell me you had until just now?"
"RIGHT!" Kris, Jeff, and Sam practically shouted at him. They'd been trying to explain the situation to Jack for the past hour and a half – apparently only now getting through his thick scull.
Jack looked at them all and shrugged, "Okay."
"So?" Jeff asked, rubbing his hands together, "Who wants pie?"
Kristie blanched at the mention of her favorite dessert before high tailing it to the bathroom. A few moments later the other three occupants of the room could hear the telltale sounds of vomiting.
"So, no pie then?" Jeff asked innocently.
Sam immersed herself in the latest report from Dr. Lee on an Ancient laboratory found on P3X-584. She found it rather odd, to say the least, that all the notes for the lab were in Ancient, but the human clone they found there spoke English.
Khalek, the clone the scientists found within the lab, seemed to be a young man who'd been taken from his home and just wanted to go back. She tried not to let her mind wander to her predicament with Jack and Kris and the baby, but after a while she just couldn't help it.
After a while she gave up her reading with a sigh, choosing instead to go visit their newest 'experiment'. On her way there, however, Sam ran into Daniel on his way to the lab where Mr. Woolsey was talking to their 'prisoner'.
"Whoa, Daniel," Sam said as the archeologist nearly ran into her, "What's going on?"
Daniel rolled his eyes and slowed down his pace so Sam could keep up, "He wasn't a prisoner."
"What? Who?"
"Khalek! He wasn't a prisoner – he was Anubis's clone. A creation!"
"What!"
"Yeah," by this time the two were at the elevators waiting for the door to open, "Apparently Anubis created Khalek and gave him the genetic memory of the Goa'uld and was trying to get him to ascend naturally."
"Crap."
When Sam and Daniel arrived at the isolation room, they found Mr. Woolsey there talking to Khalek. The man strapped to the bed below did not seem to take kindly to the accountant's questioning.
"Mr. Woolsey?" Sam asked quietly so Khalek couldn't hear, "Why are you here?"
The short man looked up into the General's eyes, "The President requested my presence as soon as it was made known to him that we had an unknown alien here. Don't worry, General, for now I'm just observing."
"Well, you're going to have to observe somewhere else. I've just learned that Khalek is a clone and able to ascend. He needs to be destroyed."
"How are you so sure you can do that, General?" Khalek asked from the room below. Sam shared a horrified look with Teal'c and Daniel. The 'man' below just smirked, "Wondering how I could hear you? Just like you're wondering how I know that you won't find the way to stop me until it's too late because you're mourning your barren womb too damn much."
The words stung – a lot more than Sam should have let them. But it was true. She wasn't thinking clearly because no matter how much she tried her thoughts kept on going back to the fact that Kristie should be pregnant with Sam and Jack's child – not Kristie and Jeff's child. It was selfish of her to think so, but try as she might, Sam couldn't help it right then.
Before anyone could react to this… disturbing news that Khalek could read their thoughts, the young man used his powers to get out of the restraints and was half way down the hall when the guards finally subdued him.
Sam sighed as Teal'c said, "Perhaps Kristie O'Connor could be of some assistance."
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