A/N This chapter, although I hope you all like it, is specifically for nogigglingmajor. It's the end of the semester and my life is absolutely crazy... and getting her message asking for a new chapter made my day--well more like week. So, she chose another chapter to lillies-- and here it is. I promise as soon as this semester is over I'll be able to write more!

Oh, and I'm very sorry- it seems when I attempt to write fluff it comes out as angst...but I tried to end this chapter with hope.

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He didn't understand how it happened. They were on earth, they were happy, and she wasn't supposed to be in danger.

He had woken up around midnight to find Sam next to him sweating. She was still asleep but she was covered in sweat- he'd have thought it was a nightmare if she wasn't so still. When he reached to touch her forehead he found her burning up. But, it was when he tried to wake her that his world stopped.

She wouldn't wake up. She was unconscious, almost to term, and with an extreme fever.

The first thing he did was call for an ambulance- and as he waited, trying to cool her down with a cloth, he called Daniel and Teal'c to have them meet them at the hospital.

It was two hours later that the doctor came out to explain to the three men what was happening.

"Mr. O'Neill, I'm afraid some decisions may have to be made."

Those words made his knees go weak, and if it weren't for Daniel and Teal'c on either side and their lightning reflexes he would have found himself sprawled on the floor.

He could only pick up certain words of the doctor's explanation through the ringing in his head, but they were enough to let him know his life could change forever, very quickly.

"She's fighting for her life… we have to take the baby… it may not be enough… too much strain…it may come down to her or the baby, Mr. O'Neill…she's weak…if we'd caught it sooner…"

That's when his tears had started. His body started shaking and a numbness went through his body that he was familiar with. He was going into shock.

Another hour later, two blankets wrapped around him and a coke in hand, he stared absently at the door the doctor would come from. They wouldn't let him see her.

The door crashed open quickly, and a nurse came rushing in.

"Mr. O'Neill, you have to come with me now, please hurry."

He sprinted from his chair and followed the ragged nurse down the corridor, and that's when he heard Sam. She was screaming for him. And all he could think was that she's still alive.

Entering the room and going to her side, she calmed instantly.

The doctor looked at him and stated, "We didn't expect her to regain consciousness. When she did she was very disoriented. I tried to explain the situation as I did to you, but she became a little hysterical. I'm very sorry but a decision has to be made."

Jack's head reeled. "Sam, I can't lose you, I can't live without you. I can't make this choice."

"Jack, this is OUR daughter. We've already lost our son, you can't ask me, if there is something I could do, to give up on our daughter too. I can't do that. But you have to be here to take care of her Jack, you have to live and be okay to take care of our Gracie."

Looking at the doctor's he silently asked to have a minute alone with his wife. The room emptied with a quick word from the doctor before the door shut. "I'm sorry, but this has to happen soon. I can only give you a few minutes because soon it may be too late for both of them."

It was the moment the doctor shut the door that Jack crawled into the bed next to his wife.

The next moment, a bright flash of light consumed the room.

A/N I hope you liked it! Please let me know :) Have a great day--