Twins

Chapter 5: Back in the Groove

It had been a month since Xander and Lottie had been born, and today was the day that Sam was going back to work full time. She had been on the base a little here and there since her twin angels had been born, but today was the first day since they had been born that she would go through the gate. And she was nervous. Not just the uncertanty of going through the gate, but also the idea of leaving her babies with a stranger. Oh, Sandie wasn't a stranger anymore. She had been helping Sam with the children for two weeks, and watching them part time, but this time Sam and Jack would be gone for as long as a day. Sam wished that she could bring them on the base, but it was too dangerous. If something happened on the base, Sam and Jack wanted their babies as far away as possible.

Jack came into the bathroom, fully clothed and ready to go. "Sandie's here, ready to go."

"I don't know, Do you think that it's too soon? They're only a month old!" Sam said unsure. She had gone through the gate hundreds of times, and had never felt this aprihensive.

Jack smiled, knowingly, and rubbed Sam's shoulders, "They will be fine. I feel just as torn as you do. I didn't want to go back to work once over the past month, but I had to. You don't have to. But I know you. If you stay here and become the housewife, you will go crazy in a week. Heck, you have practically gone crazy this past month and you know it."

"I know, but I'd hate to look back, and find that my children don't know their own mother."

"I'll talk to Hammond about perhaps setting up a Day Care center on the upper layer of the base, then, you and anyone else with children on the base can leave them there, and come and visit them during the day."

Sam sighed, "That sounds wonderful.You just make sure that this mission doesn't keep us there past 3pm, I want to be able to feed my babies and put them to bed. I want my time with them."

"Off course honey, I know exactly how you feel. I used to have to leave Charlie months at a time. At least now, even though we're going to the other side of the galexy, we can be back at a moment's notice."

the SGC

Jack, Sam, and Teal'c were in the briefing listening to Daniel prattle on about a nomadic group that were currently residing in a ruine that Daniel believed to once have been an Ancient City. "We believe that the ruins have writing that will explain the lifestyle of the Ancients, and the experaments that they ran, creating the Stargate. The Gu'auld have no interest there, so there is minimum risk. I should only need a few hours to copy the writing."

General Hammond nodded, "All right, SG-1, you have a go."

Sam walked with the rest of the team. She knew that this mission was just to help her get used to going back through the gate. She knew that it was very likely that it would be a boring mission, and the biggest danger was to her ears as Jack was probably going to complain after 10 minutes on the planet. But she still couldn't help the unknerving desire to run in the oppisite direction and hold Xander and Lottie in her arms. Jack must have seen the look in her eyes, for as the gate reached the 4th Chevron, he had put an arm over her sholder, rubbing her back reasuringly. "Don't worry honey, we'll be back home before you know it."

Sam smiled up at her husband, "I know." Chevron 7 Locked. Sam looked up as the Stargate was activated, and the four individuals who were more than teammates, who were a family, walked up the wramp and disapeared through the event horizon.

Three Hours Later

They had been on the planet for three hours, and Daniel was, for once, working at a fast pace videotaping the writing on the ruines. Jack, as predicted, was bored. "Sam, you don't think that we could find a bush..."

"Jack! We have to remain professional here."

"I know." Jack said, sighing. She knew that he was joking, well partly anyway.

Two Hours Later

It was almost 1400 hours, and Sam was looking forward to getting home. She couldn't wait to hold her babies. Xander and Lottie. She hadn't been away for this long since they were born. "Time to go Daniel." Jack announced.

Daniel would have normally argued, but under the circumstances, knew that he didn't want to keep Sam off world any longer than they had to. "All right. I've got everything lets go."

Everything had been nice and peaceful, and then just as they reached the gate, it activated from the other side. Automatically the four members ducked behind the ruins around the gate. And out of the event horizon appeared four Jaffa and Apophis.

TBC...

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