Twins

Chapter 7: Home with the Kids

Sam was working. There wasn't anything new about that, but that meant that Jack was all alone with his two beautiful children. And at the moment he was trying to get Xander to accept the bottle that contained Sam's breast milk, but he was being way too fussy.

Despite having had Charlie, Jack didn't have that much experience with babies. When Charlie was a baby Jack had been gone on missions a lot, and when he had been home Sarah was so overprotective that he never got any one on one time.

Finally Jack thought as Xander accepted the bottle. When Xander had enough, Jack burped him, and then Xander fell asleep very easily, only to have Lottie start crying, a cry that told Jack that Lottie had a newly uncomfortable diaper.

In order to check how severe the damage was, Jack lifted Lottie our of her crib and undid the girl's diaper, only to be hit by the paint-pealing smell from the diaper. Wishing he had a hazard suit, Jack cleaned off hid daughter, and put her back to bed.

Sam came out of her office when both babies were sleeping, "What little Angels."

Jack smirked, "You really believe that? Well than you change the next diaper and still say that." But despite the chaos and mess that came with their lovely Twins, Jack had never been happier, but as Jack sat silently with his arms around his wife, he couldn't help but think back to how he had hesitated back on the planet, and he knew that he couldn't remain in a position to order his wife into danger.

And so, tomorrow he would resign his commission and recommend Sam for promotion and Command of SG-1.

Hammond's Office

Hammond was speechless. On his desk were letters of resignation from both Colonel O'Neill and Major Carter, "Siler, tell Colonel O'Neill and Major Carter to report to my office."

"Yes sir." Hammond sat back, deep in thought. He couldn't loose those two, they were too important to the future of this program and this planet.

"I'm not accepting your resignations" Hammond said finally

"Resignations?" Sam asked, "You resigned too?" pointedly at Jack.

"Why would you resign?" Jack asked Sam.

"I don't want my children to be raised without a mother like I had to."

"I was reminded about how much I was absent in Charlie's life, and then back on the planet I hesitated because I didn't want you going into danger."

"Now you won't have to worry about that, I resigned."

"People!" Hammond yelled above their bantering, "Like I said, I'm not accepting either of your resignations, but I understand that due to your personal relationship, one of you has to be reasigned..."

"I should be sir, I can command any unit, and Sam can take command of SG-1."

"Yes, I read your recommendation that Major Carter should be given a promotion to Lt. Colonel, and I agree with you, however the President and Joint Chiefs want Colonel O'Neill to stay in command of SG-1 with Dr. Daniel Jackson, Teal'c and one new member. Due to Major Carter's wish to be placed in less dangerous situations we will put her in command of SG-10, which runs mostly scientific and Archeology related trips through the gate." Hammond saw the look between them, and even though they knew that they would miss being on the same team, "Don't worry, you'll both be on the same base, and I have asked around for your Day-Care idea, and it has gone over better than expected. As soon as we can hire some child-care specialists and fix up an area on the surface, we will have our own daycare on the base where you can leave Lottie and Xander, and you can visit them much easier."

Sam stepped forward, "Sir, I have some information about how a day-care center can double as a pre-school, how to receive the certification and such."

"Thank you Major, I'll look into it, see how many personel on the base would be interested."

"Thank you sir."

"And Major, this team is yours to be hand-picked. You earned this command."

"Thank you sir."

TBC...