A/N. Hey guys, I know its been a couple of months since I updated and I won't bore you with the details but needless to say, I've not been a happy camper! I've been able to devote the usual amount of time on this story that I'd have liked so I've been putting off posting it until I was happy with the result. So here it is, the final result of chap 11, enjoy!
Chapter Eleven – The Replicators
A few hours later, they were awoken by Thor's disembodied voice floating through the ship.
"We will arrive at destination in five of your Earth minutes" Jack groaned as Sam started to get up and halted her efforts by pulling her closer to him.
"He said five minutes Sam" he reminded playfully.
"Yes but we still have to get up to the bridge" she responded.
"Pwease?" he asked.
"Jack!" Sam warned.
"Ok, ok lets go" he conceded but pulled her into a heart stopping kiss. Sam sat speechless for a second until Jack reminded her, "Come on Sam, we have to go remember"
"You're jus pure evil" she glared as she followed him out of the room. When they arrived at the Bridge Teal'c and Cassie were already there.
"Hey where's Daniel and Janet?" Jack asked.
"They're on their way, just taking a little longer to get up than the rest of us" Cassie smirked.
"That's enough Cassie" Janet admonished as she and Daniel entered. Cassie just shrugged.
"Ok Thor Buddy what's the plan?" Jack asked.
"I have left the actual mechanics of your plan of attack to yourselves, I shall transport you to the surface where I require you to distract the replicators for long enough for the device to be planted."
"Ok, suit up people!" Jack ordered, "Let's go kick some little spider butt" Thor transported them to an area that had little replicator activity, the plan being to make as much as a dent in the replicators as possible.
"Ok guys we know from experience that it won't take the little buggers long to find us so remember, as big a dent as possible" Jack reminded. Sam and Janet chorused their,
"Yes sir!" as Daniel muttered, "Yes Jack" and Teal'c merely bowed his head.
They edged their way down the corridor and Jack suddenly stopped, raising his fist so they could all see.
"Did ya hear that?" he whispered to Sam who nodded. Suddenly a replicator dropped onto her shoulder, she yelped in shock and swatted it off and then Jack fired his P-90 at it. It disintegrated just as hundreds more replicators made their appearance.
"Fire at will!" Jack bellowed. Everybody started firing madly at the over increasing mass of metal. They had been in battles with the replicators before however this was completely overwhelming. Jack couldn't believe the sheer ferocity of the attack. He was completely focused on destroying the nearest line to him that the first he realised of the distress of his team mates was Janet's strangled cry.
"Daniel!"
Jack snapped his gaze towards him, he had been knocked to the ground by one of the larger replicators and his position was being advanced upon. He was too far to be able to help him and Teal'c was pinned down as well. Time seemed to turn to syrup as he saw that Sam had already started to make her way over to Daniel. As she threw herself in front of Daniel and started firing, Jack saw one of the replicators fly toward her and he saw her fall to the ground at the impact.
"Noooo!" came a strangled cry from what he soon realised was his own throat. There was an explosion in the bowels of the building and all the remaining replicators fell into each of their individual pieces. It took Jack less than a second to be at Sam's side. He saw where the replicators leg had torn through the material of her uniform and had made a deep slash in her side. She was rapidly losing blood and was not conscious.
"Oh my God, Doc get over here!" Jack yelled. Janet hurried over with her medical guaze and placed it over the wound.
"Hold that there, Sir" she ordered, Jack did as he was told. Janet quickly checked her vitals as there was a blinding flash of light indicating Thor's transport beam.
"Hey guys, all the bugs been exterminated?" Cassie grinned but her grin faltered when she saw Sam. "Oh my God, what happened?"
"Thor, can you help her?" Jack asked all but ignoring Cassie.
"I will do my best O'Neill" Sam was transported into a stasis chamber. After a tense wait, Thor spoke up again, "She will survive O'Neill, however I will keep her unconscious until the swelling in her brain has decreased, with the help of the stasis chamber she should be conscious in a few hours, by morning at the latest"
"Oh thank god," Cassie breathed as Jacks head fell into his hands in relief.
"From the bioscans, I have now conducted, I have noticed a great deal of scaring surrounding the womb walls and the placenta. This is most likely due to the amount of combat Colonel Carter has endured. It could be harmful to the infant, shall I correct as much of this as possible?" Thor asked, looking at Doctor Fraiser. Everyone stared first at Thor and then they turned slowly to Jack. It would have been comical to any bystander who watched all the head turn as one. Jack still had his head in his hands. Slowly it dawned on him what Thor had said. He looked up sharply.
"What! Infant?" he asked. Janet took pity on jack and spoke up.
"Thor, Sam can't be pregnant, she's on birth control and its quite an effective one" Thor blinked at her.
"I assure you that my scans are extremely accurate, Colonel Carter is approximately 14 days pregnant" There was a deafening silence in the room. Janet was again the first to recover.
"Ok, well Thor if you could see what you can do about that scar tissue, how long will it take to reach Earth?"
"It will be approximately 8 hours, the engines were slightly damaged by the blast but it should not affect us much."
"Ok, well Daniel, Cassie I need your help, Teal'c if you could do the inventory of the weapons and the ammunition please"
"Of course Doctor Fraiser" Teal'c replied as Daniel got up. Cassie however stayed sat down.
"Mum, please let me stay with Sam and Jack" she pleaded.
"No honey, come on I really do need your help" Cassie sighed and joined the rest as they walked out of the room. Thor had been playing with the stones on the control panel again, when he looked up he spoke to Jack.
"I have done as much as I can O'Neill, I shall return to the command deck" he was gone in another flash of light leaving Jack alone with Sam. Jack couldn't believe it. He was going to be a dad again. He and Sam were having a baby. He reached for her nearest hand and squeezed it gently.
"Come on Sam, wake up, we've got some great news"
A couple of hours later Janet cautiously checked on them, finding Jack asleep with his head resting on the side of the chamber beside Sam but what really made her smile was Sam being awake. She was looking down at him, gently running her fingers through his hair. She looked up as she heard Janet enter.
"Hey" she whispered.
"Hey yourself, how are you feeling?" Janet asked her friend.
"Great actually, a little sore but I'm not complaining"
"You gave us quite a scare there" Janet told her.
"Sorry about that" she smirked. Jack stirred as Sam spoke.
"Sam?" Jack started. He lifted his head quickly and smiled at her, "You're awake!" Janet excused herself from the room as Jack engulfed Sam into a huge hug. "God Baby, you scared me to death, don't do that again!"
"Hey its ok honey, I'm still here" Sam was really worried at Jack's reaction to her injury until she realised that there must be something else. "Jack there's something else, isn't there, I mean, we've both almost died before" To Sam's surprise, Jack was smiling when he moved away from her. He took her hand and started speaking softly.
"You know how we said we'd take it slow?" he asked.
"Yes" she answered uncertainly.
"Well it seems junior decided he didn't want to wait"
Sam stared at him for a few minutes, trying to figure out if he had actually just said what she thought he had just said.
"Junior?" she finally questioned, "But Jack, I'm on birth control" Jack was a little wary that she hadn't actually responded to the fact that they were expecting a baby so he figured his usual joking would ease the situation.
"I know, you should have seen the Doc's face" Sam softly laughed at this, "Sorry Sam, I guess I should have warned you persistency was another O'Neill trait along with stubbornness"
"Don't" Sam sighed, Jack was suddenly even more confused.
"Don't what Sam?"
"Don't apologise, we're having a baby Jack, are you ok with this?" and suddenly Jack realised why Sam was being so cautious. She was concerned about his reaction because of what had happened to Charlie, she was worried that he might not want to be a father again, which, he added to himself, he hadn't thought he would ever want to be again until he had met a certain 5'9'' blonde Air Force Captain had walked into his life and his heart.
"Sam, I want this, I've told you before, I love you and I want a life with you. I would only have considered having children again with you, but baby we're gonna be a family."
"We're having a baby" Sam smiled her mega watt smile.
"Yup" Jack could only smile back, "Hey how'd you fancy getting married?"
"Err … Jack" She wiggled her left hand in front of his face, smirking. He laughed realising how what he had said actually sounded.
"No I meant today, as in get Thor to transport us to Vegas and turn back to the cabin, we still have at least two weeks of vacation and we both want a small wedding. We have all our family here with us, what d'ya think" he asked.
"I think … that that's actually a really good idea," she said surprised.
"Well I do have them occasionally"
"I love you" Sam whispered to his lips as she leant towards him to kiss him.
"I love you too, Sam, always"
A/N. Ok, so I reckon one more chapter and an epilogue to go, and I do have another story about half way done, with about 8 chapters completed that I just need to write up on the computer, I'm also writing a new story, It's called "The New Guys In Town". It's a really weird story really, its about a group of British soldiers who come to work at the SGC and it has a load of crossovers from shows like Buffy, Angel, Charmed, CSI and Alias. I know that sounds weird but I jus decided to test myself and thought it was kinda funny (sheepish smile) so the first chapter of that should be up soon, (I'll say before xmas just to make sure that I actually get the chance to write it up!). Ok, please please please update, thanx for all the review on this story so far and for being so patient, thanx again guys, luv Nicki.
