Chapter 35: Stress
It had been a few of days since they got back to Earth and already everything seemed normal. Daniel was already excited about some fascinating new artefact SG-4 brought back the day after they returned, Teal'c had put Jack in the infirmary after he knocked him out during a round of Boxing, Sam had gotten her new department ready, her resignation had been cleared meaning that she was now a Civilian scientist with weapons and survival training. Sam was now living with Jack in his house and hers was up for sale. Cassy had offered to design the babies bedroom, Janet had been chosen to be Sam's pre-natal doctor and midwife.
"Hey."
"Hi Janet can I help you with something? No leave that one for now I'll sort it out go and help Grahams." Sam and her team were still cataloguing all of the technologies and trying to find all the test results that went with each one. It was a slow pain-staking process but once it was done it would make the department more efficient.
"Still busy I see." Janet said taking a seat on a nearby stool.
"Yep but were getting there slowly. So what did you need?" Sam asked sitting down as well for the first time since she got there some four hours ago.
"Well I wanted to remind you not to over do it, remember you have a little person growing inside of you that needs you to sleep and eat like normal people." Janet replied as if she was talking to a five year old child.
"Right of course but you know me I'm all work." She replied wiping some kind of florescent lubricant of her hands.
"Well you need to play as well."
"You've been talking to Jack haven't you?" she said accusingly but with a smile.
"Well yeah but he's only concerned."
"I know he is but I'm fine and so is the baby." She said putting her hand on her stomach where the baby lay.
"Well we'll be able to see that for ourselves I want to schedule your first scan." She said smiling.
"Great, when?" Sam replied eagerly.
"How about in a week? It gives you time to clear it with the General, warn the Colonel and lower your blood pressure." She teased.
"My blood pressure is fine, I'm telling you I'm not...shit." One of the lab techs had dropped a box filled with this orb things from P8K-659, non of them had broke but it still made Sam jump.
"You were saying..." Janet continued with a smile.
"Ok, ok I'll take it easy. I promise." Sam said sounding beaten.
"Yeah as if I'm going to believe that. I'm going to advice the General to start giving you the weekends off to relax."
"But…"
"And tell the Colonel not to let you take your work home with you."
"But…"
"But nothing Sam it's for your own sake, not to mention the babies. You need to get used to not being here all the time we coped well enough without for two whole months I'm sure two days a week will be easy. Plus they will probably have you on call anyway just in case."
"I know but I should still be here."
"You won't be able to be here all the time when the baby arrives think of this as practice."
"Fine you win."
"Finely you see sense right so I'll go make arrangements for the scan and inform the correct people of my suggestion and I'll see you later." Janet said standing up looking very proud of herself.
"Right I'll see you later." Giving Janet a hug.
"Take it easy." Janet said over her shoulder as she left.
"I will." Sam shouted after her.
Knock, knock "Come" the door opened and Janet walked into the office.
"Great the two people I wanted to see." She said when she saw Jack in a seat in front of the desk.
"Take a seat Doctor." Hammond indicated to the spare seat next to Jack. She sat down and the General continued. "What can we do for you Doctor?"
"It's about Sam." She said but Jack interrupted before she could continue.
"She doesn't know I sent you does she?" he asked looking slightly worried.
"Yeah she does sorry but she understands why you did it." She replied trying to comfort him.
"Thanks but she'll still kill me." He said. Hammond smiled then said "So this is about Dr Carter?"
"Yes sir, I feel that if she carries on the way she is doing she is going to give herself complications later in the pregnancy." She answered looking concerned.
"What do you suggest doctor?" Hammond asked.
"Well I have already spoken to her and I have got her to agree to take weekends off and not to take her work home." Janet explained.
"And you believed her?" Jack asked looking as if Janet must be mad to think Sam could stay away for a whole weekend without anything to do at home.
"No but I want you to make sure she takes nothing home with her, no matter how much she pleads with you." She told Jack.
"Understood but you do realise that is a lot easier to say than it is to actual make her do." Jack said and the General and Doctor nodded in agreement.
"Well you'll just have to be smart about it. Now about her coming in on weekends I was thinking that the guards could be told not to let her on base at weekends unless you have told them explicitly to let her."
"Yeah that should work I'll tell them immediately." The general said.
"Ok that's it except Colonel I'm scheduling Sam's first scan for next Thursday at 1000 at the U.S.A.F Academy Hospital so don't be late. That is if it's alright with you General?"
"Of course if that's all I have a briefing scheduled to start in a minute so if you could excuse me." The general answered as he stood to dismiss the Colonel and the Doctor.
"Yes sir." They both said before leaving.