Jack held her in his arms that night, grateful that she had been so forgiving. What did it matter what their previous life had restricted them to? They were probably never going back to Earth, and if they did, it would certainly never be to the same set of circumstances.

"Jack?" She asked.

"Hmm?"

She looked up into his eyes, fully awake, though he had thought her asleep.

"What are you doing awake?"

She smiled. "What are you doing thinking I'm asleep?"

He returned her tender smile.

"What is it?"

She sobered. "I've been thinking and I have a question for you."

"I'm not surprised."

She gently elbowed him in the ribs.

"Ow!"

"Quiet and let me finish."

"Okay."

She snuggled closer into his embrace. "Are you getting lonely?"

"Excuse me?"

"I don't mean sexually. I mean…over all, don't you think there is a general lack of population on this planet?"

He grew somewhat uncomfortable about the question, starting have some insight into what she had meant.

"Uh…I'm not…tired of it."

She bit her lip. "Oh."

"Why?"

She took a deep breath. It was inaudible, but Jack could feel her chest rise and fall. "Nothing."

"Sam, don't give me that."

She rolled over so that she could look Jack in the eyes. "Jack, I'm thirty-one years old."

Suddenly, he felt very old. "And?"

She hesitated. "These last few…brushes with death…well, they're making me very aware of my mortality."

He was silent, noiselessly prompting her to finish her thought. "Are you ever going to want to have kids? I mean…"

He swallowed. This was exactly what he had been afraid of. "Sam…"

"We can completely remove anything that you don't want them raised up around. There aren't really any ferocious beasts around, and certainly no human predators…I think our hand-to-hand would be fine…"

Jack grimaced. He wasn't sure he was ready to face that past. Then again, she was right. As much as he didn't want to admit it, they were both getting older, and if they didn't start trying soon, they would leave an empty planet at the death of one or the other of them. Suddenly, he was seized by another thought. There was just him and her. There would be no doctor, no midwife, and certainly no hospital. He would be the one to deliver whatever child was born, should they make that decision.

He hadn't even been at Charlie's birth.

But he decided to go with his original thought: to put his previous life behind them.

"Are you talking about…immediately?"

She smiled. "We can certainly start trying right now…I don't know if it would actually, happen immediately."

With that, she leaned in and gave him a kiss. "Please."

There was no way that he was going to be able to argue with that logic. She knew her way to his heart. He leaned in and kissed up and down the crook of her neck. From then on, he wordlessly showed her his answer.