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Okay. Due to a very weird... something... I got all my chapters mixed up, yada yada, so everything has been really messed up recently on here... so, sorry about the slow updates.

Now that I've rambled you into a coma... one last thing...

This is going to remain a nice, happy, fluffy baby story. If you want the more dramatized version of this, I will be posting a different story later that has the original plot of this story.

I hope you like this chapter! (Virago500: I WILL do fluff... promise!)


From the thoughts of one handsome archeologist named Daniel Jackson.

"It's weird- I've never seen Sam and Jack so relaxed. They came out of the baby's room and couldn't stop exchanging smiles. Nothing happened in there- Connor, one of the SG-12 members was listening- but... something has changed. What, exactly, I'm not sure..."

"Sir, no way."

Jack looked offended. "What? Why not?"

"Sir, she doesn't need more stuff, so why on Earth would we have a baby-"

"It's tradition!" He protested.

"So?"

"So… it's tradition."

"Sir-"

"Would not it build memories that we could tell young Natalie when she matures?" Teal'c asked.

Jack crowed at the look on Carter's face. "He's got ya."

"Don't want to gang up on you Sam but… they're right," Said Daniel. "I…"

She ignored him while she tried to picture how her CO would look with tomato sauce all over his t-shirt... add a bit of cheese and pepperoni...

Tempting...

"…See?"

She started. "Yeah, sure." She said absently.

Jack gaped. "You will?"

Carter looked over at him. "I… what?"

"You just agreed to have a baby shower!" Daniel laughed.

She sighed. "Yippee."

Natalie wailed as if in agreement.

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Carter's unenthusiastic agreement was met with wild cries of joy from young Cassandra Fraiser and Janet. Well, from Cassie. Janet was more quietly pleased.

The 'shower' took place two days later, on base. Janet and Cassie turned the infirmary into a 'shower paradise'- complete with themed confetti that took several days before it was all swept up.

All females on base had been invited, and all accepted. Jack joked that they would need a moving van to transport all the stuff she had received. This was, of course, an exaggeration. However, Natalie would need absolutely no new clothing for the next two years… seriously.

The men had bought toys for the young baby and brought them over before the shower began; big, loud toys that she wouldn't be able play with for over a year- Walter even presented her with a bike!

Daniel and Teal'c videotaped the event, much to Carter's dismay. Natalie slept through the whole thing, serenely unconscious she was in a fair way to being spoiled rotten.

Sam had a problem though.

Taking Natalie to work was the only solution Sam considered; day care wasn't the place for an alien baby. However, her lab wasn't the best place for a child, and her CO, Daniel, and Teal'c could only watch her so much.

General Hammond offered a temporary solution until they figure something out- they would convert one of the many rooms in the SGC to a nursery. A storage room near Carter's office was decided on and several Airmen volunteered to paint the room. Over a dozen female 'Airmen' volunteered to baby-sit her for 'an hour or so', offers Carter gratefully accepted.

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Carter rolled over and groaned. "What is it now, Natalie?" She muttered, sliding over her bed and sleepily reaching into the portable crib next to her. (Daniel had wisely brought a crib on base for the times that Sam didn't return to her house.)

She soon figured out the problem- she needed a diaper change. As she finished dressing the little girl, she glanced at her clock. The bright red numbers informed her that it was 5:57.

Daniel had offered to take her at 0600. She smiled with relief- she hadn't gotten to bed until 2:00 A.M and desperately wanted her sleep.

A quiet knock on the door made her start before she realized it was the archeologist. Pulling open the door, she was surprised to see her CO standing outside.

"Sir?"

"Carter," He greeted. "Daniel's a bit out of it… didn't go to bed until an hour ago. I offered to take the kid."

She gave him a small smile, painfully aware that she was in her pajamas, and that her hair was a mess.

'He must think I look terrible,' She inwardly complained.

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Jack swallowed hard. His 2IC was standing there, smiling shyly while holding Natalie. She looked so relaxed... and though he would never admit it, he found her extremely 'cute' right now with her hair sticking up.

He cleared his throat. "Uh, want me to take her?"

"Yeah! Um… hold on a second," She said turning around and grabbing a diaper bag that lay at the bottom of her bed. "Here, sir."

He swung the bag onto his shoulder then gently took Natalie. "She just wake up?"

"About five minutes ago, sir. Kelsey- the Lieutenant who was babysitting her today- said she slept the whole time she was with her."

"Ah ha."

They stood there looking at each other awkwardly before he finally said; "I'll take her to the commissary with me."

"Right. Night, sir."

"Good night, Carter."

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"What's up?"

Jack looked around the commissary. Already the staff was preparing for the breakfast rush. He thought he smelled pancakes.

"Jack."

He looked down at Natalie, who was nestled against him, her golden 'fluff' sticking up comically. "Morning, Daniel."

The archeologist sat his ever-present mug of coffee next to the Colonel and took a seat next to him. "Thanks for taking her."

Jack raised an eyebrow. "What are you doing up? You've had what… an hour and a half of sleep?"

"Not exactly," said Daniel. "I… forgot… to tell you that I went to bed at 11:00 and had just gotten up when you showed up in my lab, ordering me back to bed."

Jack carefully adjusted Natalie's little body. "You set me up."

"You make a nice daddy, Jack."

"Daniel."

"Teal'c thinks so too."

"DAN-"

"Janet, Walter, Siler-"

"Daniel!"

"Yeah?"

The Colonel took a deep breath. "Mind your own business."

"Why?" came the simple reply.

"Because… it's none of your business."

Daniel tried to gauge the Air Force officer's real mood but gave up. "Okay. See you later."

Jack nodded. "Yeah. See ya."


I'm really sorry it took me so long to update! I was going to include a lot more material in this chapter but decided against it. Anyways, hope you liked it and…

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