"I HATE YOU!" Sam yelled at the top of her voice. Jack just stood there, holding her hand and wiping the sweat off her forehead, wishing he could do more.
Sam had been in labor for five hours now and she had just started pushing. They had been lucky, Sam had gone into labor on her exact due date, a date that Jack had managed to get off to fly down and be with her. They had been sitting at Sam's house, watching movies when she'd had her first contraction; by the fourth contraction they knew she was in labor and had rushed to the SGC. There, Dr. Lam had set her up in a private room and came and went often, measuring her and assuring her she was doing fine.
When the contraction ended she looked up and Jack and whispered, "I wish Janet were here…" He nodded in understanding; though Dr. Lam was friendly and very good at what she did, she wasn't Janet. Another contraction hit and she let out a string of profanity that Jack had never expected from the scientist.
Teal'c and Daniel were in the room with them too, standing on the other side of the bed and looking nervous. Teal'c eyebrow had been raised for the past five hours, and Daniel's were knitted together with worry. Mitchell and Vala had been shooed out an hour previous; they had been getting in the way, and put up less of a fuss than Daniel or Teal'c would've.
"There's a head, Colonel O'Neill!" Dr. Lam called out, a few minutes later; the baby's cries filled the room. Sam heaved a sigh of relief as Dr. Lam cleaned the child off, wrapped her in a blanket and handed her to her father. "You have one beautiful little girl, General… Colonel you can't stop pushing now, one more to go.'
"You don't think I know that!" She asked heatedly as another contraction hit and she began pushing again.
Jack returned to her side, holding their child in one arm; the girl had stopped crying the moment he had taken her from the doctor. Sam grabbed his other arm again, digging her fingernails into their accustomed spots. He wanted to make a sarcastic comment about the state of his arm but he knew better.
"There you go!" Dr. Lam said as the second head appeared. Within a few minutes the second little girl was in her father's arms, the first was already with Sam.
"What are you going to name them?" Daniel asked. Sam and Jack glanced at each other; they had spent hours on the phone discussing that very question.
"Janet Therese and Katherine Anne," Jack told them, motioning that the first baby would be Janet and the second would be Katherine.
"After Janet and Dr. Langford," Sam explained, cooing down at her daughter, still breathless. The labor had been a remarkably quick one, especially for twins, but Sam was glad of that, not wanting to keep the two little girls from the world for another moment.
"Good names," Daniel said, watching the new parents.
"Indeed," Teal'c smiled.
Sam stayed in her room for the rest of the week, recuperating and smiling at guests when they came to visit. Jack never left her side, always holding one of the girls, or watching them carefully in the crib that they were sharing.
"Jack," she called him to her after he had laid both the sleeping girls in the crib.
"Yeah?"
"I love you," they shared a smile.
"I love you too."
Thor appeared in the center of the room, ruining the moment.
"Thor! Good to see ya!" The General said in a strained voice, meaning that he really could've done without the visit.
"Greetings O'Neills," he said, nodding to them both before going over to look at the children, "I wish to congratulate you on the birth of your daughters."
"How did you know they were girls?" Sam asked, attempting to get out of bed, Jack had to go hold her elbow, knowing better than to push her back down.
"I have been observing for some time," the little gray alien assured them.
"Oh."
"So, you just came to say hi…?" Jack asked hopefully.
"Unfortunately not, O'Neill, I have come to request blood reading on both of your daughters."
"Thor, they're not even a week old! C'mon, why not wait a little while…"
"I am sorry, O'Neill, but the Asgard Council is being unusually… stubborn in this case. They insist that I return with the samples by this evening, I have waited as long as I can."
"What's a blood reading?" Sam asked, imagining huge needles and shivering. Instead, Thor held up a small, square-ish device, placing it on Jack's arm.
"Hey, that tickles!" Thor removed the device; it flashed blue before shutting down again.
"That is all required to take a blood reading," he assured the pair of them. Sam nodded her assent, before Jack could contradict her, Thor held the device over Janet's arm, the device flashed blue again, and he repeated the process for Katherine. "If you do not mind, Colonel O'Neill, I would like to take a reading of you as well," Sam nodded again, holding out her arm.
They went home that evening, not mentioning Thor's visit to anyone. Landry had granted Sam leave for the next two months to get settled at home, and Jack was considering retirement once again.
Epilogue:
Jack's retirement from the Pentagon sent another shift down the chain of command. Landry was given the position at the Pentagon, the news being spread officially at the same ceremony that made Sam into Brigadier General Sam O'Neill, commander at the SGC. She had gotten the position over Mitchell out of seniority, and because she didn't want to go offworld with two little girls at home, wondering if she'd be coming home that night.
It some getting used to, running the SGC, but she did like the chair. Jack made fun of her whenever he came to visit, finding her with her feet on her desk; but usually she was poking at some new doohickey instead of doing paperwork. She was glad that she had time for both, and the doohickeys were much more entertaining than the paperwork.
It was determined that both Janet and Kate had the Ancient gene, and, to their surprise, an amount of naquadah in their blood; when they grew up, both of them would be able to use Ancient and Goa'uld technology. Sam wasn't sure how she felt about this yet.
Every night, when she lay in her husband's arms, she couldn't help but think of the irony behind their relationship. Long years of sexual tension between them, as well as the frat regs had kept them apart, they had needed a man-eating (or at least Sam-eating) wall to bring them together, and they were both thankful that it had.
Alright, thats it! Thank you all for reading and reviewing, I hope this ending was satisfacory, if not tell me so & i might be able to work something into another fic or something! I love you all Mak