A/N: I'm actually quite fond of Danny's selection in this chapter, but for some reason it just seemed like the sort of thing O'Neill would hate.
Ch 19
When Sam finished showering and changing, she sighed grumpily as she towel-dried her hair. Danny was cute like this, definitely. And very sweet, and fun to be around when he didn't have various substances coming out of his body. But she much preferred their regular Daniel - apart from being an incredibly invaluable member of SG-1 and one of her best friends in the world, he required no help with his toileting needs, and had never once vomited on her.
The shower had given her time to calm down about the whole 'being hosed off like a circus elephant' thing as well. It actually had been the fastest way to get the vomit off, and her CO had made a valid point - having to peel the shirt off over her face and head would have been even more disgusting. It was more the principle of the thing, she supposed. Besides, her CO didn't have to look so amused - if the man had had a video camera in his hand, she probably would have ended up on one of those Funniest Videos shows.
"Sam?" Janet called, knocking on the closed door of the guest bedroom.
"Come on in, Janet."
Janet opened the door, carrying Danny, hair wet from yet another bath, wearing only a diaper. "Colonel O'Neill said Danny's clothes were in here too."
"Yeah, here." Sam went over to the dresser and grabbed some light blue pajamas that had a little bear on the pocket, as the sun had finished setting while she had been in the shower and there was no need to put him in yet another outfit before he went to bed. "He's okay, right?"
Janet divided her attention between getting Danny into his PJs and Sam. "Yes, he's fine. He just ate a lot and played too hard. Oh these are so soft. Are you okay?"
"I'm fine," she said, nodding. "That was just about the grossest thing ever… but I'll live."
"Good. Well, I brought over some of Cassie's movies, and it would be good to keep Danny calm for a while, try to get him to sip some water or maybe some juice slowly."
"Duice?" Danny asked hopefully, lying still as Janet zipped him into his pajamas and set him on his feet.
"Sure. And a movie, does that sound good?" Janet asked.
He turned to Sam, looking suddenly like he might cry. "Sam mad me?"
"What? No, I'm not mad at you," Sam said quickly, picking him up and brushing his damp hair away from his face. "I know it was just an accident. Let's go pick out a movie, okay? And… if you feel like you need to throw up again, try to do it on Jack."
"Okay," he agreed.
Janet shook her head, smiling to herself.
Jack and Teal'c both looked up from where they were seated in the living room as Sam and Daniel entered. Both were squeaky clean. Danny was snug in his pajamas and shot them a happy smile from his spot in Sam's arms. "Clearly those two have kissed and made up," Jack commented to Teal'c.
"Indeed," Teal'c agreed. "May we now have our interrupted dessert, O'Neill?"
"Yeah, good idea."
Sam took Danny over to the movies Janet had brought and let him pick one out. Knowing Daniel as an adult - and having watched some of these movies with him already, with Cassie - Sam would have expected him to pick 'The Lion King' or 'Toy Story.'
As soon as he spotted 'Babe,' however, he snatched up the box and said, "Piggy!"
"You want to watch Babe?" Sam asked.
"Piggy movie," he insisted, pressing the movie into her and scrambling to his feet. He ran out of the room and came back with his stuffed dinosaur and climbed up into a corner of the couch as everyone else entered with plates of the dessert that they hadn't had a chance to have earlier. Sam put the video in and started it, taking a seat next to Danny on the couch.
"So, what are we watching?" Jack asked.
"Piggy!" Danny told him happily.
Jack stared at him for a few long moments, and looked to Sam for a translation. "What?"
"He picked Babe."
"Babe? That talking pig crap?"
"You've seen it?" Sam asked, surprised.
"Yeah, with Cassie. The brat let me assume it was about baseball and Babe Ruth and tricked me into taking her and Teal'c to see it."
Janet laughed. "I remember that."
"I enjoyed that film immensely, O'Neill. I would like to see it again," Teal'c said.
"Danny," Jack tried as the movie began, in an overly cheerful voice. "Wouldn't you rather watch Jurassic Park?"
"Huh?"
"Jurassic Park, it's got…"
"Jack, I really don't think we want to let him watch that… not if you'd like him to sleep tonight," Sam said quickly, interrupting him before he got to the 'd' word.
"All right," Jack grumbled, flopping down onto the couch next to her with unnecessary force. "I'll watch the stupid pig. But I'm going to need coffee to get through this thing a second time."
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Even a strong cup of coffee wasn't enough to keep Jack alert during the movie - talking farm animals just weren't his thing. He found himself dozing off, although everyone else seemed to be enjoying it. Diverting his attention to the other people in his living room was far more interesting than the movie anyway. Danny was missing a lot of the plot points, Jack was certain, but the talking animals and funny voices were more than enough to hold his attention. Teal'c was sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of the coffee table, but after careful scrutiny of the back of his bald head, Jack was fairly certain that Teal'c was enjoying the movie as well.
And Janet - well, she was scaring the crap out of him, to be honest. She was intermittently crying quietly from the comfortable chair - the same one Cassie always picked when she was over, interestingly. Sam and Jack had given up asking her if she was okay a long time ago when she insisted, "I love this movie."
And Sam… Jack couldn't really tell if she liked the movie or not. Half the time when he turned sideways to look at her, she looked like she was paying attention to the movie and maybe even finding it mildly amusing, but the rest of the time she was miles away, thinking about something hard. Probably the trunk.
An insistent hand patting his arm drew him away from his musings. He looked down at Danny. "What?"
"I hungwy."
"Again?"
"Yup."
"Well, you should've thought of that before you threw up!" he said in a fake-stern voice, scooting to the edge of the sofa to get up. Danny latched himself onto Jack's back for a ride.
Jack stood up with a dramatic groan and went into the kitchen. "All right, how about something safe, just in case your tummy's still upset." He lowered Danny onto the counter and opened the cabinet above his head. "Cheerios? Those are safe and not that messy - I don't think either of us wants to have to change your clothes again today."
Danny spotted the yellow box and said, "Yeah, Cheer-os!"
"All right. Now, if it was just us guys, you could eat these right out of the box but since there are ladies present I suppose I'd better find you a bowl. How's the juice situation in there, you need a refill little guy?"
"No duice. Milk. Pwease."
"You don't still have a tummy ache, do you?"
"No Dack."
"You sure?"
"Yup."
"Even if I do this?" Jack asked, poking his tummy lightly.
Danny laughed and said, "Nope."
"Hmm. All right." Jack got a fresh cup of milk and poured a bowl of dry cereal, handing the cup of milk to Danny and scooping him up in one arm, carrying everything and everyone back into the living room. "Your movie sucks by the way," he added as he set Danny down in front of the sofa. "And don't be puking in my house, okay?"
"O-kay."
Jack set the bowl of cereal on the coffee table in front of Danny and sank back into the couch, crossing his arms and giving the pig on TV - who was now singing - a severe scowl. He glanced sideways at Sam and relaxed back into the couch more. When she turned to look at him, he whispered loudly, "What is with that little toupee on the pig?"
"I think it's kind of cute," she said thoughtfully, as though she'd seriously considered it. "And I don't know the exact growth rate of piglets, but I'm assuming they grow pretty fast, so I'm guessing they had to use lots of different pigs for Babe, and if they all have the toupee they're more easily identifiable, and people might notice differences in their appearances less."
He gaped at her. "Wow. You've given this a lot of thought."
"Just a tad," she said defensively. "I was actually thinking about the special effects, which are really good for the year this was made and the budget children's movies probably have and… well, my mind wandered."
"And here I thought you were thinking about Danny's trunk this whole time."
He'd been watching her carefully enough to try to figure out what she was thinking about? That was just wrong in a lot of ways. She blinked at him in surprise for several long moments and was about to respond when Danny, finished with his snack, ran round the table to Teal'c and patted his shoulder insistently. "Tea, 'mon, getup!"
"I am quite comfortable, Danny."
"No, mon to da couch wiff DackanSam and me." He tugged at Teal'c's shirt insistently.
"Very well," Teal'c said, getting to his feet and following Danny to the other end of the couch. Once he had made his massive frame comfortable and propped his feet up on the coffee table, the couch was full. Apparently this was exactly what Danny wanted. He climbed up in the small space left between Sam and Teal'c and grabbed his dinosaur, which had been in Sam's lap. Tucking it under one arm, he squirmed around until he was right up against Teal'c, and hugged his huge arm, pressing his face into Teal'c like a pillow - although Teal'c's biceps certainly weren't the least bit soft, even when they weren't flexed.
Janet was watching the reorganization with interest, as were Jack and Sam. She smiled at Sam. "He looks extra tiny now, since Teal'c's arms are bigger than he is. He's so cute."
"Yeah, he's precious," Jack said tersely. "Is this movie almost over, or what?"
She glanced at the screen. "About halfway, Colonel."
"Ohforcryinoutloud," he muttered, rearranging the throw pillows to make himself more comfortable, crossing his arms for good measure.
Sam scooted closer to him as well, since there wasn't much space left on the couch. Once everyone was settled again, she leaned in to talk quietly and said sweetly, "Not that we were buying the grumpy act in the first place, sir, but we could hear you talking to Daniel in the kitchen. It was very thoughtful of you to ask him about his tummy."
He glanced at her sideways, looking away quickly in that way he tended to do, and replied, with double his usual grumpiness, "First of all, you're in your pajamas so I think you can drop the 'sir,' and I'm getting tired of having to remind you of the rules. And second of all, I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Didn't think so, Jack. And… for the record, you were right."
"What?"
"I was thinking about the trunk too."
"I knew it!" he exclaimed, louder than he meant to.
"O'Neill, you are disrupting our movie," Teal'c said firmly.
"Sshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh," Danny added insistently. Jack leaned around Sam to look at the little guy, and chuckled when he saw the firm scowl on his normally sweet and pleasant face. He was holding his little finger to his mouth and looking very stern for someone in fleece footy pajamas holding an orange and yellow dinosaur.
"Sooooo sorry, please excuse me," Jack said sarcastically.
"Boys, this may not be the infirmary, but I'll still separate you," Janet called.
Sam hastily turned a snort of laughter into a cough as the threat actually worked - the man-turned-child and the childish man on each side of her both settled back into their respective neutral corners and turned their attention back to the television.
When the movie ended, only Janet, Teal'c, and Sam were still awake - and Sam was barely awake, blinking drowsily. As the credits rolled, Janet sat up in her chair and turned her attention to the crowded sofa. Danny was sound asleep, sprawled across Teal'c's lap now. Sort of like a cat, almost, Janet thought absently.
Sam and Jack were sitting with their sides touching, and the sleepier Sam got, the more her head seemed to drift towards his shoulder. Currently, there was only about a half-inch to go, but she wasn't quite asleep yet, although she didn't seem to have noticed that the television screen she was looking at had switched to the final credits and there wasn't really anything left to watch. Jack had conked out shortly after Danny had told him to shush, head resting on the cushion with his face pointed almost straight up, mouth open. He was snoring quietly, but from across the room Janet could barely hear it.
When Teal'c was busy looking down at Daniel, Janet quickly snapped another picture of all of them - Cassie was going to love some of the shots she had gotten tonight. The flash, unfortunately, roused Sam. She sat up and yawned into the back of her hand. "Good movie."
"Indeed," Teal'c agreed. "Major Carter, I do not believe I can get young Danny out of my lap without awakening him."
"I'll do it, don't worry." Sam got to her feet with a slight groan and stretched before leaning over Teal'c and carefully cradling Danny in her arms, yawning again. "See? I'm getting good at it."
"Sam, do you need any help with anything before I go?" Janet asked.
"No thanks. We're just all going to bed, I think."
"All right, well, tell the Colonel thanks for me tomorrow, okay?"
"Sure. Goodnight." Janet waved to Teal'c and showed herself out as Sam took Danny into the guest room and tucked him in.
She grabbed the blanket that had found its way into their room and a spare pillow and took them out to Teal'c. "Are you okay out here, Teal'c?"
"I will be fine, Major Carter. As soon as O'Neill removes himself from my bed."
Sam handed Teal'c the pillows and smiled at him. "I'm really glad you're here, Teal'c. Thank you."
He gave her that look that meant he knew exactly what it was she wasn't saying, and nodded. "You are more than welcome, Major Carter." Then he turned back to their sleeping CO and said, "O'Neill."
Jack jerked awake - there was something in Teal'c's voice that instantly brought him out of the deepest sleep, and looked up at his two teammates blankly for a few moments. "Movie over?"
"Yes, s… yes. It's over."
"So, did the pig get turned into bacon?"
"That's horrible!" Sam exclaimed, as Teal'c said, "O'Neill, that would not be a good ending for a children's film."
Chuckling, he held out a hand to both of them and they pulled him to his feet. "Where's the little one? And… the really little one?"
"Janet just went home, and Danny's in bed already."
"Ah. Smart boy, that Daniel Jackson. Night, campers."
Teal'c said goodnight to both of them, and they headed down the hallway towards their respective rooms together, walking slowly because they were both half-asleep already.
When they stopped in front of hers, they both looked down at their hands in confusion - apparently he'd never quite let go of her hand after she'd helped him to his feet. They dropped their hands quickly and took a half step apart, exchanged awkward goodnights and smiles, and hurried into their rooms.
As Sam finished getting ready for bed and slipped under the covers, she looked at Danny for several long moments before turning off the bedside lamp. She adjusted the covers around him and said quietly, "You know, you're managing to cause an awful lot of trouble for somebody so small."