0130 hours. Damn, it was late. Sam was so tired, but she couldn't go home. Not just yet, not until she knew for sure that her father, Daniel, and more importantly, Martouf and Lantash were all okay and in one piece. Her hormones were causing her emotions to fluctuate uncontrollably. At the moment, all she wanted was to hug her father, to tell him how much she loved him. She wanted to say how sorry she was that they had wasted all those years apart. No matter how many times she said it, the past was still the past and they couldn't bring back time lost. She needed to hug Daniel, her friend and confidante. He was one of the few people who stood by her when she needed it the most. She couldn't loose that friendship they had, she needed him.

Sam didn't dare think about the loss of Martouf and Lantash. It nearly killed her the first time around, the second time would surely do the trick. So instead, she waited. Waited for her loves to come back and hold her, waited for them to come and keep her warm at night, waited for them to massage her feet when she felt stressed, waited for them to come back and gently rubbed her belly as they listed all the possible names that they thought would be suitable with a smile on their face that made her weak in the knees

0315. Still no sign of them. Sam was running out of paperwork to do. At some point she was even tempted to go to the Colonel's office and do his paper work for him, not that he would object.

0500. It had been a long day for Jack, and he was still on. In fact, it had been a long day for everyone since the arrival of the Tok'ra. He decided he had to walk around the base tying up the loose ends before he could allow himself to go home. Walking past Carter's office he noticed the light was still on. He knocked on the door… no answer. After a minute or two of waiting he tested the knob and found that the door was unlocked. What he walked into could break a warrior's heart. Sam was fast asleep on her computer. There was a large pile of mission reports to the side of the desk, no doubt that each one was complete and ready for submission.

"Carter… Sam, hey." he whispered, gently shaking her shoulder

"Mmm… Martouf?"

"No, its just me." He whispered.

"Oh, Colonel. Sorry, I didn't realize I'd fallen asleep."

"It's okay. How come you're not at home? Come on I'll drive you."

She lifted her head. Her hair was a mess. On her face was the impression of her computer key-board. Under normal circumstances he would've made a joke about being able to type his reports from her cheek. He smiled at her sympathetically.

"It's alright Sir, I wasn't planning on going home anyway."

"Why's that?"

"Just waiting Sir. Ahh… besides I have a few more reports to type up."

"We're Carter. It's not gonna do you any good if you don't get some rest." He tilted his head towards her computer. "looks to me like you've pretty much written all your reports, and them some."

She followed his eyes and saw that she had accidentally typed pages of random letters. Damn, she thought. The last thing she wanted was for her CO to see her weakened like this. "I'm fine Sir, but thank-you for your concern." She said as she walked towards her open door indicating that he should leave.

"Are you sure, 'cause you look a little…"

"I'm fine. Really."

"Alright, well, I'll see you around then." But he was still unconvinced. He pretended to walk out the door, but he didn't walk away when she closed it. Just in case.

Sam sighed in relief once he was finally gone. He was gonna give her hell for being at work while she was supposed to be home on maternity leave, but what the hell, non of them were planning on a deluge of Tok'ra guests coming through the gate. She stretched out her neck and rubbed her shoulder, something felt wrong, very wrong. Sam grabbed some books from her desk and began placing them back onto the shelf. She paused momentarily as she felt a small pain coming from her abdomen. But soon it was gone. It's probably nothing. She picked up another book, it fell onto the floor as another wave of pain brought her to her knees. Shit!

Jack was no more than three feet from her office when he heard her yell. He raced into her office and saw that she was on the floor holding her stomach. "Carter! Carter whats wrong?!"

"Ahhh! Oh my god, it hurts!"

"Hold on." He gently pulled her to her feet and placed her on her chair. "We need a medic in Carter's office now!" he yelled into the phone receiver. "It'll be ok, just breathe." He said as he tried to calm her down, in his head those words were more for him than for her.

Daniel grabbed Martouf's arm and placed it over his shoulder. Jacob was on his other side helping. Both men were carrying very disoriented Martouf through the remaining corridors. They were about thirty feet from the ring platform when a sudden collapse in the tunnels blocked their way.

"Dammit!" Jacob yelled as they were surrounded by the darkness.

Sam was on the farthest end of the infirmary laying on one of the hospital beds. Every single bed was occupied, mainly by injured Tok'ra who Sam was reluctant to face. Curling up ever tighter, she covered herself with a blanket and began singing silently to her baby. She closed her eyes and pictured her own mother singing it to her like she used to when Sam was little. She played the song in her head over and over again.

"Smile though your heart is aching.

Smile even though it's breaking

When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow,

Smile and maybe tomorrow,

You'll see the sun come shining through for you…"

Janet picked up the clipboards from her desk and made her way out of her office. Immediately when she opened the door she saw Jack and Teal'c standing and blocking the doorway. "Jeeze what the hell are you guys doing?"

"We are inquiring as to Major Carter's health Dr. Fraiser." Teal'c responded solemnly.

She sighed, they would never leave her side without an explanation. "I've already checked her out Teal'c, she's fine for now. I called her OBGYN to let her know about Sam's condition. Sam didn't want to leave the base so I explained to Dr. Lee that Sam wouldn't be able to come in but that I would be monitoring her condition closely and…"

"Yeah, yeah yeah." Jack interrupted. "But what's wrong with her?

"She has gestational hypertension."

"What?! She gonna be ok?"

"I'm doing all I can right now Jack. I'm giving her medications to decrease her blood pressure and I've ordered her to stay in bedrest from here on out. Which, to tell you the truth, was really what she should've been doing anyway. But at least she's here and we can monitor her, its just too bad we cant offer her a private room that's all."

"That's it? There's nothing more you can do?"

"Well… I asked if I could induce her labor, but she refused. There's no way she's having the baby without Martouf and Lantash around."

"Is it not too early for her to deliver Dr. Fraiser?"

"Well, yeah. But it is one of the few treatments for GH. Usually the problem goes away after birth."

"Well, its not like she's in any risk if she refuses right?"

"Damn him for always getting straight to the point." Janet thought to herself.

"Doc?!"

"There are risks, yes." Jacks eyes widened as Teal'c tilted his head and raised an eyebrow.

"What exactly are those risks?" He wished he could remember everything he read about pregnancy back when he was with Sarah, but in all honesty, it was so long ago and there was probably so much more information now that even if he could recall some of the things, the information would be useless for him.

Janet hesitated in answering his questions. She knew it would only make the two begin to panic. At the moment there was nothing else she could do but watch Sam closely. "Well, GH is closely related to preeclampsia, her condition could also cause preterm birth or placental abruption. But really you guys, there's no need to worry. I'm watching her closely and that's all we can do right now."

"Alright, well I'll take first watch and T you can…"

"Jack. She's really upset right now, I think all she really needs is to be alone."

"But…"

"But nothing. The two of you hovering over her would just cause unwanted stress."

"It won't be two of us, it'll be one of us at a time."

"No."

"But."

"Out you two." She pointed towards the door. The two men defeated, reluctantly and very slowly made their way out.

"Light up your face with sadness

Hide every trace of sadness.

Although a tear may be ever so near,

That's the time you must keep on trying,

Smile, what's the use of crying?

You'll find that life is still worthwhile,

If you just smile."

Jack and Teal'c hastily made their way to the General's office. He wasn't there. There was only one other place he could be, in the control room, and so there they went.

"General!"

"Colonel, what the hell are you still doing here? I thought you went home already."

"Permission to go to the Tok'ra base, Sir!"

"I can't allow that Colonel."

"Sir, we have three good men out there!"

"We haven't sent a malp through Colonel. Not only that, but you don't exactly have a team right now."

Thankfully Colonel Reynolds was sitting in the room and heard the request.

"Sir, permission to take SG-3 to the Tok'ra base, Sir!"

"What in the hell… Son do you realize you're talking about taking your team into what you know to be a full on goa'uld attack?"

"Yes Sir, and I know my team General, they'll be damn excited to kick some Goa'uld ass right about now." Colonel O'neill looked at Reynolds and mouthed a very grateful "thank-you" at his direction.

"Alright, we'll send a malp through to make sure. But damn if even a single Jaffa is standing by that gate then this request is denied."

"Yes Sir." Both men said simultaneously. Reynolds gathered his team and within ten minutes SG-3 along with Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c stood at the bottom of the ramp ready to go through. Luckily there were no guards on the ground… yet.

They stepped through the gate, dodging blasts from death gliders and hiding behind dunes as they followed Daniel's radio signal. They were able to locate the ring platform, and from what Jack remembered, the controls shouldn't be far. Teal'c found them behind a small area of piled rocks. He activated them and quickly ran to join the others.

The team was surprised to find themselves in a small room. They instinctively turned on the lights that were attached to their weapons. Each tunnel surrounding them was now blocked by collapsed crystals.

"Well this wasn't what I expected." O'Neill commented.

"Colonel!' O'Neill and Reynolds turned their direction toward Capt. Garcia. "I'm detecting some faint energy signals this way Sirs." She said.

"My readings also indicate Daniel Jackson's radio signal coming from that direction O'Neill." Teal'c confirmed.

"Alright. Garcia, how much C4 you got?"

"Ahh… Colonel." Jack interrupted. "Don't think that's such a good idea."

"He's right Sir, we don't know how stable these tunnels are, we could just end up collapsing this room."

"What the hell else are we supposed to do?"

Everyone looked at one another in confusion. They had no clue.

"Jacob. Can you see anything?" Lantash questioned. Martouf had taken refuge in the back of his mind. Every single memory since the time he was born had come flooding back to him. Pain he had long forgotten pierced through him like a spear. Lantash had suffered the same fate, but unlike Martouf he had dealt with pain for centuries now and knew how to hide it well.

"Not a damn thing. Daniel?"

Daniel reached into one of his many pockets and pulled out a glow stick. He snapped in the middle and allowed the neon green to glow in his hand. "What now?" Jacob began digging into his pack looking for just the right crystals.

"Dammit, I can't remember which way the rings are."

"Silence. Do you hear that?"

"Ahh, no." Daniel responded.

"Shh.. he's right. There's people there, that might just be where the rings are."

"What if they're Jaffa?" Lantash and Jacob then looked at one another and grinned.

"Then we will just have to fight our way out my friend."

"What? Are you insane, we could be out-numbered."

"How else do you propose we get out of here?"

Jacob poised his hand on the fallen debris, in it he held a square crystal. He looked to the two men beside him. Daniel and Lantash threw their bags over their shoulders and aimed their weapons. "Ready?"

"Yes." "No" – they said simultaneously.

"Whoa whoa whoa, what the hell's going on?" Everyone stepped back as they witnessed the crystals begin to disintegrate before their eyes.

"Ready your weapons" O'Neill ordered.

Soon the tunnel was open. Jacob, Daniel, and Lantash found themselves at the receiving end of several barettas. "Hold your fire! It's us!" Daniel yelled.

"Jesus Daniel I could've shot you!" everyone slowly put down their weapons, safeties were turned 'on' on all earth weapons.

"You alright man?" Reynolds questioned. Martouf's head was covered with blood.

"I am fine, thank-you." Lantash responded. He was pleased to see that his voice did not disturb this Tau'ri, instead, he saw a sigh of relief coming from Reynolds as he patted Lantash on the shoulder.

"Good, let's get you the hell out of here."

"That's the time you must keep on trying,

Smile, what's the use of crying?

You'll fine that life is still worthwhile,

If you just smile."