5

Thor moved his hand and Henry Hayes appeared in the room, he had evidently been leaning on his desk when Thor transported him, he almost fell over. "Hank, tell the secret service men having a heart attack where I am" the president said looking around at everyone in the room SG13 were at attention, as was the paediatrician and one of the nurses, Hank was half way there but talking into the phone and Jack removed a hand from his trouser pocket and shook the one the President held out to him.

"Glad to have you back General" he looked again "Where is Colonel Carter?" Jacks eyes closed

"Colonel Carter is aboard my vessel" Thor answered for him "She seems to be having an adverse reaction to the drugs used to sedate her"

"How serious is it Thor?" Jack asked sticking his hand straight back into his pocket. The president had also worked out that Jack only ever did this if he was anxious or thinking and had nothing to destroy in his hands, and had let him know it when Sam had visited DC the night they got engaged, Jack had had one hand on her waist and never removed the other from his pocket all night! The president had asked him if he was going to spend the night in the Lincoln room with his hands in his pockets. Jack had grinned and said he thought he could probably find something else to do with his hands when the two of them were in bed. Sam had blushed furiously. Jack thought of that night and sighed, he wanted her here, where he could see her and hold her!

"Have you caught whoever kidnapped the General and Colonel Thor?" the president asked.

"Unfortunately not, we concentrated on liberating them first and they went to hyperdrive before we had time to track them, the ship was similar in design to ones that have been reported over several centuries, but the reports are vague and no contact has been recorded with the occupants"

"I communicated with Hermiod before arriving here, he is going to develop a shield that can be used to prevent 'beams', as O'Neill calls our transport device, taking you without warning, you will be able to turn them on and off so that you may be taken aboard our vessels, but YOU will have control, not us. We will have to appear in hologram form and ask permission in future." Jack liked the sound of that, since he and Sam had got together his one dread was being beamed away mid coitus.

"And the kids?" he nodded to the cots, the nurses were all busy now seeing to the children, the paediatrician was dealing with the newcomers, but none of them was missing a single word!

"That is up to you O'Neill, we will have to see what the shield generator is like, maybe it will be small enough to integrate into jewellery,"

"They are babies Thor, they are not going to HAVE any jewellery, or at least not for years," he seemed to think of something "Are they identicals?"

Carolyn spoke up, "not so far General, but it is still possible that the two latest are genetically identical to a pair that has already arrived"

"So they don't need identification bracelets. We will work something out"

"Thor" said the president "could you send me back to DC please in a minute, Jack" he held out his hand again to be shaken "Glad you are back, will you come straight to DC?"

"No sir, I think I'll stay here a while, my aide can cope with most stuff, I need to see to Carter and the kids for a while."

"I can provide you with a transportation stone O'Neill so you may travel to 'work' and back every day, I will place a relay in geosynchronous orbit" Jack was starting to get a bit suspicious, he knew Thor liked him, and that recently the Asgard had been helping earth with more and more technology, but a PERSONAL transport?

"That sounds peachy Thor" Jack said "But don't you think it is a bit over the top?"

"As the liaison between the Asgard and earth we feel it is appropriate that you benefit in this way, otherwise you may be tempted to stop work to look after your children" DAMN! That was EXACTLY what Jack had been thinking of doing

The president gave him a grin "Oh we won't be letting him go any time soon Thor, you can count on that, now I am ready to go if you don't…" and he was gone.

Jack spent a frantic hour worrying about Sam, the SG13 squad, for some reason, didn't leave, Carolyn went in and out with samples and things. The doctor and nurses seemed to be in awe of someone who was personal friends not only with aliens but with the POTUS too! Thor disappeared for a while to 'help' with the medical care and organise those shields.

Daniel helped '13 with the feeding, and Jack took a baby as well, but Hank soon took her back as Jack kept turning her bottle and she kept sucking air.

"Carolyn" Jack said "You not going to join the fun? There seems to be plenty to go around"

"I would rather have my teeth extracted without anaesthetic" she said

"No grand children for YOU Hank" Jack stated and watched as Daniel, Dixon, Wells, and Balinsky each held their hands out to Bosworth, who sighed and rested his baby on his lap, got out his wallet and handed the cash out.

Jack grinned "You could have let me in on the action Danny boy" he said Hank didn't know whether to be outraged or insulted or amused that there had already been a book on him.

"Careful of this lot Hank" he said, belatedly "forgot to warn you they make book on anything, including what will be on each planet they reach and who is screwing whom"

"Should I ask what the bet was this time?" Hank asked, Carolyn looked puzzled, but then she wasn't military

"I shouldn't think you want to know Hank, oh by the way… what day is it?"

"Wednesday" Jack nodded absorbing the missing time, he had had plenty of practise over the years.

"Who is holding the book on Sam and myself?" Dixon pointed at Balinsky "she said yes on Thursday evening, I proposed in the oval office" Balinskys eyes widened thinking hard.

"I think it's between Walter and Siler sir, neither said you would last a week once the Colonel was no longer in direct chain of command! I'll look it up after this little one has gone to sleep"

"How much is it now?"

"Almost five thousand sir"

"Damn I should have placed a bet myself!" he said.

"Congratulations sir" Dixon handed the baby to wells and stood to attention and saluted "and may I say, 'it's about damn time'" the rest of the older SGC members said the last bit in chorus.

Jack laughed and then quickly sobered as he remembered the other half of that arrangement was still ill.

The phone on the wall broke the silence that had fallen, making every one of the babies jump, and setting a couple off in hiccups. Hank answered

"Thank you Walter, tell him where we are" he put the phone down. "Teal'c has just arrived"

Jack nodded and waited for his friend to come through the door. Eventually he did and he clasped both Daniel and himself by the arm as greeting, nodding his thanks to Hank and raising his eyebrow in typical Teal'c fashion at '13 all sat around feeding babies. He looked back to Jack to explain.

"Meet the kids" Jack said simply