8
He came to less than an hour later and apologised to both Thor and Sam. He had no idea what had happened to him, but Heimdall, in the corner at a control panel thing, stated it had been a form of hysteric shock, like HE was one to have hysterics!
He jumped off the bed and grabbed Sam, swinging her around until he made them both dizzy. "We have kids!" he said
"We do!" she was less enthusiastic and he remembered they had never discussed the subject. He knew her career meant a hell of a lot to her, he couldn't blame her, she was headed for the very top… hell the country could do worse than have her as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs!
"We need to talk" he said and looked around for a chair or two to use.
"I believe it would be advisable for you to return to Earth O'Neill" Thor said, Jack looked at him until he continued "We do not have human food here and you are both in need of sustenance" Come to think of it, he was ravenous!
"Can you put us into the commissary Thor?" he asked and then had to point the room out on a 3D hologram of the base. Thor scanned the room, and they heard the beam starting up. "be seeing you!" Jack managed to say before he was gone.
They ignored everyone in the room, even the SFs who jumped to their feet and almost drew their sidearms on them, with a look at each other Sam went to get a couple of trays and started filling them, he went to the phone and told Walter he was back, it was the fastest way to disseminate the information. He then joined Sam and they were putting things on each others tray as they moved down the line, as they had done for years before.
The sergeant behind the display moved forward, a bowl of blue jello and a piece of chocolate cake in his hands and he filled the last gaps on their trays with a smile. "Good to have you back Sir, Ma'am" he said. They both gave him a smile and their profound thanks.
They turned to their usual table and before they had even unwrapped their sandwiches, Daniel, Teal'c and Hank Landry entered the room. Daniel and Teal'c got their own trays and Hank headed straight for the table. Sam got to her feet to salute and he waved her to stop. "I know this is a military base" he said "but I cannot have my bosses boss saluting me" Jack grinned at him and Sam looked puzzled. "Congratulations on your engagement" he clarified.
"I thought we weren't going to tell everyone yet?" she looked at her fiancé.
"I know but we were missing, then you were ill and the president arrived, and…"
"He decided to close the running book on you both" 'gee thanks Hank' Jack thought and closed his eyes, and sighed, waiting for it.
"BOOK?!" she exclaimed "there was a BOOK?" Hank looked at her, surprised
"Of course there was a book, this is a military base" he said reasonably and Jack watched her start to smile a little
"Who won?"
"Last I heard it was either Siler or Walter, and the pot was almost 5k" Jack wasn't sure which man he wanted to win as he liked both of them enormously Hank clarified
"Both made guesses half a day out, so they split it down the middle" he said, it couldn't have worked out better Jack thought. Sam smiled wider, he knew she liked both men too, she had worked closely with them both since the programme restarted, and maybe even before that!
The two other members of SG1 sat down with their breakfasts, Daniel had a whole carafe of coffee on his tray and Teal'c's, of course, looked like Carmen Miranda's hat!
Jack was dying to ask how the kids were but he didn't want the news of how many they had to be broken to Sam in this very public place, everyone was watching their table as it was.
"I'm going to take half and hour or so and fill Sam in on everything that has happened as soon as we finish breakfast" he informed everyone at the table "Could you as Carolyn to supply that demonstration you were telling me about for later? Thor had one similar but I think Sam could use some time to study it"
"Who is Carolyn?" she asked
"The new CMO, Carolyn Lam, she's a brilliant doctor, you will like her" Actually Jack had only met her once before all this kicked off and that was at the job interview, however she had GREAT references! Daniel and Teal'c did not look so sure and Hank looked downright apprehensive.
They finished up and Jack guided her to her old room, it was only when she got there she realised she had had breakfast in the commissary in her shortie pyjamas with a teddy on the front that Cassie had bought her. He grinned at her as she groaned and hit him lightly on the arm
"Why didn't you remind me!" she asked
"You look cute in them" he said, knowing he was on thin ice, she hated the word cute, never mind being called it!
She thumped him lightly again and started to change into the BDU that Walter had had delivered to the room the day before. He watched her start to dress and couldn't help himself! He crept up behind her when all she had on was her knickers and started to fondle her, she straightened up, moaning and giving him full access, her head fell back onto his shoulder… the talk could wait!
They lay side by side on the single bed, sated, and Jack was explaining the chronology of events to her
"Wait, we have FOUR children?" she asked
"Be patient woman!" He said, he continued
"Six" she whispered when he got to the arrival of the next two. "Oh god EIGHT!" her voice was totally hoarse but she still seemed to be shouting in a whisper, if that could be said to make sense. He grinned at her and assured her that there were no more, as yet anyway, and continued on through their recovery, an her subsequent illness, Thors offer of tech, the transporter And the anti-transport shields.
He got to the end and lay drawing patterns on her flat stomach with his index finger while allowing her to fully absorb all the information.
"Eight" she kept saying, "eight" he decided that she needed to see them if she was going to believe it, but first he needed to talk about a couple of things.
"I know we never discussed having children Sam, but we have no choice here, these are ours, they are US!" he looked straight into her eyes willing her to read his love for her and their children. He had been trying not to get too close to them, avoiding touching them if possible, but he had always loved kids, and the fact that these were half made from the most perfect woman in the universe would have made him love them even if he had not been the father. He was quite willing to stay home and look after them himself, after all they could do without him around here, but not without her!
He had no idea how to break the news of her ovaries, he was not a coward but he did not want to see the eyes he loved so much filled with the pain the news would cause.
"I love you Jack" she said to him, running her hand down his chest "and I was always hoping we would have children some day, but it seemed that it may not happen, and I am not getting any younger" he snorted at that, she poked him in the abdomen "Men can father kids into their nineties at least, it doesn't hold the same for women" she had a point there.
"I doubt I would have managed or even wanted eight children, but there's no way in hell am I going to reject them, they are YOURS, OURS… let's get dressed and you can introduce me, and we can start on some names… what do you think of Jacob?" she grinned at him
"Perfect" he said, "'Male baby 1' will be Jacob" he said
"No" she corrected "'Male baby 1' will be Jonathan named after the best of the best"
They arrived in the nursery and SG13 were in their usual places, each feeding, changing or winding a child, Daniel was with another, and Teal'c had somehow managed to get a child in each arm and was managing to feed both of them at the same time! The other baby was being held by a nurse. Jack lifted that one, looked at the name band and passed him over to his mother. "Jacob, meet mom" he said
Everyone looked up at the use of a name. Jack looked around and spotted that one of the babies Teal'c was holding had a darker pigment with a lighter strip where his eyes had been covered to protect them during the UV treatment, and picked him up "and Jonathan, you can meet mom too" he looked around "more names soon, as we decide on them" he said and crouched beside the chair his love was in while she held her two 'eldest' sons, he soon removed Jacob to his own arms and got Sam the bottle as he had interrupted Jonathans dinner. She took to it as if she had been doing it all her life! Once the children were put down for their naps the SGC members started discussing names, Jack wanted their eldest daughter to be named after his grandmother, a woman who epitomised her very name and Sam with eyes full of tears agreed.
"Grace!" she said.
One of the nurses was writing on the whiteboard that used to be used to track the meds of the patients held in the room. She filled in the names as they were agreed.
A couple of hours, and some heated discussion later, and the children all had their titles.
"Jonathan, Jacob, George, and Richard. Grace, Danielle, Janet, and Tilda" Tilda was Daniels suggestion, it was close to Teal'c name, which Sam wanted and meant 'powerful warrior'
Sam was looking pale by this time and Jonathan was looking yellow again. So Carolyn ordered a bed brought into the room and placed against the corner Jack had been sitting in earlier, and told Sam she had to rest, and wrapped the cloth around Jonathans eyes again and turned on the light. Jack took turns cuddling each child, and talking softly to Sam until she went to sleep.