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Jack was still grinning when Dr. Cook appeared at the door signalling him, he gestured for the doctor to enter but the doc shook his head and signalled him to come out instead. Jack got up and headed to the door. "Sir, Janet is getting worse, she is almost at the same point Jonathan was at when Thor put him in that floaty thing" his hands flapped slightly as he had no idea what to call it. "Richard will be needing one soon as well" the man sounded defeated, and he looked bloody tired, but at least he acted like a human.

Jack went back into the room and told Thor he was wanted next door, Thor cocked his head and then stepped through the doors to the corridor, heading the right way. Jack turned to Sam and gave her a reassuring smile, "Be right back love, nothing to worry about, if you decide to get a shower, keep the amulet on!"

Thinking about it though, she DID come back in a much better state than she had left in. If they could only contact the Furlings and ask them if they could help the kids! He was turning into the nursery as stasis pods began appearing in the corridor, Jack pushed one through the doors and pulled the other behind him. Daniel and Teal'c lay their bundles into the pods and the lids closed. The only thing keeping him sane was the fact that he had been in one of them himself, at deaths door, and HE had survived!

"For what reason did the stasis pods appear in the corridor?" Teal'c enquired.

"The children each have a shield on that protects for a 2 metre radius, we cannot beam in, just as we cannot beam out," that explained why Thor had appeared at the furthest corner of the infirmary earlier, Sam and himself had shields on. Jack was never one for jewellery, apart from his dog tags the only thing he had ever worn was his wedding ring, it felt strange, especially as it was so big.

Jack spent a good 10 minutes assuring Dr. Cook that he understood he was doing everything he could, short of the full blood replacement, and that he was just glad that HE was there to help look after his children. The younger man looked pleased at the vote of confidence, right up until his eye settled on an empty cot. He went back to the small table the medics were using and explained that he was looking up cures online, maybe some folk remedy that the medical profession had dismissed would be efficacious. Jack was glad to see he was thinking outside the box. Maybe he would find the cure before Thor did, after all the Asgard did not know the whole of the Earths pharmacology, and could in no way be considered an expert on humans.

The nurses took the routine blood sample from the remaining babies, and SG13 sat around looking upset that they may no longer be required, after all there were only 5 babies left, 3 nurses, 1 doctor, Daniel, Teal'c, himself and Sam when she got up.

Jack decided he better release at least part of '13 or he may get Hank into trouble, after all they were a front line combat unit, not nannies. "Dixon" he said and gestured out of the room, the team leader rose and followed him. "I know your men have little to do in there now…"

"Sir, please don't dismiss us, now the shields are of shorter area, who is to say whoever took them before won't beam into the far side of the room, remove the shields and take them again?" Jack thought about it, of course, he was right. Even with the Asgard in space above they had managed to snatch Sam. Jack nodded slowly "Besides sir…" Dixon grinned "the little buggers are so damn cute" Jack grinned back at him and then sighed.

"Something will work out sir, you're SG1, something always does!"

"Thing is, I'm not SG1 any more, none of us are"

"You will ALWAYS be SG1 sir, General Landry tell you he refused to make up another team? The designation is retired unless you all come back" that put a lump in Jacks throat, he had to swallow several times while Dixon pretended to be fascinated by a patch on the wall.

"I'll clear it with Hank, but split your team for now, get some sleep, and you and Wells get off base and see your own families for a change."

"Once they are out of danger we will sir, you would do the same for us" he turned and headed back into the nursery. Jack stood a couple of minutes, but no one came out to go for a rest, he shook his head, Dixon was as good at following orders as HE was!

Thor exited the room and turned back to the infirmary, following him, Jack stopped on the threshold and told the SF who was supposedly guarding Anise to rustle up a couple of trays, he would watch her, make sure she didn't wander off. He told him to make sure he got some blue jello and a couple of pieces of chocolate cake too. Sam wouldn't be able to turn down her favourite desserts, and once she started eating she would not be able to stop.

Jack told Sam that Richard and Danielle had both had to go into stasis pods as the bilirubin levels had sky rocketed and he looked to Anise as Sam started to cry softly "Thank you for your efforts, we have to hope we can contact the Furlings for aid. If you wish to return home after you eat we will contact you when the children are better and I promise you will get blood samples from them." Freya spoke

"Thank you for the offer, but Dr. Lam has already provided me with samples from all eight babies and their DNA results, we are disappointed that you decided to hide the full facts from us, but hopefully we will learn something useful from this information" She stood up and headed for the door. Jack held out a hand to stop her.

"You need to wait for an escort" he said.

"Of course I do," she replied "I am glad I am a trusted ally"

She stood and waited for the SF to return with the food trays and then she left, heading to the 'gate.

Jack stormed down the infirmary and opened the office door. "Pack up, you're gone" he said, he picked up the phone off her desk and called for a security patrol and her father to come down/up

When Hank appeared in the small office Jack explained what she had done and told him he was going to press charges with the medical board for breeching patient confidentiality in a manner that could endanger them, and he wanted her sent to the Castle and held incommunicado until he could decide what to do with her.

Hank wanted to be able to protect his daughter, but he had read the mission files, as well as private notes over the years tagged on by both Hammond and Jack, and he had to agree. She could easily have endangered these children by passing the information on.

She laughed, slightly manic, and told them that the children would soon be out of their hands anyway as the NID were very interested in them and would be ordering them to be transported to '51 soon

"Oh, there's not a chance in hell" Jack said and told the guard detail to arrange transport to Leavenworth, and he added, she had to be in solitary.