Daniel Jackson paced up and down the corridor outside the operating theatre. Janet and Kelly had now been in surgery for more than two hours and he was beginning to get worried. Sam, Jack and Teal'c had gone to the commissary to get some coffee. The older version of Daniel meanwhile having spoken to the General and arranged some leave for Cass was now with her and the children who were resting in some quarters. Janet's counterpart however, obviously feeling terrible over what she was putting Daniel through had decided to stay with him.

Janet who had been pacing, leaned back against the wall.

"Hey are you okay?" Daniel asked concerned.

"I'm carrying a very active baby in here and tend to get tired easily. I'm fine...I just need to sit down." She replied sitting down in a chair close by.

"This must be terrible for you." He commented looking at her tired face. "What with the baby, and having the other kids to look after. You must have a lot on your mind."

Janet looked up at him.

"It must be even worse for you." She told him.

"Why? I'm not the one who's faced losing a daughter. I mean you obviously feel terrible for not being able to help her."

"Do you know what it's like to be so happy that your heart almost bursts...but then in one split second it's all stolen away?" Janet asked him.

"Yeah. Actually I do." Daniel replied.

"That's how I feel." Janet told him.

Daniel moved in his chair to face her, prompting her silently to continue.

"I loved you...your counterpart for a long time before we actually became a couple. It came to the point when I never believed you could feel the same way about me. Then one day I noticed things started to change, I mean we started spending more time together and when you could...if I was upset you'd comfort me." She smiled. "The day you told me you loved me was the most incredible day of my life. We had everyone over at mine. We were having a belated birthday celebration for Cass. It was just after she'd gotten really sick, and I think that was what made me realise how much I loved you, you know? All I wanted when she was sick was for you to hold me...for you to make it all better...I felt safe with you and that moment when you took my hand in yours...it felt like electricity running through me. At the party we both found ourselves outside...it's safe to say I was bawling my eyes out. Everything that had happened just got on top of me and I didn't know what to do. You just came outside and put your arm around me, and held me so tight. Then you told me you loved me. I think I'd known it the day Cass was sick, I think I'd known every moment that she was sick just by the way you were looking at me, but when I knew for sure that night it felt incredible. Then we talked about everything...it was so intense...but it felt great to be able to get all that off my chest...to feel so secure with someone that I was able to just do that. Anyway one thing led to another as you can imagine, we went upstairs...the next morning you decided to make me breakfast in bed. Cass was up. She got the shock of her life when you came downstairs. She thought you were a burglar and nearly belted you with a baseball bat."

Daniel smiled.

"Kelly was conceived that night. The first night we ever... god I was so afraid when I found out and I was petrified about telling you. I didn't for the first three months. I knew I didn't want to get rid of our child, but I also didn't think you'd want to be with me any more if I told you I was pregnant that early on. So I hid it and carried on like everything was normal. Cass was the one that went to you in the end telling you I kept being sick and that she was worried about me. That kinda brought me to my senses and so I told you the truth."

"What I do?" Daniel asked her.

"We fought. Probably the only fight we ever had, not because of the baby, I mean you wanted her just as much as I did. I'd scared you half to death too and when you found out I'd been keeping the pregnancy from you the way I had, something you would have stood by me about from the beginning upset you. Of course I got upset...hormones and all...that upset you...so we pretty much both ended up in tears. Then you ended up on one knee." She told him smiling. "We never really fought again after that. When Kelly was born, it was so easy to see father hood came natural to you, she was immediately the apple of your eye like Cass always has been. Then we got married, and over the years ended up with Max and Charlotte and then our grandson Jack. Daniel being married to you has been the happiest time of my life. My first marriage wasn't anything special, but just being with you makes me feel special."

"So our marriage is happy?" Daniel asked curiously.

"Daniel I couldn't be happier, not even if I had the most money on this planet. You've given me so much love, and three beautiful children...and right now I'm carrying another one inside of me who I already love more than I ever knew was possible. I am so happy that before all this I felt as if my heart was going to burst. Then Kelly got sick." She told him sadly. "Daniel when I found out I was pregnant with Max I thought that was it...no more kids. Don't get me wrong I love my children... I love being pregnant even when I am throwing up every possible hour of the day but living with Kelly, Max and Cass,. ..well you can imagine what a handful that was. I mean having the younger two so close in age there were quite a few arguments" she told him smiling. "Then I started feeling sick again and I just knew that I had another baby inside of me. We talked a lot about what would be best when I found out I was carrying Charlotte, we even thought about adoption but I nearly miscarried and I knew I couldn't give our baby away...and I knew you couldn't either...you never did want to." She added. "So we had Charlie. I thought our life was complete after that, somehow everything settled down and while it was kinda wild at our house I would never have had it any other way. We had eight years to get used to the family we had, Kelly was growing up right before our eyes into such a beautiful young woman, Cass had just finished her training as a doctor, had been employed here at the SGC, had met Paul and married him and had then had Jack, Max was getting into archaeology just like his dad and Charlotte was growing into such a sweetie. Then I got the all too familiar warning signals. Talk about shocked, I think Daniel nearly had a heart attack. We went on holiday with the guys to try and decide what to do and while we were there we decided we would keep her, though this would definitely be the last. We were so happy. I remember just laying there under the stars me in your arms. Then Kelly got sick, we thought she was getting better and for a while everything was okay then we just got up one day...there was no sign of her. By this time I was already huge... and I walked into her room. She was so pale Daniel, but her cheeks were flushed with fever and I couldn't wake her. That moment every ounce of happiness felt like it had drained out of my heart."

Daniel looked at the floor.

"And then you found out you were the only one to help her."

"I felt terrible Daniel. If I hadn't been pregnant, I could have helped my little girl and instead I had to watch her slowly die. I couldn't get rid of my baby Daniel, there was no way...but I couldn't sit by and watch my first baby girl die."

"So you found us." He asked.

"You're right, I have been through a lot, and sometimes this pain is unbearable, but Daniel I've been with my Daniel for eighteen years now. Times have been hard but mostly they've been eighteen years of bliss, the happiest years of my life. I've never regretted the first night I spent with you... it lead to this...to my being your wife and to my being so happy. I want you to know that because your Janet undoubtedly feels the same...she obviously loves you just as much as I do my Daniel. I just...you must be feeling awful because I've had eighteen years with Daniel here, you guys have only just gotten together, have only just realised how much you want to be with each other. It must be terrible knowing what she's going through because of us."

"Look I don't blame you for this, I don't blame my counterpart...I don't blame Kelly. No-one could have predicted Kelly was going to get as sick as she has been. Coming here was down to Janet. It was her decision, it had nothing to do with me. All I did was support her in her choice, and that was after a lot of talking and arguing and crying. She's a strong-minded woman."

Janet smiled.

"I love her so much. What if I lose her?" he asked breaking down.

Janets counterpart stroked his hair.

"Daniel like you said, she's strong and she loves you. Love can overcome anything, even this. You're not gonna lose her Daniel, she loves you too much to give up on anything without a fight and that's even if there are complications."

"Thank you." He told her calming down.

"No problem." She replied then pulling a face.

"What are you okay?" he asked.

Janet took his hand in hers and put in on her stomach.

"Can you feel that?" she asked him.

Daniel's mouth opened stunned, and then broke into a smile.

"Wow. She's really kicking in there." He told her.

"You should try sleeping when she's this active." Janet told Daniel smiling. "But I wouldn't change anything."

"It's beautiful." Daniel told her as he felt the baby kick again.

"Yeah it is. The first time I felt Kelly kick I was in the middle of a briefing with SG-1. I was giving a medical report to General Hammond when I nearly jumped out of my seat."

Daniel smiled.

"Of course everyone thought there was something wrong so Daniel started to freak out, General Hammond wanted to rush me to the infirmary. It was only when it happened again and I wasn't too shocked to tell them what was up that the whole room broke out in smiles. It was the most amazing feeling. From the moment I found out about the baby it was as if I could sense this little life growing in me, but at that moment it was real. Everyone wanted to feel. You should have seen Daniels face. Talk about the proud father. It's something that never gets old." She told him. "Not even when this is your fourth child."

"I can't believe we have so many." He told her.

"Sometimes either can we. But what we do believe is that we've been pretty blessed and I'm sure you two will be too, one day." She told him.

"If we get through this."

"When you get through this." She told him.

"So what's it like being a grandparent?" he asked.

"Honestly? I love it. Cass is a great mom to Jack. When she married Paul we were so happy for her, our little girl had grown up into such a wonderful woman, had met a lovely man who thought the world of her and who she obviously loved. He's a scientist with SG-9 here. Then she found out she was pregnant. I'd noticed something was up for a while but wanted to give her some space so she could think things through. Then she started spending a lot of time with us and the kids and eventually told me, though she'd spoken to Kelly first which kinda shows how close they were even though there's quite an age gap. The poor thing was so scared but I think she'd seen me go through it enough to know what it entailed. Paul stuck by her through everything, he couldn't wait to be a father and was there when Jack was born. Daniel was over the moon to find out he was going to be a grandfather, and Cass when she had gotten over the initial shock was so excited. Luckily the pregnancy was easy for her, there were no complications and we have Jack as the result. We look after him for Cass when she needs it. Kelly looks after him when we're all at the SGC. She loves being an aunt. So yeah being a grandparent is great...though our child is going to be younger than Cassies which is quite strange.

"I bet." Daniel replied. "I just hope we end up as happy as you guys are."

"I think you will." Janet replied smiling. "I think you already are." She added squeezing his hand.