A/N: I've been debating for the past half an hour to start my math busy work, or update. As you can obviously see I chose the latter. Thank you to my reviewers.

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As the Air Force officers shuffled out of the conference room to get going on their respective tasks, Sam slid down to sit in the only empty chair in the room, next to Alex, Bobby and Deakins. Daniel, Jack and Teal'c gave her concerned looks as they left the room, but all three men knew enough to say nothing.

Sam let her head drop to her hands as her elbows rested on the metal table, the cold material barely even registering through her Air Force sweat shirt. The other three didn't know exactly when the tears started, but when Samantha Carter started to visibly shake Alex couldn't take it anymore.

The astrophysicist's tear stained face shot up when she felt Alex's hand on her shoulder. Bobby recognized the look of fear and helplessness that lay in Sam's eyes and was unsure about what had brought it on as Alex and Deakins.

Without addressing the issue at hand, Sam turned to Deakins, "Captain Deakins, all of your superiors have been notified by the Vice President or the President himself about the Air Force taking over this case. By the time you arrive at your desk tomorrow, it will be on file that Cassandra Fraiser and Scott Douglas escaped on their own from their captor and he was never found. Is that understood?"

Deakins nodded, not liking the situation one bit, but knowing that there was nothing he could do, "Completely, Colonel."

"Good, I'm sure you have other matters that you need to attend to. Paper work seems to fuel all offices, after all," Sam's eyes had taken on a far off look that was cold and distant – it as look none of the police officers had seen on someone not related to a crime or death. Bobby was determined to find out what it meant.

Deakins wordlessly left, silently praying his best two detectives could right whatever wrongs where going on here … Who was he kidding? They weren't shrinks! No, they weren't, but they were the next best thing: friends.

Sam recognized the look in both Bobby's face and Alex's, but she wasn't about to go crying away all her troubles to a man she'd never even met before and a woman she hadn't seen in twenty-odd years.

"I take it that you both want to know what Ferretti and the General were just talking about," Sam said, her face still clear of all emotion, even though the red stains left by her tears spoke of how unstable her emotions were.

Alex wordlessly nodded as Bobby just sat and studied the Air Force Colonel. She started explaining how the team assembled would take over Ba'al's ship, kill him, try to free any Jaffa he had on board and give them the option to join the newly formed Free Jaffa Nation, all while finding Cassie and Scott and beaming them back to New York so they wouldn't miss classes on Monday.

Bobby leaned forward, his eyes looking at Sam intently as he asked, "And how are ten of you going to do all that in less than seven hours?"

Sam shook her head, "There aren't going to be ten of us on that ship. Jack can't go – the President would be way too pissed if he did that."

"What about you?" Bobby asked; his eyes lowering to look at Sam's stomach before returning to her face to find her shocked eyes locked on his.

Without answering Bobby directly, Sam turned to Alex, "Is he always this observant?"

Alex nodded, "I'm sure he could tell you exactly who's job is what by now, Ferretti's relationship with Jack and your relationship with T and Daniel."

The astrophysicist turned back to Goren, her eyes holding a hint of sadness whose origin he couldn't figure out, "No, I'm not going."

"As much as I love that idea," someone drawled from the doorway, Sam and Alex looked up to find Jack standing there, his arms crossed over his chest, "I'm gonna need to know why the hell not. Carter, you know those ships better than anyone but Teal'c and Vala."

Sam felt tears come to her eyes again as her husband walked closer to her and knelt down beside her chair. "Because I'm two months pregnant, Jack," she whispered, her eyes soulfully gazing into his eyes. "I can't risk it."

The information was just too much for Jack to take in. Before anyone could react, he was on the floor, unconscious. Sam rolled her eyes as Bobby quickly got up to check on his old friend. "For cryin' out loud," she muttered under her breath, "Not again."

"Again?" Bobby asked, reassured that nothing serious was wrong with Jack and he'd wake up in a few moments. "This happened before?"

Sam nodded, "Right after I told him I'd marry him. This is all rather surreal for both of us." Her lips formed a small smile, "Surreal and wonderful."

Someone coughed from the doorway and Sam looked up to find Daniel and Teal'c standing there with SG-2, Mitchell and Vala standing behind them. She took a deep breath, "He'll be fine – just had a systems overload."

"Ack!" Jack cried, shaking Bobby off as he sat up, "Only you would call me hearing that my wife's about to have a baby a systems overload, Carter!"

"Yeah, well I'm sorry about the wording, sir, but that's what happened," Sam snarled back to her husband.

Before the conversation could escalate into an argument, Mitchell cleared his throat, "We're ready, General."

Jack scowled as he got to his feet, part of him really wishing he could go with the team, the other part of him knowing that he had to stay Earth-side and talk to his wife. "T, you're in command. Main objective is retrieving Cassie and Scott; secondary objective is blowing that ship to hell. Got that?"

"Indeed."

"Good. Move out."

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A/N: So? What do you guys think? I thought it only fitting that Bobby noticed before anyone said anything - as it's just such a Bobby thing to realize. Please review and tell me what you think.