Cassie watched the screen, smiling at the heart beat.
"Okay, Mr. and Mrs. O'Neill, meet your daughter." She said with a smile.
Sam's eyes widened. "It's a girl." She said. Jack's eyes lit up and he grinned widely.
Cassie smiled. "I knew it." She said, punching the air.
Daniel answered his phone, preoccupied with his notes.
"Jackson." He said.
"It's a girl." He heard Jack say, hearing the smile in his voice.
"Jack that's great, congratulations!" He said. Vala came in, confused at the smile on his face.
"What?" She asked quietly, waiting for his reply.
"Okay, well, we'll see you tonight then. Definitely, around seven works. Okay, bye." He said, closing his phone and sitting it on the desk.
"Whatever you just heard has you smiling like the cat that ate the yellow bird, I want to know." She said.
"It's a canary. And Jack and Sam are having a baby girl." He said. "A girl?" She said, excitement leaking into her voice.
Daniel nodded, grinning. "A girl. Her name is going to be Rebekkah Brooklynn." He replied.
"It's beautiful. This little girl is going to be more beautiful than her name, though." Vala said.
Daniel nodded. "Those two are going to be chasing boys away before she starts kindergarten." He said, shaking his head.
Jack smiled as he watched Sam make dinner. "You don't have to do that." Jack said.
"Yes I do." She replied, continuing on with her dinner making. He shook his head.
"I can cook too." He said, stepping up beside her.
"Fine, you make the noodles, I'll make the sauce. Garlic bread is in the oven." She said.
He turned. "You are never gonna let me do this, are ya?" He asked.
"Jack, you've made dinner every night for a week. It's my turn." She said. He smiled.
"I like making dinner for you, besides, we have to entertain guests, remember?" He said, grabbing the strainer for the spaghetti noodles.
"So, I think you should be the one to talk to Dominick about Cass." Sam said.
"Why not Daniel?" He asked. "Well, you're more like a father figure for her. You two have this…unspoken bond. She looks up to you; maybe you should be the one to lay down the law, so to speak. That and Dominick is afraid of you, he doesn't think Daniel would hurt a fly." She said.
He smirked. "Aren't we a little smug?" She said, turning to smile at him.
"I'm glad he's scared of me. As far as he's concerned I'm her father, and it's my right to protect her." He said.
"Ya know, after Janet died she begged me to adopt her. She refused to talk to me after I got my promotion, told me she would never speak to me again." He said.
She smiled. "She really said that to you?" She asked, shaking her head.
He nodded, breaking the spaghetti noodles and putting them in the pan. "I think we should." Sam said.
"I mean, I realize she's living with Daniel and Vala at the moment, but she looks enough like you." Sam said.
Jack smiled. "I think it's a great idea." He said, kissing her temple.
"Wow, you guys really know how to cook up a storm." Cassie said as she dished her plate.
Teal'c was already on his third plate, and he was eating with such gusto it seemed he was only on plate one.
Daniel nodded his head, taking a swig of his beer. Sam sat munching on her garlic bread.
"You know, after everything that's happened, we've all turned out okay. Well, with the exception of dear old Jack here." She said with a smile.
"Quiet you." He said, narrowing his eyes and smiling.
"So, Jack, I think us guys should have a project, something for the baby. I mean, the girls have decided that they're going to shop…a lot, so we should come up with something." Daniel said. Teal'c nodded.
"I concur. Perhaps we should create a nursery." Teal'c said. Jack smiled, nodding.
"Hey, sounds like a great idea. We'll need a theme, ya know." He said. Daniel smiled.
"How about a jungle theme for it? Paint the walls blue for the sky and green for the trees, hard wood, animal decals on the walls." He said.
Sam smiled. "It sounds perfect." She said. "It's settled then, a jungle theme for the nursery."
Cassie flopped down at the table, her head in her hands.
"Ya okay Cass?" Jack asked. She nodded. "Tired." She replied.
"Can I stay here tonight? I wanna give Daniel and Vala some privacy." She said.
He smiled. "Yeah, sure." He replied. She smiled. "So, I talked to Sam earlier, this baby is gonna tie things up for you two." She said, resting her head on her arm, elbow on the table.
He nodded, taking a deep breath. "Yeah, it is. Look, Cass, Sam and I talked before you guys got here. If the offer's still on the table, we wanna adopt ya." He said, looking at her critically.
She raised her eyebrows, smiling. "Really? You want me?" She said.
He smiled, shaking his head. "Of course we want you." He said. "Cass, when Janet died, I knew I had to do somethin bout all of it. My promotion came way too fast, in fact when they asked me, I almost turned them down. Sam pushed me; told me that I deserved the raise after all the hell I'd been through. She was angry with herself after she found out I was gonna be transferred to DC. I was pissed, but I figured I could do more for the program if I was in DC pullin as many strings as I could. I'm just glad to be back. Things were a little rough there for a little while." He said.
She smiled. "The offer is still on the table…dad." She said with a grin.
"Good, we'll file the papers an get your room set up." He said.
"Yes, Mr. President. Of course, no sir, its fine. Absolutely. Yes sir, I'll be there." He said.
"Thank you sir. Drop by anytime. I'd love to give you a tour of the new facility myself." Jack said.
"I'll do my best, sir." He said. He hung up the phone, sighing tiredly as he relaxed into the couch.
"What's wrong?" Sam asked. He shook his head. "Somebody at the SGC decided to blab about my 'condition'." He said, dragging his hand over his face. "Now the IOA wants to talk to me about it. Apparently they want to assess the situation, in case I could be a risk to the population of Colorado." He said, rolling his eyes.
Sam nodded, pulling her hair in a pony tail. "So I guess you'll be in DC for a few days." She said, leaning into his chest.
"Cass'll be here." He said, kissing her forehead.
"It's not the same." She said, snuggling closer to him.
"Things are gonna change around here. But it's gonna be for the better." He replied.
She smiled, glancing at the coffee table. Jack's old reading glasses sat there on top of a newspaper. "Well, your condition does some good." She said, picking the glasses up.
He smiled back. "Yeah, I guess it does, don't it?" He replied, leaning his head back and closing his eyes. "I'll be there for a week." He said.
Sam pouted, burying her face in his chest. "A week?" She said.
He smiled, looking down at her. "It's just a week. I know, I wasn't crazy about it either, but they need to do a physical, document their findings, even do a shock test." He said the last part with a shudder.
"A shock test?" She asked. He nodded. "They need to make sure my electric field isn't disturbed." He said, shrugging his shoulders.
"Your EM field, it affects everything around you, lights, appliances, everything. It's Electro Magnetic." She said.
"Well, they say it could damage some pretty important stuff if it's off, so they're gonna check that out." He said.
"When do you leave?" She asked, dreading that word.
"Tomorrow." He said with a sigh.