A/N: Sorry this has taken me nearly a year to update but real life has been crazy. Its still crazy but my plot bunny returned and demanded that I update this so here it is. Thank you to everyone who reviewed the last chapters it really means a lot to me...The chapter title comes from Too Close For Comfort by McFly ...Thanks to my wonderful Beta

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my love for the characters...and some season boxsets

Chapter Five

What Was I Just About To Discover

"Cameron, are we close to getting there yet?" Vala questioned from the backseat of Mitchell's brand new SUV, where she was currently trying to keep from going crazy with boredom. Jack was still fast asleep, as was Sam. So the conversations had been severely lacking. Teal'c sadly just wasn't a talker.

"We will be there in another ten minutes, Vala," Cam stated.

Vala nodded her understanding. Looking out the window she tried to keep her mind off not only the pain in her lower back but also the fact that her son was now kicking almost constantly. Several times in the last hour she had been forced to fight back tears of pain.

The car continued in total silence for nearly five minutes until Vala let out a pain filled moan. Jack was awake instantly.

"Vala, what's wrong? Do you hurt? Are you okay?" Jack rattled off quickly, as he looked the alien over, searching for signs of injury.

"I'm fine," Vala reassured. "The baby is just doing a tap dance on my bladder."

"Mitchell, how close are we?" Jack asked, looking up at driver.

"'Bout five minutes out, sir...She okay?" Mitchell asked, eyes filled with worry. Vala was not someone who expressed pain, unless it was bad.

"I'm fine." Vala smiled, looking from Jack to Mitchell. "Really."

"Maybe, we should call Dr. Lam?" Cam suggested.

"No!" Vala shouted, waking Sam from her sleep. "If you call Carolyn she will just insist on me going back to the base. I am fine, just tired. I promise that when we get to the cabin I will go straight to bed and rest, after I go to the bathroom."

"What's going on?" Sam asked, still sounding mostly asleep.

"Vala was wincing in pain and she is refusing to call Dr. Lam 'cause she's stubborn." Mitchell answered before anyone else had a chance. Vala glared at the back of his head in frustration.

"I am not being stubborn." She protested, "I just happen to know my body a little bit better than anyone else, and I know that I am fine." Turning to Jack, Vala gave her very best puppy eyes, the ones that always seemed to get her what she wanted with Jack. "Honestly, the baby just kicked a tad harder than normal."

Jack rubbed the back of his neck, uncertainty clear on his face, "Dr. Lam did say that he would start doing that…Just go lay down as soon as we get to the cabin."

Vala smiled, "I promise."

"I still think that you should call the good doctor." Mitchell muttered from the front seat of the SUV.

Vala quickly sent him another glare via the rearview mirror.

"Daniel, dinner is ready." Janet Fraiser called out to him, shaking the scientist form his thoughts. It took him a moment to place who had called him, Janet's voice was different than he remembered. She sounded more like a California surfer girl than a highly trained doctor in the United States Air Force. A woman that was able to make Marines and grown Generals cry. There was no end to the oddities of this new world he found himself calling home…But maybe he was wrong Janet could have always sounded like that. It had been years since he had heard her voice.

"Daniel, sweetie did you hear me?" Janet asked, pulling back the curtain that served as divider between the room he shared with Sha're and the rest of the cave area.

"Yes, sorry. I'm coming," Daniel apologized. Standing up, he followed Janet into the main area where everyone was assembled to eat. Daniel took his regular seat next to his wife. His Mother and Father were already eating along with his Father-In-Law.

"Did you have a good day, Son?" His Father asked, looking at him from across the fire.

"Yes, I spent the afternoon looking at the cave glyphs. They are different than I remember," Daniel answered. "They seem to tell a completely different story about how Ra was defeated on Earth. They talk of a benevolent group of higher life forms, blessing the slaves and burying the Earth 'gate to protect them. In return the Earth slaves worshipped their kindness. Its similar to a parable in the Book of Or- "

"I'm sure you're just remembering the story wrong," his Father interrupted before Daniel could complete his thought. "It's been some time since you last looked at them." His Father, spoke without even looking up from his bowl of stew.

Silence fell over the group. Daniel ate his food slowly, trying to remember the original story from the cave paintings. He had gotten as far as the rebellion on Earth when Sha're interrupted his train of thought.

"Daniel, I want to have a baby," she announced suddenly, before taking another bite of food.

Daniel stared at his wife in shock. How does a dead woman go about having a baby?

"I was not being careless, Cameron Mitchell!" Vala yelled, placing her hands on her hips, trying to look intimidating. It was something her step-mother used to do when she was having a row with Jacek, her sure fire way to win an argument. "I was trying to get some information that we needed."

"You were behaving inappropriately, Vala. You can'tact like that off world." Mitchell fired back, "You could have gotten us all killed."

"You seem to forget that I am not from Earth. I know how to handle myself on other planets. I've been to that planet before and know perfectly well what their views of women are," Vala snapped. She was sick and tired of Mitchell's condescending behavior towards her. Turning toward Daniel she looked for support from her lover. "Tell him I knew what I was doing, Darling."

"Vala…" Daniel looked uncomfortably from his girlfriend and his team leader. No matter what he did one of them was going to be angry. "We're a team we have to stick together-" Daniel was cut off by Mitchell

"Jackson's right we're supposed to be a team. You do that again and you're off the team." Mitchell snapped, before turning and heading for the gate.

Vala turned and glared at Daniel, her hurt obvious in her eyes. "Thanks for the support, Darling."

Jack watched as Vala tossed restlessly in her sleep, her forehead creased in frustration. A sure sign she was dreaming of things she'd rather not remember. Jack quickly crossed the room and sat next to the raven haired alien, placing his arm around her. Vala stilled, her face relaxing out.

Vala suddenly felt herself relax, falling into a deeper sleep she let her self get lost in a memory only a few days old.

"With this new equipment we will be able to see the baby in 3-D. That way I'll be able to tell for certain that he is growing at the proper rate." Carolyn Lam explained, while applying the sonogram gel to Vala's bare stomach.

"It won't hurt him or anything will it?" Jack asked from his seat next to Vala's bed looking at the massive piece of equipment with wary eyes. This was much different than the sonograms used on Sara.

"The machine is perfectly safe, there will be some noise to the baby but it won't harm him in anyway."

"It's fine, Jack." Vala smiled, reclining back on the infirmary bed. She turned her focus to the screen waiting to really see her son for the first time. Sure, she had had several other sonograms throughout her pregnancy but all she could ever see was a little blob. She couldn't really make out any of his features.

"Alright, let me just position this and…" Carolyn had barley finished her statement when a small face appeared on the screen.

"Wow." Jack exclaimed looking over at Vala to see her reaction, he was not at all surprised to find her in tears.

Vala took in her son's face with wonderment. He was perfect in everyway. The picture was small, yellowy and a bit blurry but she could see every detail of his face. He was sucking his thumb, looking so peaceful.

"He looks happy." Vala cried wanting nothing more than to hold him in her arms and never let go.

"Why wouldn't he be? He's nice and warm, gets three square meals a day, you for a Mom and me for an Uncle. This kid is set." Jack joked but it was plain to see he was just as touched as Vala.

"We can do this," Vala smiled never looking away from her son. For the first time since Daniel had left, she felt hope.

With a start Vala bolted up in bed, something was wrong. She could feel it. Shifting up in bed, she reclined against the headboard, barely noticing Jack passed out beside her. The early morning light flickering through the window allowed her to instantly see what was wrong. There was blood in the bed, blood that had come from her. Vala cried out as a sharp pain encompassed her abdomen, something was wrong.

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