Author's note: Clearly I have a thing for hurt!Daniel but its cus he hits me in all the right feels, please keep reading and review because I love so much when you do. All disclaimers apply as usual.

Chapter Six: Seriously, Again…

Daniel struggled to sit up on the infirmary bed; he was not staying on base. He told Janet and Hammond so and Jack actually didn't argue. Actually Zale was nodding behind Jack when Daniel put up a fuss and that confused and worried him.

"Daniel, you were crushed and I'm worried that there was internal injuries and we need to wait until the x-rays come back."

"When you getting them back?" Daniel asked.

Janet held up a hand to stall Daniel from getting off the bed, "Soon Daniel but we also need to discuss something." With that Janet turned and nodded to the door and everyone walked out, Sam was there to take the children away until Daniel and Jack were done.

"What's up?" Jack asked as he sat down next to Daniel who shifted painfully to make room.

"I know there's something different about your kids. Zale and Johnny especially are capable of things that the rest of us will never really understand. I know something happened today when Daniel got hurt and they knew something was wrong when Henry assaulted Daniel. Zale threw open the doors without touching them and then when Daniel was in the hospital, after Zale was found in the hospital without having been dropped off and Daniel was better inexplicably."

Jack shrugged and Daniel didn't say anything, protecting their kids was more important than even their friendship with Janet.

She waited, eyeing them hoping to break them but Daniel just looked past her shoulder and not into those blazing eyes. After a few minutes Janet sighed, "I'm not trying to hurt you or them, I am trying to get the information to protect them if they are under my charge. If I had known they were going to attempt something I would have gotten them into a privacy room where they weren't at risk to get caught."

Daniel sighed but waited for Jack to say something. They would need to discuss who should be told the truth, if Janet is told then Hammond needed to know what was being hidden as well.

"Not here," Jack finally whispered.

Janet nodded, pleased with their answer. "Can I bring Cassie over? She's been asking about JC and the rest of the children. She hasn't seen them in a while."

Jack nodded, "After your shift today, you can bring Daniel home with you and we can talk."

Daniel stared at his husband, "Excuse me! You are not leaving me here while you take the children home and talk to the boys without me. Dammit Jack, when these things happen we have to be a unified team with them otherwise they use us against each other as you know. I love our babies but they are clever little devils."

Jack snorted, "Wonder where they learned that."

"Not me," Daniel responded haughtily.

Jack shrugged, "Well that's true actually." Daniel watched as Janet nodded in answer. Jack sighed, "It doesn't change my mind Danny, you need to stay here with Janet so she can keep an eye on you. If she's okay with you leaving when she does then I will see you at home, if not you are going to stay where you can get better. I love you Danny and I am so sick of seeing you bloody and I know the boys are sick of it too."

Daniel thought about Johnny and Zale being the ones to find him after Henry assaulted him and that Zale must have come to them in the stairwell and Daniel was stuck under that sheet of steel. He knew from Jack that there was a lot of blood loss and Zale had seen it. Zada knew a little of what was happening as she always did when her brother was concerned but Johnny had seen it happening once again before it had occurred and stuck on base, had no opportunity to see Daniel from harm or even know for sure Daniel and Jack were alive and returning to them.

So he nodded, "I'm coming home tonight Jack and we are going to talk to them together."

"Yes dear," Jack responded with a roll of his eyes. Daniel would have shoved his husband in response if it weren't for the fact that his ribs still hurt, Zale did the best he could but he didn't have the ability to heal like some other Vannas did.

Instead Daniel slumped back down on the bed and waited for Janet to allow the children back into the room. Daniel nodded to Janet and she left the room, closing the door behind her. He looked at his beautiful children, Zale's lip wobbling and Johnny shaking at the sight of Daniel laying in bed wounded once more. Zada was wiping away quiet tears and the twins were shuffling their feet and holding each other's hands tightly. He nodded to them and they rushed towards the bed. Daniel leaned over and tugged Zale close as his beautiful son sobbed into his side.

"I know Z-Man, I'm going to be okay though."

"Daddy, I hate to see you hurt!"

"I second that," Jack said as he rubbed a gentle hand through Zale's raven locks.

Daniel smiled at Jack for a second before he tugged Zale away from his chest, "I'm going to be all right, you know that?"

Zale nodded and scooted down the side of the bed, taking a deep breath to calm himself and Daniel stroked his cheek once more before Jack tugged him onto the bed near Daniel's feet. Zale placed his hand on Daniel's ankle but he wasn't trying to do anything to Daniel, magically. Instead Zale was just maintaining physical contact for once. Daniel hugged Zada next, kissing her forehead, "Thank you for being such a good girl and staying with your siblings when Zale is playing superhero."

Zada sniffled and wiped her nose as elegantly as she could, despite her age. Daniel smiled and kissed her cheeks, then her nose before he reached past her and tucked JC and Claire into his arms, feeling the warmth of them and he could feel the fear chase away from them the longer he held them. Both girls were tense when he touched them but a few minutes and they were lax against his side. Finally he turned with a little smile to Johnny's deep brown eyes, so much like his father that Daniel could never turn them away. This was his beloved little Johnny, someone who had taken every adversity in life and laughed in its face. Daniel gently tugged Johnny to lay in the small space on the edge of the bed while Jack pulled at the girls who carefully draped themselves over Daniel's legs and Zada climbed up behind Jack on the other side. Somehow, despite the physical dimensions of the bed all of them were on the bed. Daniel looked out and found Greer standing quietly near the door so he coughed to gain the little boy's attention, "Come here Greer, you are always going to be family to us."

The little boy smiled and came over to climb in next to Daniel as well. Then Daniel turned back and pressed gentle kisses to Johnny's forehead only to be interrupted by the sounds of a snapshot camera going off and they all turned to find Janet shaking out the film so it would develop before she handed the picture to Jack and waved on her way out, "I just figured you should have a picture because you all are so cute."

Jack scoffed at that and Daniel laughed before he tucked his lips against Johnny's soft hair once more.

"Daddy, I could not allow you to die. Not when Zale and me could do something."

Daniel turned and noticed Jack's response; Johnny was talking to both of them, which made translating silent conversations a lot less difficult and awkward. When Johnny first started talking to them a few months ago he'd not been strong enough to speak to them in full sentences and never to the both of them. Now it was getting easier and though Johnny may never speak out loud, Janet had shown them that the parts of his throat that should have made speaking possible were not developing and the surgeries to alter the problems were more than the little boy wanted or needed. He was happy with sign language and telepathy.

"Your Papa and I will speak to you and Zale about it this evening after dinner. I know what you felt you needed to do but there are reasons why you are not supposed to," Daniel said the words against Johnny's hair, slightly muffled but still understandable.

"Later Danny," Jack whispered and Daniel nodded. These conversations didn't belong on base.

He turned to look at Jack, "Take them home Jack. They shouldn't be here anymore than they need to be."

Jack nodded and stood, dislodging Zada for a moment who grumbled before resettling. Then when he twisted and stretched Daniel could feel the golden warmth that he always got when one of the kids were transferring emotions or healing them. He looked down at Zale, "Stop it Zale, I'm fine." Daniel warned, using his 'Daddy voice'.

"I'm not doing anything Daddy," Zale responded and then to prove himself, he stood from the bed and held his hands up in surrender.

Daniel frowned and looked down to where Claire was holding JC's hand and her other one was wrapped tightly over Daniel's wrist. Neither one of his girls had shown any affinity for magic, Jack and Daniel had hoped they wouldn't but Daniel didn't find it surprising, all their other children had some sort of power.

"Claire, are you healing me?" he whispered as Jack watched in what could only be described as horror. Daniel might have laughed at his husband's expression only he could see why Jack would respond that way, it was getting harder by the day to keep Zale and Johnny under wraps, now they were adding some more fun to the house.

"Daddy," Claire whispered in awe, "I can see the mistakes, in your ribs and your head. I can see it now when before it was all blurry. I can fix it."

And she was, Daniel didn't think he was going to have any reason to stay here overnight, when Jack gently tugged Claire away from Daniel's body he didn't feel the pain in his ribs and the pain in his head had lessened considerably.

"And its really time to go now," Jack said as he leaned down and kissed Daniel on the lips, then the forehead. "I love you Danny, despite all the trouble you and your children bring into my life."

Daniel smiled, "Your kids too."

"Damn straight!" Jack chortled.

Daniel rolled his eyes and gave another round of kisses as Jack slipped the snapshot into his hand and headed to the door. Jack leaned down and whispered something to Janet before he took all six kids out of the infirmary and for the first time since they'd been separated, Daniel heaved a sigh of relief before he flopped back into bed.