Four months later
"You've gotten big," Jack says, placing a hand on her stomach.
"That's a rather dangerous thing to say to a pregnant lady," she warns.
"How long was I gone, anyway?" he asks. For the first part of his time 'in paradise' with Maybourn, he'd tried to keep track of how much time had passed. Sometime after the grass he'd been eating started messing with his mind and when he'd been in bodily danger, he'd lost track.
"You were gone for anther whole month. I'm starting to think that being pregnant with your baby is a horrible plan if it means you keep skipping out on me for months at a time," she teases lightly, but he can see that there is real panic underneath it.
"Everything is okay, though, right?" he asks tenderly.
She nods.
"So, was Daniel right about the little thing being a girl?"
"I don't know."
"We were only a few days away from finding out when I left. How do you still not know?" he asks.
"I didn't want to find out without you. Janet knows," she says.
"Well, get her in here and let her tell us! You've got to get that in that obsessive little baby book of yours," he says. Sam has created her own baby book, because she could not find one that was detailed enough for her own taste. It's already more than twenty pages long, and includes the pregnancy test that Sam took in a plastic bag, much to her husband's disgust.
She laughs, and goes to get Janet.
"You two are having a little girl," she tells them.
Jack squeezes her hand in such an excited way that Sam finds herself wishing that she could find a way to memorize that on a piece of paper for her daughter to look through in the years to come.
"You'd better stop disappearing on this little girl now," Sam warns one more time.
-0-
Three Months Later
"Please, Janet?" Sam begs.
"Are you seriously asking me to clear you to go through the gate when you are less than a week away from your due date?"
"Come on, you've cleared me for safe missions before. If I go into labor, it wouldn't be hard for them to get me through the gate. Jack will be right there. Besides, Daniel has delivered babies before," she says, cheering at the word 'Daniel'.
"He doesn't have any memory right now, Sam."
"I know," she says, more deliberately and more honestly, "And that is what I want to try to fix. He's part of our team, Janet. If you think it's dangerous, I won't go. I'm not going to risk this kid again, but I really don't think it is."
Janet sighs, and nods her head. "So help me, Samantha, if you get so much as a back ache or the faintest of Braxton Hicks contractions, you get back here, okay?"
"Yes, ma'am," she replies, eagerly bouncing out of the room.
-0-
Daniel's eyes get large as a very pregnant woman comes through the tent.
"Hi, I'm Samantha," she says cheerfully.
"Is… is it mine?" he stammers.
Sam chuckles, "No, you can go ahead and relax. I'm married to Jack, and this is our kid. You and I are just really good friends."
Daniel nods.
"Actually, several months ago, you visited Jack when you were ascended," she pauses, trying to figure out how to explain that to him, "You died, and turned into energy. Anyway, you visited Jack when he was going through a pretty hard time. You told him he was going to have a kid, and you were right about her being a girl."
"I'm sure it was just a lucky guess," Daniel says.
"No, I think you had some special knowledge."
"Well, if you're looking for more information, I don't have it. My memory has been wiped clean," he says, making a comical wiping motion over his forehead with his hand.
"I know that. I didn't travel across the universe with a stomach the size of an asteroid to interrogate you. I came here to see one of my best friends, and make sure he comes home with us. I heard that you weren't so sure you wanted to."
"I'm not sure that I know where home is," Daniel replies.
"It's with us. You have saved the world more times than I can even count, although Teal'c still keeps track. You are the most amazing, the most moral person that I have ever met," she says.
"Sounds like a lot to live up to," Daniel says.
"Well, it is but…" she says, suddenly grimacing as a contraction wipes through her body. She's not positive it isn't false labor, but she does know that Janet will kill her if she doesn't go back anyway.
"You're… you're in labor!" Daniel says with eyes bulging and a panicked expression.
"You shouldn't be panicking like that. You've delivered babies before."
"You don't want me to deliver your baby, do you?" he asks with alarm.
"No, but I would appreciate it if you could help me off the floor and help me back to my husband," she says, holding out her hands.
He lifts her up, and they exit the tent together, Daniel is calling, "Help! Help us!" the whole time.
"What's wrong?" Jack says, running up to the pair.
"I think the baby is coming. It's okay, I think we've got some time. I'm not even sure it's labor, but Janet would kill me if I wasn't really careful," she says.
"You coming, Danny?" Jack asks as he puts an arm around to support his wife, perhaps more than she needs, but she lets him, knowing that overabundance of caution makes him feel more safe.
Daniel nods. He might not remember these people, but he does want to make sure that they are okay.
-0-
"Are you ready for company?" Janet asks. It's been almost an hour since the baby was born.
"Who are we talking?" Sam asks, without removing her eyes from her baby.
"SG-1," Janet says.
Sam nods and smiles.
Jonas, Daniel, and Teal'c all enter the room. "Can you pass Leah around, honey?" she asks, passing the baby to her husband.
He hands the baby off to Teal'c, the nearest teammate. The Jaffa makes the tiny baby seem even smaller. His face is both soft and firm. After a while, he passes the baby on to Daniel.
"Is your memory coming back?" Sam asks the man with concern.
"Not really," he says, quickly passing the baby on to Jonas. "I probably don't really belong here."
"Oh, you belong here even if you don't remember us," Sam assures him.
"She's beautiful, guys. I can't believe how much hair she has," Jonas points out.
"Yeah, just like Daniel said before she was born, Sam's hair. The eyes are blue, though, so he got a miss in that department."
"A lot of babies who have blue eyes will have them change into a different color later on," Sam points out.
"Will your father be coming soon to become acquainted with the new member of his family?" Teal'c asks Sam.
"We sent him a message," Jack says, "My folks are on their way," he says, putting a defensive hand over his wife. He knows, in a way he didn't before he married her, that she is hurt every time her dad doesn't show up for something.
"I've already got family here," she says, smiling at the room.
Daniel feels a pull at his memory. Yes, that is right, these people are family.