Sam sat in the security office watching Elizabeth who was trying to get out of her bed in the infirmary only to be pushed back into it by Torin, who was apparently trained as a doctor because no other doctor could get near her. Something about nearly being dissected alive when she was younger.
The door to the security office opened but Sam didn't move, even to see who was there. She already knew.
Jack strode into the security office and pulled up a chair to sit next to Sam.
"So?" Jack asked.
"So?" Sam replied easily.
"Are you okay?" Jack asked.
"No." Sam answered without having to think.
"Do you wanna talk about it?" Jack asked looking at her.
"No." Sam answered, again without having to think.
"Do you need to talk about it?" Jack asked finally.
Sam didn't bother to answer this time, she hadn't even looked at him, she just watched as her daughter and the medic interacted in the infirmary, struck by how much it reminded her of how jack reacted when she refused to follow doctor's orders.
The theme song of the Simpsons sounded through the room and Jack immediately reached into his pocket and drew out his phone. Smiling until he answered.
"Jack O'Neill, how can I?" Jack cut off, listening to something on the other end. "Yeah sure, she's right here." Jack handed the phone over to Sam who took it with a confused expression.
"Hello?" Sam said. "Pete, hey I?" Sam listened to the other end. "Yeah, sorry my phone died a few days ago and Hammond won't let me leave the base to go get the charger." Sam listened. "No I don't think I'll be able to make it tonight. I wish I could but…" Sam listened. "You know I can't tell you." Sam sighed "Alright. See ya when I can." Sam hung up and handed the phone back to Jack.
"You haven't told him about?" Jack started. Sam shook her head as he was still talking. "Why not?"
Sam thought for a moment. The tears that had been threatening to escape her for the last two days welling up in her eyes again. She swiped at her eyes angrily.
"C'mere" was all Jack said, pulling her into a side long hug. It was all he had to say.
"Thanks" Sam whispered after a while.
"For what?" Jack asked.
"Nothing." Sam answered.
"Think nothing of it." Jack whispered into her ear.
"It's not fair." Sam said.
"What's not fair?" Jack asked.
"Pete." Sam answered. Jack just looked at her confused. "Well not Pete, but what I'm doing to him. It's not fair for me to be with him when I'm still in love with." Sam looked up at him. "I have to end things with him."
Jack didn't say anything. He just pulled her closer and they returned to watching the girl they knew to be their oldest daughter.
Just then the door opened. Sam didn't look up but jack looked over to see the little girl Grace walking into the room. She climbed up onto his lap and hugged him looking at the screen that showed her older sister.
"I told you she was okay." She said taking Sam's hand and cuddling between Sam and Jack.
"So you did." Jack answered her "How did you know?"
"Ellie's life force is still strong." Grace answered simply.
"Life force?" Jack asked.
"The energy that is our souls as Uncle Danny calls it." Grace said. Sam looked at her. She had seen her before. On the Prometheus. She was a little older than and Sam wondered if it had been this girl a few years older or Elizabeth, then remembering that the girl on the Prometheus called herself Grace.
"Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are?" Grace sang softly. Sam smiled down at the girl and at that moment she, Jack and Grace sang together quietly. "Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky, twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are?"