A/N: Thank you to all who have reviewed and given me suggestions on sex and name for the baby. Enjoy this chapter! It's the end of Fire and Water.

The Greatest Adventure

Chapter 3

"Catchy tune." Jack said, "Mind telling me what this mood music is all about?" Jack and Teal'c were sitting with Dr. McKenzie, Janet and General Hammond in the conference room.

Hammond explained, "Dr. McKenzie said it might help you remember more specifically, what happened. If you listen."

After the tune continued to play Teal'c changed, "Chalac!" Teal said exclaiming. After Jack snapped him out of his vision focusing on the others, "I saw the death of Daniel Jackson."

Jack nodded, "It's alright, the same thing keeps happening to me. I know he's dead, but I know he's alive."

McKenzie considered, "Both realities can't be true, yet both seem to be."

Hammond looked at his 2IC, "It's a conflict that will have to be resolved, before I authorize your return back to active duty, Colonel."

In order to find out what was the truth, Mackenzie offered to perform Hypnosis. As Teal'c's symbiot made hypnosis impossible, Jack was the only other candidate. "Can you see it?" the psychologist asked.

"Yes. He's on fire!"

"No. Go back further, you've just arrived. Now look around, and tell me where you are."

"Water."

"Your standing next to water?"

"Salt water, looks like some kind of ocean." Jack could see in his head the ocean, Teal'c getting soil samples for Sam, Daniel filming everything. And then a creature rose out of the ocean, "It's coming right towards us. He wrote what Daniel said was Cuneiform. The creature shot something at us."

"I want you to move on to what happened next."

"Darkness… Cold… Wet… We were strapped down on a table, then swimming…" with that Jack shot upright, "We left him behind!"

Fifteen minutes later Jack, Teal'c and Dr. Frazier were suited up to go find Daniel. "Jack." Sam said. "Be safe." She said to her fiancé. "And bring Daniel home safe," She said, kissing her husband to be in front of everyone. Something she wouldn't have considered doing so before this happened to Daniel. But, life was too short.

"We'll all be home safe."

An hour later the four returned home. They were checked over in the infirmary, cleaned, and debriefed. When Jack left the conference room, he found Sam waiting for him. "Ready to go home?" Jack asked.

"Not quite yet." Sam said, "I have something for you." Jack followed Sam thinking she had some fun toy for him, hopefully sex related. What greeted him was a mile high pile of manila folders.

"Your surprise is paperwork?"

"They're personnel files… ones with a background comparable to mine."

"No one is comparable to you." Jack retorted.

"You need to find someone who can back you up off world."

"I don't want to risk your career by replacing you on SG-1."

"It doesn't matter. Even if we weren't getting married, even if we didn't have a relationship, they're never going to allow you to have the mother of your child on your team. Think about it. It's a year from now, we're off world, would you be capable of ordering me into a situation where I could be killed?"

"You're right, I couldn't."

"It doesn't matter anyway."

"What do you mean?"

"I've decided to request to work on the base for the foreseeable future with the option of going off-world if a piece of technology is found, then I'll go to that planet with another SG team. I might even resign my commission and work as a civilian scientist."

Jack shook her hand, "You can't!"

"Why?" Sam said.

"Well, for one, your father would string me up a flag pole, and for another I can't ask you to give up your military career for me."

"Jack," Sam said, "I lost my mother when I was twelve. I cannot, in good conscious continue working in a job where any day I could leave for work never to return."

"You know as well as I that going off world isn't any more dangerous than it is on this base. I don't want you to look back on your life, and feel like your dreams were snatched away from you." Jack inhaled, calming himself down. "I will look for someone to help on SG-1. I just ask that you wait to make any decisions until after your maternity leave. I don't want you to have any regrets by making a hasty decision."

Sam looked into Jack's eyes, his tirade made her fall in love with him all over again. "All right. We will go through the personnel files together, see who will work well as your forth on SG-1. As for my career, I promise, I will take time and think about my options. I just… I love my child, more than I ever thought it was possible. I don't want my child growing up motherless."

Jack nodded, "You are the smartest person on this base, hell, on this planet. We are at war. If we hope that our child can grow up in a in peaceful galaxy, we can't let our best and brightest out to pasture. I love you, and the baby, I will support any decision that you make."

"We make." Sam said.

TBC…

A/N: What did you think? Up Next… Hathor… won't that be fun!