Epilogue

"I don't know, Jack…"

Daniel was looking at the picture of the ultrasound, and frowning.

"Don't know what?"

"It doesn't really look like a girl butt."

Jack scowled and snatched the picture away.

"Yeah? What do you know about baby butts?"

Sam reached over and took the picture back, looking at it once more.

"Look at the muscles," she said, smiling. "It has to be a boy."

"It didn't show anything?" Sally asked, taking a sip of her coffee. They hadn't gone to lunch. Instead, they'd bought take out and had gone back to Jack and Sam's – where the furniture was still padded – and had been sitting around talking, and passing around the ultrasound picture.

Sam shook her head.

"He was hiding from us."

"She was being shy," Jack said.

"He turned, but Doctor Sawyer said the leg was up the entire time," Sam explained. "So she wasn't sure if there was anything to see or not, and she refused to say one way or the other."

"So you still can't paint the room…?" Daniel asked, speaking of the workshop that was being converted into a nursery. Jack and Sam had plans to build an addition onto the house as well, but the work on that wasn't going to start until spring, and they wanted the baby's room up and ready long before they actually needed it.

"We can paint it yellow, or light green or something like that," Sam said, shrugging. "Just not pink or blue."

"We can paint it pink," Jack mumbled, stubbornly.

Sam smiled at him.

"What did the doctor say about the rest of it?" Daniel asked, curiously. "When do you have to stop working?"

"I have to start limiting how much strain I put my body through," Sam admitted. "Which means I'll have to cut down on missions, and do more lab work." She wasn't happy about that, but her and Jack had known it was coming, and it was a sacrifice she was willing to make for the safety of their baby. And one that Jack would make sure she made – for her own safety. He wasn't going to risk her.

"What do you think Hammond will do?" Daniel asked. "Pull us from the field? Or give us a replacement?"

Jack shrugged; he was going to have to discuss that with the General, but there wasn't a huge hurry. It would wait until the New Year, anyways. He wasn't keen on a replacement – no matter how temporary – and he really didn't think they'd need one. He, Teal'c and the dogs should be plenty to keep Daniel safe, and Jack wasn't looking forward to the idea of training someone new. He wasn't really all that patient when it came to training, after all. And come to think of it, he didn't like new people all that much, either.

"Who knows?"

"Too bad Ian isn't older." Daniel said. "He'd probably learn a lot coming with us."

"Or his mouth might get us in a lot of trouble, and start wars," Jack said, smiling. He agreed, though; it was too bad Ian wasn't older – or Shawn, for that matter. Those two he wouldn't mind training.

"Not River?" Sally asked, curiously.

Sam shook her head.

"River doesn't want to do anything but fly."

"Whereas Ian will do anything but fly," Daniel added.

"He's afraid to fly?"

"He's afraid to crash," Jack corrected, taking the picture once more and looking at it. It sure looked like a girl to him. "Shouldn't we be able to count ribs or something, and see what it is?" he asked the room in general.

"I don't think so."

"Just think of the suspense," Daniel said. "You get four and a half more months of trying to guess if that's really a piece of the umbilical cord, or if it's something else."

Jack scowled.

"It's not something else, Daniel."

"Are you sure there's only one baby?" Sally asked, taking the picture once more. "My sister in law had twins, and one was so much smaller than the other that he managed to hide behind his brother during the ultrasounds. They didn't even know he was there until he was delivered."

Sam frowned and took the picture from her friend, looking at it carefully. She didn't see anything to suggest an extra baby.

"Maria would have heard two heartbeats, though, right?"

Sally shrugged.

"They didn't with my nephews. Of course, that was years ago. I'm sure the technology is more advanced, now."

"I hope so," Sam said, making a face – that made Jack smile. "I don't think I could handle having twins."

"Twice the fun," Daniel said.

"Twice the love," Sally added, grinning.

"Twice the shitty diapers," Jack told them both, scowling. "One baby is plenty for us – at least right now." He looked over at Sam to see if she agreed, and was glad she was nodding.

"Besides," Sam said. "I only see one baby – and I'm pretty sure I can count that high."

"It was just a thought," Sally told her, smiling. "You never know…"

"Speaking of thoughts…" Jack said, looking over at Jaffer, who was chewing a large chew bone. "Have you two decided when you're going to get married? Or were you too busy practicing the honeymoon?"

They both flushed – much to Jack's amusement – and Sally looked at Daniel.

"We talked about it, but we're not in any hurry."

"Don't make any plans for next Christmas," Daniel added.

"That long?" Sam asked.

Daniel shrugged.

"We're going to wait a while, at least. There's a few reasons, but mainly, we just don't want to rush things…"

Since they'd been dating for a million years already, Jack didn't think they really had to worry about people accusing them of rushing things. However, since he and Sam had waited just as long – and longer – he knew he wasn't the one to mention it. And to judge by the amused glance Sam sent him, she was thinking the same thing.

"Well, don't make any plans for this weekend," Jack said, looking at Sally.

"Oh?"

"You and I need to go furniture shopping…" Jack said, looking over at Jaffer once more, and smiling indulgently at the lab, who looked up at just the right time to meet Jack's gaze with his own cheerful brown eyes. Yeah… he probably didn't need any help from Binky, did he? Jack turned back to Sally and the others.

"We'll take Daniel along, too – as long as the two of you promise not to test drive the sofas…"

The End!

So, another one down… which means another will begin soon. This one was pretty much just for fun – although we also needed to have an advancement of Sam's pregnancy, and of course, it's high time Daniel proposed to Sally! Let me know what you thought, if you would!