After Thoughts 1 -o- New Brown eyes

Eight Months Later

Two Weeks Till Due Day

Jack was sitting at his desk. He had been sitting there for almost two hours now doing nothing but stare at it. As soon as they got home Kiara dragged Sam off to show her yet again the painting on the nursery wall she and Charlie had painted, so he hadn't had a chance to tell her. Jack still couldn't believe what he was looking at, even after two hours of staring, it still seemed wrong to him. He almost wanted to throw it in the garbage and forget about it but he knew what Sam would do to him if he did that. They can't really be serious though, I mean why of all the people out there would they ask him? It had to be a joke, but then, Hammond had given him the letter personally, Jack should have know something was up when he saw the huge smile on Hammonds face. He didn't even turn around when he heard the door open and Sam walked, well actually she kinda wattled, into the room. She sat down on the couch next to his desk and watched him for a few seconds before saying anything.

"Are you ok?" She asked looking a little worried. He said nothing, just handed her the letter without looking up at her. She took it with an odd look on her face, not that Jack would know because he was staring at the desk very intently waiting for the laughter to start. But he doesn't hear anything; she must have finished the letter by now. He raised his head a little to look over at her to find she was smiling. Not a disbelieving smile but a very happy smile.

"Jack this is so...wow" She said handing him the letter back. "Are you going to do it?" She asked nothing but joy radiating from her. She had one of her hands rested on her large belly as she leaned back against the couch.

"I...don't know" He said looking down at his desk again. "I mean I'm retired, they just can't leave well enough alone" he said shaking his head in disbelief. Sam smiled and nodded her head. She stood and walked over to him so she was standing right behind him.

"I think you could do it" Sam said rubbing his shoulders a little. "But then there's not much you couldn't do" She said smiling to herself as she thought about all the things they had done.

"Do you really?" Jack asked turning his chair around so he was looking up at her. "I'm not so sure"

"Jack" Sam said smiling brightly at him. "After Becca and Nat are here...I'm going to stop going off world" She said looking down at her belly with a soft smile on her face. "I just don't want to ever not be there for them" She said knowing he'd understand where she was coming from. "And I know you've been a little stir crazy here now that Kiara's always in school" She took the letter from his hands and smiled. "We should have it framed" She said with a laugh in her voice. "Put it above your desk"

"I'm going to talk to Hammond" Jack said finally looking up at her with a small smile on his lips. "Don't tell anyone till I decide ok?"

"Of course" She said nodding her head. "Oh!" She said reaching for her stomach.

"What!" Jack said jumping to his feet. "Is it time?"

"No" She said shaking her head and taking his hand. "Becca thinks you should do it too" She said putting his hand on her belly. Jack smiles when he feels the kick from inside.

"How do you know that's Becca?" He asked as they walk out of the room.

"I just do" Sam said with a knowing smile on her face.

"Right" Jack said nodding his head trying to hold back the eye roll. "So what do you want for dinner?"

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"How did I let you talk me into this?" Charlie asked looking down at the little tiny baby basinets filled with little pink and blue Hershey kisses and wrapped in light yellow cellophane, all handmade by him and Cassie.

"You're too nice?" Cassie asked looking up at him with a smile. "Come on, you know you want to help" She said smiling up from the little pile of baby basinets in front of her. Cassie picked up one of the empty basinets and smiles at him. "Do you think she'll like them?"

"Yeah" Charlie said nodding his head. "It's good of you to do this for her" He said picking up an empty one and filling it. "Are you having the party at the SGC?"

"No" She said shaking her head. "We're having it at mom's house" Cassie said wishing he'd stop smiling at her like that. "So how is it going on SG-19?" She asked smiling and wiggling her eyes brows "Colonel Williams giving you any trouble?"

"No" he said shaking his head. He had been so happy when Hammond had assigned him a team three months ago. The colonel was a bit of a goof ball and he liked to give 'O'Neill's son' a hard time. And they all called him Jackson jr. because he was as bad as Daniel when it came to artifacts and dig sites. "So far we haven't really done anything 'dangerous'" He said smirking, which made him look so much like Jack it was scary. "Just looking at a few old runes and meeting with some new allies."

"Well you'll get there" Cassie said smiling at him. "I mean someday soon you'll have bad guys shooting at you right and left" She said smiling at him.

"Thanks" he said sarcastically as he shook his head. "So is this going to be an all girls baby shower?"

"Yep" Cassie said nodding her head. "Sorry buddy"

"Right" he said nodding his head. "I think I'll live" He said smiling at her. "Will you give her something for me though?" He asked looking up at Cassie with a big smile on his face.

"Sure, what is it?" She asked smiling back at him.

"I guess you'll just have to wait and see" Charlie said putting the basket into his 'done' pile. "Well that's 15 done and only..." He looked over at the empty baskets and counted "10 to go" Cassie smiled at him and nodded her head, she was about that far along too.

"So what did you get her?" Charlie asked picking up another one and filling it.

"I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours" She said smirking at him.

"Oh" He said nodding his head with a smirk on his face. "So that's how you're going to play?" He asked putting his basket aside and standing up.

"Where are you going?" She asked looking up at him.

"I'm going to show you something" he said holding out his hand to her. She looked up at him and then took his hand; he helped her up then led her towards the spare room in the back of the O'Neill house. They stopped at the door and she looked up at him.

"You promise you won't tell anyone?" He asked looking down at her waiting for an answer.

"I promise" She said nodding her head with a big smile on her face.

"Ok" He said opening the door and leading her into the room.

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"Well I think you should do it" Daniel said smiling at Jack as he burped his son. "I mean whose better for the job then you?"

"I don't know" Jack said shaking his head. "It just makes me so...nervous, like I'm just inviting trouble"

"Well that's silly" Daniel said sitting with Jack watching little Danny crawl around on a blanket. "If troubles going to find you it'll find you, no matter where you work"

"Yeah" Jack said nodding his head. "They want me to take back my rank, actually they want to promote me" He said shaking his head. "So you think I should huh? That's what Teal'c said."

"Well what did you expect?" Daniel said smiling at him. "You are the best person for the job, and frankly I'm surprised Hammond hasn't retired sooner."

"So am I" Jack said nodding his head. He smiled down at Danny who was sitting there watching him with a big smile on his face. "Is he walking yet?" He asked as Daniel sat him down on his blanket. He was only about seven months old and already way beyond the normal seven month old; he could already speak 6 different words and knew just what each of them meant.

"Close" Daniel said smiling down at his son. "He can walk with help now, and he crawls all over the place. He said Cass yesterday, clear as day, you should have seen Cassie, she was so happy."

"Well that's good" Jack said nodding his head and smiling. He looked down to find that Danny had crawled over to him and was holding his arms out to him. He bent over and picked him up and smiled. "So Danny Boy" he said looking down at the baby. "Do you think I should do it?" Danny looked up at him with a big grin on his face.

"I think that means yes" Daniel said smiling at Jack.

"Yeah" Jack said nodding his head.

"So are you and Sam ready?" Daniel asked as Jack bounced Danny on his knee. Jack nodded his head and smiled.

"I can't wait" He said looking around the room they were in, the twins' nursery.

"Daniel?" Janet said walking into the room. "What are you three doing in here?"

"Mama" Danny said holding out his arms to her.

"Hey there surge pie" She said walking over and taking him from Jack. "So? What are you three talking about?"

"Oh just this and that" Jack said smiling at her. "I assume Daniel told you my news?" Janet smiled at him and shook her head.

"I have no idea what you're talking about" She said swinging Danny onto her hip. "Daniel would never tell me something you told him not to" She said turning and walking to the door. She turned around before she left and smiled at him. "But if I did know I would think you should do it"

"Thanks" Jack said rolling his eyes then turning and staring at Daniel.

"I can't help it" he said in his defense. "She forced it out of me"

"Uh-huh" Jack said standing up.

"She did" Daniel said walking out behind him.

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"There's no presser" Hammond said smiling at Jack. "You don't have to do it" He said as he watched Jack pace back and forth in front of him. He could see that Jack was almost convinced. "I didn't want to leave this place in the hands of just anyone" Hammond said and watched as Jack slowly turned to look at him. "And when they asked me who I thought should do it you were the fist person I thought of"

Jack pulled out the chair and sat down and picked up a pencil from the desk. Hammond could see he was debating this in his head. He also knew he had almost certainly asked every one of his friends what they thought he should do. Jack looked up at Hammond and sighed.

"So" he said putting the pencil down and looking up at Hammond. "Where do I sign up?" Jack asked and Hammond could see that Jack had mixed feelings about this.

"Jack I don't want you to do this just because you think you have a duty to" Hammond said hoping he wasn't going to talk him out of it. "I really want you to want to do this" Jack nodded his head and sat back.

"I do want this" he said with a small smile on his lips. "I've always wanted to be a general" he said smirking. "It was my goal from the day I joined. I just never pictured myself running this place, but if you think I can, not to mention Sam, Daniel, Janet, and Teal'c then I think I can do it" Hammond smiled and nodded his head. He stood up and as he walked around the desk Jack stood too.

"Well then" Hammond said holding out his hand. "Congratulation" Hammond held out his hand and Jack shook it.

"Thank you Sir" Jack said smiling at him.

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"Look at him" Sam said smiling up at Jack. He was standing behind a podium at the top of the stargate; he had a smile on his face as Hammond pinned his stars on. "Isn't he handsome?" Sam had wanted to wear her dress blues too but they really weren't made for pregnant women. Jack smiled down at her and Kiara and waved a little.

"He's the best" Kiara said nodding her head. Kiara was excited for the baby shower they were going to after this. Hammond had planed a party for Jack and the guys so they would have something to do while Sam opened baby gifts.

Sam looked down at Kiara and nodded her head. She knew she was thinking of the coming baby shower and couldn't help but smile at the thought. She started to reach out to put her hand on Kiaras shoulder but stopped half way and gasped. Her hand went to her belly and she blinked rapidly. Kiara turned to say something and say the look on Sam's face.

"Mom, you ok?" She said as Sam's face contorted into a grimace.

"My water just broke" She said quietly looking down at the wet spot on her dress.

"Oh God" Kiara said her eyes going wide as she looked around. "What do we do?" She asked looking franticly from Sam's face to her belly. Sam groaned and looked up at Jack, who was smiling proudly as he looked around the room. His eyes finally landed on Sam and his smile fell and he looked confused.

"Time to go dad" Kiara called taking Sam's hand in her and regretting it immediately, Sam squeezed as a contraction hit her.

"Oh" Jack said looking to Hammond "Oh, I'm having a baby" he said looking shocked. "I'm...we're I'm having a baby" He said running down the ramp to Sam and smiling at her.

"How's it going there?" He asked helping her walk as Janet called for a stretcher.

"You...think...your...funny" Sam said in-between breaths. Jack looked to Janet, concern written all over his face.

"Should it be going this fast?" He asked, he could kinda tell what stage she was at by the time in-between the contractions.

"I don't know" Janet said smiling at him. "It's different for everyone, but especially you two" Jack nodded his head and helped Sam up on to the stretcher when it got there.

"You ready for this?" He asked Sam smiling at her.

"Yes Sir, you betcha" She said nodding her head slowly. "You?"

"Yep" Jack said nodding his head too. "I can't wait"

"You may not have too" Janet said as they wheeled Sam away.

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"Jack he's going to look just like you" Sam said looking down at the big brown eyes of her new son.

"Poor kid" Charlie said from his seat in the corner of the room.

"Yeah, you're such an eye sore" Cassie said smirking at him from the side of Sam's bed. Janet had left her in charge of Sam while she ran to get some paper work, and Daniel was getting coffee, for those who could drink it.

"They've both got brown eyes" Jack said looking up from the sleeping little girl in his arms.

"Yeah, browns the best" Kiara said nodding her head. She was sanding on a chair behind Jack looking over his shoulder at Becca. "So, Becca, Nate" She said looking from one to the other as she smiled brightly. "Welcome to our world, it's fast and crazy, you'll love it"

A/N- Ok, I know this has been a long time coming and I'm sorry, it kinda got bushed to a back burner. But here it is, the babies are here! Yeah. But this isn't the end...

Coming soon - Brown Eyes no More

This is what Charlie looks like, for the most part, but with a much lighter hair, which he got from his mom.

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