Six and 1/2 months later:

Jack looked over at his sleeping wife from where he sat beside her on the hospital bed.

"General?" Dr. Lam whispered.

He looked over. "I'm retired. It's just Jack."

She chuckled. "Yes, sir."

"What do you need?" He asked, looking over at her.

"I thought you might want to see your daughter." She said, pushing a small bassinet into the room. "And...I wanted to let you know that you have five very anxious visitors waiting to see Sam and the baby."

"Daniel, Teal'c, Grace, Michael and Jacob..." Jack said, knowingly.

"Yes. There are, of course, many more who have sent flowers and stuffed animals, but for now, only five visitors."

Jack chuckled softly as Sam stirred. "Hey, gorgeous."

She looked up at Jack with an amused smile. "You're kidding, right?"

"Hey, after what you did today, believe me, you're gorgeous."

She smiled affectionately.

"I hear we have some visitors."

"Oh?" She asked, sitting up in bed.

"Yep. Guess who." He challenged gently.

"Let's see..." She said, thinking for a moment. "I would imagine that they are...strangers, I'm sure..."

"Oh yeah...very strange."

Sam broke out into a grin. "Send Daniel, Teal'c and the kids in here." She said, looking over at Dr. Lam.

Jack chuckled as he got off the bed and walked to the bassinet. He carefully lifted the newborn girl into his arms. "She's not going to blast me across the room for this, is she?"

Sam chuckled soundlessly. "Probably not. That power is exhausting, and she's had a long day already."

"Yeah." He said, sitting beside her.

There was a beam of light as Thor appeared in the infirmary. "Colonel Carter, O'Neill, I bring greetings and congratulations from the Asgard High Council."

Sam smiled softly. "Thank you, Thor."

"So, buddy, are our kids helping you figure out how to reverse your own fate?"

Thor face was grave. "They are helping our understanding of the reproductive process, but we have not yet found the key to our salvation."

"I'm sorry to hear that." Sam said, quietly.

"I came to inform you that we have found the anomaly which led to these children."

"Oh?" Sam asked, surprised.

"Yes. We are willing to reverse the procedure if that is your wish."

"Just because I'm curious..." Jack began. "What exactly..."

"Colonel Carter was right. The fertilized eggs were placed a temporary stasis that would end once it was released."

"How did they get there?"

"They were beamed in..." Sam sadi, looking at Thor.

He nodded. "Yes."

"Mommy!" Michael cried as he ran into the hospital room.

"Michael!" She greeted, with a grin.

"Michael!" Daniel cried, following him. "Quiet..." He noticed Thor standing near Jack. "Oh...hi, Thor."

"Greetings, Dr. Jackson."

"Mommy." Michael said with a quiet exclamation of joy as he climbed up on the bed.

She reached over and hugged him tightly. "Hi, sweetheart."

"Hi, Mom." Eight-year-old Grace said, quietly.

Sam grinned and hugged her daughter. "How did that trick work at school?"

"Oh. It was good. I only flickered the lights once."

Sam chuckled. "Good job."

Jack looked at her quizzically.

"I told her to mentally put her abilities in a box whenever she felt like she wanted to use them."

"Oh. Right."

Teal'c walked in the door, following young Jacob.

She smiled as he helped Jacob "fly" into her arms. She kissed his cheek and smoothed his hair. "Hi, little man."

"Hi, Mommy." He said with a grin.

"Is that our sister?" Michael asked, staring at the tiny infant who laid in Jack's arms, her stocking-capped head resting in his hands.

"Yes, Michael." Sam said, looking back at her newborn daughter. "That's your new baby sister."

"She's so little." Grace said in awe.

Sam chuckled, biting back a remark about how big the baby had felt for the last few months.

"What's her name?" Daniel asked, looking over at Sam from where he'd stood admiring the baby.

"Janet Christene." Sam said, looking at her husband.

Daniel and Teal'c both sobered as they remembered their dear and departed friend.

"Dr. Fraiser would be honored by such a tribute." Teal'c said seriously.

"We thought so too, T." Jack said, nodding.

"Can I hold her?" Grace asked, looking up at her father with wide eyes.

"I don't see why not." Jack said, seriously. "As long as you're careful."

"I will be." She assured.

"Me too!" Michael cried.

"Me too!" Jacob chimed in.

"Okay, one at a time." Jack chuckled. "Grace, you asked first. How about you sit in that chair?"

She walked over to a nearby chair and sat in it. Jack walked over.

"Put your arms like this." Sam said, crossing her arms in front of her as if she was holding the baby herself.

Grace nodded obediently.

"Careful to keep her head supported, okay?" Jack said, lowering the infant into her older sister's arms.

"Okay." She said, nodding. She held the baby in her arms and broke into an ear-splitting grin. "I have a baby sister."

Sam grinned as she and Jack shared a smile. Her family was special, she decided. Not because it had been classified Top-Secret, but because she and Jack had created it with the help of the Asgard.

Thor noticed Sam's moist eyes. "Colonel Carter, are you all right?"

Jack walked back to sit beside his wife. "Are you okay?" He asked, concerned.

She smiled before looking at them both. "I'm better than okay." She said with a grin.

Jack squeezed her shoulder gently before looking back at Grace.

Sam wrapped her arms around Jack. "I love you." She whispered softly in his ear.

"Backatcha." He said tenderly as he looked back at her with a wink and a smile.