A Gift From The Heavens - 4
by Lucy Maria Elmer
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Jack O'Neill entered the hotel, Michael limping beside him. The search was
continuing as darkness began to fall outside but Michael had fallen over and
twisted his ankle and couldn't carry on searching.
Hearing someone moving around in the kitchen and then remembering a lot of the
hotel staff were outside searching Jack helped Michael onto a chair and pushed
the door open quietly. Seeing a figure moving around he swiftly moved up behind
and tapped the figure on the shoulder.
"Rosie?" Jack exclaimed as the figure turned around.
"Jack? have you found Daniel yet?" she asked quietly.
"Not yet."
"Then what...?"
"And what are you..." he said at the same time as the young woman.
"I'm making Janet a cup of tea. She's a wreck up there. You?" Rosie asked.
"Michael tripped and fell in the woods. He's sprained his ankle and I brought
him in. He's in the lounge. Are Janet and the baby okay?"
"They're both fine though the baby's a little active. She hasn't gone into
premature labour or anything. She's getting kinda restless now though I think
and she's missing Daniel like crazy. Would you get some ice out of the
freezer?" Rosie asked the greying officer.
"How's that gonna help with making tea?" he replied.
"It's for my husbands foot." Rosie said smiling.
"I knew that." Jack replied returning the smile and passing the ice to her.
"Could you grab the mug. I just wanna check on Michael." she told him motioning
for him to pick up the tea she had just made.
"Sure." he told her doing as she asked. "How's my baby and the kids."
"The three of them are fast asleep in the kids room looking as sweet as angels.
Look why don't you take the mug of tea upstairs, pop it in to Janet and then
check on the three of them. I'm sure me and Michael will manage."
"I'll do that. Thank you." Jack told her as he left to check on his loved ones.
Rosie meanwhile walked into the lounge to see her husband wincing with pain.
"Hey baby. You want that on ice?" she asked motioning to his swollen foot.
"That'd be nice." He replied as she walked over to him.
Leaning down gently she looked at his ankle.
"Can you wiggle your toes honey?"
Michael wiggled them.
"It's just a bad sprain. baby but you're gonna have to rest it. This ice should
take the swelling down a little but I'm afraid to say it looks like bed rest
for you....what?" she asked as she noticed Michael looking at her, a big grin
on his face.
He leaned down to kiss her.
"I love you that's all." he replied.
"You really can't find him?"
"We're trying. We figure he may have been buried under the snow or
something...if that were me upstairs wondering...I dunno what I'd do." Michael
told his wife who kissed him.
"Well you're not and we're together. I just wish things were better for
Janet...she's already been through so much." she told him putting the ice on
his swollen ankle.
"Think you can hop upstairs?" she asked.
"With you by my side I can do anything."
"You sound like a greetings card." Rosie told him helping him up off the chair.
"Yeah but a good one right?" Michael replied leaning down to kiss her as she
put an arm around his waist.
"Yeah a good one." she replied as they made their way to the stairs.
Jack walked down the hallway towards the rooms that he and the group had
booked. From one room he could hear a gentle sobbing. He pushed the door open a
crack to see Janet in tears, trying her hardest not to wake up the little boy
that had fallen asleep at her side.
He opened the door quietly.
"Janet?" he whispered softly.
The petrified doctor lifted her head up.
"Jack? have you found him? what are you doing here?"
"Michael fell down and sprained his ankle, I had to bring him in. Rosie's
bringing him upstairs to their room now."
"You still haven't found him."
"No. Janet I'm so sorry. Everyone's looking still...no-one's giving up." he
reassured her.
"What if he's dead Jack?" Janet asked.
Jack walked over to the bed and sat down next to Janet, placing the tea he was
holding in his hands on the bedside table.
"He is not dead Janet. He's lived through much worse than this, you know he
has. He has too much to live for to give up."
"Then why haven't you found him? why isn't he here?"
"I don't know." Jack answered quietly as Janet began to cry again. He took her
into his arms and hugged her.
There was a knock at the door and Rosie came in.
"I'm just gonna take Dylan back to see his daddy. I'll come check in in a
minute." she told them picking her sleeping child up tenderly and then leaving
the room.
Jack smiled at the young woman who had been an absolute angel to the group
since they had arrived.
"I just want him here Jack. I love him so much." Janet told him.
"I know you do." he replied.
"Why does this keep happening to us?" she asked no one in particular.
"You know our Space monkey, this is what he does."
"You're telling me." Janet replied giving a weak smile.
"See that's better." he told her. "You know once I asked Daniel what thing
about you stood out the most to him which made him fall in love with you. I was
discussing about Sam as well...and you know what he said?"
"What?" Janet asked quietening down.
"He said that it was the smile that you gave just for him, whenever he was sick
in the infirmary and had just woken up from some illness, or whenever he was
injured...or even when he was a complete idiot to you. He loves everything
about you, but he told me your smile was the one thing that he couldn't live
without and that whenever you did it, it made you even more beautiful and that
was some feat."
"He really said that?" Janet asked. "You're not just saying it to keep the
pregnant woman happy."
"Cross my heart." Jack replied.
"Now I'm going to check on Sam and the kids and then I'm going to help with the
search again okay? Rosie will be back in a second. You get some rest okay.
He'll be back here in no time." Jack reassured.
"Thank you Colonel." Janet told him.
"No problem Doc." he replied giving her a kiss on the cheek and then leaving as
Rosie came in and sat back down.
Jack opened the door quietly, being careful not to wake any of the sleeping
angels up. The sight which met him made his heart ache. Sam was laying fast
asleep on the bed with the two girls snuggled up at her sides, their faces like
those of angels, flushed with sleep. For a long time now he had seen this
picture in his mind, only laying asleep with Sam were their own children, but
every day when hope dimmed once more Jack found it hard to believe in it's ever
happening for them.
Jack walked over to the bed, stroking the face of the sleeping Summer and
kissing Cassandra on the forehead. He looked tenderly at Sam, stroking a piece
of stray hair from her eyes and wondering how he would ever cope if he were to
lose her. He gently leaned over and kissed both of her eyelids, pulling the
blankets up over the sleeping trio.
"Jack?" came a gentle voice.
"Hey." he replied looking tenderly at the still half asleep form of the love of
his life.
"Have you found Daniel yet?" she whispered, rubbing her eyes, then looking at
the sleeping children at her side and smiling.
"Not yet sweetheart but we're still looking."
"Why are you here?" she asked "You're not hurt?"
"I'm fine. Michael sprained his ankle so I brought him in." he told her sitting
at the edge of the bed, taking her hand in his.
"Janet? is she okay?" Sam asked him.
"She's resting. Rosie's with her."
"How are you feeling sweetheart?" Jack asked.
"I'm okay." Sam replied looking at the girls.
"You sure?" he asked her, stroking her hair off her forehead.
"Yeah." she replied. "I want us to have children Jack, but even though it's not
happening yet we can't get lost in the grief and forget that we've already got
some here who depend on us." she told him as Summer stirred in her sleep and
turned over to face Sam.
Jack smiled proudly at her.
"It's going to happen sweetheart." he told her leaning over to kiss her
forehead.
"I hope so." she replied tiredly. "You're going to search again" she asked
looking at the determined look on his face.
He nodded.
"Get some sleep my darling." he whispered before kissing her again and leaving
her once again to sleep.
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It had been an hour since Jack had left the hotel to search for Daniel once
again. Janet was now fast asleep as was Rosie in the chair beside her bed when
the door to the room opened.
A figure limped over to the chair on which Rosie was sitting and touched her
arm. The young woman awoke.
"Hey." she said to the figure. "She's been resting for about half an hour now.
The baby's pretty active in there. You seen the kids?"
The figure nodded, a smile appearing on his face.
"Thank you so much for doing this, for sitting with her and all. All I could
think of when I was out there was how much I wanted to be in here with her. I
love her so much."
"I can see that. What happened anyway?"
"You mind if we finish this in the morning? I really need to just be here with
her."
"I can understand that. I'm glad you're okay." Rosie replied making her way
over to husband and son who were standing smiling at the door.
"We all are." came a voice from the doorway belonging to Jack O'Neill. "The
girls say goodnight Space monkey. They're glad their daddy's home." he told his
friend.
"Give them another goodnight kiss from me okay."
"Will do. See you in the morning." Jack told him as the group left the doorway.
"Jack?"
Jack turned around.
"Thanks for the help, and for not giving up on me. I know sometimes I can make
you want to."
" No problem. Tomorrow's going to be quite a day I think." he added.
"But it's gonna be beautiful."
"Yeah it is." Jack replied before going to the girls room to get Sam who had
been reading them a bedtime story.
Daniel got up and closed the bedroom door and then limped over to the bed on
which his fiancé was sleeping. He sat down at her side, marvelling at how
beautiful she was and how much it broke his heart to be away from her for as
long as he had. He touched her face.
"Love you." he whispered in her ear, kissing her cheek tenderly.
Janet stirred.
"Daniel?" she whispered as if in a dream.
"I'm here darling." he replied smiling at her gently.
Janet opened her eyes and looked at the figure as if trying to decide whether
he was really there or not.
"Is this a dream?" she asked groggily rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
"No it's not. I'm here sweetheart." he replied leaning down to kiss her,
reassuring her that he was really there.
Janet lifted a hand up and cupped his face, Daniel then kissing each of her
fingertips.
"Oh my god Daniel." she said quietly before breaking down in tears. "I thought
I'd lost you...I thought you were dead."
Daniel lay beside her on the bed and took her into his arms.
"I would never leave you, you hear me? I have fought too many times to give up
now."
"You're shivering." she commented as she held on tightly to him.
"Yeah well I was unconscious and injured in that snow for a little while." he
replied. "But I'm back now and I am never going to leave you again." he added
kissing her on the forehead. "Besides I figure I've got you here to keep me
warm."
"Is that Jacks shirt?" she asked still crying
"Well I had to shower and change, I was a bit of a mess." he told her with a
smile.
He looked at her face, filled with sadness and pain but also joy.
"I love you so much." he added as he too broke down. "I'm so sorry I put you
through this...the both of you... and the girls...I love you guys so very, very
much" he told her rubbing her protruding stomach. "One minute I was playing
with Summer and then I went to get her ball...I fell down a ditch and twisted
my ankle and then I figure fell unconscious in the cold. The next thing I
remember was hearing someone call me and trying with all my might to fight my
way out of the snow that had covered me...trying to get back to you."
"And you did." she replied looking into his tearful blue eyes. " But I can't do
this anymore Daniel...I can't keep losing you."
"I know baby I know. That's why I want to ask you something."
She looked up at him with her chocolate brown eyes, holding on to him tightly.
"I want you to marry me."
"Baby did the cold do something to your head...we're engaged." she reminded him
"You don't understand, I want you to marry me here...tommorow. There's a vicar
staying here, he said he would do it if you said yes. The hotel will arrange
it...I just want us to be together always, as a family and I don't want to wait
anymore...I think we've done enough waiting." he told her quietly.
"Daniel I don't know what to say..."
"I know it won't be a military wedding and I know it won't be anything
spectacular but it's a wedding Janet and I know with all my heart that I want
us to be together, now more than ever..."
"Because of the baby?"
"No because I just can't stand the thought of ever losing you. It doesn't have
to be spectacular to show everyone how much we love each other...what do you
say? Janet Fraiser I love you and our children with all my heart and soul
and..."
"Yes."
"Excuse me? did you say...?"
"Yes." Janet replied happily.
"I love you so much Daniel. Do you have any idea how worried I was when I
thought we'd lost you? I want us to be together so much that it hurts Daniel
and for a long time I never thought that you could ever love me..."
"You Janet Fraiser are the most incredibly sweet and kind and loving and
passionate person I have ever met, and falling in love with you was the best
thing that ever happened to me. It wasn't hard. Every time I saw your face,
your incredible smile..." he told her tracing the pattern of her lips with his
thumb "I fell even more deeply in love with you than I ever thought I could."
She started to cry again, this time with tears of joy.
"Look I'm going to go and talk to Jack for a minute, I'll be right back okay."
he told her.
She nodded.
"I have to pee anyways." she replied lifting herself up off the bed.
Daniel made his way towards the door.
"Sweetie you're limping. You want me to take a look at your ankle?" she asked
concerned.
"It's been checked already. Sweetheart I'm fine." he reassured.
Daniel looked at her worried face and limped back over to her.
"Come here." he said gently, lovingly pulling her tightly into his arms and
rocking her.
"Don't squeeze too hard Dr. or I might just burst." she replied gazing up at
him. "I missed this while you were gone." she added quietly.
Daniel leant down and kissed her passionately, Janet all the time deepening the
kiss.
"And I really missed that." she told him breathlessly as they pulled slowly
away. "But I really have to go...baby on the bladder." she told him with a
smile.
"Well I will see you and baby in a minute."
Janet smiled then slowly made her way into the bathroom. Daniel looked up at
the ceiling.
"Thank you so much for blessing me with her." he said quietly to the one person
he figured had been looking over him the most during the past few years.
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