A Gift From The Heavens - 5
by Lucy Maria Elmer
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A quarter of an hour later and Daniel had spoken to Jack and some of the other guests at the hotel. He had also been in to check on the girls once more, his being close to losing them again reinforcing even more the love he felt for them, and the need he felt inside to have them safe with himself and Janet. After giving the half asleep Summer a kiss and a reassuring cuddle and Cassandra a hug and a talk on just how much he considered her to be a child of his own he was now back at the door to his and Janet's room.
He opened the door quietly to find her lying on the bed waiting for him, tenderly stroking her swollen stomach. As soon as he entered the room her eyes lit up.
"Girls okay?" she asked him as he made his way over to the bed and lay down beside her.
"Fine." he reassured her. "Summer wanted me to say goodnight to you and the baby." he added smiling, putting a hand over Janet's which lay on her stomach.
Janet winced.
"Sweetie is everything okay?" Daniel asked.
"Fine. My skins a little tight. It's getting sore." she replied.
Daniel kissed her on the forehead and got up.
"Wait here." he replied making his way to the bathroom.
"Honey In don't exactly think I'm going to be going anywhere. I can barely get off the bed." she replied.
Daniel came back in the room with a bottle of moisturiser in his hand. He walked over to Janet and lifted up her pyjama top to reveal her swollen stomach and then squeezed some of the lotion into his hands, rubbing them together so it warmed up. He then tenderly began to massage the lotion into the skin.
"I think someone's enjoying that." Daniel commented feeling their child moving around under his hands.
"Oh I think mom is too." Janet replied, playing with his hair as he continued to massage.
"What did I do to deserve you?" she asked smiling.
"Oh I dunno...maybe it was the fact that I spent so much time in the Infirmary that..."
Janet put a finger over his lips and motioned for him to come towards her. As he motioned himself over she kissed him tenderly, Daniel immediately responding.
Janet then felt an almighty kick and smiled.
"Okay I think someone wants Daddy to get back to work." she told Daniel.
"Looks that way huh." he replied, once again rubbing the lotion into her stomach. The baby kicked again and Janet laughed.
"This one obviously thinks the world of its father. They all do." she told him.
"They all love their mom too. You're so great with Cass even though she's not biologically yours and when you're out and I'm with Summer she's all grisly until you come home. You area wonderful mother, and lover too." he told her as he finished.
"Better?" he asked.
Janet smiled at him.
"Yeah thank you sweetie." she told him tenderly.
Daniel leant down and kissed Janet's stomach, their child responding with a kick. He then covered her back up with her pyjama top and lay down next to her, pulling the covers over the both of them.
"You know it's bad luck to see the bride before the wedding day right?" Janet asked.
"Oh I think that maybe our bad luck has ran out. I am not leaving your side tonight Janet Fraiser, I am staying here with you in my arms and I am not leaving your side." he told her pulling her into his arms.
"I like that." she told him as she wrapped her arms around him. "And I love you Daniel Jackson. If I'd have lost you..."
"Let's not think about that okay darling. We're here tonight and we're together and are going to be for an eternity." he replied looking tenderly at her.
"We'd better be." she answered as he stroked her hair away from her face and kissed her again.
She yawned.
"I think mom needs her rest."
Janet smiled. "I think you're right." she replied. "Will you hold me?"
"Always." he replied holding her tightly and watching as his beautiful angel closed her eyes and fell into a restful sleep.
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Daniel stood in the lounge of the hotel in which the group had been staying.
Snow was now falling so heavily outside that it appeared that all the guests
would be stuck there over the coming days. However for many it was a welcome
rest, Christmas spirit now beginning to run very high as it was the afternoon
of Christmas Eve.
"You okay Space monkey? this really has turned out great." Jack told his friend
looking around the lounge where there now stood a large Christmas Tree
decorated with many glittering ornaments, tinsel hanging from the ceiling and
fairy lights covering beams and doorways shining brilliant white lights that
glittered like tiny crystals covering the room.
"I'm fine...a little nervous. You?"
"I'm fine...and a little nervous. I haven't even asked her...I'm just banking
on this surprise being one that she approves of." Jack replied.
"Okay Daniel everything's set. The girls'll help you out when they come down."
Michael told the nervous man in front of him.
"Thanks." Daniel replied.
"No problem. Well I've gotta go sort out Dylan...trying to make him look
remotely smart takes a lot of work. See you in a few minutes okay..and don't
worry Jack she thinks the world of you. She'll go for it." Michael replied
before going upstairs.
"Sam I look huge." Janet told her friend as she zipped her up in a white gown
Daniel had bought Janet as a Christmas present as their wedding had originally
been due to take place just after Christmas.
"You look beautiful mom." came a voice from the doorway. Janet and Sam turned
around to see a very grown up looking Cassandra standing there next to Rosie
who was carrying Summer. Her hair had been curled and put up with clips covered
in tiny flowers, and loose strands hung down in ringlets. She was wearing a
baby blue dress. Summer was also dressed up in a little baby blue dress, her
hair put up in two bunches by Cassandra and tied with blue ribbons which
matched, little ringlets falling loosely around the face which so resembled her
fathers. Rosie meanwhile was dressed in a lilac full length strappy dress her
hair hanging around her shoulders in waves, covered in tiny jewels which shone
under the light.
"So do you sweetie." Janet replied walking over to Cassandra and Summer and
giving them both a hug. "I love you guys so much."
"We know that don't we cutie face." Cassandra said to the little girl in
Rosie's arms who gave her mom a cheeky grin.
"You look adorable." Sam told them as she placed a hairband covered with tiny
crystals in her hair matching the white scoop neck dress she was wearing which
had similar crystals sewn into the shape of tiny roses on her dress, a dress
that had been a present from Jack that he had given her last night though not
told her why.
"Thanks Sam." Cassandra replied walking over to Sam and giving her a big hug,
Summer soon reaching to be let out of Rosie's arms so she could toddle over to
Sam and give her Aunt one too.
"And you Janet look incredible. Honey I don't know what you're worrying about."
Sam told her friend as she lowered herself onto a chair ready for Sam to put
the final touches to her hair. She was dressed in a full length strappy white
gown that had obviously been created to fit her in the last stages of her
pregnancy, a gown that was covered with tiny crystal butterflies and had a
shrug jacket to match covered with tiny crystals in the same pattern as the
gown and had a trim covered with baby blue coloured roses.
"Sam I'm huge. Look at me." her friend replied as Sam pinned her hair back with
clips covered with baby blue roses to match her dress, so that curls fell at
the back of her head and loosely around her face.
"Sweetie..." Sam said kneeling down in front of her friend. "You look
beautiful. You have a baby growing inside you created by you and the man you
love. There is nothing more beautiful than that. You're glowing and I swear I
have never seen anyone look as beautiful as you do now..well except for myself
of course." Sam joked.
Janet smiled at her friend. "Thank you."
"No problem sweetie." she replied giving her a hug before placing a diamond
tiara on her friends head. "Now are we all ready?" she asked.
"I don't think I've ever been more ready." Janet told Sam smiling.
"Then lets go." Sam told them all helping Janet out of the chair.
There was a knock at the door and Michael came in carrying a smartly dressed
Dylan who immediately held his arms out to his mother.
"Mike you look great sweetie." Rosie told him giving her husband a tender kiss.
"So do you baby." he replied kissing her again. "Wow." he replied after taking
another look.
"And my little man looks very smart. How long did that take?"
"Not long actually. He's been behaving himself haven't you slugger?"
The little boy nodded in his mothers arms giving her a kiss on the cheek.
"Mommy sweet." he told her.
"You too baby." she replied a tear falling from her eye at what her son had
said. She kissed him on the forehead and handed him back to Michael.
"Will you be a good boy for Daddy? Mommy will be downstairs with you guys in a
minute okay."
The child nodded smiling.
"Everything's ready downstairs." Michael told them smiling, a glint in his eye
appearing when he looked at Sam.
"Thanks Michael." Janet replied.
"You guys look great. See you in a few minutes." he told them before leaving
with Dylan.
The group walked out of the room to see numerous guests waiting to wish Janet
luck. Summer was being carried by Cassandra, Rosie standing at her side
smiling, while Sam was holding her friends hand. For a minute they stood at the
top of the stairway looking at the group standing downstairs lit up by the
fairy lights that covered the hotel walls.
Janet looked at Daniel who was standing nervously next to Jack. She smiled at
how nervous he appeared, at how cute he looked dressed up in the suit he was
wearing, her heart filling with love for the man standing before her, his blue
eyes sparkling. Feeling that he was being looked at he looked to the top of the
stairs and saw a sight which took his breath away because of its beauty. He saw
his wife to be standing there smiling lovingly at him, her face radiant and her
smile lighting up the room and he saw his two daughters standing beside her
looking beautiful and smiling too. Jack looked up at the same moment as his
friend to look at Sam who gave him a little wave. For a long time they had
harboured feelings for each other but had been too afraid to do anything about
it due to regulations, but now, looking at her standing there smiling sweetly
at him Jack found it hard to picture a moment when he hadn't loved her and a
moment when he would no longer want her in his life. She was his life, and he
was hers.
The group began to make their way down the stairs, Sam and the girls making
sure Janet got down them safely her swollen stomach making it harder for her to
move and her love for this child making her not want to do anything that could
risk its safety. As she made her way down the stairs she noticed Daniel move to
a microphone that had been placed and somewhere in the lounge a piano began to
play. He then began to sing, his voice shaking nervously but full of love.
I didn't hear you leave, I wonder how am I still here
I don't want to move a thing, it might change my memory
Oh I am what I am
I'll do what I want
But I can't hide
Janet smiled proudly, all the time making her way towards the man that she
adored. This was the song that had played when she had found him painting
Summers nursery with Cassandra and Teal'c. It was the song that had been
playing when they had given into their feelings for each other for the first
time and shared a passionate, yet tender kiss. It was a song that signified the
deep love that they both shared for one another, a beautiful song, a song that
Daniel was now singing to her.
I won't go
I won't sleep
I can't breathe
Until you're resting here with me
I won't leave
I can't hide
I cannot be
Until you're resting here with me
Two more angelic voices joined in with Daniel from behind her. Janet turned
around to see Cassandra and Rosie now singing, Daniel's voice getting stronger
all the time as the woman he loved, the woman who was carrying his child
approached him. For the first time Janet realised how lucky she was to have a
daughter like Cassandra, and how much she loved her. She also realised what a
beautiful voice she had. Her heart swelling with pride.
I don't want to call my friends, they might wake me from this dream
And I can't leave this bed, risk forgetting all that's been
Oh I am what I am
I'll do what I want
But I can't hide
The group carried on walking, the girls singing in harmony behind Janet and
Daniel singing in front of her. Never had she imagined a wedding as beautiful
as this and never had she pictured herself being as happy as she was with that
one special person who was standing in front of her and the friends who stood
by her side.
I won't go
I won't sleep
I can't breathe
Until you're resting here with me
I won't leave
I can't hide
I cannot be
Until you're resting here with me.
A round of applause echoed around the room for Daniel and the girls as the song
finished and Janet stood by the side of the man she adored.
"I love you." he mouthed as the vicar got ready to start the ceremony.
"I love you too." she mouthed back taking his hand and giving it a squeeze.
"We are gathered here today....."
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