Let it Snow! [TR for Carter]

[has_2ls]

It was no real secret that Jack was excited about having a baby and it was also no big secret that Sam was...less than excited. Still, he'd always been able to make the best of a bad situation and he and Sam had seemed a lot better that she'd had some time to think about and get used to the idea of being pregnant. He hoped, anyway. Besides, soon they were going to be married and he didn't think it'd be a good idea to start a marriage off on bad terms.

Figuring it was high time he got his ass into gear and spent the last few days as a single man wooing his fiancee, Jack woke up early and jogged up to the Compound. He usually got coffee for both of them but with the pregnancy, Sam couldn't have the caffeine, so he improvised and used a little chocolate from the storeroom to make them both cocoa. He tasted it, before walking back, and it was everything he'd dreamed of on a cold winter morning. Minus, of course, faking a cold so he didn't have to go to school.

He tried to come back inside quietly and put the cocoa down on a little table before taking off his parka and gloves. That done, he settled on the edge of the bed, nudging lightly at the Carter-shaped lump in his bed.

"Wake up, Sunshine. Big day ahead."

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[has_2ls]

Jack couldn't help but laugh at that and he shook his head a little. Pregnancy, he guessed, but it was damned cute.

"Wanna head up to the Compound for breakfast then? Sure I can find something for you."

[gate_expert]

"Ooh, okay." Sam slid out of bed and oh my God it was way too cold to be walking around in a t-shirt and underwear; she squeaked a little when her feet hit the cold floor, and shivering, got dressed at a new speed record.

[has_2ls]

"I guess the gentlemanly thing to do would have been to offer to go get it myself," Jack said, laughing as he watched her. "After we eat, wanna come back and let me warm you up?"

He gave her his best puppy eyes, or the closest thing to them anyway.

[gate_expert]

"Well, it is kind of cold out there," Sam said, pulling on jeans and a thick white sweater. "Warming up will be...you know...a necessity."

Who could tell Jack no when he was making that face? Not here, that was for sure.

[has_2ls]

"Oh yes. Top priority," Jack said, ruffling her hair. "Only this time, less with the dying like it was in Antarctica, right?"

Not a pleasant memory by far.

[gate_expert]

"Yeaah," Sam said, drawing out the word a little. That seemed so long ago--to her at least, but to Jack it was only a couple of years ago."Not really itching to repeat that anytime soon."

[has_2ls]

"Me either," Jack admitted quietly. "Except the part where I realized I was falling in love with you. I'd take the rest of it to have that again, for sure."