for Jack [dated October 1]
Sam had been feeling a little different the last few weeks. She'd tried to tell herself that it was a reaction to Vala and Daniel's disappearance (and that was harder than she thought it would be, much harder than Daniel dying or ascending had been, strangely enough) and the shift in routine brought on by William coming to live with them, but she had this little list in her head:
- unusual fatigue
- nausea
- missed period
all things she'd experienced before, and when she could tick off each one of those with a yes she knew she couldn't put it off any longer.
And it scared her to death.
She took William to the compound on Saturday, to play in the children's office for a while with his friends, and went to the clinic in search of Juliet. She wasn't there, which made Sam completely chicken out what she'd gone there to do in the first place. The prospect of being able to talk about this with Juliet, someone who knew what she and Jack had gone through before, someone who already understood their fears and worries, had been what had given her the backbone to go deal with this in the first place. Maybe it was stupid, but the idea of hearing you're pregnant from a doctor that didn't know her was a lot more terrifying than pretty much everything she'd ever done in her life, including floating in space and not knowing if anyone could retrieve her.
She'd only been gone a few minutes and didn't want to interrupt William playing when he'd probably just got started doing something fun. So she went back home. At some point she'd need to talk to Jack, but she was still trying to figure out how to do that.
- unusual fatigue
- nausea
- missed period
all things she'd experienced before, and when she could tick off each one of those with a yes she knew she couldn't put it off any longer.
And it scared her to death.
She took William to the compound on Saturday, to play in the children's office for a while with his friends, and went to the clinic in search of Juliet. She wasn't there, which made Sam completely chicken out what she'd gone there to do in the first place. The prospect of being able to talk about this with Juliet, someone who knew what she and Jack had gone through before, someone who already understood their fears and worries, had been what had given her the backbone to go deal with this in the first place. Maybe it was stupid, but the idea of hearing you're pregnant from a doctor that didn't know her was a lot more terrifying than pretty much everything she'd ever done in her life, including floating in space and not knowing if anyone could retrieve her.
She'd only been gone a few minutes and didn't want to interrupt William playing when he'd probably just got started doing something fun. So she went back home. At some point she'd need to talk to Jack, but she was still trying to figure out how to do that.