Toddling Along: Challenge
By
Gemsong
This sucks. It sucks being 18 months old. I didn't like
it the first time. Well, actually I don't remember being 18 months old the first time. But
it probably sucked. It certainly sucks now.
"Come on, Jack," Daniel said.
"No." I had that word down. If I want to sit here in a pile of my own crap, then
that's what I'm going to do.
Daniel sighed at me. He's been doing that a lot lately. When he's not giggling. Can you
imagine? A grown man giggling like a teenage girl.
"Jack, please."
"No." And I meant it. I'm a colonel in the United States Air Force. If the
Iraqis couldn't break me, what makes him think he's going to change my mind?
***
Did I mention one of the parts of being 18 months old that really sucks? The fact that
Daniel can lift me up and put me on a changing table. I HATE THIS!
"Thith!"
Daniel made a face and held his nose for a moment. "That's for damned sure," he
said. "What the hell have you been eating, Jack?!"
I lay on my back looking at the pudgy little hands that couldn't hold a M-16 if my life
depended on it.
"Thith in. Thith out."
Giggling was the response. Not from Daniel. No, he's too busy cleaning my ass. No, the
giggling is coming from Carter this time. Keeper of the baby wipes. I should be grateful
jaffa aren't prone to giggling. I don't think I could take that.
***
My ass is clean and dry. Just wonderful. Daniel decided a bath was in order too. Freaking
bubbles in the bath! Bubbles! What does he take me for!? A baby!? Okay, okay, so I'm the
size of one, but for crying out loud! Though shoving a handful up his nose while he was
bending over me was good for a laugh. I laughed. He didn't. Sometimes Daniel has no sense
of humor.
Now we're doing the rocker thing. The rocker is Teal'c fault. I can't even sit in the
damned thing. Too high and moves too much. Annoying. Only time I can get in it is by
sitting on someone lap. Right now I'm on Carter's lap.
I'm not tired. I don't need to be rocked to sleep. I can go to sleep on my own thank you
very much. When I'm damn good and ready to sleep. I'd kill for a beer. Okay, so maybe I'm
just a little tired. I gotta admit Sam... I mean Carter is a lot more comfortable than
Teal'c's muscles. She's warm and she does the humming thing I like.
Soft and low. Sounds like something classical. Not a lullaby, thank all the gods and their
little snake wannabes. She has a nice voice. Low and a little husky. It makes her chest
vibrate slightly. Soothing. Like her heartbeat. Slow and steady. Least I'm warm now. But
I'm not tired. Really. Not. Tired.....
Zzzzzzzzzzz