When they got out to the mainland, John put Chase down when he started to wriggle in his arms and watched his son jump around. He then took a blanket out from the bag he had been carrying and spread it out so Fred could set Meredith's carrier down and sit down. Sitting down next to her, he snorted as he took the sunblock from her.
"She's right. You don't want to mess with Chase when he's on a mission of protection," John told Daniel with a laugh. He shook his head when Chase turned around and placed a kiss on CJ's temple. "You might want to watch it, Chase. You may not want to take on a father quite yet."
Sam laughed and reached over to pat her husband's shoulder before looking over at Shaun when Cait brought him over. "I'm not pregnant again, am I?" she asked, hoping this wasn't going to turn into some sort of...thing.
"No baby. No Jacob yet," Chase said, shaking his head.
After Radek and Paul arrived with Larkin, John finished putting the sunblock on Meredith and sat back.
"She's doing well," he remarked as Larkin plopped down on the sand to start helping with the sandcastle.
"She really is," Radek agreed, leaning against Paul. "Smart too."
"There's something about Atlantis," Sam said. "All of the kids seem to be smarter than normal, both the ones who were born here and the ones who were adopted."
"And all in their own ways," John commented.
"Yeah...it's made my daughter smarter at stealing stuff," the older Alex said as he sat down with Kat and Caleb while Peyton ran to join Erin and Charlie with their fathers in the water. He handed Radek what looked to be a ring box. "She said she got it from you in the jumper."