Forgotten Memories---Chapter 1 (rewrite)

A/N: This is a rewrite of the first chapter. I understand where BiteMeTechie and Trialia were coming from and I think they, and everyone, will like this chapter better. Even I like the chapter better, but hey everyone has different opinions.

But just know that I won't rewrite every chapter. I'm only doing this because after I had posted the first chapter I thought of other things I could have done to make it better but until BiteMeTechie and Trialia said anything, I was going to leave it how it was, but well, here it is.

Thanks for the reviews Sophie Fatale, A.L. Ross and EmSyd, along with BiteMeTechie and Trialia. A.L.Ross: Trust me that Carson will be making appearances.

Now, enjoy chapter 1.5 and review if you wish.

Lily

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Colonel Carter, Colonel Mitchell, Doctor Jackson, Teal'c, and Vala were all sitting with General O'Neill in his living room on a rainy night, betting beers on how long it would be before Daniel or Sam started boring the living daylights out of all of them.

"I say Sam's going to break in…" Jack said as he looked down at his watch. "Ten, nine…"

"Hey," Sam said, glaring at him as he continued.

"Seven, six…"

"I'll have you know that I have no intent of talking about work tonight."

"Two…" Jack looked up expectantly at Sam.

She bit her lip before saying, "Well, there's that problem with the dialing system that I have to run a diagnostic on."

"Okay, pay up," Jack said, proud of his ability to predict Sam so easily.

Mitchell and Vala pushed two bottles forward. Daniel and Teal'c (who had loosened up since coming to the SGC) smiled when they saw Sam looking amusedly offended.

"I'll have you know that I would have made it if you hadn't put so much pressure on it."

"Whatever you need to tell yourself," Jack said, opening one of Colonel Mitchell's beers and taking a sip from it.

As they continued to joke, there was a sudden knock on the door. "Were you expecting someone, sir?" Mitchell asked.

"No," Jack said getting up and heading for the door. "And don't call me 'sir.' We're off duty for Pete's sake."

"Sorry si—" Jack glared at him, and he quickly altered what he was about to say. "Jack. Okay, that's too weird."

When Jack opened the door, there was a girl, probably in elementary school, drenched from head to toe from all the rain coming down. "Um," Jack said, looking from the girl in the soaked navy blue zipper sweatshirt and camouflage cargo pants. "Is there something I can help you with?"

Before the girl had a chance to say anything, Daniel asked Jack jokingly, "Don't you think she's a little young for you Jack?"

Jack threw him a disgusted look. "That isn't even funny Daniel. I've never even seen her, let alone met her, until right now."

"General O'Neill, I need to talk to you," the girl said before anyone could comment on O'Neill's last remark.

"You were saying?" Vala said, talking a gulp from her beer to cover up her smile.

"Please," the girl said stopping Jack mid-turn. "I don't know where I am, or how I know any of you but my gut led me here and then it was like something popped into my mind. And I don't know where else to go. I tried Doctor Jackson's apartment, Colonel Mitchell's place, even Colonel Carter's house. I would have tried someone else, but this is where I ended up next. I can't remember anyone else who is involved with the Stargate program."

Everyone's jaws dropped, confused as to how a girl so young, especially one that no one seemed able to recognize, could know all about the Stargate and yet claim to not remember anything.

General O'Neill, reacting first, brought the girl inside. "Why don't you go into the bathroom and I'll bring you something dry to change into?"

The girl walked down to the door that Jack had pointed her towards in utter silence.

When the door was closed, Jack walked down the hall towards his bedroom to get the girl something dry to wear that wouldn't swallow her in a mass of fabric, but not without a look at the others and saying in a very un-Jack way, "Someone better start explaining."

No one said a word while he was gone, just looking back and forth as they tried to figure out what had just happened. After five minutes, Jack returned from his room, a rather old Air Force training tee-shirt and some old pants no one could recognize. He genteelly knocked on the door and when the girl opened it, her dark brown hair still wet from all the rain that had soaked through the fabric of her sweatshirt hood, he passed them through to her, saying kindly, "There are some clean towels in the cabinet to the right of the shower if you want to dry your hair some."

When the girl had closed the door after a quick "Thank you," Jack came back into the room, a look on his face as if he was trying very hard not to look too much like an angry general.

"So," he began, "who wants to explain?"

Daniel spoke first, failing to keep the confused interest out of his voice. "I've never seen her before, but her not remembering anything but top secret information seems like it calls us to look into it."

"Well thank you Mister Obvious." Jack said, in the way he only did when he was getting tired of Daniel or Sam's rambling. "But how does she know that we all work for the Stargate?"

Before Daniel could recover, Vala decided to speak. "Maybe we should question her."

"Ah, Daniel, now you have a Misses Obvious. I would just like to know why I wasn't invited to the wedding." Jack said, trying to stay calm. Everyone knew he preferred to act without having to think, but as a general on the outside workings of the SGC, he seemed at this particular moment to be trying to keep spontaneous action out of the current situation. "We still need to figure out who will question her, as to not cause any problems, and how someone's gut can lead them so far."

"I'll do it, sir," Sam volunteered. "But it might help to know exactly what you want to know."

"I need her name, age, the last thing she remembers, how she got her, and who told her about the Stargate." Jack said seriously. "And remember, everything's on a need to know basis."

"Yes, sir," Sam said, standing up just as the door to the bathroom creaked slowly open and the girl emerged.

The dry clothed Jack had given her were big and baggy on her (no surprise). She was holding the waist of the pants so that they didn't keep slipping past her ankles and the shirt, though judging on it's size had long since been out grown by Jack, was like a giant's shirt on a snail, she was so small.

"Hi," Sam said, putting on the voice that she had used when they had first found Cassandra all those years ago. "What's your name?"

"Josephine," she said a little nervously, as if afraid that she would get the answer wrong and everyone in the room would get mad at her.

"Nice to meet you Josephine. I'm—" Sam started, but Josephine interrupted.

"Colonel Samantha Carter, I know. And then this is General jack O'Neill," she said, indicating him, before indicating everyone else correctly in turn. "And that's Doctor Daniel Jackson, Colonel Cameron Mitchell, Teal'c, and Vala."

Sam smiled courteously at Josephine. "Do you think we could talk a little?"

Josephine nodded slowly before Sam signaled for the others to head for the kitchen.

When they were out of the room, Sam sat down on the couch and indicated for Josephine to do the same. When she sat on the very edge of the couch, Sam spoke. "So, how old are you Josephine?"

"To tell the truth, I'm not really a hundred percent sure, but I think I'm eight."

"What's the last thing you remember?" Sam said, a little confused by her last answer.

"Walking through the rain from Doctor Jackson's house to Colonel Mitchell's place to your house, and then here."

"But they're all so far apart."

"It's what I remember. I was trying to find someone who might be able to help me figure out who I was and that's where I felt myself being led."

"Why do you need someone to help you find out who you are? Don't you have any family?"

"All I know for sure is that my mom died along time ago and that somehow a knowledge she had of the Stargate was transferred to me. I can't remember my dad, but I figured if anyone could help me remember, it would be you. And if I got my memory back, then maybe I'd be able to figure out who my dad was."

Sam was beginning to feel sorry for the girl, but had too know just how much she knew. "And what makes you think there's such a thing as a Stargate?"

"As I was walking, I found something in my pockets that jogged that part of my memory." She stood suddenly, walking quickly to the bathroom before Sam could stop her. Just as Sam made it to the door of the bathroom, Josephine came back out, holding two photograph sized pieces of paper. "I found this one in the pocket of my sweatshirt and that refreshed my memory of the Stargate." She turned it to Sam, who gasped.

It was a picture of a Stargate that had been taken by Daniel once of SG-1 with a few of the Tokra after one of their relocations. Sam was smiling next to her dad, Teal'c had a completely straight face except for a raised eyebrow next to a black haired guy Sam remembered being named Roka, and Jack was beaming next to a blonde girl Sam recalled going by Soaphime, who had later asked to be allowed to stay on Earth when the Tokra council had stopped listening to her because of the ideas that she had had. They had been good ideas, but a little too forward for the Tokra.

Josephine, without seeming to notice Sam's reaction, flipped it over. "These symbols are an address as far as I can tell, but for where I don't know."

Sam recognized them, of course. They were all on the Stargate, though for what planet Sam couldn't quite figure out. There's one too many symbols, Sam thought, but it's not Atlantis.

Josephine shuffled it under the other paper, a letter to someone that was hard to make out. Someone had either cried on it on delivery or while writing it, causing the ink to smudge, but from what Sam could make out, it was Soaphime explaining that her Tokra was dying and that she would only be able to live long enough for…well Sam couldn't read that part but she assumed it was only long enough to save Josephine. "It's a little hard to make out, but when I found this in one of my pant pockets, I knew what it was. My mom had been allowed to stay here after something between her and the Tokra happened. But her Tokra couldn't sustain her after me apparently. I'm not sure she intend this letter for, but I assume that she either never sent it, or someone left it behind after an attempt to find her before she died."

Sam felt a shiver run up her spin. This was getting a little creepy. "Will you excuse me for a minute?"

Josephine nodded, staring down at the letter as if it would suddenly tell her everything she wanted to know about her past.

Sam led her to the living room before heading to the kitchen. When she opened the door to the kitchen, she glanced back at Josephine, who was still staring at the letter. She closed the door softly, before turning to see Jack and all the others looking at her expectantly. "She knows more than I thought." Sam said as evenly as possible.

"Why do you say that?" Jack, who was sitting on the counter sipping a beer, asked.

"She has proof. You remember that day a while back when Daniel took that picture of us after that one relocation of the Tokra?"

Daniel and jack nodded their heads and Teal'c said "Yes" before Sam continued. "Well, she has a copy of it with what seems to be a gate address on the back."

"'Seems to be'?" Jack asked quizzically.

"Yeah, it has one too many symbols, and it's not Atlantis. I can't be sure without looking in the Atlantis mainframe, but it might be a gate there."

Jack sighed, "What else makes you say that she knows more than you thought?"

"Well, sir, you remember Soaphime, right?" When he nodded, she continued. "Well, she had been allowed to stay here on Earth after she and the Tokra decided to go their separate ways and Josephine has a letter from her to someone about how her tokra would only be able to sustain her until she had a baby, and I think, and from what Josephine said, apparently she—"

"Sam," Jack said, getting a little impatient. "Can you just get to the point?"

"Yes, sir. Soaphime's child is Josephine."

Everyone stayed silent but they all looked shocked. Well, everyone but Jack, who seemed determined to get to the bottom of this ASAP.

"How do you suggest that we get her memory back and find out where exactly this address goes?"

"Well, as I said the only way to know if it's a real address is to look in the Atlantis mainframe and dialing computer. And the fastest way to get her memory back is to use the device that we used to get Vala's memory back, but McKay had it shipped to Atlantis for some study he's doing and it won't be back for a while."

"So you suggest that you take Josephine with you to kill two birds with one stone so to speak?"

"Yes, sir, I do." Sam said, looking him straight in the eye.

"Alright, she knows about the gate already, it's not like it can hurt anything more. I'll arrange for the Daedalus to take you tomorrow morning. Until then, take her to the SGC and have her bunk there. One guard just incase."

"Do you mind if I stay with her instead?"

Jack slid off the counter, sighing and running a hand through his short grey hair. "Alright, but if you leave the room for any reason, I want someone stationed there just incase she remembers something."

And with that, the party was over and everyone left for the SGC to get ready to depart the next morning.