Stargate & SG-1 belong to lots of other people and entities. Jess was my idea. Thank goodness for late night visits from the Muse.

1800 hours at the SGC.

Sergeant Harriman is at the control room running some routine diagnostics on the gate. Glancing quickly at the gate, he announces, "Unscheduled incoming traveler." Alarms blare as the gate lights up and the iris closes.

O'Neill quickly walks into the control room, stands behind the Sergeant and asks, "IDC signal?"

The sergeant nods, "Yes sir. It's from SG12."

The symbols on the gates appear to get brighter and the power conduits leading up to the gate start to spark.

"What the hell?" O'Neill says under his breath, frowning as he watches the gate, "Open the iris."

Harriman adds, "Sir, the Gate is drawing more power than it should be for this."

Moments after the iris opens, a figure shoots out from the center of the event horizon, landing with a thump at the foot of the ramp leading up to the gate. The gate disengages.

Muttering a curse under his breath, O'Neill runs downstairs, entering the embarkation room. Guards have approached the crumpled heap and seeing no movement, makes room for the medical technicians as they rush in to evaluate the member of SG12.

"Who is it?" O'Neill asks, trying to see. Carefully, the techs place a neck brace on the injured soldier, turning her over reveals the face of a young woman, with dark shoulder length hair. The lead tech glances over to the second tech, with a raised eyebrow. He looks up, saying, "I'm not sure who this is Sir."

O'Neill looks quickly at the unfamiliar face lying on the ground, frowning. He calls up to the control room, "Dial P2-X34 and find out what the hells happened to SG12." He gestures to the med-techs to continue providing aid, "Take her to one of the isolation rooms and let me know as soon as she's awake".

The gate has started the dialing sequence as O'Neill walks back up the stairs. Daniel and Sam arrive as he does, asking, "Who came in?"

"Damned if I know." O'Neill asks, watching as the seventh symbol locks and the gate engages.

Sam and Daniel exchange glances, as they each settle on either side of O'Neill. Daniel asks, "What do you mean?"

Harriman answers, "Well sir, we received the IDC from SG-12, but whoever it was that came through the gate, wasn't one of them."

O'Neill adds, "Flew...she actually, more like flew out of the gate. Damndest thing I ever saw. Landed hard, too."

Daniel winces sympathetically, knowing full well what that feels like.

Looking up from one of the workstations, Sam says, "Sir. The readings on the gate for the last activation are way off. Whatever it was, it certainly wasn't normal."

"Ya think?" O'Neill asks, giving her a withering look.

'Contact with SG-12 is established sir." Harriman says.

Calling into the microphone, O'Neill says, "SG-12, report. What is your status?"

"We're still cataloging the items we found at the dig site sir. Everything's been real quite the last 12 hours."

"I want you all to check and make sure you've got your GDO's."

"Yes sir." After a brief moment, he adds, "Sir, all of them are accounted for."

O'Neill takes a moment before saying, "You are all to report back to base immediately." Nodding at Harriman, he says, "Have them checked out when they get here. I want to make sure nothing's happened to them."

Glancing up at Sam, he says, "Find anything useful that'll tell me then who that is in our infirmary and how she got her hands on a WORKING IDC from SG-12?"

Sam shakes her head, frowning as she looks over the computer results, "No sir. Not yet."

Daniel pipes up, half jokingly, "Maybe she's from an alternate reality?" and looks between Sam and Jack.

Jack raises his brow, tilting his head as if ready to start arguing, but instead says, "Good thought Daniel. Why don't you go down and see if you can't find out, hm?"

Daniel shrugs, saying over his shoulder, "S'not like that hasn't happened before."

Sam grins, looking over at Jack, 'He's right Sir."

At the infirmary

Daniel stands and watches from the observation area of the isolation room. Fraiser comes in, reading a chart, "Hi Janet. How's our patient?"

Janet looks up at him and smiles, "Hello Daniel. She's doing well for someone who took that kind of fall. I think she was unconscious before she hit, otherwise, her injuries might've been much greater."

Daniel nods, sitting down and offering Janet a chair, "What's the damage?"

"She's got a broken wrist, some cracked ribs along with a slight concussion."

Pushing his glasses up, he asks, "Has she regained consciousness?"

She shakes her head, "Not yet. I had her sedated so we could set her arm. She should wake up within the next hour or so."

Daniel nods, saying, "I'll be back then. Jack wants to know who she is. He's not too happy she had a working IDC." He gestures over to items set aside in the corner of the room, "Did she have anything else with her?"

Janet nods, saying, "Yes, I sent her clothing and backpack to be analyzed by the boys in the lab."

Daniel nods, "Ok, let me go see if they've found anything interesting." Heading over to level 17, he walks into the lab finding Sam along with another technician, discussing something.

"Hey." He calls out, waving, "Find anything?" The technician mumbles something about getting coffee and steps out of the room.

Sam chuckles and gestures with her hands at an assortment of items laid out on the desk. "This came from the backpack our 'visitor' was carrying. How is she?"

"Still unconscious. Dr. Fraiser says she'll be ok though. She has a broken wrist, cracked ribs, y'know, the usual." Daniels' eyes were immediately drawn to a leather-bound notebook sitting on the desk and said "That's funny. How'd that get there?" He said as he reached for it.

Sam looks at him, tilting her head slightly and says "What do you mean? That was inside the backpack."

Daniel looks slightly surprised, saying "Oh, weird. I thought this was my notebook. I keep all my research notes in one just like it. See..." and he opens the book. "You can take out or put in pages as needed." His eyes open slightly wider as he asks "Hey Sam, did you go through this book at all?' She shakes her head and he continues "Because I'm thinking this is my notebook after all. I was joking earlier, about her being from an alternate reality, but now I think I might be right. I'm guessing this probably belonged to some alternate reality Daniel Jackson." He shows her the inside where it is embossed with the initials D.J. "This was a gift from Catherine." Shaking his head again, "She must know us then."

"Who, Catherine?' Sam asks slightly confused. Daniel looks at her, smiling and says "No. Our 'visitor'."

Making a round 'oh' with her lips, she nods and looks at the rest of the contents. "I'm not sure this is standard issue." And she holds up what appears to be a very well used, small brown stuffed bear.

Daniel smiles, taking it in his hands and looking it over, "Cute." He sets it down and leafs through the book some more, saying "Well, whoever took these notes was very thorough."

Sam glances up, "Not your notes? I mean, the alternate you?"

He shakes his head, "Not my hand writing, so I'm guessing no." Peering at the rest of the contents of the pack, he asks, "Anything else interesting in there?'

Sam shakes her head, "Well, there are a few items I haven't been able to identify yet. The rest of it is just your basic kit – MRE's, pens, and pencils. A sketchbook." She points to each in turn. "The uniform looks authentic enough and of course a working GDO."

Daniel nods, glancing at his watch, "Fraiser said she might wake up by now. Want to come with?"

Sam nods, "Sure. Let's see if she can fill us in on where she's from. I'm very curious. The Gate took in twice as much power as it should have. Almost like it did back when we were shunted over to the gate in the Antarctic."

Daniel asks, "You think she came back through the gate itself from an alternate reality?'

Sam shrugs as they head to the elevator, "I don't know. From everything we do know about the gate, that sort of thing isn't really possible. But then, we also didn't think it was possible for it to get redirected but we've seen that happen twice already."

As Sam and Daniel approach the infirmary, they can hear shouting. Glancing at each other, they quicken their pace. Reaching the room Sam asks, "What's going on?"

The nurse shrugs, holding a tray in his hand, "The girl woke up and started demanding to know what happened to her and why she was in the infirmary." He shook his head, wearing a half grin, "Then, and get this, she started shouting for her dad. Making all sorts of threats about how he's going to have the Doc busted down to lieutenant so fast she won't know what hit her."

Sam doesn't get the chance to ask any more questions as Jack approaches them. "Hey Jack."

Not appearing pleased, he nods, saying to each in turn, "Daniel. Sam. Dr. Fraiser seems to think I'm needed in there at the moment. You two, stay put." And brushes past them, entering the room.

Janet is standing at a double arms distance from the young woman, both hands raised as she tries to make calming motions, "Now, Jess is it? You don't have to do this. We're only trying to help you."

"Get away from me! DAD!?" she calls out again, backing herself into the far wall of the room. "Dad!" she says, voice filled with relief as Jack enters the room, "Tell her to leave me alone!"

Jack looks behind him, then over to Janet mouthing the word, "Dad?". Janet half-smiles, shrugging her shoulders slightly, saying, "I don't know sir..."

Jess frowns, tilting her head slightly as she takes a better look at Jack, whispering "Daddy...?"

Jack clears his throat, saying, "Uh...the name is Jack. Jack O'Neill. And now young lady, you need to listen to the good doctor. We're not going to hurt you. You've had quite the fall a few hours ago; hit your head and all that...so this would be why everything might seem a bit...screwy from your point of view."

Jess lifts a hand to her mouth, eyes widening at the words she hears, 'I'm going to be sick." And she doubles over, retching.

Doctor Fraiser rushes to her side, helping her and says, "It's the concussion. You need to lay back down or you're just going to feel worse."

Nodding wearily, she lets the doctor lead her back to the bed. Jack gestures for the rest of SG1 to come in.

Dr. Fraiser gestures for a nurse to assist her with inserting the IV back in Jess' arm. Jess lays in the bed, looking decidedly pale and breathing a bit heavily, appearing to be fighting back nausea. She shifts over to her side, turning her back on Jack.

Daniel glances between Jack and the girl, as if trying to see a resemblance between them. Jack nudges him in the arm, saying, "Say something."

Daniel reaches up, touching a finger to his lower lip for a moment, then says, "Hi Jess. My name is Daniel Jackson. This is my friend Samantha Carter and you know Dr. Fraiser and uh, Jack. I think it's possible that you may already know us...at least, alternate versions of us." He offers Jess a half-smile, trying to look reassuring.

Jack gives Daniel one of his looks, raising both eyebrows at hearing his words. Noticing the frown Jess has on her face, O'Neill leans over, whispering, "I'm not buying that alternate reality thing either."

Daniel lifts his chin slightly, choosing to ignore Jack.

Sam chimes in, "We want you to know we're going to do everything we can to help you. There's no reason to be scared."

Jess turns her head to look at Sam, eyes wide despite the weariness in them, "I'm not scared...I just didn't know, that's all. This is all, very, very wrong." Wincing, she turns over, clearing her throat, "I don't know you, "as she gestures to Janet, "And you're Jolinar" looking back at Sam. She glances over to Jack, saying, "He's my dad...about 30lbs lighter than he was a week ago."

Her gaze settles on Daniel's face, but she avoids making direct eye contact, "And well, if the guy with the glasses back there is real, then he's doing a great impression of my dead uncle Daniel. So yeah, I'm not afraid...I'm just definitely not in Kansas anymore." Jess closes her eyes and lifts her good arm up, rubbing her forehead and grimacing, "I think I need some better drugs, my head is killing me. C'mon doc..can you hook me up?"

Several exchanges of surprised glances later, SG1 is left rather speechless. Dr. Fraiser regains her composure, saying, "Allright then. I think the best thing would be to let Jess get some sleep." She gestures to the nurse and says, "Nurse, you can administer that sedative now."

"That'll help you get to sleep, Jess."

She gestures for the rest of the team to leave the room and she follows along behind them.

"Wow!" bursts from Daniel's lips, breaking the silence.

"Jolinar?" Sam asks no one in particular.

"That was different." Jack says, patting his stomach as he looks down at his waist.

The team gathers around the observation window, looking down at Jess who is being treated by a nurse. Jack clears his throat, looking over at Janet asking, "Well...what do you think? She delusional?"

Janet runs a hand through her hair, saying, "Well sir, she certainly seemed confident in her demands when she woke up. And she did seem to recognize you immediately as her ah...father."

Daniel sits on the edge of a table, fiddling with some files, saying, "Well, I know how I seemed to the others back when I ended up in that alternate reality. They all thought I was crazy because I knew them but they didn't know me." Adding with a half smile, "As a matter of fact, if I recall correctly, you all thought I was crazy when I came back."

Chuckling softly, Jack places an arm on Daniel's shoulder saying, "Well, Uncle Daniel, we still think you're a bit crazy. We're just used to it by now."

Daniel looks up at Jack, offering him a tight smile, saying, "Oh sure." He stands, pulling off his jacket, "What're you going to tell Hammond about this when he gets back, 'Daddy'?"

Jack groans slightly, "Yeah...um...still thinking about that. Dr. Fraiser?"

Fraiser nods, saying, "I'm one step ahead of you, Colonel. I've already ordered DNA testing to confirm her claims."

Sam says, "I think we ought to talk to her in the morning, after she's gotten some rest. This can't be easy for her." They all head out of the infirmary.

To be continued - Feedback will be appreciated!!