TITLE: Happiness
AUTHOR: Alimoo1971
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PAIRINGS: Jack & Sam. Mike & Kate. Swain & Sally. Nav & ET
SUMMARY: Jack and Sam take a chance to alter the past of the Hammersley crew and theirs.
ARCHIVE: SJD, Yes. S/J NC17 Fanfic Archive, Fan fiction, Heliopolis
DISCLAIMER: OK, I don't own the characters. I made this story up, didn't make any money out of it, yadda, yadda, you know the rest.
FEED BACK: Yes, please.
NOTES: I was thinking about this cross over history, so I decided to write it.
2012
Jack and Sam O'Neill were spending some time in Cairns, Australia. They have been attending a high number of meetings since they had arrived four days earlier. They had a couple of days off, so they decided to do some fishing. Once decided, Sam arranged the rent of a boat for the following day.
Early the next morning, Jack and Sam walked down to the marina to find the boat. They had met the owner at the shop next to the mariner, he gave them the keys and pointed them towards the vessel.
"Nice" Jack said when they found the boat that Sam hired.
"I knew you would like it, Jack," she grinned.
"What's the name?"
"I don't know," she shrugged, "the guy didn't tell me."
"Ok," when walked closer to look at the back where the name is, they stopped.
"You've got to be kidding!" Jack exclaimed as he took his sun glasses off
"Thor's Hammer?" Sam said laughing.
"I have to take a photo of this!" Jack said as he got his camera out of his bag taking a couple of steps to get a better image of it.
"Who knew that Thor was famous here in Australia?" Jack said as they walked onto the boat
"Who knows Jack? It is a shame that he's not around anymore."
"Yeah, I miss him."
"I know you do."
They went down to the cabin where they sorted their things before taking the boat out. Jack drove with Sam sitting next to him.
"This is where it happened," Sam muttered.
"Yeah, two good men. It's hard to believe it happened a year ago."
"Yeah," she sighed. Jack placed his arm around Sam's shoulders, and she snuggled up to his side as they headed out to sea.
Later that afternoon, Sam and Jack were lying on a blanket still naked after making love, when they heard a noise. They sat up and looked around when they noticed a boat getting closer.
"Get dressed," Jack told her, and she nodded.
They got up and quickly put their clothes on, and soon they heard it stop close to them. Jack gave her a hand signal to which Sam nodded. They walked around stealthily to the front of their boat and stopped when they heard voices.
"Australian navy" XO called out. When they got no reply.
"Two-Dads, Dutchy, check down below. Charge, you check up the front."
Two-Dads and Dutchy walked down and into the cabin while the Charge check up the front, and RO checked up top. A few seconds later everyone heard a scuffle and a splash coming from the front of the boat. Two-Dads and Dutchy ran back to the back of the boat.
"X" Charge said
"Charge? What are you doing?" X asked. When he look over to the side of the boat seeing charge in the water
"Dutchy, look out!" Charge exclaimed. Everyone turned around to see a blonde woman disarming Dutchy and having his gun pointed at his neck
"Who are you? And what are you doing on this boat?"
"You're American?" Two-Dads asked pointing his gun at her
"Yes."
"Australian Navy. Please lower your weapon, ma'am," X said
"What? Navy? Show me some ID first," Sam told them. X pulled out his dog tags, and so did the others.
Sam let Dutchy go and put the safety back on. He turned around to see the woman giving him back his gun, just as Charge managed to get back on the boat.
"Sorry about that, can't be too careful these days," she added apologetically.
"We tried to radio you. Why didn't you answer?"
"I had no idea you were trying to contact us," she shrugged.
"Who are you? Are you alone?"
"Jack!" Sam called out
"Up here!" They looked up to see a man coming down the ladder since he wasn't up there before.
"Howdy folks."
"Who are you, sir.?"
"Me? Who are you?"
"Australian Navy."
"I gathered that much with your uniforms and your boat," he rolled his eyes. Just as Hammersley stop close by
"Do you got any ID sir, ma'am?"
"I'll go get them," Sam told them.
"Dutchy, go with her," X ordered.
"Ma'am? How could you sneak up on us and took me out as quickly as you did?" Dutchy asked as they walked down to the cabin, Sam leading and him following close behind.
"Hand to hand combat, Black ops," Sam said casually.
"Black ops army,?"
"No, USAF."
Sam got both Jack and her ID out of their bags and passed them to Dutchy. He took them and opened looking at the ID's and then at Sam.
"General Cater ma'am"
"That right" They walked out to find Jack and the rest of the crew.
"X," he passed the guy the IDs. When he checked them, he went white as a ghost
"Stand down! General O'Neill, General Carter, ma'am, sir, I'm...I'm sorry for interrupting your fishing," X said as he returned their IDs.
"It's ok, no harm done," Jack said
"Is there anything we can help you with?"
"Nope, we are fine. Thanks, " Jack dismissed them.
"Maybe, you could check the radio to find out why we didn't hear you?" Sam suggested
"Sure, Two-Dads."
"On to it!" He disappeared going up the ladder. Jack and Sam turned as the patrol boat. "Why did you try to call us" Jack asked
"We notice that you were drifting towards the reef sir" XO said
"Oh, thanks. We didn't relies we drifted that close" Sam said
"That ok sir"
"Hammersley? Why does that name sound familiar?" Jack wondered out loud.
"Holy Hannah!" Sam gasped.
"Sam?" Jack turned towards her.
"Petty officer Blake and Captain Roff," she told him.
"The terrorist attack from last year?"
"Yes."
Jack thought about it and turned to the crew finding some of them with sad looks on their faces.
"They were your friends," he stated.
"Swain, Petty officer Blake, is, was, sir. Captain Roff is from the Army, how did you know?" Charge asked
"We read the report on what happened. Sorry for your loss," Sam said.
"Thank you."
"I remember reading he got a family?" Jack trailed.
"Yeah, a wife, Sally and daughter, Chloe. She is six, but a month after Swain's death, Sally found out she was pregnant, it's a boy."
"It was turned off..." Two-Dads huffed joining them, "Everything ok here?"
"Talking about Swain, mate" Dutchy explained.
"Oh! Things haven't been the same since that day."
"We know, mate" Charge patted his shoulder.
"We will head back now. Sorry for disturbing you sir, ma'am."
"It's ok. You were doing your jobs," Jack nodded.
As the HRIB returned to pick them up and head back to Hammersley, Jack turned to face her.
"Let's head back ourselves, watcha say?" Jack asked.
"Sure, did you see the sad looks on their faces?" She inquired.
"Yeah…"
Jack walked up to the ladder and started the engine as Sam went to the cabin to leave their IDs back in their places before joining him.
"To Cains!" He exclaimed once she was sitting next to him.
"You know? I think we should find more about this Swain guy," Sam added pensively after a while.
"Why Sam?" Jack asked looking at her from the corner of his eye.
"Oh, you know me..." she trailed.
"Yes, that I do."
The next morning, they walked into NAVCOM and found Mike's office.
"General Carter, General O'Neill. I just finished reading a report about the Hammersley boarding team boarding the boat you two were on."
"Well, they told us they had tried the radio before, but we never answered." Jack gave as an explanation as he and Sam sat down.
"We've meet some of the crew," Sam smiled, "Commander? Didn't you serve on the Hammersley?" she asked
"Yes, I was the Captain."
"Can you tell us more about Petty Officer Blake? We found the crew called him Swain?" Mike smiled a little.
"Sure. But if you want to talk to the crew, I can tell you where you can find them tonight."
"That would be great!" Jack said.
"Well, I don't know where to start, let me tell you that Swain…" Mike started and explained them all he knew about Swain. He talked about his wife and daughter. He told them what kind of guy he was. Three hours flew by before they wrapped up their meeting and Jack and Sam left.
Later that night, they walked into the pub Mike told them and saw the crew outside, they were all quiet. Sam and Jack exchanged a glance and went for a drink.
"Hi! What will it be?"
"Two beers, thanks. I heard the Hammersley crew comes here all the time."
"Yeah! They are a noisy lot, but they don't cause any problems. Tonight, they are not themselves," the bartender said as he got them their beers
"Any idea why?"
"A close mate was killed in front of them a year ago today," The guy gave them their drinks, and Jack handed him a few bills. He passed one bottle to Sam as the owner gave Jack his change.
"Thanks!" Jack pocketed the change and picked his drink. "Shall we?"
"Sure," Sam nodded. They walked outside to see the crew standing at attention.
"Sit down and relax will ya?" Jack waved as he and Sam sat down. The others followed their lead.
"So… care to tell us who you are? You all look different out of uniform. Let me start; I'm General Jack O'Neill with two 'L's. And this is my wife, Brigadier General Samantha Carter." One by one the Hammersley crew introduces themselves to Jack and Sam.
"I know we shouldn't ask. Do you care to tell us about Petty Officer Blake? What sort of guy was he?" They hold breath for a second but soon, Sam and Jack are listening to the histories of the ones who knew Swain, and some from the other crew members.
"It's a shame we can't go back in time to save their lives," one crew member said wistfully. "They shouldn't have died the way they did."
"Here, here," another one said.
"Same with ET" Charge said
"Jack," Sam called later that night while laying in bed.
"You are overthinking again, Sam." He huffed, she slapped his arm lightly
"Jack!"
"Ok, I'll fall, what?"
"I was thinking?"
"No kidding." He mumbled, and she slapped him again.
"I was thinking, we should spend some time with each member of the crew and get them to write letters to themselves..." she trailed.
"Sam, please tell me you aren't thinking of going back in time."
"Not us, the letters! Remember that warning note we got a few years back and what happened to the ambassador?"
"Okay, you want to send a note back in time," he summed up.
"Not a note, letters with a note. Give them all a chance to save their friends lives and give them a reason to improve their relationships and help them be together."
"Which relationships?" Jack squinted.
"Charge and his children. Chris and Sally, Mike and Kate, Nav and ET," she pointed.
"Sam. Mike and Kate are together, they are getting married."
"I know! Jack, they met eleven years ago. Kate told me that Mike broke up with her and he still regrets it. She also mentioned Commander White and how Ryan is Mike son."
"Ok, so we send these letters back in time. Are you sure you want to do that?"
"We've done it before," she shrugged.
"Why them? Why not others as well?"
"I don't know, Jack."
"Are you sure you want to change their past?"
"Yes."
"What am I going to do with you?" He conceded, and she smiled rolling on top of him
"I'm sure you can think of something," she wriggled her eyebrows and kissed him. He flipped them getting on top of her.
"Oh! I can think of a few things," he then kissed her.
Over the course of the few days, Jack and Sam found themselves spending time with each of the crew members. When they found them comfortable, they asked one thing, and each member conceded.
"We've lost a few good friends, and there was something it helped us. If you could send a letter back in time to yourself, what would you write to warn you? Would you write it down?" Sam asked with a soft smile every time passing a pad and a pen. "Just place the date in which you would want to receive it at the top."
Despite their fears, Jack and Sam watched as each crew member wrote different notes with the date on top of their letters, once they finish. They keep them busy talking about other things hoping for a chance for Sam to take a picture of the notes without any of the crew members knowing about it. After each day ends, Sam loaded the messages on her laptop making sure she identifies them and saves them securely.
Soon, their trip was over, and they returned to Colorado Springs and Hammersley left for there next patrol. Jack task was finding out where each of members of the crew lived at the time they dated their letters. While Sam task was print each letter and upload them to a special software to get a copy of the hand writings.
When Jack got the addresses, he passed them to Sam. Using her software, she managed to add the address in the hand writing of each writer. Finishing with a letter to Mike with his writing style. Once she's done, both she and Jack added some notes of their own.
Sam checked out when the next solar flare was going to happen, the letters are placed in a bigger envelope, and when the date comes, she walks to the control room and gives the envelope to Jack.
"Are you sure you want to do this, Sam?"
"Yes."
"Ok."
He walked down to the gate room while she dialed a gate address. The wormhole formed and Jack walked up the ramp.
"Now," Sam said, and Jack threw the envelope into the wormhole before it was shut down.