So, I had this one sitting around for a bit of a while not quite knowing if I was going to publish it. I'm not quite certain about the ending but decided to
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Disclaimer: Nope, still don't own it.

Spoiler Warnings: None

Chapter 1

Vala awoke to the sound of her door opening and closing. She squinted into the darkness to see who'd entered and could just make out the outline of a man's body. A very familiar man's body.

"Daniel?" she asked perplexed as he moved over to the dresser and started pulling things out.

"Did I wake you, sweetheart?" he asked in an apologetic tone which made Vala's brow furrow in confusion. Sweetheart? Since when did he call her sweetheart? For that matter, since when did he come into her quarters like he had every right in the universe to be here?

"What are you doing?" She sat up and groped for the light but it wasn't were she remembered. When had she moved the lamp?

"What does it look like I'm doing?" he asked as he pulled off his shirt. "Go back to sleep. I'll join you in a minute."

"Join me? Here? In this bed?" She'd finally found the lamp and switched it on just in time to see Daniel wearing only a pair of boxers. Her eyes widened at the sight.

"Of course, in this bed. Where else would I sleep?" He was giving her a look as if he believed she was crazy. She wasn't the one trying to get into his bed. Not this time, at least. "What's wrong, Vala? You act like we've never shared a bed before."

"Have we?" She still couldn't drag her eyes from his beautifully sculpted torso.

"Have we what?" He pulled back the covers and climbed in beside her.

"Have we shared a bed?"

"I certainly hope so. We've been married for the last eight years."

"Married!?" Vala jumped out of the bed in a panic and her eyes darted around the room for an explanation. It was only then she realised this wasn't her room at the SGC. In fact, it wasn't any room on the base. It was too nice, too well decorated. "Wh-Where am I?"

Daniel climbed out after her and walked over with a worried crease on his forehead. He made to place a hand on her arm but she backed away and started pacing. She ignored his entreaties, too caught up in her thoughts, trying to piece together what had happened. The last thing she remembered was going to bed, alone, in her quarters at the SGC. The team had just come back from a routine mission to a commerce planet where she'd bought a cute little necklace. Of course, she hadn't told the rest of the team of it because the Tau'ri had strange rules about off-world contraband. There were some things she'd never understand about them. Anyway, after their post-mission check-up and debriefing, they'd all gone their separate ways. Vala had gone straight to her room to put the trinket away, shower and catch some much needed sleep. And that was just what she'd been doing before Daniel woke her up claiming they were married. How could that be? Was this a dream? An alternate reality? Maybe she'd been captured and was being forced to live out her dreams. Her theorising was interrupted suddenly when she felt Daniel grab her shoulders, forcing her to stop moving.

"Vala, would you please tell me what the hell is going on? You're starting to scare me."

"Me scare you!?" She looked at him incredulously. "You're the one telling me we've been married for the last eight years! We haven't even known each other that long."

"Quiet, you'll wake the children."

"Children!?" she squeaked as her eyes nearly fell out of her head. Oh, this was too much, she thought as she sat heavily on the bed. "We have children."

"That's it, I'm calling Carolyn."

Vala zoned out as Daniel made the call. She'd spotted a photo on the bedside table and felt compelled to pick it up. In it were twin girls with long raven locks and a little boy with sand-coloured hair. But what made her breathless was that they were all staring at her with the same blue eyes. Daniel's eyes.

"All right." Daniel said, pulling her away from the smiling faces in the picture. "Carolyn is sending Cam over with Tyler to stay with the kids and we're to meet her at the SGC."

"Who's Tyler?" she asked as Daniel started pulling clothes from the dresser.

"He's Cam and Carolyn's son." he told her, putting down the clothes and coming to kneel before her. "You really don't remember."

"No, Daniel, I don't." she said with tears in her eyes. "And I don't know who they are, either." She handed him the photo she'd been clutching and saw as sadness joined the worry in his eyes.

"It's okay, baby." he said as he pulled her close. "We'll figure this out."

She held onto him as she tried to believe his words. But how could she when she barely knew who she was any more?

()()()()

"I have run a battery of tests and I can't find anything wrong." Carolyn stated, slamming a file onto her desk in frustration.

"There has to be something." Daniel argued, echoing her frustration. "People don't just get amnesia." He worked hard to keep his voice down but the lack of answers was starting to scare him. They'd been at the SGC for almost five hours now and Carolyn hadn't been able to find anything amiss. She'd pulled him into her office a few moments ago to break the news, not wanting Vala to hear.

"I know you're frustrated but this is not going to help Vala. You need to remain calm for her sake."

"You're right." Daniel said and took a deep breath, trying hard to compose himself. "I just don't understand why she doesn't remember me, our life together, our children. For chrissakes, how can she not remember them?"

"I don't know, Daniel. She seems to think it's still 2009, that the Ori have just been defeated. She was shocked, to say the least, when I told her it was 2019. She seems to have lost the last ten years and I can't figure out why."

"God, this can't be happening." Daniel rested his head on his hands and hunched over. "How can this be happening?"

"I don't know. The last thing Vala remembers is coming back from a planet called Terla."

"Vala hasn't been off-world in years. Not since the twins were born."

"I know that so I looked up the mission report. Daniel, it was from 2009."

"What was the mission?" He was trying hard to remember but was drawing a complete blank.

"P38-297. Nothing remarkable in any of the reports. It's a dead end."

"Okay, so what do we do now?"

"I suggest you take her home. A familiar environment often helps in amnesia cases."

"But nothing is familiar to her."

"Not now, but even the smallest thing can strike a chord. It's all we can do right now, I'm afraid."

"All right. Thanks, Carolyn." Daniel stood and headed for the infirmary so he could take his wife home. Back to a home she didn't remember.

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