Authors note: Italics are thoughts, picks up at Lost City 2 and then again at New Order with minor differences.
Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate or anything else for that matter.
Sam stood in front of the chamber with her hand still on the ice. She couldn't believe what had happened. After all he'd been through Jack couldn't die now. Daniel approached her slowly sensing how she felt.
"Sam, we need to go. We need to get back to the base," he said as he placed a hand on her arm.
"I know. Call Bra'tac, tell him were on our way."
Minutes later they were aboard the cargo ship and heading to the base the Prometheus launched from. From there they preceded to the base. Dr. Weir was waiting for them in the briefing room.
"Welcome home SG-1. Where's Colonel O'Neill?" she asked as they took their usual places around the table.
"Colonel O'Neill has been put in a stasis chamber to sustain his life until we can contact the Asguard," Teal'c answered her.
"Well, how do we do that?"
"I can work on a modified version of the power source the Colonel built to contact them the first time this happened. It may take awhile, but I'm sure I can find a way," Carter told them with confidence. Teal'c and Daniel glanced at her, they could tell from past experience that she would not give up until she succeeded.
"Very well, dismissed."
Weeks later Daniel returned to the base after spending the time researching in the outpost in Antarctica. He immediately went to tell Dr. Weir of his findings. He got up to leave then turned back to her.
"How's Sam doing? Is she any closer to finding out how to make the power source work?"
"No, and no one can get her to go home and rest."
"That sounds like Sam. She never gives up when something like this happens. I'll go see if I can convince her, maybe she'll listen to me." With that he finally left and made his way to her lab.
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Sam glanced around her soundings and saw that she was aboard the Prometheus once again. The sound of a little girl singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star could be heard as she wandered through the halls trying to find out why she was there. She turned a corner and saw a small blond girl standing in front of her.
"Hello again Major Carter."
"Grace, right?" she asked.
"You remember."
"Yes, but you never told me who you are."
"That's because you know." With that the girl turned and ran down the hall.
"Wait!" Sam ran after her and followed her around several turns before she
stopped dead in her tracks. At the end of the hall stood a tall gray-haired man.
"Daddy!" Grace ran up to the man and he picked her up and kissed her lightly on the cheek. Sam couldn't believe her eyes it was Colonel O'Neill.
"Hey kiddo you ready to go?" Jack asked.
"Uh-Huh."
"Honey let's go!" he yelled down an intersecting hall to an unseen woman.
"I'm coming!" Sam heard her own voice answer. Then saw herself walk up to the pair. She watched as Jack kissed the other Sam on the lips.
"Can we go know?" Grace asked in a whining voice. Sam and Jack laughed and then in unison answered her.
"Yes!" Sam watched as the three retreated down the hall. Grace turned her head and looked over her father's shoulder.
"I told you you know me. In your heart." They girl then turned her attention back to her parents. Faintly Sam could here someone calling her name but could not identify the source. She jumped when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
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Sam's head shot up. She had fallen asleep at her computer and the incident had been a dream. Daniel stood in front of her with a questioning look on his face.
"You all right?" he asked thoughtfully.
"Huh? Oh yeah I'm fine just a little tired."
"You should go home, get some rest," Daniel said with concern.
"No! I can't, I have to figure this out. I'm so close I know it," Sam replied angrily.
"You love him don't you?"
"What?" Sam was surprised that Daniel would suggest such a thing. After all Jack was her CO.
"Sam, Teal'c and I have watched you two for years. When he was stuck on Edora you did this same thing. Then there is the whole thing about you two lying on your Zatarc tests about your feelings when you were stuck on Apothis's ship."
"How do you know about that?" she asked guardedly.
"Teal'c told me. He said you confessed to liking each other a lot more than you should." Sam put her head down. No one was supposed to know that. She sat there a few minutes before looking back up.
"You should know he loves you. That's what amacuse means."
"I thought you said that it meant goodbye?" she questioned.
"Aveo is goodbye. I just didn't want to say the rest in front of Teal'c. I thought I should tell you in private. This is the first chance I've had." Sam couldn't believe it. What he'd said during their conversation on the Prometheus was true. Even if he wasn't really there. Then she suddenly remembered her dream. Grace was their daughter.
"I never told anyone this, but while I was on the Prometheus I had these visions," Sam got up and began to walk around her lab. "I saw you," she pointed at Daniel as she said this, "Teal'c, my dad, the Colonel, and this little girl called Grace." Sam counted the rest off on her fingers as she reached small coffee pot in one corner of the room. "You all helped me get through it. When I saw the Colonel he said he came to help a friend," she sighed at the memory. " I asked him if that was all we ever going to be able to be. That, what if I gave up the Air Force. He told me that he wouldn't let me do that, that he was a safe bet and would always be there for me."
"And?"
"I responded by saying that as long as I was setting my sites on him, I wouldn't be hurt. Then I had this dream before you came in. I was back on the Prometheus and I saw Grace. She was calling Jack and I..." Sam paused, "mom and dad."
"You think she's your daughter?" Daniel asked not fully understanding her. Sam looked at him. Tears were beginning to form in her eyes.
"I don't know what to think," Sam answered him.
