Disclaimer: I wish they were but these characters are not mine and I don't make any money off them, much to my family's chagrin.
Alternatives
Season: Eight
Spoilers: All seasons and the Movie are up for grabs
Genre: Gen, with references to alternate realities where anything goes :D.
Action/Adventure, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Drama, whumping.
Summary: What you want a summary after all that? How about Daniel meets Daniel, and Daniel and Daniel? Get it?
"How are you not dead right now?" The voice echoed around his mind, as consciousness returned.
"It doesn't matter," Daniel said to himself and turned automatically to the man he knew was standing over him, "Help me up." Jack leaned over and grabbed his friend's hand they both stood looking around. Daniel squinted things were kind of fuzzy without his glasses but one thing was clear this wasn't his room. "Where are we?" Jack looked worried.
"You don't remember?" he thought he saw fear in the question.
"I remember starting to Kel nor reem in my room, then I woke up here." He frowned looking around again; it was a plain room, no window, concrete walls and no furniture to speak of. The door was a particularly well, wrought piece of metal, and looked very secure. "Where is here anyway?"
"I dunno," said Jack with a shrug, "I just woke up here too. 'cept I don't remember falling asleep."
"Has anyone said anything, have you seen anyone?"
"Nope, ain't nobody here, but you and me Danny boy."
"You're taking this rather well."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean whenever we get caught, you're usually climbing the walls looking for a way out."
"I know the way out." Said Jack "it's right there." He pointed to the door.
"Funny, now what are we going to do?"
"There's nothing to do Daniel, except wait, what I'm wondering is why you were Kel nor reeming alone in your room, don't you do that stuff with Teal'c as a bizarre bonding thing?" Daniel snorted, "That's mature."
"Jack, I have to Kel-nor-reem now, remember, P2X E39?"
"Daniel, what the hell are you talking about? You haven't been off world in weeks! And certainly not to E39 what with those funky weapons the probes picked up there."
"How do you think we found out about those weapons Jack? I got hit coming through the gate, and now I need to Kel nor reem to reach REM sleep because the weapons disrupt the natural electronics of the human body, Janet explained all this just last week."
"Daniel, that is not funny, you know damn well Frasier's been dead over a year!"
"That's not true I talked to her not an hour before I began to Kel nor reem; she told me that she and Cassie are going to see a play tonight, Much Ado About Nothing."
"This is not nothing, Daniel, I'm starting to think you're delusional."
"Oh, I'm delusional Jack! Why can't it be you that's delusional? I'm not the one with a history of mental illness!"
"That's a low blow Daniel! Especially coming from you what about Nick?"
"What about him?"
"He's spent the last twenty years of his life in a mental hospital."
"How the hell do you know about that?"
"You're really starting to scare me now, we met Nick remember? When we found that crystal skull?"
Daniel lifted his shirt and showed Jack the scar there "What the hell?" Jack mumbled, "This is wrong, I've never seen that scar before."
"Well you should remember you gave this to me, a year ago when we went after the crystal skull, an energy field engulfed me and you shot the skull to pieces, one of them hit me here." He pointed to the scar.
"That's not how it happened." said Jack.
"It is for me. You've never met Nick Jack."
"I'm getting that alternate reality feeling."
"Well obviously," said Daniel running his fingers of his stomach. "But it doesn't make sense."
"And any of this does?" asked Jack a little perturbed.
"Do you remember touching a mirror or anything similar that could have brought you here?" Jack shook his head. "Then somehow we've been brought here, for some reason." They were silent a moment as both men gathered themselves.
"Well, finally!" They jumped startled by the sudden appearance of another man in the room, he was dressed in black from head to toe, a balaclava covered his face and he wore thick gloves. "Although," He said "You didn't have as big of a hint as the others."
"Who are you?" asked Jack.
"What others?" asked Daniel simultaneously; the other man just smiled blue eyes shone out through the mask he wore.
"Some things are almost constant." He shrugged, "Of course I'm the exception to the rule." He pulled off the mask to reveal what Daniel had already figured out.
"You're me." He said.
"Actually, no we're both possible forms of each other."
"So how are we different?" He paused, "Besides the obvious?" Daniel motioned to his double's face where a scar intercepted his left eyebrow and another pink line healed just below his chin. The doppelganger smiled.
"I guess you're of the non military me's then." He said.
"You're military?" cried Jack and Daniel together.
"Major, in the Air force actually." He shrugged. "It was either this or Juvenile detention. It really helped me straighten myself out." Jack's eyebrows were up in his hair line.
"So we're from different realities?"
"Yes,"
"Why are we here? Where is here for that matter?"
"We're in a kind of weigh station, a void between realities if you will, and I'm conducting something of a study of myself."
"How did you bring us here?"
"Quite easily, this is a research facility I stumbled on it seems the Ancients were studying different realities too, the equipment here allows me to pull me from other universes, without the risk of entropic cascade failure."
"Then why am I here?" asked Jack.
"My Jack leaned on the console, when I was probing your reality I usually start at the SGC and work my way out but invariably the realities where we know each other we're together."
"Together?"
"Close proximity, I know my Jack's waiting outside the door to hear what's going on and make sure you don't try and jump me or anything." The other Daniel snorted.
"I can see my Jack doing that too, only I think mine would have already come in and done a risk assessment." Jack frowned.
"I've not been like that with Daniel for years, not since before his ascension, I got the feeling he resented it, so I backed off a bit let him have some space go off world with other teams."
"You let him go alone!" both Daniels cried in disbelief.
"I don't have much choice anymore, not since the promotion."
"He got promoted?"
"No I did he's not military."
"That would make you a…."
"General."
"Wow, Jack a General mine just got promoted to full Colonel."
"I was a full Colonel before I was even on the Stargate program."
"Hmm, not sure he'll like that." Daniel frowned and pulled a control from his black cargo pants, "I'm going to send you back before my Jack comes barging in and hurts you." Jack raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"Hurts me?" Maj. Jackson nodded and pushed a button on the control. "Bye Jack, tell Daniel I'll see him soon." His smile didn't reach his eyes. Jack froze to the spot, as the Major grabbed his doppelganger by the neck. There was a cold look on that familiar face, when the neck snapped and the body went limp.
"Daniel," Jack gasped as he sat up in bed, awareness coming to him in steps as he realized first he was in bed, and second it was familiar but not his own bed. "It was a dream," he said to himself as the infirmary came into focus along with it the slumped form sat in one of the legendary plastic infirmary chairs. Though much to his surprise the form was of his former 2IC Lt Colonel Samantha Carter, not that he didn't appreciate her being there, but after that awful dream, he really needed to see that his friend was all right.
"Carter," he croaked, the woman started.
"Sir, you're awake." She smiled and stood up, "I'll get the nurse."
"No, Sam where's Daniel?" She stiffened at the question. "What is it what happened?"
"You were missing sir," said Sam evasively, "You vanished in the middle of briefing SG 12, Daniel found you in his office two hours ago, he called for a medical team, but no one's seen him since."
I always wanted to write an evil Danny fic, the alternate reality thing just got stuck in my head, let me know if you liked it. Thanks