The Future Not Foretold

Prequel to It's Too Soon to Tell

Disclaimer: I can only dream that I will one day own…oh who am I kidding, I don't now, nor will I ever own Stargate…I just like to play with the characters. Please enjoy!

WARNING: This story can stand alone, but after the next few sentences if you haven't read It's Too Soon to Tell then this is going to ruin the mystery part of it. I highly recommend… in fact I beg you to stop now if you have not read it and do so now (I think you'll like it really! Esp. if you like S/J and D/V which becomes important to the whole thing.)

Summary:

S/J

At this point I assume you have either read It's Too Soon to Tell, or you are very brave (I salute you if that is the case!). So, to recap It's Too Soon to Tell, Jack O'Neill and Sam Carter were married shortly after they were separated from the same chain of command (around season 9ish). While on Atlantis, Colonel Carter's lead team, led by John Shepard, came across a girl in a stasis chamber who was believed to be from far in the past. In truth she was actually Jack and Sam's daughter Danni, born in the future. In her time she eventually became a member of the Air Force and the SGC like her parents where she was placed on a mission to save Earth thousands of years before she was even born. She awoke early and was stuck in her own past.

This story begins a week before Danni's senior year in high school and is focused on how Jack and Sam deal with how she became who she was in the first story. It turns out that knowing how Danni turns out, doesn't prepare them for how she got there. Keep in mind that "Future Danni" is living on Atlantis with her husband John Shepard and their family while all of this is going on; this fact is often alluded to but not always fully explained because young Danni can never know.

Prologue:

Grace Danielle O'Neill, better known as Danni to her friends, was a rather unique girl. Of course all high school girls are in their own way, but she far exceeded the norm. Where most little girls fall asleep to stories about princesses or talking animals, Danni had been told stories about alien worlds and the occasional military tactics. The military tactics part often earned an admonition being shouted down the hall. Jack O'Neill would wince at his wife's warnings every time, but he couldn't resist the giggle his little girl produced from such incidences.

Danni was after all a Daddy's girl. She had been born in Colorado, but only shortly after her parents had moved to D.C. for her mother's new job and her father had finally retired to stay home with her. Almost four years later, her mother had retired as well and the family moved to Minnesota. The seclusion did nothing to hinder Danni though; she still performed well above her peers in the small town school, and received extra lessons at home which she eagerly absorbed.

Life had been perfect. But one day, the O'Neill house had received a call from Colorado Springs.

Running in soaked from fishing in the morning rain, Danni had picked up the old handheld receiver by the cabin's couch. "Hello?"

"Carter?"

"No, this is her daughter, can I help you?"

"Danni?"

Danni was a bit uneasy from the stranger's quick knowledge of her name. "Yeah…"

"Wow, you sound just like your mama." And the truth was she did. People often didn't notice in person though because her dark brown curls and brown eyes made people think of her father, just like other parts of her personality.

Danni's brown eyes shot wide as a hand reached for her bony pre-teen hip. "Excuse me? Who is this?"

"Oh, sorry, guess you haven't seen me in quite a few years huh. This is your Uncle Cam!"

"Oh my God…sorry Uncle Cam!" She mentally reprimanded herself for being so suddenly paranoid.

"No problem honey, is your mom or dad there?"

"Um…Dad's outside trying to kill his fishing pole and Mom's in town, can I just have her call you back?"

"Yeah…OK, just make sure she calls me pronto please."

"Yes Sir, I will."

"Good to hear ya kid, talk at you later."

When Sam finally made the call back, the end result was a long family talk that lasted well into the night. Cameron Mitchell had been calling about a position at the SGC that needed filling. Research and Development from Area 51 had been causing an information gap between the bases and retired Colonel Carter was being offered the role as head of the SGC department, as well as a promotion. They were also eager to have O'Neill's expertise near by for feedback. Jack finally admitted that fishing was finally getting a little old, and Sam had also brought up the fact that Danni would be able to go to a bigger school. The thought of being close to their surrogate family sealed the deal.

Two months later they were set up in Colorado Springs once again. Danni quickly became the best of friends with her adoptive Uncle Daniel and Aunt Vala's oldest child, a son Nicky. They had met as children a few times, but it wasn't until they attended middle school together that their friendship blossomed. Sam and Vala would laugh at the way their banter resembled that of their father's, except Danni could outwit Nicky almost every time without even trying. It probably had a little to do with the fact that Danni was almost half a year older than Nicky, as well as a grade ahead of him (two ahead of everyone else her age).

In short, aside from strange bedtime stories, and cover stories, and all kinds of stories that came home from work, Danni O'Neill was a picture of normalcy. She never knew that her parents' jokes about her future were based on more than just guesses. But even those assumptions were going to be brought into question as the now nearly seventeen year old Danni prepared for her last year of high school.

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So what do you think? I know it's short, but it is a prologue after all : ) Let me know if there is anything I can add that would help explain something from the other story too!

The next chapters will be about the length of those in the first story. I'm also going to do another piece based on It's Too Soon to Tell focused on the "after", but I thought I'd go in order.

This story is also going to have a lot more Jack and Sam interaction, fair warning : P. Thanks for reading!!

Next Chapter: My Father's Stories

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