Children of the Asgard

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Synopsis: The Asgard leave behind a little more then SG-1 bargained for with "all they have and all they know"... there are going to be some unhappy 'parents' at the SGC.

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Chapter One: Discovery

"Well darling, when I said let's make babies this is not exactly what I was thinking." Vala turned to Daniel with a slightly disturbed look.

"Actually the message was addressed to Jack." Daniel twisted around towards Sam.

"I believe he will wish to see this himself, ColonalCarter." Teal'c looked away from the sight before him to see Sam already rushing back to the DHD.

A strange noise had the rest of the team turning to find Cam staring, mouth opening and closing repetitively." I thought you said the message was Asgard, Jackson." Cam traded the repetitive blinking of his mouth for that of his eyes.

"Yes, yes it was."

Sam returned, standing next to Daniel, "You know there is something familiar about these…um…babies?"

The kawoosh of the wormhole had everyone whipping round and raising their weapons simultaneously. Jack stepped through and snatched his sunglasses off as he squinted in their direction. "Ok campers, what seems to be the problem? This was a simple pick-up and delivery. Maybe I should have sent the pizza guy from down the street instead of the infamous SG-1, if I had known it was too much for you guys to handle…"

"Jack."

"Daniel."

"Jack."

"What?"

"Look."

"What are those?"

"Those are yours."

"Yeah, well, what are they?"

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"Well, I'm not 100 percent sure, but from what I can tell they seem to be Asgard...but from earlier in their evolution. Like the one Heimdall had in stasis in the science lab hidden on that deserted planet." Dr. Lam looked around the conference table from one team member to the other. "And each...baby...has a completely unique genetic make up. There seems to be no 'familial' similarities."

"Meaning?" Jack was trying his best to hang on to the direction of Dr. Lam's explanation.

"Meaning, General O'Neill that they are not 'related' in anyway. No siblings, cousins, aunts or uncles among them."

Every head at the table swung to stare directly at her, most with looks of disbelief.

Jack hit his forehead with a hand, then rubbed his face. There is NO WAY this could get any stranger. But I gotta feeling it's gonna.

Daniel came barreling into the briefing room, "You guys are Not gonna believe this."

"Oh, I don't know Danny; I think I might just believe about anything at this point." Jack raised an expectant eyebrow at his flustered friend.

"Well aside from the message left hidden in the Odyssey's database for Jack - there were also instructions left with the ...babies...themselves." Daniel paused, but when everyone just stared blankly at him he continued. "There are ten...babies...paired by twos into five incubators,"

"Yes, Daniel, we know." Jack was fast becoming frustrated and wanted no bombshells dropped before he could let himself relax enough to process what he knew.

Daniel pursed his lips and stared at the ceiling for a heartbeat before continuing as if Jack had never spoken. "The instructions on the tablet left with them explicitly states that each set of two babies is to be raised by a specific member or members of SG-1."

Dead silence met his last words. If Daniel hadn't personally found this so disturbing it would have been funny. Or actually down right hilarious. It was very seldom anyone could wring this kind of shocked horror out of any member of SG-1, but to see the looks on the faces staring right through him you would never guess.

"Um, Daniel...what exactly are you saying here?" Cam had his eyes squeezed shut, as if he could ward off what was coming next by simply not looking.

Daniel looked around at his team members, Teal'c had both eyebrows raised and was staring out the briefing room window, Jack had his head in his hands and was staring a hole in the table, Sam was still staring through him mouth open and eyes wide, Vala was fighting a losing battle to keep the smile on her face...it would fall just in time for her to snatch it back in place...eyes darting anywhere but at him. Landry and Dr. Lam were blinking at him in astonishment.

Frankly Daniel was terrified to have to say what came next. Suddenly he wished he was anywhere but here - about to disclose the next bit of information.

Reading directly from the tablet Daniel stated, "We leave you what we hope to be the beginning of our rebirth as a people. These children of the Asgard have, to the best of our knowledge and the ability of our predecessors, been created at an evolutionary stage that will allow them to grow and reproduce without the need for cloning. Also we have, to the best of our ability, matched each baby to the SG-1 member, and in two cases couples, whom we feel will best compliment the personalities of our children as they grow. As we did not discover these infants and the option they presented until to late, we must give them over to your care as we did the rest of our legacy, which we now hope for you to pass on to them. We left this information in the database with the intention of bringing it to your attention before departing the Odyssey, but in the end did not have time."

Daniel looked up from the tablet to find that every one of the seven other people in the room where staring at him like he had just transformed into the Orici right before their eyes.

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