A/N: I have some more of this story done. I'm posting in stages. Please R&R and let me know if you like it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate. If I did Jack and Sam would be the happiest couple in the galaxy.
'Did I do the right thing?' I ask myself as I sit here watching my nephew play in the sparkling clear water under this beautiful Argosian sun. We came here to Argos for the day to swim. I can't just go into Colorado Springs and use the pool at the Y or something. I haven't left Cheyenne Mountain by conventional means since I was six years old. That was thirteen years ago. I grew up in my quarters on Level 12. My schooling was all done either by internet or tutoring by my older brother Daniel Jackson. Daniel was ascended for a few years while I was growing up and spent a lot of time at my side. My parents were away a lot. They were always needed off world in the war with the Goa'uld. When I was nine, Daniel went to the Ancients and asked to become human again. They warned him that if he took human form for a third time they would not help him ascend again. He understood but he missed being able to interact with anyone but me and decided that it would be worth it even if his next brush with death would be the final one.
I left the reality I grew up in and came to this one for the first time when I was fourteen. My brother George was twelve and my nephew, Jonathan Jacob "JJ" Jackson was two. The mountain was being invaded and we got cut off from the gate. Luckily, Daniel had shown me where the Quantum mirror was stored and how to use it if I ever needed to. So, the three of us jumped through hoping to find a safe haven. It took three more jumps before we found this reality where none of the three of us existed. Nearly two years later, my fiancée, Adam Shepherd showed up to take us back home. He had searched for us for nearly six months on other planets before finally checking other realities. It seems that "Uncle Thor" had finally shown up and saved the Earth of my original reality. So we returned to our original reality. Things were fine for a few months but it didn't take long for things to fall apart.
A Tok'ra operative named Martouf came to our reality through the mirror because his own had been attacked. Two days after he showed up, my mother left my father for Martouf. I knew it was coming from the moment I saw him. The Samantha Carter of this reality had never left the Air Force to marry Jack O'Neill and have his children. She and Martouf have been together ever since their very first encounter in which the Tok'ra named Selmac blended with her father in order to save both of their lives. I'm okay with that in this reality because it explains why she and I are so distant and it means that "Dad" and I are really close here. George and Adam had both been spending more and more time off world at the Alpha site learning everything they can about the F-302. They both want to follow their fathers as pilots. Then there was Daniel's recent behavior. His wife Janet had been killed on a mission not long before I came here the first time. Daniel threw himself into his work as a way of grieving the loss of a wife for the second time. Unfortunately, this left me raising my nephew. So I came here and brought JJ with me to a dad who does love to spend time with him. The Janet Fraiser of this reality was killed before she and Daniel ever had a chance to be together. Daniel did care about her and was very saddened when she was killed. We've been here for almost two years again.
Last night, Alec Rabb proposed to me. He has cared for me since the first time we met nearly four years ago. At the time I was grieving the loss of Adam since I didn't know if I would ever see him again. Alec knows that I don't love him the way I do Adam but he cares about me anyway and wants to marry me. I told him I needed to think about it and that's why I'm here on Argos watching JJ play in the water and wondering if being here has really been the right thing for us. Daniel says that the reason Adam hasn't come for us this time is that they want to show me that my coming back is my own decision to make and that I'm grown up enough to make that decision. It bothers me that they haven't at least sent him to inquire about JJ.
"Grace?" I turn my head at the sound of my brother's voice. "Grace, Adam's here. You need to come back to Earth and talk to him."
I ask no questions. I know from the look on his face that he wants to let Adam explain things. We get JJ out of the water and head for the Stargate.