. Thor then told the first "representative' to come out. I really think I was half expecting it to be Anubis or something (since he was ascended at one time). But when I saw who it was I just broke down and started crying.
It was my son Charlie. It was impossible that he was there, he had died over ten years ago, but he really was. When I finally got over the shock of seeing him I managed to croak out his name, and he ran over to me. This was all just too good. But then it got better. I heard someone else walk into the room. When I heard them say my full name – Jonathan, I knew exactly who it was, my mom. I stood up, turned around and looked at them. My parents had died not long after I got back from the Abydos mission. My mom asked if I was going to go over and greet them, and my dad said I looked like I had just seen a ghost. I told him I had just seen three. Charlie then ran over to correct me. "We're not ghosts, daddy" he said "we really are here, and not energy either so don't even think or trying to throw a shoe through ME" Teal'C and Carter looked confused but Daniel just cracked up. I told them that it was a long story and not a very good one either.
I asked Thor what this was all about and how these people could be alive. He said that he could not answer that and only they could. So Charlie told me how it all happened. He said that as he lay dying at the hospital, when me and his "mommy" had taken him there, Oma came to him and told him that he would have the chance to help me out later in his "life", but only if he chose to ascend. My mom and dad told me that it was the same for them, a chance to help me later on if they ascended. I was still confused as to how they could be the representatives of the ancients. They were humans. Daniel was able to explain this one to me. He said that when you ascend you are immediately given all the knowledge of the ascended, and if you descend you can keep this knowledge, as long as you know how. I told Thor that this was cool and everything but I just wanted to have some time to think it all over. Thor said that this was ok and that he would beam me back up when the other races arrived. So me, Carter, Mitchell, Teal'C and Daniel all prepared to be beamed back down to the base.
When I got back to Earth I figured I should probably inform my superiors about my alien-ness. That's when I got really concerned. I mean the government had been cool to Teal'C but I wasn't sure if they would act the same way to me. The first person I called was General George Hammond. He was my commanding officer when I first got the repository, and he was also a close friend of mine. I figured h would also want to know and would be able to give me advice on how to tell the president. I told him everything-not being human, how my dead relatives had come back and how I was a huge part of Danny's meaning of life stuff. He asked if I had told anyone else and I said that other than SG1 and himself no one knew. He said I should call the president immediately and talk it over with him. So I did just that. The president said that I could stay in charge of the base, for now. I'm not sure if that means they are looking for a replacement for me or I will be able to stay as commander. I also have to keep him informed of how the alliance goes. He said that being aligned with the four most powerful races in the universe could be a VERY good thing.
As I hung up the phone Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell knocked on the door to my office. I told him to come in. He wanted to know if meetings with the Asgard were always like this or if this was a one time thing. I told him that in the past the Asgard usually beamed us up if there was an issue with an enemy, either of ours of theirs, but now whenever I got beamed up it would be for the alliance. Colonel Mitchell is a new guy at the base; him and carter have split control of SG1. I liked it a lot better when I was a normal old colonel and was in SG1. Just me, carter, Daniel and Teal'C going off to save the world, make new allies and kick some major Goa'uld ass.
So for one day I stayed on base. Baal came by to visit; well I guess it wasn't really a visit, more of an "I hear you have some new allies" attack speech. He also told me that even with allies the tau'ri were still too weak to take on the Goa'uld successfully. I told him that I was not a tau'ri. He also said he wanted to come to the SGC to discuss plans for the destruction of some unforeseen enemy. (Yeah right there is no enemy). I told him that he couldn't come right now because I might be leaving soon. He told us again that we would pay for our impudence and I told him again that I didn't know what that word meant. I had almost become an inside joke between us. Agh, I did not just say I have an inside joke with a Goa'uld. That's just wrong.
Well anyways, after that I had a few more days on base before Thor would beam me back up. So, I did what I always do when I'm not working, go to Minnesota and fish. I guess Carter felt bad for me or something because she actually agreed to come along.
It was a bit of an awkward ride out there. We didn't do much talking for the first 10 hours of the ride. It takes almost a full day to get to the cabin. When we finally got there it was about 0300 and we were both very tired. Actually Carter had fallen asleep in the car. I got her up and we went into the house. I showed her to the guest bedroom and immediately went up to the roof. At both of my houses, Colorado and Minnesota I had a telescope on the roof. I really like looking at stars. After the first Abydos mission I spent most of my time up there just looking.
I had been looking, trying to find some of the planets the stars that we had been to when I heard someone climb up onto the roof behind me. It was Carter. Well no duh, she was the only one up there but I thought it sounded dramatic. I asked her if she wanted to look at some stars. She said that would be nice. So we sat, well actually laid there, and I pointed out constellations. I kinda thought it was funny that I knew more about something than Carter did.
Well I guess we fell asleep because when I woke up it was already late in the morning. I got Carter up and told her we needed to get ready and that we had already lost some very valuable fishing time. She tried to tell me that she didn't fish but I reminded her that she had come fishing with me before. She reminded me that I had told her there were no fish in the lake before. She finally agreed and we took the boat out to the middle of the lake and started to fish. About an hour later Sam thought she saw something in the lake. She stood up to get a better look, apparently forgetting the number one rule on being in a row boat- no standing up. Well she remembered that rule a little too late and the boat had already begun to tip over. We both, along with the contents of the boat were thrown into the lake. When we resurfaced we were both soaked and scrambled to grab onto the overturned boat. Eventually we managed to turn the boat upright and climb back into it but that took a lot of work.
We rowed back to shore and went back into the cabin. We were both completely soaked and were stating to get cold. I told Carter to go take a shower and warm up. While she was showering I sat and thought. It had been so much fun out on the lake with the boat. I wished that it could always be like that. Just me and Carter. We both knew that we had feelings for each other; we just couldn't do anything about it because of the regulations. I knew that she felt something or else she would have married Pete, and after she broke up with him if she didn't feel anything she would not have come to the cabin that very day with me.
Carter had been in the shower a long time so I decided to go see if she was ok, when I was outside the door to the bathroom I knocked but didn't go in, that would have been rude. She said she would be out in minute but before I could respond I was beamed away in a flash of white light. I was on Thor's ship again. And I was still soaking wet. A few minutes later Carter was beamed up too. She was freshly showered and still had wet hair. Thor wanted to know if we had been going swimming lately. I told him that we weren't intentionally swimming but we had been in the lake recently. I said that I wanted to shower before I met with the other two races. Thor said that was ok, but only one of the races was here at the moment. The Nox representatives had arrived and were very eager to meet me.