Cammie, her hair now blonde, led SG-1 and Jack through Area 51, flashing her ID at various checkpoints with a casualness that made her Uncles and Aunt proud. They emerged out onto a large open area in which sat the Puddle Jumper that they intended to 'borrow'. Cammie said to a guard who approached them,

"James and I are just studying the engine capacitors… SG-1 just came for the ride."

Seemingly satisfied with that, he walked back to his post as Jack discreetly signalled for everyone to get onto the craft. A couple of guards, getting suspicious, came sprinting over with their Asgard tech-based hand weapons, calling,

"Stop right there!"

Cam and Cammie, the last onboard, brandished zats concealed in their shirts as their friends watched from inside the Jumper, their own weapons ready, and the two Camerons zatted the guards unconscious, Cam quietly saying as he surveyed their surroundings,

"Come on, Cammie… move out."

They hi-fived before running inside just as several more guards came, brandishing zats and 9mms. Inside, Jack took the main seat and placed his hands on the console. As his friends and godchildren watched, the controls lit up and began to hum and he asked casually,

"Where to folks?"

James, blonde too for solidarity purposes, leaned against the back of his Uncle's seat and said, glancing at his father being held protectively by Cammie, "The Lost City, July 12th 2009, and step on it."

Closing his eyes briefly in order to focus, Jack smiled grimly as the craft lifted, soaring upwards. When it had reached a sufficient altitude, the twins looking around themselves in wonder, neither having experienced transit in a Jumper before, Jack shot off in the direction of the setting sun as Cam held his wife in his arms.

A few minutes later, their surroundings now the stellar landscape of the Pegasus galaxy, everyone watched as Jack navigated the stars to Lantaea, Daniel looking increasingly fragile and on edge at the prospect of seeing his wife again. Cammie and James peered through the view screen in amazement with their Uncles Teal'c and Jonas.

Teal'c asked as they approached the planet, noticing Jonas' subdued demeanour, "JonasQuinn, did you not inform CarolynQuinn of this mission?"

Jonas shook his head and replied, his face emotionless, "I couldn't. I couldn't tell her that I was doing this – she'd kill me. If we're successful, we won't remember any of this and we'll have Sam back… it's for the greater good. How can I tell my wife that our children might not exist because their Dad and his friends tinkered with the timeline?"

Cammie hugged him, saying as Cam and Vala shared a tender moment, knowing that their children's future could be jeopardised too, "Uncle Jonas, you didn't have to come."

"I'm on SG-1 – we do things together, Cameron and I don't regret this."

They all looked out through the view screen just as they reached the other side of the planet where the City was, and they gazed at it, the elders reacquainting themselves with the place that had been destroyed in their timeline. Cammie asked, glancing at her brother and then at her father,

"Is that… Atlantis?"

Daniel, Cam and Vala's arms around him, replied as he looked straight out of the front of the craft, "It sure is."

Just then fifteen Wraith ships appeared seemingly out of nowhere, firing upon the City. Daniel had to be helped into a nearby seat as his knees buckled, tears running down his cheeks as he whispered hoarsely, his nightmares just beneath the surface as he feared the worst,

"No."

The twins went to their father's side as Jack glanced at his best friend worriedly, and then they watched as three of the ships blew up, the others still firing. Jack remarked,

"Screw causality – our girl needs us."

James replied grimly, "No argument from us… go ahead."

Using his expert flying skills, Jack decloaked the vessel and flew right into the middle of the action, taking out each and every single Wraith ship before they had a chance to aim at the Jumper.

In the aftermath, a heavy silence fell on the crew, knowing full well that they had changed the future, and Cam said, "There's no way back… we're stuck here."

Jack said with a sigh, "We agreed, Mitchell. It's an alternate timeline now. We'll be absorbed into the time stream when we're done so it'll work out."

Cam nodded, and suddenly they heard Sam's voice over the communications system, "Unidentified Jumper, please identify yourself."

They all exchanged glances, Daniel closing his eyes as he heard his wife's voice for the first time in eighteen years, and Jack shrugged, about to reply when Cammie got there first, a hand on his shoulder as she said in a passable impression of Cam's accent, "Lieutenant Terson reporting for duty, Ma'am! Requesting permission to dock."

SG-1, Jack, Daniel and James all stared at Cammie in disbelief, Cam smiling slightly and remarking quietly, "Cammie, you're too young to be a Lieutenant… and your hair's too long."

Cammie replied, "It works… you guys are going to have to cloak yourselves when we get to the City otherwise I'm sure Mom is going to be spooked."

Jack smiled up at his niece as Teal'c smiled too, placing a hand on her shoulder as James went to fetch the devices that his sister had brought along, and they heard Sam's voice again, "Ok, transmitting co-ordinates now, then I want some answers, Lieutenant."

Jack remarked as he received docking co-ordinates from the City, the craft gliding towards a Jumper bay smoothly, "Cameron, your mother sounds pissed – tread carefully."

Daniel stood up and pulled his daughter into a hug, whispering, his eyes shut, "Good luck… and when you get round to telling her who you are, tell your Mom I said 'hi'."

James, his arm around his Uncle Teal'c, remarked as said Jaffa smiled slightly, "We're fighting the past to save the future."

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The rest of the story is in Jackson Junior: Commanders. Hope you enjoyed it: )