The AIRMAN opens the door and Kawalsky and Dr. Carter enter. She freezes at the site of another her staring back at her.
"Hi I'm DANIEL JACKSON, also a member of SG1." Daniel introduces himself.
"Have a seat, Major." General Hammond showed him to his seat.
Both CARTERS come face to face in an awkward moment.
"Hi" Carter said reluctantly. "Hi" Dr. Carter responded, slowly sitting next to O'Neill while staring at Major Carter. After seeing her collapse on the video, O'Neill leans in and asks Dr. Carter "how ya feeling?"
"I'm ok" and gave him a brief smile, as she looked across the table to Major Carter.
"First of all, I would like to say we know what you've been through. Dr JACKSON experienced a similar alternate reality some time ago on a mission to P3X 233." General Hammond stated.
"Well that's where we found our quantum mirror as well." Dr. Carter stressed.
"Fortunately for us, Dr JACKSON was able to return with intelligence that enabled SG1 to stop the Goa'uld attack here on EARTH." Hammond stated.
"Nice. That goes a long way to explain why yours was one of only a handful of alternate realities that looked like it hadn't been overrun by the Goa'uld." Dr. Carter stated with hope.
"What we need to know is where do you intend to go from here?" Hammond asked.
"Our Beta site was instructed to bury their STARGATE the moment the last man stepped through. And our own world is under Goa'uld control, so we can't go back." Dr. Carter responded as she glanced to Colonel O'Neill.
"We want to stay." Kawalsky interjected.
"We need to stay......That is, if we're wanted." Dr. Carter said, holding back the tears that were forming in her eyes. There's a long silence around the table.
"Look, we just left everyone we know, everyone we ever cared about. If you're not going to give us a second chance, I don't know any of you." Dr. Carter yelled.
Dr. Carter proceeded to stand up wanting to storm out of the room, but dizziness in her head, and the nausea in her stomach didn't allow her. O'NEILL stood and grabbed her before she fell out again.
"Hey, Hey....take it easy....take it easy...u ok?" I'm fine, I'm fine." She said with anger and embarrassment.
"Listen, Samantha....the reality is, no pun intended, you don't know any of us. And we don't know you. For all we know you could be her evil twin.
But then...we'd be dealing with clichés and you know how I feel about those." "No actually", pointing to Major Carter, "you know how I feel about those." O'Neill stated trying to lighten the situation.
"I will speak with my superiors and make a determination. For now, you'll be assigned temporary accommodation." General Hammond replied.
"Take them to A3 quarters." General Hammond ordered.
Dr. Carter rose from her seat, only to again get a wave of dizziness....O'Neill stood to help her but Kawalsky immediately, came around and assisted her out of the room.
"I got her Jack, I got her".
The air-man escorted Dr. Carter to her quarters. She walked towards the bed and slowly sits down. She tried to compose herself, but the tears kept flowing.
She takes out two pictures from her pocket and sets it on the nightstand. It was a wedding photo of her and her O'NEILL, and a sonogram photo of the child she carried within her. She lay down on the bed, and began to weep. She began to place herself in the fetal position as she rubbed her abdomen, wondering what will happen to the life growing inside of her. She knew that entropic cascade failure was inevitable. But that wouldn't happen for a couple of years, so maybe just maybe they had a chance.
