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Gregorian Slip

9:15 AM 8/10/69

6:03 PM 8/11/69

These two dates would be forever etched into the minds of SG-1.

Somehow when General Hammond was writing the note, he made a mistake. A devastating mistake. While copying the dates of the flares from the list he must have used, he wrote down the dates and times in August, but not August of 1969 like he thought.

What followed was a rollercoaster of emotions and actions. The whole team fell into a deep despair that lasted for months. Not even Sam's reassurances that the flares had not occurred in the previous years had brought any hope. They could be going back in 1970 or '71 or another year entirely…or not at all.

The something happened. Acting on grief, despair, and alcohol, Jack and Sam took comfort from each other's bodies. The unintended outcome of this was a child. This in turn led to several arguments. It wasn't that the child was unwanted, or would be unloved, it was the changes this could bring to the timeline.

Teal'c argued that now was the only time of consequence and what could or would occur should not concern them as much as it was. He was basically saying, 'some things are meant to be and they will occur regardless of our actions.'

Daniel pointed out that their General Hammond, the one from their time, knew what to write in the note because he had seen the note from himself before they had even delivered it. Therefore, all of these events had already occurred and whatever decision that Jack and Sam made, had already been made in the past. What he was basically pointing out is that 'what's done is done.'

They all pondered that for some time before Sam confessed something. Her instincts were telling her to leave the child here. She said that the scientist in her was waging war with her heart, but that logically she knew that bringing their son with them to the future would dramatically alter the past.

Jack, too, finally agreed that leaving him here was for the best. SG-1 had made a powerful enemy in Senator Kinsey and the man would do anything to bring down both Sam and Jack. A child, as physical proof of a relationship, would be the perfect ammunition for the politician. Jack could even imagine Kinsey having the boy removed from their care.

In the end it was Sam who made the solitary trek to Lenox Hill Hospital a couple of days after giving birth. She would leave the child, her son, with the nurses there, pleading that she could not care for him. But that's not what happened, you know.

What did happen is that she met two people in the crowded little waiting room. Hope had brought them in. They wanted a child, and so many here in this hospital didn't. They wanted to leave their information with the nurses here, hoping that a kind nurse would pass it on to a young expectant mother who didn't wish to be expecting. And Sam walked in carrying their miracle.

Sam walked out of the hospital with an aching body and an aching soul, but somehow…she knew she did the right thing.