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In the previous chapter:

"… And from what we know, this race and these writing are similar to the excerpt we have of …" Sam stopped wondering if she should mention it but decided it could be helpful, "Well, the Furlings."

Chapter 4

"The Furlings?" asked John puzzled.

"It's a mysterious race SG1 never encountered but found evidence of a while back," explained Rodney.

Carter nodded at him. "Yes. The Furlings were once members in an alliance of four great races, along with the Asgard, the Nox, and the Ancients. The Furlings possessed very advanced technology, including a device that instantaneously transported users over great distances. Colonel O'neill had an unfortunate experience with this device."

"Oh!"exclaimed future John, suddenly realizing something. "Do you think this race might be travelling through time? That's why we never met them. They keep changing century or millennia?"

Before Colonel Carter could even form a response, John had a revelation, "Hey, I know this show!"

"You are thinking about that series where they travel to different Earths," resounded future John with a smile on his face "Sliders?"

Rodney decided to join in, "Oh, quit it both of you! Sliders is not about Time Travel. You are thinking about Quantum Leap. That show is full of mistake and not believable at all."

Ronon and Teyla shared a I have no clues about what they are talking about look while future Sam chuckled and said to Rodney

"You always say that but you love the show."

"I do not!" denied Rodney.

"You do!" emphasized future Sam.

"Well, not yet then!"

"You are just trying to win the argument Rodney. Stop sulking!"

"I'm not!" he protested again.

Colonel Carter rolled her eyes feeling that they were getting nowhere with this argument.

"I'm right and you are lying," teased future Sam, offering him a big smile.

"You know me so well dear!" Rodney said that as a joke but Sam's smile disappeared and she turned her gaze to the table. Rodney immediately felt bad.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Please don't cry, I'm sorry. Of course you are right. You are always right."

Sam smiled and turned to him, "Gotcha!"

Future Sheppard laughed out loud, breaking the tension that had begun to fill the room, "I can't believe you fell for that!" he teased.

"Shut up you …old Sheppard," said Rodney, meaning it as an insult.

Colonel Carter cleared her throat to try to get their attention but failed.

Future Sheppard started to protest against Rodney, "Hey! You don't tell me to shut up. I was you best man for info."

With his trademark smirk the future John Sheppard looked defiantly at Rodney.

"Oh great! Now you," said Rodney mentioning at real John "are going to gloat all day about the fact that your are my best man!"

"Best man is cool! Can I be your best man? " asked John cheekily, leaning against his chair.

Colonel Carter groaned at the banter going on and raised her voice, "I thought we were not supposed to talk about the future. Could we go back to our main problem here?"

Rodney seemed to be pulled out from a trance, "Right, the device?"

"Yes, the device McKay!" said Carter sarcastically.

Radek decided to help Rodney, "We could contact those Furlings to send them back? You do have the gate address?" he asked future Sam. She nodded as John started to talk.

"Well, if they can be found at the same address! If they really are time travelers it could be difficult to find them," he declared with a smile.

Carter glared at John for trying to be funny again.

"We will send a MALP to this planet. Furlings or not it's worth checking." She turned back to her future self, "Can you tell us more about this race?"

"Well, they were surprised to see us. I guess they were not used to have visitors but they seemed to know who we were. It's difficult to explain but they appeared very advanced and very simple at the same time. I think that like all the other members of the alliance they refuse to interfere with the rest of the human population. That could be the reason of our lack of knowledge about them."

Colonel Carter knew exactly what her future self meant. This race was avoiding contact with less advance race. If they ever found them, their chances of ever forming an alliance with them would be close to non existent.

She was brought from her thoughts by Radek's question to her other self, "How did you make the device work in the first place?"

Future Sam sighed, "When they told us it was supposed to help change past events I decided to give it a try. I went to the lab and just thought I needed to save Rodney. The device started to glow and here we are."

"That's it?" asked a chorus of voice belonging to Sam, Radek and Rodney.

Waving a hand in the future John's direction she added, "Yes…John was entering the lab when we got transported here."

Rodney looked at her sadly, "You came here to save me? How did I…"

Before Rodney could finish his sentence, Carter called him warningly, "Rodney! You know they can't tell us! They are already telling us too much. We need to send them back quickly before they get affected by the entropic cascade failure."

Ronon, who seemed totally lost by that statement, decided to join the conversation, "What is that? Why do they need to go back now? Can't they give us some tactical information, like how to defeat the Wraiths?"

John pointed to Ronon, "I second his questions."

Sam sighed, "One time/space continuum cannot support two bodies of the same person for very long, they will vanish from existence if they stay here. They also can't say anything because they are affecting our future already. Telling us what will happen is changing the way we are going to behave. Our future decision might get altered and we could kill ourselves in a situation in which they did survive."

Ronon looked at her skeptically. Teyla however nodded "I see. It might be prudent to avoid talking about anything but the device."

"Exactly!" agreed Sam, silently thanking Teyla for her wise words. Rodney tried not to look disappointed even though he knew they were right.

Radek who had been quiet thinking about the little information they had started sharing his opinion, "From what you said the device seems to be controlled by your thoughts. Maybe you just need to think of going back."

The simplicity of the idea left everyone speechless.

"You are joking right?" said John, which earned him a glare from Teyla.

"Well, maybe they need to be wanting of going back?" explained Radek.

Every head in the room turned to look at her. She shifted under such scrutiny.

"Ah…maybe?" she conceded.

The real question was did she want to go back.

A suivre...

A/N: The mention of O'neill comes from SG1 "Paradise Lost" - Maybourne leads the team to a world where they find Furling technology: a transporter that sends O'Neill and Maybourne to an extinct colony on a nearby moon.

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