Disclaimer: Hallowed is the Stargate… that STILL isn't mine!

Hawk: Man I really need to finish this soon… I'm running out of disclaimers!

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The children stared at each other.

"I… I think you're right Daniel…" Sammy whispered.

"No!" Jack shouted, "This can't be, I'm a kid! The last thing I remember was Grandpa telling me that we would go fishing and… … … and we did… and then a few weeks later he got sick… and died…" Jack suddenly realised.

"Mommy's dead," Sammy blurted out tears in her eyes, "She died in a car crash… and… I blamed Daddy for not being there enough…"

"Sha're…" Daniel whispered wistfully, "… I… I was mawied!"

"So was I! Oh my God Charlie! How could I have forgotten Charlie?" Jack gasped. Jordan stared at them all.

"The Fountain…" He whispered. The three looked up sharply.

"What?" Daniel asked.

"The fountain of youth." Jordan muttered running his hand through his hair staring at the three of them, "That's the only explanation, I thought that this place was too far back though, that this was…"

"Woah, woah, woah buddy, slow down, what fountain of youth? Isn't that just a fairy tale or something?" Jack asked.

"The fountain isn't on Earth," Jordan exclaimed, "It's on my home planet. A planet whose population has been wiped out hundreds of years ago. I came here when that happened. I didn't think Earth even HAD a Stargate!"

"WOAH!" Jack yelled jumping back pointing his finger at Jordan, "Don't tell me you're an Alien!"

Jordan nodded his head slowly, "That is correct, I'm really an alien… uh… you okay kid?"

"WHAT ARE WE LIKE ALIEN MAGNETS? SAMMY EXPLANATIONS NOW!"

"Uh, now Sir… I mean Jack, uh… I honestly don't know…" Sammy sighed. Daniel adjusted his glasses, "What are the odds?" the little boy muttered

"I could tell you," Sammy put in.

"Don't," Jack ordered rubbing his head. He looked back at Jordan, "Okay," he said, "Okay…" he repeated to himself, "Okay, okay, okay… okay I have to stop saying okay… uh… okay, so… so you're saying, that we ran into your fountain thingy offworld and were changed into children and we've forgotten most of our adult memories?" Jack asked.

Jordan nodded, "This is how the fountain works unless you've been exposed to it for quite awhile."

"What happened to your soci'ty?" Daniel asked curiously interest peaked.

"Danny, he's an alien!"

"That's what you said about Mr. Thor but he was alwight!" Protested Daniel.

"For a giant carpenter ant…" Jack muttered.

"Please Mr. Jordan, what happened?" Asked Daniel. Jordan frowned.

"It was the fountain," Jordan said after a moment, "Or rather, it was how we used it. It was a great discovery among our scientists. Everyone wanted to be a kid again though. Picture it, a society almost completely of children that had no memories of their adult life…" Jordan sighed, "I was a scientist that worked on the project. We found that eventually the subjects would regain their memories, they would also grow up again."

"That doesn't sound SO bad…" Jack muttered.

"It was," Jordan contradicted, "There was no one to take care of all these children, and when the effect of the fountain wore off they would grow up, but they would still act like children. Our society crumbled, many starved and died." Jordan had tears in his eyes, "Thousands of starving people… children! I… and we could do nothing. Then we were attacked." His eyes darkened, "The Goa'uld, they attacked us. The water didn't work on them and gave us a natural immunity to the symbiotes."

"So they tried to kill you all?" Sammy asked wide-eyed. Jordan nodded, "I escaped and brought with me the water. Every few years I have a bit to restore my youth. You see, the more you take of it, the longer the effect becomes. I've been 21 for at least twenty-six years."

"Wow." The children gasped.

"What about us though?" Sammy asked, "How are we gonna get back to the SGC?"

"And what's the point of growing up if we can't remember how to be adults?" Jack questioned.

"After my years of research I have discovered a way to reverse the effects, but, you need to get back to the planet and into the fountain."

"Holy cats! How do you expect us to do that? Huh?" Jack asked, "We can't get in a space ship or nothing. We only have that Stargate thingy and those army people will NEVER let us kids go through I bet!"

"But maybe they will," Sammy said, "After all, we must have worked for them or something."

"Maybe…" Jack muttered, "… yeah… okay, how do we even GET to the Stargate though? Because of that moron roommate of yours we're here and we have no way of getting back to the base or to even get back to Sammy's Daddy." Jordan sighed, "That, I'm afraid is a problem… there will probably be news reports of people that we can contact to get you ho—"

"No…" Jack shook his head, "We can't trust them." he sighed heavily at the curious looks from the others, "Listen, remember the jerkwad bozo? He kidnapped us inside an army base! We have no memories of who we should trust… and… no matter what you say Jordan, we're still kids. I might grow up to be Mr. O'Neill, but right now, I'm not, I'm me and even though what you're saying makes sense and I'm suddenly remember some horrible memories… that doesn't change the fact. I can take a soldier down without thinking but they can over power me, at least two could take me down and Sammy and Danny can't fight at all, maybe they can when they're adults, but not now…" Jack frowned deeply. There were tears in his eyes, but he didn't seem to notice. Daniel silently took Jack's hand, Sammy followed the suit.

"Maybe I…" He whispered softly looking down at his shoes, "Maybe I don't WANT to be an adult again… I remember… a little flashes… of bad things that happened. Of faces that I know are dead… and I… I don't want to remember them." Tears trailed down his face.

"But Jack." Daniel said quietly, "What if someone needs our help like Mr. Teal'c? What if they need us to be gwoan ups?" Sammy nodded in agreement, "You flew an Alien ship Jack, and I knew how to make it work and Daniel could read the controls… it's obviously a very important jobs we have as grown ups… we need to be them… we need to be grown ups again."

Jack looked away from his friends for a long time.

"I remember pain." He said quietly, "I remember a man… that I think it was Danny, I remember him getting hurt lots. And I remember you Sammy, you getting hurt by Aliens and taken control of… and Mr. Teal'c… he was taken away from his family… I don't want to remember it all. I don't want to know why I know these things. I don't want to grow up again." He let go of his friends' hands and ran out of the room. Daniel and Sammy stared at his back, stunned. Jordan sighed.

"This happened sometimes. Jack must have had a lot of traumatic stuff happen as an adult… I'd say to give him time, but you don't have a lot… we need to get you to your SGC."

"I'll talk to Jack," Daniel said quietly, "Sammy, maybe you should watch the T.V. and see if anything comes up about us, we can figure out if they're friends later. Kay?"

"Yeah Danny, look after him." She said quietly, "I'd go… but I don't really understand… I… don't have that many memories as he seems to have…but…"

Daniel nodded, "It'll be okay." he said and went in the direction Jack had run off.

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Daniel entered the bedroom and found Jack under the bed. The older boy had tears in his eyes. Daniel crawled under beside Jack.

"Jack?"

"Go away Danny, I don't wanna talk about it, okay? Just leave me alone. I don't want to remember."

There was a long pause.

"I 'member bad stuff too." Daniel said softly. Jack looked over at him, eyes still blurry from tears, "I 'member a beautiful woman, and something horrible happened to her, and I think I couldn't save her from something awful, and I 'member these flashes of failure and people dying… and I think I blamed myself. I 'member… I think I was the one that solved the Stargate… and that lead to a lot of peoples deaths Jack. I can't pr'tened it hasn't. But… there's something that I have to do. It's blurry. I don't entirely remember it, but there's something I need to do, and there's people I need to protect and I have to be big to do it…"

"Aww… Danny… I… it's just…" Jack sighed closing his eyes, "I know you're right…"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAACHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Jack hit his head on the bed, startled form the giant sneeze. He stared at Daniel.

"'s dusty under here." The little boy grumbled wiping furiously at his nose with his sleeve. Jack continued to stare at him until he broke out laughing as if it was the funniest thing he had witnessed in his life.

"Jag, I'b glad you're ogay, but 'snot fuddy… Jag comb ond! JAAAG!"

Finally Jack was able to contain himself, "Danny, I know you're right, we have to find a way back to the SGC and become big again… we do have a purpose, an important one. I'm… I'm just scared that I won't like who I've grown up to be…" Daniel crawled out from under the bed and held out a hand for Jack to take, "Be too Jag, bud we deed to fid out." Jack smiled and took the boy's hand, "Right."

"Righd." Daniel said sniffing. The little boy started to walk back to the door that lead to the living room.

"Hey… Danny?" Jack said. Daniel turned looking at Jack curiously.

"I also remember that you saved me once before… and I want to thank you for it… and for now." Daniel gave an embarrass look and gave a little shrug.

"You've sabed be plendy in returnd Jag." he smiled. He sniffed again and then frowned, "Ummmb… I deed a tissue…"

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"Find anything Sammy?" Jack asked getting a more commanding tone. Sammy sighed discouragingly, "Nope, nadda, whoever we are we must be top secret or somethin' I mean, SERIOUSLY. There was something about Daddy's car, but that was it and it didn't have any information contacts or anything 'sept the police!"

Jack groaned, "Aww man, we can't go to them to, who knows who they'd hand us over to? I mean, what if the Jerkwad bozo made up some fake ID or something?" Daniel nodded in agreement.

"I know that Jack." Sammy said, "I went through the phone book to see if there are any familiar names, but there aren't any. We're at least two days away from the place where we wanna be. It could be in any direction."

"What do we know?" Jack asked.

"SGC, some sorta army base thingy." Daniel said after blowing his nose, "That's all secret and deals with aliens."

"And the Stargate." Sammy added, "And my Daddy seems to know about it."

"And Mr. Teal'c seems to know us really well too." Jack nodded, "What else?" there was a small pause.

"Come on, anything." he said.

"Well… we're in Colorado…" Daniel said after a moment.

"Right!" Sammy said enthusiastically, "So we just look up army bases."

"But what if there's lots of them? And SGC is top secret I think, so how would we know which one is right?" Daniel pointed out. Sammy thought about it.

"Well…" She said after a moment, "What else do we know? The base is deep underground I think, from what I remember from the base. And it has to be able to monitor the sky probably to see if there are any space ships nearby."

"NORAD!" Jack said triumphantly. Daniel blinked.

"What's NORAD?" He asked curiously. Jack grinned, sure that he had the right answer.

"It's perfect, it would have the equipment that would be needed to watch the skies and junk! That's where we need to go!" he turned to Jordan, "Can you get us there?" Jordan nodded.

"Yeah, no problem, jeez, you guys are a good team. Okay, we'll pack up my car and we'll get there as soon as we can."

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General George Hammond tapped his pen against his desk nervously. Most of SG1 were still missing and there wasn't a damn thing he could do about it. If he alerted the authorities about the three questions would be asked. What was worse, the NID could intercept, if they didn't already have the children. Jacob was searching non-stop now. They had been so close. They had them in the car for Godsakes.

"Damn." he grumbled as the phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Sir! They're back! Colonel O'Neill and the others are back! They have someone with them sir!"

"I'm on my way!" Hammond said quickly hanging up the phone and running out of the office.

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Okay this one's a short chapter, but I gotta go to sleep. I'm sorry it took so long to put it up, I'll try to be faster, but I procrastinate a lot. Ah well. I'm tired, and rather sad since I've heard they're cancelling Stargate after season 10 (NOOOO)… though that's neither here nor there, anyways please read and review and I promise I'll try to finish this!