AN: I don't get it! I've put two lines between paragraphs, and yet it still shows no difference when I post it! AGHHHHHHH pulls out hair. Also, where's all my readers go? I know I was a little long in updating but still….ah well…they just miss out on the spoilers for my next few stories!!!!!

34: A New Life

Sam stared at the letter in her hand. It was early morning, Jack was playing with Evelyn and Grace out the back and Sam had being tidying the bedroom. Now she was sitting on the bed, willing the tears to abide. Even now she still hated people to see her cry. She'd completely forgotten about the letter, she'd put it in her wooden jewellery box in her draw and not thought about it again, only to find it while tidying.

"Sam? Sweetheart are you ok?" Jack was standing in the doorway of their bedroom, concern in his eyes. Sam held up the letter trying to wipe the tears from her face. He came and sat down on the bed pulling her into his embrace. Jack glanced briefly at the letter and his eyes recognised the words instantly; 'Dear Evelyn and Grace, my children…' He didn't ask Sam how long she'd had it or why she'd put it away. He simply held her and placed the letter where they both could read it.

"Let's read it together." Jack cleared his throat and began.

'Dear Evelyn and Grace, my children,

Fare thee well, my own true love,

Farewell for a while, I'm going away.

But I'll be back, though I go 10,000 miles

10,000 miles. My own true love.

10,000 miles or more,

the rocks may melt, and the seas may burn,

if I should not return.

Oh don't you see, that lonesome dove,

Sitting on an ivy tree, she's weeping for,

her own true love.

As I shall weep for mine.

Oh Come he back, my own true love,

And stay a while with me,

If I had a friend, on all this earth,

You've been a friend to me.

I love you and watch over you always,

Momma

There was silence for a while, Sam and Jack lost in their own thoughts.

"You said you don't know what happened to her. Where do you think she went?" Sam stared through the doorway, where she could hear her children playing.

"She would've been watching us, the SGC was far too easy to get into; some Jaffa were already dead. She'd been there, she would've stayed to see me get through the gate." Jack was slowly rubbing circles on her back.

"And then?"

"Then?" Sam sighed, but her voice was stronger. "Then she would've fought with no holding back, till she died." He turned her around so he could look into her eyes.

"What makes you think all this so strongly?" Sam laughed lightly and looked down at the letter.

"You know, there were many things that were so different between us, so much so that it wasn't hard to think of her as a friend, rather than my alternate self. But at the same time we so similar. How do I know she did this? Because it's exactly what I would've done." Jack's arms tightened around her, flashes of her dying like that assaulting him. Sam sensed this and she placed a soothing hand on his neck. "But we're all safe now. That was another place. It wasn't us." He nodded into her neck. "Jack, what are we going to do? How are we going to explain all this to Evelyn and Grace? They have a right to know, this letter is for them." Jack sighed and slowly stood up from the bed.

"We'll figure out a way, when the time comes. That's a long time from now Sam." She smiled and waved him back out to the twins.

Carefully, Sam folded the letter and placed it back in the wooden box. Jack was right; they'd cross the bridge when they came to it. As she closed the drawer, her eyes rested on the photo sitting on her dresser, it was of the four of them, Daniel had taken it at the twins' 4th birthday party; they'd be 5 soon. Sam rubbed her hand over her belly and smiled. She'd been to her local GP and found out she was pregnant yesterday. She'd been overjoyed; with the kidnapping of Evelyn and Grace, having babies had gone out of the window. The rescue had been followed by months of counselling and then the move to Nevada and getting settled here. It'd been 8 months until the 'baby' subject had come up again, and after 2 months of trying, Sam was pregnant. She had been going to tell Jack today, but then she'd found the letter. She could hardly wait to tell him, and she would. Tonight. Now though, Samantha Carter was going out to play with her family.

AN: Well there we go everyone…alright, alright, yes there is an epilogue, you know me, I couldn't resist.