AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hiya all again!! Here's my second post, hope you're
enjoying!
SPOILERS: Children of the Gods, Solitudes, There But For The Grace of God, In The Line of Duty, Out of Mind, Into the Fire, 100 Days, Nemesis, Small Victories, Upgrades, Divide and Conquer, Window of Opportunity, Beneath the Surface, Entity, Meridian
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"Who the hell are you?" Jonathan stopped in the hallway as he saw the young girl, and pointing his toy gun at her.
"Samantha, who're you? And put that toy gun away, it's not like it can really hurt me!" Samantha replied.
"Make me," Jonathan replied. "It's a cap gun, it can too hurt you."
"Yeah, would ya like me to punch you?" Samantha asked.
"A girl? Punch me? Yeah right, you're probably one of those weak little girls who plays with dolls," Jonathan said.
"I play with Major Matt Mason," Samantha replied. "And I am sooo tough enough to punch you."
Immediately Samantha launched herself at Jonathan and punch him squared in the face, then she pinned him to the ground. "Wanna arm wrestle?"
"OK! Fine, I'll arm wrestle," Jonathan said, pushing Samantha off him and throwing her across the floor. "Bring it on."
Samantha stood up and brushed herself off, returning to her spot. They both sat down on the ground and began to arm wrestle.
Sam came around the corner and groaned. "Samantha! I told you to - arm wrestling?" her face suddenly changed from serious to smiling. "Jack?"
"No, he's around, I'm Jonathan," Jonathan said. "Who're you? No wait, let me guess.you're the old her! Right?"
"Yeah, you could say that, I'm Sam Carter," Sam replied.
"I'll call you Carter that way I won't get confused," Jonathan said, suddenly slamming Samantha's arm to the ground. "BEAT YOU!"
"Did not, it's only cos I was distracted," Samantha defended herself.
"Yes ma'am," Jonathan said. "Whatever you say."
Sam watched the younger versions of herself and Jack. They were so cute. She couldn't help but think that they're kids could.she stopped herself immediately. No kids, she reminded herself. But the thought of what the Old Sam had said about her husband was far from being a scientist, Jack was far from being a scientist, and watching the two of them as eight-year-olds she wondered.
"No way, there's no possible way this is real. Look I tried to explain to Sam before that the space time continual wouldn't possibly allow three of the same one of us from the same timeline in different times to be together, this has to be some weird dream," Samantha said to Jonathan.
"What?" Jonathan asked.
"Holly Hannah, they don't teach anyone anything in school - don't you read books?" Samantha asked.
"Read? I read!" Jonathan replied. "I have an astronomy book sitting on my shelf! It's sixty pages long!"
"Only sixty? My longest book is 800 pages, and I've read all of it twice," Samantha boasted.
"You're way too smart, I bet you grow up to be one of those science geeks," Jonathan accused her.
"Scientists are NOT geeks," Samantha defended herself.
Sam sighed. Poor anyone who'd had to put up with this the first time they'd met. She could remember clearly the day they had met, it had stuck in her mind as one of the clearest memories in her entire life. How she had asked him if he wanted to arm wrestle and then how he'd pushed her through the gate. As she watched the two younger versions arguing the memories flooded back. Being stuck in Antarctica with him; that was when she'd first started feeling a connection to him. Then Daniel coming back from the Alternate Reality announcing that their alternate reality selves had been engaged and Jack clearly repeating his statement and saying it was against regs. Her being infested with Jolinar and Janet later telling her that Jack hadn't left her side during Jolinar's death, when she had also been close to death; that was when she'd realised that there was something more between them than between her and Teal'c, or her and Daniel.
Then all these small things had happened, him being overprotective of her, not liking other men hanging around her. Then came the time when they had all been frozen and the Goa'uld had told her that the rest of SG-1 were dead. She had felt this sudden hole inside of her, a hole that was there because of Daniel, Teal'c, Hammond and Janet and her family, Jacob and Mark, but was widened by the gut wrenching fact that Jack was gone and there was nothing she could do about it. Then he had come, he'd been there, in front of her, and for the first time she realised that their relationship could no longer be classified under 'friendship' there was something so much more there, something neither of them could admit. The how he'd been made a Goa'uld and they wouldn't let her go back and rescue him, the possibility of her worst nightmare suddenly becoming real haunted her, so she had lied, found a way to go back and rescue him. It had turned out that he had rescued her from Hathor. She smiled remembering how he'd hugged her.
Then he'd been gone again, trapped on another world, unable to contact home. She'd done the impossible, she had built a machine that their allies, the Tok'ra and the Tollan, had deemed impossible to build. But she had done it, within three months, only to be disappointed, because when she had finally rescued him he didn't seem like he wanted to be rescued. He had a woman, another woman, Laira, and he'd kissed her. Suddenly all of it seemed to her as if it was false. But she soon enough realised that that thing was still there.
Then he'd done an amazing thing, he'd invited her fishing. But she couldn't go, how could she possibly go, be alone, with him for an entire weekend, it just wasn't possible, so she'd lied, told him she'd much rather be in her lab doing work. Which she would if anyone else had asked her fishing, but Jack wasn't anyone else. Then he'd done it again a week later, again she'd turned him down. A few weeks after that she'd been trapped behind a force field on a Goa'uld mother ship, he'd refused to leave her and she begged him to leave, he wouldn't. They got out, but barely. Then a few days later they had been forced to confessed how they truly felt about each other to prove they didn't have false memories implanted inside of them. Then there had been the time loop, something had happened while Jack was in the time loop, something he wouldn't tell her or Daniel, yet when Daniel had asked he'd only smiled at her.
Then they'd had their memories stamped, they'd been Jonah and Thera, two normal people with not-so-normal lives, but non-military lives, lives where they could be together. As Sam had said as Thera "You know there are some things about this place that I like." She had meant that. There were some things about the place that she liked, like being able to be with him. But they remembered, she almost thought unfortunately. The last time he'd really shown anything was when she'd been taken over by an Entity who took complete control of her body and couldn't get out, Jack had stuck by her through that, she remembered him as the one standing by her side all the time, except when he got thrown out. She'd seen the pain when he'd had to shoot her with the zat twice, effectively killing her.
And now she stood watching the two eight-year-olds acting exactly the same towards each other as their older versions had only five years earlier.
"Oh you watch yourself fly boy, or I'll punch you again," Samantha was saying.
"OK that's enough," Sam said, separating them. "Jonathan, do you know where Colonel O'Neill is?"
"Who?" Jonathan asked.
"Colonel - Jack," Sam said, she never called him Jack.
"Wait - I get to be a Colonel? OK that's cool!" Jonathan said.
"What am I?" Samantha asked.
"Right now I'm a Major," Sam replied.
"Oh damnit, is he your CO?" Samantha asked.
"Uh - maybe," Sam replied. "Come on you two, Jonathan take me to where Jack is."
"OK, he's this way," Jonathan said. "You coming Samantha?"
"Yep," Samantha replied, running to walk besides him.
"You can call me 'sir' now!" Jonathan said.
"As if," Samantha replied.
Sam watched interested. They were already acting friendly.
"Oh company! Hold up!" a voice said from behind Sam.
She spun around to look, making sure Jonathan and Samantha stopped as well. "Who're you?"
"Sam - " the old man stopped.
"Yes - are you Colonel O'Neill or Daniel?" Sam asked.
The old man smiled. "Colonel, now there's something I haven't been called in a while. Jonathan! That's where you got to. Jack told me to find you. He's still back there with Teal'c."
"Can you take us to him?" Sam asked.
"Take me to your leader, yeah sure," Old Jack replied.
Sam smiled. The old Jack didn't seem that much different to her Jack. She repeated that in her mind, her Jack, didn't sound bad. No, she thought, no you don't go down that path again, forget it! She mentally slapped herself and followed the two kids who were running down the hallway together, playing tiggy and still threatening to kill each other, and finally walked up next to Old Jack. She tried to take a look at his hand, to see if there was a ring there, but he had his hands shoved firmly into his pants pockets.
"You think I'm gonna let you get the answer to that question so easily - Major?" Old Jack asked.
"Yeah it's Major, and what question?" she asked, playing dumb.
"You know, Carter," Old Jack said. "I haven't called you either of those things for so long - brings back memories."
Sam didn't know how to take that, so she smiled at him. Finally they rounded a corner and found Jack, Teal'c and another old man, who she guessed to be the Old Daniel, standing around in a circle discussing how they were going to get out of the situation.
"Carter! Thank god, someone with brains," Jack said.
"I have brains," the Old Daniel protested.
"You're not as smart as Carter," Jack said. "Plus you're at least eighty."
"Jack you're so frustrating," Old Daniel said.
"OK, now we're all here, we just have to find, Daniel," Jack said.
"I'm here," Old Daniel said.
"Not you, Daniel, Daniel.my time Daniel, you know the thirty-something-year old?" Jack said.
The old Daniel took off his glasses and cleaned them using his shirt. "Sometimes I wonder why I remained friends with you Jack."
"Cos I'm one of only four members to belong to SG-1," Jack replied.
"Four?" Old Daniel repeated. "Oh right, you haven't met Jon - never mind."
"Jon?" Jack repeated.
"I never said that," Old Daniel said.
"You never change space-monkey," Old Jack said.
"Oh puh-lease, if you want a reunion go find Old Carter and then you'll all be together," Jack muttered.
"No." Old Jack said.
"What?" Jack asked.
"I can't see her." Old Jack said.
"Why not?" Sam asked, curiously.
"Oh you old people are so annoying," Jonathan muttered. "Come on Samantha, let's go find some other kids, hanging out with old people is boring."
"That's you?" Jack asked Sam.
"Yes, sir," Sam said.
Jonathan grabbed Samantha's hand and dragged her back down the corridor they had just come from.
"You were cute," Jack commented.
"Let's split up, find the rest of the people in here, at least the older generation," Old Daniel said.
"What makes you think that's a good idea?" Jack asked.
"I've done this before, Jack," Old Daniel said. "I know exactly where to find me. I'll go with Teal'c and find me, and Jack you go with - Jack - and Sam go with them you should run into you somewhere."
Both Jack's looked utterly confused but Sam seemed to understand. "Come on."
The three of them headed down the corridor to their left and Old Daniel and Teal'c headed straight ahead.
"So you never told me you were cute when you were little, Carter," Jack teased.
"Thanks, sir," Sam said sarcastically. "You know what they were doing when I ran into them?"
"What?" Jack said, thoughts running through his mind quickly.
"Arm-wrestling," Sam said.
Old Jack snorted from behind them and Jack smiled.
"Brings back memories," Old Jack said. "That seems so long ago."
"It seems long ago for me, and it was only five years," Jack replied.
"You know." Old Jack stopped as he saw an old woman standing in front of them. "Sam!"
Old Sam turned around and saw them. "Jack - you're alive."
Sam's mind immediately started ticking. These old people were obviously all the same age, which meant that it was quite possible for the eighty-year- old Jack to be alive yet eighty-year-old Sam's Jack to be dead.
Old Sam stared at Old Jack for and minute and then hugged him. "You told me I'd see you again, I didn't believe you."
Sam looked cautiously at Old Jack's hand, he was wearing a wedding ring, matching Old Sam's. She avoided looking at her Jack, she could sense he was avoiding her gaze as well. The old Sam and Jack pulled apart from each other. They started talking quietly and moved out of the earshot of Sam and Jack. Finally Sam turned to her CO.
"Sir, I have a funny feeling we should leave them alone," Sam said.
"They're us," Jack said, slowly. "They're us."
Sam didn't say anything, just watched Jack very carefully. He seemed shocked.
"Are they - ?" Jack asked.
"Are we is probably what you should be asking," Sam said.
"Oh don't get all scientific right now," Jack said.
They both stood there, staring blankly at what they had been trying to ignore for the past four years, they were watching themselves in love. Suddenly Old Jack leaned over and kissed the Old Sam. Sam and Jack both continued watching, they both knew that some time in their futures that would be them. Sam turned red and looked away.
"Let's go find the Daniels, and us.our other us," Jack said, putting his hand on Sam's shoulder.
She jolted from the touch of his hand. She turned to face him, ignoring their older selves. "Yes, sir."
Sir, Jack repeated in his head. Just think Jack, that's your future, and that's the woman you love that you're kissing in your future.
SPOILERS: Children of the Gods, Solitudes, There But For The Grace of God, In The Line of Duty, Out of Mind, Into the Fire, 100 Days, Nemesis, Small Victories, Upgrades, Divide and Conquer, Window of Opportunity, Beneath the Surface, Entity, Meridian
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"Who the hell are you?" Jonathan stopped in the hallway as he saw the young girl, and pointing his toy gun at her.
"Samantha, who're you? And put that toy gun away, it's not like it can really hurt me!" Samantha replied.
"Make me," Jonathan replied. "It's a cap gun, it can too hurt you."
"Yeah, would ya like me to punch you?" Samantha asked.
"A girl? Punch me? Yeah right, you're probably one of those weak little girls who plays with dolls," Jonathan said.
"I play with Major Matt Mason," Samantha replied. "And I am sooo tough enough to punch you."
Immediately Samantha launched herself at Jonathan and punch him squared in the face, then she pinned him to the ground. "Wanna arm wrestle?"
"OK! Fine, I'll arm wrestle," Jonathan said, pushing Samantha off him and throwing her across the floor. "Bring it on."
Samantha stood up and brushed herself off, returning to her spot. They both sat down on the ground and began to arm wrestle.
Sam came around the corner and groaned. "Samantha! I told you to - arm wrestling?" her face suddenly changed from serious to smiling. "Jack?"
"No, he's around, I'm Jonathan," Jonathan said. "Who're you? No wait, let me guess.you're the old her! Right?"
"Yeah, you could say that, I'm Sam Carter," Sam replied.
"I'll call you Carter that way I won't get confused," Jonathan said, suddenly slamming Samantha's arm to the ground. "BEAT YOU!"
"Did not, it's only cos I was distracted," Samantha defended herself.
"Yes ma'am," Jonathan said. "Whatever you say."
Sam watched the younger versions of herself and Jack. They were so cute. She couldn't help but think that they're kids could.she stopped herself immediately. No kids, she reminded herself. But the thought of what the Old Sam had said about her husband was far from being a scientist, Jack was far from being a scientist, and watching the two of them as eight-year-olds she wondered.
"No way, there's no possible way this is real. Look I tried to explain to Sam before that the space time continual wouldn't possibly allow three of the same one of us from the same timeline in different times to be together, this has to be some weird dream," Samantha said to Jonathan.
"What?" Jonathan asked.
"Holly Hannah, they don't teach anyone anything in school - don't you read books?" Samantha asked.
"Read? I read!" Jonathan replied. "I have an astronomy book sitting on my shelf! It's sixty pages long!"
"Only sixty? My longest book is 800 pages, and I've read all of it twice," Samantha boasted.
"You're way too smart, I bet you grow up to be one of those science geeks," Jonathan accused her.
"Scientists are NOT geeks," Samantha defended herself.
Sam sighed. Poor anyone who'd had to put up with this the first time they'd met. She could remember clearly the day they had met, it had stuck in her mind as one of the clearest memories in her entire life. How she had asked him if he wanted to arm wrestle and then how he'd pushed her through the gate. As she watched the two younger versions arguing the memories flooded back. Being stuck in Antarctica with him; that was when she'd first started feeling a connection to him. Then Daniel coming back from the Alternate Reality announcing that their alternate reality selves had been engaged and Jack clearly repeating his statement and saying it was against regs. Her being infested with Jolinar and Janet later telling her that Jack hadn't left her side during Jolinar's death, when she had also been close to death; that was when she'd realised that there was something more between them than between her and Teal'c, or her and Daniel.
Then all these small things had happened, him being overprotective of her, not liking other men hanging around her. Then came the time when they had all been frozen and the Goa'uld had told her that the rest of SG-1 were dead. She had felt this sudden hole inside of her, a hole that was there because of Daniel, Teal'c, Hammond and Janet and her family, Jacob and Mark, but was widened by the gut wrenching fact that Jack was gone and there was nothing she could do about it. Then he had come, he'd been there, in front of her, and for the first time she realised that their relationship could no longer be classified under 'friendship' there was something so much more there, something neither of them could admit. The how he'd been made a Goa'uld and they wouldn't let her go back and rescue him, the possibility of her worst nightmare suddenly becoming real haunted her, so she had lied, found a way to go back and rescue him. It had turned out that he had rescued her from Hathor. She smiled remembering how he'd hugged her.
Then he'd been gone again, trapped on another world, unable to contact home. She'd done the impossible, she had built a machine that their allies, the Tok'ra and the Tollan, had deemed impossible to build. But she had done it, within three months, only to be disappointed, because when she had finally rescued him he didn't seem like he wanted to be rescued. He had a woman, another woman, Laira, and he'd kissed her. Suddenly all of it seemed to her as if it was false. But she soon enough realised that that thing was still there.
Then he'd done an amazing thing, he'd invited her fishing. But she couldn't go, how could she possibly go, be alone, with him for an entire weekend, it just wasn't possible, so she'd lied, told him she'd much rather be in her lab doing work. Which she would if anyone else had asked her fishing, but Jack wasn't anyone else. Then he'd done it again a week later, again she'd turned him down. A few weeks after that she'd been trapped behind a force field on a Goa'uld mother ship, he'd refused to leave her and she begged him to leave, he wouldn't. They got out, but barely. Then a few days later they had been forced to confessed how they truly felt about each other to prove they didn't have false memories implanted inside of them. Then there had been the time loop, something had happened while Jack was in the time loop, something he wouldn't tell her or Daniel, yet when Daniel had asked he'd only smiled at her.
Then they'd had their memories stamped, they'd been Jonah and Thera, two normal people with not-so-normal lives, but non-military lives, lives where they could be together. As Sam had said as Thera "You know there are some things about this place that I like." She had meant that. There were some things about the place that she liked, like being able to be with him. But they remembered, she almost thought unfortunately. The last time he'd really shown anything was when she'd been taken over by an Entity who took complete control of her body and couldn't get out, Jack had stuck by her through that, she remembered him as the one standing by her side all the time, except when he got thrown out. She'd seen the pain when he'd had to shoot her with the zat twice, effectively killing her.
And now she stood watching the two eight-year-olds acting exactly the same towards each other as their older versions had only five years earlier.
"Oh you watch yourself fly boy, or I'll punch you again," Samantha was saying.
"OK that's enough," Sam said, separating them. "Jonathan, do you know where Colonel O'Neill is?"
"Who?" Jonathan asked.
"Colonel - Jack," Sam said, she never called him Jack.
"Wait - I get to be a Colonel? OK that's cool!" Jonathan said.
"What am I?" Samantha asked.
"Right now I'm a Major," Sam replied.
"Oh damnit, is he your CO?" Samantha asked.
"Uh - maybe," Sam replied. "Come on you two, Jonathan take me to where Jack is."
"OK, he's this way," Jonathan said. "You coming Samantha?"
"Yep," Samantha replied, running to walk besides him.
"You can call me 'sir' now!" Jonathan said.
"As if," Samantha replied.
Sam watched interested. They were already acting friendly.
"Oh company! Hold up!" a voice said from behind Sam.
She spun around to look, making sure Jonathan and Samantha stopped as well. "Who're you?"
"Sam - " the old man stopped.
"Yes - are you Colonel O'Neill or Daniel?" Sam asked.
The old man smiled. "Colonel, now there's something I haven't been called in a while. Jonathan! That's where you got to. Jack told me to find you. He's still back there with Teal'c."
"Can you take us to him?" Sam asked.
"Take me to your leader, yeah sure," Old Jack replied.
Sam smiled. The old Jack didn't seem that much different to her Jack. She repeated that in her mind, her Jack, didn't sound bad. No, she thought, no you don't go down that path again, forget it! She mentally slapped herself and followed the two kids who were running down the hallway together, playing tiggy and still threatening to kill each other, and finally walked up next to Old Jack. She tried to take a look at his hand, to see if there was a ring there, but he had his hands shoved firmly into his pants pockets.
"You think I'm gonna let you get the answer to that question so easily - Major?" Old Jack asked.
"Yeah it's Major, and what question?" she asked, playing dumb.
"You know, Carter," Old Jack said. "I haven't called you either of those things for so long - brings back memories."
Sam didn't know how to take that, so she smiled at him. Finally they rounded a corner and found Jack, Teal'c and another old man, who she guessed to be the Old Daniel, standing around in a circle discussing how they were going to get out of the situation.
"Carter! Thank god, someone with brains," Jack said.
"I have brains," the Old Daniel protested.
"You're not as smart as Carter," Jack said. "Plus you're at least eighty."
"Jack you're so frustrating," Old Daniel said.
"OK, now we're all here, we just have to find, Daniel," Jack said.
"I'm here," Old Daniel said.
"Not you, Daniel, Daniel.my time Daniel, you know the thirty-something-year old?" Jack said.
The old Daniel took off his glasses and cleaned them using his shirt. "Sometimes I wonder why I remained friends with you Jack."
"Cos I'm one of only four members to belong to SG-1," Jack replied.
"Four?" Old Daniel repeated. "Oh right, you haven't met Jon - never mind."
"Jon?" Jack repeated.
"I never said that," Old Daniel said.
"You never change space-monkey," Old Jack said.
"Oh puh-lease, if you want a reunion go find Old Carter and then you'll all be together," Jack muttered.
"No." Old Jack said.
"What?" Jack asked.
"I can't see her." Old Jack said.
"Why not?" Sam asked, curiously.
"Oh you old people are so annoying," Jonathan muttered. "Come on Samantha, let's go find some other kids, hanging out with old people is boring."
"That's you?" Jack asked Sam.
"Yes, sir," Sam said.
Jonathan grabbed Samantha's hand and dragged her back down the corridor they had just come from.
"You were cute," Jack commented.
"Let's split up, find the rest of the people in here, at least the older generation," Old Daniel said.
"What makes you think that's a good idea?" Jack asked.
"I've done this before, Jack," Old Daniel said. "I know exactly where to find me. I'll go with Teal'c and find me, and Jack you go with - Jack - and Sam go with them you should run into you somewhere."
Both Jack's looked utterly confused but Sam seemed to understand. "Come on."
The three of them headed down the corridor to their left and Old Daniel and Teal'c headed straight ahead.
"So you never told me you were cute when you were little, Carter," Jack teased.
"Thanks, sir," Sam said sarcastically. "You know what they were doing when I ran into them?"
"What?" Jack said, thoughts running through his mind quickly.
"Arm-wrestling," Sam said.
Old Jack snorted from behind them and Jack smiled.
"Brings back memories," Old Jack said. "That seems so long ago."
"It seems long ago for me, and it was only five years," Jack replied.
"You know." Old Jack stopped as he saw an old woman standing in front of them. "Sam!"
Old Sam turned around and saw them. "Jack - you're alive."
Sam's mind immediately started ticking. These old people were obviously all the same age, which meant that it was quite possible for the eighty-year- old Jack to be alive yet eighty-year-old Sam's Jack to be dead.
Old Sam stared at Old Jack for and minute and then hugged him. "You told me I'd see you again, I didn't believe you."
Sam looked cautiously at Old Jack's hand, he was wearing a wedding ring, matching Old Sam's. She avoided looking at her Jack, she could sense he was avoiding her gaze as well. The old Sam and Jack pulled apart from each other. They started talking quietly and moved out of the earshot of Sam and Jack. Finally Sam turned to her CO.
"Sir, I have a funny feeling we should leave them alone," Sam said.
"They're us," Jack said, slowly. "They're us."
Sam didn't say anything, just watched Jack very carefully. He seemed shocked.
"Are they - ?" Jack asked.
"Are we is probably what you should be asking," Sam said.
"Oh don't get all scientific right now," Jack said.
They both stood there, staring blankly at what they had been trying to ignore for the past four years, they were watching themselves in love. Suddenly Old Jack leaned over and kissed the Old Sam. Sam and Jack both continued watching, they both knew that some time in their futures that would be them. Sam turned red and looked away.
"Let's go find the Daniels, and us.our other us," Jack said, putting his hand on Sam's shoulder.
She jolted from the touch of his hand. She turned to face him, ignoring their older selves. "Yes, sir."
Sir, Jack repeated in his head. Just think Jack, that's your future, and that's the woman you love that you're kissing in your future.