AUTHOR'S NOTE: Sorry it's been a while, I'm writing another fic at the moment too!! Well here's the next part, thanks for all the reviews!! There will be a slight bit of Daniel/Janet ship, even thought I'm not a D/J shipper, but it just fits into the story :P. Oh and in case anyone's really confused:

Young Daniel - Danny Young Sam - Samantha Young Jack - Jonathan The normal ones are just the normal names, Daniel, Sam and Jack The old ones will have Old Daniel, Old Sam and Old Jack written! Hope its not too confusing (!

SPOILERS: Forever in a Day, Children of the Gods, Secrets, Maternal Instinct, Absolute Power

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"So do I have a girlfriend? Well - you - you know what I mean," Danny asked, he was still bouncing along besides his older version.

Daniel sighed and looked around. "You'll see."

He took off his glasses and cleaned them with his shirt. "Where on earth did the other Daniel go?"

"Right here," Old Daniel said from behind him.

Daniel spun around to see Old Daniel with Teal'c standing next to him.

"Teal'c!" Daniel said. "Where's Jack and Sam?"

"Off finding themselves," Teal'c offered.

"You mean we were all, uh, duplicated?" Daniel asked.

"I was not," Teal'c said.

"Oh - must be something to do with you being a Jaffa," Daniel said.

Teal'c nodded.

"Oh there you are!" a voice shouted from behind.

They all spun around to find Jonathan and Samantha standing there. Danny smiled.

"Great! Other kids!" Danny said.

"Geek," Jonathan commented.

"Hey!" Danny said, running straight for him.

Samantha stood in the middle. "Stop it - just stop it, we have more important things to do here!"

"Like what?" Jonathan asked, eyeing Danny suspiciously over Sam's shoulder.

"Getting back to the real world," Samantha replied.

"The only way to get back to the real world is to discover what is keeping you here!! Solve your problems," Astrassa said, appearing from nowhere.

"What've you done to us?" Daniel asked him.

"I have sent your past and future selves to help you sort out your problems," Astrassa said. "Now goodbye!"

With that he was gone again.

Daniel turned to Old Daniel. "My problems?"

"I think we need to talk in private," Old Daniel said. "Danny, come!"

The younger Danny turned away from glaring at Jonathan and happily followed his older selves back towards the room they had first started in.

Teal'c was left alone with the two younger kid, who were now in an argument over being nice to Danny.

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"Well they must be somewhere," Jack said.

"I'm sure we'll find them, sir," Sam replied.

She shot a glance at him, he seemed to be thinking deeply about something.

"Sir?" Sam asked.

"Yeah?" Jack replied.

"Is something wrong?" Sam asked.

"I - no," Jack replied. "It doesn't matter, it's nothing."

Sam looked back ahead again. There was nothing she could say without bringing up what they had just seen, and she didn't really feel like that. She wanted to talk to herself, her older self, alone, without any of the Jack's.

"Carter?" Jack spoke up suddenly.

"Yes, sir?" Sam replied.

Jack stopped walking. Sam walked a few more steps and then realised he'd stopped, she turned to face him.

"What?" Sam asked.

Jack closed his eyes briefly and then opened them again, looking her in the eye. "It doesn't matter. Come on, lets go."

He walked past her and she followed yet again. She felt like stopping, like shouting out something like "This is stupid!" or "We should talk!" but she couldn't, it would just be even more awkward. She was seriously considering saying either of those things when suddenly Teal'c and their younger selves came around the corner.

"Teal'c! You found us," Jack said. "Jonathan, I need to talk to ya."

"Oh why? I didn't mean to run off, I didn't think you'd mind," Jonathan whined.

"Come on Samantha, lets find the other one of us," Sam said, grabbing Samantha's hand and dragging her off in the opposite direction to where Jack and Jonathan were headed.

"Whoa, what happened?" Samantha asked.

"What do you mean?" Sam asked. "Nothing happened."

"Yes it did! The feeling in the air when you two approached was all awkward, and now you're dragging me off in the other direction to Jonathan and Jack," Samantha said. "I'm not stupid. What happened between you two?"

"Nothing happened between us," Sam said truthfully.

"You love him," Samantha said. "Oh yuck! Does that mean I'm gonna fall in love with Jonathan? Eeew."

Sam didn't reply. She just looked bluntly at the eight-year-old girl. How could an eight-year-old possibly pick up something that she hadn't even realised. She stopped. No she had realised it, she just hadn't allowed herself to believe it, refused to think about it. She had needed her eight- year-old self to tell her bluntly what it was. It wasn't just caring, it wasn't just feelings, it was love. The word seemed so fitting, it was the only word that properly explained how she felt.

"Sam?" Samantha asked.

"Yeah?" Sam said.

"Did I say something wrong?" Samantha asked.

"No, no you said the right thing," Sam said. "Come on, lets go find our other self."

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"You have to forget about her Daniel," Old Daniel said.

Daniel looked up at him. "Who, sorry?"

"Sha're," Old Daniel said.

"Oh don't bring this up," Daniel said. "I'm fine."

"No you're not, I know," Old Daniel said. "Don't lie, you need to talk about it. You lost someone very important to you and you can't even see her son as often as you would want to."

Daniel closed his eyes. "At least I've seen her son. She never properly saw him."

"I know," Old Daniel said. "She didn't - Daniel, you are the only real family Shifu has."

"We're not even related," Daniel replied.

"But you think of him as your son," Old Daniel said.

"Yes," Daniel sighed. "I guess I do."

"She loved you, Daniel, and she knows you loved her," Old Daniel said.

Daniel closed his eyes briefly again, pushing back the tears. "I know. I know - I just want her to come back!"

"I know," Old Daniel said. "Trust me, I know quite well. But you have to move on, have to try and forget about what could have been. Think about now."

"Now? It's not like I have anyone in my life," Daniel muttered.

"I think you're forgetting why you don't really mind injuring yourself," Old Daniel winked at him.

"Oh right, of course, you know about that," Daniel said, then he sighed. "But what chance do I have with her?"

"More than you think," Old Daniel smiled.

"Who are you talking about now?" Danny asked, crawling up onto Old Daniel's lap. "A girlfriend?"

"You could say that," Old Daniel said.

"Me, and Janet?" Daniel asked.

"Just try it Daniel," Old Daniel said.

"Yeah, go for the girl!" Danny said. "I bet she's pretty."

"You could say that," Daniel said, smiling, then he turned to Old Daniel. "Thanks."

"You're welcome," Old Daniel said.

"So now what?" Daniel asked.

"Now I guess we wait till Sam and Jack figure out their problems, well that's what I remember," Old Daniel said.

Daniel raised his eyebrows, but he didn't say anything. He had always had his suspicions.

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"Oh I get it," Jonathan said.

"You get what?" Jack asked.

"You're in love," Jonathan said. "Don't tell me I have to wait till I'm like 50 to get a girl!"

"No, you don't," Jack said.

"Something happened," Jonathan said.

"You could say that," Jack replied.

"Divorce?" Jonathan asked.

"Yeah well that was part of it. Look do you have to bring this up right now?" Jack asked.

"What you said earlier, how you got all protective of me and the gun - did something happen with a kid and your gun?" Jonathan asked.

Jack stopped walking. The kid had hit the mark. Was it that obvious? He turned to face Jonathan and dropped to his knee.

"You know I can't tell you about your future," Jack said.

"So I guessed right?" Jonathan said. "Well if I did, I'm really sorry. That's horrible."

Jack smiled a thank you and stood up, spinning around to face his older self. Old Jack stared at him.

"Back to the room," Old Jack said.

"I need to talk to you," Jack said.

"I bet it's about Sam," Jonathan quipped.

"You shush," Jack said, pointing to Jonathan.

The three of them made their way to the room they had started in. Jonathan immediately climbed up onto his bunk where Jack had first seen him. He flopped his head on his pillow and seemed to fall asleep.

"You and Sam should talk more," Old Jack said.

"What was that? Kissing your Sam in front of us?" Jack asked. "Do you - do you know - ? Nevermind."

"You know we're both 80, right?" Old Jack said. "Well when I was 80 of course she was still alive, but by the time she was 80 I was dead. She hasn't seen me for years."

"Oh," Jack said. "Right."

"Jack you idiot, you love her, so why don't you tell her?" Old Jack asked.

"Because it's against regulations," Jack replied. "You of all people should know that."

"Jack - the fact that you're in love with her is against regs anyway," Old Jack sighed. "The reason for those regs is so people don't do stupid things like sacrifice themselves to rescue someone who can't be rescued, etc. But you do that anyway, so what different does it make?"

"Because it could get her in trouble," Jack replied. "I don't want her to get in trouble."

"She won't tell anyone, just tell her in secret, when no one's around," Old Jack said. "Jack this is the only thing that can pull you out of your misery."

"I'm not miserable," Jack denied.

"You pretend not to be, but come on Jack. What happened with Charlie - that's the worst possible thing that could happen to anyone, loosing their son and knowing it was partly their fault," Old Jack said.

"And you think telling Sam that I - telling Sam that thing would help?" Jack asked.

"I don't think it would help, I know it," Old Jack said. "Now go."

Jack nodded and stood up. "Thanks."

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"You want me to what?" Sam asked.

"Talk to him," Old Sam said.

"I can't," Sam said.

"Why?" Old Sam asked.

"Because, he's my CO!" Sam said. "It's against regulations! I can't do that."

"Sure you can," Old Sam said.

Old Sam looked right past Sam at the door behind her. Sam spun around in her chair to see Jack standing there.

"Sir - " she said. "How long have you been standing there?"

"Not long," Jack said. "Carter can I talk to you?"

"Yes, sir," Sam said, eyeing Old Sam suspiciously and then walking over to the door.

Jack stepped back out into the hallway and Sam shut the door behind her.

"Sam, there's something I should've told you a long time ago." he started.