Chapter 5
Sam sat in her kitchen with her head on the table. A soft knock was heard on the door. She dragged her feet to the door.
"Sir," she said even if she sounded surprised she wasn't. "Come in, what a surprise."
"No, its not Carter. You were waiting for me to come." He said.
"Well, today is a special day." She said.
"She would have been 18 today, right?"
"Wasn't it 19, sir?"
"No, 1985-2003, eighteen," he said but his voice trailed off. The simple correction sounded too much like birthday-death day dates you found in the newspaper.
"Yeah, colonel, 18," she said.
"Wait I left something outside," he said and went out to the deck to get a little cake with no writing on it. " I thought maybe we should have cake and save her a piece," he said. "Because she is coming back and she would hate it if we did nothing for her birthday,"
"You're right sir but I couldn't bring myself to celebrate," she said.
"Its just cake, Carter and we will save her a piece," he said. "I mean she would have been free of us today."
"Never mind, what was I thinking?" he asked more to himself. Sam was a little shaken at the sudden change of mind.
"I'm guessing you thought that if you could pretend that she was here and everything was okay." She said.
"Then she would walk though the door and it would be," he finished. "I'm sorry."
"For what, colonel?"
"Stop that!"
"Stop what?"
"The colonel and sir thing," he said. We're not on base and we're talking about our daughter here. Man that sound weird!"
"What our daughter?"
"Yeah." He said.
"It's been a year, sir,"
"Call me Jack, you know my name,"
"Okay, s-Jack," she said. "It's been a year."
"Yeah, one heck of a year," he said. "With Jesse coming and losing everyone and gaining them again. Finding out she's our daughter, and that in yet another universe we are married and now have or had kids."
"Well it was bound to happen somewhere down the line," she said. "In one we were engaged then died, another we were married and you died and now we found one where we both lived long enough to have what was it 3?"
"4 kids." He finished for her.
"Four," she said. "Everywhere but here."
"Every universe ends with Charlie dead."
"With all due respect, Jack," she said. "Maybe that's what changes everything. If Charlie hadn't died you wouldn't have gone on that first mission to Abydos. If you hadn't gone you wouldn't have been part of the Stargate program and would have never met me."
"And my marriage to Sarah would have been destroyed anyway." He said.
"What are you talking about Jack?" she asked.
"In Jesse's universe, as she puts it, Charlie was killed in a car accident 7 years after she was born," he put extra voice in car accident and after.
"So for her to have been born you would have need to be divorced to Sarah already." She said.
"Right." He said.
"I wish we could save her go against orders." He said looking at her almost asking permission.
"Sir, we went against orders and saved Earth when the Stargate program was shut down the first time and we can do it now," she said.
"Good, because Teal'c, Daniel, and Jonas are waiting back at the SGC for us to and go rescue Jesse."
"Jonas too?"
"He seemed extra interested."
"You don't think?"
"Jesse and Jonas no I'd kick his ass and he knows it."
"Lets go Jack." She said. The cake was now forgotten.
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Sam sat in her kitchen with her head on the table. A soft knock was heard on the door. She dragged her feet to the door.
"Sir," she said even if she sounded surprised she wasn't. "Come in, what a surprise."
"No, its not Carter. You were waiting for me to come." He said.
"Well, today is a special day." She said.
"She would have been 18 today, right?"
"Wasn't it 19, sir?"
"No, 1985-2003, eighteen," he said but his voice trailed off. The simple correction sounded too much like birthday-death day dates you found in the newspaper.
"Yeah, colonel, 18," she said.
"Wait I left something outside," he said and went out to the deck to get a little cake with no writing on it. " I thought maybe we should have cake and save her a piece," he said. "Because she is coming back and she would hate it if we did nothing for her birthday,"
"You're right sir but I couldn't bring myself to celebrate," she said.
"Its just cake, Carter and we will save her a piece," he said. "I mean she would have been free of us today."
"Never mind, what was I thinking?" he asked more to himself. Sam was a little shaken at the sudden change of mind.
"I'm guessing you thought that if you could pretend that she was here and everything was okay." She said.
"Then she would walk though the door and it would be," he finished. "I'm sorry."
"For what, colonel?"
"Stop that!"
"Stop what?"
"The colonel and sir thing," he said. We're not on base and we're talking about our daughter here. Man that sound weird!"
"What our daughter?"
"Yeah." He said.
"It's been a year, sir,"
"Call me Jack, you know my name,"
"Okay, s-Jack," she said. "It's been a year."
"Yeah, one heck of a year," he said. "With Jesse coming and losing everyone and gaining them again. Finding out she's our daughter, and that in yet another universe we are married and now have or had kids."
"Well it was bound to happen somewhere down the line," she said. "In one we were engaged then died, another we were married and you died and now we found one where we both lived long enough to have what was it 3?"
"4 kids." He finished for her.
"Four," she said. "Everywhere but here."
"Every universe ends with Charlie dead."
"With all due respect, Jack," she said. "Maybe that's what changes everything. If Charlie hadn't died you wouldn't have gone on that first mission to Abydos. If you hadn't gone you wouldn't have been part of the Stargate program and would have never met me."
"And my marriage to Sarah would have been destroyed anyway." He said.
"What are you talking about Jack?" she asked.
"In Jesse's universe, as she puts it, Charlie was killed in a car accident 7 years after she was born," he put extra voice in car accident and after.
"So for her to have been born you would have need to be divorced to Sarah already." She said.
"Right." He said.
"I wish we could save her go against orders." He said looking at her almost asking permission.
"Sir, we went against orders and saved Earth when the Stargate program was shut down the first time and we can do it now," she said.
"Good, because Teal'c, Daniel, and Jonas are waiting back at the SGC for us to and go rescue Jesse."
"Jonas too?"
"He seemed extra interested."
"You don't think?"
"Jesse and Jonas no I'd kick his ass and he knows it."
"Lets go Jack." She said. The cake was now forgotten.
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