After a few minutes she'd calmed herself down enough to continue with what she had to do. No one followed her as their attention was elsewhere and the C.S.I had been and done all they could at the scene so she was alone. She moved around the front cringing as she walked over shards of glass, to get to where Sam had been sitting in the passenger side. There was blood over the seat and dashboard but she ignored it as she levitated a few inches above the ground so that she could reach her hand inside and touch the seat properly, it was a strange sensation but one that was unavoidable, she'd been endowed with the abilities before she left as without them her task would have been impossible.
Relying on her emotions to give her the strength she needed she closed her eyes and took a deep breath concentrating on what she needed to see and within a few seconds she felt herself shift and when she opened her eyes she was sat in the small space behind Jack and Sam who were sat in the front seats, they were moving along the road leading to where the crash had happened and as she listened she began to grasp the conversation they were having.
"Jack, are you sure you don't mind retiring?" Sam asked him as she tapped her fingers along to the music on the radio.
"If it means that I can be with you? No. Sam I've been fighting this war for a long time and it's somehow not as important to me as it once was." For Jack it was a pretty profound statement and Sam smiled at him, he wasn't looking at her though because he was keeping an eye on the road.
"I could leave too." She said on a similar note to their earlier conversation.
"And the feeling that you hadn't been there when the war ended would drive you insane – not to mention the boredom." Jack told her and Sam acknowledged the truth in his words.
"I guess." She replied gazing out of the window and then back to Jack, even now she could still get lost just looking at him. He really was hansom and the grey in his hair gave him a distinguished rather than old look that brought memories of late night conversations and times they had spent together.
She was doing more than just watching this scene she was sensing their emotions and even hearing their thoughts and given her relationship with them it was a more profound feeling than she could ever explain.
"Besides now I can ask you to move in with me properly." He told her as they went around a corner with a determined smile on his face.
"You mean just make it official?" Sam said catching the corner of his eye, they already lived together in some way or another – just who's house they lived in seemed to be a problem, but recently it had been Jacks that they'd spent the most time at, mainly because his place was bigger and the views from the back yard or the roof (where they star gazed) were a lot nicer than from her house.
"That and one other thing." The way he spoke made Sam curious to his meaning so she decided to ask a few questions.
"Jack, what other thing?" because she could think of one she wasn't sure if she was being too hopeful or not and she wanted to rule out the possibilities.
"Can it wait until we get home?" he asked her as they approached the traffic lights, the queue was pretty backed up so it was unlikely that they were going to get through this time around. It sounded important but she really wanted to know, she was a scientist and waiting to be told the answers wasn't something she was used to . "No. I mean we can discuss it when we get home but can't you tell me now?" he turned to her for the first time since they'd started driving and she saw something in his eyes, something warm and loving – this only made her want to know all the more.
"I want to ask you to marry me." He told her with such warmth and affection that she couldn't find the words to answer him; he had to turn back around to drive nearer to the traffic lights.
There was a series of shops at their side and Sam eventually managed to say something. "Pull over." He didn't answer although he did do what she said and they pulled into a space.
She looked away, not really sure that she should have been watching something this private between the two of them, but they weren't speaking and she noticed that on the other side of the cross roads a black unmarked car looking a little too much like a jeep was waiting in another car park, she almost had the feeling that she was being watched so reluctantly she turned back to them.
"First of all." Sam told Jack before leaning over to him and kissing him, he didn't object in the slightest and it wasn't until Sam pulled back that Jack realised she hadn't answered his inadvertent question – well not verbally. "And second of all ask me." She continued watching him intently.
"Sam, I know I'm not exactly the most perfect guy in the world and although I'm sure you deserve a lot better but I'm in love with you... will you marry me?" he sounded surprisingly nervous and looked almost afraid that she would say no but here wasn't a doubt in her mind – she'd never have risked everything if she wasn't sure that this was the man she was going to be in love with for the rest of her life.
"Yes." Sam said simply leaning over to him again and kissing him with such a passion it startled even her.
She had to look away but this time it was because she'd started crying at the emotional display before her and the knowledge of what had happened only a few minutes later. They were going to get married and although that shouldn't have been happening yet anyway it still spurred her on to fix what was going on.
They pulled up to the red light and Jack glanced at Sam who's smile was radiating love and affection, he was half happy that the General had sent them home for the whole day because he had a perfect idea of how they were going to spend their afternoon.
Sam was lost somewhere in euphoria as she smiled at him wishing they were home already. He'd turned back to the road ahead but she didn't mind – not when she knew she'd have him all to herself when they got home.
As she watched her attention turned to the black jeep as it sped out of the car park (that she'd heard the officer tell Janet about before) across the way and veered in front of the other cars going through the green light and straight towards the truck she was 'sat in', if you could really called that and she forced herself to keep her eyes open so she could see who was coming towards them.
"Jack, what the hell do they think they're doing?" Sam asked pointing to the advancing vehicle that had succeeded in overtaking most of the opposing traffic.
"I don't know but I'm getting out of their way." Jack replied putting the car into gear and starting to turn the car around.
"They're coming straight at us!" Sam yelled as she realised that Jack wouldn't be able to move the truck in time.
The Jeep impacted with the truck and she saw the effects on them but she forced herself to look at the driver, taking a mental picture of his dark eyes and shaven head. There were no defining marks on his face but his nose tilted slightly to one side and his eyes flared with an intense evil.
The effect on her from all of this was more deeply profound than she could imagine, she was watching people she loved deeply die and as Sams head hit the rest on the back of the seat for the second time she felt the connection to the past break and she fell backwards, loosing her levitated balance and hitting the ground hard. The impact didn't knock her out – she'd experienced worse – but what she'd seen and felt threatened to overwhelm her.
"What was that?" Janet called running over to her, she looked up at her horrified that she'd been discovered.
Janet reached out her hand and helped her up. "Are you ok?" she asked, then when she realised the Young blonde woman before her shouldn't have been there at all she asked, "who are you and what do you think you are doing?"
The young tall blonde in front of her simply looked at her. "They were murdered." Was all she said and Janet just stared at her.
"You shouldn't be here at all." Janet replied shaking her head at her, she couldn't have been older than 18 but there was something about the look in her eyes that she knew in herself, who ever this young woman was she was grieving the loss of someone close to her and put with the fact that she'd risked a lot sneaking into the crime scene Janet couldn't just leave without finding out who she was.
There was nothing that she could say that would make Janet believe her, not right now anyway. Everything that she knew wasn't relevant yet and she wasn't going to hang around to prove her theory correct apart from. "I need to go to the SGC and I need to know who made the phone call to General Hammond this morning."
Janet just stared in disbelief at her, "How do you know about classified information?"
"Because my parents work there, or at least they did until this happened and I was sent here to fix this." She explained, although not very well because Janet looked even more confused than she had when she'd discovered her a moment ago. "Look the only way that you're going to believe me is to run tests on me so either way I need to go to the SGC."
Not really knowing what else to do Janet nodded her head and decided to follow the young girls advice – especially ifshe knew how to solve this.
The young girl hadn't said a word all the way to the SGC and even now she was sat absolutely silent on one of the infirmary beds, she hadn't even removed her long black jacket despite the warm temperature of the room.
Janet had taken Blood and hair samples, which she'd sent to be analysed and compared to all base personnel past or present because then she'd be able to work out just who this girl's parents were.
General Hammond was on his way down to see their visitor and it seemed as though her arrival had provided some sort of distraction from the fact that two of the SGC's finest had been killed in a car crash that now seemed to have been caused on purpose, plus the fact that this girl said she'd been sent here to fix all of this that made people pay attention to her.
Deciding that there wasn't really anything more that could be done until the results came in Janet took a seat on the opposite bed to the girl, she needed to get some information from her – at least find out what her name and age was, plus the way she intended to sort this mess out and how she knew what she did.
"Do you have a name?" she asked in the kindest voice she could manage without sounding patronising.
The Blonde Girl looked up at her and Janet saw a sparkle of familiar intelligence in her eyes as well as some thing else, perhaps an unwanted purpose or reason for being where she was but it seemed to be weighing on her heavily and she also seemed to be grieving – that had stood out from when Janet found her at the crash sight.
"Alison." She said pushing her shoulder length blonde hair behind her ears to provide some sort distraction.
General Hammond entered the infirmary and Janet stood to greet him, he nodded at her as she approached but turned his gaze to the girl. "Who is she Doctor?" he asked with optimum professionalism, he obviously hadn't come to terms with what had happened yet.
"Well her names Alison and she knows about the phone call that was made this morning to you regarding Colonel O'Neill and Major Carter, she also believes that they were murdered sir and I've sent samples to the lab to assess who she is because she claims that her parents work here."
He nodded again, "has she said where she got the information regarding the base and the phone call?"
"No sir, she's very reluctant to talk about it at the moment and she seems upset about what's happening." Janet told him before turning back towards Alison who seemed to be making every attempt to avoid looking at the General.
"Janet, you're not going to believe this." A rather exhausted Daniel announced as he entered the infirmary and placed the yellow results slip from the tests into her hand.
She read it twice before looking at the Girl again, she in turn looked at Janet and nodded, Janet had always suspected that it would happen one day – it was evitable but given recent events just didn't seem possible.
Janet turned to Daniel, "Are they sure about this?" she asked him almost unaware that the General was stood just a few metres behind her.
"Doctor?" she heard him ask.
"There are two matches to the D.N.A comparisons that the labs ran and there isn't any room for doubt, her name is Alison O'Neill sir." The girl nodded again and Daniel went to sit across form her.
"Jack and Sam are your parents aren't they." Daniel said gently because he could see her fighting to hold back tears. "Or at least they would have been if they hadn't been killed. I'm also guessing that you came back to save them but how did you get here?" he asked deciding to sit next to her. He was fully aware of the look of shock on the Generals face but he didn't care, for all intents and purposes this girls parents had been killed and that was enough to destroy anyone.
She couldn't answer him; instead she fell against him and started to cry. Daniel put his arms around her. "I was sent by a member of the Ancients who managed to stop me from being, well basically none existent." She explained through her tears, "I'm not sure how but I'm here because someone from another time came back and killed them – it wasn't supposed to happen so they gave me the chance to set events straight. They had to sent me here first to figure out what happened and then stop it, only you weren't supposed to find me."
"You mean to tell me that this Girl is Colonel O'Neill and Major Carters Daughter?" general Hammond asked Janet who just nodded her head.
"Had they not been killed this afternoon sir yes at some point in the future Alison would have been their daughter."
"They were going to have a child?" he asked again, it seemed as though the ramifications of his actions had just hit him. Jack and Sam really did love each other, enough to get married and have a Daughter.
"They had two actually. Me and my little brother Jake but unless you let me do what I need to do we'll never exist and I'm afraid neither will any of you." Alison said and Daniel released her, she was no longer crying and a determined look settled on her face. To Daniel it was obvious who's child she was, her determination was something he saw in both of them daily and he guessed that her knowledge of physics was as deep as her mothers.
"Excuse me?" General Hammond looked straight at her not quite understanding what she meant.
"The planet SG-1 were supposed to visit this morning wasn't as primitive as you thought, it holds a weapon that the general population are unaware of and although SG-1 would never have found it their Gate transmission would have interrupted the Goa'uld search of Stargates in that area and they would have believed that planet had been destroyed." The information must have been a little too much for them because General Hammond stared at her, Janet was silent which Alison knew was unusual and Daniel looked about as deep in thought as he got . "How do you know?" Daniel finally asked her.
"Because my parents tell us about their missions and before you tell me that it's against some sort of privacy policy the rules were changed to tell family members. I know how it has to be because I've lived it and what will happen if you don't help me." Alison said remembering her parent's stories with a bitter fondness.
"Then your mother decides it's a good idea to jump on me in the locker room, which at the time was a little inconvenient as I'd just got out of the shower." Her dad told her being careful to avoid the cushion her mother then hurled in his direction.
"You weren't complaining at the time!" she shot back but he just moved next to her on the couch and threatened to attack her with the remaining cushions.
Alison watched her parent's interactions and although it made her a little uncomfortable to admit it they really did love each other and were affectionate towards each other as well as her and her brother most of the time. That wasn't to say that they couldn't shout if they misbehaved but it just meant that life was generally happy and never more so than when it came to her parents tales about their adventures through the Stargate.
The discussion at the moment was about the early days and mostly about the time they'd all been reduced to their primitive behaviour and inevitably the two of them kissing, Alison who'd heard this one before remembered a tank top as well but that always lead onto another story that went firmly into the 'I don't want to know' category.
"Ok seriously can we talk about something else?" she asked them as it looked like her mother was about to pin her dad to the couch and attack him with cushions – that never ended in a good way.
"Yeah how about the time loop thing you and Teal'c got stuck in." Jake put in, he was always interested in how his father had managed to learn Latin and even correct Daniel – not to mention the fact that he'd managed to teach Teal'c how to juggle.
"Well that's not exactly a story with out kissing either guys." Their dad told them as he managed to sit up and throw all other soft furnishings out of his wife's reach, her blonde hair was all over the place but that was nothing compared to the utter shock on her face.
"I don't remember that one." She said giving him a look of utter bewilderment. "Jack?"
But he just shrugged his shoulders, "You should have seen the look on Hammonds face too, and the time he caught us playing golf through the Stargate." He was fully aware of the looks he was getting from his children and his wife. "Ok so I should have told you but I thought you'd have yelled at me for doing it without you knowing so-to-speak."
"You mean he didn't tell you mom?" Jake asked and his dad shook his head. Alison was laughing quietly to herself before she caught her mother's eye and made her laugh too.
"I had an idea but just sorta didn't make anything of it, what with the frat-regs and everything it was hard to bring it up in conversation until we decided to take our chances." She said through her laughter and looking at her husband. "I have done exactly the same thing." She told him, "But that doesn't give you any excuse for not telling me." She was being playful and he could see the mischief in her eyes.
"Sam?" he asked backing himself into the corner of the sofa.
"Guys get the cushions!" she said to Alison and Jake who did as their mother 'ordered' and pounced on their father.
"Alison?" Daniel asked, bringing her from her memories of happier times – of a different time all together and one that she'd fight for to get back.
"Sorry I was just..." she started but Daniel smiled at her.
"It's ok. General I'm going to check the phone records and get onto N.O.R.A.D; I'll take care of Alison. Janet could you give me a hand?" He asked looking at her for support. General Hammond just nodded and turned to leave.
"I'm going to send SG-2 to take a look at the planet and confirm what you have just told us, report to my office at 20.00, that gives you two hours people then I'm afraid you're to get some rest." He told them and Janet, who was surprised by his attitude turned to Daniel who responded to her silent question.
"He's in shock Janet and he blames himself, he'll come around." She shook her head.
"I just don't know what I'm supposed to do." She told him feeling defeated and Daniel stood and took her in his arms.
Alison stood and watched a familiar sight but one neither of them would know yet and if they couldn't find out who'd started all of this they never would.
See, I said there was hope!!! If u like this story please review, constructive feedback also welcome.