"We should be able to work in here." Daniel said gently as he pushed open the door to Sam's lab. Her lab coat was still on the back of her chair and it was almost as if she was coming back for it – only she wasn't. She and Jack wouldn't be coming back if things stayed the way they were.
"Moms lab." Alison muttered as she walked in running her hand along the smooth metal surface of the table. "You won't know this yet but when I was little and came to work with her and Dad I used to play in here when they were in some briefing or another."
"They still worked here after you were born?" he asked a little surprised although given their dedication to this place it wasn't really surprising . "Well my dad says that they both left after the end of the war got married and had me and my brother, mom worked in the labs and stuff and dad bought our restaurant. Anyway after General Hammond left and the new General went too cause no one really liked him. Finallythe military managed to convince Dad into coming back and run the place as 'General O'Neill', mom came back too although they basically don't go off world much they just look after things back here."
Daniel furrowed his eyebrows, "Jack O'Neill happy in a desk job?"
Alison laughed "He's happy as long as moms around to explain all the science stuff to him and they let him visit a tropical planet with us every once in a while." She smiled at the memories of family holidays in places that she knew none of her school friends would see, until she remembered why she was there and turned back to Daniel.
"And a restaurant?"
Alison laughed and nodded her head "Yep, the fish bar and restaurant, he only bought it cause retirement was driving him insane and I think they'd justfound out about me – extra money and all of that, I think they were going to sell it when they went back to work but mom convinced him not to." Realising they'd gotten a little too far off the subject Daniel said.
"I'll go and see N.O.R.A.D. and try and explain why I need them to track down a phone call, Janet will be along in a minute so just keep yourself entertained." As he moved towards the door, he almost looked reluctant to leave her alone in case she started to cry but Alison had shed enough tears over this, now it was time to get to work.
"Ok, I'll be fine." She told him knowing that she'd have to use her mom's computer to do some system hacking if she was to find out why this person had done what they had.
"Janet will be here in a minute." He reminded her before turning and leaving the lab.
Once she was alone she set to work, firstly by closing the door, which only required her thinking about it but it took something out of her none the less. Taking a deep breath she closed her eyes and placed her hands on the keyboard trying to find out what her mothers pass word was.
"Well at least no one will ever know what my password is." She told him smiling at the strange look he was giving her.
"Oh I don't know, Janet and Daniel will probably get it straight away." He told her moving to stand behind her and watch her input the code change.
Alison was watching much like she had before, as an observer to the event but close enough to her mom and dad to see the code, she laughed when she saw what it was but of course they couldn't hear her – she wasn't technically 'in' the past, just watching it.
She snapped out of it when she heard Janet open the door and approach her, she wasn't sure if she'd believe her if she mentioned the powers and as they were a gift from one of the ancients plus she wasn't sure she was allowed to anyway.
Alison turned around to a look of shock on Janets face, "You look a lot like your mother." She said and Alison just smiled in embarrassed pride.
"Thanks, my dad says it all the time – he's also kinda glad I took after mom in a science sense, although you and Daniel will be happy to know Jake's into Egyptology and stuff." As soon as she'd said it she knew it was going to lead to a lot of explanation that she knew couldn't really do any harm but it was just a little hard to go through.
"What?" Janet asked not sounding as shocked as Alison had imagined.
"You and Daniel are going to get together at some point, although I'm not too sure when though. You don't look that surprised – are you ok?" she asked starting up her mother's laptop as she spoke.
Janet just shrugged and gave Alison a coy smile. "I'm fine, you're as perceptive as your mother you know." She couldn't help the colour that rose to her cheeks so she decided to change the subject. "Are they happy in the future, because right now they don't have a future and I know that you're here it's just – what if you can't fix this..." there was no way to finish what she was saying so she just drifted off.
"Yes they're very happy. We all are, you and Daniel included and I don't know what will happen if I can't do this – only that I have to, if I fail then not only do I cease to exist you'll all be destroyed as well." She said solemnly, she couldn't consider the outcome if she failed – she'd already witnessed her parents death, she couldn't handle anything else.
Getting back to work Alison turned to the screen and entered the password, muttering it underneath her breath. "I got you babe" Janet shot her a look because she didn't know how she'd managed to find it out.
"What?" she asked as the main screen came up, meaning that she could get to work.
"How do you know about that?" Janet asked her.
Alison grinned in a way that reminded Janet of both Jack and Sam. "One of Teal'c favourites because he was the only sober one there, mom and dad don't like to mention it though, they get embarrassed."
She didn't look at Janet as she spoke because she was going through her mother's files and e- mails (deleted or other wise), there wasn't anything in there that was incriminating to either her or her dad so whoever this person was couldn't have been in the system files – this confirmed what she'd already been told. The person doing this had used information from the future and due to the facts they knew it must have been a time when the Stargate programme had been made public and so had all the mission briefings. This had been planned but whether the person had known about the Mission SG-1 would have gone on and how it stopped the Goa'uld or not was something she still had to figure out.
Right now she really needed to know where the call had come from and if it was from the same person who drove into her parents a few hours earlier, an accomplice would cause even more problems but she'd deal with them when they arrived.
"Try the global satellite network." Janet suggested, "Sam looked into it whenever she needed to check something, only I don't know how."
Alison turned to her and smiled, there was a twinkle in her eyes that was unmistakeably her mothers "mom taught me how to do it when I was little, I just need to know what system this is – they've changed a bit in the last few years, for me anyway." She explained bringing up the systems menu. Her fingers glided over the keyboard and her eyes never left the screen.
Janet marvelled at how fast she could work and what she was actually doing, she'd gone past even N.O.R.A.D systems and was now on a top secret global positioning system and Janet guessed a list of all phone calls. The thought entered her head that Alison really shouldn't know how to do this but given her parents abilities she wasn't surprised – this girl rivalled her mothers abilities and Janet sincerely hoped that time would change back so she could watch her grow up.
Teal'c stood at the base of the Stargate on Jonas's home world. It was, he realised similar to the SGC on earth only more open plan. Looking around he noticed people whispering amongst them selves and trying to guess as to why he had returned. The Ambassador he'd met on his last visit to the planet had left to find Jonas Quinn half an hour ago and he'd insisted on waiting at the foot of the Stargate until her return in case an emergency arose.
"Teal'c!" shouted a familiar voice from the stairway above his current position.
"Jonas Quinn." Came Teal'cs reply, as he saw the younger man run down the metal staircase at such a speed he was afraid he would fall.
"Hey, good to see you but what's wrong? The ambassador said you hadn't told her anything." Jonas was slightly out of breath but looked worried – he seemed to have an acute awareness of what everybody was feeling.
"Colonel O'Neill and Major Carter have been killed." Teal'c told him getting right to the point as always.
"Was it off world? Has something happened at the SGC?" Jonas asked in disbelief as he looked blankly at his friend.
"It was a car accident. Their daughter believes that they have been murdered so Daniel Jackson and DR Fraiser are helping her investigate as we speak." Teal'c tried to explain but he'd left something out and couldn't fill Jonas in properly because he interrupted him.
"They have a daughter? They move kinda fast don't they – I though it was against regulations." Then he paused and appeared to be considering everything. Teal's didn't interrupt this line of thought because he knew it was best to let his friend get on with it. "Wait a minute, even if they did have a daughter she'd only be a baby and I only saw them a couple of months ago and they didn't mention anything." He actually looked more confused than when he'd started.
"She is from the future and has returned to save her parents."
"How? You've just told me that somebody killed them." He countered with a bemused expression on his face.
"She is from a future where that never took place and an Ancient was able to send her back here – or so I am told. There is of course every chance that time will erase itself should she be successful, but if she is not I have been sent here to inform you about what has happened." There was a sadness mingled with hope in the Dark mans eyes and infact his whole facial expression that Jonas had never seen before – Teal'c was a warrior and Jonas had never seen him afraid, now he looked almost terrified.
"Let me come back with you." He said determinedly.
"Of course Jonas Quinn I informed General Hammond that this would be the case." He said nodding.
Teal'c hadn't mentioned the threat to earth as his friend's recent murders was a far more important matter. Jonas who left through the stargate with Teal'c hadn't bothered to pack anything – he didn't see the point, he couldn't believe that two people that full of life and that had been through so much could have been killed in a car crash. He also couldn't believe that their daughter was at the SGC trying to save her parents. He hadn't been that surprised to find out that they'd had children – it was just the situation that they were all in.
"General we've, with the help of N.O.R.A.D and Alisons technical abilities been able to find out who the caller was and where there located." Daniel started to explain.
They were all gathered in the briefing room along with Teal'c and Jonas. The mood was strange mixture of hope and sorrow, two of the SGC's finest had been murdered and yet their daughter was sat across the table with a way to bring them back. "Although it's been impossible to find any identification on the caller, even with an eye witness description of the man when he made the call outside a diner in Colorado Springs at about 8.15 this morning."
What he didn't mention was the look on Alisons face when he showed her, she'd been quite adamant that this person was the one who'd driven into her parents and because of the distress it was obviously causing her he didn't ask how – she was after all from the future. "But that we can put down to the fact that he's from the future and therefore there won't be any records on him yet."
"So you have a location and a time, very good." General Hammond told them before giving them his news.
"Unfortunately Alison's intelligence on the planet proved to be correct, the Goa'uld have managed to get their hands on a very powerful device that threatens most of the known galaxy. This information came at a cost though and we lost Two members of SG-2 in the process." He was looking directly at Alison as he said it and she felt intimidated – she hadn't wanted to include them in the first place and it wasn't as though she'd killed the two SG-2 members. Infact she'd just warned them that they were all going to be killed unless she was able to stop it.
From her experience General Hammond was a good man and in some ways more like a granddad to her than anything else but his reaction to this lead her to believe that he'd been threatened somehow and blamed himself so completely he saw her as the vent for this anger – she was after all Jack and Sams daughter and maybe his guilt over what had happened was just misdirected.
"General Hammond, I've got all the information I need to sort all of this out but I can't do anything about it for a few days."
"Why is that?" he asked and she took a deep breath before looking directly at him.
"Because the ancient that sent me here gave me a few days to figure everything out – I wasn't supposed to have your help and would have needed more time to get my hands on what we've found out." Alison explained, but Daniel at her side seemed uneasy about this.
"Can't you just dial out the gate when a solar flare comes close to the planet, like we did when we went back to 1969?" but she shook her head.
"No, firstly I don't have the times of the solar flares and secondly I can't just re-emerge in the gate room in the past, it would cause too many problems – none of you can know what your futures hold and my mom and dad can't know who I am until I'm actually born." Daniel nodded and sat back in his chair in silence.
"Right then Alison, you will need a place to stay. As for the rest of you, the funerals of Colonel O'Neill and Major Carter will take place in three days and although it looks likely that these events will be wiped clean eventually, there is a possibility that they might not and I think that we should pay our respects to two of the finest officers that this place has ever seen." General Hammond told them.
"Will Alison O'Neill not be attending?" Teal'c asked asking the question that Alison couldn't find the words for.
"That depends on her whether she will still be here but of course she will be expected to attend."
"I'll be here, I've got 4 days." She answered and Teal'c nodded respectfully at her.
"Right then, dismissed and get some rest people." He said before standing and leaving the table. Janet stood as he left and sat herself down again . "You can stay with me if you want to." Janet offered seeing the look on Alisons face.
"Thank you. I'm not sure that I want to stay around here." She said before standing and moving to look out onto the stargate, it was something else that she remembered doing when she was little and it always brought her comfort – a comfort that she needed right at that moment.
"Alison O'Neill, I have come to see if I can be of any assistance." Teal'c said as he stood in the doorway of Janet's spare room.
"Hey, come in Teal'c. I don't really need any help nut I could do with some company." Alison told him trying to smile.
He walked into the room and sat down on the chair next to the rather cluttered desk filled with medical books and old magazines - it was quite obvious that this house was Janets. Alison was sat cross-legged on the bed across from him; she was idly fiddling with her hair in an attempt to preoccupy herself.
"Are you well Alison O'Neill?" Teal'c asked in an attempt to make conversation with who was for all intents and purposes the daughter of two of his closest friends.
"I'm alive and I guess I feel ok." She answered in a very unconvincing way. Teal'c gave a slight nod as if to accept what she had said before deciding it was probably best to give her some advice.
"I have observed that many humans choose to hide their feelings and that it only causes them harm. Your own parents were most unhappy until they decided to confront their feelings."
Alison looked at him as she considered what he had said, she was used to his stories and his advice and that simple reminder of home made her open up. "I – I just don't understand why all of this had to happen – the last thing I remember before I ended up talking to one of the ancients and being sent here was my mom heading out to do the shopping and my brother arguing with my dad." She sighed; this whole situation was so strange and so dam unfair.
"Mom and dad told me everything about what you guys went through but you survived and now? Now somebody's gone back in time and screwed everything up and I won't know why until I go back in time AGAIN and try to fix this." There was potent mixture of anger and confusion laced into her words as well as a sadness that as far as Teal'c could tell came from the death of her parents.
"I knew your parents Alison O'Neill and I have every confidence in your abilities to save your parents and that of all the lives on earth. I also believe that you would not have been chosen for this task if you were not capable of succeeding so do not worry yourself." He spoke with a reassuring conviction that made Alison feel a lot better, it also added to her will to do what she had to do – these people were probably the most amazing people she would ever know and she'd be dammed if one crazed individual was going to destroy them.
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