AN: And because I am a chicken, we're skipping the Jacob conversation! In
my own defense, Sam said everything that needed said. Selmak, on the other
hand, can hardly wait to get a few words in edge wise!
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"How do you think they are doing?" Jack asked.
"Well it's a lot to deal with, and most of us have had experience with, um, unexpectedly resurrected loved ones, but they aren't yelling. Which is a good thing."
Daniel and Jack stood outside the infirmary trying to come up with a good excuse to go in. They were still running on empty when Dr. Fraiser came around the corner and fixed them with a glare.
"If you're going to attempt to spy on a family reunion, would you please try and remember that one of you has black ops training and the other has tact?"
Jack swallowed a guffaw, and Daniel blushed as he stammered an answer. "I'm sorry, Janet, it's just that. . ."
"I know." Janet's face softened. "Abby and Jacob just left for the commissary to eat something, and Sam went to her lab, so you can interrogate her all you like."
"Interrogate?" Jack echoed, his voice glistening with false indignation.
"Please, Colonel, I know exactly what you want to ask her."
"Right." It dawned on Daniel what Jack was going to ask, and he realized he needed to make himself scarce. "Um, I've got a book to, um, do stuff with. I'll have to talk to Sam later."
Janet rolled her eyes, and Daniel shrugged.
"Okay then." Said Jack, not entirely sure he'd understood what just happened. "I'll catch you later."
Jack set off in the direction of Sam's lab, and Janet punched Daniel in the shoulder the minute the Colonel's back was turned.
"What? It's not like you helped. I did the best I could."
Janet laughed.
* * * * * *
"Whatcha doing?"
"Packing."
"For what?"
"To go and help my mother, sir. What else?"
"Do the rest of us get to come?"
"Well, you and I can. And mom and dad."
"And what are we going to do?"
"Finish the machine and come home."
"Right. Um, Carter. . ."
"She asked about you."
"What?"
"My mother. Asked me. About you."
"And what did you tell her."
"That you were my CO."
"Ah."
Sam said nothing, but continued packing large books and objects Jack didn't understand into her pack.
"So, Carter, why do you always hook up with me? Why do the mirror people never come through and tell us about how much fun they had at your wedding to Daniel?"
The look she shot him had daggers in it.
"I'm sorry, Carter, that was out of line."
"Damn right it was."
"As was that."
"With all due respect, sir, shut up."
"See, I think that's the problem Carter. You hide behind the regs, and I insist on pissing you off by making crass attempts at humour."
"And all this time I thought you were as dumb as you looked." She smiled. "And really, sir, if I wasn't laughing, I might cry at how ridiculous that whole situation is."
"Does it strike you as unfair?"
"What?"
"That the one reality where you've joined the Air Force, the earth is saved, and all the ones where we're married, one or both of us is dead."
"Yeah. Kinda."
* * * * * *
General Hammond finished reading the mission proposal Major Carter had submitted. To be honest, the idea of alternate universes made his head ache, but he understood why Carter felt that she had to go. Jack was the only other member of SG-1 that was able to accompany. Teal'c fully realized that he was not a welcome face in a reality where the Goa'uld had overrun Earth, and they would not always have time to explain that he was to everyone they came across. While the alternate Daniel's fate was unknown, he was presumed dead and Hammond's Daniel was very well aware that this was one mission for which he was grossly unqualified. Plus, there was the unvoiced consensus that should an extraction be necessary, Teal'c and Daniel were the best motivated to pull it off.
The one bump was whether or not Selmak was alive in the alternate universe. Abby's Stargate had never made contact with the Tok'ra, so it was Sam's best guess that Selmak had died when Jacob had not shown up to be her host because Carter had never been inhabited by Jolinar because she had. . .And thus headaches became migraines.
Hammond looked up at those who sat with him at the briefing table. Seeing Abby still made him want to do a double take, but he controlled it. He made his decision.
"I can't order you to do this, Jack, but I am giving Major Carter permission to go ahead. If you wish to accompany her, you may."
"Someone has to watch her six while she's fiddling with. . .whatever it was the other Sam was building."
Hammond nodded.
"Then you have a go."
The Carters and Jack stood up as Hammond did, and headed to be geared up. About ten minutes later, the four of them strode into the gate room, followed by Teal'c, Daniel and Dr. Fraiser, who had come to see them off. From the control room, Hammond watched as Major Davis encoded the chevrons in the address Thor had given to Abby. They would have to find the right Universe when they got to the planet themselves, but if Carter couldn't do it, Hammond didn't know who could.
"Good luck." Hammond said over the intercom as the wormhole surged into existence.
The four travelers walked up the ramp, stepped through the gate and were gone. The wormhole dissipated behind them. Janet looked at Daniel, who raised his eyebrows. What would happen next was anybody's guess.
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AN: Except mine, of course, because I know more or less EXACTLY what is going to happen. And if you review, you'll find out too.
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"How do you think they are doing?" Jack asked.
"Well it's a lot to deal with, and most of us have had experience with, um, unexpectedly resurrected loved ones, but they aren't yelling. Which is a good thing."
Daniel and Jack stood outside the infirmary trying to come up with a good excuse to go in. They were still running on empty when Dr. Fraiser came around the corner and fixed them with a glare.
"If you're going to attempt to spy on a family reunion, would you please try and remember that one of you has black ops training and the other has tact?"
Jack swallowed a guffaw, and Daniel blushed as he stammered an answer. "I'm sorry, Janet, it's just that. . ."
"I know." Janet's face softened. "Abby and Jacob just left for the commissary to eat something, and Sam went to her lab, so you can interrogate her all you like."
"Interrogate?" Jack echoed, his voice glistening with false indignation.
"Please, Colonel, I know exactly what you want to ask her."
"Right." It dawned on Daniel what Jack was going to ask, and he realized he needed to make himself scarce. "Um, I've got a book to, um, do stuff with. I'll have to talk to Sam later."
Janet rolled her eyes, and Daniel shrugged.
"Okay then." Said Jack, not entirely sure he'd understood what just happened. "I'll catch you later."
Jack set off in the direction of Sam's lab, and Janet punched Daniel in the shoulder the minute the Colonel's back was turned.
"What? It's not like you helped. I did the best I could."
Janet laughed.
* * * * * *
"Whatcha doing?"
"Packing."
"For what?"
"To go and help my mother, sir. What else?"
"Do the rest of us get to come?"
"Well, you and I can. And mom and dad."
"And what are we going to do?"
"Finish the machine and come home."
"Right. Um, Carter. . ."
"She asked about you."
"What?"
"My mother. Asked me. About you."
"And what did you tell her."
"That you were my CO."
"Ah."
Sam said nothing, but continued packing large books and objects Jack didn't understand into her pack.
"So, Carter, why do you always hook up with me? Why do the mirror people never come through and tell us about how much fun they had at your wedding to Daniel?"
The look she shot him had daggers in it.
"I'm sorry, Carter, that was out of line."
"Damn right it was."
"As was that."
"With all due respect, sir, shut up."
"See, I think that's the problem Carter. You hide behind the regs, and I insist on pissing you off by making crass attempts at humour."
"And all this time I thought you were as dumb as you looked." She smiled. "And really, sir, if I wasn't laughing, I might cry at how ridiculous that whole situation is."
"Does it strike you as unfair?"
"What?"
"That the one reality where you've joined the Air Force, the earth is saved, and all the ones where we're married, one or both of us is dead."
"Yeah. Kinda."
* * * * * *
General Hammond finished reading the mission proposal Major Carter had submitted. To be honest, the idea of alternate universes made his head ache, but he understood why Carter felt that she had to go. Jack was the only other member of SG-1 that was able to accompany. Teal'c fully realized that he was not a welcome face in a reality where the Goa'uld had overrun Earth, and they would not always have time to explain that he was to everyone they came across. While the alternate Daniel's fate was unknown, he was presumed dead and Hammond's Daniel was very well aware that this was one mission for which he was grossly unqualified. Plus, there was the unvoiced consensus that should an extraction be necessary, Teal'c and Daniel were the best motivated to pull it off.
The one bump was whether or not Selmak was alive in the alternate universe. Abby's Stargate had never made contact with the Tok'ra, so it was Sam's best guess that Selmak had died when Jacob had not shown up to be her host because Carter had never been inhabited by Jolinar because she had. . .And thus headaches became migraines.
Hammond looked up at those who sat with him at the briefing table. Seeing Abby still made him want to do a double take, but he controlled it. He made his decision.
"I can't order you to do this, Jack, but I am giving Major Carter permission to go ahead. If you wish to accompany her, you may."
"Someone has to watch her six while she's fiddling with. . .whatever it was the other Sam was building."
Hammond nodded.
"Then you have a go."
The Carters and Jack stood up as Hammond did, and headed to be geared up. About ten minutes later, the four of them strode into the gate room, followed by Teal'c, Daniel and Dr. Fraiser, who had come to see them off. From the control room, Hammond watched as Major Davis encoded the chevrons in the address Thor had given to Abby. They would have to find the right Universe when they got to the planet themselves, but if Carter couldn't do it, Hammond didn't know who could.
"Good luck." Hammond said over the intercom as the wormhole surged into existence.
The four travelers walked up the ramp, stepped through the gate and were gone. The wormhole dissipated behind them. Janet looked at Daniel, who raised his eyebrows. What would happen next was anybody's guess.
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AN: Except mine, of course, because I know more or less EXACTLY what is going to happen. And if you review, you'll find out too.