After hearing the Riley had been the one who sent Ethan and herself back in time, Jesse went off to find a place to think. She ended up in Carter's lab and she sat down on the floor. "How could he do that to us?" she asked herself, as she rested her head on her knees.

"Hey," a voice called from the door and Jesse looked up to see Carter. "You all right?"

"No, not really."

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"Yeah."

"Okay." Carter came up to her side and sat down next to her. "So what you want to talk about?"

"Everything."

"Sounds good."

"I don't know what to think anymore. I thought I knew Riley good enough. Guess not. I would really like to know is how he sent us here?"

"Yeah, he kinda told us."

"How?"

"He stole a device from the Re'fa just as you and Ethan were dialing the gate. He punched in the symbols and allowed you to go through."

"Why didn't he tell me that when he first came?"

"I think that he was too scared of how you would react. He was so happy to see that you both were alive, then he was taken back by the fact that we are alive. I think it was too much for him to take it all at once."

"But I'm his fiancee he can tell me anything." Jesse ran her hand through her hair and looked over at Carter. "You and Dad aren't together in this reality are you?"

Carter shook her head no. "Colonel O'Neill and I aren't together."

"You guys made the best parents."

"Really?"

"Yeah, you guys raised me pretty good. Dad made sure that I knew how to shoot any weapon I could get my hands on. You made sure i knew how to work reactors and stuff. It worked out pretty well. It's just too bad that you couldn't have raised Ethan. He treasured the stories that I told about you guys. I had saved a picture of you guys for him and he had it up until just before we came here."

"So what happened back on the planet?" The one you were fleeing."

"We broke Dad's rule."

"What rule?"

"We left people behind. Dad always said that that was the one thing that was different between us and the aliens. We don't leave our people behind."

"Yeah I do say that don't I," Jack said, as he came into the lab. "Can I join you guys."

"Sure." Jack sat down on a chair backwards and faced them.

"Okay. The what happened?" Carter asked, hoping that Jesse wouldn't stop telling her.

"Ethan, Katie, and I had been captured by Teal'c and taken to the slave camp. It was there that we witnessed five executions our first day, and then were given the serum. I was able to hide my addiction from Ethan for the longest time. They made us work in mines gathering up rocks for the fires. We didn't know what they really had planned for us. Every day, we would watch as others would show the symptoms of the aftereffects of the serum, but we didn't know what it meant at the time. They were usually dragged away and we never saw them again. I tried to protect Ethan and Katie as best as I could." She wiped away the few tears that had started to fall. "They stopped giving me the serum after three months of being on it, but continued to give it to Ethan and Katie. I didn't know about Katie. I thought they would leave her alone because she was so young."

"The Goa'uld don't care about age."

"Nirrti took it upon herself to do tests on me to see how well I adapted with the stuff in my blood that makes me faster and stronger. I would go back to the hut at night barely able to walk, only to have to go through the same tests the next day."

"Did they have you do anything else?"

"Yeah, I was a servant at the court of Hathor for a day and a half. She didn't like my attitude against Goa'uld. So it was back to the mines for me. I still don't understand why those three hang out together."

"Sounds like one hell of a party," Jack said as he picked up a crystal from Carter's desk and began to fiddle with it, only to have it slip from his hands. Jesse caught it before it fell to the floor. "Good catch."

"Thanks." Jesse then began to fiddle with the crystals just like Jack had been doing. "This thing is really cool." She raised it up to the light and got a prisim of colors to shine on the table. "Nice." She then dropped the crystal, as it became hot to the touch. "Ow, that's hot."

"What? It shouldn't be," Carter said, as she went to pick it up only to drop it as well. "That is hot." She grabbed a rag from the table and picked it up. "It must have some sort of energy within it."

"I don't think I was supposed to touch it." She quickly put her hands into the back pockets of her jeans. "I have done the same thing with some crystals in Nirrti's lab. It's caused by the bugs in my body and that's why the crystals react that way. They usually ended up exploding and caused a huge mess. It was like after ten of them exploded and destroyed half the lab, I was sent back to the mines."

"Only, ten," Jack said, as he watched the crystal began to start glow . "I bet you made, Nirrti so happy when you guys worked together."

"Not, really. She only would use me when she needed a very strong worker. The same went with Hathor. She liked to pull me away from Nirrti's lab when I was in the middle of a project just to spite Nirrti. They would then get into heated arguments about who had rights to me."

"Who had rights to you?"

"Apophis," Riley said from the door, causing them all to look over to see him. "We were his slaves. He own us all. He lent us out to Nirrti and Hathor so that they could work on trying to make the perfect host." He then looked over at the crystal and a small smile came to his face. "You touched it, didn't you?"

"Yeah, so," Jesse said, as Riley went up to it and touched the crystal. The glowing soon became fainter and fainter. "How did you do that?"

"I have my ways."

"I'm sure that you do, Riley." Jesse then took off out the door before any one could stop her.

"What is her problem?"

"You are," Jack said, as they turned to look back at Riley.

"How so?"

"You didn't tell her the truth," Carter said, as she touched the crystal to find it cold.

"She can't handle the truth."

"I'm sure that she can handle it better than having to feel that you don't trust her enough to tell her a thing."

"So, I should go talk to her?"

"Yes."

"Okay." Riley then took off after Jesse, leaving them alone.

"Kids," Jack said, as he turned and left the lab, leaving Carter smiling. "Can't live with them, can't live without them."

TBC