General Hammond ordered Riley to be sedated and placed in quarante in a secured area. Jesse had gone with him so that she could talk to him when he woke up. Ethan had then taken up the responsibility of entertaining Katie, while Sg-1 talked about what happened. Everyone had been cleared of the plague, so they were safe for the moment.

Jesse was sketching in a small book that Carter had given her, when Riley woke up. "Man, talk about your killer headaches," he said, as he slowly sat up only to find that he was handcuffed to the bed. "Okay, what happened?"

"You don't remember?" Jesse asked him, as she set down her book and pencil.

"Nope. The last thing I remember is that you stabbed me with some orange serum to help the antidote work, and that's all I remember."

"Well, you did some pretty horrible things when you were under the influence of the serum."

"Like what?"

"Like throw me through the glass in the infirmary."

"What? I did what?" His eyes quickly focused on the small scars on her face that were still healing. "I did that."

"Yeah, you did. You also said some pretty horrible things to me."

"I'm sorry, pet, I never meant to hurt you."

"I know, but there are some things that were said that made me think about some things."

"Like what?"

"If you really are Riley and not some engineered Goa'uld sent to kill us all."

"What? You're joking, right?" She then shook her head no. "I take that as a no."

"Riley, you sounded so much like a Goa'uld. For a moment there, I thought you had been taken as a host."

"Jess, it's me, Riley. You know me better than anyone else."

"Well, I thought I did." She got to her feet only to have the book fall to the floor. Riley shot a glance down to see that she had drawn him with Goa'uld eyes. "That's what you looked like."

"I'm sorry. I never meant for any of this to get out of hand. I didn't know how my body would react to the serum." He tugged at the cuffs and then leaned back against the wall. "I thought that I could handle it."

"But you couldn't. None of us could handle it all that well. I was only able to hide my addiction because of the fact that no one paid all that much attention to me. The serum messes with how you think and react. I remember once putting my hand in fire just for laughs. It didn't hurt me so I didn't think anything about it."

"But at least you remember the things that you did." Jesse let out a small sigh, as she sat back down. "So I was really that out of control."

"You're in isolation with a mild sedative in your system. So yes, you really were that bad. I couldn't even take you down, Riley."

"That bad." He closed his eyes and shook his head when he opened them. "So what are we gonna do? I bet that General Hammond doesn't feel that safe with us here anymore."

"They're talking about what should happen to us." She took up the pad and began to draw a new picture. "I have a hunch that they might not want us to stay here.

"And where are we gonna go? We can't go home. There isn't a home to go home to. That planet isn't liveable anymore."

"I know, Riley." Tears soon began to fill the corner of her eyes. "I miss is so much. I know that life was really hard, but it was our lives, our time. I know that they are trying so hard to make us feel like this is home, but it isn't. I do have some faint memories of what Earth was like from when I was like five, other than that, I don't remember it at all. We were forced to leave it, when the replicators took it over. I knew that Mom and Dad weren't all that happy that Earth had been destroyed. It was their home, and there would be no replacement for it."

"So you're feeling the same way that they did when they had to leave Earth?"

"Yeah, I am. Ethan is so happy to be here, because of the fact that Mom and Dad are still alive here. I'm happy as well, but it's not the same. They are the same people. They don't have any of my childhood stories to tell me."

"Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm still expecting Mom to walk through the door. She had been taken as a host to Sha're and killed."

"I'm sorry, Riley." Jesse moved over and sat next to him. "Now we have them confused with the Cassie of this time. I know that she's not the same Cassie because she doesn't have the same look in her eyes. She has hope in her eyes here, and at home, she always had fear in them along with pain and suffering."

"You knew that we couldn't have saved her, right?"

"Yeah, I know that we couldn't have saved her without ending up dead as well." She wiped back the tears and looked over to see that there was a touch of pain in Riley's eyes. "I wish that it had ended differently."

"We'll make them pay."

"How? We're here. Not there, and I don't think that two soldiers from the future can take them on. I don't want to make Ethan fight. I want him to stay here and take care of Katie."

"We'll figure that one out when we come to that bridge." The door slowly opened and Katie peeked in. "Hello, little one."

"Goodie, you're up," Katie said, as she rushed over to them, and climbed up on the bed next to them. "I missed you." She snuggled into the spot between Jesse and Riley. "How are you feeling, Riley?"

"I'm feeling better," he said, as he tucked back a loose strand of her hair. "So what have you been up to?"

"Nothing much." They looked up at a small sound and looked up to see Ethan standing at the door. "Come join us, Eth." He came over and sat next to Jesse. "See, they're okay."

"What's gonna happen to us?" Ethan asked Jesse, as she put her arm around his shoulder. "I don't think that Mom and Dad want us here anymore."

"I don't know right now what we're gonna do, Eth," Jesse said, as she ran a hand through his hair making it stand up. "But we're gonna be okay. If we're all together, we're gonna make it."

Just then Daniel and Janet were at the door with a concerned look on his face. "We need your help," Daniel said, as Janet freed Riley from the bed.

"What's wrong?"

"Carter and Jack are trapped off world. We can't go save them because of the fact that the gate is heavily guarded."

"Why did they go off world?" Jesse, Ethan, and Riley got to their feet and Riley stretched.

"They went to help out a Tok'ra."

"Selmak?" Katie asked, as Jesse picked her up as they headed for the observation room. "He's really nice."

"Yeah, he is."

They looked up at the video feed to see fifteen armed Jaffa standing at the gate. "Oh, a party," Jesse said, as she looked over at Riley. "You feel up to crashing it?"

"Yeah, always," he answered, as they turned to go towards the gate room only to be stopped by General Hammond. "Sir."

"Here's the agenda, people," he said, as he looked at Jesse and Riley. "You are to rescue Colonel O'Neill, Major Carter, and the tok'ra operative."

"Okay," Jesse said, as he came up to stand next to Riley. "Anything else, sir?"

"Come back alive."

"Yeah, we'll do that." Jesse then turned to face Ethan and Katie. "Hey, stay with Uncle Daniel today. We'll be back in no time."

"Okay, be safe," Ethan said, as Jesse and Riley headed for the gate room only to be stopped by some technicians with some weapons.

"Oh, toys." Jesse took up a Zhat gun and so did Riley, along with a combat knife and some grenades. "This should do us." They strapped them on, and headed for the gate to see that it has been activated. "Ready?"

"Do you really have to ask me that?' They then blurred up the ramp and through the gate.

TBC