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sorry this chapters a bit late but wouldn't load on the computer i was using until now, so here - finally, is the next chapter. thanx to everyone who's read and reviewed this so far!

Six months later.

"And Maxwell's making a great play for it, passes to Mathews who then passes back to Maxwell... and he scores! That's one more to the home team!"

"Go Liam!" Amy shouted from the crowd, the hockey match was nearly coming to an end and they were winning and to be honest the other team hadn't stood a chance. Ever since Liam had joined the team they'd been winning nearly every match that they played. He had a lot more experience than the others for a start – although they would never know it, and as he was a teenager again his knees were in top condition – meaning he was not one to mess with on the ice.

"Come on Todd!" Naomi was cheering on her boyfriend from the crowd too – infact the whole 'group' of friends that Amy had made were all there, aside from Naomi and Todd there was Alec and Sally, although they weren't a couple like the other two were.

The final whistle blew then and the crowd roared as the winning team made a final journey across the ice – their so called victory formation. The other team looked less than impresses but the captains shook hands and the losers were given a final cheer, before everyone left the ice.

"That was a good game wasn't it?" Naomi asked, leaning back in her chair and rapping her scarf around her.

Amy nodded "yeah, I never realised how much fun ice hockey could be." She told her friend, remembering all the times at the SGC she'd rolled her eyes at the mention of the game... but that was a life time away and a part of her past she didn't ever want to return to. It was funny how the few months she's spent with him could change her perspective on life so much – she was even beginning to enjoy being a teenager again.

"You didn't have a team at your old school?" Sally asked, entering the conversation and poking her blonde head forward so she could see Amy.

She shook her head, "No. My old school wasn't the sort of place that would have a hockey team." But her comment, however true seemed to confuse the brunette.

"Then how come Liam's so damn good then, I though you went to the same school." Naomi asked, Amy was slightly shocked that she'd remembered, she'd only mentioned it once.

"He played in the local youth team, but I didn't really know him well enough back then to go along to his matches, I didn't realise how good he is until I got to know him here." She told her, internally sighing with relief as the excuse seemed to sound completely ordinary; her friends didn't seem suspicious at all.

"I guess I had the same sort of thing with Todd – I didn't realise that he could actually play until I turned up at one of the matches last year, he hadn't even told me he played." Naomi remarked and Sally at her side laughed.

"You should have seen his face, he went straight into the glass staring at her, of course they weren't technically going out then..." but the blonde stopped when her friend glared and sank back into her seat.

Amy sat back and waited for Liam to come out of the changing room, she didn't mind being a teenager most of the time but some times the gossip got a little too much and all she wanted was a grown up conversation.

"Hi, Whatcha doin?" a voice asked and she turned to see Liam stood kneeling on the chair in front, his head was resting on his folded arms on the back of it and he was smiling at her.

She smiled back, "Just thinking" she replied and he rolled his eyes, standing on the chair and stepping in front of where she was sat.

"What have I told you about doing that?" he asked reaching down and taking her arms.

She stood without protest and welcomed his warm arms around her and the feelings it invoked, Amy was in no doubt that she could stay there indefinitely and never care about another thing.

"Sorry, force of habit." She mumbled against him before sliding out of his arms to glare at her giggling friends.

"We'll be leaving now guys." Liam told them and the others nodded.

"We are too, see you tomorrow guys." Naomi said, looping her arms around Todd. Then she looked towards the other couple, "you guys want a lift home? It's getting kinda dark outside and Sally and Alec both have rides home so..."

Liam was about to tell her that they would be fine on their own but Naomi didn't and wouldn't understand who they were so instead he decided to accept the offer.

"Yeah sure, if that's not a problem."

The brunette shook her head "No it's fine, I just want to know that you're safe home. What with you both living by your self and all." She explained and Amy nodded, thankful for her friends and her new life.

"Hey, what's the deal with Naomi, she always seems kinda... I don't know, over protective?" Liam asked as he and Amy sat on his sofa. She lay on his lap as they both watched the television.

"She has her reasons." She explained, not wanting to go too far into her friends business.

"What reasons? Come on Amy, it's not like I'm going to tell anyone now is it?" he asked again, wrapping his arms around her and flipping her onto her back to that he could look at her properly.

She smiled and reached her hand up to the side of his face. "I don't fell comfortable breaking a confidence." She told him, looking into his deep brown eyes.

"Please." He asked and she couldn't refuse him, something in his gaze or maybe just from his heart but she gave in and told him.

"Her family were murdered around this time of year by a group that posed as business men or something five years ago." She started and watched the look of sadness that entered his eyes, she knew he was thinking back to when Charlie died and it struck her how strange it must really be for him to be a teenager again. "she lived in foster homes for four years until she was rescued from her last one by her now adopted family, so she takes the safety and well-being of her friends kinda seriously."

Liam nodded and held onto the hand she still had rested against the side of his head. "I had no idea." He told her quietly, "You'd never think..."

"You never do." She finished for him, "No one thinks we're any thing but teenagers remember?"

"Yeah." He whispered, thinking back to all he had done in his life that he could never talk about and that no one but Amy would ever understand.

His face had taken on a somewhat serious expression and he seemed to be staring into space, he looked afraid, not an emotion she had ever seen in him – but she supposed that he never showed it whilst he was in the military.

"What is it?" she asked him, sitting up on his lap and resting against the arm of the couch. It was normally one of her favourite places to be but it didn't seem to have the same effect when he was like he was at that moment.

He didn't know if he should tell her what was on his mind because it wasn't a subject he wanted to be thinking about himself. It was stupid really, he was suddenly afraid of being alone – even with her there the fear seemed to grip him. It was as though it hadn't bothered him because he had her but he started to wonder if they would have to live with the secret all their lives, would they have to lie to all their friends? What if they married and had children? Would they have to lie to them too?

"Jack?" it was her use of his proper name that eventually brought him out of his thoughts and he looked at her.

"What?... sorry. I just... It doesn't matter." She nodded and leaned her head against his, kissing his neck before rapping her arms around him and holding him close to her.

"It's ok that no one knows our secret, everybody has one...ours is just a little more original." She whispered into his ear soothing him and calming the torrent of fear that lay inside.

Amy nuzzled head against him and looped her arms further around him, she glanced at her watch as she did and sat back.

"Ah Liam, it's getting kinda late. I should head home." She told him sliding off his lap and heading for where her coat was hung up next to the door.

He shook his head and rolled his eyes, "You could always stay here you know." He told her for what felt like the millionth time; every time he asked her to stay over she declined the offer, saying that they were too young physically to do what he was suggesting.

"You know I can't." she told him, giving him the look that she always did. It wasn't that she didn't want to stay... just that she knew she shouldn't, they were still teenagers, despite the life they had already lived.

"What if I swear not to try anything on?" but she shook her head and he sighed, he was sick of this. "Look I love you ok? And I don't get why I can't even... ok so I get the age thing but you should know me well enough to trust me and when I saw I won't do anything I mean it – hell I'll even sleep on the sofa."

She thought about it an she knew he was right, so she gave in. "You don't have to sleep on the sofa." And she walked over to him, removing her coat and leaving it on the couch. "And I do trust you, it's just me I have a problem with and I don't have a toothbrush either so..."

"Amy shut up." Liam told her, moving inches to her face before claiming her lips and stopping her from saying another word, not that she wanted to any way. She was quite happy to stay in their own private silence.

"Have you been able to execute the plan yet?"

"No, the opportunity hasn't arisen."

"Why the hell not?" the voice asked angrily.

"Because there's a girl with him." He replied.

"What girl?"

"The blonde from his high school, she was mentioned in my last report, her name is Amy Reid." There was mumbling on the other end of the phone for a few seconds before the other man answered.

"Does she pose a threat?"

"I don't know yet, she seems pretty close to him." And again his boss seemed to confer with someone else before saying anything in response.

"Look into it, find out everything you can about her and then report everything to me. This cannot go wrong, do you understand?"

"I understand."

"I still don't get it, how can all that energy be stored in a wheel thing." Liam said sounding defeated, he was being reminded all over again just how much he hated Physics.

"It's a flywheel and it works by..." Amy trailed off when a man about six feet tall walked into the room and sat at the back of the class. "Can we help you?" she asked, being as polite as she could. He hadn't even introduced himself and that in it's self made her uneasy.

"I'm here to see Liam Maxwell." He told her and she nodded as his behaviour started to make sense, he didn't know who she was and thought he had some big secret to protect her from.

Liam on the other hand didn't seem to care, "Oh hi, I'll be done in a minute." Then he turned to Amy and smiled, "He's kinda like my social worker, only grumpier." And she nodded. Completing her act of innocence so there would be no suspicion pointed in her direction.

"It's ok, we can carry this on later. I'll be in the art studio when you're done." she told him, packing up her bag and leaving the room.

Liam's 'social' worker watched her leave before coming to sit across from him.

"An artist and a physicist? You got lucky there." He remarked and the young man suddenly found the need to hide his face.

"Ah yeah, but arts where she sees her future – the physics is just something she's good at." He explained, wondering if this was the mans attempt at small talk, he'd never said anything that wasn't to do with business before.

"Well then, should we get down to it?" he asked and Liam prepared himself for another boring round of security questions and lectures on how to live his life.

He was surprised that there was actually people still in the art studio, school had ended an hour ago and yet, together with the rest of the after school groups, the artist's showed no sign of going home. It was typical Carter in his opinion, but he didn't mind at all – at least she was more relaxed these days.

As he approached the area she normally sat in he was a little surprised to discover that she wasn't there, her friends were though and it was Naomi he looked to for some sort of indication as to where Amy had gone.

"She's hiding her secret project, you know the one even us four aren't allowed to see, she'll be back in a minute." The brunette told him before turning back to her conversation with Sally and Mya.

So he sat down and waited.

But he wasn't the only one. A figure stood at the door watching from the shadows in the hallway to see if he could gather any more information on Liam's girlfriend.

"Hey." Amy whispered as she approached him and slid her arms aver his shoulders and down onto his chest from where she was stood behind him.

"He yourself, you ready yet?" he asked, placing his hands on hers, pulling her closer to him.

"Yeah, just give me a minute to sort my things out." But she didn't move from where he was, instead she just moved even closer to him. Stirring feelings that she knew she couldn't control. The sooner we get out of here the better.

Naomi at their side saw this and smiled, Amy had explained that she'd liked Liam for ages and just hadn't been able to do anything about it so she had some idea of how special it must have been for her to finally be able to be with him.

She turned her attention back to her work, glancing towards the door to see if Todd had come back from training. Instead she saw a man with dark greying hair and a suit stood at the door, he seemed to be watching them – particularly Liam and Amy.

So being as inconspicuous as she could she walked over to her friends.

"Um, sorry to interrupt but there's a guy at the door, tall dark greying hair, he looks kind of official and if you ask me really creepy." Liam looked at her bemused by her comment.

"Sounds like my social worker, but I saw him leave about ten minutes ago." He stood up then and walked with Naomi to the door. There was no body there.

The brunette ran down the corridor in search of the guy until Liam called her back.

"If he was there he'll be long gone by now, he probably just... well I don't know, maybe he just wanted to make sure I was really ok." He told her, although inside part of him started to really worry. He couldn't figure out why he would have come back.

Naomi didn't really seem convinced either but she let it go, aware that this wasn't really her business. She couldn't shake the feeling she got though.

"Ok, well if you're sure. I guess it could have been someone else, I mean why would he run if it was your social worker?" and she turned around, going back to her work inside.

Liam just stood there whilst Amy grabbed her bag and caught up with him. There was only one thought in his mind, Why would he run?

"ID?" asked the computer terminal he was stood in front of.

He swiped his card across the reader and proceeded to place his thumb on the other one to verify who he was.

"ID confirmed, you may proceed." The computer announced and the door swung open before swiftly closing behind him.

"It's about time! Where the hell have you been?" his boss asked walking over to him with the same angry look he was used to seeing in his eyes.

"Sorry Senator Kinsey, sir there was just something else I needed to get before I left." He explained as he went into his pocket to pull out the small spy camera that had been attached there.

"What do you have exactly agent Cerberus?" Kinsey asked sounding as irritated as he looked; he was not a patient man by any means and had already complained several times about the long waiting period before his plan could be put into action.

"Information on the Girl, where she lives, what she likes. But I still think it will be hard to keep her away from Liam long enough to execute the plan." The Senator looked mildly interested and sat down to study the images his agent had captured.

"She seems to have captured his heart pretty quickly, I thought it would have taken longer than this for him to get over whatever it was he had with..." he paused as the picture of the girl popped up onto the screen.

He could see her clearly, long blonde hair, blue eyes and that unmistakeable smile....

"Senator? Sir?" Cerberus asked, concerned that he had done something wrong – he was scared of what might happen to him if he had.

"The Asgard who cloned O'Neill... were there any more reported experiments?" he asked, and the agent looked confused by this.

"Not that I know of sir, he was the only one left 'alive' afterwards and that was only due to Thors intervention." He paused as Kinsey zoomed in on the girl's picture.

"You're sure that no other clones were made?" he asked again, a sinister look forming on his face.

"There are no other Clones on record at the SGC's data base sir and I've accessed all the information on the subject." This he took pride in and he was glad, for once that he could be so certain.

"I think they missed one." Kinsey announced, bringing up a new window that the agent recognised as an access portal to the SGC's database.

"What? Who?" he asked, moving closer to the computer screen.

"You'll see." Kinsey told him, as he accessed the personnel files and internally planned his next course of action; the old plan was already forgotten. Now he could kill two birds, no make that three with one stone. He would make sure that he shut down the SGC for good.

"See what sir?" he asked, now nervous that he could have over looked something. He was so sure that he's been through everything.

"Her, I knew that O'Neill could wouldn't get over her so quickly – there had to be something else at play and there she is. The Asgard cloned more than one member of SG-1, Amy Reid is Major Carter!" he exclaimed happily, knowing now just how much his plan would have to change, but also aware that if it worked he would get everything he'd ever wanted.

"So you brought your toothbrush then." Liam whispered in Amy's ear from where they stood at the sink.

"Well I figured that if I'm going to spend a lot of time here then I should leave it here – if that's ok with you?" she asked, placing the object in question into the glass next to the sink.

"It's great, as long as you're ok with It." he told her with his arms looped around her waist.

She sighed and leaned back against him. "I think I'm more than ok with It." she told him, her tone seductive as she turned in his arms and kissed his collarbone.

"Amy... ah...why the change of ... why now?" he asked, barely keeping his self-control.

She looked up at him, into his chocolate eyes and felt herself melt even further as she spoke.

"Because life's too short and I've been thinking all day about last night. it was wonderful to sleep next to you... but I still felt like I was missing something."

"But what about the age thing?" he asked and then wished that he hadn't, Liam wasn't exactly trying to push her away and he jut hoped it didn't sound like that. He just wanted to be sure that she was making the right decision for herself; he already knew where he stood.

"In reality I've lived more than thirty years and four of those I've spent in love with you, on the outside I might not be any older than 16 and I'm not saying that on the inside that I haven't changed... but I've waited long enough." Her eyes sparkled into his and almost silenced him completely. But there was something else he needed to ask her.

"Why did Thor let you do this?" the question seemed to catch her off guard.

"Where did that come from?" she asked, feeling her cheeks redden.

"I've been wondering ever since I found out who you were, why would Thor let you do it? Don't the Asgards have ethics about this?"

She nodded slowly and then looked him in the eyes, she hoped that he knew how nervous this situation was making her.

"Thor said that he had to do it, neither one of us can truly be complete without the other – although he only told me that afterwards and I haven't said anything until now because... well I didn't want to scare you." he just smiled at her and she felt herself move closer to him.

"I love you." and she knew he meant it with every fibre of his being.

And without speaking another word Amy leaned up to his lips and sank into them, backing out of the room as she went.

next chapter will be up as soon as i can get it done, as always posivive feedback and constructive critisim welcome. thanx