"So, what do you think?" Jack said turning away from the monitor that was situated in his office and tuned in to the camera in the guest quarters that harbored their two future children. A fact none of them were willing to accept.

"If it is a lie, it's a fairly elaborate one" Sam commented.

"I asked Doctor Linden to match their blood samples to the DNA of all base personnel" Daniel said contemplatively, leaning against the corner of Jack's desk and watching the screen, "She said it would be an hour before we know"

"Teal'c?" Jack asked, glancing at his constantly silent friend who seemed to have a particular conversational disposition that morning.

"I do not believe they are lying" was all the man offered.

Jack sighed, "They didn't say what year they were from"

"They're risking their futures even telling us as much as they did" Carter said, "If they had let a particular date or event slip about our lives and we decided we wanted it to turn out differently, we might choose another path to take and mess up our futures or their existence"

There was a long pause in conversation as the group observed the two people on the screen.

"I want food" Jack said, and got up to leave.

"Me too" Sam commented and followed him.

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In the commissary Jack picked at the lunch on his plate despairingly, one arm propped up on the tabletop supporting his head.

Sam was seated across from him in much the same manner.

"So…" Jack broke the ten-minute silence that had settled between them.

"So" Sam replied, dropping her fork onto an untouched salad and straightening to look at him.

"You think it's possible…that we…you know"

"That depends on a lot of things. All we can do is try not to think to hard about the decisions we make from now on in case we base our choices on this incident in hopes that it may or may not turn out the way we'd like it to"

"I don't know" Jack said, pushing around some French fries on his plate and looking adorable in the endearing way that only he could pull off, "I'd kind of like to have a kid…and be married…to you"

Sam was glad she had nothing in her mouth to choke on, "Sir…" she warned, glancing around at the other personnel in the vicinity.

"They can't court martial us for our words, Carter, just our actions" he said.

When she didn't reply he glanced up worriedly, "Right?" he wasn't as up to date on regulations as she was, and he didn't want them both to lose their jobs because he'd once again stuck his foot in his mouth.

"Maybe" was her cryptic response after she'd let him sweat a little.

Then she smiled at him and leaned forward, pushing her plate out of the way and folding her arms on the table to create a resting place for her head, "I'd kind of like to have a kid too, and be married…to the man I love" she said lightly.

Jack stared at her for a long period of time with a soft gaze, then mirrored her pose, "And who do you love, Carter?"

Her smile widened but she didn't reply, just stood up and touched his hand as she walked by him and out of the commissary.

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Daniel walked with Teal'c down to the guest quarters where the door had been left slightly ajar so the guards posted on either side of it could hear any suspicious incidents occurring through the sound proof room.

"Are you alright, Daniel Jackson?" Teal'c inquired, noting his friend's hesitation at the door.

"Oh…" Daniel said, coming out of his deep train of thought and glancing at the Jaffa, "Yeah, I'm, uh, fine…it's just a lot to take in"

"Indeed"

They stood there for a few moments longer, contemplating the younger people inside the room.

Daniel was still working out the conversation he wanted to have with his alleged daughter and wasn't quite ready to enter the place they were being held and talk to her.

But he did want to observe her.

He did his best thinking when he was observing people or places, or the occasional artifact. So he subtly pulled the door open further, trying not to disturb the people on the other side of it, and poked his head in with Teal'c's.

Amanda was sitting at a small round table off to the corner of the room hunched over a book, and Jacob was laying with his head on the foot-end of one of the beds tossing a tennis ball off the board and catching it in his hands repeatedly.

After a while the young Major sat up, "I'm bored" he moped.

"Oh, I'm sure you can find something to play with…or at least break for entertainment" Amanda muttered detachedly as she turned another page in her book.

Jacob glanced around the quarters, "Nothing, not even a lamp" he grumbled, glaring accusingly at the overhead lighting that seemed determined to stay attached to a spot on the ceiling just out of his reach where he couldn't get in order to take it apart for something to do.

Just then Amanda sneezed fiercely, and because one of her hands was tucked under the cover of her reading materiel, she accidentally slammed the book closed.

Jacob shook his head in mock exasperation, as if to say she was hopeless.

He walked over to her and dug out a bottle of medication from his pocket along with a tissue packet, "Geek" he said while handing her the items.

"Furling" she replied sharply.

"We don't even know what those are"

"My father told me never to cuss in a foreign language"

"At least one of us remembered you're allergic to practically everything under the sun"

"Well aren't I lucky that not every planet has a sun then" she sneezed again while trying to open the plastic bottle of medication.

"Oh for crying out loud" Jacob sighed and took the bottle from her, retrieving the dosage himself.

"I would thank you, but you called me a Geek" she mumbled, swallowing the pills.

"I remembered to bring your anti-histamines, tell me you remembered to bring along a nifty artifact that I can play with. Preferably a shiny one"

Amanda reached into her jacket and retrieved a polished metal cube with two buttons on the side, "I swiped one of your techno toys before we left" she said, "I knew you were going to get us into some kind of trouble and I didn't want to hear you complain the entire time we were in a brig"

"As I recall, it was you who pushed on that rock that made that noise that pissed off the alien"

"Shut up and play with your doohickey"

Jacob walked back over to the bed and pushed one of the buttons, a side of the square lit up and he ran his finger over it until a gentle blast of rock music could be heard screeching from the box shape.

Daniel exchanged fond glances with Teal'c, "Oh yeah" Danny muttered, "Those are our kids alright"

The two men chose to enter the room and both young adults abandoned their prior activities to greet them.

"Hey" Daniel greeted, "I was wondering if I could talk to you?" he more or less directed the question at Amanda and both Teal'c and Jacob got the hint.

The Jaffa escorted the younger man along with a guard to the commissary and left the father and daughter to their discussion.

Daniel pulled up a chair an smiled his warm polite smile, the one he gave when he was trying to get on a stranger's good side so they would tell him what he wanted to know about their culture.

Amanda bowed her head slightly and closed her book. She couldn't stand that smile…not after all these years having lived without it.

Daniel seemed to sense her sudden turn of depression and he frowned, perplexed. He glanced at the title of her book as a means to start a conversation on a safe subject.

"Reincarnation?" he voiced, caught off-guard by the book's apparent topic.

"I'm exploring the possibility that the idea of reincarnation on earth could be derived from ascension. Perhaps people who were ascended and chose to retake human form, then could remember things that happened before they died," she explained.

"That's an excellent theory," Daniel noted, taking the book in hand.

Amanda smiled slightly and glanced around the room, seemingly ill at ease.

"What's wrong?" Daniel asked, concerned, not being able to shake the depressing vibes he felt waft off her presence.

Amanda looked at him, trying to cover the fact that she was blinking rapidly to ward off tears, "Nothing…allergies" she replied, reaching for a tissue.

"I invented that excuse" he replied but without much humor as he watched her dab her eyes, "It's being around me, isn't it?" he said perceptively.

She tried to fight it off a little longer, but she broke down while looking into his face, "You're dead," she sobbed out, tears seeping from her eyes.

Daniel took a moment to reel at this sudden information, and then quickly rose to go kneel beside and embrace her.

She cried into his shoulder while talking, "You died when I was a kid, nine-years-old…Mom told me you ascended but she didn't know for sure because no one had seen you die…no one was there with you… they didn't find a body…the night before you came into my room and hugged me, told me that Sam and Teal'c and mom would look after me…you told me goodbye, you knew you were leaving"

Daniel held her close and hugged the full-grown woman in his arms, stunned at the news she was telling him.

She slowly began calming down after she'd gotten that initial information out of her system, and he could understand her more clearly, "A year before that Jack died, you were there, you helped him reach ascension without him even realizing it and he shows up every year or so or whenever one of us is in trouble"

She pulled away from him and wiped at her eyes, "My mother left a few months after your funeral, she said she'd be back in a few days but I never saw her again, I think Sam knew where she went but she never told me. Jacob, Lif'kel and I were practically raised together after that…" she noticed how soaked the sleeve of his shirt was and cracked a smile.

"Sorry for crying all over you…you wont go and try to fix things right? You won't screw up the timeline?" she was more worried than anything else now.

"No…no" he assured her with a soft smile, "It's okay, Amanda…I know what it's like to loose your parents"

"Yea, I read your journals after you were gone" she said leaning back in the chair and looking noncommittally at the table as he returned to his seat across from her, "It took me four years to get through all of them"

"I probably filled up enough to start my own library," he said.

She nodded, "You left me everything that was on your bookshelf"

Daniel thought how strange that was to hear. His will currently left Sam with all of his journals, Teal'c with all of his books, and Jack with his fish. He never expected it would change so extravagantly.

"Amanda, if you don't mind me asking…who…who's your mother?" the curiosity was killing him.

Amanda smiled wanly, "You haven't figured it out yet?" she asked doggedly.

He lighten at her sudden return of good nature, "No…is it someone I currently know?"

She shrugged, "Maybe, maybe not"

"Tell me" he coaxed.

"It might wreck the timeline," she said weighing her decision coyly.

"I promise I won't let it influence my choices," he said in a fair tone of voice.

She sighed, still thinking, "Okay, I'll give you a hint…she likes stealing ships and the archeologists aboard them"