Daniel reeled at this information, "Vala…" he muttered, rubbing his hand over his eyes, "Your mother is Vala? How? When?"
Amanda got up as if she hadn't heard him, "I'm hungry, let's get something to eat"
Daniel's mind was too absorbed at the moment to notice she was leaving, "Hey, wait!" he called when he realized she was heading out the door without answering his question. He bounced out of the chair and followed her and the guard.
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Teal'c and Jacob O'Neill were sitting at a booth munching on individual pints of ice cream.
"God I love Ben and Jerry's" Jacob said around a spoonful of chocolate chip cookie dough flavor.
"Indeed" Teal'c said, setting his desert aside for a moment.
Jacob sensed the impending conversation from this action and watched the older man lengthily before copying his move, "So, you must be dying to ask me all about you and Ishta" he said.
"That I am not" Teal'c replied, "I am clear on matters concerning myself and the warrior Ishta"
Jacob blinked away that comment, "Right…well, you must want to know about Lif'kel then"
"Indeed…I wish to know when he was conceived," Teal'c stated stoically.
Jacob wrinkled his nose, "I know he was born a year before Amanda and I…as to what happened nine months before that…well" he shrugged.
"Then he is the oldest" Teal'c noted.
"Yeah, he was first…I was about a year after and Amanda's three or four months younger than me" Jacob felt odd discussing this. He shifted uncomfortably and began to attack his ice cream again.
"This topic of conversation disturbs you?" Teal'c posed the question in the way he posed all questions, as if he already knew the answer and required no elaboration.
"Well, I don't want to give you too much info, you might decide to use it to affect the timeline"
"That is an unnecessary concern" Teal'c said, "You have been very vague about when certain events actually occur"
"Still…" he started, but was interrupted by the sudden appearance of his teammate, sliding in next to him, "Oooo, ice cream" she mumbled stealing his spoon and container.
Jacob frowned and tried to take the items back, she slapped his hand away and by the time Daniel was seated next to Teal'c the two were involved in a miniature tug-of-war.
"Get your own" Jacob growled.
"You'll get fat eating all this by yourself" she replied.
"I'll work it off"
"You hate exercise"
"I get plenty of it already, fighting with you"
She discarded the treat in her hand and tackled him. They tumbled to the floor, bumping a food server who was clearing some half eaten slop off from a nearby table and managing to cause him to spill the leftover food in his arms all over them.
The two burst out giggling.
Daniel and Teal'c exchanged glances, "I fear that may share too many similar behavior qualities with their parents" the Jaffa commented.
"Yeah, and just when I was hoping she had nothing of her mother in her" Daniel complained.
Teal'c raised an eyebrow, but spoke no further.
Amanda stood and grabbed a napkin to wipe gravy splotches off her glasses. She held the lenses up to the light and squinted at their minimal cleanliness.
Jacob brushed canned spinach from his pants, "Thanks a lot, now I have to take a shower"
"Don't melt from the water" Amanda quipped, she turned and gave her father a kiss on the cheek, "I'm sure you have more questions, but I'll just let you sulk about our earlier revelation for now"
She was suddenly exhibiting spunkier and less bookish mannerisms, as if to prove to him that it was true, she was indeed the product of his lovely if not dreaded space pirate.
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Samantha Carter read the results of the DNA test while Doctor Linden explained the particulars.
"Both patients have enough common elliels in their genetic code to prove their relation to that of Doctor Jackson, yourself, and General O'Neill…Jacob O'Neill is biologically your son, and Amanda Jackson is Daniel's daughter"
Sam exchanged wincing glances with her CO as the doctor continued.
"Now, I was not able to determine who Amanda's mother was from any samples of female DNA we have recorded on our computers…You can tell Daniel it's no one that currently works at the base, he wanted to know" Linden finished.
"Thanks, Doc" Jack said before Sam and him left the infirmary to break the news to the other half of SG-1.
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"Do you think we should tell them?" Amanda asked as she entered the quest quarters after showering and putting on a fresh uniform.
"Tell them what?" Jacob asked.
She sat down cross-legged on the end of the bed he was lounging on and faced him, "About the separation" she said.
"You mean…?" he asked, propping himself up on his elbows.
She nodded solemnly.
He shook his head, "Let it all play out…after they get the lab results and find out that we are who we say we are their going to have to send us back…hopefully I can calculate a precise time frame according to the rifts and we'll be sent back to our time"
Amanda played with the strings on his boots, "It just makes me depressed when I think about how a year from now…" she trailed off.
"Yeah…" Jacob said, flopping back down on the pillow, "Me too, but everything works out"
Amanda sat up on her knees and crawled towards the headboard, flipping over, she lay next to her friend. She thought about the story that Vala had relayed to her, Jacob, and Lif'kel about an incident that SG-1 never spoke of.
One year from the current point in history the young O'Neill and Jackson were stuck in, SG-1 would be sent to a planet with a yet undiscovered technology. The technologies' purpose was to scan the inhabitants of planet's civilization and deduce what type of world they would most like to be sent to and what environment they would enjoy.
Then the technology, the main computer of which ran under the entire surface of the planet, would use and advanced transportation beam, similar to the Asguard's, and send the people to the most compatible choice of planet for their unique tastes.
Almost immediately after stepping out of the gate, SG-1 was whisked away.
Daniel landed in lavish place filled with royal Egyptian accommodations offset by ancient ruins. The planet had no Stargate.
Sam was sent to an advanced culture entirely created and formed by artificial life forms who lived off the most elaborate technology and founded their world on computers and science. They had no need for a Stargate and had decided to lose it and then forget where it was. They also refused to allow Sam to use their ships to get home, claiming she was too un-advanced to operate one by herself and no one wanted to take the time to show her how.
Teal'c was sent to a world populated by carefree and innocent humans who had never even heard of the Goa'uld or the Stargate, and didn't know if their world had one or not.
For months SG-1 was stuck on these separate worlds, agonizing over how they would get home.
Vala didn't know what was going on with the Tau'ri on earth at the time, but four or five odd months after Daniel had been sent to his not so perfect paradise, she found herself interested in the treasure and luxury that was said to be abundant on a certain planet and she managed to commandeer and Asguard ship in order to get there.
That's where she ran into a scruffy looking Daniel running away from some young maidens who insisted on giving him frequent baths.
"Well, well, well…" Vala had commented devilishly, "I leave you alone for a couple of months and you decide to fill the void with a few hundred flirtatious women…Daniel, I think I'm jealous" she pouted at him as he breezed past her into the ship.
"Let's talk about our respective lust lives later, I need to get home" he practically groaned out, flopping down on the floor of the ship, exhausted with relief.
After he'd explained what happened, Vala told him she knew the planet and what it's purpose was, "Quickest way to get what you wish" for she grinned, "But at least I'm smart enough to think of somewhere that has a Stargate along with my every other whim"
With her help they were able to locate Teal'c and Sam within the next few months and take them back to earth.
"Well, it's been fun, Daniel" Vala said when she dropped them off, "But if you wont even have sex with me I can't see the point in a long term relationship"
Less than a year after that, Daniel was proposing.
"If it hadn't been for them going to that planet" Jacob said, interrupting her thoughts, "Dad wouldn't have gotten up the nerve to finally retire and marry mom, Daniel would have never fallen in love with Vala…I think Teal'c might have still gotten with Ishta though"
"It's all a little too "Happy Ending" sweet for me" Amanda confessed.
"So you being depressed over it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that for more than half a year our parents were alone on strange planets with no way home and suffered tragic loss from not being around each other"
"Don't be dramatic"