Jack and Sam spent the elevator ride down to the heart of the SGC, laughing and playing jokes on the unfortunate airmen who rode with them. As the couple walked down the halls of the underground facility, all the airmen and civilians they passed saluted them in respect – by far they were the favorite couple in the SGC.

When the two came laughing into the debriefing room, they found a sight that caused them both to do a double take on the room. Inside sat Athena, Daniel, Dr. Brightman and another woman who distinctly reminded Sam of herself.

The young unknown woman was trying to explain something to Daniel and Teal'c using words and phrases such as "molecular composition." Jack leaned down to whisper in his wife's ear a little louder than necessary, "My God! There's another you!"

Heads shot up from around the room and when the young woman caught Sam's eye, the original tugged on her husband's arm and said, "Jack, honey? That is me."

The clone smiled unsurely, "Hi," was the only thing her mind could get her mouth to say.

Jack looked between the now standing younger clone of his wife, Athena and Daniel – all looking as guilty as a child who was caught with their hand in the cookie jar. He reminded himself to breath and counted to ten before he said, "Will someone please tell me how the hell this happened!" His voice was strained in a futile attempt to keep from yelling at the people in the room before him.

Athena's eyes glowed and Sophia took control again. "Please do not be angry at us. We were only following a request from Thor that we retrieve the DNA of Samantha."

Sam slowly walked into the room with her very angered husband in tow. They sat down in the two closest seats to the door. Jack tried to calm down as Sam spoke. "Okay, I think we've established that this is my clone, I can tell just by the way she looked at me," she turned her attention again to Sophia, "Would you mind telling us everything? Start from the beginning, and leave nothing out."

Sophia nodded, "When you first came to our planet, we only thought to honor you all with a feast. At least, that is what our sisters told us." Everyone looked at the host confusedly, "You see, we found out recently that our sisters have been part of a secret alliance with Ba'al."

The blood drained from Sam's face as she heard this. Her voice crackled as she asked, "So when Ba'al tried to kidnap Johnny right before the procedure, that was done by request from your sisters?"

Sophia bowed her head and closed her eyes in a motion of defeat, when she spoke again it was Athena who had control. "Sadly that is correct Samantha. But please believe us when we tell you that we knew nothing of their plans or of their actions."

Sam nodded, "You have always been the one who was kind to us. But I would feel much safer if you would subject yourself to the Tok'ra lie detector thingy."

Daniel looked at the woman who had become like a sister to him with fake shock on his face, "You have a Ph.D. in astrophysics and 'thingy' is the best you could come up with?"

"Shut it Daniel." A glimmer of revenge shown in her eyes for a brief second before adding, "Or should I have said, 'Space monkey?'"

Daniel's face went red as laughter erupted from Athena and Dr. Brightman, neither having heard the name before. "You're spending way too much time around Jack," he murmured.

Sam grinned innocently, "He is my husband."

Her clone looked at her shocked, "That was something they neglected to tell me."

The clone and original looked at each other for a minute. Finally Sam O'Neill spoke up, "Do you want to go on a walk with me?"

The other nodded. "Thanks, I think it would help if we were able to talk about a few things."

The two Sam's got up and walked out. They headed by instinct towards the commissary.

When they arrived, both got blue Jell-O and headed towards a table in the back of the near-empty commissary.

"So, what should I call you? I don't think that calling you 'Sam' is going to work." The original asked the copy.

The younger version sighed; this was going to be interesting, "Well, I've been thinking about this ever since I was - made. I think that my new name is going to be 'Chloe Jolinar Elizabeth Carter.' To cover up who I really am, you can just say that I'm your sister whose existence was only recently discovered. You can tell Mark that, and he'll buy it – probably only after doing a background check on me though. But if we contact the president and tell him the situation, I'm sure he'll agree to get me all of the legal documents and a fake history."

"Chloe Jolinar Elizabeth?" She mused over the name for a moment, "Hey, wait a minute! I thought of that name when I first was host to Jolinar and she made me think of my future children."

Chloe grinned, "Yep, that's where I remembered it from."

Sam smiled at her clone's – Chloe's – comment. Only someone like her would do that.

"So, do you mind telling me about this whole 'married to Jack' thing?" Chloe asked her politely.

"Okay, well tell me what you last remember."

"The last thing I remember is the feast. The DNA that formed me was taken from you right after I – you – sang that song with Jack."

Sam nodded, "Well, that night he and I slept together. I got pregnant. Three weeks later I retired because I was pregnant. Jack proposed to me the next day. The only reason he waited was because he wanted to get Dad's permission. Okay, well that day Sophia also came to Earth with Jack. We went to Jack's house, after he proposed, with Sophia, Teal'c and Daniel. I told him I was pregnant and he fainted," both women laughed at this remark. Chloe could only imagine Jack fainting, but her imagination was a good one. "So, we got married that day – we eloped. Eight months later, I gave birth to twins. First came Jonathan Jacob O'Neill, and then his sister, Thora Janet Samantha O'Neill was born."

Chloe was confused, "But that was only four months ago. I met Thora and Johnny when I arrived with Sophia and Paul, her husband. They looked like they were two."

Sam bowed her head, "In a sense, they are two years old."

"Explain."

"Well, you see, when Johnny and Thora were a few weeks old, Ba'al tried to kidnap our son. After a very long talk with Jack, we came to the conclusion that the only way to protect our children would be if they were able to fight back. We decided that using nanocite technology to speed up the aging process would be the best way to do that. I think you know the rest."

Chloe nodded, "So, how are you doing with this whole clone thing?"

"I'm a little shocked, but I'm positive that you are going to stay in my life and the lives of my children. I'm going to need all the help I can get with another one running around."

Chloe's head shot up from examining her Jell-O. "You're pregnant again?"

Sam nodded wordlessly.

"And Jack and I have been thinking of inviting Mini-Jack to the baby shower in three months. What do you think?"

Chloe grinned from ear to ear, Sam knew what she thought of the matter, she just wanted to hear the clone say it.

"I'd love to see him again."

"Good, now, let's go see the twins. I haven't seen my babies in two weeks and I miss them. Do you know where they are?"

"Teal'c and Paul took them and George Galen to your on base quarters." She turned to Sam, "Did they change from before you were married?"

"Yes, Jack pulled some strings and got us one of the VIP suits as on base living quarters."

"I can't wait to see what you've done to them."

"You're going to love it!"