Disclaimer: SG1 and all the characters in the series ain't mine. This is just a twisted version of how things could have been.
Warnings: AU, mention of Rape, and SLASH! Now that that's taken care of have fun kids.
"Son of a bitch," Jack O'Neill muttered rubbing his head. He looked around what was left of the cave. Rubble was everywhere.
"Guys? Carter? Teal'c? Daniel?" Jack shouted rubbing his head. He slowly pulled himself up looking around. He had been lucky. He hadn't been crushed to death by the rocks. The Tablet that Daniel had been so ecstatic about however… well it had seen better days.
"Next time Carter says 'Don't touch that' I think I'll listen to her…" Jack muttered ruefully, "Guys? Still with me!" Jack shouted. He frowned when there was no answer. He headed towards where the entrance had been.
"Ah, they must have gone to get help and dig me out. He saw a beam of light coming up from the ceiling.
"Seems they won't have to though," Jack said brightly climbing out of the cave poking his head through the hole looking around.
"Carter? Daniel?" Jack repeated, "Damn, must have left without me, thanks guys." Jack cursed feeling his stiff leg. He got up and headed back towards the Stargate.
"Incoming wormhole sir," Siler said as the alarms began ringing. General George Hammond looked over at him, "Code?"
"…SG1 sir," Siler said in confusion.
"Doctor Jackson?" the General asked.
"I have no idea sir… Lou?" Daniel asked looking over at Ferretti. He shrugged, "No idea,"
"Open the iris, set gunmen," Hammond ordered.
"Hiya guys call of the search I'm… fine?" Jack blinked in confusion looking down the barrel of sixteen P90's, "Uh… guys? What's wrong?"
"Who the Hell are you and how did you get an SG1 transmitter code?" General Hammond demanded.
"Sir? You gave it to me… why do I have the feeling I'm not in Kansas anymore?" Jack said softly.
"Did you find out anything sir?" Daniel asked running into the room.
"Daniel! … you're hair is long again…" Jack said in bewilderment.
"Sir… who is this…" Daniel asked softly his eyes slightly widened when the stranger said his name. It didn't make any sense. Daniel looked exactly the same as before. His big blue eyes were filled with confusion. Jack wanted to kiss him, to reassure him… but he didn't think given the fact that people were pointing guns at him and no one seemed to know who he was that that would be a bad idea.
"Daniel I'm Jack, Jack… you don't know who I am … Colonel Jack O'Neill SG1," Everyone in the room had blank looks on their faces.
"You're not commander of SG1," Lou said finally, "Sir, this guy's obviously something sent by the Goa'uld to confuse us!"
"That doesn't make sense though," Daniel quipped, "Why would they send someone that isn't even a familiar face? How would this confuse us? They give us some credit. They know we're not dumb enough for this," Ferriti was silent for a moment rubbing his face with the palms of his hands.
"I don't like it, but you're the Doc, Doc," he muttered. Suddenly Jack noticed something. He grabbed Ferretti's shoulder and spun him around. Guns were cocked again.
"SG1! What the hell!" Jack said looking at the emblem on Ferretti's BDU's
"Yeah, Lou Ferretti, SG1, what's it to ya?" Ferretti said glaring at Jack.
"I came as soon as I could sir!"
"Kawalsky!" Jack yelled wide eyes, "You're alive!" Kawalsky blinked twice, "Yes? Uh… shouldn't I be the one saying that?" Kawalsky answered looking nervously over at the General.
"Okay… either I'm dreaming or something is horribly wrong…" Jack said.
"Who are you?" Hammond repeated.
"Colonel Jack O'Neill CO of SG1!" Jack yelled in frustration.
"… you can't be…" Kawalsky gasped.
"And why not?" Jack asked.
"For one, I'm commander of SG1," Jack turned towards the new voice, "Makepeace," Jack growled.
"Seems you know me; who are you?" Makepeace asked arms crossed.
"I don't understand this…" Jack muttered looking around at all the unfriendly faces. The people he knew and trusted with his life pointing guns at him. His lover looking at him as if he never met him, Makepeace of all people being in charge of SG1, Kawalsky alive… well at least that's one good thing. Speaking of Kawalsky he looked antsy.
"Colonel Kawalsky do you know this man?" Hammond asked.
"Yes sir, I do… he appears to be Colonel Jack O'Neill, I served with him back in Germany in '82… but that would be impossible,"
"Why Charlie?" Daniel asked gently seeing the pain in his friend's face.
"Because Jack O'Neill's dead. He shot himself a few years ago… right before the first mission to Abydos in fact." Jack was stunned.
"I'm… I'm dead! I shot mys—" Jack cut himself off. He remembered. Right before the airmen came giving him his orders. Sitting on Charlie's bed, holding the gun… the same gun that killed his sun in his hand. Ready… ready to pull the trigger. It was only the thought of dying as a hero rather than a coward that convinced him… Oh God.
"He was going to be commanding officer for the Stargate Project apparently," Kawalsky continued still not believing his eyes.
"Then… maybe… it does make some sense," Daniel said softly.
"Doctor Jackson?" Hammond asked.
"Alternate reality," Daniel answered after a brief pause, "Remember when I got pulled into one by the quantum mirror? Maybe this guy—"
"Jack," Jack said quickly hating to be referred as a stranger.
"Jack," Daniel amended, "Maybe he's in the wrong reality,"
"Arg not this again!" Jack and Makepeace groaned at the same time. The two Colonels glared at each other.
"In the absents of Teal'c I'll just add an 'indeed' to that," Ferretti said.
"Teal'c's here too?" Jack said.
"I don't like this General, permission to keep the intruder under guard until more information is gained. There is no way of knowing if this man truly is Colonel O'Neill… someone could have got it out of Kawalsky's mind trying to play on a weakness." Makepeace requested.
"Granted."
"Intruder?" Jack asked.
"But Rob--" Daniel said gently.
"Rob?" Jack squeaked.
"Danny, you have to go with me on this one, as much as I'm sure you want to talk with our new 'friend,' he might be dangerous. He might not even be human,"
"Danny?" Jack spouted. What the Hell. Daniel was letting Makepeace of all people call him Danny? Only Jack was allowed to call him Danny! And even then Daniel sometimes got annoyed.
"Yeah Danny, what's it to you?" Makepeace asked glaring at him, "Get 'em locked up,"
"Yes sir!" the guards said.
"Rob!"
"Daniel," Makepeace said calmly. Daniel sighed. The intruder was dragged out of the gateroom.
Jack paced the room in frustration. A reality, a reality where he was dead! Dead! And Daniel well, at least he was still here. Kawalsky was alive. What else was different? Daniel didn't know him? They haven't met! He was dead! He couldn't understand it. This… this reality.
"Well at least I'm not married to Carter…" Jack muttered. At that moment, the door opened. Daniel, Teal'c and Makepeace walked in.
"Teal'c! You are still here!" Teal'c raised his eyebrow.
"I do not recall meeting this human before Makepeace,"
"Welcome to the club T," Makepeace muttered.
"Okay, look," said Jack, "I'm not from here, I'm from another reality that makes a hell of a lot more sense than this,"
"How so?" Daniel asked instantly intrigued, "I remember the Universe I went to. It was so strange… I bet you feel really out of your element right now Colonel O'Neill," Daniel said putting a hand on Jack's shoulder.
"Jack," Jack said again, looking up at Daniel seeing only concern in those eyes, "Yeah… yeah very out of my element. Danny," Jack said stopping himself from putting his hand over top of Daniel's.
"Danny?" Makepeace growled pulling Daniel back away from Jack.
"Robert," Daniel said sharply pulling away a bit, but not pulling the hand from his elbow. Daniel instantly had his gentle look on his face.
"What's your universe like? I take it you know me and Teal'c,"
"Yeah, it's a whole lot different," Jack agreed, "I'm commander of SG1, you, Teal'c, Carter and I have saved the world and … hell, lots of other planets more times than I can count. Ferretti's leader of SG3 and has been for some time now… Kawalsky… is dead," Jack winced when he saw the look of dismay in Daniel's eyes.
"So why are you here? Don't you have your own Universe?" Makepeace said putting a possessive hand on Daniel's shoulder giving Jack a look.
Touch him and I'll kill you Oh no… not possible… Makepeace and Daniel? Makepeace and HIS Daniel."I don't know," Jack admitted, "Daniel was reading this stone tablet thingy he seemed fascinated and all that. Carter was looking at all these little switches and—"
"Carter? Sam Carter?" Daniel asked with a surprised look.
"Yes…" Jack saw Makepeace's hand squeeze the archeologist's shoulder.
"Continue," Makepeace said.
"I touched this … beam and… the cave collapsed. The tablet thingy crumbled, and I woke up on the planet. I thought my team had gone to get help… but… I ended up here." Daniel nodded looking interested. Makepeace frowned.
"So how do we get him outta here?" Makepeace finally asked.
"The quantum mirror's broken and the tablet he touched has crumbled… there's not much we can do Rob…" Daniel said then hesitated, "Although…"
"Daniel?" Makepeace said giving Daniel a look that Jack himself had given the archeologist at least a thousand times before.
"There's one person that would have the knowledge this deep about Quantum theory."
"No," Makepeace said immediately.
"Rob, it's the only way!" Daniel protested.
"No way in Hell Daniel!" Makepeace barked.
"Hey! What are you guys talking about?" Jack asked turning to face them.
"CaptainSamanthaCarter," answered Teal'c. Daniel nodded to Teal'c.
"Right," he answered. Makepeace scowled.
"What do you have against Carter?" Jack glared.
"Samantha Carter, is insane," Makepeace answered. Daniel started to protested, "Uh uh, Daniel!" Makepeace said raising his hand, "You know it's true, she is nuts."
"What happened to her!" Jack asked in outrage. Daniel gave a sad look.
"It was on her fourth mission," Daniel sighed, "Rescue mission. She was assigned to SG6 but she went with SG3 on the mission. They needed her because…"
"Because her boyfriend went nuts and they thought she could reason with him." Makepeace cut in scowling.
"Jonas?" Jack growled. Daniel nodded.
"He killed all of SG6. Tied them to crosses and stuck them in the sun… he thought he was a God." Daniel looked down. Jack noticed his knuckles become white.
"It took us days to find her," Daniel said softly a far away look on his face, "I remember, we had gotten this shield technology to protect the natives from the sun to work. They rebelled against Jonas. He was pushed into an incoming wormhole. Sam's mind was never the same. She witness horrible things… and was… raped several times."
"Oh God, Carter," Jack whispered.
"Daniel was a friend of hers and visited regularly," Makepeace cut in.
"Rob don't," pleaded Daniel. Makepeace ignored him.
"One day she somehow got a knife and nearly killed him," Daniel closed his eyes.
"She wouldn't have hurt me. She just wanted to get out."
"Well I don't think she ever will," Makepeace spat, "She's unstable, she can't help in this!"
"She can Rob, and you know it."
"Makepeace, I believe DanielJackson is correct. CaptainCarter is the only one that has extensive knowledge of quantum physics. As you remember, it was DoctorCarter that helped DanielJackson get home when he visited an alternate reality." Teal'c put in.
"Sorry sir but I gotta agree," Lou said stepping into the room. Makepeace glared at all of them.
"You're not going anywhere near her Daniel." Makepeace ordered. Daniel got a determined look in his eyes. Jack knew the look, the archaeologist would not back down.
"I'm the only one she even remotely trusts!" Daniel argued.
"And look where that got you!" Makepeace shot.
"Robert,"
"Daniel?"
"Uh… if anyone cares what I have to say, I trust Carter, even if she is crazy. She's an essential member of my team. I know her even if this one doesn't know me. She'll be able to help us."
"Fine, but if she hurts you," Makepeace began staring into Daniel's eyes.
"She won't Rob,"
Hawk: hmmm yeah weird one huh? Please, please, please review!
