Being the last to enter Hammond's office Jack closed the door and turned to face the worried looks that graced Sam and Adam's faces.
"So," Jack thought out loud, "what we are we going to tell her?"
"The truth will be a good start I should think!"
Jack's face gave a very impressive imitation for a bulldog sucking a lemon. "Smart ass! That's the obvious answer! Gee, I'm less than a century old and I had already knew that was a given. I was thinking about HOW to actually break it to her!"
"Will you two stop acting like two year olds!" Sam gave them a look that told them they had better not respond out loud. Both glared at each one last time and then gave her their undivided attention. "Right, at least we're agreed on one thing, we're going to tell her the truth about Jack and I being her biological parents. The thing is how are we going to break it to her without her totally freaking out?"
Adam waited a beat, making sure he had leave to speak. Sam rolled her eyes at him. Adam smiled and spoke. "I would have to say the best thing to do in situations like this is to just tell her the way that feels right at the time."
"Okey dokey then. That's what we'll do, but please, Adam, could you let me or Sam handle this?" Jack asked, slight concern cracking through in his voice.
Grudgingly, Adam had to concur. "Of course, I know I'm part of Sam's life and everything but this... this is something that belongs to the two of you. I know that you didn't actually do anything. Hell, you didn't even know Louise existed until a few weeks ago but I know it should be one of you two to tell her."
Contritely, Jack agreed. "Thank you."
"Nothing to thank me for Jack! It's just the way that it's meant to be."
"Ok then, well let's get this over with!"
Jack turned around and opened the office door and walked back into the briefing room. Sam looked over at Adam and couldn't help the smile that appeared on her face.
"What's the smile for?"
"Nothing, I'm just wondering how I ended up with someone so supportive."
"Yeah, well I've been wondering why I've suddenly turned so supportive."
"Funny!"
"I thought so!"
Shaking her head Sam left Hammond's office with Adam close behind her. Just as they were entering the briefing room the other door opened and Louise entered the room.
"Err… you wanted me to come to this meeting sir?"
"Yes, thank you Louise. Please take a seat and we'll explain everything to you."
"Yes, sir." Louise followed Hammond's request and took a seat next to Adam who had re-taken his seat. Looking over at him she gave him a 'what's going on here look' but Adam just turned away from her unable and unwilling to explain things to her.
"I think I should start, sir."
"Go right ahead, Colonel."
"Right, where to start."
"Well, it maybe a good place to start from the beginning and the reason why I'm here?" "Good idea! Let's go with that!" Sam rolled her eyes in a very besiged manner while Jack tried hard to think of a way to tell her. He opened his mouth several times, but nothing was coming out and his usual defence mechanism of sarcasm looked like it was going to assert itself.
"Sir, if I may."
"Sure, go right ahead Carter! I can't think of how to, so please, go right ahead."
"Ok, Louise can you remember when we came to find you in England? We said we were looking for you because we thought you'd have the potential to be a value to the SGC."
"Yeah, I remember."
"Well, we may not have told you the entire truth there."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"We got word from the Asgard stating there may be someone we would want to find. About a year ago we had a run in with an Asgard called Loki. Loki cloned Colonel O'Neill so the Asgard scientist could run some test on the real O'Neill. But things kind of went wrong. The clone only matured to about sixteen years of age, so when it, er... he tried to replace the real O'Neill both the clone and the rest of the SGC spotted the difference right away. "We managed to get the real O'Neill back and the Asgard apprehended Loki. Since then the Asgard have been going through Loki's database and they found out that about twenty five years ago Loki did an experiment on a couple of individuals who later became part of the SGC and created a child. This child has their DNA and some Asgard DNA."
"So, what you're trying to say is you were looking for me! I'm that child you're talking about, but how can that be?"
"Yes, you're the child I'm talking about and as for the how... just bear with us here, we'll get to that bit in a second."
"Ok, so, forget about the how for now. What you're really trying to say is that my biological parents are in the SGC."
"Yes!"
"And would they be in the SGC right now?"
Sam and Jack looked at each other then Sam looked at Adam to try and get a bit of reassurance from him. When he nodded she smiled back and turned back to Louise.
"Yes they're in the SGC right now. In fact they're right in this room. Louise what I'm trying to say is that the Asgard informed us that Loki used Colonel O'Neill's DNA and mine to create you!"
"You and the Colonel?"
Sam found her throat closing up and she couldn't find the words to speak. All she managed to do was nod her head in agreement.
"And you didn't know about any of this until a few weeks ago when the Asgard informed you of their findings from Loki's ship."
Sam nodded. Jack reached over and gave Sam's hand an encouraging squeeze. He still didn't know what to say, and sure as hell hoped that Sam would be able to pull it together before Adam said anything. She didn't disappoint him. "Louise, I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were someone special and that you would one day be a good friend. Even without knowing that you share our DNA, I would like to think that we would have eventually become good friends with you."
"So why are you suddenly telling me this now?"
"Because, if it wasn't for you, the mystery of where immortals come from would never have been solved."
"I don't get it, how?"
"You're immortal but we know who your biological parents are! The only thing different about you is that you have Asgard DNA, so we had Janet run a DNA test on herself and it came back the same as yours! Janet has Asgard DNA as well, and I'm willing to bet that if we test any other immortal the test would be the same, too!"
"So, what you're trying to say is that the Asgard have been creating immortals for a couple of millennium."
"That's exactly what we're saying!"
Louise looked perplexed. "No offence to anyone in this room who isn't immortal apart from you Sam and Jack, but why are you suddenly saying something now to a room full of people who don't know about immortals!"
"Because we need their help!"
"Why?"
"We need to contact the Asgard and let them know what we've found out, maybe we'll be able to help them too."
"How can we help them?"
Janet cut in, knowing it would be easier for her to answer the medical details better than anybody else. "The Asgard have been using cloning technology for thousands of years as their way of reproduction. Now, they can't reproduce naturally. We believe that the key to their survival may come from Adam and Sam's baby."
"So what's the plan?"
"We contact the Asgard, inform them of what we've found out and see what they say. I am sure they will want to know what has become of Loki's experiments and then we will see if we're also right about the rest of it. If we are, then Sam and Adam's baby could help save the Asgard."
"Is that it?"
"It's all we've got. Sir, what do you think?" Janet turned to Hammond to find out his opinion on their idea.
"I agree Doctor, it's the best plan we've got and as far as I can see it's the best plan we're going to be able the come up with. Major, you take Daniel and see if you can contact the Asgard. Colonel, could you take 'Adam' here and get him ready to contact the Asgard with yourself. Doctor, you get all the information needed ready for when the Asgard get here. Louise, I think you need some time to think over all the information given to you here. I know it's a shock so why don't you have the rest of the afternoon off. Teal'c, please assist Colonel O'Neill. That's all, dismissed."
There was a chorus of 'yes sirs' then everyone left the briefing room to see to their separate tasks.
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