Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Author: aynat (©Tanya Long)
Description: It's seems to Lisa like she's experiencing the world for the first time. Everything is so new and confusing, but surely with the Daniel she knew nearby it'll be easier. Right? Follow up to Season 8 finale Moebius.
Spoilers: Well... anything up to the end of Season 8 is fair game for this story. Major spoilers for both parts of Moebius.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Stargate SG-1 characters. I make no money from this, it's purely for fun.

"So, how'd it go?" Sam asked as she entered Jack's office. He looked up and paused for a moment.

"I didn't know what to say," he admitted.

"Me either," Sam agreed. "I found a way to leave as quickly as I could. I just got word about the DNA tests... genetically she is indeed... our daughter." Jack closed his eyes.

"Her story, everything she says," he began. "Sam... is it possible?"

"Well yes sir, it is," she admitted. "What she says about you and Teal'c... sir if we got stuck in 3000 BC no matter how hard I tried I really doubt I could keep you from doing something about Ra." Jack sighed.

"It's all so unreal and yet, it all seems so bloody likely," Jack said as he began to massage his temples. "I have no idea what to do."

"I think I can help," Daniel said as he came into the office.

"What is it?" Jack asked as Sam turned to face Daniel.

"I started thinking last night," Daniel said as he came in and sat down, placing a folder he was carrying in his lap. "If it was real, if I really made her come to the future I would know better than to just write some letters. I would know there was something I had to do to make myself in this timeline believe her. I started looking through all the photos of the site in Giza that I have, and finally I found something." Placing the folder on the desk in front of Jack he waited for Sam to move to where she could see and opened it.

"That looks like..." Sam began.

"SG-1's emblem," Jack finished.

"Yes," Daniel said. "It was carved into the pictures on the wall. It didn't seem out of the ordinary unless you knew to look for something that didn't fit."

"You think you, the you Lisa knows, carved this knowing you would find it?" Sam asked. Daniel nodded.

"So the question is, what do we do now?" Jack stated.

"Well, I don't think anything has to happen overnight," Daniel told them. "She seems perfectly aware that we're going to take every precaution and what not before we begin to trust her. She seems happy here, so why don't we just take it one day at a time?"

Jack and Sam agreed that that sounded like a good short term plan. "In the meantime however, I think maybe we should have someone give her a physical."

"She's been looked over already," Jack told him. Daniel nodded that he knew this.

"She thinks she may be pregnant though," Daniel told him. "I think that should be checked."

"Wait a minute, that's impossible," Sam said. "If she got pregnant in 3000 BC that would surely affect out timeline somehow, whether she had the child there or not."

"Not necessarily," Daniel said. Noticing Sam's curious looked he sigh and admitted, "Apparently it's mine."

"Oh, now I know this isn't real," Jack said sarcastically. "I would never let any daughter of mine anywhere near you."

Daniel chuckled. "Well, it's a long story," he told them.

"Well Daniel I think it's important we know," Sam said as she took a seat in the only empty chair left. Daniel cleared his throat as he shifted uncomfortably in his seat.

"OK, well apparently Lisa and the me from her timeline were together," he told them. Ignoring Jack's scoff he continued. "She doesn't deny that it had to do with the fact that the two of us couldn't be with any of the people from that time, but apparently the close proximity what not brought on some... feelings between the two of us."

"Feelings?" Sam asked.

"Yes, well she uses the term love," Daniel admitted. "And apparently I felt the same."

"You just, take her word for it?" Jack asked.

"No, actually she didn't even tell me all this at first," Daniel told him. "It was the letters we found. The ones from me seemed to be... different than the others."

"Different?"

"Well, the ones that were supposed to be written by you two were obviously written to a daughter," Daniel said. "There was one written by Teal'c which was obviously from a friend, but there were five from me, and they all seemed to be written by... a husband."

"You, and Lisa?" Jack asked. "You and Lisa are married."

"Were," Daniel corrected him. "5000 years ago apparently."

Teal'c raised his eyebrow. She was as good as she claimed to be he realized. Lowering his staff weapon he bowed his head in respect. "You would surely be fierce competition for any Jaffa warrior."

"Thanks," she said as she took a deep breath. "I learned from the best."

Teal'c nodded his head again. Just as he picked up his staff weapon to start again Daniel came in an interrupted.

"Can I borrow Lisa?" he asked. "I have something I wanted to show her."

"Of course Daniel Jackson," Teal'c said as he put his weapon back down. "I in fact have something I should discuss with O'Neill."

"Great," Daniel said, flashing Lisa a smile. "So you coming?" Lisa responded that she was as she handed her weapon to Teal'c and followed Daniel out the door just as Jack was coming in.

"Was that a good idea?" Jack asked. Teal'c looked confused. "Giving her a weapon I mean."

"It was in fact inoperable," Teal'c informed him. "She wanted to get some sparring in."

"She any good?"

"She is," Teal'c replied. "In fact, it was as if I was fighting myself."

"So she's really good," Jack stated.

"Not just good," Teal'c told him, "but she fights with the same style as I. It's as though I taught her myself."

Jack put his hand on Teal'c shoulder and gave it a squeeze. "Well apparently, you did." Teal'c raised his eyebrow and gave Jack a skeptical look. "No, really, from what we can tell you really and truly did."

"So she is who she says she is?" he asked.

"Daniel thinks so," Jack replied. "And I've come to trust his instincts."

As Daniel and Lisa approached his office Daniel grabbed Lisa's arm to make her stop. Moving behind her he covered her eyes. "What are you doing?" she asked but he wouldn't say a would as he nudged her to go forward. Moving slowly he carefully lead her towards the door and whispered in her ear.

"What would you like more than anything?"

"To see the world," she replied simply. At that moment Daniel removed his hands and Lisa looked around the office. The clutter was gone and instead there were pictures covering every surface.

Lisa's eyes burned with tears she tried to hold back as she looked from one photo to the next. "I could have just given you books with pictures," Daniel said softly, "but I thought you might like to see them arranged like a globe." Moving to her right he started pointing to pictures on the bottom of the door. "These photos were taken in Australia, and these in New Zealand." Moving counter clockwise around the room he continued. "These are from Asia, and Europe. The stuff down on the floor here, this is Africa. All these photos are related to the Atlantic Ocean here, and this is North America." Daniel turned to look at Lisa then and realized she looked majorly confused. Pulling a piece of paper from his back pocket he unfolded it and handed it to her. "Here's a map. See, this chunk of land here is North America, this one here South America." He continued to point out the appropriate continents when he listed them. After pointing out all of them he stabbed the center of the map. "This here is Egypt."

"Incredible," she said. Looking up from the map she looked around the room again. Slowly she moved to the wall and started looking from one picture to the other. Turning around she asked, "Why did you do all this?"

"Because, I can only imagine how much you wanted to see all this," he said while he watched her turn back around and move from picture to picture. "I can't show you it for real, at least not yet, but I can give you pictures."

"Not yet?" she repeated as she examined a photo of the Titanic.

"Well sure," he said as he came up behind her. "You don't think I can show you around at sometime?"

Lisa smiled. "I would love that."