i'm touched you guys like it so much!

Desert Blossom-by-the-Sea: you'll find out! i swear, Daniel will ask sometime soon...
neoelf: i guess i am!
nightpheonix: thank you sooo much! yay! my story gets pats!
DarkJediQueen: well, here it is... some more!
The Mystical Pen: ooh... daughter of Jack in her reality? ook... sounds like an idea!
The Libran Iniquity: ah, this chappie we find out about the mirror
P.L.S.: you really think so? (hugs)

more to come!

After a moment or two, Ms. Sniffles broke away from her hug with Daniel. She briskly rubbed her nose with her sweatshirt and Daniel once again plopped into the chair.

"Sorry about that," she said. Daniel gave her a smirk.

"Not a problem," his kind voice said. He looked well enough, not a slob or a scary person at all. When he'd come through the rock and touched her, she hadn't seen any malice in his eyes. Only caring kindness. Not only that, but she had been to down to show any frightened feelings.

She quickly glanced over her shoulder into the rock. The place looked… military. Clean and gray. Well, at least the storage room it was stored in was.

"Why do you have a quan-- this mirror here?" Daniel asked pulling her out of her reverie. She shrugged.

"It was at a yard sale. Owner didn't know what it did and I wanted it. Dad must have been in a good mood that day." She frowned.

"A yard sale?" Daniel asked incredulously.

"Yeah, why?" Jess asked carefully.

"Oh nothing… it's just that…" he took in a deep breathe, "I'm from another reality. Another universe if you will." Her eyes grew wide.

"No way!"

"Very way," he chuckled.

"How… how'd… How does it work!" she said with renewed enthusiasm.

"Umm, I don't know, but a friend of mine could tell you all the specifics," he answered.

"Really?" Jess asked again.

"Oh yeah…" It would be interesting to see Sam and Jess together. It seemed Jess was particularly interested in astrophysics or how things worked, but she was also very much like Jack in personality. It honestly wouldn't (or maybe it would) surprise him if the two were somehow related in this universe. Then again, Jack's family had the dominant brown hair gene, not red.

Not only that, but Jack wasn't as pale as she was.

"This friend of yours… she an astrophysicist or something?" she inquired. Daniel grinned, this girl was smart too.

"Actually, yes and I think she'd enjoy meeting you," Daniel said. "So would Jack… maybe," he muttered. Jessica gave him the raised eyebrow.

"Who's Jack?" she asked suspiciously, but with a playful glint in her eyes.

"Oh… a friend of mine who works there," he said as he pointed over his shoulder towards the mirror. "Super sarcastic, cynical, Daniel-basher, occasional military genius Colonel Jack O'Neill." She actually smiled when he said 'Daniel-basher.' Jeez… how nice. Oh dear, it sounded like Jack was rubbing off on him.

"Sounds like a nice guy," Jess responded back. Actually, he sounded like a really funny, nice guy. Someone who was almost a complete opposite from Daniel, but 'clicked' and got along with the archeologist.

"Very nice guy…"

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

They had been talking for about an hour or so and Daniel's red-haired friend had cheered up considerably since they had first met.

"Huh… no distortion…," Daniel had muttered at one point through their conversation. Jess had turned towards her computer and had her head slightly bowed over.

"It's season six…"

"What?"

"Nothing… what's this?" she covered quickly. Daniel picked up the receiver to the quantum mirror.

"It's what turned on the mirror and located you," he explained.

"Me? Specifically?" she asked wondering.

"Sorry, I meant that it 'flips' through the realities like channels and I happened to see this one."

"Ah, okay."

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The SGC

Sam had been searching for Daniel for the last half an hour, give or take a couple minutes. She needed him to translate Goa'uld and some Ancient for her.

"Where on Earth is he?" she said to herself. A passing airman gave her a wary look and continued on.

Walking down the hallways, she noticed one of the storage room doors opened. Ugh, airmen, what slobs. Going to close it, she realized this was the room the quantum mirror was stored in. Only SG-1, Dr. Frasier, and General Hammond had access to this room.

She stepped in and noticed that a light was emanating from the room.

'Okay… what idiot turned the mirror on and left it that way?' she thought, frustrated, to herself. She looked on and saw a familiar shape with an unfamiliar shape.

'Daniel…'

posted 11/29/05 ----- for when i don't believe myself on the date a year from now...

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