Chapter 1
Miniature.
The little girl walked through the woods behind her home. She had on a thick coat and a stocking hat despite the warm temperature. The sun shined down on her pale face, she was about eight years old and very bright but also very sick. The chemotherapy had taken all her lush brown hair and left her body frail and weak. This was good day for her, she wondered the woods and saw something that caught her eye. It was small about a foot in diameter and gray. It looked like a circle that stood on end. It had a small little mushroom shaped device that sat next to it. She reached down and picked the two pieces up and put them in her coat pocket and headed towards her house.
"Abigail!" Her mother called out "Take your shoes off before going up stairs." Her mother was tall and thin; she had dark long hair and deep brown eyes.
"Yes, mom." Abigail told her as she kicked her shoes off and hung up her coat. She got the little circle and the little mushroom shaped device that looked like a toy set out of her pocket and ran to her room with it. She set the little toys up next to her dresser and played with it till dinner.
In Cheyenne Mountain, Colonel Carter was helping Daniel Jackson in his lab. "I can make out the rest of the script but this looks like a Gate address." Daniel commented.
"I think you are right." Carter looked at the stone tablet. "Gate address to what?"
They looked at one another and shrugged. "I guess there is only one way to find out." Daniel replied.
In the gate room the Stargate came to life and Colonel Carter, Teal'c and Daniel Jackson went through the event horizon. In the little girl's room the little Stargate lit up and three little people emerged. Daniel looked at the huge dresser and oversize furniture. "Sam, everything is huge here." Daniel noted, "I feel like I'm in Jack and the bean stock."
"I know what you mean, Daniel." Carter also noted it. "I calculate judging by the size of the furniture we would be the equivalent to about two inches high."
"So, where are we in the land of giants?" Daniel asked. They heard fast footsteps coming their way, they echoed like a stadium of enthused fans. "I think something is coming, better take cover."
The door to the little girl's room swung open and Abigail came back to play with her toy that she found. She saw the three little soldiers run for cover. She got her head down to their level and was peeking at them. Sam, Daniel and Teal'c were hiding behind a jewelry box. Carter looked at her "She is just a little girl."
"I wouldn't say she is little." Daniel commented.
"Nor would I." Teal'c agreed.
"It's okay you can come out." They heard her whisper softly to them "Come out."
Slowly the three came out guns pointed down. "Hi!" She said to the little soldiers. "I'm Abigail, can you play with me?"
Carter soon realized she was indeed a child, perhaps a giant child but still a child. "Okay, I'm Sam Carter and this is my friend Daniel Jackson and that is Teal'c." Abigail saw the little arms go up and wave at her.
"Hi Sam, Daniel and Teal'c. How did you get in my room?" She asked.
"We came through the Stargate." Carter pointed to the miniature gate. "That's it over there."
"Wow!" She whispered. "Stargate? Neat." Abigail looked at them. "Do you like to play soldiers?"
"Yeah, we're kind of playing it now?" Daniel told her. "Abigail, can you tell me where we are?"
"You're in my room. I found the little circle outside and brought it inside." Abigail replied. "How long can you stay and play with me?"
"A little while, Abigail." Carter told her, Sam could see she was sick and had no hair. "Abigail are you sick?"
"Yes, they say I have cancer and they gave me medicine that is suppose to make the cancer go away. All my hair came out but my mommy says it will grow back after the cancer is gone." Abigail told them.
Sam felt so sad for the giant child. "I'm sorry you are sick, Abigail."
"It's all right." Abigail feared they would worry about her like her mother did. "I'm okay with it."
Daniel and Carter, started to move around her room as Teal'c stood watch. Sam looked over the edge of the dresser. "Gee, that's a long way down." Carter commented.
Daniel had an idea. "Abigail." Daniel had to nearly shout for the giant girl to hear him.
"Hi, Daniel." She brought up a chair to sat down and watch the little soldiers walk around her dresser top. She was glad to have some visitors, someone to play and talk with.
Daniel went to the edge of the wooden dresser. "Abigail, could you give me and Sam a lift down." He pointed towards the floor.
Abigail giggled and placed the palm of her hand down for Daniel and Sam to climb on. Abigail brought them up to her face, "How did you get so tiny?" she smiled at them.
Sam tried to stand up but found standing on human flesh rather difficult. "We are from another planet. On our planet we are normal size." Sam told the girl.
"Your planet must be tiny too." She commented and carefully lowered the two to the ground and laid her hand flat on the center of the wooden floor. "Here you go." They walked off her hand with a bit of a leap.
Daniel and Sam crawled off he hand and started to walk around the floor. They split up and each went around the perimeter of her room. Abigail got on the floor and watched them. "Do you have tiny wars?" She asked.
"No, we don't have tiny wars." Carter told her. "Abigail, do you know where you live?"
"I live on Town House Street." She told them. "I live with my mommy. My daddy died."
"I'm sorry your daddy died." Sam told her. "You must miss him."
"I don't remember him. He died before I was born." Abigail told them. "Is your daddy still alive?"
"My daddy still alive. My mommy died a long time ago." Carter told her.
"What about you Daniel?" Daniel had been walking around stopped and looked at her.
"My parents both died when I was a little older than you." He told her.
Carter came across a wooden dollhouse. It was three stories tall and was full of furniture. It had a cupola on top of the large blue-sided house and a front porch with a swing. Sam actually walked into the toy and could move from room to room through the dollhouse doors.
Daniel walked over to a wooden three-story dollhouse with furniture neatly placed in it. He stepped up into the toy. "Your doll house is bigger than my place." Daniel commented and walked into the living room of the toy house and looked around at the red-stripped furniture set.
Carter looked at the big blue house. "Aw, that's so adorable. Abigail who made this house for you?"
"Grandpa made it for me but I helped do all the painting. Do you like it?" Abigail went over to the house and started giving them tour. "See it has working lights too." Abigail got down on the floor next to it, she placed her round face in her small hands, supporting her weight with her elbows and she pointed to all the rooms. "See, it has a bathroom and kitchen and music room and closets and a chimney. I also have a swing on the front porch. When I grow up, this is the house I would like to have. A big one with lots of rooms and swing on the front porch."
"What a wonderful you are going to have." Sam entertained the child.
"This is nicer than my house." Daniel commented to himself, still in awe of the toy.
"Gee, Daniel I can always get you a dollhouse if you really want one." Carter found herself climbing the dollhouse stairs as she jested. She climbed up to the next level and saw the miniature bed and dresser. She felt the bed by pushing on the mattress. "Wow it's soft." Carter commented.
Daniel found the miniature kitchen and was playing with the miniature pots and pans. "This is a toy!" He was amazed by the size.
"Colonel Carter." Teal'c voice came over the radio. "Someone is coming."
"I copy Teal'c, did you catch that Daniel?" Carter spoke into her radio.
"Yes, I did." Daniel replied. "Better hide." Daniel went behind the little icebox in the dollhouse and Carter hide behind the doll bed. Teal'c ducked behind the jewelry box on the dresser. They could her giant footsteps coming up to the room as Abigail went back to her seat at her dresser.
Her mother entered the room. "Abigail, it's time to take you pills." Her mother placed a glass of water on the dresser where the girl sat and stared at the little gate. "Where did you get that toy from?"
"I found it in the back yard." Abigail told her. "It's a Stargate, Daniel, Sam and Teal'c came through it and were playing with me today."
"Sam, Daniel and Teal'c?" Her mother asked.
"Yep, Sam Carter, Daniel Jackson and Teal'c. They are little soldiers." Abigail told her mother.
"Daniel Jackson?" Her mother asked with a peculiar look upon her face. "Daniel?" She wondered. "What did Daniel look like?"
"He had brown hair and wore glasses." Abigail explained. "They were dressed all in green with little tiny black vest." She looked up at her mother. "Mommy what is it?"
"Nothing Abigail, take your pills." She told the child. "You have to do your school work tonight. The tutor will be here tomorrow."
"Mom, do I have to?" Abigail wanted to back and play with the little soldiers.
Her mother gave her a look "Yes, you have to." She told her. Daniel tried to see what the mother looked liked but could only see the back of her head.
"But history is so boring." She rebutted. "I don't like it."
"Even if you don't like it, you still have to learn it." The mother replied.
"But why?" Abigail asked. "I'm going to die anyways." The cancer was making Abigail depressed. "Why can't I do something fun? Why can't I have friends over and play. Why do I have cancer?"
"I don't know why you have cancer honey, the chemotherapy is why you are so tired. You are at a high risk of infection which is why you have to be home and not see your friends." Her mother told her. "And I never want to hear you say that you are going to die anyways. You can win this!"
"Yes mother." Abigail replied and she then got out her textbook and sat at her student desk and pretended to study.
"If you need help I will be down stairs." Her mother told her. She walked out of the room, turning once to see Abigail before she left.
SG-1 came out of hiding, "This is really neat, Abigail." Carter told her and then she checked the time on her wristwatch. "Abigail we have to go back now, can you give us a lift again?"
"Sure Sam." Abigail held out her hand flat against to floor for them to climb into her palm. She carefully stood up with the two miniature sized soldiers and walked them back over to her dresser. She placed her hand flat once more. "Sam, Daniel and Teal'c. You will come back to see me won't you?" Abigail asked them.
Sam smiled and nodded to her. "Of course we will." She told the girl. "Dial home, Daniel."
Daniel dialed the address and the little gate came to life once more; Sam turned to the girl and gave a wave and a nod goodbye and then the three disappeared into the water. Abigail waved goodbye and watched them disappear into the event horizon. She stood watching the little gate as it sat silently after her visitors had left. She stared at the dormant gate. "I hope they come back to play with me." She secretly wished.