Back. These chapters are ridiculously short, I know, but hopefully there will be enough of them, and they will come fast enough, to make up the difference.
(insert standard disclaimer here)
Sha're studied him, inquisitively.
"Have we met?"
Yes! Daniel wanted to say. We met and we fell in love and we married and then I...lost you...
He pulled himself together, and turned back to Danielle. This was not his Sha're. For one thing, she was dressed in military fatigues.
Danielle was looking pretty pissed off. "Will someone please tell me what's going on?"
Daniel held up one finger, silencing her. "Dr. Jackson. You said you just returned from P3R-233."
"Yes."
"When you were there, did you encounter an mirror-like item of alien design?"
She nodded. "How did you – "
He cut her off again. "Did you touch it?"
She gaped at him. Sha're was the one who answered.
"We both did. The mirror sent a shock up our arms, like an electric shock. Then it disappeared. We returned to the Stargate to find that Colonel O'Neill, Major Carter and Teal'c had left without us. We dialed home."
Hearing her speak of interstellar travel so frankly, and with so little an accent, unsettled him. He took a deep breath, considering how to tell them, as the doors opened and General Hammond and SG-1 entered.
"Jack!" Danielle said quietly. O'Neill frowned and regarded her, trying to figure out why she seemed so familiar.
"You two should understand," Daniel said, "that you are no longer in the universe you know. The mirror is a sort of door, to alternate realities. You're in a parallel dimension now, and some things are different."
The two women gaped at him.
"What?" Sha're asked. But Danielle got it.
"You mean," she said, "you don't know me?" The question was directed at Jack. He shook his head. Sam came forward, examining the newcomer.
"This is incredible," she murmured. Sha're giggled.
"She's looking at you like you are one of her research projects, Dani."
Sam smiled at her. "Well, yeah. This is fascinating. We've had contact with other realities before, but not like this."
"What's so different about this time?" Danielle asked, puzzled.
"You." Daniel said quietly. Danielle looked at him, frowning.
"Me." She said it exactly the same way Daniel did when he was incredulous. He chuckled, amazed at hearing his own speech pattern.
"Yeah. In our reality, the only child of Drs. Melbourne and Claire Jackson was a boy."
"A..." She stopped, and got a Daniel-like look on her face – the one that said he was on the verge of getting it. "You mean..."
Daniel nodded, and stuck out his hand. "Dr. Daniel Jackson, SG-1."
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