sorry! some how i managed to COMPLETELY forget this story... how could i? yikes, anyway, here's the 14th chapter! Enjoy!
SG-3 stood up, caught unguarded and unprepared. O'Neill almost burst out laughing. The triplets stood side-by-side even though Jack O'Neill had entered first, followed by Hawke and then Mac. Hammond took a triple take at them all. Makepeace had his jaw conspicuously wide open.
"Makepeace, pick your jaw off the ground, would ya?" O'Neill asked sarcastically. Hawke snickered and MacGyver supposed a chuckle. Hammond looked at them all again and began to speak.
"Colonel?" he looked about uncertainly.
"Yes?" the three answered calmly. Mac was playing along because… it was fun! O'Neill stole a quick look at MacGyver and he knew what he was going to do.
"Sir this is MacGyver…" the real Mac stated, then he turned to Hawke. "Or is he Mac? Or am I?" Mac scratched his head feigning confusion. Hammond did not look at all pleased.
"SG-3, dismissed."
"But sir, how do we know that they aren't evil replicas or something?" someone on SG-3 asked. Hammond looked at him full on.
"Son, two of them are Colonel O'Neill and Colonel Hawke. As to where the third came from… I don't know. You are dismissed." The Marines left stately and closed the door behind them
"What manners," Hawke said to no one in particular. Hammond looked rather mad at the group.
"Okay, who's who?"
"Sir, I was thinking you were going to say, who are you all?" Hawke said by accident. "Sorry sir." The general glared at them and they almost seemed to cower under that piercing gaze.
"May I remind you that this is a high security BASE!" Mac looked suspicious again.
"About that, what's down here?" Well, that question singled him out. Natural curiosity had taken over.
"Hell, that's the best part!" exclaimed Hawke. O'Neill nodded in agreement.
"Great I have triplets running around. As if one of you wasn't enough. Then I get a clone, now I have a what?"
"A real life Earthling human sir," O'Neill answered seriously.
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"Daniel, the general wants us in the Debriefing Room immediately."
"Oh? Why?"
"I don't know, it almost sounds like they've found the colonels or the bomb… thing." Daniel looked up at Sam in amusement.
"Thing Sam?" She shrugged and looked embarrassed.
"I couldn't think of another word for it." Daniel's face took on a hint of understanding, not that it wasn't a sarcastic look.
The two friends walked down to the Debriefing Room and silently watched the base's proceedings. When they arrived, the door was closed. So Sam knocked.
"Coming, coming, coming…" Someone opened the door found the inside and looked her straight in the face.
"That's Sam," someone else laughed. She suddenly noticed the remarkable similarities between three of five men in the room. Two men she knew very well. One was bald and the other was inspecting the other three men. Daniel didn't seem too surprised by this development. Sam was.
"Colonels? Who's who?
"Jack, Jack, and Mac," Hawke said cheerfully.
"Oh?"
"There's so many of… us."