Forgotten Identity

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Disclaimer: Stargate does not belong to me. I make no money from this and do it for entertainment purposes only.

A/N: This story is for SuSiESG1 who had a weird dream and wanted me to write a story about it. Yes, I know I still have unfinished stories and shouldn't be starting another, but this story shouldn't be that long, and as Suse is one of three members of my fan club (they tell me they even have a banner!), I must do this for her. Anyways, this is what she supplied me with:

"Sam isn't on SG1, the SGC has never heard of her or anything so she isn't in the picture but instead of her being on SG1 they put the next best scientist, that being Rodney McKay, so anywho's the SG1 team goes offworld to meet the people of a new planet they have discovered and it turns out that Jacob Carter is the leader of the world so Sam is there so Jack and Rodney both immediately take a liking towards Sam and in the end they both end up fighting over her and yeah, I didn't remember much from the dream but Jack has to win her LOL or something like that, I don't know, what do you think?"

……and this is what I've come up with:

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Chapter One:

May, 1981

"Hey, Jacob, how are you?" General Madison asked the younger colonel.

Jacob's sad eyes sought out those of his CO. "Uh, I'm hanging in there sir. I'm happy about the reassignment."

"Good, good," Madison replied, patting the man on the shoulder. "With the missiles being moved to another facility, they've moved in some new project in the lower floors, and the upper floors are being used for NORAD. I think they may be moving in a few other things too. As my second-in-command, you'll have access to all areas."

"Sounds great, sir," Jacob replied, a small gleam of excitement appearing in his eye.

Madison cleared his throat. He had known Jacob Carter for years. They had served together many times and this would actually be the third time Madison was Carter's CO. He had been his CO when the young then-captain had gotten married, and when both his children were born. "How's the kids?" he asked in a low voice.

Jacob's head dropped and he let out a long sigh. "Mark's refused to have anything to do with me. He blames me completely for Beth's death. He, uh, he moved in with Joanne, Beth's older sister. Sam's not doing much better." Jacob let out a dry laugh. "She's actually failing her classes. My genius daughter."

The general diverted his eyes to the wall, grief trickling up his spine for his long-time friend. "I'm sorry to hear that, Jacob."

"Yeah, me too."

"How's she doing at the new school?"

Jacob bit his bottom lip. "She doesn't talk about it. I don't think she's even trying to make friends." Jacob looked up at his old friend's sorrow-filled face. "I don't know what else to do for her. Or when she's finally going to pull out of this."

Madison patted Jacob on the back again. "Sam's strong, Jacob. She'll pull through, just give her time."

"I hope so," Jacob breathed out, forcing his grief back inside, not comfortable showing so much of it at work, even in front of someone he knew so well.

General Madison eyed the colonel for several seconds, contemplating all the younger man has had to endure these last few months. The death of his wife, the blame of his children, the mental and physical pains of a family being ripped to shreds. Madison couldn't even imagine the torment Jacob was battling.

"Why don't you bring Sam to work with you?" Madison suggested, his hands buried deep in his pants pockets.

Jacob looked up curiously at his CO.

Madison shrugged. "From what I understand, they have a really interesting project going on in the lower levels. Sam loves learning, from what I remember of her when she was ten, she craves it. I can give her access and she can be their little apprentice for the summer. Maybe I'll even put her on the payroll?"

Jacob smiled a real, pleased smile at his CO. "That would be great! Just what she needs to get her back to life! Thank you."

Madison smiled back. "Not a problem at all Jacob."

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June, 1981

Fourteen-year old Samantha Carter exited the elevator on the 28th sublevel floor and looked around for Dr. Catherine Langford. She had had lunch with the older woman a few days before so Catherine could fill her in on some of her summer job duties. But, this was officially her first day of work.

Sam had not been happy when her dad told her she would be taking on an internship position at Cheyenne Mountain. She had barely left her room in the past six months. Having to leave it everyday, in the summer no less, to go to work with her dad was not what she wanted to do. She just wanted to be alone. Alone to wallow in her own self-pity. She had lost her mother, and subsequently, her brother, and then moved away from her friends and home, half-way across the country, and she just wasn't ready to stop feeling sorry for herself yet.

"May I help you?" A friendly voice asked from behind her.

Sam turned around. "Hi, I'm Samantha Carter. I'm looking for Dr. Langford," Sam told the SF, holding up her ID pass.

"Oh, right this way, miss," the SF replied and led her to another section of the level.

Sam followed the SF into a large room and her mouth dropped open when she took in the large ring standing up in the middle of the room. Several people were touching and observing the large metal ring, and Catherine, herself, was holding a camera and taking pictures of the relic.

"Dr. Langford, Ms. Carter has arrived," the SF announced.

Catherine turned around and smiled at the young teenager. "Ah, Sam, you made it! Good. Now come here and I will tell you the history of this ring."

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Sam scribbled with a fury all over her notebook. She had been working with Dr. Langford and her team for two weeks now and something inside her seemed to have reawakened. No longer did Sam want to stay all day locked in her bedroom. Instead, she found herself wanting to spend all her time with the ring.

It had only taken a few hours after Dr. Langford told Sam the history of the ring and what they knew so far about it before Sam was putting together her own conclusions. The power the ring needed was immense and the fact that the advanced piece of machinery was found in the primitive era of Egypt, Sam easily convinced herself that the large ring, made up of an unidentifiable mineral, was a time machine.

She was so convinced of her theory, that she had begun scribbling equations and theories in her notebook to prove her hypothesis. However, when she mentioned her idea to Catherine and her dad, they were both very pessimistic, which only served to make Sam more determined to prove her theory correct.

So now, two weeks after first seeing the ring, Sam was sitting in a closet, her notebook covered with equations and diagrams. She had a plan. First, she was going to figure out how to activate the ring, and second, she was going back in time to stop her mom's death.

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August 1981

"Hey, Dad!" Sam yelled to her father as she ran to catch up with him in one of the corridors on one of the upper levels.

"Hey, Sam," Jacob said, stopping and waiting for his daughter to catch up with him.

Sam reached her dad a second later. "Is it okay if some friends pick me up at the gate so I can go to dinner and a movie with them tonight?"

"Friends?" Jacob questioned in glee. Sam had not mentioned any friends.

"Uh, yeah, just a couple girls I met at school. I, uh, ran into them the other day and they asked me to hang out with them."

"Sure, Sammie, that sounds great! Be home by 21:00."

"Okay, no problem. Thank you, dad," Sam said, her voice catching a little when she thanked him. Then she gave him a quick hug and a peck on the cheek before running off again.

Jacob grinned in her wake. He would have to thank Gen. Madison again, for like the hundredth time now, for offering Sam the internship. It really seemed to be pulling her back to the real world!

Sam hurried back to the sub-levels, her plan now set in motion. After working with Dr. Langford on the ring composition for another hour, Sam told the doctor good-bye and pretended like she was leaving. Dr. Langford barely acknowledged the younger woman's farewell, caught up on the new data of the ring.

Sam scurried off, collecting her notebook and bag. She walked towards the elevators, but when she saw the corridor was clear, she quickly hid inside one of the small closets.

It seemed like hours passed before Sam could no longer hear anyone outside the closet. Waiting another half-hour in complete silence, Sam slipped out of the closet and headed to the ring.

They had set up large amounts of power equipment in the room to supply the gate with power. Taking the jumper-like cables, Sam plugged them onto the ring and with all her strength, began turning the ring to the symbols she saw on the cover stones.

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Jacob Carter paced his house. It was now 21:45 and still Sam wasn't home. He should have asked her more about her friends. Found out their names, perhaps where they lived, something! He was going nuts with worry.

After another two minutes went by, Jacob gave up waiting and called the base, asking for the SF station at the main entrance.

He couldn't believe what the SF told him.

"What do you mean she never checked out of the mountain?" Jacob roared over the phone.

"I-I'm sorry, sir, but Samantha Carter never checked out," the SF repeated.

Jacob's heart was beating faster and faster in worry. 'What the hell?' he thought, confused as to where his daughter was and what she was up to. "Pull the surveillance vids, I'm on my way," he roared into the receiver before hanging up.

As soon as Jacob arrived at the mountain, he went right to the surveillance room.

"Sir, here are the videos," the young SF announced as the colonel walked in. "We went through the gate surveillance, and your daughter is not on any of them. But, we did find her on a video talking with you, we are tracing her steps on video from there."

"Good job, airmen," Jacob replied, slipping into an empty seat.

Jacob couldn't believe what he was seeing. His little angelic girl LIED to him! She never left the base. He watched, wide-eyed, as his fourteen year old daughter slipped into a closet on one of the sublevels. "Which floor is that?" Jacob asked.

"The 27th sublevel, sir."

"Get some SF's down there ASAP!" Jacob ordered, jumping up and heading to level 27.

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Sam, exhausted and sweating from the exertion of turning the ring manually, finally got the seventh symbol to lock. The ring vibrated, shaking everything on the level, sending Sam stumbling to the floor, unbalanced. She was just able to pull herself away from the circle of the ring before a large wave shot out from the center, falling back on itself and creating, what Sam could only identify as a portal of some kind.

Sam's confidence plummeted as she looked at the shimmering pool in the center of the ring. A portal? Worry on whether or not this device really was a time machine shot through every nerve in her young body. New ideas, theories, equations, quickly started running through Sam's mind. The realization that this device could just as easily be some sort of transporter to another dimension, another reality, another place in space, rocked her body in full force, and Sam found herself hesitating on finishing her plan.

But, at the sound of her father's voice and the rushing footsteps of SF's nearing, Sam made up her mind. With one quick glance at her father, Sam ran through the shimmering pool.

"SAM!" Jacob yelled, not slowing in his sprint to his daughter. He reached for her as she disappeared through the wall, without a thought, Jacob followed his daughter through the portal.

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"What the hell?" Jacob yelled, shivering on the other side of the portal. "Where are we?"

Sam, already shaking off the cold and nausea, looked around the chamber, excitement in her eyes. "Ancient Egypt," Sam announced.

"What?" Jacob asked in shock.

Sam turned and smiled at her dad. "Well, look around, it's got to be!"

"And you're happy about this?" her dad roared in anger, finally feeling like he could stand up without losing his dinner.

"Yes, don't you see, dad? I was right! This is some sort of time machine. Now, all I have to do is figure out how to take us to 1980, and we can save mom!"

"Oh, Sammie," Jacob sighed, realization hitting the older, weary man. "Mom's gone. We can't change that."

"Yes, dad! We can. This is how!" Sam cried, gesturing towards the ring. "And, I'm going to figure it out," she finished, her voice dropping to a sad, determined tone.

"KREE!" came a voice from behind Jacob.

Sam's eyes bulged out as she took in the sight of a figure in armor. The armor seemed to be made from gold, with a bird-like face and human body.

Jacob rushed over and blocked Sam from the figure. "We-we mean you no harm," Jacob stuttered, his arms out in compliance.

"KREE!" the figure yelled again, pointing a long, metal stick at the confused father and daughter.

"Dad?" Sam's soft voice squeaked out behind him.

"Shh, baby, it's okay, be quiet."

Before Sam could answer, another figure emerged and pointed a smaller weapon at them. Sam watched as the figure shot her dad, a blue electrical charge hitting her dad and collapsing him to the floor. Staring, shocked, Sam watched as the weapon shot again, pain raced through her body before she succumbed to blackness.

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"You came through the chappa'I?" a scary, disembodied voice spoke out of the mouth of a young man.

Sam and Jacob stood on their knees, still confused and shocked as to what was going on.

"The what?" Jacob asked.

"The stargate," the man said, trying another word.

Jacob and Sam continued to stare in confusion.

The being stood up, his eyes flashing a bright white, causing both father and daughter to gasp in surprising fright. "The stargate! Where my jaffa found you!" he yelled, the weird voice echoing off the walls.

"Oh!" Sam spoke up. "The ring? It's called a stargate?"

The man glared at the young blonde girl. "Where have you come from?"

"Uh, 1981," Sam replied in a hopeful voice.

"I have not heard of that planet. Who is your god?"

Sam glanced at her dad. Planet? Now, she was even more confused than before.

"Please," Jacob spoke up, seeing the confusion on his little girl's face. "We have no idea what is going on or who you are. We came here by mistake, please, don't hurt my daughter."

The being stood up off his throne, his eyes flashing again as a proud grin appeared on his face. "I am Ra, the god of all gods!" he hissed in a seductive tone as he walked towards the two on their knees. He reached Sam and ran one of his long, manicured fingers down her cheek. "Your daughter holds much beauty. Even at such a young age. Her golden mane and light skin is uncommon among my people. She will one day make a beautiful queen."

Jacob tried to lunge at the man pawing his daughter, but the guards grabbed him and threw him to the ground, pressing his face hard into the floor.

Ra turned his attention from Sam to his jaffa. Take them to the sarcophagus. Erase their memories and set a course to Kor'lash. This one will grow there until I am ready to take her as my new goddess."

"Yes, my lord," the jaffa answered, lifting up the two prisoners and carrying them off.

TBC….

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a/n: First two chapters are the backstory, so I'm sorry if they seem kind of rushed. But, I have to get to the plot and there is a lot to cover before I get there. Blame Suse, it is, afterall, her weird dream!