Futures and Pastes Unimagined
Chapter 4: A Perfect Moment Interupted
Jack
Monday morning arrived. Jack woke up, did his push-ups, and then headed out for his daily run. If he wanted to get into the Air Force Academy, he would need more than good grades and a letter from a Senator who had been in the Military with his dad. He needed to stay in top shape.
Jack was out on his normal route, which happened to go by Sam's house, and there she was, out on the lawn, doing what looked like Tigh-Chi. She was so graceful, and probably handle herself quite nicely in any situation. Sam was facing away from him, and had an ipod strapped to her arm, so he ran right past, looking forward to picking her up in an hour.
Sam
Sam had always had a clear routine, run on the treadmill, then her Tigh-Chi exercises. Normally she would do both inside, but the beautiful weather convinced her that she should go outside. And it had been worth it when she had caught a glimse of Jack running past her. Maybe she might ask him if she could join him.
Jack
Jack arrived at Sam's house at 7:30 and they made their way to school. Nyther one spoke much but it was a comfortable moment with the radio playing and the wind blowing from the open windows, the two had the look in their eyes for each other of total fixation. And that moment was gone the moment a car ran a stop sign and hit Sam's door.
The SGC
Colonel O'Neill had gone back to work, well he wasn't officially back at work, but he was going crazy all alone and made the excuse that he had to finish a few overdue mission briefings.
But, and Jack was grateful, at that moment the familiar sound of Siler's voice, "Unsceduled incoming wormhole," Along with the alarm and the flashing red light.
When Jack got to the control room, he heard Siler telling Hammond that it was the Asguard. They went down to greet Thor, who looked like he had some bad news.
"O'Neill, Hammond, Teal'c, Carter, Dr. Jackson, I have to tell you something, and away from any other ears than the five of you." Once in the briefing room, "Months ago Loki disappeared, with it his science ship, along with another Asquard named Motus, who specializing in implanting memories from the old clone to the new one, and he has been looking into, through some Gu'auld technology he uncovered, creating memories. Theoretically he could create a lifetime of memories and implant them into a clone, and then the clone would have different memories than the original."
Hammond nodded, "We appreciate you coming to tell us about Loci, but I have a feeling that you haven't told us the whole truth."
Thor nodded, "Loki and Motus succeeded. They created clones of two adults, make new memories for them,"
"Why?" Sam asked.
"To create parents for the new clones of O'Neill and Carter."
O'Neill's vein in his forhead expanded, "You're telling me that He cloned me AGAIN. And now he cloned CARTER too!"
"Yes O'Neill, Loki believed that, even though you do not hold the key to our cloning problems, any children you might have, especially with Major Carter, might hold the key."
Sam understood, "And he thought that Colonol O'Neill and I, because of our careers wouldn't do that, but our teenage selves might."
Thor looked down, afraid to look at them, "But there is a problem, they got in a car accident this morning."
TBC...
