A/N: Sorry for the delay. This is now beta'ed and chapters like this are the reason I have a beta! Wonderful, wonderful beta that she is.

SG1

"What's the race?" Raesha asked eagerly, wanting to know more than anyone what was inside of her.

"First," said Kristie, like any concerned mother. "I want you to take the twins to the commissary and get something to eat. I know for a fact that none of you has eaten anything more than a piece of fruit this morning," she instructed the quads.

"Yes, ma'am," they said, dejectedly as they led Isaac and Amy out of the infirmary and made their way through the familiar yet unknown halls of the SGC.

Kristie turned to Raesha, "Sit down."

Raesha, however, was predominantly O'Neill in her blood, "I'd rather stand."

"Fine. We're just finding out what race the mysterious DNA in your blood belongs to," Kristie said exasperatedly. Wordlessly Raesha sat down next to her mother.

Dr. Lam looked at mother and daughter and realized how similar the two were. This went beyond so much else – sure, Kristie was similar to her other six children, but Caroline was positive that all of them took after their fathers more than their mother. Raesha not only looked like her mother, but they had the same personality and power. No wonder Raesha and Kristina were having a hard time connecting.

"When the unique DNA of Raesha came onto the screen in the results, we ran it against everything in our databases. The Atlantis expedition provided us with a few more DNA structures than we had before." Caroline looked up and met Raesha's eyes, "The first three specific patterns we found in your DNA were that of humans from Earth, the Ancients, and one that I'm not very sure of."

"That would be the Elementals. Thor altered my genetic structure when I was young and the result was the creation of a new race – Elementals," Kristie explained to the doctor.

"What's the fourth pattern?" Raesha asked, wanting to know the secret no one had been able to crack for the past ten years of her life.

Caroline's face was a mask that neither could read, as she raged a war of fear inside her heart, "The fourth DNA pattern is that of a race called the Wraith."

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Colonel Emerson beamed General O'Neill into General Landry's office, per Landry's request. When Jack got there, Hank greeted him politely.

"Good to see you, too, Hank. Do you know where I can find Carter?"

"I think she took your kids to the commissary," Hank said.

"My kids?" Jack asked, his mind reeling at the possibility.

"You're kids from the alternate reality, O'Neill," Landry said with a small smile at his boss's uncomfortable reaction to the 'slip' of words.

Jack glared at him before nodding, "Then I'll be in the commissary if you need me."

The General walked to the elevator, passing several airmen on the way that gave him smiles of welcome and some of pity (they were the few who knew that three of the children SG-1 had brought back were his). When the elevator doors opened, it revealed Daniel and four children, the oldest of which was ten, and the youngest one.

Jack nodded to his friend as he got into the car, "Daniel."

"Jack," the archeologist said, readjusting his hold on Eva, who was reaching out for her 'Uncle Jack'.

"Care to introduce us?" Jack asked comically as took the squirming Eva from Daniel's restrictive arms.

The ten-year-old girl giggled. Jack was sure he could see ol' Doc Fraiser looking out through her eyes, "That's Eva – she's one. And in our reality you're her favorite uncle: she really likes to play with the stars on your dress blues."

Jack raised an eyebrow, "Ah. And you would be?"

"I'm Hannah."

"I'm Stephan," the little boy trying to hide behind his big sister said quietly.

"Hi, Stephan," Jack replied with a smirk that let the seven-year-old boy know that he wasn't going to bite his head off. Jack felt someone tugging on his pant leg. He looked down and came face to face with a little boy even smaller than Stephan. "Hi. What's your name?"

"I'm Felix." It took all of Jack's willpower not to laugh at the name the boy's parents – who he knew to be alternate versions of Janet and Daniel – gave him.

Daniel watched the interaction between Jack and the children carefully, thinking about how wonderful it would be if Jack and Sam had children of their own someday.

Soon the two men and four children arrived at the SGC commissary, to find Sam and the Alternate O'Neill children eating lunch with four teens Jack assumed to be the children of his niece in the other reality and a little boy and girl who Jack guessed were also Kristina's children. He shifted his grip on Eva and handed her to Hannah, who was more than willing to take the baby.

One of the teenage girls saw Jack and Daniel walking over to them and stood up, coming to a perfect salute. She was soon followed by her twin sister and both of their brothers. It was all done in such precision that Jack had to wonder if the alternate him had taught them that.

"At ease," he said in his best CO voice when they were within hearing. In perfect unison the four transferred into parade rest position. Jack tried very hard not to laugh. "No, really, sit down."

Sam smiled warmly at Jack as Daniel went with Hannah and Stephan to go get some food, leaving Felix and Eva, whom Sam had taken into her arms upon their arrival at the table, with the group already assembled at the table. "Hi," Sam said with a grin. "Have you met the kids yet?"

"Uh, no," Jack said, a little unsure that he wanted to after what he just witnessed.

"Well, then," Sam said, her smile growing wider as she realized how much fun introducing all of them would be, "Kids, why don't you tell him your names?"

"Cosette O'Connor."

"Jacqueline O'Connor."

"Michael O'Connor."

"Elijah O'Connor." He nodded to his two little siblings, "And the runts are Isaac and Amy – they're five, and the four of us are fourteen next month."

Jeremiah took up the introductions when he saw the alternate version of his father look at him oddly. He knew he looked almost identical to his older brother, Charlie, but that didn't make it any easier to explain who he was. "I'm Jeremiah O'Neill, but everyone calls me Jerry."

"You look just like…" Jack trailed off, not sure he could finish the sentence without choking up.

Jerry nodded, "I know. Aunt Sarah always said it was like a miracle – to be able to see her little boy alive again through me."

The general nodded wordlessly, unsure how he felt knowing that his ex-wife was an active part in the lives of his children, even if it was in an alternate reality.

The eight-year-old sitting next to Jerry continued, "I'm Julia O'Neill and I'm eight."

Jack smiled, "You look like your mother, Julia."

She nodded with a self satisfied smirk, "Thor and Lya always say so every time they visit."

Once again he felt someone tugging on his clothing. Jack looked down and came face to face with a little boy with the same O'Neill eyes as the other two children, "I'm Joel O'Neill and my daddy always says that I look just like my Grandpa Charlie."

Jack thought back to the picture he had of his father when he was a boy. It was true; Joel was a spitting image of the man. "He's right," Jack said.

As he spoke to Joel, Daniel came up with Hannah, bearing food for the younger children and themselves. A few minutes into the meal, Mike looked up and cocked his head to one side. Soon his three siblings looked up and bore the same concerned expression that he did.

Jack looked behind him, to see what had attracted their attention and noticed the woman in her early thirties standing there with a ten-year-old girl at her side, tears running down both their faces. His heart stopped for a moment as he realized that he was looking at his niece, Kristina, who had been dead in his reality for nearly three years.

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