A/N: Thank you to everyone who reviewed. I'm sorry this chapter took so long getting up.

Kristie cocked her head at Caroline, "That's it? I just emptied the commissary for that? I already knew that!"

"You did?" Daniel asked curiously. "How? I mean you're not even showing yet."

Kris rolled her eyes at the archeologist with a sigh, "I may be only a month along, but I've known for three weeks. It's why they sent me through the Mirror and not just Camilla or Justin."

"Who are Camilla and Justin?" Jack asked, feeling very out of the loop. It wasn't a feeling that he liked.

"Our nannies," the O'Connor children chorused together.

Kristie watched in silence as her children interacted with the people who reminded her so much of a time in the past when she had led a screwed up life. Unconscious of her actions, she began to twist her engagement ring. She smiled softly, remembering how simple things had seemed back when Jeff had given it to her.

Two SF's walked toward the table. Kristie's eyes grew wide as she realized that she knew both of them. "Excuse me, General O'Neill? The guest rooms you requested for our visitors are ready, sir," one of the SF's said respectfully.

Kris was bristling under her skin, and her territorial mood was transmitting itself subconsciously to her children – all of them. The other children were the only ones who noticed the change, but that didn't stop them from acting like they didn't – they were all pretty used to the O'Connor children acting strangely.

Jack nodded, "Thank you, Howardson." He turned his attention to his now stony niece, "Did you guys want to settle in, Kristie?"

"Sure," Kristie said, rising from her seat in a very domineering manner. Part of her knew that her actions were unnecessary and that this was not the man who had raped her and fathered her first four children. But that was a very small part of her, and the terrified part of her that loathed Todd Howardson with all of her soul quickly crushed it out of existence. This trip just kept getting better and better.

"O'Connor, Howardson, please escort my niece and her children to the VIP rooms," Jack said, barely even registering that Kristie's children (and even Kristie herself) shared the same surname as one of the guards. He did, however, notice that Kristie and her children were incredibly on edge around the two guards Landry had assigned for them. Jack didn't know why, and at the moment he didn't really care – he remembered Kristie, and he knew she could take care of herself.

"Yes, sir," both men responded immediately, their eyes on the children that stood up with their mother. Todd thought she looked similar to his old girlfriend, but she'd been dead for three years, and this woman was much too old to be her. Jeff O'Connor, on the other hand, was busy studying how much the younger children resembled his mother and siblings when they were little. It was a little eerie.

The group was standing outside the new rooms for the visitors when Jeff's thoughts were interrupted by Kristie, "You know, Jeff, I'm surprised that you haven't noticed that all of my children and I share your last name."

Jeff glanced back at the woman talking to him, "I noticed. I just didn't want to say anything in case my assumption was wrong."

Kristie looked at him, "You're only half wrong. In our reality we're married – twelve and a half years."

Todd and Jeff stepped closer to the group 'til they were standing directly in front of the mother and her children. It was O'Connor who asked the obvious question, "But your oldest children are almost fourteen?"

Kristie nodded, "You're not their father. They were conceived out of wedlock and without love," her eyes landed on her four oldest children as she reinforced her next words mentally, "But they're loved so much now – after I married our version of you."

Jacquie cocked her head at the two men, watching them turn over this new information in their minds. Her long, chestnut brown hair fell loosely around her shoulders as she watched their faces carefully. After a few minutes of pregnant silence, Todd looked up and met her eyes. In her eyes he could see the truth, and it frightened him too much for any words to express.

Jeff handed Kristie a swipe card, "This will get you into any of these three rooms that you're staying in and the commissary – no where else. Come on, Todd, we've got work to get back to."

Todd nodded mutely, following his friend down the corridor and out of sight of the captivating woman and her children.

Kristie opened one of the doors and shuffled her female children inside, "I'll be back in a few minutes to tuck you in, okay, Amy?"

Amy nodded, "Okay, Mommy… Mommy? That man looked like Daddy."

"Remember how I said that we went to a different reality, honey?" Kris asked her youngest girl. Amy nodded, having already been thinking about it when she brought up the subject. "Well, in this reality, that man is the counterpart of your daddy."

"Oh, okay."

Soon Kris was in the second room, putting Isaac to bed. Mike and Elijah watched their mother carefully, both now wondering about their conception. It was a touchy subject, so neither had brought it up before, but now seemed as good a time as any to get the answer from their mother.

When her three youngest children were sleeping peacefully, Kris took her four oldest into her room and closed the door. She knew what they wanted to know, she just wasn't sure how to tell them.

"Mom," Cosette started. Even from an early age she had been the spokesperson for the quads, "We all know that Uncle Todd's our real father. But what we don't know is how that happened."

Kristie sighed, her hand unconsciously traveling to cover her stomach. She looked at her four miracles and smiled sadly, "When I was in high school, I was friends with your Aunt Melanie. In our senior year I went to her birthday party. I was dancing with her brother, Todd, and everything was fine."

Her smile disappeared and was replaced by a frown, "He slipped something into my soda that caused me to lose my memory of the rest of the night. I found out two weeks later that I was pregnant with you."

Michael opened his mouth to respond, but was cut off by a blare from the klaxons and the familiar announcement of, "Unscheduled off world activation!"

A/N: Ooohhh! You should all review and find out what's on the other side of the 'Gate! ... Mostly just review.