"So?… How are things?" the younger Jack (whom we shall refer to as 'Jack' henceforth) asked as they all settled down around the briefing room.
The older Jack (whom shall be referred to as 'O'Neill') looked at his young counterpart innocently as he lifted Joel to sit in his lap, "Oh, not bad. We just spent the last three months defeating the Ori… The Ancients finally helped us out in these last two weeks."
The younger Daniel (who shall be called 'Daniel') looked up at that, "What? That's impossible, they've only been here five days."
Young Sam (whom we shall call 'Sam') shook her head at her friend, (read and come back) "No it's not, Daniel. Remember when they first came and Kristie had to explain it to Amy that our reality is at a different place in time than theirs? It's perfectly plausible that they've experienced three months when we've only experienced a few days."
Older Sam (called Sammie, for the purpose of this scene) (ditto) looked at Sam with a smirk on her face, "Yeah, I thought so, too. So, Kristie, care to explain Jerry's comment from earlier?"
Kristie looked down, like a chastised child, "I'm invoking my right not to incriminate myself."
Jeff snorted, "You really need to stop watching those cop shows, hun."
Kristie's head shot up, a mischievous grin on her face as she turned to her husband and, "Would you prefer I go back to watching Wormhole Extreme on DVD again?"
Jeff groaned as the adults from their reality shouted, "Good God, no!" much to the amusement of their younger counterparts.
Kris snickered as she picked up Isaac and set him in Jeff's lap (the lad had been trying to get there for the past five minutes), "Then don't complain about my watching Law and Order – at least those actors actually know how to act. As for what happened with Adria, that was not my fault. I let the kids take reign. Most of the time, anyway."
O'Neill eyed her warily, "So no one's hurt? The baby?"
Raesha snorted at her uncle, "Well, at the end of the day there were six dead Priors and Adria had her ego severely beaten, but no one was hurt on our side."
Sammie looked at her niece carefully, "How do you know that, Rae?"
The ten-year-old shrugged, "I was helping them. Took me a while to get Elijah and Jacquie to calm down after the whole thing was over, though."
O'Neill nodded, along with Jeff as the younger man said, "I can accept that."
"Where's Uncle Teal'c?" Cosette asked as she walked into the briefing room with her twin sister and their brothers behind her.
The older Daniel (called 'Danny' for the purpose of this exercise) looked up with a smile at his nieces and nephews as he bounced Eva on one knee and Felix on the other, "He's at Dakara with Ry'ac, Ka'ryn, Ishta, and the kids. Oh, Ad'isa said to tell you 'hi'. He's missed talking to you guys."
Teal'c (the only one there) turned to look at Danny, "Who is this Ad'isa?"
It was O'Neill who answered, "You're son. He's eleven years old now."
"Who is the child's mother?"
"Ishta. You guys got married after you found out she was pregnant."
Sammie shook her head ruefully as she said, "I still think someone spiked that water. Both Walter and Siler found out that their wives were pregnant around the same time as everyone else."
"What are you talking about?" Sam asked.
Danny took over the narration, "Well, we found out Kris was pregnant with Raesha three weeks before finding out that Sam, Janet and Ishta were all pregnant. One month later we found out that Camilla was pregnant – but she miscarried in the second month. Janet thought that something was in the water."
Sam was adamantly shaking her head, "I can't get pregnant… well, I can, but I can't carry to term."
"Would you like to?" Kris asked, looking at the younger version of the woman who was like a mother to her in so many ways.
"What?" Sam asked, unsure she had heard correctly.
Kris's green eyes met Jack's brown ones, "Amy and Isaac can make you whole, if that's what the two of you want."
Sam smiled, happy tears coming to her eyes as she thought about being able to carry Jack O'Neill's child within her. It would be the greatest gift anyone could ever give her. She nodded once before Isaac and Amy slid off their father's lap and walked over to the woman who looked almost identical to their Auntie Sam. Amy took Jack's hand in one of hers and Sam's hand in the other, creating a link between the two as Isaac took Sam's other hand in both of his. The link wasn't really necessary, but it made the twins feel stronger as they channeled their powers.
It felt like a warm, bright light was flooding through her body, fixing the little things that were wrong with it, and healing the things that needed to be healed. Scar tissue that had formed in her uterus as a result of her mother's desire for a less troublesome pregnancy vanished, leaving in its stead a whole, healthy uterus.
Jack felt the same light flow inside him, repairing little things and bringing him closer to Sam.
The rest of the group watched, those from that realty in awe, as it took the twins only a few minutes to fix what had been broken for years. Then it was time to say goodbye.
The goodbyes were the hardest for Daniel as he watched an older version of himself pick up Eva with one arm, dropping his other hand so Felix could hold on to it as they walked through the Stargate. Hannah smiled warmly at Daniel before walking up and giving him a big hug that only a ten-year-old would have the courage and strength to bestow. She pulled down his head and whispered in his ear, "Be happy. I know my mother's dead in this reality, but Vala's very much alive." She stepped back and smiled at his bewilderment before hurrying through the gate after her father.
All too soon the visitors who had created such an impact were gone, leaving behind a reality all the better for their having been there.