Once again, General George Hammond was at the head of the SGC briefing room table. He stared in confusion – not for the first time by far – at his flagship team; at the predicament they had got themselves into, or rather the predicament that one of them had apparently got into. Once again, SG-1 were telling him things that he had a hard time believing in spite of seven years of the just as or even more unbelievable.

He was in a far from patient mood, having previously been on the phone to the President; the President having somehow received word about the security breach in the form of the boy who claimed to be Daniel Jackson.

Hammond looked at the boy who couldn't be more than fourteen or fifteen. He could see a likeness, but it was preposterous that his star archaeologist and linguist could have somehow transformed overnight to a young boy.

But, as Jack O'Neill had repeatedly asserted and/or quipped, stranger things had happened.

The boy, or Danny as Jack had taken to call him, was speaking. Hammond listened, wanting some kind of explanation, and wondering just how everyone else could appear so calm.

"What has apparently happened to me seems to resemble a number of UFO abduction case files I've read."

Jack appeared to be as confused as Hammond was despite his usual emotionless mask. The Colonel sarcastically quipped, "Yeah, little green men flew millions of light years to turn you into a kid... sure... I'll buy that."

Sam looked at Jack meaningfully as though something had occurred to her. Jack, naturally, returned the look, appearing to not understand the meaning behind it. Teal'c, of course, picked up on it but hadn't needed to as he had come to his own conclusions. The Jaffa said,

"This purported encounter is incongruous with all previous contact we have had with the Asgard."

Hammond appeared to be intrigued by what he had inferred from the Jaffa's statement. Sam glanced at Danny but looked away quickly, only to look instead at Jack. Danny appeared hurt by that but said nothing. The Colonel, however, retorted,

"I said little green men; not grey men."

Sam eyed the General briefly, addressing her words to him as she looked to Jack again. She said, "But Sir, Thor has indicated that the Asgard have been keeping an eye on human development on Earth in the past."

Hammond appeared, and felt, even more confused than he already had. He said, "But we're allies now. We've cooperated with them on a number of missions."

Danny muttered as he sank in his seat, "If this is a mission, I didn't sign up for it."

Sam forced herself to look at the teenager. She said, "What could they possibly hope to gain from secretly making you younger against your will?"

Danny shrugged, hesitantly at first as though unused to doing it in such circumstances or unsure whether the action was appropriate. He said, "Well, being however young I am now, I have a lot of hormones and..."

Jack scowled as though disgusted with a mental image that suddenly filled his head. He said, raising a hand, "Yeah, a little much information there, Stud."

Hammond looked at the Colonel in disapproval as Danny and Sam looked towards their team lead with blank looks. Teal'c, however, smirked to himself. While Jack kept up the pretence that there was nothing inappropriate about the turn his thoughts had taken, Danny cleared his throat, a touch embarrassed. He said, glancing at Sam,

"As I was saying... I appear to be a teenager – teenagers generally have higher energy requirements than adults, and they're rife with hormones. Also, my younger brain could absorb information faster compared to my adult brain." He looked at Sam and said gravely, "An Asgard Xenobiologist's field day."

Hammond asked, concerned, "What are you saying?"

Danny turned his gaze to the General. "The Asgard can learn much more about humans and their capabilities from me being like this..." He paused and looked to Sam.

Sam frowned briefly and then her eyes widened in realisation. "Oh!" When the General looked at her in confusion, she said, glancing at Daniel, "Sir, we don't – as yet – understand the ascension process. What if Daniel has some remnant of his time among the Ascended, like intel or cultural knowledge or anything else that the Asgard may want? If the answer's in his brain, then it could – in theory – be easier to access from the brain of a teenager than from a fully formed adult."

Hammond appeared even more troubled than he was as he felt the plot thicken. He said, "Or they could want to know about Earth's defences."

Jack remarked, "Yeah, somehow I don't think that's going to be an issue after Thor beamed Jonas, me, and a whole bunch of supplies out of the most secure place on the planet last year." He looked around at the bemused, and Teal'c's case: amused, faces of his team. He said casually, "There was a lot of ice cream to eat – still burning off the calories now."

Danny stared at Jack and returned his attention to the General. He said, "Anywho... I would like to cross-reference old abduction accounts, perhaps see if there are any connections between them and with what may have happened to me." He exhaled. "I would really like to be back to normal quite soon."

Jack retorted, "Normal?" When the General and Danny glared at him, Jack continued, "Yeah, and I have fish in my pond..."

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Teal'c and Sam accompanied Danny back to his office. The latter appeared red-faced and quite annoyed. As they entered the office, Danny spun around to face his colleagues. He said irately, "I'm still me!"

Sam attempted to calm him but hesitated reaching out to him. This infuriated him more. She said instead, "I doubt that a roomful of archaeologists and palaeontologists are going to take a fifteen year old seriously, regardless of how many stranger things have happened these past seven or so years."

Danny retorted fiercely, "That's fine coming from you! You can't even look me in the eye!"

Sam looked down at her feet ashamedly. Teal'c silently guided Danny to the PC. Danny stroppily sat down and then got up again. He said, still annoyed, "Teal'c, you can search online for abduction accounts from the past thirty years." He edged towards a bookcase. "I'll check out the books Jack thought would be amusing."

Sam looked at Danny a touch sheepishly. She then moved to his side. He was still her friend and... well, her friend for the time being, and he needed their help. She said on noticing his surprise, "I'll help you." Her fingers brushed his sleeve gently and she asked, "What exactly are we looking for?"

He turned to Teal'c and said, "Well, any abduction accounts that ... match my story, and, um, obviously, anyone claiming to have physically regressed several decades overnight. We just need to enter our search parameters into the database ..."

Teal'c interrupted him, a small smirk on his lips. He said, "It has already been done, DanielJackson."

Danny and Sam exchanged a bemused glance before standing behind Teal'c's seat at the computer. They exchanged another glance, and Sam exhaled, remarking, "That's a lot of people."

Teal'c replied gravely, "Indeed."

"Can we narrow down the search?"

Danny was agape at the list of records on the computer screen. He said, distractedly at first, "Um... yes... narrow it down to people who saw the same things that I did... the four green lights..."

They watched as Teal'c entered new parameters into the search engine. A new list appeared on the screen which appeared to be shorter than the previous one. Danny and Sam once again exchanged a look. Danny said,

"That... that's a little more reasonable."

He peered at the screen but before he could say anything, Sam beat him to it. She said, curious, "That's interesting. The most recent is from almost two decades ago, and eight are from the United States."

Teal'c said, "You mean to locate them. What do you hope to learn?"

Danny said, appearing shell-shocked, "I have no idea."