Stargate: The Third Team

Chapter 2: Dealing

By: AyLee Cambell

Disclaimer: I don't own them and there really isn't much more to say than that now is there? Nope.

An- thank you to all those who reviewed.

And yes, she came from another reality into the one we all know and love.

AN - also in the first chapter I wrote that Jordan is 5'2" to 5'3" I meant to put down that she's 5'7" to 5'8" thanks.

Everyone looked at Daniel.

He stopped laughing and looked at everyone else.

"I'm sorry, but we've been keeping score. In almost every other alternate reality Sam and Jack are together." He explained. "This is just one more that they're together. Sorry Continue."

Jordan shook her head. It was amazing that even in a totally different reality Daniel was still almost the same. She wondered if they were all going to be like their other selves.

"I take it I don't exist over here?" She asked.

"No. A Jordan O'Neill was never born in this reality." Teal'c told her.

She looked down. That was phased oddly, but she decided she'd ask about it later.

"Okay, well, that's good news for me. That means I can stay here in this reality if you'll let me."

"Why should we let you?" General Landry asked. He knew that they would most likely be letting her stay but he wanted to know what she thought she could offer by staying there. It would determine if she would find a place to be stationed on the base or if she would be given the necessary information to live a regular life outside of the Stargate.

"I've spent most of my life growing up around the Stargate. I've been taught about the gate from my mom. Daniel taught me Ancient, then he and Teal'c taught me Gou'ld. My dad, Teal'c, whatever marines were stationed here at the time, and occasionally Bra'tac, taught me how to fight and how to shoot." Jordan paused and took a breath. Then she shook her head.

"Look, I just had to leave everyone who ever meant anything to me. I had to leave them knowing that they're all dying, and I wasn't. I was going to outlive everyone of them and now I'm not even in the same reality as them, I don't even get to be there when they die. If you think I wanted to leave there and come here, you're wrong. Now I'm in the same room as three people who remind me of the people I left behind. This isn't going to be an easy process for me but it would be a little easier if I didn't have to sit here and prove that I'd be an asset to the Stargate program, because if you take that away too, you might as well just kill me now and get it over with." She told them, making eye contact with each one of them.

"They sent me with a pack. They said they'd been planning this for a couple weeks. Most likely someone thought to send my file in there. If they did you can look through it yourselves and place me where ever you think is best." She told them quietly, looking away and rubbing her hands over her face.

All the events of the day were crashing down on her and she knew the only reason she hadn't crumbled yet was because she was still feeling numb. It still didn't feel real to her yet, it felt like one long bad dream and that she'd wake up soon to find out everything was still fine and it was nothing more than a nightmare.

"General, I think we should wait until the DNA test comes back and we can also take a look through her pack. While we do this I don't see why Jordan couldn't stay in one of the VIP rooms until we know a little more." Sam said.

"Agreed." General Landry said, then motioned to the two guards still at the door. "Please escort Ms." He paused for a moment before continuing. "O'Neill to VIP room 1. Keep guards posted outside." He said then turned to look at her.

"Just a precaution, I know." Jordan said, before he could say it himself.

"Right."

As soon as the door clicked behind her she sat down on the ground. The concrete was cold and hard but she barely noticed it. Leaning back against the wall she closed her eyes and took deep breaths. She was going to have to face the truth at some point, it might as well be now.

This, if everything went okay, was going to be her new reality, her new home. She was going to have to get used to not knowing everything about the people around her, they were all strangers to her. Strangers with faces she recognized.

Tears streamed down her face silently. She just sat there and cried for everything that was gone.

Daniel found Sam in her lab.

"Hey." Daniel said, coming and sitting down in one of her chairs.

Sam looked up from what she was doing then looked back down. "Hey, Daniel." She said.

"How are you taking all of this?" He asked her.

She stopped messing with the unknown thing one of the SG teams had left in her office for her to figure out and looked up at him.

"I don't know what to think of this, of Jordan." She told him honestly. "She's not my daughter but I can't help but feel something towards her when I look at her. When she almost started crying in the briefing room when she was talking about everyone in her reality the only thing I could think of was that she needed to be comforted." She said.

"She looks like Jack." Daniel said, picking up something on her desk and looking away from her for a moment before his attention focused on her again and he put the item back on her desk.

"She does." Sam agreed. "God, what's he going to think about all of this?"

"We'll he's on his way. General Landry called him as soon as we all left." Daniel said pausing a moment before continuing. "I think he's going to like her."

Sam looked at him. She half grinned at him. "She seems to have his sense of humor."

Daniel raised his eyebrows. "God help us if she ends up staying or if they end up getting along. One Jack is bad enough, I don't know if we could handle two." He joked.

Sitting back for a moment he thought about Jordan. "She said she's learned from all of us, been there during everything that's happened on the base. Can you imagine that?" He mused out loud.

"Not everything is the same. Our two realities separated a long time ago. Before she was even born, maybe a while before it. We really couldn't pinpoint the exact moment without talking to her and even then she might not know." Sam said, thinking. "A lot of different things could have happened to her or anyone in her reality."

"So. What do you think of Jordan?" He asked her, curious.

Sam sighed. "I don't know what to think. But, I do think that I want to get to know her better. In an alternate reality she's my daughter. I guess I can't just ignore that. I'm not going to go jumping into trying to be mother of the year or anything but if she's going to stay here then I'll try to be her friend." Sam told him honestly.

"Well, that's good." He said, standing up again. "Everything in you're lab the same as you left it before going to Atlantis?" He asked and when she nodded he sighed. "Yeah, mine too. You'd think the paperwork would have at least been cleared out. You up to grabbing lunch? Teal'c should be there." He asked.

Sam shook her head as she stood up. "You've spent way to much time around Jack." She told him as they walked out of her lab.

"I know. Now, do you think Jordan actually knows Ancient and Gou'ld or do you think she was making that up. Personally I find it hard to believe anyone with some of Jack's DNA would sit still enough to learn those languages but she does have some of you're DNA as well so it could be possible." Daniel said.

Sam laughed. "You just want to win the bet you and Jack made over 3 years ago." She told him.

"Yeah, well, when we made the bet he never said it couldn't be someone related to him through an alternate reality." Daniel told her as they entered the commissary.

General Landry and Colonel Cameron Mitchell were both in General Landry's office. They were talking about a few things but mostly the members of SG-1 and Jordan O'Neill.

"Well sir, Sam and Daniel just got back from spending over six months in Atlantis. Teal'c is visiting them from Dakara where he and Bra'tac lead the Jaffa. Vala is off bothering SG-9 and anyone else who comes near her, and Daniel who she wont leave alone. And I, well sir, you know that I help train the new recruits and occasionally go through the gate. I'd say that Sg-1 isn't really SG-1 anymore. We've all moved on, as much as I hate to say it. I think it might be time to pass on the name.

I love going through the gate, don't get me wrong. But without the rest of SG-1 it just isn't my team anymore. I like training the newbies how to fly the F-302's, and the rest of them what to do in preparation to being stationed here and going through the gate. I still want to be able to go through the gate with other teams but without Sam, Daniel, and Teal'c, I don't want to pick out a new team to lead." Cam told General Landry.

"Understandable, in a way." He said then sighed. "I'm going to tell you something that not many people know yet, so keep it to yourself." Landry said and after a pause in which Cam nodded his head, he continued.

"Jack is retiring. It's been in the process for a little over a month now. The president's giving me the position. That means that pretty soon there is going to be someone new to take over my position. It's just time for a change."

"Any idea who's going to be the new General?" Cam asked.

"A few." Landry told him but didn't go into more detail than that.

"Okay." Cam said, getting the point.

General Landry knew and wasn't going to tell him.

Jordan didn't know what woke her, didn't know how she could even fall asleep in such an uncomfortable position while still on world, but knew that something had woken her up.

Sitting up from her slouched position on the hard floor she stood up at about the same moment she recognized that the voices she heard were coming from outside her door.

"So that's what woke me up." She mused to herself as she walked over to her bed and sat down. She would have probably laid down and tried to catch another couple hours of sleep if the door hadn't started to open.

"Guess they want to talk." She mumbled as she turned to look at whoever it was that was visiting her.

Brown eyes met familiar brown eyes as she looked at her father.

Okay so that is chapter two!

Chapter three will be bringing in some other characters besides just Jordan and how everyone is reacting to her. I hope that I kept the charactors in, well, charactor. I've watched stargate for years and I think I've got a feel for them but it's hard to write that down so here's hoping I guess.

Please review if you like it.

If you have any questions I'll try to answer them as well.