Chapter Two: Another Mirror?
"What do you mean another mirror?" Daniel asked.
"Just that. Made a code for England personnel and well...it's in that code. Tell you what it says later. But it does say there's another mirror...because...never mind. So, are you letting them in?" Virginia looked at Landry who nodded. "Walter, Landry says yes. And you'll be having another visitor as soon as she stops yelling about wanting to see Daniel and realizes if she does shut up, she'll see him sooner."
"Vala?" Daniel asked immediately.
"Yup," Virginia said. She waited as Walter said something. "Kids! Oh god, please say you're kidding me!" Walter obviously said something else, because after a second, she muttered a Goa'uld curse that had Teal'c looking surprised. "Uncle Hank, we really, really have to go. And Carolyn, you probably should too." She hung up, handed the phone back to Landry and shoved her computer into her bag.
"You can't leave," Pete's mom said.
Virginia slowly stood up. "What?"
"You can't leave."
"Why not?" Virginia asked.
"This is Samantha and Pete's engagement party. I won't let you ruin it by leaving," his mother said.
"Okay, look. If I don't leave," Virginia started. She sighed and closed her eyes. "Calm, calm, calm, calm, calm, calm," she muttered. She opened her eyes and stared into Pete's mother's eyes. "I'm leaving whether you like it or not. We've got big issues at the base, and if you don't let me leave, I'm gonna do something I'm going to regret."
Pete stepped forward. "I'd appreciate it if you would leave," he said.
"Fine," Virginia said. "Uncle Hank, you ready?" Landry nodded and the two walked out the door.
Everyone stared in confusion. A second later, Virginia stuck her head back in. "Oh, and Daniel, I thought you were coming to see to Vala...And Carolyn, you should come too remember."
"Right, I am," Daniel said. He and Carolyn walked out the door, though it remained open behind them.
"Well, if they're going, then I'm going to, as I need to show them something," Jacob said.
"Dad!" Mark said. "What are you doing?"
"I really need to show them something while I'm here," Jacob said.
"Go ahead dad," Sam said.
"Thanks Sammie," Jacob said, pressing a kiss to her forehead.
"You can't leave!" Pete's mother yelled.
Lucky for Virginia, she was facing away from everyone, as her eyes flashed. "Leona," Landry said to her. "Don't do anything rash."
"It is not I who would do the rash act, but rather Virginia," Leona said, her voice surprisingly normal, not at all like when Selmak took over for Jacob. She turned. "I will be leaving. You will have to deal with this fact." She turned and walked out of the house.
"You know, if Vala's back, I probably should go ask her what was going on after she left," Jack said.
"I wish to go as well," Teal'c said.
Landry's phone rang. "Landry," he said into it. "What? Got it," he said. He looked at Jack. "We've really got to go, as Vala just said something very bad."
"Like how bad?" Jack asked.
"They're coming with major forces," Landry said.
"Sam, you can't go," Pete said.
"Pete, I have to," Sam said.
"No you don't," Pete's mom said.
Sam turned to her. "I have to. It's my job."
"You don't have to do anything," Pete's mom said.
"Come on already! Get your butts out here!" Virginia yelled from outside. "And Jack, if Miss Uppity-Pain-In-The-Mikta won't let Sam go, order her to."
"Good point," Jack said. "But you should stay at your own engagement party."
"I'm going, sir," Sam said.
"Look, this is going to take forever, just order her to stay or to come already!" Virginia yelled.
"Shut up already!" Jack yelled out the door.
"Bite me!" Virginia yelled back. "I'm already in a foul mood, so don't piss me off any more than I already am!"
"Sir," Sam said. "I'm going."
"No you're not," Jack said.
"Yes I am," Sam said.
"Do not get into one of your bloody famous arguments now!" Virginia yelled from outside. "I am leaving right now and if anyone else wishes to come they had better get their butts—Skaara!"
The SGC personnel looked out the door. Skaara was indeed standing next to Virginia in surprisingly American clothes and much shorter hair. "Yes?" he asked.
"What are you doing here?" Virginia asked, evidently shocked.
"I wished to," he said. "It is good to be seeing you Daniel and O'Neill," Skaara said with a glance in their direction. "Will you be leaving now?"
"If I can get them all to GET OUT HERE!" Virginia said.
"Sam, you can't go," Pete said.
"Yu ben de hwoon dahn," Virginia said.
"And that means what?" Jack asked.
"Chinese," Virginia said.
"How do you know Chinese?" Sam asked.
"Daniel as well as Firefly and Serenity. They teach good Chinese curse words," Virginia said. "But we're leaving now!"
"Sir," Sam said. "There's nothing you can do to keep me from coming."
"He can throw you over his shoulder and lock you in your room again," Virginia said.
"He what!" Pete yelled while Daniel asked, "How did you hear about that?"
"Come on, it was during normal hours on base. And then there's the fact that she's always been notorious for never sleeping...So I just asked Uncle George—who said that Sam was working and wouldn't go to sleep, wouldn't listen to Jack when he said to go to sleep, so he threw her over his shoulder and dragged her kicking and screaming to her room and locked her in there with a guard in front of the door for ten hours. Plus I have it on video. Bribed the camera guys fifty bucks for it," Virginia said.
"Great," Sam muttered.
"You did what?" Pete yelled.
"It was like four years ago stupid," Virginia said. "Are we going? Because Vala's probably already there by now and there's five kids running around if you recall."
"Five?" Jack asked.
"Yes five," Virginia said.
"From where?" Sam asked.
"Classified," Landry said.
"Sam, you should probably come to know that I think about it…" Virginia said.
"Why?" Landry asked.
"Remember what Walter said one of the kids said?" Virginia asked.
"Right...Carter, you're coming," Landry said.
"Thank you sir," Sam said.
"You aren't going anywhere," Pete's mom said.
Sam looked at her in shock. "I have to. It's my job."
"I thought you were quitting your job. Pete's the man of the house."
"She quits her job we're all dead!" Virginia called from outside. "Are we going, or what?"
"We are," Sam said. "And I'm not quitting my job. I love my job."
"Look, you can continue this ruddy argument later!" Virginia said. "We have to go now or I'm pretty sure something is going to go very badly."
"Fine," Sam said, heading out the door.
Jack grabbed her arm. "You're staying," he said.
"Sir," Sam sighed. "I'm going."
"Just let her go already!" Virginia shouted. "We really have to get to the base!"
"She can go," Pete said quietly.
"What?" Pete's mother yelled.
As it looked like a fight was about to begin, everyone who wasn't outside the house began sneaking out. They got into the cars and drove away to the base.
Before they reached the Infirmary, they could hear Vala yelling, which caused both Daniel and Carolyn to break out into a run. When the rest of the group--Skaara still with them for some odd reason--reached the Infirmary, they saw Vala sitting on one of the beds, arms wrapped around Daniel, who had his arms wrapped around her.
--Plan three is completed!-- Virginia said.
--And plan one will shortly, if things go our way,-- Leona told her.
They got closer to Vala and Daniel and could hear Vala babbling about bloody awful Ori. "Vala," Virginia said.
Vala looked at her from over Daniel's shoulder. "What?" she asked.
"Are you all right?" Carolyn asked.
"No," Vala said.
"I'll do it," Virginia said. She looked to Landry. "I would go see to those kids now," she told him.
"Right," Landry said, heading out.
Virginia turned back to Vala. "You're gonna have to let go of each other, you know," she told them.
Vala did so, but begrudgingly and lay down. Virginia pulled out a healing device from her bag and put it on her hand.
"These aren't only used for healing," Virginia said as she held it over Vala's body. Vala threaded her fingers through Daniel's. "They scan the body too."
A white light fell from the device onto Vala's body. After a few moments, the light diminished. "There you go. All better." She turned to Carolyn. "Can I talk to you? In your office?"
Carolyn looked slightly confused, but nodded. The two of them went into her office, where Virginia closed the door. "What?" Carolyn asked. "Is something wrong with Vala?"
"Not really. I healed her, she's perfectly fine clinically…but…she's pregnant…with Daniel's child…"
SG1-SG1-SG1-SG1
"Wait...These kids are...SG-1's?" Landry asked.
"Yes sir," Walter said. "Apparently the one named Caleb is Dr. Jackson's and Vala's, and the other four are General O'Neill's and Colonel Carter's."
"This could spell trouble..." Landry mused. "What happened in their reality?"
"The Ori came and demolished their planet. The eldest saw everyone die, and grabbed the kids and ran for the mirror. They were apparently found by one of SGCUN's teams and brought here, as they are our team's children."
"SGCUN?" Landry asked.
"Ask Dr. Johnson, sir," Walter said.
"Where are they?" Landry asked.
"In one of the VIP rooms," Walter said.
"All right." Landry headed to the VIP rooms, Walter following. "Can you give me names?"
"Well, there's Caleb as I said, he's two. There's also Elizabeth, though she seems to be called Lizzie and she's two, and Patrick and Grace, their seven year old twins. The eldest is 20. Sir, I think you might want to brief him on the situation with his parents. The entire situation. Including General O'Neill's first marriage," Walter said.
"Why?" Landry asked.
"The boy's name is Charlie."