"Okay so am I right in guessing this is another Alternate Universe situation?" Jack O'Neill asked.

"Yes you are." The older Daniel replied.

"And you got here how? Through the Stargate?"

"No, actually the Quantum mirror." The older Daniel replied looking at the people around the table and studying them, much the same as they were studying him.

"But I thought that was destroyed?" Sam asked the General.

"We intended for it to be destroyed. But it was decided that it may one day be of some use so we just deactivated it and stored it at Area 51."

"And I reactivated it from my universe." The older Daniel added. "Look General I don't have much time."

"I understand that son." The General replied sadly. "However what you are here for cannot be taken lightly and these people, and two in particular need to know what they are getting involved in."

Jack cleared his throat.

"Does someone feel like explaining to us just what the hell is going on? " Jack asked impatiently. "I could be fishing." He added making Sam grin.

The older Daniel took a deep breath and rubbed his eyes which clearly belonged to a tired man.

"The truth is...I need your help. My daughter is sick and the only way she's going to be able to live..."

"Daughter? You have a daughter?" Daniel asked his counterpart obviously amazed.

"Actually I have two daughters, a step daughter, a son, and a baby girl on the way."

"Big family." Sam commented.

"Yeah but I wouldn't have it any other way."

"So you're married?" Daniel asked again.

"Yes I am. I have been for sixteen years." The older Daniel replied smiling, fiddling with his wedding ring. "To an amazing woman." He added.

"So what's wrong with your daughter?" Janet asked turning to face the older Daniel, who though visibly aged was still as handsome as the Daniel who was sitting on the other side of her.

The older Daniel looked down at his hands on his lap, his eyes filling with tears for what his little girl was going through.

"Two weeks ago she got an infection. An SG team brought it back through the gate. She already had a kidney infection but this one made it worse and now not even dialysis is doing its job. She needs a transplant but we can't find a donor, and if she doesn't get one soon she's going to die." He explained quietly.

"That is most unfortunate." Teal'c replied. "It is difficult when your child is ill."

"Yeah it is." Janet replied quietly. "And you can't find one donor?"

"There is one...my wife, her mother but she can't donate and I wouldn't ask her to."

"Why not?" Daniel asked turning to face his counterpart.

"Because she's pregnant. She only has a couple of weeks left but we don't think Kelly will last that long. I don't want her to risk her life or our childs and she's beating herself up over it. That's why we need your help. We need her counterpart to...we're asking if..."

"Who...is her counterpart?" Daniel asked curious as to whom he was married to and had a family with in the alternate universe.

The older Daniel looked around the table. Sam was holding her breath in case it was her, Jack was holding his for the same reason and Janet was just looking at him her brown eyes looking deep into his.

He turned to face her.

"We're asking if you would donate a kidney to our child." He told her, then promptly looking down at his hands again. "I know this is a lot to take in all in one go but it's happened, and she is dying, We're asking that you think about this..."

"Wait...you want Janet to go through the mirror to your world, have major surgery, give your daughter one of her kidneys...go through all that trauma and then send her back here to get on with her life like nothings happened?" Daniel asked his counterpart.

"I know it's a lot to ask, but this is Kelly's only hope. A donor hasn't been made available quick enough and she's going to die if...look we're not trying to pressure you, it's your choice...there are other universes to try but...look I'm sorry I should never have asked this of you." The older Daniel told them, then getting up.

Janet put a hand over his.

"I know how hard it is when your child is ill and there isn't a thing you can do to help. I know how helpless you feel, I know you'd do anything to see them better...I just...at least give me a few hours to decide. This is a lot to take in." Janet told him.

"Believe me. I know that." The older Daniel replied.

"And we were called in why?" Jack asked.

"If Doctor Fraiser does indeed decide to go through this surgery, I want SG-1 to accompany her through the mirror. This is a hard enough decision to make without her having to go through this alone." General Hammond told them. "Now I suggest that everyone discuss this and decide what... Dr Jackson where are you going?" the General asked Daniel who had gotten up out of his seat and walked towards the door.

"I uh...I need some air." He told the group then leaving.

"I'll go see if he's okay." Jack told the group then also leaving.

"I guess I'm not the only one who has a lot to deal with." Janet told them.

"No, I don't suppose you are. If you'll excuse me, I have to welcome SG:8 back on the base." General Hammond told them then also stepping out of the room, though not before giving Janet a sympathetic nod.

"Look I'm a bit wiped out. I think I'm going to go get something to eat. Will you be okay?" the older Daniel asked Janet obviously concerned about what he was asking of her.

"I'll be fine." She replied though not entirely sure herself. It felt as if her world had been turned upside down, and the one person who she wanted to help her through this had just left without giving her a second glance. She couldn't even tell him how she felt for fear she would scare him away, even at a time where she needed him most.

"Thank you for thinking about this." The older Daniel told before he too left, snapping her out of her thoughts, the older man immediately followed by Teal'c who had obviously decided to keep an eye on Daniel's older counterpart while he was there.

Sam moved from the chair opposite Janet to the chair beside her.

"So..." she stated uncomfortably sitting down.

Janet looked at her friend.

"Daniel looked really upset...our Daniel." Sam told her.

"Yeah he did." Janet replied quietly, remembering the look on Daniel's face when he heard what his counterpart was asking her to do.

"What are you gonna do?" Sam asked.

"Oh Sam, I don't know. This is so hard. I want to help her, I really do and this time I can help. But I'm so scared." Janet replied putting her head in her hands.

"I know you are." Sam told her friend rubbing her back.

"Finding out that in another universe I have a brood of kids is weird enough, but then to find out I'm married to Daniel, a guy who I've only really just started to connect with here...everything's changed in just one day and I have no idea what to do." Janet told her sitting back in her chair.

"What would you like to do?" Sam asked softly.

"I'd like to help her. When Cass was sick, I couldn't and I felt so helpless Sam. The horrible thing is I know exactly how the other Janet must be feeling now and that's pretty crappy, especially knowing that she could help but there's no way she can because of the baby. But this time I can help and I think I should. That doesn't stop me from wishing he'd never come though, and I know that sounds a cruel thing to say but you saw Daniel..."

"What's up with you two?" Sam asked.

"We're getting on, we're finally starting to talk and spend time with each other and that's great. It feels right. I mean when Cass was sick and he took my hand in his that was the first time I think I ever really saw him as a friend, or someone who cared...someone who believe it or not I could fall in love with. But seeing his face when he left here...I didn't know what to feel. It certainly didn't feel like he wanted to support me in this...and I think he's the one I need to do it." Janet added quietly sighing.

"Maybe you should try talking to him about this Janet. He obviously has an opinion...it's your child who's sick albeit a child in an alternate universe."

"I guess I should, I just... I don't know the words, especially now after realising how much... I think I'm going to go through with this Sam, for Kelly's sake and I know it's the right thing to do. I just, I'm hurting Daniel and I don't know why."

"Then you should talk. If you care about him as much as I think you do then it's right that you go through this together, you never know it might bring you closer."

Janet nodded.

"There's someone else I gotta see first." Janet replied getting up. "Thanks Sam."

"No problem." Sam replied. "And Janet..."

Her friend turned around.

"Daniel does care about you...a lot. What you just saw...I just don't think he wants you to go through all that." Sam told her.

"Yeah, and I think I know another young woman who's gonna behave exactly the same way." Janet told her best friend as she left for the commissary.