Janet found herself outside in the pouring rain. She hadn't known where she was going when she had stormed out of the infirmary, it was as if she was on autopilot. Now she couldn't tell the tears from the raindrops. She didn't know what had happened in there, she had every intention of going in and telling him just how much she wanted him in her life, just how much she needed him. Her talk with his counterpart confirmed that. Instead they had ended up arguing, and she felt, losing any chance they ever had of being happy. She knew that what he was saying made sense, she knew that in his own fumbling way Daniel was trying to tell her he didn't want to lose her, or want her to put herself through something like this after recent events, it just hit a nerve when he told her he didn't want her to help their own child...as if the idea was disgusting to him. She knew however now that it wasn't the case and she felt terrible. She should've at least listened, and now here she was alone in the rain, major surgery going to be occurring in the foreseeable future and all she wanted was the one man she had just pushed away.

"Mom?" Came a voice from beside her.

"Cass? What are you doing here?" Janet asked her daughter who sat down beside her and handed her a coat.

"Sam called me. She told me I should come to the base. What's up? You're not sick, are you?" she asked the woman she considered her mother worriedly.

"No honey I'm fine." Janet told her, putting her arm around the young woman and holding her tight.

"Then what's the matter? Why are you sitting outside in the rain?" she asked looking up at her mother with her blue eyes.

"Sweetheart I'm going to be having surgery." She told the child.

"But you said you weren't sick." Cassandra commented.

"Honey, you remember a few months ago Sam explained alternate universes to you...how there are an infinite number of universes each following different paths in a persons life."

Cassandra nodded.

"I sure remember Jacks face when she was explaining it to me." Cassandra told Janet with a small smile.

"Well today we had a visitor from an alternate universe. An alternate Daniel...from the future."

"You did?"

"Uh huh. Remember when you were sick honey? And I didn't know how to help you."

Cassandra nodded sadly.

"Mom I'm so sorry about some of the stuff I said. About how I called you doctor Fraiser and was so horrible to you." She told her with tears in her eyes.

"Honey it's not about that." Janet told the young woman hugging her reassuringly. "You were sick. You didn't know what you were saying. Look sweetheart in his universe Daniel and I are married."

"You're married? Cool." Cassandra commented, then quietening down again.

"We also have children. Now one of them she's really sick."

"Like I was?" Cassandra asked, wiping the rain away from her face and shivering slightly.

"No honey. She had a kidney infection...she started to get better then one of the SG teams brought another through the gate. She's very sick and to live...she needs a kidney transplant. Now they've done all the tests but the only person who's a suitable donor is her mother, and that's me."

"But you have a counterpart who could do that. She could give her the kidney." Cassandra told her beginning to get upset.

"No honey she can't. If she could, I promise I wouldn't be doing this."

"Why can't she?" Cassandra asked. "Mom why?" she asked tears streaming down her face.

"She's pregnant Cass."

"So you have to do this." The tearful teenager asked.

"Honey I want to." Janet told her beginning to get upset herself. "When I thought I was losing you it was as if my heart was breaking. I felt so scared and so useless. It's a horrible feeling. My counterparts feeling exactly the same honey, if she wasn't pregnant, she could help, and she's blaming herself. I don't want her to do that, it's not good for her or the baby. Cass I can help and I want to. Do you understand that?"

"Mom please? Please don't do this. I don't want to lose you, not like I did my mom from Hanka. I love you so much, mom please..." Cassandra pleaded.

"Oh sweetheart I love you too, just like the other Janet does you and all her other children. That's why I need to do this Cass, because losing Kelly would hurt so much, just like the thought of losing you did."

"But what if you die...what if something goes wrong?" Cassandra asked.

"Nothing's going to go wrong Cassie I promise you. And if it does...honey I want you to know that as far as I'm concerned you are my daughter and I love you more then I ever thought I could love anyone."

"Mom don't talk like something's going to happen. Please don't go through with this." She whispered.

"Cass honey please, I need your support here. I can't do this alone." Janet told the teenager totally losing the strong front she was putting on and breaking down herself.

Cassandra put an arm around her mother's shoulder and cuddled up to her. Even though she was now a teenager the woman sitting beside her had taken care of her for years now and she couldn't imagine being with anyone else.

"Mom please don't cry. That's my job." Cassandra told her.

Janet smiled.

"If you really feel you have to do this mom I'll stand by you. You're not alone." Cass told her. "I mean look what you've done for me over the years, and after everything I said when I was sick...and you doing what you did to get me through it, I owe you so much not to stand by you through this."

"Thank you sweetheart." Janet told Cassandra kissing her on the forehead the pair then hugging.

"So why are you out here in the rain?" Cassandra asked her mother, pulling her jacket tightly around her. "You looked pretty upset."

"I uh...just had an argument with someone very special to me."

"Daniel?" Cassandra asked.

"How did you know?" Janet asked the teenager.

"I know these things mom. I can see it when you're together. In your eyes, like when I was sick and he was watching you."

Janet blushed.

"So what happened?" Cassandra asked.

"Lets just say he reacted kinda like you did honey." Janet replied with a sigh.

"It's only because he cares mom. He doesn't want to see you hurt in this, he doesn't want you to go through everything that is gonna come with your having this surgery. I mean you've already been through so much these past few months' mom."

"I know sweetheart." Janet told her.

"You should talk to him, you should at least sort this out. I've seen the way he looks at you. You might as well talk things through before you do this."

"When did you get so smart?" Janet asked.

"I have a good role model." Cassandra replied. "Don't go through this with any regret's mom, because too many people could potentially get hurt." Cassandra then added as the sun came out and the pair just sat there, Cass with her head on her mothers shoulder, each glad to have the other as such an important figure in their lives.