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THURSDAY

Sam stood on the bridge of the Odyssey with the crew and Cam. The electromagnetic generator they built had just been beamed into position outside the ship and Teal'c was waiting in a spacesuit to connect it to the Odyssey for the time being. The plan was to send The Other Daniel and Sha're back with a radio so they could let them know if they had successfully gotten back to their Abydos.

"How is it going out there, Teal'c?" Sam asked, hoping he was almost done.

"The generator is attached, Colonel Carter," came Teal'c's reply over the comms. "I am returning inside."

"Thank you. We'll see you in a few," replied Sam, grateful that part was over with. She picked up her radio from the console and called down to Vala. "Vala, it's Sam."

"Sam, how are things up there?" Vala asked from her set up in the control room monitoring solar flare activity.

"We just got the electromagnetic generator attached and systems look good," Sam told her looking over the officer's shoulder at the computer, "any idea when our next flare will be?"

"Twenty-four minutes," reported Vala, " and another should be happening two hours after that. Sha're and this Daniel are ready to go when we are."

"Got it. We'll shoot for the first one," Sam planned, using her tablet get a reading on the controls of her electromagnetic generator.

"Colonel Carter, I am inside," Teal'c told her over the comms.

Sam nodded, more to herself, "Good. Vala, I'm starting the generator and I'll send you the data of the field as well."

"Thanks!"

Twenty-two minutes later Sam had readings of good sized electromagnetic field with her generator.

"One minute until the flare," Vala told her, "We're getting read to dial the gate. I see the electromagnetic field is doing well."

"I'm showing the same readings," confirmed Sam tapping on the tablet, "I'm going to keep it going just in case."

"We're starting the dialing sequence now."

"Copy."

Sam, Cam, Teal'c and the Odyssey crew waited on the bridge to hear the status of the their mission.

"Waiting is the worst part!" Cam lamented, from Sam's far right.

Teal'c raised an eyebrow in agreement. "Indeed it is."

Vala's voice came over the radio, "They made it back to their correct time and reality. We did it!"


Vala left the control room and walked with as much bounce as one could being 20 weeks pregnant. Successful missions always made her happy. She arrived at the elevator just as Daniel and Skylar exited.

"I was just going to get my phone to see how much longer you would be," she said, giving Daniel a quick kiss.

"Did they get back okay?" Daniel asked, still holding Skylar's hand.

Vala nodded, "Everything went perfectly and Teal'c is removing the generator from the Odyssey now. They'll be down soon. Now tell me! How was the dentist?"

"It was great!" Sky reported, "No cavities and I have a loose tooth!" She pointed to the general area of said loose tooth, "Now do we get to see the baby? I haaaave to know if it's a brother or a sister!"

"Then let's go!" Vala grinned, her daughter's excitement mirroring her own, "Carolyn is waiting for us and she might have a little something for you. But only if you walk quickly and don't run."

Skylar took off for the infirmary doing her best power walk, and Vala slid her arm through Daniel's as they made their way down the hall.

"I swear I'm fine," Daniel told his ever-plotting wife.

Vala looked at him with faux shock, "Whatever do you mean, Darling? I couldn't just want to walk down the hall with my husband sending our daughter off to…" with his look telling her he didn't believe a word she was saying she fessed up, "yeah, you know me too well."

"I will always miss my Sha're like you will miss your Tarek," he said, "but knowing that in that reality she's okay, I'm fine. And as you decided, you're okay too. Maybe there's another reality where I didn't go to Abydos and Sha're is also fine. Alternate realities are limitless."


"Okay, we're all here," Cam said from his seat at the table in the commissary once Daniel, Vala, and Skylar arrived, "Can you tell us if it's a boy or a girl? I got 20 bucks on boy."

"I do believe you are incorrect, Colonel Mitchell," Teal'c disagreed, bowing his head slightly.

Olivia looked at Jack, "Daddy why does Uncle Cam have twenty dollars on a boy? What boy is it?"

Jack laughed, "It means he's betting money that your Aunt Vala is having a boy."

"But he would be wrong," smirked Vala pulling the ultrasound photos out of her pocket and placing them on the table, "because we're having another girl."

Sam grinned, getting up to hug Vala. "I knew it! Congratulations."

"Yeah!" Sky smiled, "Me and Liv are having a sister!"

"Sweetheart, Liv isn't your sister, she's your cousin," Daniel gave his daughter the simplest explanation of their relationship, "You're getting a sister, but Liv is getting a cousin."

Cam handed Teal'c twenty dollars. "Now tell me this. Is there an alternate reality where I won this bet - one where Jackson and Vala are having a boy instead of a girl?"

"It is possible, yes," nodded Sam, taking her seat again, "There are an infinite number of alternate realities that come from any point in time."

"I like this one best," Skylar ginned.


Author's Post Story Notes

Okay honestly, tell me Skylar and Olivia won't rule the world. If you haven't looked it up already Skylar is Egyptian for scholar and Olivia is my favorite name. I would name my own child Olivia.

As for The Other Daniel and Sha're's kids - Akil is Egyptian for intelligent and Lev is Hebrew for lion which refers to strength. I spent way too much time on those names for them to only be referenced lol.

Some people might think that Daniel should have been more affected by seeing Sha're and I went back and forth on the matter but my thoughts are - as you see in chapter 1 - it has been 18 years since they got married. Not that I want to downplay what he went though. I drew a timeline for this to figure out that yes, I was right in how long it has been. Yes, it did affect him. But Daniel has also been to other timelines and I felt that he would be comforted by the fact that Sha're was okay in this alternate timeline.

And of course Vala makes friends with Sha're, gets Sam in on the plan, and gets her off base. It's what she does.