Quick note: My apologies for screwing up chapter 12 and 14 so much. I seriously recommend that if you read them anytime before today (the 27th) that you go back and read them again. There was a ton of stuff left out and wrongly arranged. SORRY!

Thank you TONS to Emerald Green Queen for not only pointing this out to me, but for reviewing each and every chapter. You definitely give me motivation to keep on going! I have a lot more written out, but I'm still trying to piece things together before I post it all at once and have nothing left to work with. I'll admit, this next part may seem very confusing, but if you just keep reading (hehe, almost said watching) it'll make sense soon, enough, I promise! Okay, read on!

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"Daniel's with her. They've been gone a good fifteen minutes now. The SGC is trying to locate him with the honing device in your remote. It should have been me. Danny's probably trying to talk to these… things… while I would've taken charge and brought her home."

"That's not fair, and you know it. Daniel would put Haley first above any curiosities. Wouldn't you rather Haley is with him than somebody she's unfamiliar with?"

Jack's pacing back and forth was starting to get to Sam. She grabbed his arm to pull him down to the couch but he yanked it away from her. "Maybe if you were here Carter we could've fixed this situation immediately and Haley wouldn't have to be stuck with him who knows where."

"Where's Lt. Reed?" Sam practically whispered.

"He's in the kitchen on the phone with Hammond. I think he wants us to return to the base, but I'd rather not leave the house."

"I should have gone straight there. How am I going to explain this to Hammond?" Sam muttered to herself.

"Like I said, you should have stayed all along…"

"And that would have gone over very well when Haley disappeared and I magically show up down the hall in my CO's bedroom!" she hissed, still keeping her eyes out for Reed.

"I know you would've found a way to get them back."

"Sir, I'm sorry that Haley was taken, you know how much I care about that girl, but there was nothing I could have done about it, and my being here could seriously jeopardize our careers."

"Bull." Jack walked over to the fireplace and studied some of the pictures on his mantle. There was one of Haley and Daniel, her cheeks slightly red from all the attention she was receiving from her favorite archeologist. Where are you two? Sam considered joining Jack across the room, but decided to remain seated on the couch. Reed cautiously reentered the room as if making sure he wasn't interrupting anything.

"Colonel O'Neill, sir, General Hammond requests yours and Major Carter's presence at the base. He told me to stay here in case Doctor Jackson or your daughter should return."

Jack nodded and immediately headed for the door. Carter wasn't far behind. She nearly bumped into him on the front stoop when he stopped in his tracks and muttered a curse.

"What's the matter?"

"Daniel blocked me in, and now he's gone, with his keys of course."

"Don't worry about it, you can come with me."

"You're not worried what Hammond will think?" With a sigh Sam refused to answer Jack and headed for the car. When he didn't immediately follow she shot him an angry glare and at once he got into her car. The entire ride was filled with silence. Jack was too angry at the world to speak and ready to lash out at any given opportunity. Sam knew his patterns far too well, and not in the mood to be hurt, decided not to push any buttons.

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Her body felt weightless. She was floating, in which direction she was unsure, but suddenly it occurred to her that she hadn't taken a breath in a while, if even once. She thrust her body in what felt to be upwards and gasped for air as her head escaped from whatever it was she had been in. As Haley's eyesight began to clear and focus she took in the scene around her, she was protruding through a stargate! She sharply inhaled and quickly closed her eyes, falling back through again. When her eyes reopened she was underwater and swallowing water. She again ascended to the surface and coughed a few times before clearing her chest. She quickly spun around when a little hand grabbed her shoulder.

A dirty blonde haired little girl of about four or five was giggling at the look of utter confusion on Haley's face. "Who are you?" Her big blue eyes lit up and her giggling turned into a fit of laughter. Haley started to feel dizzy and pulled herself out of what she now recognized to be a hot tub on her father's deck. How long have I been out for? She shuddered knowing that not only had it been long enough for the hot tub to be installed, but she had no memory of getting into the hot tub. At least the SGC personal guard seemed to have gone away. Her head was now spinning so she didn't notice the person sit next to her, whose lap the little girl immediately thrust herself into.

"Hale, is everything okay?" Sam questioned.

"Sam, thank God you're here, nothing is right!" Sam raised her eyebrow slightly and gently lifted the child off of her.

"Ella go inside and see if Daddy is finished putting sunscreen on your sister." The little girl smiled and ran into the house to do her job. "I guess this 'you take one kid I'll take the other' bit will never quite work out efficiently enough with your father," Sam grinned, rolling her eyes. She saw the anxious look on Haley's face and remembered why she banished the child. "What's the matter?"

"I don't know, but nothing is right! Who's that little girl? How long have I been gone for? Even you look different Sam! Since when is your hair long enough for a ponytail? Yes, maybe little, but still… NOTHING'S RIGHT!"

As tears formed in Haley's eyes, Sam's grew wider with concern. "I don't quite understand Hales, what's the last thing you remember?"

"Daniel… he and some other guy, I can't remember his name, were guarding me. I went to bed, next thing I know I'm here, on the deck. You look different, some little kid is running around, and I'm beginning to believe that she's YOURS and my dads!"

"That is nearly six years worth of memories you're missing! Where do I even begin?"

"Are you two married?"

"If she says no there may be some issues to deal with," Jack interrupted, smiling and carrying two girls onto the deck. One was Ella, the other- although caked on with sunscreen- appeared to look just like her. When neither Sam nor Haley smiled he felt a nervous jolt in his stomach. He set the girls down on the deck and tried to think fast. "Why don't you two play with the chalk over there?"

"Okay Daddy!" the girl covered in sunscreen said, pulling Ella with her.

Making sure the girls were within his range of vision, but far enough not to hear, Jack asked, "What the hell is going on?"

"That's what I've been wondering myself," Haley countered.

"Haley has no recollection of the past six years," Sam offered, trying to speed things along.

"How is that possible?" Haley and Jack asked at the same time. A slight smile was shared between the two before their worries quickly returned.

"Did you bump your head or anything when you were swimming?" Sam questioned.

"It doesn't hurt; I don't feel any bumps…" Haley recounted her last memories before she found herself in the hot tub. Sam went off to call Janet, leaving Haley and Jack alone on the deck. He glanced over at the little girls working on some kind of chalk masterpiece on the walkway. "Are… are those my…"

"Sisters? Yeah. Ella, well Ellinor, and Allison, Allie."

"Just the two of them?" Jack nodded. "Twins I'm guessing."

"How'd you guess?"

Haley chuckled slightly. "How old are they?"

"Four and a half." Haley scrunched up her face for a moment thinking, but Jack answered her thoughts before she could even voice them. "We've been married just over five years." Haley started to do the math, but once again her thoughts were cut short. "Honeymoon babies. I swear," Jack held his hands up.

"Ew. How old am I?"

"Twenty-one."

"Wow. This is too strange… Although I could deal with being twenty-one…"

"They changed the drinking age to thirty," Jack countered.

"Ah okay, I totally believe that one." Haley looked over at the girls again, who were so clearly a mix of both their parents. They both had Sam's eyes, Jack's hair and smile, Sam's nose… "Daddy?"

"Yeah Hale?"

"Do they ever ask who I am?"

"You're their sister."

"Not their full sister. Don't they ever question who my mother is? I don't call Sam 'Mom', right?"

"No, you don't, and they know that she's not your biological mother, but we've told them that she's known you almost your whole life."

"I guess that's a half-truth seeing as I entered your lives at the same time."

"Yet we all still remember you being young, false memories or not. In our memories Sam's known you since you were about nine or ten."

"Who did you think was my mother?"

Jack sighed and pushed back his hair. "You've asked me this before…"

"Well in my memories I haven't yet, so please tell me," Haley pushed.

"I never thought about it. You know I don't delve into the past if I don't need to. All I knew was that your mom was out of the picture."

"So you didn't think it was Sarah?"

"Did you?"

"No, I think I thought exactly like you did. Figured she split when I was little and that's why you didn't like to talk about her." Haley smiled at the similarities in her personality and Jack's. Well, she was kind of his clone, after all.

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Janet wasn't answering her phone, but Sam left her urgent messages to call back. She and Jack convinced Haley to just stay calm until they could figure out what was going on. Nobody wanted to scare the girls, especially if this was just some temporary bought of confusion.

Haley rummaged through her drawers and found a change of clothes. Her room wasn't all that different, just newer pictures, different sheets, nothing major. She carefully studied the pictures lined up. It was interesting to see her and her friends looking older. There were also new people that Haley did not recognize, including a very cute guy with his arm around her waist. With a happy and curious "hmmm" Haley decided she'd ask Sam if she knew anything later. Haley decided to pull her hair into a ponytail, and immediately realized she hadn't yet looked in the mirror. Her hair was lighter, obviously highlighted, and slightly longer. She looked the same, yet different. Older, mostly, mature looking too, she smiled. Her careful assessment was interrupted by light pounding on the door.

"Come in!"

"Haley, it's time for dinner, Mommy told me to get you," the little girl (she was unsure if it was Ella or Allie) grabbed her hand and pulled her downstairs to the dining room. Luckily she and her sister were not dressed alike- one was wearing a pink dress with pigtails and matching bows in her hair; while the other (the one who retrieved Haley) was wearing a blue tee shirt and matching skirt, her hair down. Haley wondered if Sam had purposely dressed them differently so she wouldn't get confused.

"Thanks Allie," Jack said, lifting the little girl onto her booster seat. That's Allie, Haley tried to study her to see if there were any visible signs. The only major one being that she was the more extroverted of the two. She'd try to remember that. Jack went to help Sam in the kitchen, leaving Haley with her sisters. Sisters, she still couldn't get over that.

"Guess what we're having for dinner Haley," Allie excitedly asked.

"I don't know, why don't you tell me," she replied, smiling at the girl's enthusiasm.

"Sapeggy!" Allie cried.

"It's spa-get-E," Ella corrected. "Mommy makes spaghetti every Wednesday. You know that!"

"Silly me, I forgot!" Haley laughed.

"An', an' fursdays we get pizza!" Allie squealed.

"THAT I remember!" Old habits die hard. Sam and Jack walked in balancing all the plates in their hands. The food was passed around and the girls very quickly made a mess. Meanwhile, Haley attempted to get more information out of her father about her life.

"Why aren't I at school right now?"

"Silly! There's no school in the summer!" Ella giggled. Haley made an "O" with her mouth and tried to think of more questions.

"Daddy,"

"Yeah Hale?"

"What ever happened with the Asgard?" Jack's eyes bugged out a little, and Sam choked on her drink.

"What's that?" Allie asked.

"Aliens," Jack answered matter-of-factly.

"Aliums aren't real Daddy!" Allie informed him.

"I think Daddy was just playing around, hon," Sam said, collecting the dirty dishes. Haley stood up to help clear the table while Jack attempted to clean the sauce off the girl's faces.

"Hale, the girls didn't grow up running around the SGC like you did."

"Sorry Sam, but I really do need to know the truth, what happened with the Asgard?"

Sam's jaw tightened and it was obvious she was trying to come up with a way to get Haley to stop asking questions. "They're off in their own quadrant of the galaxy somewhere minding their own business, I believe. I'm not entirely sure what they've been up to lately."

"Right…" Haley rinsed off her dish and placed it in the dishwasher. "Daddy said I'm twenty-one,"

"Yes, and?"

"That means I'm not a minor, I deserve to know my medical history."

"So far you haven't asked anything about your medical history, what would you like to know? I mean I probably can't answer most of your questions, Janet's more the woman for that job…"

Haley squinted and studied Sam's face. She knew that Sam wasn't actually lying to her, but was very aware of the fact that she could be very good at withholding the whole truth. She decided that an all out attack would only raise Sam's defenses more, so she would find a way to trick her over a period of time.

"So tell me about my boyfriend," Haley grinned, wanting to hear about the hottie from her picture.

Relieved that Haley had temporarily given up, Sam was very excited to tell all. "Well, his name is Ben; he's a really great guy. You actually met him at the SGC." Haley raised an eyebrow and Sam chuckled. "Ben's a little bit older than you; he's twenty-four, a lieutenant in the air force."

"What?" Haley was shocked; she could truly see her dad flipping out about this. "How'd I meet him?"

"You came to visit the SGC when you were home for spring break. Your father and I were in meetings and Dan-"

"Wait-"

"What is it?"

"You still work at the SGC? Do you go off world?"

"I work there in a pretty limited capacity these days, mostly, believe it or not, half days, and I rarely if ever go off world."

"I'm glad."

"Don't worry; your sisters are my first priority these days." Sam looked into the dining room where Jack had a squirming Ella pinned to the ground, pretending to struggle at washing off her face.

Haley smiled, though slightly jealous, that these girls were getting the life she never had. "Tell me more about Ben."

"Well he was to be your escort around the base, but since you were kept waiting for quite some time, the two of you got to know each other pretty well. You spent a good chunk of your vacation seeing him."

"You knew?"

"Actually, not at first. You were pretty quiet about it, obviously afraid of your dad's reaction. You told me at the beginning of the summer, when you were nervous about breaking the news to Jack."

"Daddy flipped, right?"

Sam let out a sly smile, "well he did threaten to send Lieutenant Morgan to Antarctica, but I convinced him that would not be in his best interests if he ever wanted to speak to his daughter again."

"Thanks Sam. So I've been dating a LIEUTENANT in the Air Force for five months!" Haley was a little overwhelmed by this information.

"FIVE MONTHS?" Jack walked into the kitchen, his eyes bugging out a little. "What happened to it's not serious, it's just a summer fling, et CETERA!"

"Daddy, I honestly don't remember any of this, so if you could wait until my memory comes back to yell at me it'd make things a lot easier!" Haley nervously played with the hem of her shirt while carefully looking up to make sure her father's head hadn't exploded yet.

"Jack…" Sam stepped across the room and wrapped her arms around his neck. "She's going back to school in a few weeks; try not to worry about it…"

"I was once a hot young lieutenant; I know how their minds work!"

"HOT?" Haley questioned, deciding she'd leave this little mess for Sam to deal with. "Ew."

Sam snickered. "Hey, are you agreeing with the kid? What does she know?" Jack scowled, but Sam pulled him in for a hug.

"You're hot to me, even if you're no longer a lieutenant…"

Haley dipped her feet in the hot tub, trying to piece together some facts. The Asgard were no longer very involved with Earth. Was there a falling out or had they simply gotten all that they needed from the planet and gone home? Haley made small ripples tracing her toe along the surface of the water. She could get used to having this hot tub, she smiled to herself. Suddenly a hand on her shoulder startled her so much that she shrieked and fell into the water. As she was falling she heard, "relax Hale, it's just me." A hand reached to pull her out of the water.

Suddenly she was dry. She opened her eyes to see it was Daniel's hand she was now holding, as he was pulling her off a table. It seemed like the examining tables at the doctor's office. "What the hell is going on?" she meant to yell, but her hoarse voice only allowed for a strong whisper.

"I want you to stay calm…" Daniel looked concerned and pushed her to the floor to sit down.

"Daniel?"

He sat down next to her, carefully trying to explain the situation without scaring her too much. Was that even possible? "The Asgard have decided to, um, borrow you for a little bit."

"Borrow?"

"Well they do plan on returning you…" he trailed off and quickly muttered, I think.

"So they kidnapped me?" Haley's anxiety was growing stronger by the second.

"Well… that's not exactly how they described it to me."

"So you've seen them?" Daniel gave a slight nod. "I don't understand what they'd want from the two of us! One second I'm at my dad's falling into the hot tub, the next thing I know I'm here, dry-"

"Hot tub?"

"Yes…"

"Haley your dad doesn't have a hot tub, and before coming here you were in bed, asleep, remember I was guarding you?"

"So the past six years, where I thought I lost my memory?"

"What? Are you alright?" Daniel looked at Haley trying to figure out if she had a really weird dream or if she was losing her mind from all the stress.

"I woke up and I was at my dad's, only things were different. I guess I missed six years, Daddy and Sam were really confused, but they couldn't get in touch with Janet."

"Sam was there?" Daniel raised his eyebrow.

"She lived there."

"Oh?" the eyebrow went higher.

"She was married to my dad, they had twins, also." Now both of Daniel's eyebrows were in danger of jumping off his forehead. Haley said this all so matter-of-factly, as if this huge life development was no big deal. "It took me a little while to take in, too. I guess it was a long dream…" Haley hid her face in her palms and took a deep breath. "I have no clue what's real anymore… this dream was so vivid, like I had just woken up in the future!"

As strange as all of this was, Daniel was relieved that the bizarre dream was occupying Haley's attention at the moment. He wasn't entirely sure himself what was going on right about now. After they had been beamed onto the ship Daniel found Haley in a stasis unit. He wandered the ship until finally finding that pesky little alien he knew was responsible.

xxxxx

"I am sorry Dr. Jackson, but I cannot go into detail about the girl at this moment. You are not supposed to be here."

"Thor you can't just kidnap a child from her bedroom and not expect us to ask questions!" Daniel was shouting at this point. And he was supposed to be the diplomatic one, he mused. It was a good thing Jack wasn't here; he would probably try and commandeer the ship, crash it into the Pacific, and bring Haley home. Not the best of ways to deal with Earth's top ally.

"I will send you home and be in touch soon-" Thor stated, heading towards the controls.

"NO! Wait!" Daniel quickly ran over and jumped in front of him. "Let me stay here with her."

"I do not think that is a wise idea…"

"Think about it this way, if I go home I will see Jack and tell him that you're the one who took his daughter. I wouldn't want to be you when he finds that out." Daniel wasn't sure how wise it was to threaten the Supreme Commander of the Asgard, but he was running out of options here.

"Very well, you may remain here for the time being, but I cannot currently discuss the girl with you. You may visit with her now; I will bring her out of stasis." Thor dismissed Daniel with the wave of his little hand, and he knew there was no point fighting him anymore at the moment. Hopefully he would give up some answers soon before all hell broke loose down on Earth, if it hadn't already.

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Coming soon: back to the SGC, some time traveling, and hopefully a few more pieces to the puzzle