Wow, I can't believe how far this little what if concept I had forever ago has come. Thank you to all those who have stuck with the story, and ESPECIALLY to my reviewers. And, because this chapter may bring up some questions, this story takes place around season four tofive. Since it's completely off-cannon I can promise that Daniel won't be ascending anytime soon.

Emerald Green Queen, like you I definitely have a master plan, especially in relation to the Asgard. That part of the story is starting to piece together, but that is all I will say. Enjoy :)

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Daniel was listening to Haley analyze her dream, that was what she decided it had to be, while he wondered how to deal with Thor. "…and I think that shows my need for- Daniel are you listening?"

"Huh? Yes, yes of course. Keep going," Daniel wondered if this was how Jack felt from time to time. Their thoughts were both broken by the sound of tiny footsteps coming towards them. Both heads turned to the room's entrance to see Thor's approach.

"It is time for you to head back to the stasis chamber," Thor told Haley.

She grabbed onto Daniel's hand, fearful that he would be gone the next time she awoke. "What if I don't want to?"

"That is not your decision to make," the alien calmly informed.

"That's not fair! You can't do this to me!" Haley started whining.

"Haley, shh, let me take care of this," Daniel walked over to Thor hoping to make a deal. Lowering his voice he advised Thor, "I could probably convince her to listen to you if you promise to leave me here while she's out."

"It is not necessary for her to cooperate with me, but I will leave you here as a gesture of goodwill." Daniel chuckled at the thought of the Asgard worrying about being viewed as benevolent after kidnapping their favorite human's child.

Daniel returned to Haley and was able to convince her to lie down. "You promise you'll stay here Daniel?"

"Yes," he then lowered his face to Haley's ear and whispered "and I will work on bringing you home while you sleep."

Haley put her arms around his neck and gave him a hug. "I love you Daniel." He gave her a tight smile, but was not fast enough to respond because Thor had put the girl back into stasis. Daniel ran after Thor to try and work their way a little more out of this mess.

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Haley opened her eyes to find herself face to face with her father. She jumped back a bit and realized that she had been on the chaise chair on the deck, and her father was holding a hot dog in front of her.

"Dinner's ready, you NEED to eat." Haley looked around, taking in her surroundings. It was pretty hot out, appeared to be the middle of the day. Noon, perhaps? The scent of barbequed food filled her nose; it was worth getting up for. Haley knew this was a dream, but decided to play along and enjoy the food while she was here.

"Okay, okay, I'm getting up." Haley grabbed the hot dog from Jack's hands and put it on a plate. "Civilized people use plates," she stuck her tongue out, and grabbed a soda from the cooler.

"I have to go to the SGC later to meet some new recruits, so I guess I'll take you and Cassie to the mall on the way there. We can all meet up for dinner there when I'm done with work."

"Um, sounds good!" Haley figured as long as she didn't ask too many questions she wouldn't have to explain her total lack of knowledge of where or when she was. After lunch Jack picked up Cassie and took the girls to the mall, as promised. Haley decided since this was all a dream she would buy whatever she wanted to.

"Geeze Hale, you're gonna go bankrupt!" Cassie giggled as Haley purchased a Juicy Couture hoodie, tee shirt, and matching pants.

"I've decided to live my life to the fullest!" Haley came up with.

"And that includes a velour tracksuit?"

"Of course!"

"Of course!" Both girls giggled once again, and Haley was starting to feel more and more enmeshed in this reality.

After a long day of shopping the girls met up with the adults for dinner at the mall's hamburger restaurant. Haley was slowly realizing that she wasn't too far off from the present day time period. Maybe a few months into the future. She started getting nervous that this was in fact real and she had completely lost about six months of her life.

Haley chose not to air her concerns over dinner, but instead enjoy the company of her extended family. She never tired of Teal'c eating half the menu, Janet and Jack's playful bickering about who truly was the one obsessed with power, or Sam's and Daniel's ability to read each other's mind. Sometimes Haley just enjoyed sitting back and watching everybody interact, and oftentimes she'd seen Cassie doing the same. It was during this people-watching tonight that Haley noticed her father and Sam were a lot cozier than usual. She was pretty sure that whatever relationship they had was supposed to be pretty secret. Pretty sure of that until she noticed the flash of a rock that went by when Sam covered her mouth at one point. Haley let out a gasp, drawing all the attention from the table.

Completely forgetting about not revealing her lack of memory until later on, Haley blew her cover. "When did you get engaged?" Everybody looked at Haley quizzically.

A small smile spread across Jack's face. "You just want to hear the story again, don't you?"

"Got me!" Haley raised her hands in the air as if she had been caught red handed. Cassie gave a little clap, never getting tired of hearing the story herself.

"WELL," Sam gave a pause for dramatic effect. "Jack had finally finished training his replacement for SG-1, and was ready to step aside from saving the world to raise his daughter." Haley's cheeks flushed, she couldn't believe that her father gave all that up to take care of her.

"And you thought going to Hell was a scary mission," Jack quipped. Everybody chuckled, and Haley gave Jack a playful punch.

Sam continued, "This also meant that I was no longer in Jack's chain of command-"

"You won us a few hundred bucks," Daniel interrupted, referring to the pool that had been going on. "Who would have thought nobody else would've guessed that you two would get together two days after Jack left."

"Oh sure there were a bunch of people who picked the day of," Janet put in.

"The week after," Teal'c added.

"But not two days," Daniel finished.

"We finally got that DVD player!" Cassie exclaimed.

"Anyways," Sam started up again, "TWO days later, as the doctors predicted, it was announced that Jack and I were together. Once again the bets poured in, but I was given an anonymous tip that Jack had placed a huge bet himself, thinking nobody would know it was him. Of course everybody found out and placed their bets on the surrounding dates, thinking Jack would either get nervous and push back the day he proposed, or get antsy and ask a few days sooner. Only one bet was placed two months earlier than the rest."

"Mine," Teal'c stated.

"Or so she thought," Jack smirked.

Haley's eyes widened as she started to catch on. "Of course I always thought this whole betting thing was ridiculous, and didn't think too much about it. I figured Jack's bet was a joke. That night we were eating dinner at my house and Jack asked if I'd ever considered selling the place. I was pretty sure he wanted me to move in with him. So of course I said yes."

"I suggested we celebrate with cake, and brought over the cake I had picked up before dinner," Jack added.

"Sitting on top of the cake was the very ring one Cassandra Frasier had spotted me looking at when she dragged me into the jewelry store weeks earlier," by the time Sam finished her grin was from ear to ear. Everybody at the table was smiling, especially Haley who was hearing this story for the first time. It took all her power not to jump up and down.

"And Teal'c and I made quite a bit of money that day, too," Jack said.

"Indeed we did. I was able to buy the special edition boxed DVD set I wanted."

"And that family vacation we had been discussing," Jack mischievously smiled. Haley wanted to cry out, but bit her lip to keep up her act.

"What?" Sam asked. So maybe she wasn't supposed to know about this.

"Yeah, what are you talking about Daddy?" she joined in.

"Two days from now one Major Carter will be using up her downtime, rather than tinkering around in that lab. The three of us are going to Hawaii." Jack tried to say this very matter-of-factly, but could not keep the grin off of his face. Sam's jaw was hanging down, along with everybody else at the table. Haley felt tears stinging at her eyes. "Tears of joy Hale?" Jack asked.

"Why does stuff like this only happen in my dreams?"

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"I believe I have placed her into the correct level of stasis this time," Thor addressed Daniel, when frustrated archeologist approached him.

"How is this time different from the first time Haley was in stasis?"

"She was in too deep a level. This one is better suited for our purposes."

Daniel was getting angry now. He had been told nothing, and now Thor was not making any sense. He wanted answers and he wanted them now. He was also beginning to feel like he had spent far too much time with one Jack O'Neill.

"Thor I think it's time you tell me what's going on. I can't exactly tell the wrong people when I'm up here, anyways." Daniel crossed his arms, and stared at Thor, hoping he'd finally get the truth.

"Very well," Thor stated, crossing the room and sitting in his throne-like chair. "You cannot affect what the girl's decisions now that she is in stasis." At this Daniel quirked his eyebrow. "As you know the Asgard are a race of clones. A long time ago we were once similar to humans. It has been attempted, but failed, to put Asgard minds into a human body. Our vastly superior intellect is too overwhelming for the human brain. However, certain humans are closer on the evolutional scale to our race. We have realized that their brains are capable of storing specific information."

"We discovered information of the Gormaan and other factions that have been studying humans. We started to wonder if Haley is this key I've read about."

"This is true," Thor gave a slight nod.

"Which group created her?"

"I am sorry to say that it was members of the Asgard High Council."

"You knew about this?" Daniel started to grow uneasy.

"The girl was never intended to be pulled out of stasis, nor was she to be brought to Earth."

"What are you talking about?"

"It is true that the High Council created the one you know as Haley O'Neill. Somehow the information was placed in… what you refer to as the 'wrong hands'. The girl needed to be hidden immediately. We knew that the best way to hide her would be if nobody knew the truth, including herself. We immediately altered the minds of those closest to her."

"You set the fire in Jack's house."

"We did not have enough time to create photographic evidence of the girl or possessions, so it was decided that the fire would be a plausible explanation for this. Those who brought the girl to Colonel O'Neill had a very limited amount of time- only a few of your hours, and focused it mainly on setting up her history and working with your minds, mostly Colonel O'Neill's. Once we deemed the situation safe we left her in your planet's care."

"Yet the Gormaan still managed to find her."

"Regrettably we discovered that there was a mole in the High Council."

"Why did you need to take Haley back?"

"There is information in her mind that needs to be accessed. That is why she is in stasis. When she retrieves the information you may have her back."

"What kind of information are you talking about?"

"It is far too complex to describe to you in the time we have left until she awakens."

Daniel was ready to shout, but kept his cool, knowing that he was extremely lucky to be getting all these answers. "Can you summarize it?"

"If put into a proper form of stasis the girl is able to retrieve memories that have not occurred yet. She will no longer be needed after giving us our information and you may both return home."

"What's to say you won't need her again next month or next year?"

"There may be a time one day when we need the girl's help again, but it would not take a great deal of time to extract the information."

"Is Haley still in danger?" Daniel's trust of the Asgard and his patience with them were growing extremely thin.

"There will be no danger if we retrieve the information we are looking for. I am sorry Dr. Jackson but I must get back to work "

"But Thor-" before Daniel could finish he was beamed into the room with Haley. She was still in the stasis chamber, so Daniel waited, pacing the windows of the ship, staring down at Earth.

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Jack waited for his vision to clear trying to remember how he got into this bed… this bed in the… infirmary. Dammit! Teal'c had punched him, but not THAT hard. The first thing he saw was a pair of big blue eyes focused on him.

"Janet, he's awake," Carter called out. She was sitting at his side, looking somewhat aggravated. Janet joined her and helped Jack to sit up.

"How'd I get here?" he asked.

"You fainted," Dr. Frasier informed him while taking his vitals.

"Fainted?" the women nodded. "How is that?"

"Colonel you're obviously under a great deal of stress. You need to get some rest before you get yourself sick. You can either rest here, under my careful supervision, or go home."

"Well, doc, as much as I love basking in your presence and being your pin cushion, I'm getting out of here." Jack swung his feet over the bed and moved to get up, and a wave of nausea hit him.

"Not so fast, Sir, you need somebody to take you home."

"I'll do it Janet," Sam volunteered. She had had it with him, but was willing to give him one last chance. They couldn't REALLY speak on base, and so this was the best option.

"I really don't deserve you Carter," Jack said.

"You're right," Janet observed.

"Not now," Sam replied, not wanting to have this conversation on the base.

As they walked down the hall towards the exit Jack looked over at Sam and desperately wanted to take her in his arms. He tried his best to push those emotions as far down as possible. The entire car ride was quiet and Jack followed Sam like a puppy dog into his home.

"Janet's right, when was the last time you ate?" Jack just shrugged. Sam gave him a giant eye roll and pulled a yogurt out of his refrigerator. "Here, you should eat this."

"I'm fine, really-"

"SIR, I think you need to follow the doctor's orders."

Jack winced slightly at the use of sir in his home. "Listen… I've been an ass…"

"Yes."

"I don't deserve you," Jack told her.

"That is the biggest copout and you know it. I will choose who and who does not deserve to be with me. Maybe right now you don't, but I'm still here, aren't I? How many times have we talked about you letting me in?"

"Well, you know, I tend to be bad with numbers…"

"Seriously Jack, please."

Jack rubbed his hand down his face. "Alright, alright. I'm sorry I was such an ass to you. You put your butt on the line even having this relationship; I wasn't making it very worth your while." A small smile started to break onto Sam's face. She walked over to Jack and wrapped her arms around him, placing her head on his shoulder. "I need you so much right now; I really did a hell of a job showing it, huh?"

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Things are starting to make sense, I hope. The next chapter gets even crazier but I promise adds a nice amount of pieces towards the puzzle. I'm still working out some kinks, hopefully it'll be finished soon! Remember, the more feedback the faster I write :)