Chapter 2
A few hours later

A low groan snapped her out of the slumber she had fallen into. It was the boy with dark hair.

Ethan groaned and opened his eyes to see a girl of around sixteen looking at him with mild concern. 'Whoa, she's hot,' he thought. He honestly hoped that his face didn't betray his thoughts because she was really hot.

Her hair was blond with chocolate streaks that curled around her shoulders since it was cut short, her eyes were a brilliant, crystal blue.

He sat up quickly.

"Woah be careful, it hurts like hell if you sit up too fast," she warned him, hoping he didn't notice her voice was gentle - the opposite of her usual caustic and sarcastic tone.

He winced. "So I'm finding out," he replied. She noticed that his voice had a twang of the south.

"So I'm guessing you've spent time in the south," she remarked, sarcasm lacing her voice.

He looked at her surprised. "How did you know?"

"Your voice idiot."

"Oh."

"So, what's your name," she asked sounding slightly bored.

"Ethan, you?"

"Cate."

"Nice to meet ya'."

"Mm, you too."

They sat in companionable silence for a few minutes until Kayla stirred. "Huh, was goin' on?" she mumbled, blinking.

"If we knew we would tell you," Cate replied.

"What's your name," Ethan asked.

"I'm Kayla," she murmured, blinking blearily.

"I'm Cate and his name is Ethan,"

Kayla shifted her gaze to the side and saw a boy with messy black hair and a girl with chocolate streaked blond hair and blue eyes.

Kayla sat up still in a daze, her head ached horrendously. None of them said anything, sitting in silence until one of the other boys let out a low moan and stirred. Kayla crawled over to him. He was around eight with brown hair and tan skin.

Introductions were made all over again as each of the remaining kids woke up. The girls sequestered themselves in a corner and were talking while the boys were eyeing up one another.

Ethan cleared his throat. "So how old are you," he asked the boy next to him.

"Seventeen, what about you?" TJ shot back.

Ethan smirked. "Eighteen."

"You," he asked the boy on his other side.

"Fifteen," Ryan replied softly.

James turned to the younger boy beside him. "And how old are you," he asked.

"I'm eight," he responded meekly. "My name is Joe," he blurted out.

Ethan crouched in front of the youngest boy and gave him a kind smile. "Well, it's nice to meet you," he told the younger boy before heading back to his spot.

TJ was staring at the girls. "What are they talking about?"

Ethan shrugged. "Who knows, probably same thing we are." He tracked Cate's movements as she argued with Claudia.

Eventually they were all back in a circle nodding off against one another's shoulders. Claudia was resting her head on the wall near TJ and Joe was curled up beside James. Ethan, despite being captive by god-knows-who, was quite happy since Cate was half asleep with her head on his chest and Kayla cradled in her arms.

They're sparring with strange weapons but they both know how to use them. He tries to trip her, she dodges and hits his side, making him wince but he keeps moving. They've been sparring for hours but neither wants to stop. He trips her this time and manages to pin her wrists above her head. She stares into his eyes and he into hers. And suddenly, he doesn't want to move, think, or even breathe, for fear of breaking the connection between them. Her baby blues gaze into his hazel-green, completely unaware that she had cast a spell on him.

Ethan's eyes snapped open to see a head of blond hair. Then he remembered what happened and closed his eyes again, breathing deeply. She smelled like flowers and, well, a sunny day in a meadow. He scoffed at that; no one could smell like a sunny day.

'But she does,' his brain, oh-so-helpfully, pointed out. 'I know, so shut up,' he snapped, aggravated at himself.

He suddenly heard a clanking sound and shook Cate. "Wake up," he hissed to the room. They all quickly snapped awake.

Cate was on her feet with Ethan on her left and Claudia to her right. TJ and James were slightly behind them with Kayla and Joe protected in the center.

Each naturally fell into a position where they could best protect one another while protecting the two youngest; like a team. A man walked in with an air of importance about him.

"You are all here for a very good reason," the man stated.

"Who are you?" Ethan asked him.

"The nature of this reason is unknown to you personally," the man continued as though Ethan hadn't spoken. "You are all here because of your parents."

"Our parents are nothing special. Or at least mine aren't," Cate said frowning.

"Aah, but that is where you are wrong." The man moved in front of her. "Your parents are Samantha Carter-O'Neill and Jack O'Neill of the Tau'ri; and your real name is not Cate Morris. It is actually Leah Janet O'Neill. Your parents gave you up because you were forbidden at the time of your birth."

Cate faltered as the man told her what her actual name was and the reason she was given up.

Ethan grabbed her arm. "You okay?"

Her eyes focused on him. "I don't know," she whispered. The last part didn't make any sense to her. How could a person be forbidden?

The man turned to Ethan. "Your parents are John Sheppard and Elizabeth Weir also of the Tau'ri; your real name is Jason Austin Sheppard. At the time of your birth neither parent was capable of caring for a child so they gave you up for adoption." Ethan went numb.

The man moved to Maya. "Your parents are Daniel Jackson of the Tau'ri and Vala Mal Doran of Caros; your name is Claire Samantha Jackson. Your father decided that it would be best if you were to grow up away from the SGC and what he did." Claudia blinked at him feeling dizzy. '

He stood in front of Kayla. "Your parents are also John Sheppard and Elizabeth Weir; your real name is Lily Marie Sheppard. You were born at such a controversial time that they thought it best you were raised elsewhere." Kayla swallowed to push down her nausea.

The man turned to Joe. "Your parents are Rodney McKay and Jennifer Keller the Tau'ri; and your name is Zane John McKay. Your father made the decision to give you up soon after your mother's death since he felt unable to properly raise you." Joe gulped looking ill.

He then turned to James. "Your parents are Ronon Dex and Teyla Emmagan of the Pegasus galaxy; and your name is Ryan Dex Emmagan. Your home galaxy was so unsafe that your parents made the decision to leave you here on Earth so that you grew up safely." The words "unsafe galaxy" made no sense to him whatsoever.

Lastly he faced TJ. "And your parents are Teal'c and Ishta of the Free Jaffa and Hak'tyl; your real name is Bra'tac. Upon the disappearance of your mother your father decided to leave you on Earth so that you could be cared for properly." Upon the pronouncement of his real name, TJ glared at him darkly.

"The Jaffas are not ordinary humans," the man informed him.

He turned to James. "Your parents are ordinary humans. They were simply born in another galaxy as were you."

He turned to Claudia. "Your mother was host to a parasitic being known as a Goa'uld named Quetsh that, when removed, left behind unusual properties that are now within your blood. But she is an ordinary human other than that."

And finally he turned to Cate. "Your mother was possessed by a Tok'ra in much of the same way. At that time she had only just conceived you. That same Tok'ra gave her life to save you and your mother. Had she just saved your mother she might have lived. Her name was Jolinar of Malkshur."

And with that the man then left the children to view their reactions.