CHAPTER 47

By unfortunate luck, the President of the United States wanted to see Ford personally and have lunch with him. Ford thought it unlucky because he didn't want to go.

"Is this a open invitation like you were given those years ago when you tried to use it with the Ashen problem." Ford said with a raised eyebrow. He was sitting in the chair in front of Jack's desk tapping his foot on the foot impatiently.

"You mean when Kinsey stopped me from going?" he said not happy with the memory, especially after seeing the DVD's.

"The same."

"Something like that, but he wants to see you tomorrow."

"Can't you tell him I'm busy?" Ford whined.

Jack laughed. It wasn't often that Ford tried to whine his way out of something. Sometimes it worked, but not this time.

"No I can't Major. There's a plane at the airport ready to take you right now."

"Can I fly it?" he asked being serious.

"So you can kick the pilots off, crash the plane and get out of going. No."

"Ouch Jack. You'd think I would do that to a million dollar plane?" he asked sounding insulted.

"To stay with Carter, yes. And since you have the money to replace it, you probably would. Unless there is a major emergency, I'll have SG-1 on stand down till you get back. I promise to keep her safe."

"Damn." Ford said rubbing his face. "Alright then. I'll drive my own car to the airport. I want to have some control."

"You would. Go get whatever you need for a night. Don't forget your coat and guns."

"What for?" Ford said halfway out of the chair.

"The President and a couple of other General's want to see them. Just don't go with them loaded."

"Seriously?" he asked standing up.

"Seriously."

"Well, I do have that fancy badge."

"That's what it is for. Get out of here before they think you ain't coming." he said with a jerk of his thumb.

"Thanks Jack. I know you'll take care of her and them as you used to before I got here."

"Yeah, well that's what I do. Now go and say your goodbye's to her before you can't."

"Oh! Do I need to go in my uniform?" he asked turning around near the door.

"No. He said it's just a formal friendly eating and talking…thing. Well, something along those lines."

"Oh, I thought of something recently." Ford said sitting down again after closing the door. Jack looked at the door then at him confused.

"Okay, now I can't be taken as a host, right. So, I think that helps in a take over situation as it were. We need a password."

"Password? I'm not following."

"Since it only works for me, when we come back from a mission, I mean at the gate and giving the Iris code. With Ba'al and the other System Lords wanting to come after us more than ever before, if one of them was taken over, any SG team member and I was with them, you could ask me a question that wouldn't seem out of place and depending on my answer, depends if you should be ready for an incoming attack. Follow me so far?"

"Actually, all of that makes sense." he said surprised.

"I'm only sorry I didn't think of it before."

"What would be the password?"

"I haven't figured that out yet. We have to come up with something that doesn't give it away as being a……password. We also have to keep this between us."

"Agreed."

They mulled over it for a few minutes. Then they came up with the same thought.

"Food." said in unison.

"You ask a certain question like you cooking today or tonight in the mess hall. I say yes, that means everything is okay, I say no, that means get ready for trouble, seriously no means that me and Sam have plans or I have plans."

"That works. Glad I thought of it."

"Yeah, right." Ford said with a laugh as he left.

Carter was working, as always when Ford walked in with his coat on. He had a suit on underneath instead of the SGC BDU'S. This worried her and surprised her.

"What's wrong?" she said getting off the chair.

"Nothing Sam. Don't worry." he said putting a hand on her shoulder. "I have been summoned to have lunch with the President of the United States tomorrow and…..I can't get out of it. Tried already. And I was so looking forward to tonight."

She gave him a skeptical look.

"Seriously Sam. It's true. You can…."

"I believe you. I don't want to though. Hey, can I come?"

Ford looked surprised suddenly.

"I….honestly forgot to ask. Didn't even cross my mine at the time…."

That was a dumb thing to say he realized seconds later.

"What?!"

"Look, I'll call Jack and see!" he exclaimed quickly grabbing the phone off the wall as she hit him with one of her books.

"You better. I'm not staying in bed alone unless I have to." she growled. "Bad enough when I had no choice because you were passed out drunk that one time."

"Jack?"

"Major, what are you doing?"

"Is Sam able to come….."

"I knew it!!!!" he screamed through the phone.

Ford had to hold the phone away as Jack kept going. Not expletively, but it was a little unintelligible.

"I should have had you escorted off the base!!"

There was a long pause.

"Ja….General?"

"I'm thinking. Let me make a call." he said hanging up.

"He's calling." Ford said hanging the phone up.

He looked back seeing the same angry expression. She had her arms crossed and was glaring at him.

"I'm sorry. It never crossed my mind. Me and Jack were discussing something after….he told me I had to go. It was really important, not that you aren't the most important thing, it just this subject concerned the base and planet and…um.."

"Where was your mind?" she asked with narrowed eyes.

"On trying to get out of going. If I leave, I'm not here with you."

She eased up, some.

"Now that I believe."

"I am sorry. I would love to have you come…."

The phone rang and he picked it up.

"Carters lab."

"As reluctant as I am to let her go since we may need her here, she can go." he said then lowered his voice. "I know you are going to have fun."

Ford narrowed his eyes and almost yelled back. Instead he hung up, forcefully. It made her jump and Jack, which he knew it would.

"You can go." he said happily.

"Excellent. Why did you hang up the phone with the intent to break it?"

"Jack was saying the wrong things again. But he's right. We'll probably have fun at some time."

"Ah."

"Unfortunately, we only have at most twenty minutes to leave."

"Twenty minutes! We'll have to take separate cars then. I have to stop by the dry cleaners to drop off my uniform and a few other clothes." she said saving what she was doing on the computer. "I'll have to pick it up tomorrow or the next on the way home. You can go get groceries since we need some."

"That will work. I'll try to make it home first so I'll have something special made." he said wrapping his arms around her.

"Great." she said turning around. "We can grab a few things from our room here and then go. Oh, we need our uniforms to take with us!"

"No, it's a formal thing. Just wants to have lunch and talk. Jack said so."

"Good. Those things are so hard to get out of. K-9, we have to leave."

"Understood Mistress. I will continue to work while you are gone."

"Something I guess gate related or some other math like problem he's helping with?" Ford said as they left the room.

"Something like that. I'll have Daniel drop him off at home."

They got what they needed for a two night stay. They took their cars and went to the airport parking in reserved spots for SGC or enlisted personal. After setting the alarms and covering the cars with car covers, they headed over to the plane.

"Major Carter. Ah and I see your wife is here to. Welcome Colonel." the pilot said.

He was fifty something but looking in good shape and had peppered hair.

"We'll handle our luggage if you don't mind."

"It's your choice sir." he said opening the door to the one engine private plane. They entered and set their stuff next to the chairs as the pilot went up front. They heard his voice com over the intercom.

"It will be only a few hours of flying Colonel and Major. We will be leaving in five minutes so buckle up please."

They did so and soon were off. They basically talked on the way there. Touchdown was no problem and there was a limo to take them to where ever they wanted to go. They just said take them to their hotel.

"I'm sorry sir. You must not have been informed, the President had a room in the White House readied for you. I can take you to a hotel if you wish?" the driver said as they cruised along.

"Ah…" he said looking at her.

"Hotel." they both said.

More than likely with some of the stories that Ford told them in the past from his experiences at the White House, almost all the rooms were on camera. The only real privacy was in the bathrooms, possibly.

"Yes sir, ma'am."

They got a nice room that looked off at the Capital building and the grounds nearby. The next morning they had breakfast in bed and then got ready. They made it to the Oval office near noon. If it wasn't for the badge and the fact he was expected, a few of the personal had made it clear that Ford would have already been shot or worse.

"So, Sam and Ford went to see the President?"

"Yeah. Lucky them Daniel." Jack said signing another paper.

"I guess that SG-1 is on downtime then." Daniel said looking over some notes he had.

"It was even when Ford was the only one going. I should have had him escorted off." he grumbled.

"You know he was probably going to ask her anyway. I'm surprised that he didn't ask when you told him the invite."

"So was I. But we did get into a, important discussion that probably made him forget. I figured she would be here working as always. Instead she gets to go have free time and fun." he muttered setting his pen down and rubbing his face. "How's Teal'c doing?"

"Doing good actually. Even though Ford knows more moves, the hand to hand training class is doing well without Ford. In some ways better seeing as Teal'c is showing them how to use the staff weapon as a weapon."

"Hmmm. That doesn't surprise me. You know, that almost makes no sense. Ford can hit a target three miles out and up close even better with a hand gun, but with energy weapons he can barely hit the target."

"Yeah, he mentioned that once remember. He likes the feel of the recoil."

"That and a sight. Those staff weapons have none and neither does the zats."

"Yep."

"What are you working on?" he said gesturing with his head.

"Just some stuff I'm trying to catch up on. Ford's helping me learn Japanese better."

"Hmmm. Must be those cartoons of his. Didn't he once say that was why he learned the language was to understand that…..what was it?"

"Anime Jack. It's starting to become quite popular. I've seen a few of them too."

"You watch it?" he asked surprised.

"Yeah. There's a lot in the local video stores. Some books stores too."

"Maybe I should check it out sometime."

"I don't think they have anything that would catch your interest. Nothing to do with fishing, nothing like the Simpsons, ah…."

"I could find something Daniel. If anything to…shock those two."

"Now that's something I'd like to see." Daniel said pointing a pen at him.

"Let's find something after work then, we can surprised them while they are away."

Jack never did find anything interesting enough to try though.

"Hello Colonel. Major." President Hayes said giving them a hand shake then gesturing. "Got a friend who wants to see you."

They turned to see General Hammond walk in.

"General. It's great to see you again." she said giving him a hug.

He had refused to shake her hand seeing as he wanted to hug her. Being her godfather had its privileges.

"It's great to see you too Colonel." he said. He gave Ford a handshake. "Hello Ford."

"You remembered." he said smiling.

"It hasn't been that long."

"Forgive me, but what is he talking about George?"

Hammond chuckled. "Unless it's necessary to call him by rank, he prefers to be called by his first name. Like Doctor Jackson who has everyone call him Daniel. So how are you two doing?"

"Doing great." she said.

"How about you sir?"

"Doing fine. Seeing as we haven't had much trouble with alien vessels lately, I've only had paper work to do."

"That's the biggest regret that Jack has about taking the job. Other than not being able to go off world."

"Yeah. He reminds me of that a lot. Well, I was in the neighborhood and stopped by two see you. It was nice to see you. Keep up the good work." he said shaking their hands.

"Nice to see you to sir." Carter said.

Hammond left shortly after that. Hayes gestured for them to take a seat.

"So, how's everything going down there?"

"Good. So far only a few troubles here and there sir."

"Almost normal, except no troubles with the Goa'uld lately sir." Ford said.

"From the reports I've seen, SG-1 has done a good job of scarring some of them."

"In some senses." Ford said smiling.

The spent another hour answering more questions. Some that involved wondering about the SGC budget. He was just curious as to what they thought might be needed money wise since they were about the utmost authority on the scientific aspects on the base. Near the end of the hour.

"Well, I don't know about you two, but I'm getting hungry."

"Actually I am sir."

"Was there someplace you're taking us sir or…"

"Actually General O'Neill offered your services to make lunch saying it was something I just had to try."

"I'm going to kill him." Ford said with a groan.

"He said you'd probably say that too." Hayes said laughing.

Carter shook her head. "That sounds like General O'Neill. But Ford is a wonderful cook."

Ford ended up using the kitchen in the Capital building to make lunch, for several people since the General's arrived. Hammond was not among them. The General's looked over his coat and guns with some scientist checking them out. The lunch went well, even though it took an hour to make. After the lunch, which the President said was the best he had tasted in a long while. They spent some more time talking as his weapons were checked out as was the coat. Some of the scientist felt they could do a better job on possibly making the same sort of metal he used, but seeing as they couldn't get a sample.

One their way to the airport, they put up the panel in the limo so they could have privacy.

"You never have told me how you cook so well. It's like you're a chef that…."

"That has other amazing abilities such as saving people? I could go on." he said with a wave of his hand.

"Yeah. Something like that." she said leaning closer. "So how is it that you do it?"

"Well, since my parents were what they were, I grew up in the agencies. I learned everything from all those people, their different skills and such. As I said, since my parents were always going off doing things as they had to and couldn't take me with, I went home with some of…..the other women there. Daneilla, she taught me how to cook. I never could cook as well as her. God knows I tried though." he said looking up in thought. He didn't notice the look she was giving him.

"Anyway, when I was with anyone else, I just learned whatever they would teach me. Surprisingly enough it was another women that taught me how to shoot." he said casually. "She helped me on the firing range with several other people and I started getting better than other people that had been working there for years. I even received partial Seal training for a couple of months once. I never went to a real school. Just was taught at the different agencies. Some day's it was fun, others…."

He took a deep breath and looked down at his lap. He had one leg up on the small bar section and the other on the floor.

"When my parents were around, we had fun together. No learning of anything. Just….fun. We'd take trips if we could, which only lasted a week if we were lucky, or go sightseeing. Cars shows were really fun. Mom was always better at cars and such than dad surprisingly. Unfortunately it wasn't a lot of the time that they were around. When I seriously started getting better at computers, I was able to enlist in the Air Force. Created an alias and was getting away with being a first year, twenty year old cadet. I got caught in the beginning of my second year. I was so sure they'd never find me, then one of the people that I knew in the C.I.A. came to see this very bright student. I was so scared they were going to shoot me or something worse." he said with a small shudder. "Those were some interesting days. I miss them, but I'm way much more better off here."

He looked to see she wasn't to happy.

"What?"

"You went home…..with other women?"

"I was three years old! This happened till I was thirteen! Nothing ever happened!" he said keeping his voice low and semi calm, but his tone was serious.

"Not till I married you that is." he said smiling.

"So," she said smiling as she also remembered their first night together. They got no sleep that night. "How old were you when you faked this enlistment?"

"Fifteen."

"What?! How is that possible!?"

"At that age I was at six feet tall. I looked old enough to get in. Had the body to fake it too. My skills were better than most people making it possible for me to easily look like I was older."

"What happened?"

"I got special compensation and a commendation. Seeing as I was really good at what I did and was able to get away with it for over a year. They let me stay in by pulling some strings. I did my first Black Ops mission at seventeen, commanded my first at twenty and well….you know some of the rest."

"What did they do about your record….the person you made up?"

"Just changed the name to my real one. I did get in trouble for it, docked pay for the whole year."

"Ouch."

"I didn't worry about it. Everything I needed was provided when I needed it."

"I bet you got hit on a lot."

"For the first couple of weeks. I had guys sending girls to me. After those couple of weeks, I was left alone as I wanted to be. Work, TV, books, and video games became all I needed. I had an anime collection that most people drooled over. And I wish I brought some with. I hate that I left them behind, but seeing as the situation we were in at the time…"

"I'm glad you waited. Even if you never knew you'd be coming here."

"Oh, I'm more than glad I waited." he said as they kissed all the way to the airport.

The driver pulled into the airport and they got out. By the time they made it back to Colorado, it was getting near night. They were walking to their cars and getting ready to head home when she remembered something.

"Oh, I completely forgot! I got to go get that dry cleaning."

"That's right. I'm suppose to make something special."

"With what I had earlier, I'm set till tomorrow." she said with a wave of her hand.

"I've got to get a few things at the store anyway. Jack wanted me to make him lasagna tomorrow as did a lot more people on the base."

"Then you better get it. By lunch time tomorrow, I will want some of that." she said. They parted with a long kiss and went their separate ways.

Carter managed to get their dry cleaning with no trouble and headed home. She called the SGC to let them know that they were back. This was shortly after leaving the airport. As she drove into the driveway and seeing Ford was not home she called his cell.

Ford got the items he needed and was getting back into the General when his phone went off. He opened it without checking out to find out who it was.

"Sam?"

"No. Try again Major."

"Jack, why are you still…never mind. What's up?"

"Thor wanted to speak with you, but seeing as your in a public place he can't beam you up."

"Oh, alright then. I'll come to the base myself. Once he detects me out of public sight, he can do it then."

"I'll tell him Major." Jack said hanging up.

Ford started the General and was halfway to the Mountain when he was beamed to the gate. It startled the guards even though they knew he was coming. He drove in after showing his pass and parked in his spot. Wasn't much long after that and he was in the briefing room. There was a cloth on the table covering something. Jack said he'd have to wait to get an answer from Thor about what it was.

"Well where is Thor?"

"He's back on his ship talking to someone at home…..I think."

"You th…" he said as his cell went off playing a tune. He pulled it off his belt and opened it and Jack looked at him funny. "Sam?"

"Where are you?" she asked concerned.

"I got called back to the base. Thor's here and wants to talk to me."

"Thor? Any idea why?" she said as she closed the door.

"No. He had to go back to his ship for…" he was saying when they heard the beaming behind them.

"Greetings."

"Oh, here he is." Ford said turning around. "Hey Thor. One moment."

"It's Carter." Jack said pointing at the phone.

"Do you wish her to be brought here Ford Carter?" Thor asked.

"Thanks, but I'm really tired. Mostly jet lag and the stuffed feeling I still have. I'll catch you in the morning and you can tell me about it then. Love you." she said with a yawn.

"I'll see you in the morning then. Love you too. Goodnight."

He put the phone away and sat down seeing as Thor and Jack had already done so.

"So Thor, what brings you to our neck of the woods?"

"I do not understand. Where is a neck in woods?"

Ford opened his mouth to explain and ended up yawning.

"It's an expression Thor." Jack said.

"I see."

"Sorry. Ah, Jack said you needed to see me. Everything okay?"

"We have not had any trouble with the Replicators since you have given us the technology to defeat them O'Neill. With the new metal we are creating, the Ford Carter is only 30 complete. The work is slow."

"That metal is hard to work with." Ford said leaning onto the table.

Thor nodded and then got up out of the chair. He moved a few feet and pointed at the cloth.

"Yes. I have came to present this gift. It is for helping us by the new metal you have provided."

"For me? Cool. Can I look at it?"

"That is the intent."

Ford stood up and moved the cloth off finding a little over six foot long box. It was just over a foot wide. Nice wooden box, oak from the looks of it.

"Nice work Thor. Is this real wood?"

"Yes. We have learned that the people of this world like different items to be placed in boxes like this. The weapon inside is usually found in such boxes."

Jack had moved over to see what was inside. Ford hadn't a clue as to what would be inside and still haven't opened it.

"Weapon? Nice and perfect gift for my line of work." he said taking the top off. There was a sword inside.

Jack whistled. "Sweet. What's this for? I mean, it's a nice weapon but it can't do much against the Goa'uld when he has several dozen around him."

"Actually Jack, I think this one would do that. If it's what I think it is." he said running his hand over the sword in various places.

"I overheard Doctor Jackson and Ford Carter talking about swords once O'Neill. Ford Carter spoke about possibly asking the Asguard to create a sword for him."

"You as…." Jack started saying turning to Ford.

"I never actually asked. Just was talking. Excellent job though." he said looking it over.

"Ford Carter spoke of the specifications to Doctor Jackson and the way he wanted it to look. The Asguard made it as a gift for his help."

Ford lifted the sword out and noticed it weighted quite a bit, but not bad enough he couldn't use it in a fight if he had to. It was two handed, double bladed long sword with a flat square hilt. There was a somewhat large diamond in the bottom of the handle. It was cut very delicately. The amount of sides it had would take a lot of time to count.

"Thank Thor! I really appreciate it. I'll cherish it."

"It has been made of the same metal that you gave us. I advise caution. The blade is sharp enough to cut almost anything it comes in contact with. I regret I cannot stay longer. I must return to our new homeworld. There is still much work needing to be done."

Thor then beamed away.

"Can I see that?"

"Be careful." Ford said hanging it over, carefully.

"Wow! This is heavy!" he said holding it by the handle. He could barely hold it up. He set the blade on the table still holding it by the handle. "Taking it home?"

"I planned on it. Oh, there's sheath in here too." Ford said looking in the bottom. He put the sword in it and put it back in the box.

"Well, I'll see you in the morning Jack." he said picking it up.

"Yes, very early."

"I know." he said shaking his head. "I got the items needed for lunch and took them to the kitchen."

"Good." Jack said brightening up. "Get home then so you have enough rest to have that cooking spirit and energy to do it. Oh, what was that tune? I thought it sounded familiar."

"What? Oh that, ah….the theme to the Stargate DVD's." he said walking out the door.

"Strange." Jack said slowly. "Oh well, I have the Simpsons for mine, so I shouldn't say anything."

Ford left and stuck the box in the back seat of the General. He then took off heading home.

After getting off the phone to Ford, she had a nice hot bath and then went to bed. She thought that he would have waked her up when he came home, but he didn't. She woke up the next morning and felt the other side of the bed. She opened her eyes quickly and noticed the other side was empty and not warm.

"K-9, did Ford ever come home?" she said sitting up in bed.

"No Mistress."

"Ever call again?"

"No Mistress."

"Must have had to talk to Thor a lot longer than he thought and stayed at the base. I hate waking up alone."

Carter got up, got ready, got her coffee and went to work. When she got to the base and started looking for Ford, she didn't find him, but she also hadn't talked to any of her team so it was possible Ford was up in Thor's ship. Jack would know something. She did notice something funny about the side of the road as though someone decided to drive through the bushes, but ignored it.

Ford awoke to feeling pain in his face. When he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was the passenger side of the General along with the dashboard and the steering wheel. He leaned back and looked around. Outside the windshield he saw a tree. More looking around revealed that somehow he had driven off the road on the way home. Where, he wasn't sure. He tried the engine, it ran, but the General was stuck and leaking oil. Somehow he had high centered the poor car and from the looks of it, blew the radiator, so he instantly knew he needed help and got out his cell phone.

"Ah man. I've never fallen asleep at the wheel. Jack's going to rub this in my face."

She was still looking around for him and was going to ask Jack. Ford hadn't showed up to cook lunch so he must have begged Thor to take him. Nah, Ford would be that desperate. She got onto the elevator again when her cell rang.

"Carter."

"Hey, it's me."

"Where are you?"

"I'm not sure. I'm in the General, but I don't ….I don't kno………" he said as he suddenly felt very dizzy and weak.

The phone fell from his hand and then darkness over came him.

"Ford? Ford?!" she yelled.

The line was still open but he wasn't talking. She had to push the phone away as the Dixie horn came through the line. The sound kept coming through the phone line until she shut the phone. It wasn't long and they found him, mostly because the Dixie horn was heard from the security gate of the Mountain complex. Once was okay, but after it kept going and going and going, it got really annoying.

Ford felt consciousness coming back slowly. He heard voices, but they were distorted. He tried to make them out though.

"Why…DN…."

"I….ir…"

"Your yelling is disturbing my sleep." Ford half muttered, half yelled. "What's going on that you have to come to my house and…."

He opened his eyes slowly and looked around.

"Oh….I'm at work. More specifically, the infirmary. Right. Oh man, what hit me?" he said slowly sitting up. "How'd I get here?"

"Who are you?" Jack asked coming over to the end of the bed.

Ford looked to see a couple of guards with their guns at ready but standing near the door. Teal'c and Daniel were looking at him strangely as well.

"Cute Jack, but I'll humor you. Who am I? Let's see….uh I'm guessing you want my full name, rank and serial number. Major Ford Primus Carter, serial number." he rattled it off then waited. Jack, Daniel and Teal'c said nothing.

"Please tell me I didn't jump universes again. C'mon Jack, I was here last night talking to Thor with you. Gave me a sword. I went…oh man I'm suppose to be cooking." Ford said rubbing his face. "No wonder you're upset. Must have missed your Jello fix amongst other things."

Man I'm tired and weak. What the hell happened? he thought blinking away fatigue.

Jack mostly knew what he was talking about since the others weren't there last night.

"We don't know…."

"Have you heard or is there a Ford that works here?" Ford demand.

"Indeed there is."

"Thank you Teal'c. Okay now, what the hell is the problem?!"

"He certainly sounds like Ford. The voice and attitude are right." Daniel commented.

"Sounds! I am Ford! What other man that cannot die actually works here?!!" Ford said with his arms spread out. "Where the hell is K-9?! He can justify me as me!"

"Go find K-9." Jack said to an airman.

"Thank you Brigadier." Ford said as he laid back on the bed again. A wave of fatigue hit him.

"What's wrong with him?" Daniel asked as a doctor looked him over.

"If this is Major Ford, whatever changed him may be respon….."

"Changed?!" Ford said shocked at what the doctor was saying as he sat up quickly and started checking himself. "What's changed?!"

The fatigue was there but going away quickly. He started looking himself over finding nothing different until he felt his head. He had little if any hair. A lot like Jack had his.

"Were you messing with my head Doc?! Where the hell is all my hair?!"

"No, we did nothing to you. Other than take some blood."

"Mirror please. Now." he said snappily.

"I hope this isn't another incident like the one we had with Loki." Daniel said.

"God forbid Daniel. That's the last thing we need." Jack said.

The doctor looked over at Jack as K-9 came in.

"I found him sir."

"Thanks airman. Now, K-9 scan this person and tell me who it is."

"Scanning General." he said moving up to the bed. His scanning tool near the eye came out and touched Ford's hand. "Scan complete. This is not the Master. Correction, this is the Master. Correction, this is no…."

"K-9 emergency shut down! Ford Omega one!" Ford said quickly.

K-9's head dropped down and they heard him power down.

"For crying out loud Jack! You just about fired K-9's CPU! What the hell is going on?!!"

"Maybe it is him." Daniel said. "He was able to shut down the dog."

"True, but so could several other people in case something like this happened. Only a few set commands are voice activated. That was a anybody can say set command, or so he told me. Doesn't prove anything."

"Can I…..where is Sam?"

"She…."

"Forget it. Just get her down here, she can tell you that I am me."

Jack mulled it over. If this guy if Ford, she would know. If it's not that's going to make her worry. Ah hell.

He walked over and grabbed the phone.

"Can I have that mirror, please?" he said forcefully.

She gave him one and backed away.

"What in the hell?! Did I look like this when I was found?! More importantly any ideas on why this happened?!!"

"I seriously think it's him Jack. How this happened is another story." Daniel said.

"Perhaps it was Loki."

They all looked at Teal'c.

"Loki was taken away by the Asguard, no taken away by Thor himself!" Jack exclaimed.

"No wonder Thor was here last night! He was looking to see if Loki was here!!" Ford yelled.

"We have no proof of that. Besides, I still am not sure if you're the Major."

"What's all the yelling about?" Carter said walking in. She glanced over seeing someone she'd never seen before sitting up in a bed as she walked over to Jack. "Who is this sir?"

"He claims to be your husband." Jack said pointing at Ford. She looked over then back at Jack.

"Is that joke Jack?" she said.

The only time she ever used his first name, recently, was when she was in a seriously bad mood.

"No Colonel. He claims to be you 2IC. Since K-9 had a system failure, you have to find out if he is."

"That's not possible sir. Ford's taller, has longer hair, better looking. He's 33 not twenty, maybe." she said not sure. "Okay, he's really 53, but…"

"Hey! My real age is a secret." he whispered out harshly.

"We think that the Asguard might be behind this. Maybe Loki."

"Wait a minute Daniel. You're suggesting that that incident with him happened again?"

Ford was muttering something over and over again when he finally said it louder.

"Better looking?!" he said offended. "I'm still 33! Come here Carter and look me in the eyes. That will show you I'm me."

She still didn't believe it, not really anyway. When she started walking over.

"Wait Colonel. Don't get to close."

"I'll be fine General. Ford has showed me how to deal with….certain situations if anything should happen."

"Certain situations? Maybe I should take some of his classes." Daniel said.

"I thought I ordered you to try once." Jack said turning his head to him.

"I never got around to it."

Ford kept eye contact with her even when she got close enough to touch. He kept his hands to himself.

"What are you looking for Colonel Carter?"

"I'm not…"

Ford pulled her forward and kissed her, fast. She at first went to hit him, then stopped and backed off after he broke it off.

"Ford? What the hell happened to you?!" she said sitting down on the bed and grabbing his hand.

"Carter?"

"It's him sir."

"Are you…."

"I know sir. Trust me." she said not looking his way. "You're right about one thing, you look better with longer hair."

"Thanks, I think. And I have no idea why I am back to being fifteen years old again." Ford said pissed off.

"Fifteen!" they said. Teal'c was even surprised as he exclaimed it as well.

"Yes. I looked like this at fifteen. Years of working out made me into what I really look like at 33. No wonder I feel so wasted."

"If you…are fifteen, how is your…" he coughed then continued. "Um, marriage…."

"Don't go there Jack. I can still kick your ass. First we call Thor, then go from there. Despite my body's age…and get that look off your face!" he said pointing at him while practically shouting.

Jack actually jumped.

"I can still do my duties as a Major. At least I look somewhat old enough to be here!"

"What is that suppose to mean?!"

"You were cloned! You tell me!"

"Hey…."

"Sorry Jack. That was uncalled for. If I'm…a clone." he said sarcastically. "Then I'm in trouble."

"The blood results are back General. They match completely with the one's on record. The DNA match says it's Major Ford Carter, with certain decrepitates."

"Such as him being a clone?" Daniel said.

"No Doctor Jackson. He is Major Carter, just much younger. But I don't know why. Some of his blood works shows other decrepitates, but it is him."

"Well then, that clears that problem up. Major, if you and the Colonel can get unattached so he can get dressed, I need you to start finding out why you are this way, how to fix it if possible and get the rest of your work started. Oh wait, Colonel, you find that stuff out, Major, you report to the mess hall. You have dinner to make."

"Well, at least that will curb any more doubts. You going to call Thor while we get on this, right?"

"Yes." he said leaving quickly.

Ford got dressed and wore a camouflaged hat while he cooked. He didn't take the hat off either despite being told to take it off. The cooking did indeed curb any doubts. It was him for sure. No one else could cook like that. He avoided Carter all that day and stayed the night in SGC despite her wanting him to come home.

"Why are you here?" Daniel asked coming into the room. Ford was sitting on the bed looking at the wall.

"Where else would I go? More than likely I'm a clone. If that is the case, then I haven't got a claim to her or anything else here. I'm nothing and can't start over. No money, no life, no future." he muttered looking at the floor. "I'm worse off than Jack's clone."

"What makes you think you're a clone? The medical report…."

"Forgive me Daniel if I think that is bullshit. When Thor shows up and says I'm me for sure, then I'll be better, but until then, I'm taking it as I feel it is."

"Almost think that you should hope that you're a clone. Sam left pretty devastated."

"You think I don't know that!" he shouted. He blew out a breath and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Look, I'm not trying to take it out on you."

"I know. Jack's clone was just about the same. At least you're not complaining about not being able to have a beer." he said looking at the ground. "We'll know something tomorrow."

"I'll be fine. Just need some rest and answers that aren't coming. Thanks for coming by though."

"I'll see you in the morning. Better hope that Sam doesn't stay mad."

The next morning, Thor showed up early. After seeing Ford he instantly took him to his ship, the Daniel Jackson, and checked him out. They came back to the briefing room an hour later. The rest of SG-1 was there as was Jack. Ford sat down near the end of the table and rubbed his head. He stayed leaning on the table that way. He still hadn't taken the hat off and flat out refused to do so.

"My findings have revealed that this is the real Major Carter. I have also learned that his genes were tampered with by Asguard technology. When Major Carter was first on my ship, I placed a marker in him as I did with you O'Neill. The same effect may have taken place here. I do not know what has happened to Major Carter. Whatever has happened, the results of my scans say he is the real Ford Carter."

"Well, any idea how he can be fixed?" Jack asked.

"I am currently looking into that possibility, but nothing has shown to repair what has been done."

"If an Asguard did do this, who and why?" Daniel asked.

"We believe it is Loki. He managed to escape over one of your years ago. We have not been able to locate him since then. When Loki learned about Major Carter, his interest in DNA research was renewed and he expressed interesting in looking at the Major's blood. We tried to discourage his interest and told him the Major was not to be looked at. He left shortly after. We lost track of him much later. Our scientists have discovered that Ford does possess a gene that is somewhat close to what we have been looking for."

"Wonderful." Jack said grumbling. "So Loki just beamed him up, checked him out and somehow messed up sending him back like this?!"

"That is the possibility O'Neill. Unfortunately we have little evidence that says otherwise."

"Okay then. Thanks for your help Thor. We'll call if we need anything else."

"We will continue to keep monitoring him as long as we can." Thor said beaming away.

"Okay then, I guess we live with this until…." he said then tapped his hands on the table as he thought.

"Until what O'Neill?"

"Nothing Teal'c. We just live with it. If Loki is found, then maybe Ford can be fixed. Speaking of which, Major?"

Ford didn't move. He wasn't rubbing his head anymore and they couldn't see his eyes since his hands were still covering his face partially.

"Major?" he said a little more loudly.

Carter got up seeing as he was just down from her and she was closer. When she touched his arm he fell forward onto the table.

"Ford?" she said shaking him.

He still didn't move. She checked his pulse to find it barely there.

"Call the infirmary!" she said sitting him up and pushing the chair back.

"What's wrong?!" Jack said as he had Teal'c grab the phone. They were around or near him now.

"I don't know sir. His pulse is weak, very weak."

There was a bright light and they were on Thor's ship. Ford was still in the chair. When everyone backed away seeing their location changed and Ford disappeared.

"Forgive me Colonel Carter but your husband has had a serious synapse failure in his system. I have him in our medical area until I can determine what has transpired. As of this moment, he is in what you call a coma."

"Thor, why didn't you see this when you brought him back?!"

"I did not noticed the problem till I got back to my ship. I was continuing to monitor his condition if Loki was behind it and tried to take him again. Unfortunately, this may not happen now."

"Wait, can't we just kill him?" Daniel said.

"That might work." Carter said slowly. "Because of that immortality thing he has."

She was holding herself together. If things got worse after he was, killed per say and was still the same when he came back, then she'd start worrying.

"I see. How do you wish to proceed with this Colonel."

"Bring him back here. We can….somebody else do this." she said turning away from the chair.

"I will send you back to your base and monitor the events from here. If he does not change, I shall bring him here again."

"Thanks Thor." Jack said as they beamed away.

They were back at the SGC and startled the guards.

"Everything okay sir?" one of the guards asked.

"No. How are we going to do this?" Jack said addressing his former team.

"I can't do it sir."

"I can't either Jack."

"Teal'c?"

"I can do it if you wish O'Neill."

"Please then." he said turning away with Daniel and Sam. She plugged her ears.

"Your fire arm." Teal'c said to the guard.

The guard looked surprised but gave it up. Teal'c walked over and fired. Seeing as he had no coat on or anything protective, the bullet went right through his heart and through the chair. Teal'c gave the nine millimeter back and sat down with the others.

"Do we tell him?" Jack said after a minute.

"Tell him what?"

"Why we shot him Daniel!"

"Oh, uh, it's up to you."

Jack looked at his watch several times. Just after five minutes Ford took a deep breath suddenly. Even though this was something they knew was going to happen, it still surprised them all. Ford hadn't opened his eyes but he was awake. He rubbed his face and cracked his neck before opening his eyes and rubbing them as well.

"Did I fall asleep?" he asked leaning on the table. "Damn, I'm tired."

"No." Teal'c said.

"I didn't? Strange. What hap…" he said feeling a wet section on his shirt. He touched it and looked down seeing a red blotch. "…..pened?"

"Teal'c shot you." Jack said.

"I see that. Must have been a good reason. Well, if you'll excuse me, I need to change." he said depressed.

He didn't wait to be excused, he just left muttering about his head feeling funny.

"He never asked permission to leave."

"Considering his current problem, I'm not surprised." Daniel said.

"Hmm. Well, everyone back to work then. Nothing to see here now. I'll look in on him once he has changed."

The rest of the day went rather well. There was little else they could do for Ford except leave it to Thor to see if he could figure anything out to reverse the process. Ford managed to make up with Carter but still told her that he didn't feel like himself. He still felt like he must be a clone, something didn't seem right inside. They were in their room on the base. She was sitting on the bed with her legs crossed while he paced.

"Thor said you aren't the clone though. You're…you. Just missing a lot" she said waving a hand at him.

"Still don't feel right. Everything feels off."

"You're fifteen again. Your hormone's are probably racing."

"No. That could be the problem though. Nothing's racing. The constant feeling of having no energy is also disturbing."

"Energy?"

"I was stronger in my other body. I can't even fire my revolvers, wear my coat or fire a 357 either. If we had to go fight the Goa'uld, I can't really help like I normally would." he said sitting next to her. "I went down to the firing range, tried several hand guns and missed every shot. I couldn't hit anything at even at ten feet, and I tried with a nine millimeter! I tried using a PC-90 and ended up putting more holes in the ceiling! Even broke my wrist once."

"That bad?"

"Worse. It's like everything I learned from the age of four on up dealing with guns…..vanished! The sounds of gun fire are even too loud! At fifteen I could fire a .44 and barely flinch! I remember being stronger than this." he said with frustration.

"The doctors are trying to figure out what they can. Thor and the other Asguard are also looking in on it. We just have to wait."

"I know. It's the waiting that bothers me. What do I do if I can't be reversed? What do I do if I can't get back to the way I was? I'm not even my full height! I used to be able to flip a Volkswagen over or push it up a hill. Oh no."

"What?"

"We better see if I can still drive."

"You couldn't have lost that….."

"You guys told me that something happened in my brain that caused a synapse failure. What if when Teal'c shot me and I came back, something wasn't fixed right or whatever happened to me, I was messed with up there enough that not even my special healing ability could fix. There have been immortals that have had serious damage to their head enough it couldn't be healed."

"Is that why you are staying on the base? Because your worried about another Immortal coming after you?"

"That is one worry. Hey, was there any Naquada in my blood when I was checked out?"

This stumped her and was obvious on her face.

"I…..we never thought to ask. Let's go find out."

In the infirmary, the doctors checked his blood out.

"Interesting, he doesn't have the Naquada in his blood stream. Nice catch Colonel. I never thought to check that out."

"Then that proves I'm not me." Ford groaned sitting on a bed. He leaned back laying on it as he rubbed his head in frustration. "Great, where's the real me then and what do I do?"

"What if coming back…."

"No, after I died on that ship and then realized what I was, Hercules died first then I did. When I came back, it brought him back but the Naquada was then part of my system since he was with me so long. Same thing when we both died a couple times after that and came back."

"Every blood check we have done on him since then has revealed the Naquada in him. This time he doesn't have it. I also checked his blood from when he came in as he is now before the brain trauma. It also has no Naquada." the doctor said. "I need to inform the General of this."

"Go ahead." Carter said.

As the doctor went to her office Carter walked over to the bed.

"What do we do now? I'm not me, or I am and was placed in another body. Wait a minute!" he said sitting up. Made his head spin for a moment too and he had to grab the frame to stay up.

"What's wrong?" she asked concerned as she helped him lay back down.

"Don't know. Got dizzy suddenly. What was I saying?"

"Something about being in a different body."

"Right! What if Loki transferred my mind into another body and took my real body. I'm me, but the body isn't. I am a clone, or the body is anyway and my mind isn't.…now I'm rambling."

She thought about it. The theory was sound. He was better than most, if all Immortals from what he told them. His added benefit was the fact he was blended once and still had some of the strength that Hercules helped him obtain. Now all of that was gone.

"That makes more sense. With everything you had before and now don't have…"

"I have another problem I haven't told you." he said quietly. "Only Thor knows about it."

"Another problem?" she said slowly.

"Thor's not sure what has caused it either but," he said slowly and quietly as he looked around.

A few people were to close as was Jack who was coming in. Jack nodded at them and walked over to the doctor. Ford moved closer and spoke into her ear before anyone came over.

"I can't have children or sex."

She backed off slowly looking at him.

"Are you…"

"Trust me, I have tried thinking about it and the things we have done. Nothing happens. No feelings either. Loki screwed something up in more ways than one." he said laying back on the bed. "Nothing is happening downstairs."

"I'll keep it silent."

"Thanks, we don't need Jack.."

"Asking or saying things."

"Yeah. I don't want anyone knowing. Kinda fell bad telling you. More embarrassed really."

"So Major. Assuming you are still.."

"Oh please knock it off Jack. I am me, just not me." he said getting out of the bed.

"I think I know what might have happened sir."

"This I got to hear." Jack said crossing is arms.

Ford's tone was beginning to really get to him. But after hearing about what happened with his clone, he was letting it slide for Ford.

"The possible theory is that Loki did clone Ford's body. But instead of what he did with you, he transferred Ford's consciousness into the clone and sent him back. He still has Ford's original body and is doing….I don't know. Probably experiments on it." she said with a shudder.

"That is a possibility Colonel. Ford has a unique physiological make up. His Immortality combined with the partnership he had with a Tok'ra symbiote made him much different from anyone else." the doctor said.

"Thanks for the reminder of what I don't have anymore. I'm going to get something to eat. Hey is the Prometheus in orbit?"

"Yeah and at the moment are looking for traces of an Asguard ship other than Thor's. He's staying here a few days to see what he can find out." Jack said.

"Good. I can't stay in this body too much longer." he said leaving before they could ask why.

The next couple of days went by without the need to go off world. Thor still hadn't found out anything and Ford wasn't really getting any better. He was almost constantly tired, found out he couldn't drive seeing as his hand eye coordinating was off. That was one reason he couldn't shoot straight. He was working out, but he really wasn't getting much stronger, if anything he was getting weaker. He couldn't even defend himself much either. He gave up doing the combat training classes and stuck to computer work. Toward the end of the week, Thor had something.

"The Asguard have done much more extensive research into your DNA that required us to create more advanced medical instruments."

"Despite my problem, glad I could help." Ford said stifling a yawn as he stretched.

"We believe we have figured out a way to fix some of the problems. Your DNA has been altered much more than just with your age difference. Enough of you DNA was tampered with that you would live, but with complications."

"Tell me about it. I've been living in hell the last couple of days." he said running a hand across his forehead. A few more hairs than what should have came out.

"I believe I just did tell you."

"That was a figure of speak Thor. Ford was saying he understands what you mean." Sam said looking at Ford strangely as he shook his missing hair from his hand.

"I see."

"Can you fix him then?" Jack asked.

"It is possible, but there is no guarantee that we will succeed."

"Well I doubt anything will go wrong. Let's get this over with." Ford said standing up slowly as he had to fight a wave of dizziness.

"As much as I don't want to say this, in case things go wrong, it was an honor to be here and to serve with you all. I'll see you later Sam." he said giving her a quick kiss.

"Let's go Thor, now."

"Wait…." she said.

Thor beamed them away before the others could say anything else.

"He did that on purpose." Jack muttered.

The seventh day………

They were in the briefing room discussing the events to happen that day. SG-1 was to go to another planet without Ford. It was to be a recon mission only, but Jack was sending SG teams 13-16 just in case. All heavily armed.

"I've talked to Thor and he still is working on Ford's condition. So far everything is going well and he should be back today or possibly tomorrow. More than likely tomorrow."

"That's good news." Daniel said.

"Indeed."

"Has he said anything?"

"If you mean Ford, no. He's still unconscious, for the most part. They bring him around long enough to see if he's still there, per say. As much as I'd like to have you all wait, I can't. I'm being pressured by the higher ups to send you out anyway. One of them even had the gall to say think of it like he had died in the line of duty. I'd like to punch that guys lights out."

"So would I." Carter practically growled.

Jack was about to say something when he heard yelling, shouting actually, down the hallway. They all turned looking at the doorway to see who was coming from near Jack's office.

"Look Sergeant, it's me and if you don't get off my ass I'm going to kick yours! Do I make myself clear?!"

"Uh…um…..yes sir. I'll let the General deal with you sir."

"Fine, I'm coming down on his ass anyway! And don't call me sir!"

"That can't be who it sounds like." Daniel said looking at the small hallway and his teammates.

"Ah! Good, you're all here. What the hell was the reason to leave me out in the woods for a week?! And forgive me Sam, but at least you should have came to look for me! Any Immortal could have came along and chopped my head off!" Ford shouted as he waved his hands around at them.

He didn't look good. He looked like he had rolled down a wet hill. He had leaves, dirt, twigs and pine needles clinging to his clothes. Minus his special coat though and weapons. Some of it was in his hair too. They all looked at each other then back at him completely confused. It was Ford, before the strange change. Jack noticed that this Ford had the clothes on from when he left a week ago after seeing Thor and getting the sword.

"Did I jump into another universe? Please say no." he asked with no anger in his voice now.

He looked at them a moment then back the direction he came to see if guards were coming.

"Wait, that can't be since the Sergeant….what the hell is going on?" he asked placing his hands on his hips and narrowing his eyes.

"Thor must have finished early and did something wrong." Jack said looking at them as he started getting up. "Better go give him a call."

He never got out of the chair though.

"Thor? What the hell is going on?!"

"Ford calm down!" Carter said standing up. "You've been with Thor the last couple of days and…"

"I have not been with Thor! I passed out in the General and woke up in the woods. Someone must have wanted the General Lee and managed to knock me out and took my coat, guns and…."

"The General Lee is in his parking spot." Teal'c said.

"Okay….I'm missing something then." Ford said looking around.

Nothing seemed out of place or different.

"What's going on?" he asked slowly.

There was a bright beam of light and Thor showed up. He wasn't alone.

"Thank god that tired feel…what the?!" the Ford that was with Thor said looking up in surprise at seeing himself across the room.

They both sneezed.

"What is going on?" Ford asked slowly as he took on a defensive position that only Carter had seen. To anyone else he looked like he just shifted his feet. "Who…did he come from another universe?"

"No! Loki decided to pay us…you a visit." the younger Ford said walking over.

Oh no. Carter thought. This might get ugly.

"Boys…" she started saying as she stood up again.

"Me?"

"Yes you!" the younger Ford said poking the older Ford. That was a mistake. The older Ford was already on the defensive and grabbed his hand twisting it without thinking first. The younger Ford, being almost the same height lashed out punching him in the face with the left hand.

"Major!!" Carter and Jack said standing up.

The both stood at attention, somewhat. The younger Ford was holding his right hand while the older was holding his chin. It was only obvious to those that could see it, but the each had broken bones.

"That behavior is something I will not tolerate! I don't know what's really going on, maybe I do, but if I catch you two doing something like this again, I'll have your asses in the brig so quick your head will spin!!"

"Yes Brigadier." they said.

They had stopped rubbing their broken spots.

"Good. Thor, want to help here."

"I will try O'Neill. This may take more time than before." he said leaving. The two Ford's left with him moments later.

"Great, there's two of them now. Not that that is a completely bad thing." Daniel said.

"If they can get along." Jack said sitting down. He looked over seeing Carter rubbing her forehead with one hand.

"You're in trouble Colonel."

"I know sir. I know." she said tiredly.

"Can you handle two?"

"Not funny sir."

Later that night, Thor had managed what he needed to on them, or one of them anyway. He beamed them both back down into the briefing room. Thor had contacted Jack to tell him he had finished.

"Whoa!" Jack said.

"Oh my." Daniel said.

"Oh no." Sam muttered shaking her head.

Thor didn't say anything but was confused at their statements.

"I was hoping for more like, welcome back Major or maybe nice to see you again." one of the Ford's said.

"Yeah. Not the stumped and amazed look." the other one said.

The group at the table couldn't tell which Ford was which. They had the same standard issue SGC BDU clothes on and looked the same age. In fact there was nothing different between the two of them.

"Which one of you is…."

"Yours? That would be me." Ford said to Carter.

"How?" Daniel asked.

"Yeah, what makes you so sure that you're not the clone?" the other Ford asked. He already knew the answer but was playing along.

"This ring." he said holding his hand up.

"Damn. I forgot that." he said looking at his hand. "Oh well."

"Wait, how do we really know…"

"I, ended up waking up on the forest floor and the General was missing." he said sitting down near Carter. "So was my coat and my guns."

"Unfortunately, I was the one that woke up in the General being fifteen again. Glad that's fixed." he said sitting down at the end of the table. "The headache is gone finally."

"Thor, care to explain?" Jack asked looking between the two of them.

"The other Ford is in fact a clone, but his unique physiology repaired and removed what would show him to be a clone. It is only because the Ford that showed up today has no apparent tampering with his body that he is the original. The other Ford has signs of Asguard tampering."

"I see. Is he fixed?"

"Funny. Made it sound like I'm a car part." the clone Ford muttered.

"He has been O'Neill. We have managed to correct and repair the damage." Thor said then beamed away.

"Other than a few memories, the last couple of days mind you, we are the same person." Ford said.

He kept himself from saying the biggest difference was he had Carter and the other didn't. He couldn't do that to himself, his other self, whatever.

"Okay then, do you have plans on what you're going to do now about this?" Jack said.

He almost made a reference at Carter, but decided to keep that to himself or ask later at a better time.

"One works while the other cooks? Something like that?"

"No." they both said. They didn't look at each other while they talked.

"We, or I decided to get a few things here, mostly stuff Thor would provide and is in the process of doing. I can't stay here, so I'm going to try and live elsewhere." the clone said.

"And where would this be?"

"That's where I came in with a plan." Ford said leaning onto the table. "You all write up a…..report is the best word for it, to your other self's. The plan is for him to go through the Quantum Mirror and go help that SGC like I do. He'd be starting over, but…."

"I don't mind it at all Jack. Can't stay here. Just won't work with their being two of us." the clone said looking at Carter briefly.

"Jumping universes could be dangerous. You might encounter yourself and…."

"I doubt it Carter and if I did, then I'd go through the Mirror on that side again going somewhere else. But I'm pretty sure I won't ever encounter myself anywhere except here." the clone said tapping the table.

"You really want to do this?" Daniel asked.

"Yeah. Go see the world through another universe. Go save another universe."

"The idea sounds way to wacky."

"Yeah, but it's the only real option open to him. Trust me, we talked about it." Ford said.

"It's not going to work at all Jack. I can't be here."

"It's because of Carter." Jack said and they both nodded.

She looked between the two of them, but they didn't look at her.

"What did you two actually discuss about me?"

"Basically I'm yours and he's not." Ford said looking at the table.

"Thought about sharing?" Jack said not thinking first.

"Sir!"

"Jack I can't believe you suggested that." Daniel said shaking his head in disbelief.

"I should belt you for that." the clone said shaking a fist.

"Oh my god Jack, of all the…." Ford said with a groan.

All these things were said at the same time after he asked the question.

"You're right, I shouldn't have said that. Sorry." he said sincerely. "Okay, that plan sounds the best since you two can't work anything else out. Let's get this over with quickly for you two then so we can get back to the real work."

The next day Thor came back with the items Ford needed. A pair of the Adamantium guns, bullets and clips to go with, the coat and the sword. Basically everything the real Ford had dealing with the Adamantium stuff. The clone Ford was able to take a few cards with him that should give him access to money like it did the first time when he arrived, a large briefcase with the information for the SGC counterparts and the equipment he had made. Seeing as the Mirror was at Area 51, he left saying goodbye to them. He refrained from getting close to Carter to help himself from feeling the loss even worse. Once at Area 51, and the people there looked over the paperwork, he touched a random spot on the small control for the Mirror, gave it to the scientist behind him, and walked through.