CHAPTER 104

EPISODE………………..FAMILY TIES

The SGC was finding out what they could off world, the best they could about the attack that was planned for Earth. They weren't getting much info though. The T.A.R.D.I.S. was at their house, police phone booth mode, with K-9 keeping watch on the scanners to inform them of any developments. So far, nothing yet since Arkad's death. To ensure that the scanning continued uninhibited, they didn't dematerialize it to go anywhere at all. No sight seeing or anything that meant making it take off. Right at the moment, SG-1 was at the base doing their work and such. Outside was a very nice day and they weren't able to enjoy it. That is except for a few people that worked at the SGC. Sam's mom, Janet, Cassandra, Vala, Kate and Rally, along with Sam all went girl shopping. And had been at it for a few hours. Ford was dealing with Sam's different projects while she was out. Vala wanted to go find more clothes and such and Sam actually needed to go out and get more clothes for Sally anyway, plus a few special extras for her and Ford, so they were all allowed to go have fun. Rally went in her car, Sam in hers, and Cassandra in whatever it was she drove. Between the three vehicles, they had enough room to carry everything they bought easily. Janet, Amy and Cassandra were in her car, Vala and Sam were in her Mustang while the other two went in Rally's. Janet and Amy were a little on the furious side when two cop cars pulled all three vehicles over for speeding. They all agreed not to say anything to anyone unless it was brought up. Ford didn't find out about it until a few weeks later when it popped up on their bill. Mostly because Sam agreed to pay for all of them speeding. Sam actually thought he was going to say something when he saw the bill, at least something that would lead to a argument or whatnot. Instead, he shrugged and said he would have been speeding too if he was driving. According to the officer, Sam was the instigator and the one in the lead.

Currently, they were back and not in their SGC issued clothes yet. Rally and Kate went back to their jobs on the base while Vala and Sam were walking through the hallways with bags in their hands. Carter was wearing black knee high boots, as was Vala, different brands though. Sam's zipped in the back, Vala's in the front. Vala had on a black blouse that matched the black knee shorts, a pink and white checkered scarf and one of those tiny metallic looking jean jackets that even if you could button close, wouldn't cover the breast at all. Sam had on a light blue dress, that covered her arms as well, that had red roses all over it. She had about six bags in her hand and Vala had four to six. They got a few stares from the different airmen they passed by and a few civilians but other than nodding, continued on their way.

"They cancelled it? Really? I didn't even know the new season had started." Mitchell said as he came around a corner talking to Siler.

The two men looked up as they noticed the two women approaching.

"Well, there is something you don't see everyday." Mitchell said as they stopped.

A door behind Siler opened and a airman walked out with some tools.

"Um, yes sir. I'm going to…." Siler began.

They all then heard a loud thud, like someone ran into a door.

"OW! What the…." Ford yelled in pain as he backed away from an open door.

Siler poked his head around the door to see the General holding his nose. A airman nearby was saying he was sorry he left it open as the General waved him off and to be careful next time.

"It's areas of the base like this that we need those sliding doors put in." he said holding his hanky to his bleeding nose. "I think I broke my nose."

"Didn't you see it when you came around the corner General?" Mitchell asked as Siler walked off.

"No." he said wiping the tears from his eyes. "I did break my damned nose! My mind was elsewhere and I wasn't really looking ahead of me."

"Watching your feet in thought like Daniel does sometimes?" he said as they heard a crunch noise as he reset his nose.

"Must get it from him. Have to yell at him later for it." he said wiping away the blood and then putting the hanky away. "The lovely ladies have returned finally."

"Ah, so you do find me attractive on some level."

"You are a beautiful woman Vala, but I'm not interested."

"Neither am I, but I still like the complement."

"Nice outfits ladies. Have fun?" Mitchell asked.

"Oh yes." Carter said happily. "We all got many different things and looked around at a lot of the shops. I used to worry about paying for things when I went out with others like this, but now, no worries. Cassandra can use her money to further her education for one thing."

"I'm doing a really great job at blending in with the culture of this planet. Sam thinks, in another year perhaps, I might be able to live off the base finally."

"That's good news." Mitchell said.

"So, other than the clothes shopping, where else did you all go?" Ford asked.

"We got pedicures, manicures, mochaccinos, and the most important thing, other than Sally needing new clothes, the Victoria Secret stop." Carter said wagging her eyebrows.

"Ooh." Ford said with a certain smile.

"General, I doubt you really want to learn what is it she got, especially now. I'm doing my best to try not to even think about both of them and god only knows what they picked up at that place." he said getting a small glare from Sam he ignored. "We have a mission off world in less than an hour."

"We'll put these things away quickly then and be right with you." Carter said. "You coming?"

"I don't know if I should…." Ford began as he heard the tone that meant she wanted to drive him crazy by just showing certain items. However, he didn't get to finish as the alarms went off.

"Unscheduled off world activation!" Walter said over the P.A. system.

"We better check this out." Ford muttered.

"Ladies first." Mitchell said with a wave.

"You're eyes better be…." Ford muttered.

"My eyes are on the backs of their heads. I can see yours are not however General."

"Generals privilege, plus I can."

"You might walk into another door, or worse though. Maybe a ladder for instance." Mitchell said as they passed by one a guy was up on.

"You're right, I almost didn't see that there." he said barely avoiding the ladder.

Landry was already in the Gate Control Room as Walter had already closed the Iris and the four were getting close to entering the room.

"Sir, I am receiving a video transmission." Walter said.

"Let's see it."

"Hello? Hello?" a man said on the screen as he tapped it from his side. "Is this thing working?"

"This is General Landry of Stargate Command."

"General! It is a pleasure!" the man said. "I don't get out to your end of the galaxy much, but I have a friend who lives in the area and he speaks very highly of your people. Maybe you know of him, funny little guy with a beard, lives on a planet formerly occupied by a female System Lord."

"I don't….."

"Rovak? Robak? Does the name sound familiar?"

"No it does not. Now, what's this about?" he asked as his patience was starting to wear thin.

"Sir, I have some information for you, information that could impact the very survival of your world." he said with a very happy expression.

Vala was the first one to enter the room, followed by Sam, then Ford and Mitchell. Vala had a look on her face that wasn't happy, nor was it anger. A little more like confusion and disappointment and sadness.

"Jasec?" she muttered.

"You know this man?" Landry asked.

"A little." she said looking away. "He's my father."

Everyone looked at her as she sighed audibly.

"Considering what you are, it makes me wonder if it is true." Ford muttered.

"Oh, I know it is true. They both liked to talk about how much screaming mom did when I was being born. The doctor that helped confirmed that mom also blew his eardrums." Vala said.

"What does he want?" Ford asked looking at Landry.

"He hasn't said yet."

"Vala, is that you?"

"Yes it is." she said looking at the ceiling. "Unfortunately."

"That's great! Sweetheart, how is life treating you?" he asked with the same happy expression.

"Certainly better than you ever did." she said blinking.

"Vala, are you okay?" Ford asked as she shrugged lightly and shook her head.

"Ouch." he said with a hint of pain. "I suppose, for the benefit of your friends there, you're going to want to list the reasons I was such a bad father."

"Oh I wish I could." she said more truthfully than everyone expected, especially after the sarcasm that came afterward. "But a wormhole can only be maintained for 38 minutes!"

He laughed as he spoke.

"You have your fathers wit."

"It's hardly enough time to cover your inadequacies as both a parent and a human being in general." she said still not looking at the monitor.

"And your mother's uncanny ability to hold a grudge."

"You said you had some information for us?" Mitchell asked quickly before they kept going.

"Thank you." Ford muttered rubbing his eyes.

"Yes, let me through and we'll discuss."

"Walter, open the Iris." Ford said waving his hand lightly.

"Are you sure you want to do that?" Vala asked.

"If his information turns out to be worthless, and he bothers you even if you do everything to avoid him, you have my permission to shoot him. I can tell by the tone of his voice and the way he is acting I probably ain't the only one that would do so." Ford said.

The Iris opened and he stepped through with a several dozen pieces of luggage that was tossed through as Mitchell and Ford walked down leaving the ladies up in the control room on purpose.

"Hi…" he said cheerily as he walked past the many bags and crates he tossed through.

"Just give me a brief reason why I should let you continue further and not throw you back through." Ford demanded as he crossed his arms. "But keep everything you tossed with us. Which is all going to be gone through thoroughly to make sure there is no bombs or anything else we think is dangerous."

"Okay, I have information about the plan Arkad had about attacking your planet."

"He is dead." Mitchell said.

"Yeah, but the threat he set in motion still exist. I can give you more details….but.."

"Fine. Airman, see he gets to a room." Ford muttered as a couple walked up. "Keep a watch on him as well. And triple search everything he has."

"Yes General." one of them said as they grabbed a bag and left.

They both knew he meant to have the guy put into a room that was monitored secretly, just in case he was going to try something.

"Vala, by the tone of your voice, I get the indication he did something to you, personally…" Ford began asking as he and Mitchell met the two ladies just outside the control room.

"No. He did not rape or touch me inappropriately." she said quickly. "Just a bad father altogether in other ways. I still don't understand what mother saw in him that made them get together so I was born."

"Let's go find out what he wants in exchange for this information. After you two change." Ford said rubbing his eyes again as Sam lightly tugged on his coat to ensure he followed.

SG-1 were all in the room he was in, which was small and had just the basics, plus the hidden cameras, except the bathroom. He tried to be nice and get a hug from Vala, who backed away and had the look like she wanted to kill him.

"Out with it." Ford demanded.

"Ouch. I heard you in particular of the group here wasn't easy to get along with or please. Anyway.." he said quickly after getting looks from them all. "In exchange for sanctuary on Earth, I will give you more information about Arkad's plan. Which involved several naquada loaded cargo ships in preparation for an attack on Earth."

"We're listening." Mitchell said.

"Okay, those said cargo ships are still out there, waiting to be launched. I, just happen to know their locations." he said smiling.

"If this information turns out to be a big lie, trap or a waste of our time, Vala has been given permission to shoot you." Ford said.

"You wouldn't shoot me?"

"Oh, I would." Vala stated.

They all got together later after, reaching out to a few allies to see if they could learn anything. The Asguard they weren't able to get hold of unfortunately. Vala did go off world with Mitchell and Daniel to a few places she felt it was safe to look into while Teal'c went to a few Jaffa planets and asked around.

"He has spent his entire life using people and now that they are looking for him, he is trying to use us as his personal shield." Vala stated as they sat around the briefing table.

"Is it possible he is telling the truth?" Carter asked.

"I doubt it." Vala said. "The few contacts we were able to talk to and such didn't have anything."

"Nor did I get much either. No Jaffa have been able to corroborate any part of his story." Teal'c said.

"The T.A.R.D.I.S. hasn't located anything either, nor has the Odyssey." Ford said.

"Cargo ships can cloak though." Mitchell said.

"They can't hide from the T.A.R.D.I.S." Carter said.

"If Arkad was careful enough to cover his tracks, since he probably knew that using Jaffa would be a bad idea with a lot of them being allies with us, someone would possibly alert us to this plan. If there really is an attack, which is and isn't surprising on how Jasec learned about it, though he has yet to tell us how, we might want to just keep watch and find out what we can. Better safe than sorry." Daniel said.

"What does that mean?" Vala asked.

"The surprising part? No offense Vala, but look at your past before you turned around here. It is rather obvious where you gain some of your traits." Daniel said.

She stuck her tongue out at him and looked away.

"Obviously, if this threat is real, we can't let not even one ship blow up on Earth. If there is enough naquada in those ships, just one could cause devastating damage. It might even be so big that the SGC would have to unveil its existence to ensure all the countries don't go into world war three." Carter said.

"I agree. The only reason I think it would be a good thing if this plan is real, is because of all the naquada we could gain. Assuming something goes wrong and one is about to explode or does, I just go back and keep it from happening." Ford said.

They nodded in agreement that it was a good idea on that part.

"I guess we're going to check out if his story is true then?" Mitchell asked.

Ford nodded.

"Works for me. Let's get our first clue and head out then." Mitchell said as they all got up.

While they got the info and were getting ready to go off world, Landry felt nostalgic.

"Doctor Lam, are you busy?" he asked walking into the infirmary.

"Not at the moment." she said from her office as he entered. "How can I help you? I don't see anyone injured or…."

"No, nothing is wrong with me." he said waving his hand. "Carolyn, I have been thinking…."

"Oh." she said sighing. "Whenever you preface what you are about to say with those words, what you are actually doing is preparing me for some revelation you just had. Good thing I am already sitting down."

"It's been awhile since I spoke to your mother."

"No, it's been over five years." she said crossing her arms.

"We were married for twelve."

"What brought this on all the sudden?" she asked curious. "Is this because the General and Sam get along so great you are missing mom? I have noticed an increase in personal having better relationships with their spouses because of their advice when asked. Did you talk to either of them or something?"

"Not really, no. I've actually been thinking a lot about it since you came to work here. About reaching out to her again, at least trying to communicate with her again if possible."

"Okay, so how do you want to do this?"

"Well, I was thinking about giving her a call actually."

"Just like that, just out of the blue?"

"No. That might scare her and I don't want that."

"Okay. Right at the moment, she is in Europe for the next couple of weeks, so, when she gets back, I can call her and put in a good word for you. That work?"

"Thank you." he said solemnly.

"You're welcome." she said with the same tone even though she was surprised he wanted to try to patch things up.

SG-1 was on the Odyssey, flying to the destination Vala's father told them about. They would have taken the T.A.R.D.I.S., but they didn't have those coordinates in the databanks. However, the ship was on the Odyssey.

Mitchell got off the elevator and left walking into the corridor finding Vala leaning against the wall. She followed him as he walked off.

"I think this is all a big con to avoid getting killed or captured by someone he has pissed off out there."

"Probably true. But we have to check this out anyway. If it is a big bluff and he is just trying to hide out, then you get to shoot him. As wrong as it is." he muttered as they headed towards the bridge.

"I think I'd rather shoot him than find the ships. This could also be a trap."

"Which is why the T.A.R.D.I.S. is on board." he said raising a finger.

The ship dropped out of hyperspace and came into orbit of a planet like Earth. The other four were on the bridge, with the T.A.R.D.I.S. behind the Captains chair. Sam was at the station to the right of the Captain while Daniel and Teal'c stood nearby watching her work and the screen she was looking at. Ford was inside the T.A.R.D.I.S. and doing readings of his own.

"Entering high orbit." Marks said from the left of the Captains chair. "Scanning now."

Mitchell and Vala came in at that moment, she staying by Daniel while Mitchell came over and looked at Marks station.

"What have we got?" the Colonel asked.

"I'm only picking up twelve life signs on the planets surface sir."

"That's it?"

"I'm also picking up a significant concentration of naquada."

"These readings are through the roof." Carter said.

"Looks like the intel was good." Daniel said.

"Sir, we are picking up movement." Marks said.

"We've been detected." Carter said. "They are making a break for it."

"Those ships must not be allowed to escape." Teal'c stated.

"Lock onto…." the Colonel began.

"Raise shields and do nothing else. I'll be right back." Ford said sticking his head out of the T.A.R.D.I.S. quickly before slamming the door.

"General…." the Colonel began as the ship disappeared from the bridge.

"Do I raise…"

"Do it." the Colonel ordered.

"New readings." Carter said. "The ships have all landed. Wait, now they are gone."

"What do you mean gone?" the Colonel asked.

"I'm not detecting any signs of life or power sources at all." Marks said.

Everyone slightly jumped as the grinding and winding noise, followed by the air moving slightly happened as the T.A.R.D.I.S. showed back up behind the Captains chair. The door opened and he walked out with his coat burned in a few areas.

"Staff weapons. They used staff weapons." he said brushing a burned spot that kept smoking. "When the zats failed, they grabbed the staff weapons."

"What did you do?" Mitchell asked.

"I had little choice but to kill them all. They tried to self destruct or blow up the naquada and me with it. We now have three new cargo ships and a whole lot of naquada." he said with his hands far apart.

"I probably shouldn't ask, but were are the bodies?" Daniel asked.

"Zatted." he said removing the coat. "Got several more of those and staff weapons along with some stun grenades. We can go home now."

"Marks…"

"Setting course."

"Wow, this mission was a lot easier than it seems it should have been." Carter said as she got up and gave it to another person. "Where did Ford go?"

"Probably to change coats." Daniel said.

"This did seem to easy." Vala said. "Way to easy."

"Perhaps it is because of our good deeds, we are finally getting our due." Teal'c said.

"Nice one T. Now I have to agree with that." Mitchell said.

"For the record, I am happy that everything went so smoothly. I'd rather we had not gotten into a fight or worse, those ships rammed into us. I seriously doubt we would survive the impacts if there is as much naquada as you people say could have been." the Colonel said.

"True. But had they decided on that sort of attack, the T.A.R.D.I.S. shields would have protected us." Carter said.

"As much as I am glad his ship is here to help, and did get us those ships and supplies, you all along with it might not be here on my next mission, which means I have to rely on her own power. You understand what I mean?" the Colonel asked SG-1.

They nodded and then went different ways.

Now they were back and the cargo ships and some of the naquada had been given to Area 51. The rest of the naquada was partially given to the SGC for different uses and a good portion was in the T.A.R.D.I.S. Because the intel was good, Jasec was given the refugee he sought, despite some people saying otherwise.

"General, this is a bad idea. With all due respect, it's not to late to change your mind." Vala said following Landry through the halls.

"Vala, I made a deal. I'm not going back on my word. Why aren't you bothering General Carter with this?"

"He's busy with something else and I haven't been able to find him. How about a more….um, liberal interpretation of the agreement you made with him? The word, sanctuary could mean accommodations from a tropical island to say, one of this planets more unpleasant penal facilities." she said as they arrived outside the temporary quarters he had been living in.

"Forget it."

She walked off shaking her head as Landry knocked on the door to inform him of what was going to happen with his sanctuary.

A couple of days later, he was off the base and living in a apartment of sorts. With the Air Force watching him closely along with paying for his accommodations and some supplies. They didn't have a mission that day, so SG-1 was working on various jobs they did on the base. Vala was somewhere, probably with Daniel who was in his office last the most of them saw. The other four were in the cafeteria eating a steak meal that Ford had managed to get in this month. Many people were enjoying the T-bone steaks that were rather big. Mashed potatoes, gravy, several pies or cakes, fresh hand made biscuits and steamed vegetables. A lot of people were just waiting to get down there, be it morning or night to eat. There was enough for everyone on the base to have at least two steaks and such so, even though the thought of eating was making many people want to rush down, they all knew they weren't going to not get any. SG-1, minus two, were eating a table of there own like always. There was still enough room for more people, which no one had ever came up asking to sit with them before despite all the times they had been together or sometimes alone. Though for Ford, it was different because sometime personal, usually one person at a time would come up and sit to ask questions, varying from relationship issues, which had happened to Carter a few times, guys for him, girls for her, to also issues dealing with departmental stuff or base issues. Today was different though, because a Lieutenant walked up and asked if she could sit with them.

Personal were always coming and going through the mountain every week. Sometimes some people came, and then after finding out what was happening and requested a transfer rather quickly to someplace safer even though they were watched if they left or were moved to Area 51. Others, jumped at the chance to join a SG team as soon as possible while the rest just were glad to have a job. The General, other than Landry, had to see each new person that came to join the SGC. Depending on their skills and such, would depict which person the two would see. The said Lieutenant he had personally interviewed over three months ago. She had currently yet to go off world and wasn't really looking forward to it either. She was just happy to have a job here. Her skills were rather incredible, including several martial arts which made him wonder a few things because a background check showed she was actually more than her record showed. To which she, the next day when talking to him, admitted she was a Immortal who learned about the place from someone she'd rather not say just yet, but assured him she was completely loyal to America and the SGC.

Kate and Vala had came in proving that she was Immortal and she said she had been around just over three hundred years. Since that day and he letting her stay, working in the botany department, he had seen her at various times during the three months and noticed more than once she was looking at him, staring. But she didn't look at him with interest as to relationship or love sick. It was something else and even though he kept telling himself he needed to ask her about it, he had yet to do so because something came up making him forget. However, today was very different.

"May I sit here with you SG-1?" she asked.

"Lieutenant?" Carter began.

"Cecilia ma'am." she said nervously. "Lieutenant Cecilia Macy."

"I don't mind." Mitchell said giving her a once over.

Teal'c only nodded in agreement as Carter and him scooted over to allow her to sit in front of the General. She was tall for a woman, six foot one. Blood red hair that had a shine to it that was in a pony tail going to the center of her back. Her eyes were a sparkling blue and from what little that SG-1 had noticed of her, either when they were working out or watching her sparring with either Vala or Kate or both together with swords, she was rather imposing. Even though she was sort of on the shy side ever since she arrived, during exercises and sparring, she was brutal. It was like she had some inner demons or something that she wouldn't talk about, but let out the problems on the equipment and her opponents. For someone who didn't want to go off world, she had a lot of fight. However, she would never spar with the General and on the few times he asked, she said no and left quickly. Her physique showed her as a very strong woman. If it wasn't for the face, hair and the breast, though not very big but noticeable, you'd swear it was a man. She won several arm wrestling competitions against many of the men on the base. Except for Teal'c who never took part nor the General because they had no competition. Many men on the base had asked her out, but she so far had turned everyone down and when several women had asked her about if she was interested in the General, she had said no on every occasion and even once said something about it being a sick idea, which confused a lot of people. Mitchell even tried asking her out once, and she thought about it, only to say no the next day.

"What's on your mind Lieutenant, or would you prefer I call you by name?" the General asked.

"Um…" she said more nervous than before. "Cecilia will work, General."

"Are you alright Lieutenant?" Mitchell asked. "You look ready to bolt out of here."

"I…"

The General put his utensils down and looked directly at her, which only made her even more nervous. Even a bit of fear was on her face and a lot of people other than SG-1 noticed. Ford noticed it got a little quiet and turned his head, to which everyone else instantly went back to talking and eating.

"Ever since you have came here Cecilia, you have been watching me discreetly. At first, I thought it was a crush, but other than through the grapevine as it were, you do not have that sort of interest in me. Or is it that?"

"No way." she said a little too quickly.

"Your past must have been something bad at one point because I'm about the only other one who tends to destroy punching bags. It really caught my attention when I watched you on more than one occasion punch one to the point your hands were bleeding. Not to mention the times I noticed you sparring with Vala and Kate. You have some suppressed anger for reasons I have yet to ask about seeing as it is none of my business and you haven't let it affect your work. Not that I get to the botany department much to notice or have heard anything either. However, I once thought it was something I did because you tend to stare at me a lot when you think I'm not looking or noticing, but you don't have that look in your eyes. So, what is it?" he asked putting his hands together under his nose.

She looked down at her plate as she rubbed her hands together in her lap with extreme nervousness.

"Sorry, I didn't catch that." he said after she muttered something.

"I….need to speak with you in private."

The tone was like a child seeking help because they were lost. It really surprised everyone that heard it.

"Lieutenant…" Mitchell began when Ford held up a hand.

"How…" he began.

"SG-1 can be there, but no one else." she muttered. "I…."

They got up with her almost rushing out as she held her arms close to her body. Daniel and Vala were in his office as expected as they closed the door while turning off the cameras. She sat down on the cot Daniel had at the back of his office as Mitchell was turning the cameras off.

"What's going on?" Daniel asked.

"Not sure." Mitchell said. "She wants to talk to him privately and said SG-1 is the only ones she will let hear whatever it is."

"She's never said much before even when we are sparring." Vala said.

"Cecilia, what's wrong?" the General asked kneeling in front of her as she was holding her arms close to her body. "Has someone did something…"

"No." she said taking a few deep breaths. "I've….been working up…."

"The courage?"

"To talk to you, specifically. Ever since I came here." she said not looking at him.

"Did I do something…."

"Yes."

He stood up as Carter, standing behind him, asked if he knew her.

"I've never seen her before until she started working here."

"She's afraid of something." Daniel said. "Of you apparently."

"I don't know what I could have done." he said confused when she suddenly bolted up standing in his face.

"You left! That's what's wrong!"

All of them were rather startled, even her as she realized what she said and sat down again looking at her lap as she shook with tears. Daniel quickly walked past and pushed Ford back before sitting next to her as she cried into his arms.

"Ford…" Carter began as they had walked back over to the door.

"I don't know who she is." he said while feeling sorry for her.

Teal'c was looking at her, from by Daniel's desk and tilted his head.

"T?"

Teal'c moved over and picked up a picture off the shelf that showed a picture of them off world, though it could be considered on Earth by anyone else who saw it. In the picture, they were all smiling and had a arm around each other in their SGC off world outfits, minus the weapons and vest. But the picture was taken a some time ago before Vala showed up and before Ford had changed. Mitchell was in the picture as was Jack.

"T?"

"Look at this picture Colonel Mitchell."

"It's us, so what?"

"Look at General Carter's face."

"He's smiling like the rest of us."

Teal'c was about to tell him what he saw when Daniel got up with her, telling her no matter what she said, they weren't going to do anything, giving her his personal promise.

"What do you mean about Ford leaving?"

"You…..you are, my father." she stammered out.

It shocked everyone of them while also confusing them as well. Carter called K-9 as Ford asked how that was even possible.

"Over 300 years ago, you met with mom. Not the Colonel." she said sitting on the cot with Daniel next to her as she wiped her eyes with a hanky Daniel gave her. "She was another Immortal that you helped when she was killed, her first death. She was about to be raped during an attack on a village that you were in. You stepped in and stopped them, but not before she was killed first out of retaliation. She was 34 at the time so she was glad to have died then instead of in later years. Because she was new to being Immortal, you stayed there helping her cope with what she was and teaching her how to fight for many years as you both traveled."

She stopped and looked up but relaxed when K-9 was the only one that came in.

"She told me many stories about you, how you looked and what you had in the future. Where you came from in the future and fighting aliens. How eventually you would come across yourself in the future, though I have yet to see it take place since I came here. She says you and her fell in love after staying together for over fifty years and stayed together for another decade. Then one day, you were gone. I was born several months later and when shortly after I turned 23, we were attacked by some Immortal. He had help with him and because I was still a pre-Immortal, I couldn't help. She made me run away and I kept running even after seeing her head taken, but not before she managed to kill his bastard grunts first. I died some years later in a boating accident. Many years later that fucking monster found me and tried to take my head as well, but I killed him and ran before his friends showed up. He has been trying to get me ever since, which is one of the reasons I try to stay here as much as possible. He's in this state, but he hasn't found me yet."

"K-9?"

"She does have a biological match to your gene's Master. However, they are of your genes before you became a Time Lord."

"Back when I was just an Immortal?"

"Affirmative."

"Yet, she is still my daughter, different mother."

"Affirmative."

"How is this possible?" Mitchell asked.

"I have no idea. I can't think of how it would be even if it was me personally who got into the T.A.R.D.I.S. right now to go back and save this woman. It just wouldn't work anyway because of what I am."

"Her description of you corresponds with the look you used to have before your change General Carter." Teal'c stated as he handed the picture to Daniel.

"Yes, this what you looked like. Except the picture she talked about showed another woman who I know is you Colonel, wearing a wedding dress." she said as Ford reached into his pocket.

"This picture maybe?" he asked showing his wallet.

"Yes." she said seeing a picture of him and Carter together in their wedding outfits, from the waist up. "It is exactly as she described."

"I don't show that picture to many people." he said taking the wallet back as he flipped the photo over to show the same sort of picture, but with his current look and her in her wedding dress again.

"Nor do I." Carter said confused. "How is it possible though? K-9 says…"

"Would you be willing to submit to a blood check…"

"Yes." she said wiping her tears away again. "I have been in there many times before, but I will do it again. I would prefer this not get out, not for me, but for you two. I would just like to know why you left?"

"I'm sorry." he said holding one of her hands. "I wouldn't have left someone like that unless there was a extremely important reason and I can't even come up with one. Not even for the world would I leave Sam. If I loved this woman…what was here name?"

"Starsha. I guess I should tell you that my last name isn't Macy either." "Actually, I kinda figured that. You are in the Watchers mainframe and have been under many names. Including Carter as your last name, which is the first time they started keeping records."

"Mom took your name and never told me her original one. I kept it for many years until I had to hide from Lume. Each time that bastard found me, I had to run because I was outnumbered." she said clenching her fist in anger.

"We'll keep you protected." he said putting a hand on her shoulder. "I won't let him get you. With a name like Starsha, I would remember something like that. But I don't. I done quite a bit of time traveling, but I don't ever remember saving any woman from what you said. I'm sorry if it sounds cruel, but Sam has been the only woman I have ever been with."

"You'll figure it out somehow." she said wiping more tears away. "You and the rest of SG-1. Saving the world is what you do, helping me with this should be a cake walk."

"I'm willing to help." Daniel said.

"As am I." Mitchell said. "Though I have a question. Is the reason you refused to date me because of all of this?"

"I haven't been on a date or let anyone close to me since Lume kept coming after me. I found someone once many years after mom died and after my encounter with him again, in hopes to never see Lume again. But he killed, what was considered my boyfriend because we hadn't gotten that close yet along with several other people. After that, I moved around a lot and have been ever since. Every Immortal I have came across, I ran from if I could or killed in self defense. Really, this is the longest I have been in one place in a long time."

"Well, I am glad to know you aren't after my head." Vala said.

"I'm sorry if this hurts, harms or does…."

"Don't worry about it." Carter said. "If Starsha was here, which I wish she was to help you, even though it would probably cause some big problems, we will get to the bottom of this. I promise."

Lam kept it discrete and blood test were done. It was confirmed she was his biological daughter, but based on his blood test before becoming a Time Lord. The info was kept confidential between Lam, Cecelia and SG-1. Ford wasn't too surprised and even made a comment saying, that's my girl, when he found out that she still had her innocence.

However, even with everything she told them and learned, they had no idea how it was possible she was his, and couldn't think of anything either. Being as she was technically family, and the fact there was a Immortal out to kill her, which they couldn't find because Lume had killed the Watcher along with the three others that had been assigned to him, they were unsure of his whereabouts. But they had a picture and with it, all law enforcement agencies were currently looking for him. She didn't mind the fact she was going to be sleeping on the base from now on until the man was caught and her shyness went away now that she got what she had been keeping for months off her chest. With that being gone and feeling safer than she had felt in so many years, she took Mitchell on his offer for the date. Even though she was 312, the General did come down on Mitchell in front of her, saying to behave and gentlemen like. Mitchell thought he was joking at first until he saw the look in Ford's eyes which made Cecilia laugh. They went out on the date and even though she thought Mitchell was cute and they did have fun, they both agreed it was too weird to go out again because of who she was and him being SG-1, plus the fact they were really far apart in rank.

Three weeks later……..

They were still trying to find out about her and how she was his daughter. Unfortunately, they still hadn't found Lume either, but there was reported sightings from different law officials that he was in Colorado.

Later one night, Vala was in her room, which was still on the base. She was looking through a woman's magazine and had large curlers in her hair as she laid on the bed reading. A white silk robe was all she was wearing as her feet played with a blue velvet throw pillow between them. She looked up as the door was knocked on.

"Come in."

The door opened and Landry came in. Her face dropped slightly as she had hoped it was Daniel. She had also hoped it might had been Cecilia since they had gotten closer. Girl talking and stuff like that since Carter was with Ford at home and the two were left on the base. Cecilia did mention she thought Daniel was cute as well, but wasn't interested. Even though Cecilia wanted to get with someone, she was waiting until the crisis with Lume was over first because until then, he was, even though not there, ruining her personal life.

"General." she said sitting up and closing her robe. "What brings you down here this late?"

"This came for you today." he said handing her a letter.

"Hmm, since when did you assume mail delivery duties at the base?" she asked looking at the envelope.

He laughed lightly and said it was from her father.

"Oh." she said disappointed as she tossed it into the trash can nearby.

"It's been three weeks since he came to Earth, and you've ignored every attempt he has made to get in touch with you."

"Well…" she said thinking of some reasonable reason as she played with a couple pillows. "I've been terribly busy. Sparring with Kate, helping Daniel. Even spending time with Cecilia when Daniel kicks me out of his lab…"

"Vala. Even though we still have no idea how she is the General's daughter, he and Carter took her in anyway as family. Before, the Lieutenant was rather quiet and shy, other than when working out or talking about the latest plant or something dealing with botany. Family is important and should come first, even when they make mistakes or in the General's case, don't know all the facts yet." he said walking past the end of her bed, sort of pacing. "I learned family is more important than the job the hard way. I'm trying to reconcile with Carolyn and her mother right now."

"Were you absent for the first three years of your daughters life because you were too busy running scams out of the Nylus sector? Or…"

"No." he said shaking his head. "I allowed my career to take precedents over the more important things in a family life, such as birthdays, anniversaries, Carolyn's graduation. Memories of things you can't get back or do over."

She stopped playing with a curler as she looked at him.

"Thanks for trying to sympathize, but no offense sir, there is no way to compare your life and mistakes with Jasec's. You had a career occupation. His was a less than noble choice for a career. He'd be gone for months at a time only to return to lay low or to hide, sometimes both to avoid the people and groups he had swindled."

"What were things like when he was at home though?"

It took her a few moments before she could talk as the memories came back.

"Those were the times I looked forward to him gracing us with his presence." she said with some happiness and sadness. "I was young and he was my father. Sometimes he would return late in the middle of the night, and I would wake up to find him sleeping at the end of my bed."

She smiled as better memories returned.

"I was so excited on those times I couldn't wait to wake him and make him tell me about all of his great adventures." she said as the General nodded in a way he understood. "He always had something for me too. A fancy ring, a pretty necklace, some pretty trinket. Stuff he'd bring back from his many travels. I treasured every one of those keepsakes. Memories of my father that I kept stored away under my bed in a box. Then when I got older, I realized what they were, just worthless trinkets meant to curry my favor."

"He might feel different about that."

"No. I doubt it. You don't know him like I do."

"No, I really don't." he said walking over to her trash can and removing the letter. "But what I do know is that he spent every day of the last three weeks trying to get in touch with you, which tells me that you must be very important to him, quite possibly, much more than you think or know."

She looked down at the letter he set on the end of the bed.

"You won't know what he said until you read it. Maybe it will help, maybe it will make things worse." he said tapping it before heading towards the door. "You have some good memories of the times you two spent together when you were a little girl. Those times do count too."

She watched him leave and then reluctantly read the letter.

Jasec was living in a apartment with a variety of items he had brought with him and had been buying. He opened the door finding three people standing there. Daniel and Mitchell were in casual clothes with their leather jackets while the General was there in a silver suit with his coat.

"Doctor Jackson, Colonel Mitchell, General! Come in please!"

By the looks on their faces, they really didn't want to be there but came in anyway. Daniel had his arms crossed while Mitchell had his hands in his pockets. Ford walked in with one hand in his pocket and the other on his cane.

"Are we interrupting something?" Daniel asked as they looked to find several old ladies sitting around with small dinner tray tables playing bingo.

"B-10." one of them said.

"Bingo!" Jasec said going to his small table. "All right ladies, we've got to call it a day. Come on."

He punched his card and then held it up.

"Pay the winner…."

"Ladies, keep your money and leave please." Ford said gently but with conviction.

They quickly gathered their things, and money and then left as he closed the door with the cane.

"What are you doing? That was a friendly game…"

"It was a scam. And against old people who get little to begin with." Ford said miffed. "And this isn't the first time."

"You haven't been a very model citizen." Daniel said.

"I don't know what you mean?"

"The charity phone scam ring any bells?" Mitchell asked. "What was it…..um, Little Pepito needs a new set of kidneys…."

"Um, yeah. Well, the Air Force provides me with a mere pittance…"

"The point is to make sure you don't let everyone in the world know you aren't even an Earthling." Ford growled. "We are keeping a watch on you and several people are starting to think putting you permanently on the base or tossing you onto some other planet where you wouldn't be found is a better idea. I'm starting to agree."

"I am trying to change. Which is why I wanted you guys to come, to tell Vala I am trying."

"You are failing! She wasn't surprised when she was told about your activities." Daniel said. "She told us something like this would happen."

"Look, I just want to see her. She trust you guys and I'm hoping you can get her to come or at least tell her to come to me."

"She doesn't want to come and even if I ordered her to, there is a good chance she'd be arrested for murder. She hates you and from what little she has told us, I can see why." Ford said sternly.

"Please, I really want to see her. Do something to get her to come, anything. I can make it worth your while, if you catch…"

Daniel and Mitchell both agreed it was time to leave as they saw the look in Ford's eyes and his hand start to reach into his coat.

"Okay, we'll see what we can do." Daniel said grabbing Ford by one arm and Mitchell grabbed the other and they pulled him along.

The drive back to the base, all three of them grumbled or complained about how much an idiot the man was and finally understood why Vala was as she was, at least on the wanting of treasure and a few other character traits.

Carolyn did get hold of her mom after she returned and came up to the office knocking on the door. She wasn't surprised, but also was to not find the General in there with her father. Sometimes they were talking about base agendas, personal and filling out forms along with doing signatures. Today, or at least at this moment, her father was looking at a folder while looking out the window at the briefing room.

"Good news, I got a call from mom. She'll be in Colorado Springs on Friday."

"She will?" he said happily surprised.

"Yes, she is passing through and, she agreed to have dinner with you."

"She has?" he said with the same happy surprise.

"Well, so long as I come with and have dinner too."

"Oh…"

"Okay, I thought you would be thrilled.."

"No, I am." he said quickly. "It's great news!"

"Okay." she said seeing he was somewhat thrilled, if not a little shocked. "I'll make dinner reservations for Friday night, somewhere nice?"

"Yeah, yeah." he said nodding.

"Okay." he said as she started to leave.

"Oh, um…" she said turning back around at the door. "You know that brown sports jacket you have with the patches on the sleeve?"

He nodded with a smile.

"Don't wear that." she said shaking her head.

"Okay."

"Good." she said smiling and then walked out.

"Oh boy."

Vala was in her green BDU's with the coat open showing the black undershirt when the elevator opened to show three of her teammates, two in civilian attire.

"Silver, that's new General."

"I thought it looked cool. It's just silver thread, nothing flashy. Sam likes it, but she didn't say why."

"Hmm. So where did you three go?" she asked as they got out of the elevator and she stepped in.

"Your father's place." Daniel said.

"Oh really. Let me guess, he wanted you to talk to me on his behalf in hopes that you could convince me to go speak to his worthless ass."

"I suggest you do nothing and ignore him. He tried to bribe us…" Ford said.

"That's not surprising." she muttered.

"He is a real jerk, but he really wants to see you." Mitchell said. "If anything, you should just go to get it over with so he stops calling here and sending letters…"

"I know." she said.

"You two obviously have some really unresolved issues…."

"I know Daniel. I'm going to go see him right now and get it over with." she said sighing as she punched the button making the door close.

"Hmm." Ford said as she rolled the head of the cane against his chin and walked away. "Come get me if she kills him."

"Where are you going?" Daniel asked.

"Where else…"

Jasec came out of his kitchen area that had yellow and orange colored rings hanging over the doorway that almost touched the floor. He tossed a towel aside as the door was knocked on.

"Coming."

Looking out the peephole, he found Vala in civilian attire standing outside, looking miffed. She was wearing a dark green V neck shirt with sleeves and black jeans. He checked himself out in the mirror next to the door before opening it.

"Vala, sweetheart! This is a surprise! I can't even imagine what they said to you…."

"They didn't." she said walking in. "I have not come seeking reconciliation or some deeper understanding of your contemptible behavior in my formative years. I have come for one thing and one thing only."

"Well, if it is chicken casserole, then you are in luck, because I just…" he said smiling as he pointed past her.

"No. I doubt it would compare to the General's cooking anyway." she said pacing back and forth near the entrance to the kitchen. "Catharsis. To that end."

He sighed as she stepped forward taking a deep breath before speaking rather loudly.

"How dare you implicate yourself in my life after all these years?! You were never there for Mother," she said walking around him as he tried to speak. "Even though you always expected us to be there for you whenever you needed a place to hide, or capital to help set up one of your latest scams. My life has been on constant struggle against personal issues that you seeded. And now that I am at Stargate Command, have friends who like and respect me, and I finally am happy with who I am, you think you can come along and jeopardize everything I've worked so hard to achieve! Under no circumstances will I allow you to screw that up for me!"

"Wow." he said as she was breathing hard and not looking his way. "Did you rehearse that?"

"A little." she said and then turned to look at him. "But I meant every word of it."

He nodded biting his lip.

"Right, I'm done then."

"Wait, that's it? You came to tell me all that and then just leave? I even made pie." he said as she walked to the door.

"I've said everything I needed to say."

"But if that was all you had to get off your chest, you could have easily sent me a letter, like I did to you. Instead you came here and went through all that effort to see me." he said smiling. "That must count for something."

"Coming here was only to please my friends at Stargate Command and stop them from giving me any more unsolicited advice."

"Yes, it must be wonderful to have friends who care about you," he said looking away for a few moments. "Who support you in times of need, who believe in you."

"I earned their trust." she stated. "I did not buy, scam or con it."

"I admit, I deserved that. But at least you had the opportunity to gain that trust. You won't even give me that chance."

"You don't deserve it." she said trying to keep from crying.

"I don't suppose there is anything I can so or do that would convince you that I am not lying, that I am honestly trying to change."

"No." she said sternly. "There isn't."

"Well then, before you go." he said as she grabbed the door handle. "This is for you."

She turned to see him holding some necklace up.

"I got it from a trader on Meronat. You know, that little world with the twin suns I used to take you to."

"I remember Meronat." she said nodding, but had a sad look on her face.

"Do you still have your little treasure box? Where you would store all the gifts I used to bring you…" he said as she looked away with tears. "When you were just a little girl."

"No." she said barely keeping herself from breaking down. "I threw that away a long time ago."

"I understand." he said lowering the necklace she wouldn't take. "Thanks for coming at least. I know it is too late, but I want you to know I am sorry."

She barely nodded and turned to open the door only to put her head against it.

"Having second thoughts?"

"No. I think the door is locked."

"Oh, it sticks a little." he said as she backed up and he gave it a few jerks opening it. "There you go."

"Goodbye Jasec."

"For once, in the last twenty years, could you call me dad?" he asked leaning on the door frame.

"You haven't earned that right yet, and I doubt you ever will." she said walking away quickly.

She came back to base, still in her civilian attire and walked past the Carter's lab as they were talking.

"Vala, wait! You might want to see this." Carter yelled out as she came to the doorway and the two almost collided.

"Sorry." Vala said backing up and then following her in. "What is it?"

"We found this on the internet." Carter said as she typed on her keyboard.

"We both felt it was better you learned this from us instead of second hand through someone else." Ford said solemnly. "With everything else he has done…"

"On no." she muttered as the screen came up to show a commercial of her father doing a sale of a product that was suppose to be stardust that many people, including big celebrities used.

"I'm sorry Vala." Carter said as the commercial ended.

"And after all that bullshit about trying to change." she muttered as she walked out before tossing back a thanks.

Mitchell turned the video off that showed that said commercial after he had been brought in. Jasec was wearing a shirt with lots of fish on it and some green khakis and sitting in the middle chair with the windows behind him as Mitchell sat on the table by him.

"Yeah um, it is not real stardust."

"Ya think?" Ford said sitting at the head of the table. "You said you wanted to change and even told Vala that, but here we find another scam you are pulling. I'm about ready to drop you off on some planet with a Stargate and let you figure out how to survive from there. Vala thinks we should send you to Atlantis and let the Wraith have your hide."

"She was joking…what's a Wraith?"

Ford groaned and rubbed his face.

"This is my fault."

"We wouldn't have gotten the intel from him otherwise. By sheer luck alone, he hasn't leaked or made people aware of what really goes on here." Mitchell said.

"I'd rather deal with someone I could kill in self defense. Like a Goa'uld or Prior."

"I was selling people hope."

"It was glitter shavings in a small tube." Mitchell stated. "For twenty bucks a pop. Look, you are here as a guest on this planet. Like Vala who was a guest until she gained our trust and respect, you will also have to follow our rules like everyone else."

"Come on, I have to make a living."

"You have enough to make a living!" Ford practically shouted. "You are doing much better than a lot of people out there in our world. You are practically a freeloader!"

"Here's how it is going to go. No more scams, no more cons and for god's sake, if we learn you are taking from the elderly people like that again, you will be reckoned with. Understand?" Mitchell asked sternly.

"Yes. I got it." he said tiredly.

"Good. This is your last chance. Teal'c will escort you out."

"I appreciate the second chance." Jasec said as he got up.

"This was the third chance." Mitchell said.

"Are you sure? Oh right, Peptio…" he said laughing.

"Get out." Ford growled.

The airman escorted him out quickly as Mitchell rubbed his tired eyes and shook his head.

"If it wasn't for all that naquada and those ships, I would go back and kick myself for letting him on the base. I can be such an ass sometimes."

"We all make mistakes. But this was a deal, not something we could really do anything about."

"Still feels like we got the shaft anyway."

"Anything on Cecilia?"

"Well, she's trying to remember what year and the exact place she was at when Starsha died and other details her mom told her. If we can pin point that down in history, we can go back in the T.A.R.D.I.S. and find out….why I left and such. I still don't get how I am the father. Though I can't deny I see things in her that I see in myself."

"Physically or mentally?"

"Both. Got my jaw and strength. Plus naquada in her blood. Not as strong as Sally, but then this Starsha didn't have a Tok'ra or Goa'uld in her." he said standing. "Hopefully we will get to the bottom of this soon. I hate seeing that hurt in her eyes. Makes me feel even more guilty about something I don't but should remember, but I am pretty sure I have no memory of."

"What are we going to do when we do find out about the past, why you left and such? We do anything, it will change history."

"I don't know. We can't save Starsha as far as I can tell. She said she saw her mother die so…" he said trailing off. "But I mostly want to find out about, me."

"You don't think you could fall in love…."

"If I was trapped 300 years in the past and knew I had no way of getting back to the future until some major technology came around, yeah, I'd probably find someone. Even Sam admits she wouldn't find it surprising if I did move on, despite how much I say I wouldn't."

"Keep us apprised."

Teal'c was walking with Jasec out of the control room and towards the elevator.

"May I offer you some advice?"

"Any input that would help me better myself would be greatly appreciated."

"Perhaps three words." Teal'c said sliding his card. "Be less annoying."

"Hmm."

"And, if you have no intention of reforming your ways, which I suspect you do not, perhaps it is best you have nothing more to do with your daughter."

"Let me tell you something big boy," he said not noticing the raised eyebrow that Teal'c gave him out of the corner of his eye. "Me and Vala have an understanding. An unspoken bond that…."

He stopped as Teal'c stood in front of him with a menacing look.

"She'll get over it. Hey, Vala!" he said seeing her down the hallway. "Are you free Friday night? Please say yes, I have to tickets to this, "Virginia Dialogues" show. I don't know much about it, but the tickets were very hard to get."

She ignored him and kept walking going into the control room as quickly as possible.

"To think I was just starting to believe in you." she said as she kept walking.

He sighed and then got into the elevator asking what Teal'c was doing Friday night.

A few days later, everyone was busy doing different jobs and SG-1 still hadn't a mission come up yet. Cecilia was looking through many old history books and such, mostly stuff the General was able to get from the Watchers. Lume still hadn't shown up but had been spotted and nearly killed three cops. She was just glad she was safe and accepted even though Ford didn't know how he was the father. Because too many people started to suspect he was having an affair, SG-1 and Cecilia decided to tell everyone the truth, which blew what little betting pool was going on, thankfully not by Walter, but also calmed everyone's nerves and got them to stop thinking the affair thing. She even had her own room in the T.A.R.D.I.S. and one in the large mansion they all had. Thanks to the General, Kate and Vala, her skills in swordsmanship were getting much better and she began learning to duel wield like Ford liked to do.

Currently, everyone was busy with their daily agendas. Vala was helping Daniel with some part of his job, which at the moment was bringing a few boxes into his office. He was writing on a pad while looking at something as she came in with a box that was big enough to hold four gallons of milk, but had some artifacts or books in it.

"Here's the last of them." she said sitting it in another box.

"Thanks." he said making another note and then looking up. "Vala?"

"Yes." she said turning from the door.

"Have a seat, please?"

"Okay." she said with a shrug. "What is it?"

"How are you doing?"

"Fine. Why wouldn't I be?" she said with another shrug.

"Well, you are obviously disappointed."

She groaned and rubbed her forehead.

"Well gee, my ass of a father is living on this planet and causing a lot of trouble for the SGC. Wouldn't you be disappointed to if your father…." she said sarcastically before trailing off.

"I probably would be if I knew exactly what you grew up with around him back then? You don't talk about you past much."

"I'd rather not either. His actions don't surprise me if that is what you are wondering. I had told you all what he would probably do and oh look, he's doing just what I thought he would. I am disappointed in myself for having thought there was even a small chance in hell that he was telling the truth."

"Maybe he was."

"Did you see that scam about the stardust crap?"

"Yeah, but he isn't doing any more scams, at least none that we have seen yet. Look at yourself. When you first arrived, we all were rather skeptical about even allowing you to stay here, but you changed and have gained more than our trust, you became family to us. As to us I mean, SG-1. It could be he just needs time to try to change. Even you still have rough spots every now and then."

"Yes. But for me, I really wanted to change. I was sick of what I did every day to survive. I like helping people and want to continue to do so. Jasec is only here to hide out like the many other times he has done so in the past. Given the chance, he would up and leave if he had a ship or access to the gate once he got tired of being here."

"Vala, you originally came here do find treasure and leave. But instead of running away, you stayed and decided to change. It was very difficult for you and still is sometimes. None of us know your father like you do, who, as we can tell, does many of the things you did to survive day to day. It was hard but you overcame the temptation to fall back into your old ways of doing things. Only you can sympathize with him on that level and help him to change, or at least try. It is you he wants to talk to."

"Fine." she muttered as she got up. "I'll talk to him, but I seriously doubt he is really wanting to change."

She started out the door only to turn around at the last second.

"If I have to do this, you're coming with me." she said crossing her arms.

"Oh, very well. I could use the fresh air."

Dressed in civilian clothes again, she wearing a blue blouse with a blue jean jacket and blue jeans, Daniel was in green slacks and a black T-shirt that had a design of some sort on the right shoulder area and his leather jacket. She knocked on the door and then looked into the peephole.

"Jasec, it is me, Vala. Open the door."

"Maybe we should come back."

"Oh no. I don't even want to be here." she said reaching into her left cuff and pulling out a lock pick.

"Do I even want…." he asked with a sign as she worked on the door lock.

"Talk to Ford if you are that upset. Besides, I did this a lot before I came to this planet. And we need to find out why he isn't here anyway." she said opening the door. "Way too easy. Jasec?"

Daniel shook his head following her in and she called his name again.

"Dad?" she asked looking in the bedroom.

"Hello. Hmm, he's not in here either." Daniel said from another room near the bedroom.

"I knew it." she said lifting a pair of flashy boxers off the bed. "He took the ankle monitor off."

Daniel looked at the blinking device as she tossed it into his arms.

"I told you he's been playing you all for fools." she said looking around the room. "If he's decided to leave, it is unlikely we'll find him again. However…."

"Yes, Ford could use the T.A.R.D.I.S. to go back and find him…" Daniel said as he dialed his cell phone. "An easier way is to look for him by the subcutaneous transmitter that Doctor Lam implanted in him during his last physical."

"That works. I can only imagine what he is doing."

"Hey Sam, it's Daniel."

"Hey Daniel. What's up?" she asked as Daniel also heard Sally saying something in the background to Ford.

"We got a little problem. Jasec took off his ankle bracelet."

"He did hmm. That figures." she said telling Ford.

At the SGC, Carter was sitting at the computer near Walter as the rest of SG-1 came up.

"Jasec ran hmm?" Mitchell said.

"Not very far. He's six miles west outside of Colorado Springs." Ford said.

"Have we dispatched a team to the area?" Teal'c asked.

"Yeah, Daniel and Vala just got there." Carter said and then touched the earpiece on her right ear. "Daniel?"

"Yes." Daniel said as they got out of the black suburban somewhere in the woods. "We've parked and are proceeding on foot."

Back at the base, they had a radar system watching the area on the screen. It showed a red blinking dot that indicated Jasec while two gray dots were slowly moving towards it.

"You two are headed right for him." Carter said.

Jasec and another man were standing in the forest, in a small area that had a few smaller trees nearby letting more sun onto the ground than in the deeper parts of the trees. The two were walking up slowly as Jasec was talking.

"One, let's start over again. There's seven total. Three for you, three for me, and one for me, it's called the house, as we call it."

"I didn't think your father had any friends here on Earth." Daniel said pulling his nine from his coat.

"Neither did I." she said from behind the large tree.

"You can't go back on this deal. We had an arrangement." Jasec said. "Look, do you have a superior I could talk to?"

"Jasec?" Daniel said.

The other man, wearing a hoodie with a green shirt and tan slacks with a tan jacket turned as he activated a zat gun. However, his aim sucked as he shot the tree instead of Daniel who lifted his gun and fired quickly hitting his target. The man dropped down near Jasec as Vala came out. Jasec wave his hands at them as she walked up and moved the hoodie aside, which showed a star like mark on his forehead.

"Jaffa." she said standing.

"Let's go Jasec." Daniel said waving the gun as she started dragged the body.

"Oh no. Get over here and help or I will shoot you too."

He grunted and grabbed the legs as Daniel followed behind them.

Jasec was placed in the brig for the moment as the rest of SG-1 was talking in the briefing room. Even Landry was there and he picked up a small device off the table giving it a look over.

"Jasec was carrying that with him." Carter said. "He must have had a contact on Earth already or he hid it very well in all that luggage he brought with him. It's a short range communicator that he must have used to contact the Jaffa."

"I think he snuck it in with his personal effects." Vala muttered.

"It turns out we didn't get all the ships intended for the attack." Mitchell said.

"That is good and bad news." Ford said from the window he was leaning against. "Another ship and naquada for us."

"Hmm. That is good news." Landry said. "What's the bad news?"

"The said ship came here very early, and has been here all this time waiting for the order to strike." Mitchell said.

"We've used the T.A.R.D.I.S. to look for it, but they must have shut the whole ship down completely and are using something to mask the energy signature or something close. It could be the naquada isn't even in the ship and is somewhere else in this system. They could be waiting for the order, in which they leave the planet cloaked and then grab the naquada only to come back and blow it up and the target area." Carter said.

"Can't you scan the entire system?" Landry asked.

"We have. There is a lot of naquada in the asteroid belt, but it is spread out over millions of rocks. There is even some in the rings of Saturn. And a few of the moons as well. Whether those concentrations we have detected are the naquada we are looking for is unknown though. There is so many areas that have that much or more that even if I took off now and looked at each area, it would take months. A lot of it is just concentrations of the stuff in veins of the rocks or in the moons." Ford said.

"Did he give a reason why he didn't say anything about this ship?" Landry asked.

"Profit reasons." Vala said.

"He knew a bunch of Jaffa from a weapons smuggling ring he used to run at one point." Daniel said.

"He gave us enough intel to grab our attention, we got the others and he got his refuge here where his plan was to get the naquada from the Jaffa…" Mitchell said.

"Who he says had second thoughts about blowing up something that big on Earth, mostly because of retaliatory reasons they were sure would come bite them in the ass really soon." Daniel said.

"He planned on selling the naquada to some people he knew in another sector near by and splitting the profits." Vala said.

"Did we find out where this ship is possibly?" Landry asked.

"No. The Jaffa contact was the man Doctor Jackson shot." Mitchell said.

"Are you sure that you can't detect this ship at all with the T.A.R.D.I.S.?" Landry asked.

"We assume it is cloaked." Carter said. "And if they landed it, cloaked, in certain areas of the planet, it could be interference that is keeping us from finding them."

"It could be they have the ship completely powered down and have the naquada off in the solar system like we said too." Ford said. "The T.A.R.D.I.S. is doing continual scans currently with K-9 keeping watch."

"I don't know if it is true, but Jasec said the naquada is marked to ensure no double crossing took place. But he knows how to scan for it and said he'd calibrate our sensors to help find it." Carter said.

"Let me guess, he turned around saying he'd help if he got to keep the naquada since we got all that other naquada and the ships." Vala said.

"We frowned upon that idea to which he said he'd share the profits fifty-fifty." Mitchell said.

"Did you give him a better offer?" Landry asked.

"Yeah. I told him he could give us the info or else Vala gets to shoot him." Ford said.

"Would you really shoot…." Landry began.

"I have killed for less General. That was before and after my experience as Quetesh. I gave up on him long ago. Even when he had the chance to help me when I was a Goa'uld, he left instead to go do something else."

They all left and two of them went to the T.A.R.D.I.S. in her office to continue looking. It wasn't much of a surprise when they found the naquada hiding in a deep cavern, under a sophisticated cloak on the moon. As for the ship, that was something they didn't find yet. Because the cavern wasn't big enough to let the T.A.R.D.I.S. change into something a little better than a small storage shed, it took them and several other personal from the base a good couple of hours to actually get it loaded into the T.A.R.D.I.S. Once back at the base, they unloaded most of it and then went back to looking for the ship. Not only because it might have naquada in it, though doubtful, but because it was better if no civilians found it by accident and such. Besides, it was another cargo ship for them to have in Area 51.

Landry was reading a file when his phone rang.

"Landry here."

"Hi, I'm just calling to let you know about dinner tonight." Lam said as she signed off on a chart.

"Dinner? Tonight?"

"You forgot already?"

"Um, yeah. Just this business with Jasec and such. I completely forgot."

"Well, mom is leaving tomorrow morning. We both expect you to be there. Unless General Carter can't take over for tonight or something important that ensures that you really have to stay on the base, we can't reschedule."

"I'll talk to him. He knows how important family is and I seriously doubt he'll keep me here. I admit, I am very nervous about doing this, but I want to try and make up for my mistakes in the past."

"Hey, we found…oh." Ford began.

"He just walked in. I'll get back to you Carolyn." he said handing up.

"What's up sir?" the General asked as he and Carter, along with Jasec walked in.

"Family issues. I plan on trying to go to dinner with Carolyn and her mother tonight. I was going to ask if you could stay here and watch the place."

"Sure. All we have to do first is go get the ship and then come back."

"I assume you two along with the rest of SG-1 have got a plan of action already?"

"Yes sir." Carter said. "We're going to go in, using the T.A.R.D.I.S. of course, and sneak up on them. Well, Ford is going to take out the Jaffa or at least distract them. It really depends on the situation once we get there."

"Where is it?"

"30 miles from here. They had planned on blowing the ship up and taking the Stargate out at the same time. Considering the amount of naquada there would have been, it would have reached this far." she said.

"I'm going to have to go with. I know these Jaffa, they trust me. You can get the ship and naquada much easier." Jasec said.

Though they had told him about getting the other ships on the planet he told them about in the beginning, they didn't say they got the ships and the naquada. They just told him that they had been taken care of. And the trip to the moon, they didn't tell him about either.

"No, you are staying here." Landry said.

"You really are going to need my help."

"I doubt see why. We'll be back soon." Ford said as they started to leave.

"The cargo ship is rigged."

"What?" all three of them asked.

"I thought I mentioned it. Oh well. Um, the Jaffa, Te'rak, told me the cargo ship is rigged to explode in the event anyone tries to move it, or use it without putting in specific code. I have the override code."

"Take him with you." Landry ordered with a certain tone. The tone, if this guy dies in a fire fight, good riddance.

"Oh goodie. Now I can see what this ship of yours is that you keep talking about."

"A word of warning…" Ford said as they left. "The ship is alive and will kill you or stop you from tampering, exploring and from trying to steal."

"How's that possible?" Jasec asked as he followed.

They landed right by the ship, or at least where the sensors said it was even thought they couldn't see it. Jasec had not left the control room seeing as he wasn't allowed any further in. Once outside, Carter pointed her Sonic Screwdriver and made the cloak fall. Jasec was right about the code and once he used it, the ship was theirs. The only reason that they were able to even land and get close to the ship was because the Jaffa were off busy dealing with two other people. SG-1 was taking the ship while Teal'c and Ford were dealing with the five Jaffa a few hundred feet away. They were firing their staff weapons, while wearing full armor at the two hiding behind some trees. Teal'c was using a zat gun as was Ford because they wanted survivors to find out the more about the attack, such as if there was any other ships. Mitchell and Vala came up from behind the Jaffa shooting them with zats ending the short battle quickly. With the Jaffa in custody, Carter returned to the SGC with them and SG-1 while Ford flew the ship over to Area 51. Jasec was surprised the naquada wasn't there and they acted like they were surprised too. Once the ship was in Area 51, he called the T.A.R.D.I.S. and went back to the SGC.

Ford took over from Sam who was in charge at the moment since Landry had left. He managed to get to the dinner a few minutes late, but both girls were happy to see him and rather surprised he actually came. It shocked Carolyn, half way through dinner and all the talking that was going on, when her father, other than apologizing for his mistakes and secrecy, said he was going to tell Kim what it was he and Carolyn really did, but later at his or her house, if she wanted to know. Needless to say, Kim, even after hearing it all and agreeing to signing the papers, still was shocked at the news.

Because Vala did not want him there and Jasec was too much of a pain in the ass for the Air Force to watch, much less any other branch, he was told he could leave, which he practically jumped at the chance of doing and tried to get Vala to join him. She said no as expected. After he had packed up all his things, which was about another dozen more with the current ones he had, he left to some other planet that he specifically requested to go to.

Vala, in her room that night, took the necklace he gave her before leaving and put it the treasure box under her bed that she had kept all those years, even though she lied and didn't tell him otherwise about the fact she did actually still have it. The door was knocked on and she quickly hid the box back under her bed along with the letter he had sent her weeks before.

"Hey Sam, what brings you here?" she asked as Sam came in with a bottle of wine and two glasses.

"Figured you could use the company. After everything that happened."

"What about Sally?"

"She's with my parents at the moment. They are doing a few things together since it has been a couple of weeks since she got to see them for more than a few hours."

"And you're not getting it on with Ford?"

"Well…" she said blushing slightly as she poured the drink into the glasses. "We probably would but he is helping Cecilia. She tracked down where and when finally and they went back in time to find out about what was going on."

"Why didn't you go with?"

"The main reason, jealousy. That and I felt I might be in the way personally, plus she asked if I didn't go just in case. She could see I was jealous and didn't want to cause trouble."

"Where's the rest of the boys then?" she asked taking a drink.

"Cameron has a date, I think with that girl Amy. Daniel is totally exhausted, mostly because he didn't get a lot of sleep the night before from staying up late doing work."

"Again?"

"Yes again." Carter said with a smile. "I remember those days. As for Teal'c, he had planned on going to…..a show, ahem, he got tickets from Jasec."

"What's so funny? It isn't often you look embarrassed Sam."

"He showed us the tickets and asked if either of us wanted to go. I think Cecilia was more shocked than Ford and I. Needless to say, Teal'c was shocked as well and left going home for the night."

"What were the tickets for?"

"Ever heard of the Vagina Monologues?"

Vala started choking as she swallowed wrong and Sam broke out in laughter with her shortly after Vala got her breath back.

Just over three hundred years in the past……..

The T.A.R.D.I.S. landed in a village that was still in existence in 2007, it was just more modernized at that point where here, there was horses, carriages and stuff of that age. According to the history, two people, a tall man with black hair and a strange coat along with a woman who was with him, also wearing a coat similar to his, came to the village, only passing through but ended up saving many lives from a group of bandits who tried to rob, rape and pillage the place. Heroics wasn't really the thing that made the two so, important to the history of the village, but the fact that the woman was wearing leather pants, made from that era obviously. And she had complete freedom even though she was not married to the man or his slave or servant. Which bothered many of the men in the village because they felt a woman was suppose to know their place which was in a dress and scrubbing floors, cooking meals and having babies, or at least sex on demand to some points. She knew how to fight and fought well, along with having a lot of strength, plus could out drink any man in the village, which pissed the men off further.

They stayed cloaked and with a device he was able to create that Cecilia wore on her wrist, it also cloaked her Immortal energy signature. Kate couldn't feel her presence at all when they tested it before leaving on the trip they were on. At the moment, they were really surprised they had found the two. The woman was very beautiful with long red hair, a bit thinner body than Sam but stood at six foot one. Her eyes were blue and she looked as tough as nails with the hard yet very beautiful face. Even though she was flat out drunk.

Ford was amazed to find himself looking at himself. Before the change as Cecilia had said. He was clearly taller than the woman he had one arm around as he was practically dragging her with him instead of carrying her. The coat was very similar to the one he currently wore, but it was made of the leather for that era, patched here and there and quite a bit thicker. The clothes underneath were also leather of that era but the shirt was a button up type shirt, only done with string instead, like a shoe. The boots were leather with no thread. The woman, Starsha, had a coat like his, but with more stitches in it, but a blue shirt to his white on. If it wasn't for the conversation that followed, anyone would swear they were a married couple.

"Jesus Christ help you Starsha. If I hadn't came in when I did, you'd be on the floor or table getting gang raped." Ford said as he trudged along with her on his shoulder as she was practically dragging her feet because of how drunk she was.

"Ah. Those idiots had nothing on me. I could still fight my way out with my fist if I had to." she said with a little slur to her voice. "Besides, I wouldn't let any man but you touch me that…."

"Stop." he said stopping and turning to her. "We have talked about this and I don't want to go over it again."

"We've been together for fifty years and not once have you ever gave into my advances. She won't even be alive for another three hundred years. And you've said…."

"Enough!" he said pointing a finger as she kept talking.

"She said that if she were ever to die, she would want you to go on. You've been around since God himself walked the Earth and yet you still won't let her go."

"I can't! I like you Starsha, a lot. But I can't break my promise."

"She isn't even born! And she died thousands of years ago too!"

He let go of her and walked away in a huff as she dropped face first into the dirt. People only watched to see what would happen as he kept walking and then stopped, sighed and then picked her unconscious body off the ground as they left the village.

"Why do I even bother anymore? You get drunk as often as possible and keep at me to sleep with you. I'm better off leaving you behind someday." he said as he kept walking.

"Mom never said you spoke to her like that." Cecilia said with tears in her eyes as they slowly followed from behind. "It is you…"

"Yeah, it is me. But I don't know…..oh my god." he said stopping as he realized who was walking away from him. "That isn't me."

"What do you mean?"

"We need to go back to the T.A.R.D.I.S." he said as they turned around.

"But I don't understand."

"You will in several moments." he said.

Once inside and getting a lock on their two signals, he went forward in time and then landed nearby in the forest in a different part of the world, in Canada. There was a town that the two were staying by, living in a abandoned hut just outside of town. Ford was looking at some of the weapons, clothes and a few other things while she was in what was then called a shaman shop on the outskirts of the town.

"What is she doing?" the General muttered as they watched from outside the hut.

"Buying….some herbs or something of the like." Cecilia said as her mother bought the item and left.

"I hate to do this to you Ford, but you give me little choice. I want you so bad it hurts and this is the only way I can make it happen."

"What the hell…" the General muttered as he watched her walk off.

"I don't get it." Cecilia said as they followed her back to Ford and then helped him with the supplies as they left the village. "Mom said you two got along so well and fell in love."

"There are some weird herbs out there and….it is possible she drugged, me and eventually they got together or…." he said so confused as they followed along quietly.

Later that night, Ford had made food for them that night inside the small hut. It was made of wood with some holes it in, three rooms, two of which were bedrooms with new beds he had gotten a couple weeks ago. The kitchen and living room were the same room which had many supplies and their belongings. The General noticed a sword, the same one that the Asguard gave him many years ago, which he didn't use anymore hanging inside one of the rooms. The scabbard was different and well used, but the handle and hilt still looked rather new despite the obvious age. He was surprised to find his guns hanging up near the sword, looking almost as new as the day he had them created, but slightly tarnished. The food was on the table and Starsha was getting the tea ready.

"Did you feed the horses?" she asked.

"I'll be right back." he said shaking his head as he got up and walked out.

The two watched as she put the tea on the table and then slipped the items she bought from the shaman into his tea cup. She then ripped part of her shirt under her arm before sitting down at the table. After another couple of minutes, he came back in and then sat down. They said a prayer over the meal thanking God and then started eating. They talked about various subjects, not knowing they were being watched from the doorway leading outside.

"The bath should be ready soon." he said taking a drink.

"You go first."

"You usually go first. Why the change?"

"I ripped my shirt." she said holding up her right arm showing the pit had a hole. "I'll spend my time fixing it while you take the bath. I plan on going to bed after the bath anyway. Been a long day."

"I know." he said tiredly as he rubbed his eyes. "Helping with building that….whatever building it was really took a lot out of me today. Usually not this tired."

"That was some big boards. Go take the bath before the water gets to hot and you burn and boil instead of getting clean."

"Alright." he said walking out and going behind the hut.

On a large raised rock, there was a metal tub of sorts big enough for two people. Under the metal on the large flat rock that was obviously cut by his sword, was burning logs. Around the large rock was a good three feet of dug out dirt and a line of rocks around that to keep embers from popping out and burning down the hut or trees. Cecilia covered her eyes and then turned to look inside the side window as Ford stripped.

"You're watching?" she asked very quietly.

"I've seen my own body before." the General said looking away as the loin cloth made into underwear of some fashion were dropped and Ford got into the water after putting the fire out.

"Starsha, did you say something?"

"No." she said sticking her head out the window. "Is someone here?"

"I don't see anyone or hear anything." he said as he started cleaning himself. "Take a look around just in case."

Starsha did that going around the hut and even looking down the path.

"No one around I could tell, but there is evidence of two people walking by here recently. I didn't see anything of ours taken though."

"I thought I saw tracks as well earlier when I was looking after the horses. I guess someone came by and kept going." he said as she stood outside the fire line.

"Whoever they were, they did look in the house, but I don't think they entered. If they did, I don't see any evidence other than the footprints by the front door."

"Hmm. Probably some people just traveling and they stopped to see if anyone was home."

"I'm going to do the dishes and then fix my shirt." she said walking away.

"Alright." he said laying back with a yawn.

They watched as she set the dishes in some soapy water and then fixed her shirt quickly, all in the matter of ten minutes. She came back out and walked up slowly to the bath.

"Ford?"

His head was back with his arms out on either side of the tub as he slept.

"Hey Ford. You fell asleep in the tub again." she said shaking him a few times.

He still didn't get up or wake.

"I guess that stuff I bought actually worked." she said and then looked into the water before reaching in. "That stuff worked too. Better work fast before it wears off."

They were both surprised when she stripped naked and then got in, but he looked away quickly before seeing anything. It wasn't too hard to figure out what Starsha was doing by the sounds of the water sloshing and her moaning slightly. They both walked away and went back to the front of the hut. They were both so stunned that they didn't say anything for a few moments.

"Oh my god. It was all a lie." Cecilia stated as she kept from crying loud enough her mother would hear. "She…."

"I'm sorry." he said feeling more horrible than she was as he hugged her. "I didn't think…."

"We had no idea." she said as tears flowed anyway. "I can't believe…."

They both shut up as she came around the corner carrying him into the hut and then placing him in his bed. They were both clean and completely dry, but totally naked. Instead of leaving his room, she got into his bed and, went at it again. They both left and went back to the T.A.R.D.I.S. stunned and came back that morning. Both were dressed and getting ready to eat.

"Why was I naked in bed this morning?" he asked as she was making eggs.

"You fell asleep in the tub. I had to carry you out, dry you off and put you to bed. You are heavy and seeing you naked was driving me so crazy that I didn't even try to dress you. That's why you slept naked. I always sleep naked so I don't know why you don't to."

"I always hurt myself." he muttered as he took a drink of the coffee they had.

"Considering what I saw, I'm not surprised. You're never going to sleep with me are you?" she asked seriously as she turned and set the pan of eggs on the table.

"Starsha…" he began and then stopped when he saw the very serious look on her face. "I'm sorry. I do love you, but I can't."

"Even though, if you live another three hundred years and see her, you won't be able to have her because she'll be with…another you. Unless the time line is changed as you think it is. In which case you will have to go back into the past again and fix it."

"Yeah, I think it is screwed so I'm pretty sure I have to go back and fix history."

"Which means I may never exist then. In which case, loving me wouldn't be a bad thing."

"You are Immortal. And as much as I would like to, I promised myself I wouldn't. If I do, then I will get closer to you and then end up…."

"You don't want me there in the future in case you have to go back."

"I didn't say that." he said quickly. "Nor is that what I don't want. If I have to go back to change everything, I could not take you with me. You would have to stay in this timeline, which would cease to exist along with you, and it would kill me to know I had left you to basically die to change history. That is why I don't want to get any closer than what we have."

"Which is nothing." she said sitting down. "I can't do this anymore. If I can't have you, then I'm leaving. You can do whatever you plan on doing and I'll go wherever and live my own life."

"Starsha…."

"No! If you can't love me they way I want, then I am moving on. Now choose!"

"I'm sorry I can't give you want you want." he said sadly as he looked away from her pleading eyes.

"If only you knew." she said through tears.

"Take whatever you need, except my sword and guns." he said as walked out to get her horse ready, plus the wagon for her to take.

After an hour, she left with the cart full of her things plus a couple other items. Ford packed up his stuff, got onto the horse and went to town to sell off the items he didn't need like she was doing and they parted company never seeing each other again.

Cecilia broke down crying in his arms inside the T.A.R.D.I.S. as they went back to the future. Sally was already asleep and Carter was reading a book downstairs when the T.A.R.D.I.S. landed inside the house. She got up and went in finding the hidden bed in the wall out with a teary eyed, but asleep Cecilia in the bed curled up. Ford was sitting with his back against the end of the bed.

"What happened?" she asked quietly as he got up and started out the door.

"It was all a lie." he muttered as he sat on the couch.

"What….I, explain."

"I am and am not her father."

"That makes…." Carter began when the door was knocked on lightly. "Who would be here…"

It opened and a slightly looking older version of the Alternate Timeline Ford walked in with a Carter who was obviously older, but didn't really look it.

"Hmm. You weren't kidding about the change. Wish I could trade places and see what being a Time Lord is like." he said looking at the T.A.R.D.I.S. and then looked in. "Who's the girl?"

"Your daughter." the General said.

"I'm sorry, I didn't catch that." Ford said as the other two got up and walked in with them following.

The General told them about the trip Cecilia and he went on and everything they saw. Both Sam's were rather shocked at the news. Then he told him everything Cecilia told them and what she thought was the truth, until today.

"You watched her…um…"

"Rape." the General said lightly as he crossed his arms.

"Well, I wouldn't call it that. It is and isn't. Thinking back, I did find it strange that it seemed….um….like I had a dream I hadn't had in a long time. I thought she was moaning about something else in her sleep, but it was because she was….um, on me. God, you have any idea what was in that tea?"

"You still the only one that has any sex dreams?" the A.T. Sam asked her counterpart as the General shook his head saying he didn't check the tea out.

"Yes." Sam said. "He avoids it as much as possible too. We have to change the sheets almost every morning anyway so…"

They stopped talking as they noticed the looks they were getting.

"Sorry." they said together.

"I wish I had known. Damn it. I should have gone with my instincts and stayed with her." Ford said walking over and kneeling by the bed. "Did she say what she wants to do?"

"She forgives you. After seeing what the SGC has gone through and many of our missions reports and such, SG-1 specific, though mostly about me, she understands why things happened the way they did. I told her what you told me about living those five thousand years and going back and all that. She likes being with the SGC, but wants to be with you if you'll take her."

"Have all her things placed in that storage unit. You know the one." Ford said as he brushed a bit of hair out of her face. "We'll take her with us and take care of her now."

"What about Lume?" the General asked.

"That dumb ass left Colorado shortly after this point in history. I didn't know why, but I do now. He became a major criminal off world many years later only to be killed on a deal that went bad."

"How many years later?" Sam asked.

"We can't tell you that." A.T. Sam said. "Though I wish I could."

"How old are you? You look almost the same age as I do."

"80 plus." she said happily. "In the future, there are some creams and other things, which are safe, from other planets that do wonders for the skin, not to mention foods that help keep the body really healthy. I may be old, but I don't look it."

"I wonder what I'll look like in that time period."

"You two are still alive, at least as far as we can tell." Ford said as he gently picked Cecilia up as she curled into his arms crying in her sleep. "No surprise with you, General. I went really far into the future once, I won't say how far, but it was far, and your name was still big and you were still around. I didn't check any further beyond that though."

"What are we going to say happened to her?" Sam asked.

"The truth. She's in the future with her real father." the General said rubbing her head lightly. "I'm going miss having her around."

"You'll have more kids to deal with. But not soon." he said seeing their looks. "It's going to be awhile, but it will be expected."

"Ah, so we finally decide on having another like the first time?" Sam asked her counterpart.

"Pretty much." A.T. Sam said as they left the T.A.R.D.I.S.

Cecilia awoke as they were about to head out the door. He put her down gently and then the four talked for about an hour. She felt it best to leave and go with her real father even though she would miss the General and Sam. After giving them hugs and telling them to say goodbye to everyone, they went outside and suddenly walked into thin air.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you that I parked right above the walkway." Ford said sticking his head of the air right in front of them. "No one saw anything as far as history says, but then, we did use the cloak."

The did feel the air move and then saw a flash of light above them as the ship decloaked and took off into time.

"God, I really hope to have another girl like her."

"They said sometime later, remember. I would like to have another child, but Sally is a hand full with work as it is." she said as they went back in.

They both ended up in Sally's room, Sam sitting on his lap as they both just enjoyed watching her sleep. Eventually, they nodded off in the recliner and didn't get up till Sally was waking them the next morning, wondering why they hadn't slept in their bed. She was sad to hear her older sister was gone, but didn't think much beyond it.