Kajos: Here goes the next chapter. Hope you enjoy it. Should be interesting.

James slowly floated back up. He could feel the dull ache of his body and the heaviness of the eye lids he began to lift.

"James?" A voice asked happily.

"Daniel?" He cracked out his dry throat before he felt a straw pressed to his lips and took a sip of water opening his eyes slowly. He was lying on his back.

"Hey it's good to see your awake at last." James nodded but his chin hit something and he realised his neck was strapped to the bed. As he took stock he realised he was restrained to the table.

"You're bastards the lot of you." He croaked at Daniel who looked shocked and confused as Fraiser entered the room.

"James, I need you to tell me how you feel." She said gently. Neither of them spotted the boys thumbs dislocate.

"I'm fine and you can drop the act." He sneered as far as was possible. Janet looked confused.

"I don't know what your talking about young man but a lot of people round here have been very worried about you." He laughed. Yeah they should be worried he thought. He turned his head to see he was in an isolation room. Janet was looking at his monitor while Daniel just seemed to be waiting until suddenly a fist struck him in the face breaking his nose. James threw himself side ways tearing off the neck restraint and his other wrist. Janet was out the door and had locked it before he could undo his feet. He was already looking for some way to pick the lock as Janet called for someone to bring a sedative. Daniel stood having recovered from the shock of James breaking his nose.

"James, you need to calm down. We're trying to help you."

"Do I really look that thick?" Daniel looked hurt.

"Is it really so hard to believe we care about you?"

"YOU'RE NOT DANIEL!" The boy roared at him and suddenly it all made sense just as Janet opened the door and zatted the boy. She had him lifted back onto the bed before injecting a sedative.

"Well, that went well." Was all Janet said as an orderly began to redo the restraints.

Jack looked at his younger self, who stared back at him.

"A gun? Where the hell did you get a gun?" He suddenly burst out.

"That police report is a complete load of bull!" The teenager protested

"Really! So you didn't knock a guy unconscious and hold him at gun point?" Sarcasm pored from the Colonel.

"NO! Why the hell would I do that?" The adult stopped considering this point.

"Fine what did happen?" Jack said calmer with his young self.

"I was walking home after hockey practise guy tried to mug me, pulls a gun. I reacted neutralised the gun knocked the guy out and took control of the gun. As I was taught."

"No. As I was taught. You were supposed to keep a low profile!" He said raising a finger.

"Look, I did my best. The fact is we have black ops training and there is only so much you can explain away."

"How did you end up here though?"

"My foster family freaked. Since I turned 16 they don't have to look after me. They were already a bit freaked by me; I started having the nightmares again. When the whole thing happened they chucked me out. I had no where else to go."

"The nightmares started again?"

"Yeah. There was some kid at school, he blew his own brains out and then all I could think about was…" The Colonel just nodded.

"Okay, well for now this is getting really confusing have two Jack O'Neill's around. So you can be Jon, I'll be Colonel Jack."

"Hey, how come you get Jack?"

"Because I'm older and it's mine originally." Jon just looked offended as Jack opened the door and herded him back towards his room. "Scoot." That earned him a glare.

They were stood in the infirmary, Jack having joined them after his talk.

"He reacted violently, just to waking up?"

"Think about it Jack," Daniel said, "He was unconscious when we arrived on the seen, he's been asleep ever since. As far as he knows we're all still the body snatchers trying to fool him."

"Okay, so how do we convince him we're us?" Jack accepted.

"That's what we're trying to work out." Janet said. They stood in pensive silence.

"What about the kids?" The two intellectuals looked at him. "Well, they were immune. If one of them talks to him when he wakes up, he'll know it's okay." Janet nodded and looked at Daniel.

"He's right. That would work. Go ask Cassy."

"Um…why Cassy? I would have thought Jack would make more sense." Jack raised a hand to interrupt.

"We've agreed that he's Jon for now to avoid confusion."

"Fine, I would have though Jon would have been a better choice."

"Why do you say that?"

"Well…He and Jon have spent more time together, they're closer in age…well in a sense. That and Jon's younger, therefore even more trustworthy in this situation."

"Fine, whatever. Just get one of them down here before we have another re-enactment of the great escape." Janet said raising her hands.

James was once again waking. This time though he was aware of the threat and able to keep his pulse and breathing as though he were still sleeping. He listened to the room. He could tell there were two people neither were close though as he dislocated his thumb. Suddenly someone moved and placed a hand gently on his.

"James, it's alright, everyone's back to normal." He heard a young voice say. He opened his eyes in surprise to see Jack. "Hey, look. Everyone's back in their own heads. The reason for the restraints is just that you've been a bit violent while you've been healing, said some stuff. We need to run some tests, okay?" James studied his face and knew he was lying but desperately asking for his trust.

"Could you put my thumb back for me?" He asked unable to do it himself.

"Sure." Jack said tugging the digit back into place with no more than a blink of pain from the boy used to the feeling. Janet moved closer to the bed.

"Right I just want to ask you a few things and run a few checks now your awake. After that I can let you get up but we need you to go with Sam and some of the guards so they can talk to you for a bit."

"What's happening Dr Fraiser?" James asked a hint of fear in his voice.

"I'm sorry James I'm not allowed to say but I promise, no ones going to hurt you. Just questions." James nodded before submitting to her tests.

As she finished up Sam entered. Jack had stayed the whole time sat next to him. He checked with the other teenager.

"It really is Sam, James." Sam smiled at him.

"Don't worry, McGuyver. I just want to ask you some stuff. You've got us all worried by how easily you got round our security. We just want to talk about where you learnt all that so we can make sure there isn't a threat to us." James sat up as he was unstrapped and swung his legs over the side of the bed having to be caught by young Jack and Sam as his legs gave out. "Give it a minute James, you've been lying down for a few days."

"Can I get some clothes?" James asked feeling uncomfortable in the hospital scrubs.

"As soon as we've talked." Sam promised.

Kajos: Well there it is…sorry, it'll be a while before the big reveal of what he actually is. You'll just have to keep reading in the mean time.