The Water Gardens, Dorne, Westeros, three weeks ago.

Doran frowned while he glared at the two men in his intricately designed and lavishly decorated solar, "I demand to know how it is you know that name." With Daniel and Teal'c request for privacy upon the mention of Rhaenys' name seeming grave, Doran led them to his Solar where only the three of them and Areo Hortah were in the room. The other guards were dismissed. Teal'c requested that Area leave the room as well since what they had to say was for his ears only, but Doran shook his head saying that Areo was the Captain of the Guard.

"And I stay by my Prince's side," Areo added.

"He keeps my secrets, any secrets, unless I deem otherwise," Doran said as he walked behind the table in his solar. He then placed his hands in the surface, leaned forwards, and demanded, "you mentioned Rhaenys. I ask you once more. How do you know that name? Were you there…. Wait, are you lackey's for the Lannisters?" Teal's and Daniel glimpsed at the muscles of Areo's bare arm straining while he gripped his halberd tight as Doran leaned forwards and hissed, "were you there when my sister and her children were killed?"

"Prince Doran," Daniel brought one foot forward. He was about to take a full step forward if it hadn't been for Areo bringing the blade at the end of his halberd down against his chest, signalling for the man to not move another muscle. And all Doran did was stare at Daniel, and then at the stoic look on Teal'c face before looking back at Daniel. 'The one with the tattoo looks and carries about as if he is a warrior, and this other one is… well, he is not a Maester or a warrior. But it seems that the Tattooed one is differing to this man?' Doran frowned before asking once again, "were you there when my sister and her children were killed?"

"We were not," Teal'c replied as Daniel had his hands up and took a step back while grimacing at Areo who pulled the halberd back, "we are from another place far away."

"I do not recognize your clothing," Doran said eying Teal'c and Daniel's clothes, "but since you say you are from far away, then it would make sense your clothes are not of Westeros. However, my brother has been to Braavos, Lys, Myr, and many places on the far edge of the known world but he has ever brought back anything like what you are wearing."

"I know this is going to sound strange," Daniel said.

"Indeed, it would be very strange," Teal'c added.

Doran glanced at Areo, who glanced at him, the both of them confused about what Daniel and Teal'c meant. The two of them then turned back towards their guests, and the Prince curtly told them to continue. He wanted to know what was so strange about they had to say, and then he wanted to know how they knew about Rhaenys, 'they cannot be from Drone. Not one House has the kind of clothes these people are wearing.'

"There's something you must understand," Daniel said as he put his hands into his pockets while Teal'c had his hands behind his back, "this is just one of many thousands upon thousands of other worlds that are populated by humans. We are from another entirely different world, and…."

Doran went from stunned silence to laughter in a few seconds. He was wondering what was so strange about the two people before him and now he knew, "you are insane." Doran sat down laughing while shaking his head while, at the same time, Areo tuned his head way from the Prince and chuckled, "do you believe they are insane, Areo?" Doran chuckled, his face turning red, tears of laughter threatening to run down his cheeks.

"I believe so, my Prince," the stoic Areo responded; the man was trying his best not to laugh at what Daniel just said. However, even he managed a chuckle.

"Prince Doran," Daniel said while he stood calmly, a smirk on his face while Doran continued to chuck, "an ally of ours was here on a mission to apprehend a criminal."

"An ally from another… another world?" Doran shook his head before breaking out in laughter once again while wiping his eyes.

"Indeed," Teal'c replied, "she neutralised her target, and just as she was about to leave, she heard screams. She heard someone, a woman she believes was Rhaenys Targaryen's mother, shout her name, and…"

Through his hazy vision of Teal'c, thanks to the tears of laughter running down from his eyes after the reveal that the two of them were supposedly from another world, Doran caught Rhaenys' name being spoken. And his laughter quickly subsided, as did the chuckles from Areo before the two of them simply stared at Teal'c and Daniel. Their expression's now serious.

"What are you saying? Are you saying that everything you said was the truth?" Doran asked, his voice quaking as realization dawn that no matter how impossible it sounded, that the two men in front of him may be telling him the truth.

"Our ally, Talia, finished her mission and was about to leave the city. Her job wasn't to save people, which is why she was about to leave," Daniel said as Doran's eyes went wide, "but she heard a baby cry. And…"

"What are…"

"The baby's cries were extinguished," Teal'c said before Doran could ask a question.

Doran's head snapped towards him and thought, 'a baby? Aegon? She heard Aegon die?'

Teal'c continued to speak, "it was then she intervened. Talia rushed into the room and broke down the door. She…."

"No," Doran said his heart racing at the thought that not only that the two people in front of him were possibly telling him a truth that he found unbelievable- about being from another world- but that Rhaenys was somehow, possibly, alive, 'why else would they come here to the Water Garden's. She must have told them, she must have told them about me and…'

"It was too late for the baby," Daniel whispered at the look of anguish on Doran's face before glancing at Areo, and then back at Doran, "Talia wrote a report that the baby had… had its head bashed against the wall." Daniel stopped speaking when he saw the anguish on Doran's face change to one of extreme anger upon hearing what happened to his nephew. It was a second later that the archaeologist continued to speak, "she mentioned at that a giant…."

"The Mountain," growled Doran as he looked back down on the table, and then at Areo who looked back at him with anger in his eyes. Shifting his eyes back to the two newcomers, Doran took control of his anger and said, "if.. if… that is true, then the only person who could have ordered him to…"

"Prince Doran, do you know who could have done this?" Teal'c asked.

"Tywin Lannister," Doran hissed nodding his head before he gasped and stared at Daniel and Teal'c with both eyes widened, "but I received a message that Elia… she... she died. How about Elia? Did your ally save my sister?"

Daniel looked at the desperation in the Prince's eyes before looking away, "sorry. By the time Talia broke into the room, this… Mountain? Well, he tore… he killed your sister." Daniel saw the rage in Doran's eyes as he continued to speak, "Talia saw what happened to your sister, she saw the aftermath of what happened to your niece and nephew. She saw that Rhaenys was bleeding badly with multiple stab wounds on her body. We counted nearly ten. She lost a lot of blood and… and Talia used a weapon that stunned this Mountain and then left with Rhaenys in her ship."

"Where did she sail?" Areo asked while Doran looked away from his guests and did his best to pull back the anger he felt, the hate he felt at the King and the Lannisters.

"A flying ship," Daniel motioned his hand rising into the air as Doran looked back at him, "I know you find it hard to believe, but we really are from another world. Talia transported Rhaenys to one of our people's bases on a world far away from here. On the way, she used a piece of highly advanced technology to stop the bleeding."

"You… you stopped that much blood loss?" Areo asked in surprise.

"How can anyone be alive, and…." Doran then stood up from his seat unable to speak. He was in disbelief- the more he believed the people in front of him, the more unbelievable information they were giving him. But he pushed those thought to one side and thought only about one person- his niece, "is… is Rhaenys alive?"

"She is alive, Prince Doran," Daniel assured him, "but she lost a lot of blood. Our doctors…." Daniel then saw the quizzical look on Doran and Areo's faces before saying coming up with a word that they could understand, "our healers did everything they could to stabilize her, and they succeeded. But we don't know how much brain damage there has been thanks to the blood loss and…" Daniel stopped talking as he steeled himself while he reached into his jacket. His fingers slipped into the inner pocket on the inside of his jacket and brushed the edge of the picture while he said, "after her condition stabilized, she slipped into what we call a coma."

"I don't understand," the Prince said walking around the table, his voice rising, "you said that she is alive."

"She is alive, Prince Doran," Teal'c explained, "as I understand it, this Mountain you referred to stabbed a knife into her skull as well." Hearing that, Doran had his eyes opened wide in stunned silence with his hands rolled into fists at the thought of Tywin Lannister ordering the Mountain to kill the Royal Family. At the same time, he listened to Teal'c continue saying, "The damage was healed by Talia, but Rhaenys Targaryen's mind now has to continue healing… the healing technology has done all it could."

"This is an image of Rhaenys as of yesterday," Daniel said as he took out a picture, and then handed it to Doran who reached out with trembling hands. Daniel explained that they had the technology to take images using a portable device, "it's like painting an image of one moment in time," he explained while Doran stared at the picture of a sleeping girl, her hair spread beneath her on a pillow with various items attached to her chest, arm, wrist, and a device that was attached to the inside of her niece. Doran took a deep breath, his mind pushing aside the fact that he was holding onto something that neither Westeros or any of the other nations had the technology to recreate.

Instead, he was staring at the picture of his niece in silent contemplation, 'this is the result of your folly, Rhaegar.'

"She is alive," Doran whispered looking back up, "she is alive?"

"Yes," Daniel nodded his head, "we've received bits and pieces from Talia when she rescued Rhaenys. But we don't know the background of why that city was being invaded, or…."

"The War of the Usurper," Doran whispered looking back down at the picture of Rhaenys, and then back up at Daniel. He then shook his head before turning towards Areo, "have some tea and sweets brought to my solar for our guests, we have much to speak of."

And so they did.

With the image of Rhaenys in his hand, Doran started telling the two newcomers about Robert's Rebellion. He spoke of Rhaegar, Elia, Aegon, and Rhaenys; followed by how the war began by Rhaegar spiriting away Lyanna Stark. He then mentioned the aftermath, including the rumours of what Robert Baratheon said when the bodies of the children and Elia were brought to him. However, Doran left some information out… such as Lyanna allegedly leaving willingly with Rhaegar over a mysterious secret- he simply felt that it was information not pertinent to Rhaenys. It would be nearly two hours and twenty five minutes later that Daniel and Teal'c had all the information they needed on the war that was won by Robert Baratheon.

"So let me get this straight," Colonel Mitchell hissed in anger back in the cloaked Jumper over Daniel and Teal'c ear-wigs after listening in on the conversation with Doran, "these people kill two children, one of them apparently a complete stranger, and they get off scot free? What the hell?" Back in Doran's Solar, Daniel and Teal'c brushed their fingers against their ears so that the earwig was deactivated once the Colonel started saying some explicit words that included the hope that the people who murdered the children had their private parts cut off.

"Prince Doran," Teal'c said leaning forward while keeping his anger in check over hearing Robert refer to the bloodied children as 'dragonspawn', "would your niece be safe here?"

"She belongs here," Doran replied staring at Teal'c, "here in Dorne. She is a Princess of Dorne, she is the niece to Viserys Targaryen, and.."

"Her father's family still lives?" Daniel asked with confusion. 'Didn't he say that the entire family was killed?'

"The last I heard was that Viserys was spirited away to the Free Cities by Targaryen loyalists with his baby sister," Doran replied, "but Rhaenys does not deserve that life. She is my family. She is a cousin to my daughter and son… she belongs to Dorne."

"But will she be safe?" Daniel repeated Teal'c's question in a gentle voice.

"We will keep her safe," Doran said in a commanding voice, his hands rolled into fists as they rested on his knees, while staring at both of them.

"Prince Doran, our world has gone through this type of upheaval at various points in our history," Daniel said shaking his head before describing how ancient royals would kill their kin to secure their hold on power, or how one family would kill the entire line of another family to obtain power and stay there. "You said that Robert hates the Targaryen's, that he could kill them all if he got his hands on them. And from what you say, this Tywin Lannister would know he killed the wrong girl… so he will search for Rhaenys to find and kill her if possible."

"If Rhaenys Targaryen stays here, would it not be possible she would be discovered?" Teal'c asked.

Before Doran could respond, Daniel leaned forward and said gently, "I don't mean to insult you or your people, Prince Doran. We want to do what is in Rhaenys' best interest. And… and so, I have to ask you once again, sir. Will Rhaenys be safe here in Dorne?"

Doran stared at Teal'c and Daniel while leaning forward. His thoughts went to his niece, and then immediately to what would happen if somehow word got out to Robert that Rhaenys was alive in Dorne, living under a new name. Doran was confident that Dorne would go to war to protect Rhaenys should an army led by Robert invade- he was confident that even Tywin Lannister and his forces could be beaten back by the Dornish army. But at the same time, that would mean thousands of deaths- especially when Dorne lost a little more than five thousand soldiers at the Trident when Rhaegar was killed.

"We will go to war against the King, against the Lannisters, against anyone who dares invade Dorne to put their hands on my niece," Doran said glaring at Teal'c and Daniel for a few seconds before looking away and sighing while closing his eyes.

"I have no doubt," Daniel said.

"We already lost so many in the rebellion," Doran said shaking his head and opening his eyes once again, "I know we will fight to protect Rhaenys, I know we Dornish would never give her up. We withstood Targaryen's when they tried to forcibly submit us to their will, and we can withstand the Usurper and the Lannisters. But that would mean more of my people dying." Doran stopped talking as he felt a sting in his heart as he thought about his sister, his dead nephew, and his niece. And he came to a decision, "will Rhaenys be safe on your world?"

"She will be," Daniel said while Teal'c glanced at the surprise on Areo's face when Doran asked if Rhaenys would be safe. "She is getting the best medical attention we have and…"

"She is a Princess," Doran reminded Daniel, "I want the best for her."

"She already has the best care, Prince Doran," said Teal'c.

Doran then looked back down at the picture in his hand as tears welled in his eyes, 'Elia, I do this for you. She is a piece of you that will continue to live on, and I want her to be safe. I know that if she is discovered here, Robert and his dogs will no doubt go to war. Thousands of our people would die. I care not for my death… Oberyn and I will fight off anyone who comes for Rhaenys until our dying breath. But I want her to be safe. I do not want her to be afraid for the rest of her life. I do this for you, Elia. My dear sister.' Doran then looked up and make a decision he hoped he would never come to regret.

General Landry's office, SGC, three weeks later. Four hours after Rhaenys woke up from her coma.

"She's calmed down now, dad," Dr. Lam said sitting back on the chair across from her father, the commander of the SGC, who had his arms on the top of the table, "when she woke up she was scared and calling out for her mother and father." Dr. Lam recalled how she rushed to the little girl's side when the nurse called out, and by the time she reached Rhaenys, the girl was already sobbing hard and crying out for her family.

The General leaned back and stared at his daughter as he thought about the briefing he had with Daniel and SG-1 following their talk with Prince Doran. The two of them reported on the events of Robert's Rebellion, the deaths of Ellia and Aegon, as well as the supposed death of Rhaenys once they returned to the SGC- the information on the latter stunned him.

'They killed an innocent child to cover for the loss of another little girl,' General Landry thought, with disgust, at that time at the briefing.

"We've gone through it too… I mean not us. In many ancient civilizations, if someone wanted to keep a hold onto the throne, they would have to kill any and all heirs," Daniel whispered that day while the others stared at the briefing room table. It was then that Daniel looked up and shook his head, "Prince Doran has agreed to Rhaenys remaining on Earth; and he has agreed to a good family adopting her, but he and his brother will have the final say on the couple. And he also wants to have send someone who can teach Rhaenys their customs, language, and culture."

Back in the present day, the General thought back to the deal struck with Prince Doran. The Prince would get weekly updates on the well-being of his niece via a ship that would stop-over the planet, and Rhaenys had to be placed with a good family on Earth.

The next stop would be one that would bring both good and bad news on her condition- Rhaenys was awake, but she lost her memories. All her memories. It was a scenario that the SGC had already planned for, and it was time put that plan into action.

The Dixon Residence, Colorado Springs;

The first time Lainie met David Dixon was when they were in Elementary School in St Paul, Minnesota. And since the first day they met, the both of them were inseparable. They grew up together, they went to middle school, and then high school together- the latter being where they kissed for the first time when they were Freshmen. They were each other's sweethearts, and eventually they married one another after the man who would later become a Colonel in the Air Force, joined the Minneapolis Polis Department.

Through their entire time together, from the moment they were children, Dixon told his future wife that he wanted nothing more than a tribe of kids with her. And now, as the chestnut shoulder length haired, brown eyed Lainie watched a romantic-comedy on her tablet while sitting on the couch in the couples Colorado Springs home, she thought back through her time with her husband.

Pausing the movie, the woman looked up at the pictures on the mantle and smiled at the thought of their four boys; Pete, the oldest, was fourteen, followed by Dave Jr, twelve, and then Rob, nine, and the youngest being Cameron, six. Leinie chuckled to herself when she remembered the Colonel saying that a girl would complete their tribe. They tried to have another child two years after Cameron was born, but was unsuccessful. They had been trying for the past few years to have another child, even after the move to Colorado Springs after her husband joined as a flight instructor at the Colorado Air Base combined with teaching duties at the Air Force Academy.

Lainie wanted to have a girl. Like the Colonel, she wanted to complete her tribe of children and felt that having a girl would make their family complete. Sighing, Lainie went back to watching the comedy just as the front door opened and her husband strode into the foyer.

"Dave?" Lainie said in surprise putting the tablet onto the couch while glancing at the clock on the wall and getting up onto her feet, "what're you doing back so early?"

"Lainie," he whispered walking into the living room with a thick blue coloured folder that Lainie noticed was embossed with the Air Force logo and on top of that was a brown coloured envelope. The man rushed over to his wife and then placed the folder and envelope on the coffee table before placing his hands gently on her shoulders, "there's something I need to talk to you about. I… I know I should have talked to you about this earlier, but…"

"Dave?" Leinie narrowed her eyes at her husband wondering what was going on, "what are you talking about?"

"I forwarded our names to my Commanding Officer as potential foster parents, and…"

"You want to adopt?" asked Leinie who spoke in a voice tinged with hurt. She thought to herself, 'he knows we're trying. We're trying so hard but… yes, I would consider adoption but… but not now… not until….' Lainie shook her head and forced those thoughts aside. She knew her husband very well. She knew that he wouldn't do anything without telling her unless there was a very good reason. Lainie told herself to hear her husband out while asking, "why didn't you tell me?"

"Because the work I do is classified, honey," the Colonel said.

"Dave, how is being a flight instructor classified unless… wait are you testing some plane that…" Lainie stopped speaking before a scowl appeared on her face, "you swore to me that you would not be testing any experimental planes, Dave."

"It's not any experimental plane," the Colonel said before motioning towards the couch. The two of them then walked towards the couch while Colonel Dixon continued to speak, "and no, I'm not teaching at the Academy." The Colonel could see that his wife was going to interrupt him as they sat down on the couch. But he placed a hand on her knee and gently asked her to listen, "just let me finish, Laini." The woman took a deep breath before nodding her head. The Colonel then reached for the envelope which lay on top of the folder and opened it before pulling out three sheets of paper. He then pulled his other hand away from her knee and reached into his chest pocket. The Colonel took out a pen before turning back to face his wife and handed her the pieces of paper, "what I'm about to tell you will be revealed to the entire world next year. But for right now, you can't tell anyone what I'm about to tell you."

Lainie read through the three pieces of paper with surprise on her face before looking back up at the Colonel, "Official Secrets Act? Dave, what are you into?"

"Lainie, I need you to understand that you can't tell the kids about any of this," the Colonel said, "you can't tell your mom, just as I can't tell my folks about this. Not even when what I'm about to tell you is public knowledge. No one can know what I do."

"Dave?" Lainie shook her head. She was getting confused at what kind of classified project her husband was working on.

"Please, Lain," the Colonel said reaching out and gently holding onto her arm, "just sign the NDA, and then I'll tell you everything you need to know." Lainie stared at her husband for a few seconds before looking back down at the pen in one hand, and the sheets of paper in the other hand. She then nodded her head, signed the papers, and then looked back up while handing them back to the Colonel. He then placed the sheets of paper back in the envelope before holding her hands, "I'm not an instructor at the Air Base, and I don't teach a class at the Academy. Back in the late 1930's, an expedition to Giza, Egypt, discovered a device hidden underground."

"A device?" Lainie asked, "what kind of device could be found buried underground in the 1930's?"

"An alien one," the Colonel said while Lainie stared back at him in disbelief, "it's called a Stargate. The eggheads back at the SGC…"

"SGC?"

"Stargate Command," the Colonel clarified while noticing the laughter that was about to erupt from his wife, 'she thinks this is a joke' he thought before leaning forward, "for the past few years, we've been sending teams of people- military personnel, scientists, diplomats- to other planets in the galaxy through what we call a Stargate. It creates a wormhole that makes us travel nearly instantly."

"Dave," Lainie chuckled shaking her head, "while I think this joke is funny, and…."

"I would never joke to you about this, Lain," the Colonel said in a serious tone of voice, a tone that Lainie knew meant that her husband wasn't lying. "I've seen things that… that I would have thought impossible. We've fought in an interstellar war against a race of aliens could have enslaved this planet just because we became a threat to them. We freed a race of people, fellow humans like us in many ways, who were enslaved to these aliens." Lainie widened her eyes as the Colonel placed a hand on her cheek. While she hoped that this was a joke, there was a part of her that knew her husband was being serious, "recently we've freed the galaxy from another enemy. A very powerful enemy that nearly enslaved this entire galaxy. An enemy that nearly killed everyone on this planet. Do you remember those news reports about that flu strain that supposedly escaped from a lab in Boulder a few years back?"

"Yea," Lainie said remembering the incident that lasted nearly a week and ended after a cure was created and then distributed. However, while a cure was discovered, it didn't help the twenty thousand people who died, "Dave, what are you saying?"

"The alien race, the Ori, attacked Earth with some kind of a biological weapon," the Colonel said, "we lost some people too, but we also had the smartest people working on a cure. In the end, another alien race helped us with a cure… and that was that. We survived. We spread the cure on Earth and to many other planets that were affected. We've defeated this alien race.. it took a lot of sacrifices, but we beat them. And now we're exploring the galaxy, honey."

"You're not kidding, are you?" Lainie asked staring in his eyes. But there was no deception, "you're not lying."

"Now we're using the Stargate to explore, to meet new people, to trade, to create military and scientific outposts," the Colonel said before pointing up at the ceiling, "one of our ships is orbiting the Earth as we speak."

"Ships?" Lainie asked awestruck, "you mean spaceships?"

"We have a few," the Colonel shrugged as Lainie looked away and chuckled before turning her head to look back at him.

"You're not joking," she chuckled, "you… oh my God, Dave…"

"I love what I do, but I hated keeping this a secret from you," the Colonel said before looking away at the file on the coffee table and whispered, "but sometimes there are things I wish I could unsee." He then turned back to stare at his wife who nodded her head before asking him about what he had seen, "there are many things I wish I could unsee. But that's not why I was given permission to tell you about the Stargate Program, honey."

"Something to do about an adoption?" she asked.

"About three weeks ago," the Colonel said while reaching out for, and then grabbing the file that he then handed to his wife, "an ally of ours came through the Stargate carrying a…"

"Oh dear God," Lainie said covering her mouth with one hand as she stared in shock at the picture of the blood covered girl in the file. The Colonel then relayed to Lainie all he had learned about the girl and then pointed at the report that Daniel and Teal'c had written on their initial encounter with Doran, and then a report on the current situation with the girl already awake.

"She doesn't remember anything, honey," the Colonel said while Lainie remained focused on the picture of the bloody girl as she wondered how it was that anyone could have hurt her like they did. In the meantime, the Colonel continued speaking, "she doesn't remember where she's from, nor does she remember her own name. She's just been calling out for her parents, but she doesn't know who they are."

"But her family on the other planet, they… they'll want her to… to be returned to them."

"The Prince wants his niece to be with a loving family and most importantly, he wants her to be safe," the Colonel said, "he… he knows that it would be dangerous for her and their people if she remained close by."

"Poor thing," Lainie whispered looking down at Rhaenys picture, "but you know who she really is?"

"Her name's Rhaenys Targaryen," the Colonel said with Lainie looking up at him as he clarified, "Princess Rhaenys Targaryen."

"A Princess… oh no," Lainie looked back at the picture and then back up at her husband once again, "you mean… she was nearly killed because someone didn't want her line to live? I mean her family line?"

"Yeah," the Colonel said, "but we already have a manufactured background for her if… if you agree to the adoption. She's going to be the daughter of a friend from Toronto who died on the way to visit us. They died in a car crash and she was badly injured when the both of us were notified. We have a new identification set up for her, and…"

"This was done awfully quickly," Lainie pointed out before she looked back down at Rhaenys' picture. "A Princess… huh…" Lainie then chuckled before looking up at her husband, "it will be kinda ironic if her favourite movie happens to be The Princess Diaries." The Colonel stared at his wife for a second before he started to laugh out loud, as did Lainie while shaking her head. It would be a few seconds before they stopped, and Lainie just stared at the picture, her heart-breaking at the thought of the girl nearly dying.

"There's something else, Lain,' the Colonel said after he wiped away tears of laughter, "the plan is to bring Doran, or one of his representatives, to Earth so that they they could check in on her and confirm that we're telling the truth about her amnesia. They'll be identified as a friend of her family since…" the Colonel rubbed the back of his head, "well, with her current memory loss, we're afraid that telling her the truth about who she is will further confuse her. And if she remembers who she is once meeting Doran or whoever he sends us, then that's all well and good. We can tell her the truth, and why she needs to be kept safe."

"Dave," Lainie said placing a hand on his arm, "she still needs to know the truth. We can't hide away who she really is, we cant keep her away from her customs, and culture, and language. Like you said, if she remembers who she is, then that's good. But if she doesn't remember, and if we keep her away from the truth for a long time then… then she will hate us."

"If she doesn't remember anything even after meeting Doran," the Colonel said gently, "then we'll hold off telling Rhaenys the truth until she turns seven years old."

"So, we'll tell her that she's from another world when she turns seven?" Lainie looked back down at the picture in the folder, and he heart went out to the little girl. She then looked back up at the Colonel who stared back at her silently. It would be a few seconds later that Lainie continued, "I… I guess that's understandable. She may not be at that age to understand everything that's happened now or… or even if she does, then she could say something to others and have people think she's just saying things to get attention or…" the rest was left unspoken. But the subtext was there as the two of them looked at each other silently; they didn't want Rhaenys to be ridiculed by others if she blurted out that she was from another world.

"She'll know the truth of who she is. She may not remember even then, but she will know her heritage," Colonel Dixon said, "and hopefully she'll understand we just wanted to keep her safe."

"That's true," Lainie whispered before looking back down at the picture in her hand, "we tell her she's from another world when she turns seven."

The Colonel then went on to say that the SGC would have Doran send someone a few days a week to teach Rhaenys about her world, their customs, language, and culture, "maybe we could bring Doran or his brother, or someone familiar which Rhaenys' parents over to Earth so that she'll have some family in her life."

"If she decides to return to her world?" asked Lainie, who felt a sharp sting in her chest at the thought of the little girl in the picture being in danger back on her own world, "Dave, what if she goes back and she's hurt, or.. or killed? She's a royal heir, if her parents' enemies find out she's alive, then…"

"She'll have to decide where she wants to live when she's eighteen," the Colonel whispered as he each out and pulled in his wife for a tight hug, "she could remain on Earth, or on her world, or she could stay on both worlds if she wants to. We could ask Doran if he'll let us install a Stargate somewhere in his territory so that Rhaenys could have a link to both homes."

Holding on tight to her husband, Lainie realized that she wanted to take care of Rhaenys; that she wanted to adopt the little girl. It didn't matter that Rhaenys was from another world, or that she was a Princess; what mattered was that the girl needed a family now more than ever. 'She already has family,' Lainie reminded herself as she pulled away and looked into her husband's eyes, 'but she needs somewhere where she can be safe, a place where she can grow up without any fear that she could be hunted and killed – even if she was with her own family on her homeworld.'

"We… we'll need to convert your study," Lainie said with a smile as tears of joy welled up in her eyes, "we'll have to tell the boys."

'I want to care for her, I want her to be safe,' Lainie thought with a smile on her face.

"So, are you saying yes?" the Colonel asked in a hopeful voice as Lainie stopped talking, sniffed, and then wiped the tears that were now falling down her cheek while she smiled, "our tribe is complete?"

"Yes," Lainie whispered nodding her head before leaning in to kiss her husband, "our tribe is complete. With Rhaenys, it's complete."

TBC.