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Second Chances
CHAPTER ONE
In the early light of morning, they awoke. Megan was thinking to herself that this is the last chance that they had of survival. Their supplies were running low and she had to admit that she felt a little worse for wear. She told the others to wait until she returned and turned towards the mirror looking back once more as she placed her hand upon it.
A millisecond later she was on the other side of the mirror, all of a sudden alarms were going off everywhere. She surveyed her surroundings it was a small room, no windows, and only one door. A lot of crates surrounded her and she assumed that it was a storage room of some sort.
Megan turned to face the door with her only weapon, a 9mm pistol with only a half a dozen or so rounds left ready to use it if necessary. The door sprung open and three or four soldiers pointed their weapons at her. "Put down the gun and identify yourself?" one of them ordered.
She had no choice except to comply. Four against one wasn't a fight that she had the strength to fight at the moment.
"I'm Captain Megan O'Neill, and I request to speak to the person in charge of this facility."
The sirens could be heard throughout the base announcing an unexpected arrival. Colonel Jack O'Neill and his team were just arriving for a briefing when all the commotion started. As they entered the last checkpoint he asked the airman on duty what the situation was.
"Someone set of the motion detectors in one of the storage rooms in the lower levels of the base Sir, properly just a false alarm like last time."
"Thank you, airman." O'Neill stated as he headed for the elevators.
Once inside the elevator, Major Samantha Carter spoke up, "Wonder if it is a false alarm or if someone has come through the mirror again?"
Daniel Jackson the resident archeologist just shrugged his shoulders in response.
"We will soon find out Major Carter," answered the forth member of the team Teal'c.
Once the elevators opened on the desired level the team known as SG 1 to those in the mountain complex headed towards the briefing room.
Finally someone turned of the alarm, and the room plunged into silence.
The commander of the complex General George Hammond exited his office with a young woman behind him. The woman looked very heavily pregnant but she still seemed too thin and rather gaunt, she had shoulder length blonde hair and wore a set of too large air force blues.
Colonel O'Neill also noted that she had the brightest green eyes he had ever seen, they looked familiar but he couldn't place it. The team noticed that she looked taken back when she saw them sitting there. Before anyone could speak she was ushered out of the room by a waiting airman.
"Take her back to the storage room to collect her group and then straight to the infirmary and tell DR Fraiser that I wish to see her once she has completed the examinations." General Hammond commanded as he went to sit down.
"Yes sir," was the reply he got.
Colonel O'Neill started the questioning.
"What was with the alarms, sir do we have a visitor?"
"Colonel O'Neill, you and the rest of your team have perfect timing, in light of what has just happened this morning the mission that was planned for this afternoon will be postponed." Stated the General.
"May I ask why? Sir" asked Major Carter.
"We have had some visitors from what it seems, another reality. The young woman you just saw was one of them. Now before you ask any further questions I just want to inform you that she has asked on behalf of her small group for asylum, but she has specifically asked that you all agree with what ever decision the president comes to or she informs me that she cannot stay."
"What do we have to do with it? Daniel asked from his side of the table.
"Well from what she has told me son, it appears that you all have a lot to do with her reason for being here. I request that you all stay here while we wait for her to return from her examination. So we can make some sense out of this all."
They all nodded in agreement and started talking amongst them selves, speculating as to what role they would play in this latest drama bearing down on the SGC.
Megan stood outside the briefing room taking a deep breathe before she entered the room. She didn't know if she could handle seeing them all again, especially if she had to leave.
"Ah come in Megan" the General announced her presence while standing up and motioning for her to enter the room.
"Thank you General Hammond." Megan replied in what Daniel recognized as an Australian accent intertwined with something else that he could not put his finger on.
Megan stood before the room full of faces that were so familiar to her but not the faces she knew.
"Why don't you start by introducing yourself, you told me that you know who these people are already" the general prompted her.
"Right, um before I start I would just like to say that this is very hard for me and that I apologize now if I offend anyone with anything I'm about to say." She took their silence as understanding, as she started the speech that she had told more than a few times before.
"I don't know what the General has told you about me or the people I'm with but ill start at the most logical spot. I am Captain Megan O'Neill, and before you say anything Colonel, in my reality I'm your daughter" she let the first bombshell sink in before she continued.
"To explain it a bit further, I'll detour off the track slightly" again she took their silence as an opportunity to continue.
"From what the General briefly explained I understand that in this world you do not have a daughter and that you were not married to a woman by the name of Sandra Thompson?"
Stuck oddly silent Colonel O'Neill just shook his head before thinking better of it and adding
"No I was never married to Sandra but I did date her after I finished high school when I first joined the air force. She was an exchange student from, um Australia if I remember right. But we never married we dated on and off for about six months before I got transferred to California I think it was."
"Well my mother told me that while you were dating she fell pregnant and you did the gentlemanly thing and proposed. She accepted and you were married a few months later. I was born in California but shortly later you both decided that it had been a mistake and divorced. Mum moved back to Australia with me. But I saw you, ah my father quite often and was even flower girl at his wedding to Sara." A small smile appeared on her face as she quietly remembered a happier time in her life. Soon the smile was replaced once again with a face trying not to betray any emotion.
Every one sat quietly for a few moments taking it all in.
"I remember the reason that Sandra and I broke up was that she had fallen pregnant and had got an abortion without telling me about it. It went down hill from there." Jack added.
"Mum died from breast cancer when I was sixteen and I moved to the states to be with my father. I stayed with him until I enlisted in the air force myself. And that is the short story on how I know you all by name. We can go into the longer one later. The reason I'm here now is because my word was attacked by the goauld about five months ago. Most of the personnel were evacuated to another planet. Myself and a few of the other's including Daniel and Sam were the last few out," she continued, glancing at Sam as she said her name but not looking anywhere near Daniel.
"Sam and Daniel were killed getting myself and a few others through the quantum mirror after we were cut off from the stargate. I have spent the last five months jumping to different realities looking for somewhere where none of my group or I exist, and where we were safe from the numerous enemies that earth has seemed to accumulate. I have tried to go back to my reality but I'm afraid that it is not possible I think that the mirror was destroyed by the staff blast that killed the Daniel from my world." She finished the summing up of her presence in their midst. Slightly fatigued from not getting enough sleep over the past few weeks she sat down heavily in a chair and waited for the inevitable questions that always followed when ever she had to explain her predicament to a new group of people in a new reality.
After a few moments of silence she realized that they were waiting for her to continue. Slowly she tried to remember where she left off. Remembering she labored on with her story.
"I know this might be a bit of a shock especially to you dad, um sorry Colonel O'Neill" blushing at her use of that name for him, he looked uncomfortably at the woman standing in front of him.
"No problems Megan. Keep going"
Slightly relieved that he didn't take any offense she kept going. "The others that I came with are waiting with Doctor Fraiser until you are ready to meet them."
After the General had called to say that they were ready for the others to come to the briefing room it only took DR Janet Fraiser a few minutes to gather everyone together and escort them there. After knocking on the door, Janet entered the room with the two from the other reality.
A girl of about ten or so with shoulder length brownish blonde hair, that looked slightly familiar to the group of people seated around the table walked quickly over to where Megan was standing. Janet walked to Megan as well and handed her a bundle of blue blankets with what appeared to be a child wrapped tightly. She cradled this one, with love in her eyes. Jack knew immediately that the child was hers.
Shit, that meant that he was a grandfather, he was too young for that. All of a sudden all the information he had just received along with the idea of being a grandfather started to weigh on his shoulders and was about to say something when Megan started to introduce the children.
"The general has informed me that a few years ago you bought a young girl by the name of Cassandra through the stargate and gave her asylum here on your planet." They all nodded in agreement.
"This is Caitlin," she said motioning towards the girl.
"She was also bought back from the same planet as Cassandra. She and Cassie are sisters, both of them were brought through on my world. With luck our Cassie is on the planet that the others evacuated too with her mother Janet Fraiser. I have already met your Doctor Fraiser and have explained to her the situation." Janet had taken a seat at the table and she turned to the young girl and gave her a warm smile. She then turned to the General
"Sir, I'll have the results of the DNA test by this evening." The general then nodded to Megan for her to continue.
"This little man that I have here is my son. He is 18 months old, and his name is Jonathan after his grandfather." She looked at Jack trying to gage his response. She thought she saw a smile form as he looked at the little boy in her arms.
"His middle name is Daniel, after his father." She kept her eyes on the child in front of her not wanting to see hurt or disgust in DR Daniel Jackson's eyes.
After hearing a collective gasp rise from the room, she slowly raised her head to scan the faces in front of her. Finally resting on Daniel's face she wasn't sure what she saw but it wasn't disgust and he didn't look hurt at being told that he is a father, well sort of. He was the first to break the silence.
"You and I, I mean you and your Daniel have children?
"Yes, we are married, I mean we were married for about two and a half years, before he died."
"Can I ask how he died?" Morbid curiosity got the better of Daniel, he had to know.
"He died saving us he and Sam held the Jaffa off while the children and I got through the mirror. My husband and Sam were supposed to follow but after we had arrived safely I turned around to see that just as he put his hand on the mirror he was shot in the back by a staff weapon. He came through the mirror but died shortly afterwards. I never saw Sam again. I assumed that she was killed in the same way. The only people that I know for sure that are still alive are Janet and Cassandra, my father was killed in the first wave of attacks on my earth and my General Hammond stayed at the base and was either killed by the Jaffa or died when the self destruct finished the base off." Megan finished, before she would burst into tears.
"I'm sorry Megan I didn't mean any disrespect I was just curious." Daniel apologized.
"We don't talk about Uncle Daniel that much cause Aunt Megan gets upset and starts crying." Clearly embarrassed, Megan leaned down as far as her pregnant body would allow her and whispered something in the child's ear that seemed to calm her down.
"The three of us have been traipsing all over the universe trying to find someone that will take us in and welcome us into their group of friends, I ask on behalf of my little group here that we be allowed to stay, but in saying that, if any of you cannot accept the relationships that we had with the people of our world we will move on, all we ask for in that instance is some supply's and .."
Before she could finish. Colonel O'Neill stood up from where he was sitting and walked slowly over to Megan and the younger ones.
"I think I speak on behalf of everyone here" before he continued he looked around the table to seek approval from the people there for what he was about to do. No one challenged him so he continued.
"You, Caitlin and your son are more than welcome to stay with us as long as you wish." He walked toward Megan and held out his hands for the toddler. As Jack held the boy he felt mixed emotions.
He was un-nerved thinking that he was about to wake up from a dream, he also felt upset as he remembered when Charlie was this age. He forgot that he wasn't alone and started to enjoy the feeling of being a grandfather of sorts. Looking up from the baby he noticed that every one was smiling except Daniel. Knowing him as well as he did he could read his expression a mile away.
He seemed confused and a bit overwhelmed. Jack realized for the first time that this meant that in Megan's universe that Daniel was his son-in-law. He took a mental note to have a word to Daniel in the near future about what he was thinking about all this.
Slowly the rest of the group got up and came over to fuss with the children. Sam went over to Megan and started to talk to her. Jack knew that she could make anyone feel welcome and loved, with one little smile. He heard them talking and decided to join in.
"Megan, he is definitely a beautiful boy, so he is Jonathan then? That could get a bit confusing, with two of them around."
"Yes, Caitlin and I have nick named him Johnny. So there is no confusion with two Jack's. They are both very good kids, considering everything we have been through, they have done much better than I thought they would. This was pretty much our last hope. It is not easy traipsing all over with two children. Caitlin has been a huge help with Johnny through it all." Megan said with gratitude in her eyes as she looked at the young girl who was happily talking with Janet and Teal'c at the moment.
Sam was so taken with the boy in Jack's arms she almost forgot where she was and started baby talking to him, much to the amusement of Jack. Daniel was still sitting at his place at the table. Jack realized that he hadn't even gotten up and still had a strange look on his face. Leaving the girls to talk about Megan's pregnancy, that talk always bored or grossed him out, Jack wandered over to the Daniel sitting at the table.
"What you thinking Danny boy?" He asked trying to lighten the mood.
Suddenly snapping out of it, he looked up at Jack who he realized was holding his son, well his counterpart's son. The child was also Jack's sort of grandchild, which was stranger still.
"Nothing, I'm just trying to take it all in, Jack"
Sitting next to the archeologist, Jack unwrapped the toddler and held him out so Johnny was sitting on the table and he was facing Daniel. The child looked around happily and smiled at both Daniel and Jack.
"Isn't he perfect. I know it sounds soppy but I get this way around babies, they bring out the child in me." Jack said with a smirk on his face.
"Who would have thought that you were a daddy and I was a granddaddy, considering how young I am" he continued sarcastically.
"Ah what? Oh I'm sorry Jack I'm just a bit shocked that's all. Ill get over it. It is strange to find out that in another reality I'm a father and a husband to a complete stranger and to top it all off, that I'm dead."
"Well you obviously weren't strangers in her world," he said motioning towards Megan with his head and her obvious state.
"Think how she feels, she had been wandering around for the last five months with a toddler and a young girl, and she doesn't look in the condition to do much herself. She obviously hasn't been eating well, my guess would be that she was giving everything to the children and not eating enough herself. She has been put in the situation to almost beg for a place to stay and raise her small family. And here you sit looking all sorry for your self and horrified at the thought that you have become and instant father. Have you thought, Daniel that maybe she didn't expect for you to be an instant dad. It's not like she can force you to do it or anything. Just try and look likable for a little while then excuse your self, but not before you at least look at Jonathan." Jack said this a little bit more harshly then he intended, but it had the desired effect.
Daniel seemed to snap out of it, and for the first time focused on the baby in Jack's arms.
"I'm sorry Jack. So this is Jonathan then?" he asked while holding out his arms for a cuddle with the baby.
"Megan said that they had nicknamed him Johnny, so not to confuse everybody. Jack looked over and noticed that his 2IC Major Carter was warmly talking to "his daughter." He liked the sound of being a dad. He liked it a lot. He hoped that if Megan decided to stay she would let him be that. He had missed not having family around the last few years. No, that wasn't true, his team was his family but he did miss having children around.
After letting everyone have a moment to comprehend what was going on, and letting them ooh and ahh over the kids, General Hammond decided that he had better call order to this unusual meeting.
"Megan, DR Fraiser has informed me that you are all in good health, considering. And waiting on what the president has to say on the matter of you staying with us, you do understand that you are confined to the base?"
"Yes Sir, I appreciate everything that you have done so far. I'm rather exhausted and I hope you don't mind but I would like to take Johnny somewhere to feed him and then try and get a bit of sleep?"
"Certainly. Major Carter you and DR Fraiser can take Megan and the children to the VIP quarters and let them have some rest?"
"No problem Sir." Major Carter answered as her and the Doctor ushered the group out of the room. Megan walked over to Daniel and held out her hands for her son.
"He is a very happy child." Daniel stated shyly as Megan took Johnny off of him.
"Thank you very much," she replied just as shyly not really making eye contact with him.
Colonel O'Neill broke the awkward silence,
"Megan, do you mind if I come and see him later on today, after you have all had a rest?"
"Not at all, you're more then welcome to." With that she was on her way out the door, turning briefly to again thank the General for his help. With a quick nod at Jack she was gone.
Please read and review. Ellie Mae
Second Chances
CHAPTER ONE
In the early light of morning, they awoke. Megan was thinking to herself that this is the last chance that they had of survival. Their supplies were running low and she had to admit that she felt a little worse for wear. She told the others to wait until she returned and turned towards the mirror looking back once more as she placed her hand upon it.
A millisecond later she was on the other side of the mirror, all of a sudden alarms were going off everywhere. She surveyed her surroundings it was a small room, no windows, and only one door. A lot of crates surrounded her and she assumed that it was a storage room of some sort.
Megan turned to face the door with her only weapon, a 9mm pistol with only a half a dozen or so rounds left ready to use it if necessary. The door sprung open and three or four soldiers pointed their weapons at her. "Put down the gun and identify yourself?" one of them ordered.
She had no choice except to comply. Four against one wasn't a fight that she had the strength to fight at the moment.
"I'm Captain Megan O'Neill, and I request to speak to the person in charge of this facility."
The sirens could be heard throughout the base announcing an unexpected arrival. Colonel Jack O'Neill and his team were just arriving for a briefing when all the commotion started. As they entered the last checkpoint he asked the airman on duty what the situation was.
"Someone set of the motion detectors in one of the storage rooms in the lower levels of the base Sir, properly just a false alarm like last time."
"Thank you, airman." O'Neill stated as he headed for the elevators.
Once inside the elevator, Major Samantha Carter spoke up, "Wonder if it is a false alarm or if someone has come through the mirror again?"
Daniel Jackson the resident archeologist just shrugged his shoulders in response.
"We will soon find out Major Carter," answered the forth member of the team Teal'c.
Once the elevators opened on the desired level the team known as SG 1 to those in the mountain complex headed towards the briefing room.
Finally someone turned of the alarm, and the room plunged into silence.
The commander of the complex General George Hammond exited his office with a young woman behind him. The woman looked very heavily pregnant but she still seemed too thin and rather gaunt, she had shoulder length blonde hair and wore a set of too large air force blues.
Colonel O'Neill also noted that she had the brightest green eyes he had ever seen, they looked familiar but he couldn't place it. The team noticed that she looked taken back when she saw them sitting there. Before anyone could speak she was ushered out of the room by a waiting airman.
"Take her back to the storage room to collect her group and then straight to the infirmary and tell DR Fraiser that I wish to see her once she has completed the examinations." General Hammond commanded as he went to sit down.
"Yes sir," was the reply he got.
Colonel O'Neill started the questioning.
"What was with the alarms, sir do we have a visitor?"
"Colonel O'Neill, you and the rest of your team have perfect timing, in light of what has just happened this morning the mission that was planned for this afternoon will be postponed." Stated the General.
"May I ask why? Sir" asked Major Carter.
"We have had some visitors from what it seems, another reality. The young woman you just saw was one of them. Now before you ask any further questions I just want to inform you that she has asked on behalf of her small group for asylum, but she has specifically asked that you all agree with what ever decision the president comes to or she informs me that she cannot stay."
"What do we have to do with it? Daniel asked from his side of the table.
"Well from what she has told me son, it appears that you all have a lot to do with her reason for being here. I request that you all stay here while we wait for her to return from her examination. So we can make some sense out of this all."
They all nodded in agreement and started talking amongst them selves, speculating as to what role they would play in this latest drama bearing down on the SGC.
Megan stood outside the briefing room taking a deep breathe before she entered the room. She didn't know if she could handle seeing them all again, especially if she had to leave.
"Ah come in Megan" the General announced her presence while standing up and motioning for her to enter the room.
"Thank you General Hammond." Megan replied in what Daniel recognized as an Australian accent intertwined with something else that he could not put his finger on.
Megan stood before the room full of faces that were so familiar to her but not the faces she knew.
"Why don't you start by introducing yourself, you told me that you know who these people are already" the general prompted her.
"Right, um before I start I would just like to say that this is very hard for me and that I apologize now if I offend anyone with anything I'm about to say." She took their silence as understanding, as she started the speech that she had told more than a few times before.
"I don't know what the General has told you about me or the people I'm with but ill start at the most logical spot. I am Captain Megan O'Neill, and before you say anything Colonel, in my reality I'm your daughter" she let the first bombshell sink in before she continued.
"To explain it a bit further, I'll detour off the track slightly" again she took their silence as an opportunity to continue.
"From what the General briefly explained I understand that in this world you do not have a daughter and that you were not married to a woman by the name of Sandra Thompson?"
Stuck oddly silent Colonel O'Neill just shook his head before thinking better of it and adding
"No I was never married to Sandra but I did date her after I finished high school when I first joined the air force. She was an exchange student from, um Australia if I remember right. But we never married we dated on and off for about six months before I got transferred to California I think it was."
"Well my mother told me that while you were dating she fell pregnant and you did the gentlemanly thing and proposed. She accepted and you were married a few months later. I was born in California but shortly later you both decided that it had been a mistake and divorced. Mum moved back to Australia with me. But I saw you, ah my father quite often and was even flower girl at his wedding to Sara." A small smile appeared on her face as she quietly remembered a happier time in her life. Soon the smile was replaced once again with a face trying not to betray any emotion.
Every one sat quietly for a few moments taking it all in.
"I remember the reason that Sandra and I broke up was that she had fallen pregnant and had got an abortion without telling me about it. It went down hill from there." Jack added.
"Mum died from breast cancer when I was sixteen and I moved to the states to be with my father. I stayed with him until I enlisted in the air force myself. And that is the short story on how I know you all by name. We can go into the longer one later. The reason I'm here now is because my word was attacked by the goauld about five months ago. Most of the personnel were evacuated to another planet. Myself and a few of the other's including Daniel and Sam were the last few out," she continued, glancing at Sam as she said her name but not looking anywhere near Daniel.
"Sam and Daniel were killed getting myself and a few others through the quantum mirror after we were cut off from the stargate. I have spent the last five months jumping to different realities looking for somewhere where none of my group or I exist, and where we were safe from the numerous enemies that earth has seemed to accumulate. I have tried to go back to my reality but I'm afraid that it is not possible I think that the mirror was destroyed by the staff blast that killed the Daniel from my world." She finished the summing up of her presence in their midst. Slightly fatigued from not getting enough sleep over the past few weeks she sat down heavily in a chair and waited for the inevitable questions that always followed when ever she had to explain her predicament to a new group of people in a new reality.
After a few moments of silence she realized that they were waiting for her to continue. Slowly she tried to remember where she left off. Remembering she labored on with her story.
"I know this might be a bit of a shock especially to you dad, um sorry Colonel O'Neill" blushing at her use of that name for him, he looked uncomfortably at the woman standing in front of him.
"No problems Megan. Keep going"
Slightly relieved that he didn't take any offense she kept going. "The others that I came with are waiting with Doctor Fraiser until you are ready to meet them."
After the General had called to say that they were ready for the others to come to the briefing room it only took DR Janet Fraiser a few minutes to gather everyone together and escort them there. After knocking on the door, Janet entered the room with the two from the other reality.
A girl of about ten or so with shoulder length brownish blonde hair, that looked slightly familiar to the group of people seated around the table walked quickly over to where Megan was standing. Janet walked to Megan as well and handed her a bundle of blue blankets with what appeared to be a child wrapped tightly. She cradled this one, with love in her eyes. Jack knew immediately that the child was hers.
Shit, that meant that he was a grandfather, he was too young for that. All of a sudden all the information he had just received along with the idea of being a grandfather started to weigh on his shoulders and was about to say something when Megan started to introduce the children.
"The general has informed me that a few years ago you bought a young girl by the name of Cassandra through the stargate and gave her asylum here on your planet." They all nodded in agreement.
"This is Caitlin," she said motioning towards the girl.
"She was also bought back from the same planet as Cassandra. She and Cassie are sisters, both of them were brought through on my world. With luck our Cassie is on the planet that the others evacuated too with her mother Janet Fraiser. I have already met your Doctor Fraiser and have explained to her the situation." Janet had taken a seat at the table and she turned to the young girl and gave her a warm smile. She then turned to the General
"Sir, I'll have the results of the DNA test by this evening." The general then nodded to Megan for her to continue.
"This little man that I have here is my son. He is 18 months old, and his name is Jonathan after his grandfather." She looked at Jack trying to gage his response. She thought she saw a smile form as he looked at the little boy in her arms.
"His middle name is Daniel, after his father." She kept her eyes on the child in front of her not wanting to see hurt or disgust in DR Daniel Jackson's eyes.
After hearing a collective gasp rise from the room, she slowly raised her head to scan the faces in front of her. Finally resting on Daniel's face she wasn't sure what she saw but it wasn't disgust and he didn't look hurt at being told that he is a father, well sort of. He was the first to break the silence.
"You and I, I mean you and your Daniel have children?
"Yes, we are married, I mean we were married for about two and a half years, before he died."
"Can I ask how he died?" Morbid curiosity got the better of Daniel, he had to know.
"He died saving us he and Sam held the Jaffa off while the children and I got through the mirror. My husband and Sam were supposed to follow but after we had arrived safely I turned around to see that just as he put his hand on the mirror he was shot in the back by a staff weapon. He came through the mirror but died shortly afterwards. I never saw Sam again. I assumed that she was killed in the same way. The only people that I know for sure that are still alive are Janet and Cassandra, my father was killed in the first wave of attacks on my earth and my General Hammond stayed at the base and was either killed by the Jaffa or died when the self destruct finished the base off." Megan finished, before she would burst into tears.
"I'm sorry Megan I didn't mean any disrespect I was just curious." Daniel apologized.
"We don't talk about Uncle Daniel that much cause Aunt Megan gets upset and starts crying." Clearly embarrassed, Megan leaned down as far as her pregnant body would allow her and whispered something in the child's ear that seemed to calm her down.
"The three of us have been traipsing all over the universe trying to find someone that will take us in and welcome us into their group of friends, I ask on behalf of my little group here that we be allowed to stay, but in saying that, if any of you cannot accept the relationships that we had with the people of our world we will move on, all we ask for in that instance is some supply's and .."
Before she could finish. Colonel O'Neill stood up from where he was sitting and walked slowly over to Megan and the younger ones.
"I think I speak on behalf of everyone here" before he continued he looked around the table to seek approval from the people there for what he was about to do. No one challenged him so he continued.
"You, Caitlin and your son are more than welcome to stay with us as long as you wish." He walked toward Megan and held out his hands for the toddler. As Jack held the boy he felt mixed emotions.
He was un-nerved thinking that he was about to wake up from a dream, he also felt upset as he remembered when Charlie was this age. He forgot that he wasn't alone and started to enjoy the feeling of being a grandfather of sorts. Looking up from the baby he noticed that every one was smiling except Daniel. Knowing him as well as he did he could read his expression a mile away.
He seemed confused and a bit overwhelmed. Jack realized for the first time that this meant that in Megan's universe that Daniel was his son-in-law. He took a mental note to have a word to Daniel in the near future about what he was thinking about all this.
Slowly the rest of the group got up and came over to fuss with the children. Sam went over to Megan and started to talk to her. Jack knew that she could make anyone feel welcome and loved, with one little smile. He heard them talking and decided to join in.
"Megan, he is definitely a beautiful boy, so he is Jonathan then? That could get a bit confusing, with two of them around."
"Yes, Caitlin and I have nick named him Johnny. So there is no confusion with two Jack's. They are both very good kids, considering everything we have been through, they have done much better than I thought they would. This was pretty much our last hope. It is not easy traipsing all over with two children. Caitlin has been a huge help with Johnny through it all." Megan said with gratitude in her eyes as she looked at the young girl who was happily talking with Janet and Teal'c at the moment.
Sam was so taken with the boy in Jack's arms she almost forgot where she was and started baby talking to him, much to the amusement of Jack. Daniel was still sitting at his place at the table. Jack realized that he hadn't even gotten up and still had a strange look on his face. Leaving the girls to talk about Megan's pregnancy, that talk always bored or grossed him out, Jack wandered over to the Daniel sitting at the table.
"What you thinking Danny boy?" He asked trying to lighten the mood.
Suddenly snapping out of it, he looked up at Jack who he realized was holding his son, well his counterpart's son. The child was also Jack's sort of grandchild, which was stranger still.
"Nothing, I'm just trying to take it all in, Jack"
Sitting next to the archeologist, Jack unwrapped the toddler and held him out so Johnny was sitting on the table and he was facing Daniel. The child looked around happily and smiled at both Daniel and Jack.
"Isn't he perfect. I know it sounds soppy but I get this way around babies, they bring out the child in me." Jack said with a smirk on his face.
"Who would have thought that you were a daddy and I was a granddaddy, considering how young I am" he continued sarcastically.
"Ah what? Oh I'm sorry Jack I'm just a bit shocked that's all. Ill get over it. It is strange to find out that in another reality I'm a father and a husband to a complete stranger and to top it all off, that I'm dead."
"Well you obviously weren't strangers in her world," he said motioning towards Megan with his head and her obvious state.
"Think how she feels, she had been wandering around for the last five months with a toddler and a young girl, and she doesn't look in the condition to do much herself. She obviously hasn't been eating well, my guess would be that she was giving everything to the children and not eating enough herself. She has been put in the situation to almost beg for a place to stay and raise her small family. And here you sit looking all sorry for your self and horrified at the thought that you have become and instant father. Have you thought, Daniel that maybe she didn't expect for you to be an instant dad. It's not like she can force you to do it or anything. Just try and look likable for a little while then excuse your self, but not before you at least look at Jonathan." Jack said this a little bit more harshly then he intended, but it had the desired effect.
Daniel seemed to snap out of it, and for the first time focused on the baby in Jack's arms.
"I'm sorry Jack. So this is Jonathan then?" he asked while holding out his arms for a cuddle with the baby.
"Megan said that they had nicknamed him Johnny, so not to confuse everybody. Jack looked over and noticed that his 2IC Major Carter was warmly talking to "his daughter." He liked the sound of being a dad. He liked it a lot. He hoped that if Megan decided to stay she would let him be that. He had missed not having family around the last few years. No, that wasn't true, his team was his family but he did miss having children around.
After letting everyone have a moment to comprehend what was going on, and letting them ooh and ahh over the kids, General Hammond decided that he had better call order to this unusual meeting.
"Megan, DR Fraiser has informed me that you are all in good health, considering. And waiting on what the president has to say on the matter of you staying with us, you do understand that you are confined to the base?"
"Yes Sir, I appreciate everything that you have done so far. I'm rather exhausted and I hope you don't mind but I would like to take Johnny somewhere to feed him and then try and get a bit of sleep?"
"Certainly. Major Carter you and DR Fraiser can take Megan and the children to the VIP quarters and let them have some rest?"
"No problem Sir." Major Carter answered as her and the Doctor ushered the group out of the room. Megan walked over to Daniel and held out her hands for her son.
"He is a very happy child." Daniel stated shyly as Megan took Johnny off of him.
"Thank you very much," she replied just as shyly not really making eye contact with him.
Colonel O'Neill broke the awkward silence,
"Megan, do you mind if I come and see him later on today, after you have all had a rest?"
"Not at all, you're more then welcome to." With that she was on her way out the door, turning briefly to again thank the General for his help. With a quick nod at Jack she was gone.
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