"How was the ice cream?" Sam says smiling at the toddlers.

"Gooder than candy," Johnny declares.

Sam reaches to pick him up, and he wraps his sticky hands around her. She turns her back so the table can't see her cry. Jack pats her on the shoulder before cleaning the children with the wet whips which have been omnipotent since they got the kids.

"Kiddos, we're going to do something really fun today. What do you think it should be?" Jack asks.

Sammy stands up, and holds her arms up to have Jack pick her up.

"Anything kiddos, zoo, movie, theme park…"

"Fishing," Johnny says.

"Of course, kid," Jack says with a grin.

"'Tory," Sammy says.

"You want to bring some books along for fishing?" Sam asks.

"These kids, are so us," Jack mutters.

-0-

Daniel walks up behind them, and sits down next to them on the bank of the stream.

Sam stops reading a the book about starts, and looks at him.

"You guys are all clones," he declares.

"What's a clone?" Johnny asks.

Daniel looks at the boy in panic.

"Awesome. Clone means awesome," Jack says with sarcasm he hopes the boy is too young to detect.

"So where are the 'real' ones," Sam asks somewhat cryptically.

"Probably still with the Asgard," Daniel says.

"So, are we going to catch the person who did this to us? Catch them, and make them fix us? Fix the kids?" Jack asks.

Daniel looks doubtful.

"Okay kids, let's go back to the base," Sam says.

Johnny throws his fishing pole angrily.

"I told you it was past nap time," Sam says glaring at the older version of the little boy.

"We can sleep when we're…" the world 'dead' dies on Jack's lips.

"Come on Buddy," Jack says picking him up.

"Fishing!" the child whines.

"It's okay, we can come back fishing tomorrow."

"Fishing now!" the little boy says pounding on his chest.

Jack holds the boy tight until he goes limp, and lays against Jack sleepily. Tears start to run down his face, "We did not have enough time. We need more time."

"We'll find a way to get more time, Sir," Sam says.

-0-

This was not how Jack imagined ending up in bed with Samantha Carter. There were three children and two zats in between the two of them.

"We've got this Carter," Jack assures her. It's always unnerving to see Carter nervous. People who have blown up sun should not look worried, but what really bothers him is the fact that he really hates looking at the face of his worried second in command when she's a child.

"I don't like going to battle with children," she says.

"You guys are ready to fight with the alien, aren't you?" Jack asks.

Johnny stands up on the bed, and starts jumping, "I can do battle!" he exclaims.

"Me to!" Sammy exclaims jumping next to him.

"Yes babies," Sam says, "You are fierce."

"Not babies," they declare together causing Sam and Jack to laugh. Then they are floating, and the voice of an Asgard says, "Do not be afraid."

Jack zats, and Sam catches the floating baby Daniel on her way over to the control panel which she uses to get the rest of the team in the room. Johnny is looking at the alien with fascinated curiosity while Sammy is crying.

Jack picks up the little girl, and tucks her into his side. "It's okay." Sam begins moving the stones around on the consol.

The grown versions of Jack, Sam, and Daniel enter the room. "What the hell is going on?" the elder Jack asks.

"Sir, don't swear around children," the older Sam scolds.

"What's with the mini mes?" Jack asks in a more gentle tone.

"This Ass guard got a little trigger happy with the xerox button," teenaged Jack replies.

"Oh my God!" Sam replies staring at the small version of herself. She holds out her hands to the child to take her from the teenage boy, but the girl turns from her not Jack's shoulder.

"I'm sorry, Sam," he says, "She doesn't know you.

"Scared of myself," she sighs, "I'm going to try not to analyze that too much."

Just then Thor appears.

"It's about time!" Jack exclaims.

"I'm sorry it took me a while to get here, I was busy with other matters," he says before turning to the other Asgard who is beginning to wake up, "Loki, what have you done?"

"Only what was necessary," Loki says.

"Why did you create two versions of each?" Thor asks.

"I would have started with why he made one version," the teenaged Jack snarks earning him an elbow in the ribs by the teenaged Sam.

"When the first versions came out so young, I attempted a second to fix the problem, but I only made it worse. I do not know why the clones did not properly age."

"It was a safeguard put in place to make their DNA tamper proof," Thor replies.

"I'm sorry, you knew that someone might try to tamper with our DNA before?" Sam asks in shock.

"The people of Earth have advanced far beyond what we thought they would have by now, the three of you are very advanced."

The two older versions of Jack grin, but Sam asks in confusion, "How so? I mean, how are we different from the rest of the people of Earth?"

"Daniel Jackson's body was formed by an assented being. They have forgotten what human DNA was before they ascended, and…"

"You're saying Oma put me back together better?" Daniel asks with his eyebrows raised.

Thor nods, "Jack contains a rare gene which all ancients contained, but which few of his species have maintained."

"What about me?" Sam asks stepping forward.

"Your DNA sequence contains many common genes that are rarely all present in one individual," Thor says.

"Meaning?"

"Major Carter is an extraordinary human being," he replies.

"I didn't need any test tubes to tell that to me," the adult Jack replies, looking around the room with immediate regret that the words had left his mouth.

"So, are we the answer we've been looking for?" Daniel asks.

"No," Thor says dismissively.

"Thor, can you do something about the unstable clones?" Sam pleads.

"You wish your clones to live?" Thor asks in surprise.

Thor looks at Loki who replies, "There was no reason for the clones to survive."

"We can fix that," Thor says.