Moebius Part II Interlocked Lives

By StarnightSam

Chapter Twenty Six –Out of sadness comes great happiness

Epilogue

Egypt

Daniel, Jack, Samantha and Nebul were standing by the Gateship with Katep and several others.

"Dan'yel, you look different, how is this possible. You just left a few minutes ago." Katep asked. 'If you only knew,' thought Daniel.

"Long story. Short answer. Hard to explain, but everything is okay. The time line is fixed. We're all well. Both Nebul and Ketra love their new homes. We just came back to tell you to bury the gate. Now. If for some reason we need to come back, we can use the ship's time travel without the gate." Daniel didn't try to explain all the details to Katep and the others; they'd had a hard enough time getting through the first explanation of doubles and time machines.

Jack looked at Daniel. 'Boy could that boy talk fast,' he thought, but didn't say it. Daniel had been through too much lately and he knew that Daniel didn't want to give Katep or the others a chance to question him. He had no desire to explain any of it either, but he took pity at Katep's questioning look.

"We just wanted to let you guys know everything is great, and that Ra won't be back. Just make sure you keep the gate buried, don't go digging it up for any reason." Jack added to Daniel's fast talking speech, trying to simplify things for his friends.

They all talked for a few more minutes and then the time travelers said their good byes for the last time to their friends in Egypt, loaded on the Gateship and Jack flew it through the gate.

Katep and his tribesmen had the gate buried and the cover stones on it within the week. The canopy jar holding the camera and the tablet that Daniel had inscribed were buried in Giza just waiting to be found at the right time in the future.

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2009

Previously……

General O'Neill and Colonel Carter watched them as they walked toward the park where the cloaked Jumper was waiting. "I guess we can go to the new house now, Sam. Ketra and Gracie are waiting for us." General O'Neill said. "I feel so bad; I wanted to tell them about Gracie. I just think we could have saved her so much pain."

"I know Jack, but we've discussed this. You know if we change one thing, we have no idea how much the timeline will be affected." Colonel Carter commented. "We can't change this Jack. It has to play out just as it was intended."

"And tell me again how you know it was intended this way?" Jack kept trying.

Sam watched the expression on Jack's face. She knew he was remembering Grace's illness with all the pain it had brought. That had been a difficult time. They'd had nearly lost Grace. It still made her stomach churn to think of those days.

But life was great for them. It had started out as bittersweet, the idea that Samantha, Jack, Daniel, and Nebul would have to give up Grace; but it hadn't been that way at all. They'd been able to visit a lot.

Grace had adjusted very well and quickly. General O'Neill and Sam loved her as much as her other parents. She was soon calling Sam, Mother and the General, Father. It was her way of distinguishing between all her parents. She soon felt she was the luckiest child that had ever been born. Who could argue? With three sets of parents who all loved her and wanted only what was best for her. Who doted on her.

"I love you so much, Jack O'Neill. I think you should take me home and ravish me from head to toe as soon as we can get Gracie to bed," she teased as she pressed her body against his.

"Sam, you think there is any reality where I don't want to ravish you?" Jack asked grinding against her body.

"I don't want to think of them, if there are," she panted into his ear.

"You think we could.. uh.. make love one more time in this house, it does go on the market tomorrow?" Jack asked with pleading lust filled eyes. After all he'd been in the room with three Sam Carter O'Neills. Who would expect him not to be completely and totally horny?

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Later in 2009

Samantha and Jack came through the Stargate alone. It was unusual for them to come without Daniel especially. But this time they had something to take care.

Retired General Jack O'Neill and General Carter-O'Neill were waiting at the end of the ramp. Sam was now the commander of the SGC. She'd been offered Atlantis, but turned it down. She had no desire to leave her family for the long periods of time between her leave. Hank Landry had taken the post at Atlantis, leaving the SGC open.

"Hey, how's everyone?" Sam asked her curiosity showing.

"Fine. Nothing's wrong." Samantha was quick to reassure her. "We have something to share with you or at least talk to you about."

"Oh?" The General said.

"Yeah, I think you might like it." Jack answered him

"Why don't we go to my lab, there'll be more privacy there." Sam offered. They followed as she and the General lead the way.

"You'd think you'd have your office where all the rest of the base commanders did?" Jack asked, looking at Sam.

"Ya think?" General O'Neill commented.

"Yes, well, I have two offices, one for base commander and my lab as always." Sam said, smiling at Jack.

"Guess where she stays most of the time?" The General asked. They all chuckled at his sarcastic remark like there was any doubt.

"That's because you seem to spend most of your time here. If Gracie's in school, Jack is here driving us all crazy." Sam teased him, her eyes twinkling at the General. "But, I have to admit, I like him here. He helps me get through some tough decision."

"She's telling a tale. She doesn't need me to help her make decisions; she just hits me upside the head with her ideas. I say stupid things and she says something like 'Jack, that's so simple but it'll work." He smiled at her. They all chuckled at their antics.

"How's Gracie?" Samantha asked. It had only been two days since Grace had visited them.

"Fine, she's just fine." The General answered. "I can't tell you how much that little girl has changed our lives." They all entered Sam's lab and the General moved two more chairs to the bench."

"Well, what's this about?" The General couldn't stand it any longer.

Jack looked at Samantha. "You should tell them Sammie, it's your idea." He could see the uncertainty on her face.

"I.. I.. uh.. I'm sorry, I may be out of line. But, I was wondering if you had thought of having another child?" Samantha had struggled to get out those words, but she knew how much Lizzie meant to her, and she wanted to be able to help Sam have this experience.

"What?! You know we can't have our own children." The General didn't appear too happy with the way the conversation was going. He didn't want Sam hurt.

"Wait, Jack, lets hear them out." Sam said. She could tell they had a reason for asking such a personal question.

"Well, I've been thinking. We know your timeline was almost the same as our Daniel's. I was thinking maybe if you went back to your past and collected viable eggs from yourself before whatever happened to your ovaries, you could carry your own baby to term. I thought at first of giving you some of my eggs, but I started thinking, we have the time machine." Samantha trailed off. No one was saying a word. Maybe she'd gone too far.

Sam was staring straight ahead. Her expression was unreadable. They all waited a few minutes and then she spoke so softly the General almost didn't hear her.

"Why didn't I think of that?" She suddenly grabbed Samantha and hugged her. "Thank you."

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End of 2010

"One more push, Sam. You're there. Take a deep breath and pushhhh…." Dr. Lam said as General Samantha Carter-O'Neill was about to deliver her son.

"She never said how damn much this hurt!" Sam yelled at retired General Jack O'Neill as she pushed with all her might.

"You're doing it just right, baby. I love you. Hold on. I gotcha." Jack kept talking to Sam. He was positioned behind her, trying to keep her from breaking his fingers. She had been in labor for over twelve hours. She was tired and mean. She had called Jack everything she could think of and started on Samantha.

"I see the head, now. Sam, push hard with the next contraction." Dr Lam said.

"You just said that!" Sam screamed. "Ohh damnittt!... This hurts so damn bad….."

"He'll be worth it Sam, hang in there."

"Damn it Jack! If you say one more thing."

"I love you." He tried. She pushed with the next contraction with all her strength, or all the strength she could muster and she felt the baby squeeze out.

"It a boy, a big boy!" Dr. Lam said. Taking care of the navel cord and handing the baby to the nurse.

"You telling me," Sam commented, but now that the pain had eased, she was smiling at the doctor.

"Are you surprised?" Dr. Lam asked the couple, now that Sam had stopped threatening Jack's life.

"I'll say." Jack said. "I was sure it was another girl."

The nurse placed the baby in his arms as soon as she suctioned the baby's mouth.

"Oh, Jack, he's beautiful. He looks like you." Sam said, happy tears pooling in her eyes.

"No, he looks like Charlie when he was born." Jack answered, a huge smile on his face and his eyes shining.

Just then Cassie and Grace peeked into the room, "We can come in?" Cassie asked. Cassie was in her last year at the University.

"Of course, sweetheart. Come on in girls; look at your new baby brother." Sam said as Jack held the baby where they could all look at him.

"Can we call him Charlie?" Cassie asked. Sam's eyes quickly found Jack's.

"I don't know, baby. Dad, what do you think?" Sam asked.

"Well, why not? I'll just bet it would make Charlie's day to know his baby brother was named after him. Charles Carter O'Neill, what do you think Mom?"

Tears filled both Jack and Sam's eyes. He leaned in to kiss her. "You did good! Mom. I'm so happy."

"Jack, you think I could hold my baby?" Sam asked smiling up at him through her tears.

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1711 – Alterian (Would be Earth 2011)

Jack and Samantha were on the boat enjoying the warmth of the afternoon sun. Samantha was wearing one of the bikini's she'd brought back from Earth when they'd visited yesterday when they went to get Grace. Sam, Samantha and all the girls had gone shopping. Samantha liked wearing the Earth clothes.

The women here didn't wear such revealing swim ware, so she only wore the hot little suit for Jack when they were far away from the shore. He loved the tiny piece of blue material. It was the same color as her eyes. And what it did for him!

Grace, Lizzie, and Jake were playing on the front of the boat. Grace was ten, Lizzie was five, and their baby, Jacob Jonathan O'Neill, Jake for short, was two.

They'd found it was possible for the girls to stay together for three days before either had any negative response. So every other weekend they would have Grace visit them; and two days during the week they would go to Earth but now they used the Stargate.

Jack would take the cloaked time machine as close to the Gate, and go forward in time, leave the ship cloaked and hidden, and then they would go through the Gate to the SGC. He liked to make sure the time machine was activated first, he didn't want to chance the buried gate in Egypt or the ice covered gate in the Antarctic of Earth's time line in the 1700's.

It had worked out perfectly for Grace and all their families. She would stay two days and then go back to Earth the same day that she'd left. Grace didn't miss any school, nor was she away from her Earth family.

The time travelers could visit Earth whenever they wanted, especially now that Jack had stopped working at the police department and was giving fishing tours on his boat. He was his own boss again and could take as much time as he wanted off. When Daniel and his family went to Earth, Jack made sure to get them back within the same hour that they felt.

Samantha was staying at home now enjoying her family and Jack. Daniel and Nebul had another child, a son, Daniel Jr.

Teal'c had met and fallen in love with one of the locals and had moved into another unit down from them. It had been hard on him until he met her. He took it really hard that he couldn't start the Jaffa revolt before his original time line.

"Sammie, you think you could get those kids to play on the boat down stairs so I can play with their mama?" Jack smirked at her then ran his lips over hers. As soon as she opened her mouth, their tongues began to tangle. Their kiss soon became passionate.

"Maybe Grace will play that Cherry- thing game with them," he panted into her ear. Nipping, licking and kissing all around, hitting her sensitive spot over and over.

"Jack, they're gonna see us."

"Sammie it's your fault. Why'd you wear this thing," he said as he ran his fingers under the v-shaped front of the bottoms. "I'd say you wanted me to do this." His fingers plunged into her hot, wet, center.

"Ya, think?" She answered him in her sultry voice. "Grace! Don't you kids want to play the Hi-O-The Cherry-O Game? It's on the table already set up downstairs."

That really does fix the time line!

And it really is THE END!

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