Stargate SG1 Fan Fiction ❯ The Secret Life of a Major General ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

Bridge of the Daniel Jackson, Earth Orbit
January 15, 2005
Late Evening

“Yes,” Jack’s voice was ragged, but the conviction was strong. He had come to a decision regarding the fate of the two children created by Loki’s experiment. “I will adopt them.”

“Very well. I will file your decision with the Council. Do you wish for me to inform Colonel Carter now?” Thor asked, his fingers already moving to the necessary keys on the console before him.

“No. She doesn’t want children.” Jack’s eyes hardened. “I’ll be adopting them myself.”

Thor blinked at the revelation. He had not known that Colonel Carter did not wish for offspring of her own. “That shall also be noted in the files.”

“There are problems though,” Jack began. “I’m worried about the children’s safety, especially if it becomes known that they were created by Loki and are the very ‘missing link’ the scientist was looking for.”

“As well as being offspring of yourself and Colonel Carter?” Thor inquired.

“Among others,” Jack agreed shortly.

“Then you will need to create a fabricated story to conceal the subjects’ heritage for the subjects like was done with your clone?”

“Yes. But I don’t want the AF involved in anyway.”

Thor inclined his head in understanding. If the Air Force created the background for the subjects, then anyone with connections to the Air Force could discover the truth behind the information.

“Plus the situation has to be… natural enough that I would become the guardian of two toddlers.” Jack continued as his mind shifted through various scenarios and the sheer task of falsifying all the documentations that would be necessary. Without involving the US government.

“How do you propose this is done?”

“I can get some work done by people I know who owe me favours—basic ones like birth and death certificates.” It was the safest way to create such identities and backgrounds and circumvent various security measures. With a false birth certificate submitted for things later on like driver’s license and bank accounts the preceding documents would be ‘genuine fakes,’ that is, genuine documents issued under false pretences. What would also assist would be the age and thus memory of the children themselves. “But I’ll want you to modify government records as well. If I spread it around there shouldn’t be any connection made.”

“And what fabricated story shall you create?”

“They’re my recently orphaned niece and nephew.” Jack responded surprisingly, his eyes distant as he remembered something from his past. “I had a sister. She died in a car crash.”

Thor absorbed the curtly worded information. “Then the subjects will be her offspring?”

“Yes,” Jack responded looking irritated. “Do the children have names?”

“Subject 40932 and Subject 29206—”

“No, do they have names Thor?”

“The subjects do not O’Neill.”

“They’re not subjects,” Jack muttered curtly as he shifted through more strategies in his head.

“I call them Lífthrasier and Líf,” the Niflheim’s commander who had been listened to the conversation between the two interjected.

Jack blinked, momentarily sidetracked by the unknown asgärd’s voice. Thor reached forward and adjusting a console stone, activated the split-screen for O’Neill to allow the human to see both his face and that of the other asgärd.

“Pardon my interruption O’Neill I am Commander Hel of the Niflheim. It is upon my ship that Lífthrasier and Líf are recovering.”

“Lífthrasier and Líf?” Jack asked.

“They are suitable names for the future saviours of my people.”

Jack scowled at the reminder. “You sure about that?”

“My calculations have predicted a ninety-seven percent chance of that upon their sexual maturity,” Hel responded.

“And then what?” Jack demanded.

“We shall require a biometric scan as well as blood and bone marrow samples. Other than that, nothing will be required of them.” Hel concluded.

Jack narrowed his eyes at the Niflheim commander but said no more to the other asgärd as he turned his attention back to Thor and began to describe in greater depth the background for the two children.

His sister, Julie O’Neill, had died thirty years ago in a fatal car accident that had claimed her life, that of her boyfriend Kenneth Mayer, and the intoxicated driver of their vehicle.

In order to place credit in the story of the two children being the children of Julie and Kenneth Mayer, there needed to be tax records and other such documentation for them that would stand up to the scrutiny of even the Trust. A majority of the ‘backlog’ information would be inserted into government databanks by the Asgärd and the rest by various people Jack got involved.

Some things he knew were already covered; the archives of the local newspaper that had run the crash story and obituaries in his hometown had a waterline break that had destroyed the relevant records thirteen years ago.

Kenneth’s father, the only surviving member of the Mayer family, had moved away after the crash to New York, which is where Julie and Kenneth Mayer would work, live, and die. The fact that Kenneth Mayer was actually ‘Junior’ meant that it would be relatively easy to duplicate the property information and such for Mayer Senior. A double bonus was that when the Asgärd searched for Mayer Senior’s current location they discovered he had recently been moved into a care home suffering from severe Alzheimer’s.

Two years ago, Julie Mayer had given birth to twins Tyler and Emily Mayer. The record of the birth would be inserted into a New York City hospital records and the two names were simply selected from a list of popular baby names for 2003—the ‘year’ of their birth—so that there would be nothing that would arouse suspicion.

His guardianship of the children would rouse enough curiosity as it was for those that kept a close eye on StarGate Command and by extension himself. His military files listed his parents as deceased but his sister had never been on his dossier except in the earliest years and dropped entirely with her death; he could explain away the absence by simple estrangement. There would be no guardianship written out in the Mayer will, as such the state would revert the Mayer children to him being the closest relation available to provide childcare.

So the cover story was finalised: within the past week Julie and Kenneth Mayer had been in a fatal single vehicle car accident. The only survivors, two-year-old Tyler and Emily Mayer, who were so traumatised they had yet to begin speaking again—as the children themselves could not speak yet.

Thor assured him however, that the Asgärd would do a minor procedure that would allow the children to begin speaking at a normal age level for humans shortly after being placed in his care. Otherwise, there might be some interest in their delayed development due to the fact that in reality, their first two years of life had been restricted to Loki’s sustaining chambers with no mental simulation.

Learning from Hel that it would be a minimum of six weeks before the children could be released from the Niflheim infirmary, Jack was given more time than he expected to establish the children’s background and begin the process of integrating them into his life. Beyond the falsification of necessary paperwork after all was informing his chain of command that he was about to become a father again.

George Hammond would be the toughest sell but President Hayes would not be too far behind. As for his team… Jack sighed as he ended the intergalactic conference call between himself and the Asgärd High Council. He would cross that bridge later.

Knowing the Asgärd computers on Thor’s orbiting ship were already inserting the necessary information into government databases, he reached for the phone to begin his first phone call.