Stargate SG1 Fan Fiction ❯ The Secret Life of a Major General ❯ Chapter 26 ( Chapter 26 )

Chapter 26

Living Room, O’Neill’s Residence, Alexandria, VA
June 14, 2005
Evening

Jack had just settled into watching an episode of The Simpsons when someone suddenly leaned on his doorbell. Insisting on entrance. Growling beneath his breath at the interruption Jack set his Guinness on the coffee table and rose to his feet ignoring the cracking sound his knee made. He had been sitting in office chairs for too many days lately and the joint had started to stiffen up again.

“I’m coming! I’m coming!” Jack shouted at the unknown visitor. “Hold your horses!”

The doorbell continued to ring and with a growl Jack yanked the door open and was stunned for the second time in so many days by Sam’s appearance on his doorstep.

A furious looking Sam who was glaring at him like he had suddenly become evil incarnate.

“Like hell they’re your sister’s, General!” Sam lambasted furiously, the finger adorned by her engagement ring thumping Jack on the chest as she spat out his rank.

“Colonel,” Jack barked authoritatively. “What’s the meaning of this?”

“Meaning? Meaning?” Sam’s voice rose close to a shriek on the last word. “I’ll tell you the meaning of this Sir!” She thrust a folder at his chest and stepped aggressively forward.

Jack fumbled for the file as he took a step backwards and Sam pushed past him into his house. “Come in Carter,” Jack said snidely as he turned to follow her, file in hand.

Entering the living room he had just vacated he found Sam standing rigidly in the room with her hands fisted at her side as she pinned him with an expression fit for the battlefield. “So, what’s this?” Jack asked as he waved the papers in the air.

“Why don’t you read it to find out?” Sam snapped.

Jack gave her a level look before leafing through the pages and recognising nothing, just incomprehensible pages of analysis reports; he tossed the file onto the coffee table. “Summarise it for me Carter.”

“Those Sir, are the tests I ran with Oceanus’s DNA reader and conventional human tests.” Sam stated silkily. “Tests on my DNA and the twins’ genetic sequence that was in the Goa’uld tablets. Tests that again and again when tested with other known mothers and children, confirm the mother’s maternity—using goa’uld or human tech. But the first tests in that file,” Sam stabbed a finger at the file lying on the coffee table between them, “are paternity tests. One I ran between two children and yourself.”

Jack’s expression closed off. His face becoming harder than granite.

“I think you know exactly what that test says, don’t you General?” Sam snarled out his rank. “The same things mine did—99.99% probability of parenthood!”

“You had no right to perform such tests and certainly no authorisation to use my DNA for such tests,” Jack growled.

“Please!” Sam flapped a hand dismissively. “Your DNA is on file at DET 3 and the paperwork clearly defines it’s available to be utilised with Ancient tech and DNA research by the researchers on base. And that’s exactly what I did,” Sam snarled as she rounded the coffee table, “a little DNA research!”

“Carter—”

“Tell me Sir,” Sam demanded as she got right into his face, “why does all the research I do say those twins are not only mine, but ours?”

White light flooded the living room and when it cleared the silvery walls of an Asgärd vessel confined them.

“Hel!” Jack roared angrily as he whipped about to face the bridge console. His anger was arrested when he saw not the dark skinned form of Hel, but the lighter and equally familiar body of Thor.

“Greetings O’Neill,” the Supreme Commander of the Asgärd Fleet greeted, inclining his large head towards Jack. The large head and dark eyes of Thor then turned to Sam, “Greetings to you Colonel Carter.”

“Thor,” Sam forced herself to greet the alien calmly as her anger at Jack bubbled just beneath the surface.

“Thor, what’s going on?” Jack asked his anger still evident in his voice.

“I believe it is time to discuss certain matters with Colonel Carter,” Thor responded placidly and moved a stone on the console in front of him. White light illuminated Jack and when it vanished the general was gone.

“Where’d you send him?” Sam questioned.

“I sent him to join Hel.” Thor answered calmly.

“Hell?” Sam recognised the term from when they had materialised on the ship. “So he wasn’t just swearing that you transported us aboard.”

“No, O’Neill was not. He believed that it had been Commander Hel, who he has many dealings with, who transported you.”

“So it was an Asgärd that transported Kinsey and Mayfield from DET 3,” Sam exclaimed.

“Indeed it was,” Thor confirmed placidly. “But now Colonel Carter, the reason why I brought you aboard must be addressed.” He moved a stone and a simple char materialised beside the standing human woman. “Please, sit. This will take much time to explain.”

Worried now, Sam took a seat on the provided chair and looked at Thor expectantly. “Will you answer my question Thor—are the twins ours?”

“They are not twins, but yes, the children are offspring of yourself and O’Neill.”

“You swore there would be no more cloning!” Sam accused. “The marker you implanted in the General should have prevented it anyway!”

“They are not clones Colonel Carter,” Thor chided. “I have already stated that they are your offspring. Made not from cloning your DNA but from fertilisation of your gametes.”

Sam was relieved that she was already sitting down upon hearing that news. “So, they’re really our children.”

“That is correct Colonel Carter,” Thor stated. “But I have digressed from the order of events and believe you will understand once you know the whole story. As you know we only continue to exist though cloning which creates a new physical body that the mind of one of us inhabits.”

Sam nodded, knowing of this from when they and the Asgärd had combated Anubis four years ago, “Which has lead to genetic decay over the centuries.”

“Correct, we were able to combat it for a time by introducing a mutation and with the discovery of Ellri in the Adara System we have made even greater progress. That progress however is not readily believed, or believed to be happening at a sufficient enough rate to satisfy all Asgärd. One such individual as you know is Loki.”

Nodding, Sam well remembered Loki’s kidnapping and cloning of Jack and the fiasco that it had led to—the only positive note of the incident was that the true alien abductions from Earth for experimentation had been stopped with the arrest of the renegade scientist.

“What we were unaware of was that during an earlier visit to Earth, Loki used the transport beam to extract what he believed to be sufficient enough quantities of O’Neill’s and your gametes.”

“He stole my eggs,” Sam realised in horror.

“That is correct. It was only some time later that he decided to clone O’Neill.” Thor stated and then began to tell the tale that he had told Jack many months ago.