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"Yes well, Thor always comes to us if he wants stupid ideas" Jack said "Will it work?"
"Not in the way you may think, but it has given me an idea" she spoke in her hissing voice and Heimdall almost started dancing with excitement
"Yes Yes that may work," the mannequin said
"What may?" asked Sam
"We have a machine that the ancients used to use, to resequence DNA, it is possible that the DNA of CELLS rather than of full beings can be altered to make them compatible, and so produce gametes that we could fuse and grow, we will need more gametes from you O'Neill, and we will have to grow that ovary anyway Colonel Carter to complete it."
"DNA resequencer? Like the one Niirti had on P3X 367?" Jack asked, Mark saw Sam go white, Teal'c gripped the edge of the table tightly, Thor manipulated his stone again and he replied
"It is possible, that is one of the worlds the ancients medical branch was centred on when the plague wiped them out."
"And you want to go messing with that thing?" he almost shouted
"O'Neill, there is no danger"
"You wouldn’t say that if you had seen 2 men dissolve into puddles of water before your eyes! Crap, she almost killed Carter that way too!" Mark saw his sister reach under the table and grab her husbands hand, his eyes switched to hers and he started to calm down. "Sorry folks" he said, "just got some REAL bad memories of that damn machine, and she never even used it on me!"
"It is the use of this machine and the copies of your children that could lead to our salvation" Nom said
"Yeah you said you needed something from me? Games or something?"
Sam held her hand up to stop everyone talking and wrote something down, Mark watched gleefully as once again the man who had been in the Airforce for his whole adult life blushed.
"I still think a drill sergeant and a hard workout could solve a lot of the problems" Jack said he looked at his watch, which Mark noticed was still the type covered in a fabric strip, rather than a dress watch, it was 18:00, they had been in the meeting almost all day, Jack said "That's it, lets reconvene tomorrow, it's time we got the kids home and fed, not to mention I am in the need of a huge piece of cake" the humans all smiled at this and Sam called for the kids and nurses to come up, she messed with each St. Christopher on the childrens wrist and sent them all home from the closet, Dixon returned to the room and waved everyone else out, saying he needed to do some things, and Sam offered to send Jane and Mark home, they agreed and as she followed the last of her children Jack stood behind them in the closet, put a hand on each of their shoulders and said "Home" and they appeared in a small study in the O'Neill house.
They walked to Carols and picked up the kids and thanked her for it, Jane asked if she would mind doing the school run tomorrow, it was only at that point that Mark realised both their cars were in the SGC carpark. He hoped Dixon would offer them a lift tomorrow, he didn't fancy jogging up the mountain!
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The next morning Sam was around before breakfast, she offered Mark and Jane a 'lift' into work, she and Jack were going to their respective jobs later, but there was that meeting at the SGC to start with, and Sam explained to her family that they were going to look into getting tutors for the children straight away.
The kids had proven how much they understood when Sam, trying to be diplomatic asked if Jack was going to donate his gametes and Jacob had asked why Thor wanted Dads sperm, as she was telling the two of them about the look on his face she was laughing so hard she had to stop walking, Jack, stood on his doorstep waiting for them didn’t appreciate the humour by the glare he was directing at her, she swallowed and straightened up! It seemed the children had absorbed their language direct from Jane, they did not know a lot of the terms Sam used, but anything medical and they understood.
They arrived at the SGC and Jack went to the briefing room, Sam headed off with the kids and the Carters went to their respective posts.
Thor appeared in a flash of light as Mark was walking through the briefing room. "Mark, you can stay of you want" Jack told him. Mark sat down in the same seat as the day before and pulled out his laptop waiting for everyone else to arrive.
Jack had already dismantled all the pens in the pot by his place and was looking for something else to destroy when he snapped "Thor! How long do we have to wait?"
"Patience O'Neill, things will be ready when they are ready"
"Have you been talking to Oma Desala by any chance?" he asked
"I have not" the grey man said, Jack nodded, he picked up some pen pieces and put them together again, the off-world activation announcement sounded. Jack jumped to his feet and went to the window, Dixon ran through the room and down the stairs, Bra'tac came through the gate a minute later and climbed into the briefing room.
"Human, greetings" he said to Jack, he nodded to both Mark and the Asgard "I bring news of Ba'al" Jacks face went a strange colour and he rose to his feet the pen casing in his hand shattered. His hands on the desk were shaking with what Mark decided was suppressed fury as his eyes had gone, what could only be called, hard as stone.
"What we believe to be another clone has surfaced, and this one is trying something new, he has contacted the Lucien Alliance and is attempting to control the Kassa crop on several worlds, he is using the Nish'ta to make the farmers hand over their crop, while the Alliance is quite willing to kill him, they need the crop to continue to supply their customers, and no one knows where he has hidden it. Part of his price for the business is of your concern, however, I am unable to get details but rumour has it that Earth itself and Colonel Carter and yourself in particular are in danger"
"Why Carter? She has never done anything wrong to Ba'al, well not much, why not Daniel or T for that matter?"
"Ba'al has spies on earth, he knows how powerful you have become and he is looking for any way he can to punish you"
"Me? Powerful? He needs to sack whoever is collecting his info." Mark had learnt over the last several months that Jack was not falsely modest, he honestly had no real idea of the power he held, nor of his own importance, he truly saw himself as 'just a normal guy' doing his duty and as nothing special. His show with the Furlings was not to demonstrate how powerful he had become. It was to correct their manners!
In many ways Jack was naďve, not only did he blush at personal things but he refused to see his own self worth. He was a good match for Marks sister, who while willing to fight for scientific principles, or theories, would never contradict anyone who was putting her down, she had zero self confidence when it came to her personal life.
Jack called Walter into the room and one of the strangest conversations Mark had ever been privileged to hear took place
"Walter!"
"Sir…?" Jack explained what Bra'tac had told him
"We need to…"
"Yes sir, that should be easy"
"And make sure…"
"Yes sir will do"
"Don't…"
"Of course she will"
"Make sure…"
"Yes sir, as soon as I can"
"I'll do that actually, oh! They may…"
"Already thought of that sir."
"Good, oh but…"
"Don't think that will be an issue Sir, but I will give the order"
"Well we have…" he was waving his hand at Thor
"That will help sir, we need another of those things that we had in the room above the nursery"
"Yeah, I'll ask, but…"
"Yes sir, just in case we don't, I'll tell security" and the little man walked off without being dismissed! Mark looked at his brother–in-law, he seemed happy with his part in the conversation, and in no rush to explain what just happened.
"Jack?" he asked
"O'Neill?" "Human?" came from the two aliens, Jack literally shook his head and scrubbed his face with his hands
"Oh sorry guys was thinking of what Walter and I just decided. Thor remember when the kids were first arriving, you gave us a device to prevent beaming on the base?"
"The small grey alien nodded "Can we have another one please?" He reached to the table behind him, and poured a coffee while picking up the phone, the PA system activated and the message
"Colonel Carter report to the briefing room" sounded, Jack smiled and put the phone back down. There was a flash of light and a box appeared close to the door, it was about a foot in size along each axis and had no visible markings, Jack picked up the phone again and before he could say a word into it another announcement sounded "Teal'c to the briefing room" he put the phone down again.
"How the hell does he do that?" Jack muttered under his breath, picking something off the surface of his coffee and flicking it onto the floor.
Teal'c arrived first, he noticed the small box and looked at Jack and Thor, he strode over and clasped arms with Bra'tac and then he turned "For what reason do we need another shield generator?" he asked Bra'tac told him of his news, and Teal'c bowed his head.
"I'm thinking the security observation room on '16" Jack said, Teal'c lifted the box and carried it out of the room "don't forget to teach someone how to turn it on and off!" Jack shouted after him. Bra'tac followed his old pupil, presumably to fill him in on other news. They were back in less than 10 minutes and Jack explained to Thor where he would have to appear to ask for it turning off so he could beam in and out, Mark didn't quite understand that, if he was appearing, why would he need it turning off? He filed the question away with the myriad others he had been collecting.
Jack noticed that his wife had not joined them, he picked up the phone again and asked for her to be called once more, the PA blared out, but there was no sign, Mark could see the anxiety building when Thor spoke up.
"Colonel Carter is on board the Samantha Carter with Heimdall and the Furlings" he said
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