The Right Point Of View

Chapter 3

SG1 sat in the debriefing room, along with General Hammond. They began to watch the video of the interrogation Dr. Carter had experience early that day.

"Look, I've told you, now let me talk to someone from the SGA." Dr. Carter insisted.

"SGA? There is no such organization." The solider stated.

"Well then you call it something else. The...Stargate project, Stargate Command..." Dr. Carter again stressed trying to keep calm knowing this was not helping her current condition.

"Stargate? What do you know about the Stargate?" the solider mocked Dr. Carter.

"What do I know? Everything! We've been through this." Dr. Carter again stressed, by this time becoming extremely upset.

"For crying out loud" Dr. Carter yelled (making Colonel O'Neill glance at Major Carter. The use of his cliché made him, well quite uncomfortable) "It's a big round thing. It takes you to other planets. I made it work four years ago and we have been exploring the galaxy ever since. That is, up until yesterday when the Goa'uld came and started taking over every major city from orbit and making slaves of the population". Dr. Carter was yelling at this point.

General Hammond clicks the television's remote and the tape stops.

"Oh my god. This is too weird." Major Carter expressed, as she saw a alternate self staring back at her from the T.V. .

"How about that hair?" O'Neill stated trying to make the situation lighter, unsuccessfully.

"She claims to have traveled from an alternate universe in the same manner Dr. Jackson experienced a year ago." General Hammond stated.

"Well this can't be the Dr. Carter I met in the alternate reality. She's...dead? Daniel said, puzzled.

"Alright, just to clarify. This Carter is from an alternate, alternate reality?" O'Neill asked with much confusion.

"Apparently." Daniel stressed.

"Does anybody else have a problem with this?" O'Neill again stated with further confusion.

"Which reality is actually real?" Teal'C interjected.

"Thank you Teal'C." O'Neill replies. General Hammond interjects "She explains it." He switches the tape back on.

"Look, I know this is hard for you to understand. But according to quantum theory, for every possible universe there are an infinite number of variations, diverging in every choice we make, like forks in the road." Dr. Carter was starting to become furious.

"For crying out loud. Let me speak to someone.....please"....she suddenly rose to her feet, only to have wave of dizziness and pass out, which is why she ended up in the infirmary.

"She was rushed to the infirmary after this interview" General Hammond stated.

Silence feel across the room. The question in the room was why, but no one dare speculate let alone ask.

"She's right." Major Carter affirmed.

"You realize you just agreed with yourself Carter" O'Neill stated with a smirk.

"Fork in the road stuff, huh" O'Neill said.

"Yup" Major Carter replied with a glance to O'Neill only they could understand.

"They've asked to be debriefed. I'd like you all to participate." "Show them in." General Hammond stated.

"AHHHH.... Sir before they join the debriefing, I think there is something you should know. Dr. Samantha Carter's final results came in and" Dr. Fraiser paused, knowing it would be odd...

"Doctor?" General Hammond asked with concern. "Well, sir, she's pregnant." Fraiser stated hesitantly.

"Ah Vey" escaped from O'Neill's mouth.

Major Carter and O'Neill gave each other a quick glance. The silence in the room was deafening.

"Is she aware of this Doctor?" General Hammond stated.

"Yes sir ..... She is...." Frasier confirmed. "OK....Well....Airmen bring them in." General Hammond commanded.

Major Carter and O'Neill by this point were extremely uncomfortable. This information was not going to help the situation at all. What were they going to do? How would if at all, affect them?