Of Ancient Descent

1. Prologue

There was a time when things were much more simple, where life and death was a thing of the past not the future. When Jack O'Niel never thought he'd get another chance to be a father, when Samantha Carter never imagined being a mother. Time has a way of blindsiding us, throwing curve balls and forcing us to cope. Neither ever imagined they'd be a parent, and neither of them ever thought they'd have a kid together.

On the planet designated P3X-779, or as Jack liked to call it the Accident Waiting to Happen. Everyone on the planet had been far too friendly and so very giving, Daniel had eagerly delved into the day to day workings of the planets proceedings and dragged Teal'c alongside. Jack and Sam had simply sat back embellishing in the cuisine of the foreign planet, ultimately disobeying Jack's rule of never eating unknown food. They should have been more cautious, especially when the people had lured and locked the two in a small room. The food they had consumed had been a scared aphrodisiac that increased fertility in both partners and made it almost impossible to resist.

Nine months later the two Air Force personnel of SG1 had a bouncing baby girl, beautiful as could be. She had inherited her mother's gorgeous blue eyes and her father's once warm brunette hair, and the lovely fair skin of her mother. Which made it impossible to deny when the Air Force came snooping around, given the nature of her birth and the various amounts of support from their superiors about saving the world on ample occasions, they were let off the hook but put under serious scrutiny and surveillance.

It didn't take long for the happy new parents to realize something was terribly wrong, The nanites that had been inactivated within Jack's blood stream had integrated into the sperm that fertilized the egg from which their daughter was born. Once Annabelle Nova O'Niel-Carter had been born the nanites had reactivated immediately, and their daughter grew a year for everyday. By the time they were able to synthesize an antidote, she had aged to be ten years old and hadn't reverted back to the 10 day old she should have been. Doctors Janet Frazier, Bill Lee, and Samantha Carter worked for two years on a way to reverse the process but to no avail. Eventually they had all been ordered to give up and enjoy what time they had left with the young girl.

Annabelle or Anna as most called her (Belle was reserved for those she loved most) had to be educated at the SGC, but with the most intelligent people from all over the world educating the young girl 365 days a years, she was testing into a college level. Of course her father helped her in the sports department, her favorite, ironically being baseball, he had put her onto a local team and took her to several games before she had be removed due to excessive absences. She had been great too, a brilliant third basemen and an amazing batter.

As soon as she could speak, Samantha had began teaching her science, starting with the basics of Newton's Laws of Motion and ending with Stargate technology. Annabelle's mind was incredible to be able withhold all that information and understand it, she had even sought Jack out every time she learned something new to confuse him. That little snot would talk circles around him all day and force him to take pain killers for the massive headache, but damn was he proud. Teal'c had been her self-defense teacher as soon as she could walk, it wasn't long until Annabelle could kick her own father's ass as well as her mother's. Teal'c teachings made Jack feel a whole lot better about the impending doom of her dating years.

Annabelle was probably the most loved child in the Milky Way Galaxy with the biggest family possible. She was well love and cared for always and that is exactly what had gotten them in trouble. It would only take two minutes watching anyone interact with the girl to know that the people of the SGC adored her. Which is why she had been taken by the Goa'uld when she was little, they had had her for a little over two months before she had escaped. Her grandfather, a Tok'ra she had never met before had saved her and returned her to the SGC to discover the little girl was his granddaughter.

As relieved as the SGC had been about her return, no one dared talk to the frightened young girl until she was ready. For weeks everyone in the base had heard her blood curdling screeches as her nightmares relived the experiences she had suffered at the hands of the Goa'uld System Lords. Every night her screams rang out was another night Jack and Sam ran to the aid of their daughter to find her clawing at her own skin like it was burning her, and eventually they had learned how to treat the wounds on her forearms and minimize scarring. Soon enough the nightmares came few and far between, so she began to sleep alone instead of clinging to her father.

When she was 13 years old she was enrolled into college based on her education level, she majored in astrophysics and minored in ancient civilizations. However she flew through the classes and by 19 had a doctorate in astrophysics and was considered a linguist knowing how to formally speak 24 different languages technically 27 as she was fluent in Goa'uld and Ancient. She picked up a new major of engineering and minor of chemistry. At 20 she began her career at the SGC on Major Barrett's team SG12, she doubled as the civilian scientist as well as the linguist.

With all the training and knowledge she had received growing up she was probably the person best suited to run an operation like the SGC. She had never been hurt on an offworld mission, never taken captive (apart from the incident as a child), she was one of the SCG's best. She was the entire team of SG1 all rolled into one neat little package having been raised by the four of them. And god was she pretty, too pretty for Jack to be comfortable letting her out of the complex. She was by no means thin or fat, she had the perfect hourglass figure many women strived for, her muscles not visible but you could feel them. She always wore her soft blonde hair up in a ponytail to avoid it getting in the way and her glasses on the bridge of her nose. Her one visual flaw were those glasses that acknowledged the fact that her eyesight wasn't exactly the best, but she always chose glasses that were complimentary to her face.

She had several flaws as people do but she was still the sweetest young lady you could meet, that was enough to have her father's heart in constant worry about her innocence. She was daddy's little girl, her mother's center of pride, and the SGC's most valuable asset. When she graduated from college with two doctorates and two masters at 22 years old, her father wasn't there. It broke her heart until she found he was in stasis somewhere under the ices of Antarctica, that was when the SGC learned never to get on Annabelle's bad side.They had refused to let her anywhere near the Antarctic sight, they had been worried she might accidentally activate some ancient device. She had quite the temper and was more stubborn than a mule, she had snuck onto a chopper and ended up spending time with Daniel exploring the Ancient Outpost.

She got what she wanted and as soon the Atlantis expedition was announced to be happening. She and Daniel had worked tirelessly on discovering Atlantis and had produced a gate address for the lost city. Daniel was at the top of the list to go to Atlantis but given Daniel's importance and need on Earth he would not be going. That left her name at the top of the list of linguists to be the head of the department that is if she managed to avoid resistance from her parents.

Annabelle's loving parents who were always be her side would survive without her but it would be so much more difficult. That is why she went above her father's head and got approval from the President himself to lead the department, he also thought her wide spectrum of knowledge as well as the ancient gene she had inherited from her father made her the best candidate for the job.