Five children that were never born to members of SG-1.
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1. Clara Jackson
Shar’e wanted to start a family immediately. It was the way of things on Abydos, most young couples already growing a third before they even got married. Daniel wanted children, too, of course, but the thought of sharing his new wife and new home with a concept - fatherhood - that mostly terrified him was a little too much at once.
In that year that Daniel asked Shar’e to wait, Clara Jackson would have been conceived. Her name coming from phonetic similarity to a grandmother she could never have known and an Uncle who, given the chance, would have utterly adored her.
Daniel’s daughter would have her father’s blue eyes and her mother’s complexion, and she would have filled their hearts with so much joy.
Ammonet would have had the infant girl killed and reveled in her host’s agony.
2. Isabelle O’Neill
Jack and Sara had always planned to have more than one child. Sara because she loved being pregnant, loved her son, and loved her husband. Jack because he figured that any kid of his deserved to have a sibling with whom to share the experience of being saddled with Jack as a dad.
But something went awry with Sara’s plumbing, and after 3 years of trying the Docs said it was never going to happen again. And they were sad, but not that sad, because they had a house full of one amazing little boy.
One day, biology did its thing, and the insides that weren’t supposed to work suddenly did for just one month, and if Jack hadn’t gotten stuck in an extra long meeting and been 3 hours late, coming home when Sara was soundly asleep and not going to rouse for anything longer than a drowsy muttered greeting, they would have conceived a daughter.
They would still lose their son five years later, and it would still be horrific. They would still nearly lose their minds with grief and would still lose their marriage. The existence of their daughter would do nothing to alleviate that raw pain, but it would force them to continue living in a way that seemed impossible.
As the father of a beautiful little girl, Jack would never accept a suicide mission.
3. Britt’auc
Drey’auc was 2 months pregnant the day Teal’c betrayed their God and vanished through the Stargate with 3 human slaves.
The next day, she started bleeding, spotting that turned into rivulets, which turned into a crimson flood that the village healer can’t stop. She hadn’t known she was with child, and the loss of something she didn’t yet have is secondary to the loss of someone she did.
The child would have been a girl, and Drey’auc knows Teal’c would have asked to name her after Bra’tac. She would have obliged, and in her fantasies, her husband would have returned home immediately. There would be no consequences for his actions - he would have infiltrated the planet of those rebelling humans, and the Gods would forgive his moment of betrayal.
They would live on Chulak with their two children, and everything about their lives would continue, unchanged.
4. Michael Carter
If Sam Carter hadn’t turned down Narim’s affections, the relationship between the Tollans and Earth would have changed dramatically.
It would be slightly harder for them to overtly insult the people of earth when Narim’s wife was one of them.
And for all of their technology, for all of their insistence that the Taur’i were too dumb to be trusted with anything more than a pointy stick, none of the Tollan scientists would realize that somewhere along the evolutionary line, the Tollan humans had ceased to be compatible with the original branch.
Sam and Narim could not have viable offspring.
Their son was born weighing as much as a kitten, the size of his mother’s hand, and looking far too perfect for the number of fatal genetic traits he’d been dealt.
Dr. Fraiser and the Tollans would use -without objection - every single advanced piece of medical technology to keep him alive.
On his third day of life, his parents would let him go.
The boy who only lived three days would save his people - both of them. The relationship between the Tollans and Taur’i after his death would be that of family. Together, they would have been invincible against the Gou’ald.
5. Fraiser Carter Mitchell
Cameron Mitchell’s son would bear the name of a lady his mother loved very much, and the only unpleasant thing that ever involved him would be a few harmless comments about how his full name sounded like a law firm.
He would have been a tall strong boy like his father, brilliant like his mother, and as fearless as his namesake.
His birth would have marked the beginning of decades of peace with no alien threat and a happily ever after story for his parents that never happened.
1. Clara Jackson
Shar’e wanted to start a family immediately. It was the way of things on Abydos, most young couples already growing a third before they even got married. Daniel wanted children, too, of course, but the thought of sharing his new wife and new home with a concept - fatherhood - that mostly terrified him was a little too much at once.
In that year that Daniel asked Shar’e to wait, Clara Jackson would have been conceived. Her name coming from phonetic similarity to a grandmother she could never have known and an Uncle who, given the chance, would have utterly adored her.
Daniel’s daughter would have her father’s blue eyes and her mother’s complexion, and she would have filled their hearts with so much joy.
Ammonet would have had the infant girl killed and reveled in her host’s agony.
2. Isabelle O’Neill
Jack and Sara had always planned to have more than one child. Sara because she loved being pregnant, loved her son, and loved her husband. Jack because he figured that any kid of his deserved to have a sibling with whom to share the experience of being saddled with Jack as a dad.
But something went awry with Sara’s plumbing, and after 3 years of trying the Docs said it was never going to happen again. And they were sad, but not that sad, because they had a house full of one amazing little boy.
One day, biology did its thing, and the insides that weren’t supposed to work suddenly did for just one month, and if Jack hadn’t gotten stuck in an extra long meeting and been 3 hours late, coming home when Sara was soundly asleep and not going to rouse for anything longer than a drowsy muttered greeting, they would have conceived a daughter.
They would still lose their son five years later, and it would still be horrific. They would still nearly lose their minds with grief and would still lose their marriage. The existence of their daughter would do nothing to alleviate that raw pain, but it would force them to continue living in a way that seemed impossible.
As the father of a beautiful little girl, Jack would never accept a suicide mission.
3. Britt’auc
Drey’auc was 2 months pregnant the day Teal’c betrayed their God and vanished through the Stargate with 3 human slaves.
The next day, she started bleeding, spotting that turned into rivulets, which turned into a crimson flood that the village healer can’t stop. She hadn’t known she was with child, and the loss of something she didn’t yet have is secondary to the loss of someone she did.
The child would have been a girl, and Drey’auc knows Teal’c would have asked to name her after Bra’tac. She would have obliged, and in her fantasies, her husband would have returned home immediately. There would be no consequences for his actions - he would have infiltrated the planet of those rebelling humans, and the Gods would forgive his moment of betrayal.
They would live on Chulak with their two children, and everything about their lives would continue, unchanged.
4. Michael Carter
If Sam Carter hadn’t turned down Narim’s affections, the relationship between the Tollans and Earth would have changed dramatically.
It would be slightly harder for them to overtly insult the people of earth when Narim’s wife was one of them.
And for all of their technology, for all of their insistence that the Taur’i were too dumb to be trusted with anything more than a pointy stick, none of the Tollan scientists would realize that somewhere along the evolutionary line, the Tollan humans had ceased to be compatible with the original branch.
Sam and Narim could not have viable offspring.
Their son was born weighing as much as a kitten, the size of his mother’s hand, and looking far too perfect for the number of fatal genetic traits he’d been dealt.
Dr. Fraiser and the Tollans would use -without objection - every single advanced piece of medical technology to keep him alive.
On his third day of life, his parents would let him go.
The boy who only lived three days would save his people - both of them. The relationship between the Tollans and Taur’i after his death would be that of family. Together, they would have been invincible against the Gou’ald.
5. Fraiser Carter Mitchell
Cameron Mitchell’s son would bear the name of a lady his mother loved very much, and the only unpleasant thing that ever involved him would be a few harmless comments about how his full name sounded like a law firm.
He would have been a tall strong boy like his father, brilliant like his mother, and as fearless as his namesake.
His birth would have marked the beginning of decades of peace with no alien threat and a happily ever after story for his parents that never happened.