Father Mountain,

Mother Star

Disclaimer: I got this idea while looking at the 'Xander's Real Family/Father' challenge over on Twisting The Hellmouth and since I don't think this has ever been done before, it should be a unique and fun idea. This is post 'Chosen' for Buffy and post the 'Avalon' two parter for Stargate: SG-1.


August 2005

"What the Hell!?" Asked a stunned Major General Jack O'Neill as he found himself somewhere that wasn't a hallway at the Pentagon.

"Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree there." Declared another figure, this one a young man with an eyepatch and looking everywhere in a cautious manner.

Around them, the onlookers were as surprised as the two men were and while one of them wasn't sure of things, the older of the two realized where they were. "Jack? What are you doing here!?" Asked a Blonde curly haired woman seconds later as she rushed up to him thanks to being told of his surprise arrival.

"I… I honestly don't know, Laira." Jack told her before guiltily looking away from her.

"Where exactly is here?"

"The planet called Edora, Dweeb." Came a female voice and said owner of the voice appeared before them.

This did not make the eye patch wearing man happy as he took a step back and pointed at her. "You have no right to her face!" Snarled the dark haired man unhappily.

His words confusing everyone else and when the woman in white approached the younger man and touched him, the confusion grew even more. "Uhh, are you one of those Ancients?"

"You're, you're real?" Came the younger man's shocked question and getting a smile from the woman in white.

"I am, Xander. And no, I'm not one of those dorks but I am part of another bunch of higher plane types known as The Powers That Be."

Jack raised his eyebrows as the confusion grew even more for Laira and the others. The one known as Xander then ended up hugging the short haired Brunette in white, who fondly rolled her eyes at the whole thing as she returned the hug. "Knowing you're okay makes a little of the weight I feel on my chest go away, Cordy." Murmured the younger man allowed as they pulled apart.

"You probably won't be feeling that way once I drop some news on you, Dorkus."

"I take it Jack will be feeling the same way since he is here as well?" Asked Laira, whom was keeping some distance from Jack for that matter while the various onlookers decided to move on with their business.

For his long silence from her life after the death of their child had long hurt her. Something she didn't realize that Jack himself was feeling some guilt over as it had long made him feel like an ass since Laira never had deserved that. "And you too as well, Laira." Declared the woman known as Cordy and surprising Laira in the process.

"Me?"

"Yeah, you. So I'm gonna cut right to the chase with you three. Jack, Laira, you two never actually lost your son. Xander, Tony and Jessica aren't your parents. These two are."

Not too surprisingly, an explosion of shocked exclaimations and denials were heard while Cordy briefly snapped her fingers. The action unlocking the truth that Jack and Laira's child hadn't died at child birth and actually, had been taken by a cruel being of considerable power that also ensured the two wouldn't be seeing much of one another after screwing with them even more. "But… But how is this young man our son? I do not understand." Laira said tearfully as she was wrapped up in a tearful Jack's arms.

Who also wanted to know that answer himself. "Yeah, I'm kinda not getting that either, Cordy."

Cordelia gave her ex a sad smile before continuing further. "A lower being decided to screw with these two for its own shits and giggles and you were actually born to them in 2001, Xander. But that asshole took you from them and put you in the past with the Harris'."

"Time travel." Muttered Jack unhappily while wanting to find the bastard who had screwed with him, Laira, and their son and do some major damage!

"Okay… Either I'm having a really bad dream right now or this is some kinda sick joke."

Sighing but not being surprised by Xander's refusal to believe, Cordelia snapped her fingers again and Xander jerked in surprise as he saw the truth thanks to her. Causing him to look at Jack and Laira in shock. "Son of a bitch…"

What happened next surprised the one eyed man as Laira would rush to him and hug him tearfully as Cordelia and Jack watched on. Jack himself unable to move as he took in the sight in front of him as Laira also began to thank Cordelia for giving her son back to her.


Author's Notes: I may do more with this but we'll see.