Season: Takes place in S. 7 after Chimera, but before Heroes
Disclaimer: Stargate SG-1 belongs to MGM, SciFi and all the other wonderful people who own it.
Author's Note: By the way, I didn't really like Sam Carter (and still don't like her very much--don't ask why) and this was my first story from a loooooong time ago, so…I'm not exceedingly nice to her in this one, though I suppose it's not terrible. I get nicer as it goes on. The writing also improves a little as you go because it only took my…oh, say, ONE AND A HALF YEARS to write, and my writing style changed over the course of it. Remember, this was my FIRST EVER fic from a REALLY, REALLY long time ago. Even I don't like it, but a few of my friends do and they told me to post it. So sorry ahead of time for, well…anything!
Whom the Gods Love Die Many Times
Or, in other words, the Really Corny, Cheesy, Plotless Story about Daniel
"Well, this is just great!" Jack O'Neill said
"I'm sorry, sir. I had no idea that there were Goa'uld here. Let alone Anubis. If I had, I never would have requested to General Hammond that we come here," Samantha Carter said defensively.
"Well, Carter, you did. And now, we're stuck here in this stupid cell, and we have no idea where Daniel and Teal'c are," Jack looked at his surroundings. He and Major Carter were trapped in a Goa'uld prison cell. They had been captured by the evil Goa'uld Anubis. They, and the two other members of their team, had been brought before the false god. He had obviously knocked them out. The next thing the colonel remembered was waking up in this cell with Carter. He had no idea where the other half of his team was.
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Daniel Jackson awoke in a dark room. He was lying on a hard rock floor. He tried to get up. Bad idea, he thought, as his arm immediately sent a searing pain throughout his body. He lay there on the ground, trying to remember what happened. He and his team had been captured. Where were they? Then, almost as if to answer his question, he heard someone stirring next to him. He looked over and saw the oldest member of their team, Teal'c. He was 104 years-old, but looked more like 36. He was Jaffa and was able to live to a very old age. He noticed that Teal'c was still out cold from whatever Anubis had done to them.
"Teal'c," he said. He was surprised at how weak he sounded, but apparently it was enough to wake his friend.
"Daniel Jackson," Teal'c answered. He sounded even worse than Daniel, which was odd because, usually, Teal'c was a strong warrior. However, he had become more susceptible to injury and disease since he began using Tratonan rather than having his immature Goa'uld symbiote as all Jaffa do.
"Teal'c, do you know what happened?" Daniel asked.
"Indeed I do not," he said.
"Well, are you hurt?" Daniel asked, but immediately afterward thought to himself 'Duh! He sounds worse than I do, and if he was not hurt, he usually wasn't lying around on cold, hard dungeon floors. Dumb question.'
"I believe that I have received a staff weapon blast on my right shoulder, Daniel Jackson. Are you injured as well?" He inquired.
Daniel tried to figure out what to say as an answer. It was obvious that he was hurt, but he didn't know where or how he got it. He decided to grab his bad arm with the other one and immediately found the source. "Yeah, I think I've been hit, too."
"Do you know the location of O'Neill and Major Carter?"
"No, I was just about to ask you that."
"Then my answer would be no, also, Daniel Jackson."
"Yes, thank you, Teal'c for clarifying."
"You are welcome Daniel Jackson."
"I was being sarcastic, Teal'c. You know like Jack...never mind. We should try to find a way out of this."
Daniel once again attempted to rise, but was this time slowed down by his left leg. 'Oh, great, more injuries.' He lay back down and looked over at Teal'c "Can you get up?"
"I believe that I can, Daniel Jackson." He almost instantaneously rose to a sitting position. Then, with some effort, managed to lift himself with his left, uninjured arm. In a few moments the Jaffa was towering over Daniel in a standing position. " Do you require my assistance, Daniel Jackson?"
Daniel looked up at him in awe. How had this guy, who was obviously injured more than Daniel two minutes ago, suddenly recovered from his injury? Well, thought Daniel, this is just great.
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"Carter, are you going to help me, or not?" Colonel O'Neill barked at his second-in-command. He was searching the walls around them for some way out of the cell.
"It's no use, sir. The Goa'uld usually don't make it anywhere near possible to escape from their prisons. We're better off if we just wait here for someone to come check up on us," If anyone does check up on us, she thought.
"Well at least I'm trying." Jack yelled back in frustration. She was probably right, for once.
Suddenly, they heard something coming from the front of the cell. They both turned to see Anubis come into the prison.
"Well, I see you two have awoken," Anubis said in the unnatural Goa'uld voice. "I'll bet you are pondering where the other two are."
Jack and Sam stared at him for a while. "What did you do to them?" Jack said unkindly.
"Why, I have done nothing to them." He said simply.
"Don't give me that. Where are they?"
"They, like you, are in a prison cell."
"Okay. Why aren't they with us?"
"Because, I have different plans for the Shol'va and the once-ascended being Daniel Jackson than I do for you." He said with an evil tone of voice.
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Daniel had finally been able to rise to his feet with some help from Teal'c. He and the Jaffa were searching for any possible escape route. So far, they had been unsuccessful. Daniel figured the only reason Teal'c had sounded worse than him earlier was because, he was just tired from being awoken by Daniel. Daniel had discovered that he had been shot with a staff weapon in his arm and his leg. Teal'c was helping Daniel move around the cell to stretch.
"Well, Teal'c, I don't think we're going to have much luck in escaping," Daniel said.
"I believe you are correct, Daniel Jackson," he responded.
Then, they both turned around to see Anubis stride into their cell. "Hello, Daniel Jackson and Shol'va. I am quite pleased to see that you have risen."
Daniel and Teal'c glared at him. Finally, Teal'c managed to say, "What have you done with our comrades?"
"They are in a prison not far from here. I have already explained to them what will be done to you. If you would like to see them again, come this way," he said and exited the cell to the right.
Daniel and Teal'c stared at him in angry confusion until he rounded the corner. Then, they looked at each other, recognizing that this was a very subtle hint to follow him. Seeing no other alternative, Teal'c propped Daniel up on his left arm, and the two followed Anubis down the dark passageway.
Finally, They stopped in front of a cell wall. Anubis seemed to just move his hand across the doorway, and it swung open. Inside were Jack O'Neill and Samantha Carter, looking back at them with wide, fearful eyes.
"Jack, Sam," Daniel managed to whisper. The long walk down the halls had not helped his injuries one bit.
"Daniel," they said in unison. They sounded somewhat scared, but also relieved.
"O'Neill, Major Carter, are you injured, also?"
"No," they replied simply. They seemed even more fearful at this question.
"What's the matter, guys? What's going on?"
The other two looked at each other with wide eyes. Finally, Anubis said, "Go ahead. In fact, I would rather have you tell them than I."
Finally, after a few painful glances at one another, Jack started explaining what was going to happen. "Well, ole Anubis over here says that he's going to question Carter and me about the usual Earth, Tau'ri info. You know the cliche, What are the Earth coordinates, how do you get through the iris, that kind of stuff. But the catch is that every time we refuse to answer, Anubis will torture one of you. He chose to torture you two because, well, Teal'c deserted the Goa'uld and "needs to be punished" and Daniel, you ascended, where as Anubis only managed to ascend for a little while before being kinda' half-way outcast by the Ancients," after saying this he immediately turned toward Anubis and stuck his tongue out in a "Ha, ha, my friend was cool enough to ascend and you weren't", fashion. "He thinks that seeing you guys in that much pain will make us talk." He never said that it was true or not, but the other two could tell by the look on his face that it was definitely going to complicate matters.
"Oh, well, that's wonderful," Daniel said sarcastically.
"Daniel Jackson, I do not see how you and I being tortured to extract information from O'Neill and Major Carter is wonderful," Teal'c said.
Daniel opened his mouth to explain, but gave it up and just rolled his eyes. "Forget it Teal'c."
Then, Anubis said, "Why don't we begin now?" Then with an evil smirk (or at least he would have if he had a mouth.) he told one of his Jaffa to tie up Daniel and Teal'c. The two struggled, of course, but in their weakened states and being outnumbered, they finally gave in to the chains on the wall opposite Jack and Sam.
As soon as Anubis was satisfied that his torture victims were securely in place, he started his questioning.
"Tell me, what are the codes that you put in this 'GDO' to open your Tau'ri 'iris'?"
Colonel O'Neill and Major Carter glanced nervously at each other, trying to think of what to do. Finally, Carter said, "We're never going to tell you!"
At this remark, Anubis signaled to one of his guards. The Jaffa turned around to Daniel and Teal'c. Then he picked up his Zat Gun and fired it at Teal'c, most likely because Daniel was already injured in two places, whereas Teal'c was only injured in one. The blue, electrical charges swirled around him painfully, until he fell limp on the chains.
"I would not joke with you. I told you that I would torture them if you did not tell me the information I wanted. Now tell me the codes."
Carter and O'Neill stared at Teal'c for a while, trying to avoid answering Anubis' question long enough for the first blast to wear off, so that the next time they shot him, it wouldn't kill him. Obviously, Anubis sensed this and yelled, "Tell me now, or I will shoot him again."
O'Neill finally said, "Okay. You know what? I don't think I'm in the mood to give away our secret codes to some mean, evil bad guy. Why don't you come back later and try again?"
"Your proposal amuses me. Perhaps I shall be gracious enough to give you and your team some time alone to say good-bye to one another. It will be quite amusing to observe how the Tau'ri handle the fact that they are going to die no matter what," he said, turning his head to Daniel's position in particular. Daniel glowered back at him. "I will go, but know this. There is no escape and I will return." With that, he turned abruptly and strode out of the cell, leaving only two Jaffa to guard the entrance of the cell.
Daniel glowered at Anubis until he was out of sight. Then he sat on the dungeon floor to stop his left leg from throbbing uncontrollably. He looked over at Teal'c, who had just recently awoken from the Zat Gun.
As soon as he noticed Teal'c was up, O'Neill said, "We're really sorry, Teal'c. I wish I could have done something to stop that stupid Anubis." He looked apologetically at his friend.
"You had no choice, O'Neill. If I was faced with that situation, I would have made the same decision."
"Well, gee, thanks, Teal'c. Now I know who NOT to get captured and tortured with."
"As do I O'Neill."
Even though Daniel thought Jack and Teal'c's little exchanges were quite amusing, they weren't exactly the last things he wanted to hear while he was alive. "Guys quit it. We should be figuring out what to do, not cracking jokes at one another. Okay, so how do we solve this problem?" he asked and looked around. Everyone else looked nervously at each other. They honestly had no idea what to do.
"Um, to be honest with you, Daniel, I have no idea," Carter said stupidly.
"Oh, shut up, Carter, we'll think of something," the rarely optimistic Colonel O'Neill said. But this was much easier said than done. He knew it was up to him to find a way to get his two friends out of this predicament because, Carter certainly was not going to be much help with her pessimistic outlook.
"Well, we could try to escape from here, find our stuff, and blow the compound," he said.
Daniel managed a weak chuckle, "Yes, very realistic plan, Jack."
"Well, it's worked before. Remember that one time on Apophis' ship? We all went and helped blow it up thanks to your little trip to another dimension."
"Yeah, but if you recall, I got shot, and we all almost blew up with the ship. Besides, we weren't captured then, either."
"A lot you know. For your information, Teal'c and I were both captured."
"But, the other half of the team was able to save you. I don't see that happening in this situation, considering we're all captured."
"Mr. Negative." Colonel O'Neill said, bringing back one of Daniel's many nicknames.
"Oh, don't start with that again."
SG-1 continued on like that for a while. Reminiscing old journeys while trying to cook up a decent escape plan. After several minutes, they all agreed that their situation was just about as hopeless as they come, and gave up to just remembering old times, with just a little glimmer of hope that Hammond may yet send a rescue team for them. Although, considering where they were, that team would likely just get captured as well.
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One hour later, Anubis came promptly waltzing into the cell. "I have given you enough time with one another. I expect that due to my kindness in letting you be alone for a while, you will cooperate better then you did last time."
"Oh, please. You gave us an hour, and we weren't really alone. We had a guard watching outside the door, and I'll bet you were monitoring us the whole time. We aren't going to give you any information," Colonel O'Neill said stubbornly.
"That is too bad for your friends, Colonel O'Neill. For they will be the ones to pay for your foolishness."
Daniel, who was getting worse from his wounds, looked over hesitantly at Teal'c. Teal'c looked his way, too, but did nothing more but cock his head and raise his eyebrow. It was obvious to Daniel that Teal'c was not afraid. He, however, was not so keen to die...again. But, he figured that if he was to die, it might as well be bravely, staring down at the evil Goa'uld Anubis.
Once again, he started his questioning. "Tell me the coordinates of Earth."
Both O'Neill and Carter (surprisingly) did not say a word. So, Anubis gave the signal. A Jaffa went up to Daniel and held a staff weapon to his chest. "Tell me now, or he dies!"
Jack and Sam stared with concern over at Daniel, who was busy glaring at Anubis. Still, they refused to talk.
Fed up with the humans, Anubis signaled again. Daniel stared at the Jaffa in terror as the staff weapon shot out a blast of energy. Daniel's body hung limp on the chains. He was dead.
"Daniel!" Jack cried. But it was too late. He knew it was. He turned with fury in his watering eyes to Anubis. "You stupid & idiot. Why did you do that?"
"I told you that they would pay for your stubbornness." Then, he looked at Daniel. He pointed to a Jaffa and said something in Goa'uld. "I will be back to question you further later." The Jaffa took Daniel's body off of the wall and carried their lifeless friend through the halls behind Anubis. The dungeon doors shut.