Daniel regained consciousness and sat up slowly. He saw Candice next to him also waking up. He looked around for Teal'c but did not see him. "Candice are you okay?"

"I think so, what was that?"

"I don't know, do you see Teal'c?"

"No."

Daniel and Candice both tried their radios to find them not functioning, "Probably fried by whatever that light was."

"Daniel we should probably head back to the gate and see if we can find the others."

Daniel stood up and took one last look around, "Yeah, lets go."

They quickly searched the remaining ruins for any signs of Teal'c without success.

"Daniel."

"Yeah, Candice."

"Where are the birds?"

Daniel looked around puzzled. There had been some large flocks of a goose-like bird gathered around in the field near the ruins. Now there was no sign of them.

"I don't know. Let's head back to the gate. See if we can find Sam and Jack. Then we can search for Teal'c."

They quickly reached the Stargate and the silence was almost eerie. When they had arrived the planet reverberated with the sounds of birds, insects, and animals, now there nothing, not even a cricket.

Their biggest surprises in store actually hit them when they reached the gate itself. The MALP was missing. And there was a ton of leaf litter and sand blown around covering the ramp to the gate, and the DHD was also coated with a layer of dirt and debris. For all intents and purposes it appeared that the gate hadn't been activated in a very very long time.

Daniel tried dialing Earth and the found that the DHD did nothing. Not even a flicker.

As the implications of the situation hit them both Candice went and sat on the edge of the ramp and looked around with wide eyes, trying to sort out what could possibly have happened.

Candice was trying to observe everything and compare it to when they first exited the gate earlier while Daniel tried fruitlessly to get the DHD to respond.

Finally exhausted as night began falling, they sat with their backs up against a tree within sight of the gate. They each ate an energy bar and took stock of what they had for supplies in their packs at Candice's insistence.

"I've got three days worth of MRE's and four more energy bars Daniel. What do you have?" Candice asked in a tired voice.

"The same, plus six chocolate bars. I don't think we're going to be here long enough to worry about supplies Candice. When we miss our deadline tomorrow they will dial up the planet and send a probe through."

She closed her eyes and leaned her head back against the coarse bark of the tree, "My dad always used to say 'know what you have and know what you need'. I must have heard that saying a million times growing up. I just never really got it until right now."

"We'll find the others tomorrow or they will find us. Sam will be able to figure out what's wrong with the DHD."

"If we're on the same planet."

That made Daniel sit up straight and he asked, "What makes you say that?"

She opened her eyes and started ticking things off on her fingers, "Number one, bright yellow light that knocks us unconscious and fries the radios. Two, our teammates are missing. Three, the only footprints visible in the temple and ruins were the ones we made when we woke up. There was no sign that we or Teal'c was ever there. Four, all the wildlife has disappeared. Five, the condition of the gate and DHD and the fact the DHD won't operate. Shall I go on?"

Daniel could have smacked himself for missing all of that; he had been so concerned with finding the rest of the team and the DHD that he was oblivious to all the rest.

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After a sleepless night worrying followed by two more days of fruitless searching and dialing attempts Daniel and Candice sat down to try and make a plan.

Both of them were tired, stressed, and hungry as they were rationing what supplies they had. And they were starting to get snippy with each other.

Daniel sat with his head resting on his bent knees, "We need a plan."

Candice was lying flat on her back with her hands over her face, "Yeah."

Daniel went into team-leader mode and started rattling off tasks that needed to be done, assigning all of them to himself. Candice let him finish then sat up and asked, "Done?"

Surprised at her tone, Daniel raised an eyebrow in response.

"There are two of us Daniel. You don't have to do everything yourself you know. And maybe asking my opinion every now and then might help." Candice understood the chain of command concept. And she also understood that Daniel had much more experience in off-world situations. But what she wasn't tolerating was being subjugated to a childlike position. She did have things to contribute, and knowledge of her own to offer. But he wasn't giving her the opportunity.

"Okay. And what would you have us do?" he asked, his tone a bit snarky.

"Well for starters I would let the botanist among us handle the food foraging. Especially since one of said botanist's doctorates was based on the study of how native people safely find new sources of food without killing themselves. Second, I would send the archeologist back to the temple to see if there are any clues as to how we can get off this damn planet. But that's just my opinion Daniel."

Daniel plunked his head back down on his knees. He had been remiss in not remembering her skill set, and he had regulated her into a subordinate position without really thinking, "I'm sorry. I'm just…well, I can't get rid of this headache for starters."

"Me too. I think it's caffeine withdrawal. The coffee was on the MALP."

"Don't remind me. But I bet you're right."

The tension between them eased. It would be bad enough to be stuck on this planet, it would be worse if the only other person stuck with you was angry with you.

"Daniel, if I were to tell you I'm a little scared would you think less of me?"

He looked over at her and saw her nervously biting her bottom lip. Impulsively he took her hand, he realized that he and the other members of SG-1 were used to being in bizarre situations like this one, but Candice wasn't.

"We'll be alright Candice. SG-1 has been in worse situations."

His holding her hand reassured Candice. She hadn't realized how disconnected she had been feeling. It was as if this was all a bad dream and nothing was real. The warmth of his hand grounded her and brought her back to reality.

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"Oh hell Daniel, what did you touch now?" Jack growled as he looked at the prone bodies of Daniel and Candice on the floor of the temple.

Jack and Sam had witnessed the amazing flash of yellow light and realizing it emanated from the temple they had high-tailed it there. They found Teal'c alive but unconscious. He was just starting to rouse as they got there.

Daniel and Candice were another story entirely. They were side by side on the floor of the temple, enveloped in a beam of yellow light originating from the pictograph of the seasons that they had been admiring.

They could see them breathing and Sam started taking readings to see if they could determine what was happening to their teammates.

Jack wanted to pull them out of the beam, but Sam stopped him, "I wouldn't, Sir. Look at their eyes, it's almost as if they are in a REM state. I don't know what pulling them out could do to them, Sir."

"Damn it." Was Jack's flat response.

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