Fallen Angel Chapter Two- Revealed

Daniel rolled over and moaned. He'd done it again, fell asleep working. 'I guess coffee isn't what it used to be' he thought to himself. He shifted into a more comfortable position and started to try and work the kink out of his neck. He thought back to the dream he had had during his slumber, it was not like any other dream he had before, it was not about his strife and troubles that came with Sha'res death or his previous ascension. It was…good. He felt warm, protected. There was a girl, he couldn't place her though. She seemed close, but he didn't know from where. She had said something, at first he didn't comprehend what she had said, then he realised what she had said 'Sleep well Daniel, I will watch over you, my love for you will keep you safe'. Who was she? What did she mean?

He looked at his watch and realised he had been asleep for hours, and he was due off world in just over 6 hours. "Better get a shower" he pulled himself up off his chair and made his way to the locker rooms, thinking no more of his dream and the girl, only of the warm shower, the tension releasing from his neck and the new planet he was about to explore.

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"Well the hell is he?" Jack paced the gate room, yet again waiting for Daniel to come running through at the last possible second clutching his bag and trying to dress in his off world gear whilst apologising for being late.

Cater watched her commanding officer wondering what the hurry could be. Teal'c, she noticed was also observing O'Neill, raising his eyebrow and cocking his head to one side.

"O'Neill, why do you feel to need to hurry? Is this mission not a standard recon? There is no where important that we should be according to General Hammonds memo."

O'Neill momentarily stopped pacing and turned to Teal'c, "It's Tuesday Teal'c" Teal'c, looked at O'Neill and raised his eyebrow "Tuesday Teal'c! If we're not back by 7 I'm going to shoot Daniel"

'Tuesday? What could be so important that it had got him pacing? The last time the colonel got this uptight was when he didn't set his video….' Then it dawned on Carter.

"The Simpsons? Sir, why haven't you just set your video?"

"Because…" but before Jack could explain Daniel came running through the door and into the gate room desperately trying not to drop his gear, as usual "Ah, Danny boy, nice of you to join us!"

"Yeah, sorry, had a shower, took a bit longer than I planned." Daniel finished straightening out his uniform as Jack gave the signal to Sgt Harriman to start the dialling sequence "And I'm sure we will be back in time for the Simpsons"

Jack raised a hand and started to say something to Daniel but the whoosh of the gate opening cut him off, Daniel gave him a grin and started up the ramp followed by Teal'c and Carter. 'we'd better be back in time for the Simpsons, or I really will shoot him' Jack thought as he followed the rest of his team through the wormhole.

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"Welcome to planet P77-8YX, My name is Jack and I'll be your colonel today, please keep your hands on guns, and eyes peeled for hostiles, thank you for flying with Stargate Airways, and have a nice mission" Daniel shook his head at Jack and started off towards what looked like some very old ruins of a possible village whilst Carter got out her 'doohickeys' and started to investigate the planets atmosphere. "Teal'c hows about we go and find the locals?"

Teal'c scanned his surroundings and replied "I do not believe there is any life on this planet O'Neill, the is no apparent usage of this area for many years."

O'Neill turned round and also scanned the area and seen pretty much what the MALP had relayed back to the SGC, trees, ruins, more trees and oh look more trees. "well how about we scout around and see if we can find anything interesting, Carter, keep an eye on Daniel, you know what he is like." Carter smiled and nodded her head slightly, "yes sir". "Me and T are gonna go and see what we can find."

Daniel couldn't believe his eyes, he was correct, which most of the time he was, then this area used to be an historical monument of sorts, the whole history of the planet seemed to be here. This would hopefully explain what happened to the people who used to occupy the planet and where they are, what happened to them. He skimmed over the text and came across the word 'Lican' numerous times, most likely the name of the civilisation who occupied here. He read on further and came across another word numerous times, at first he wasn't sure what it meant but then , after reading on further he found the answer he was looking for. "Oh no" he leapt up and span round to tell Sam what he had discovered but stopped dead in his tracks.

"Do not run, I mean not to harm you"

Daniel took a step back and looked at the girl standing before him, she was tall, slim with reddish hair that hung around her shoulders in two bunches, curls trailing across her face. Her pale blue dress lay motionless in the breeze, she smiled and took a step forward.

"Er, hello, my name is…"

"Daniel Jackson, from earth."

"Er, yes how did you know that?" he looked into her deep green eyes and studied them, "I know you don't I? I've seen you before somewhere."

"Be careful Daniel"

Daniel looked at the girl, trying to comprehend what was going on, "Wait, what do you mean? Please…explain." the girl looked at him and he could have sworn he could see a sad glint in her eyes "tell me what you mean" Daniel looked around to see if he could see Sam "Sam, Sam, where are you? Sam come here" the girl gave Daniel a small smile and turned away and started to walk away. "Wait…"

Sam heard Daniel calling her name and made her way over to where she last seen him, by the ruins, 'surely he hasn't got into trouble looking at some ruins "Daniel are you ok?" she broke into a jog and moved quickly over to the ruins, turning the corner she found Daniel staring into space , no he wasn't staring, he was looking, but for what? "Daniel? Daniel? Are you ok? What happened?"

Daniel stood memorised for a few seconds, but Sam's voice pulled him out of the trance he was in, "oh er Sam, yeah I'm ok, I just er, I er found something you might be interested in. It's over here, I found it whilst reading the ruins." Daniel pointed over to the section of writing he was reading before the girl appeared. Sam moved over to the ruin and looked carefully at the section which was of interest. "if you look at the 2nd paragraph there is a word in a type of bold writing, at first I thought it was the name of the planet, but then I put the sentence into context and what I found was rather interesting.

Sam followed Daniel's fingers down to the point the referred to, it made no sense to her, but she could tell from the look on his face it was important. "what does it say?"

Daniel took in a deep breath, "Oma" Sam looked at his face and could tell there was more to come, " It says that Oma came from a distant place and 'chose' a group of people to take to what I can only translate as 'paradise'. My guess is that they ascended."

Sam took in what Daniel had just said then reached for her radio, "Sir, you'd better come back to the Stargate, Daniels found something you will want to see."

Jack shrugged his shoulders at Teal'c "Okay Carter, Teal'c and I are on our way back."

"Yes sir." Sam turned back to Daniel, "So, you think that is where you think the population went? They all ascended?" Daniel, still studying the ruins shook his head. For some reason this didn't quite make sense to him. Oma had never before done this and left proof, mystery was more her thing. Unless, the girl, she could have contacted the living, told them what happened, she could have been one of the chosen perhaps.

"So Daniel, what have you found, a super weapon perhaps? The answer to the meaning of life maybe?" Jack hopped over the ruin wall and landed next to Daniel who was still reading the text, his mind taking in everything.

Daniel met Jack's gaze looking into his eyes, not quite knowing how to tell him what he had seen, what he had found. "Jack I know where the civilisation went, or at least part of them. From what is written here I can assume that most of the population died from a plague of some sorts.."

"Woah, did you say plague? You tell me this now?"

"Don't worry Jack this was hundreds of years ago. Its what happened to the rest of the population that intrigues me. It is noted here that a visitor came and took them to 'paradise'. Jack I think they ascended."

" So its not like we haven't seen anything like this before. Hell, you ascended yourself."

"Yeah but the thing is Jack, they left a name, the name of the 'visitor'. That in itself is highly unusual. We've came across text before saying the population had ascended, but never specifics."

Jack took a moment to think, he took of his hat and rubbed his hair, " So Daniel, what exactly are you saying? What is so important about this name?"

"Jack, I believe that the ascended came back and informed the others of what happened. And..I er think they, or at least someone is still here."

Jack looked at carter and shrugged his shoulders, "Daniel, what makes you think 'they' are still here? And who was it that ascended them. Please tell me ol' snake head didn't have anything to do with it."

"No, Anubis couldn't have done this, it says here it was Oma. And I think that someone is still here because I seen them. I seen her."

Jack wasn't quite sure for a minute what Daniel had just said, he was sure he just heard Daniel say he had seen her. But the look on Daniel's face was telling him he wasn't going deaf or losing the plot, Daniel really had said he had seen this ascended being. Teal'c too was unsure of a the validity of Dr Jackson's statement and Sam was wondering why Daniel didn't say anything to her first, but know she knew what he was looking for or at.

"Come on Daniel, I think we'd better get back to base, perhaps they're still is some kinds plague here that makes you see things, get Doc Fraiser to take a look. Carter, dial the gate."

"Jack I'm not ill and I'm not seeing things, she really was here."

"Why don't we let doc decide that."

Dammit Jack why wont you believe me. She was here, I know it. I've seen her before, I'm not crazy, I'm not.

'Daniel…'