As the Christmas break was coming to an end as much fun as things were at Grimmauld place they were looking forward to returning to Hogwarts for the rest of the year, except for Harry as he was worried about leaving Sirius alone with Kreacher; who had been found in the attic clutching some family treasures.

Then one day something that made Harry dread returning to Hogwarts even more happened. Jake and Ron were playing wizard chess and Harry was giving him some pointers when he needed them. Jake wasn't doing to badly and he was just about to put Ron into check when Mrs. Weasly came in and told them that Snape was in the kitchen and wanted to see Harry and Jake.

As they made their way down they wondered what was so urgent that Snape had to see them here, Harry said that it was probably because he got a T in potions. Jake didn't think that was the case as he was doing pretty well in it.

When they got down there both Snape and Sirius were there. Snape turned to them and said "Potter, O'Neill sit down"

Jake grabbed a chair and turned it around backwards, Snape looked at him and said "will you sit properly"

Jake looked at him and said "as we are not in school right now no"

Sirius was about to interrupt when Snape said "I was supposed to see the two of you alone but Black..."

"I'm Harry's Godfather", said Sirius.

"And Mr. O' Neill has no one here to watch his back" said Snape coldly, "anyway I am here on Dumbledore's orders, but by all means stay and feel useful."

Sirius was noticeably upset by that, Snape then turned his gaze back to Harry and said "The Headmaster has sent me to tell you, Potter, that it is his wish for you to study Occlumency at this term."

"Study what" asked Harry blankly.

"Occlumency, Potter. The Magical defence of the mind against external penetration, an obscure branch of magic, but a highly useful one."

Harry then asked why he had to study it and Snape explained that Dumbledore believed it was a good idea and that he would be taking private lesson and that he wasn't to tell Umbrige and that he would be teaching him.

Jake then looked over at Snape and asked "and what does this have to do with me?"

Snape sneered at him and said "the Headmaster has also requested that you be present as well."

He then told them that he expected to see them both at 6 o'clock on Monday evening.

Then Sirus threatened Snape that if he was in anyway using the Occlumency lessons to give Harry a hard time he would have him to answer too. Snape also toyed with him about Lucius Malfoy recognising in his dog form at Kings cross back in September.

Just then the two of them pulled out their wands out and were about to duel each other, when Mr and Mrs Weasly came in. Mr. Weasly also announced that he had been fully cured.

As Snape left he remained Jake and Harry that he would see them at 6 o'clock on Monday night.

"So what was going on here?" asked Mr. Weasly

"Not much Arthur just some catching up with some old school friends" said Sirius, "so your cured, that's great news."

"Yes isn't it?" said Mrs. Weasly leady her Husband to a chair. "Healer Smethwhyck worked his magic in the end and found an antidote to whatever poison was in the snakes fangs and Arthur has learned his lesson about dabbling in Muggle medicine, haven't you, dear?" she added rather menacingly.

"Yes, Molly, Dear" said Mr Weasly meekly.

Jake looked over at her and said "again what is wrong with Muggle remedies. Think about this we use pens and paper to write with, hell we use computers too, well Wizards and Witches, still use Quills, Ink and Parchment. We stopped using those hundreds of years ago and you're the one who says were not advanced."

He then stormed out of the room, Molly looked hurt by what he had said and was about to say something to Harry when he turned to her and said "Jake can be a little sensitive about people thinking they are superior to other people sometimes, it's hard to explain and I'm not really sure if I can. It might be best to leave him alone for a bit."

Molly nodded as she knew what it was like with teenage boys when they have a fight with someone they need some time to cool off, before an adult talked to them.

As Jake stormed off you could hear the screams of Mrs. Black's portrait about filth and mudbloods in her house. Sirus went to calm her down.

After a few minutes Molly decided to see if she could talk to Jake and apologise to him about what she said. She went up to the boys room and knocked on the door, Jake said "come in" and he seemed a little bit calmer now.

When she entered she saw Jake sitting in the middle of the room cross-legged with his eyes closed, she walked over to him and said "Jake can we talk."

Jake opened his eyes and said "Yeah ok, I just needed some time alone, and I want to say I'm sorry for what I said to you in the kitchen."

She then pulled him into a hug and said "Dumbledore and Harry told me a few things about you and how you don't really like it when people act like they are soupier to someone else. Also I'd like to apologize to you too, I guess I just don't understand Muggles and why they do thing the way they do. It must be the same for Muggle borns that come into our world too."

Jake looked up and her and said "thanks for the hug and apology accepted. So what has Dumbledore told you about me?"

Mrs, Weasly then told him that Dumbledore had told him a few things in private; she told him that she knew that he was a clone of a United Sates Air Force Corneal and that he had all of the memories of him and she said that it must be hard to have memories of things that happened to someone else as she couldn't imagine what it would be like.

Jake then told her "it was hard at first getting used to it but now I don't really think of them too much unless something that happens to me reminds me of one of them. Also thanks again for the Hug; I don't really get hugged by someone in a mum like way that often. One of the last times I was hugged like that was by Mrs. Harman, the woman who owns the apartment I rent in Colorado; she gave me one well I was recovering from Tonsillitis and a double ear infection last Christmas."

Mrs. Weasly then said to him "she must love you like a son to look after you like that. I guess it's the same way I look at Harry that way too. Now come on downstairs with me its dinner and you don't want it to get cold."

Jake got up and said "I'll be right down I need to feed Charlie first."

After Jake had feed Charlie he followed Mrs Weasly into the kitchen where everyone was sitting at the table.

After dinner Harry, Ron, Hermione and Jake went up to the boys' room and discuses about what Snape had to say to Harry and Jake. Harry told them about having to take Occlumency lessons with him. Hermione suggested that it was because Dumbledore wanted Harry to stop having those weird dreams. Jake was actually wondering if they were dreams or if they were something else.

They next morning after Breakfast they were all accompanied on the Knight Bus by Tonks and Lupin. On their way out Sirius gave Harry a small package and told him that it was something he could use if Snape really bothers him. Also on their way out Mrs. Weasly hugged Harry and told him to take care, she also hugged Jake and asked him to keep an eye on Ron when he had the chance.

Tonks was dressed and looked like someone's grandmother. Unfortunately there were no seats for all of them together they had to split up Harry, Ron, Jake and Hermione all ended up towards the front on the third deck well Tonks was close to the stairs on that level, with Ginny and everyone else found seats on the bottom level.

When they finally got to Hogwarts they got off the bus at the gates. On their way up the somewhat slippery slope of the roadway up to the castle they talked about how they never wanted to ride the Knight bus again, Jake thought it was worse than his first trip through the Stargate or flying upside down at speed in an X -302. Charlie didn't look to happy about the trip either.

The next Morning Jake began his usually routine at Hogwarts with a morning run, this morning it was just him Harry and Charlie, no one else so they were free to discus whatever they like, mostly it was about Snape and what would be happening later that night.

As the day went on a number of the DA members came up to Harry and asked when the next meeting was. As Cho approached Harry at one point Jake turned to Ron and Hermione and said "I think we need to go to the Library."

Cho came up to him and asked him if he had a good Christmas and if he had seen the notice about the next Hogsmeade visit, coincidently it was on Valentine's Day. When Cho mentioned this to Harry he for some reason Harry asked her if she wanted to know when the next DA meeting was. As she walked away he realised that she wanted him to ask her out that weekend. He caught up to her and asked her out.

As the evening approached Jake and Harry began to start dreading there "remedial potions' with Snape. They made their way down to Snape's office in the dungeons of the castle. When they arrived in the office they saw two chairs in front of Snape's Desk which had a pensive a roll of dangerous and odd looking tools, amongst them was Snape's wand as well. Jake was sure that Snape had done that to intimidated them, for once it was working on Jake as it reminded him of the time that Jack had been tortured by Ba'al, when he had also laid out the instruments of torture he intended to use, however unlike then Jake knew that there would be major consequences for Snape if he tried anything like that.

Snape then began to explain that "the Dark Lord" was extremely skilled at Leglimency which enabled a Witch or Wizard the ability to read someone else's memories and feelings. He then explained that normally it could be done by line of site, but for some unknown reason the normal rules didn't seem to apply to Harry as somehow he had ended up inside of Voldemort's mind when he was possessing his snake on the night that Mr. Weasly was attacked.

After Snape used his wand to empty some of his memories into the pensive on the desk, he noticed that he didn't give them the opportunity to do the same. Snape then instructed Harry to stand up and use his wand to do whatever he needed to do to defined himself as he was going to attempt to break into Harry's mind.

He first saw memories from when Harry was 5 and Dudley was riding a new bike, he also saw memories of him being chased by Aunt Marge's dog Ripper at the age of 9, he also saw some of his thoughts on Cho. The first attempt ended when Harry screamed at Snape to get out of his mind and produced a stinging hex. Snape then tried a second time but stopped after he saw Harry's memories of Cedric Diggory's death. He told Harry that he was giving to much ammunition to his enemies and that he should try harder to block them.

He then turned to Jake and said "Let's see if Mr. O'Neill can do any better."

Jake walked up to him with his wand draw trying to clear his mind as much as possible. Snape then pointed his wand at him and said "Legilimens!"

The first thing he saw was a young man in a dark blue uniform being held against the wall by two people dressed in military uniforms. The young man spoke and said "I just dropped by to say—Ow!"

One of the men holding him against the wall said "Sir, please do not resist."

The Young man replied "Hey, ease up, big guy!"

The man holding him replied "Just relax, Sir."

The young man replied "I'm warning you!"

"Sir, please, stay there" said the man

The young man agued back "Didn't I just say I'm warning you? Hey! Oh! Alright! That's it! Now, I'm mad!"

A woman then came out of the open door they were beside and said "You can release him."

The memory then changed to show the same young man suspended from some sort of devise in an odd looking room. A grey creature approached and said "Hello. Do not be afraid."

The Young Man used some sort of weapon on the creature, which crumpled to the ground. Then he looked up and used the same device on the orange device keeping him suspended. He plummeted to the floor, groaning. He picked the creature up and tied him up in some sort of chair in the room.

He then walked over to a console looked at it and said "Okay, Wrong Console," before walking over to another one.

"Far right jewel thingy, up." He said as he moved a control device to another place on the console and waited expectantly but nothing happened.

"Ah, and three o'clock," he said as he rotated it.

Suddenly a group of people appeared in the room; the young man turned to the female in the group and said "There, you see, Carter, Told you it was no problem."

The young man then walked over to what looked like an older version of him. They are dressed identically, looking each other over in confusion

The older man turned to the adults in the room and said "What's goin' on?"

They all look away, embarrassed.

The young man who Snape figured must be Jake said "Wow, uh, you know, I'm, I'm really much taller than I think."

The older man then tuned to the Women in the room and said "Carter?"

Carter replied "Colonel Jack O'Neill, meet—Colonel Jack O'Neill."

Colonel O'Neill looked at Young Jake again and then back at Carter.

Col. O'Neill then looked irritated and confused and said again "What's goin' on?"

A man with glasses in the room then said "We're pretty sure this Ass-gard over here, kidnapped you and attempted to replace you with a clone.

Jack looked bewildered by all of this and asked how long he had been asleep; Carter told him that it had been seven days.

As Jack and Jake were talking about being duplicates of each other the alien creature was regaining consciousness.

The man with glasses marched over to the creature, followed by Carter. Jake watched them, O'Neill watched him.

The creature looked confused and said "What's happening?"

Carter then said "We were kind of hoping you could tell us."

The creature responded "No, no, no, this is all wrong."

O' Neill stormed over to him and said "I'll tell you what's wrong. I just woke up, haven't had coffee, let alone a pee in seven days, and I find out you stole my ass and made a—mini me. Carter, I should be irked currently, yes?"

Carter then said "Yes, I—I would be."

The man with glasses the said "Why don't you tell us who you are?"

The creature looked at him and said "Loki."

The man with glasses the said "According to Norse mythology, that's the god of mischief."

Carter asked "What did you want with Colonel O'Neill?"

Loki replied "I have nothing more to say to any of you."

O'Neill then said "Hey! We just saved your flat little white asses from the Replicators. This is the thanks we get?"

Jake looked at him and said "Hey, at least you're gonna live."

O'Neill looked at him and said "What?"

Jake replied "Maybe you're a little put out, but this guy didn't hit all the right buttons on the Xerox. This body is gonna fall apart if he doesn't fix me." Loki then said that he couldn't fix him as all the clones suffer the same fate. O'Neill then asked again for an explanation.

Loki then explained that he was a scientist, a former geneticist with the Asgard Ruling Council, and that he was stripped of his stature after he was caught performing unsanctioned experiments on humans. He also explained that human bodies were similar to their original form thousands of years ago. Using Col. O'Neill's physical makeup as a template, he had hoped to find a way to construct a clone that could contain their massively superior intellect and that his research was unsuccessful.

When he was questioned further Loki said "I was going to say, it was unsuccessful prior to my being caught and banished. I would have found what I needed eventually."

The man with glasses then asked him "Why risk coming back here and breaking the law after nineteen years?"

Loki replied "Because, I thought he was the one," as he pointed to Jack.

The two of them (Jake and Jack) said "Me?"

Loki replied "I believed his genetic code contained the key."

The two of them then replied "mine", Jack then turned to Jake and said "Stop it."

Loki continued "He was physiologically advanced enough to carry and utilize all the data from the ancient repository of knowledge. That would not be possible for any human one generation ago. He is a significant step forward on your evolutionary path."

The man with glasses looked at him and said "You just found this out recently?"

Loki replied "I learned about it when all the Asgard did. O'Neill is legendary."

Everyone in the room was amazed by this. At this point Snape was beginning to wonder why Jake hadn't pushed him out of his mind yet, it didn't seem like he was fighting it was almost as if he wanted him to see this.

Loki continued by saying "Most recently, the Asgard fleet has been distracted by the war with the Replicators and the subsequent relocation of our people."

Jack then said "So, you took the opportunity when no one was looking to sneak back here."

Loki replied "I do not regret my actions. I am trying to save my people."

Jake then said "Look, I know this isn't all about me, but come on, seriously. I'm dying here."

Loki replied "I cannot reverse your fate. Nor can I explain why you did not mature to the proper age as you should have."

Jake looked at him and said "Well, easy to see why they kicked you out of the science club."

Jack said "All right, I've heard enough," as he turned to the control console. He then called Carter over and asked her "Can you call Thor on this thing?"

Loki then said "Please, do not."

Carter replied "We've already tried contacting the Asgard a number of times."

Jake looked at her and said "You know, you'd think if Thor knew about this?"

Carter then did something and said she was pretty sure that was it. As they were waiting Jake stumbled a bit and closed his eyes as if he was feeling giddy. Jack asked him if he was alright. Jake said no.

The man with glasses then questioned "Uh, what do we do if Thor doesn't show up?

Just then Thor beamed aboard the ship

"Never mind," said the man with the glasses

Jack looked at him and said "Well, it's about time!"

Thor then said, as he walked to where Loki was restrained, "I apologize for not coming sooner. Loki, what have you done?"

Jake replied "Yeah, it seems he's been playing Dr. Moreau behind your back."

Thor then said "You know why I am here. You should have known O'Neill's genetic code was safeguarded for his own protection."

"Excuse me?" asked Jack.

Thor then said that a marker was placed in his DNA to prevent any attempts at genetic manipulation. The scene then changed as Jake excursed some control over what he was showing Snape. Evidently there was something in there that Jake did not want him to know.

Thor then explained that unfortunately, the eventual genetic breakdown of the clone is not his doing, but rather a result of Loki's inept methods, Loki then said that there was no need for the clones to survive.

Jack then asked Thor if there was anything he could do so that his clone could survive. Thor looked amazed by that and said "You wish your clone to live?"

Jake said "You can't just let me die!"

Jack looked at him and then to Thor and said "He's just a kid."

Thor the asked "Are you certain, O'Neill?"

Jack didn't answer immediately and Jake smacked him in the arm. Jack looked at him and said "I'm thinking! Yeah."

Thor then replied "Very well. I will attempt to repair his DNA. If successful, he should continue to mature at a normal human rate."

Everyone reacts with relief at this news. Well Jack then thanked him.

Snape then attempted to see how deep Jake would let him go into his mind as he was still not seeing any resistance. He realised Jake temporarily and asked "why didn't you stop me from seeing those memories?"

Jake looked at him and said "I wanted you to see them."

Snape then said "you should be careful who you show those to they could be used against you"

Jake nodded as he tried to prepare himself again, this time Snape caught him off guard and found another memory from someone else's point of view.

He saw Jack being led into a room by two Jaffa who walked him onto a platform. Jack was sucked forward into a metallic, spider-webbed panel in the wall, with his back to the room. The Jaffa flanked the door as Ba'al enters and walked onto the platform. Jack is turned so that he is facing into the room. The Jaffa left the room.

Ba'al then asked him "Who are you?"

Jack replied "You go first."

Ba'al then picked up a large knife from a table on the platform, looked at its blade and took a seat on a bench on the platform.

Ba'al looked at him and said "You claim you do not know me?"

Jack replied to him "Well, take no offense there, Skippy, I'm sure you're a real hot, important Goa'uld, I've just always been kind of out of the loop with the snake thing."

Ba'al replied "I am Ba'al."

Jack said "That's it? Just Ball? As in Bocce?"

Ba'al then looked annoyed and said "Do you not know the pain you will suffer for this impudence?"

Ba'al then walked to the front of the platform and held up the knife which became horizontal—as if magnetised—and aimed it at O'Neill.

Jack then said "I don't know the meaning of the word. Seriously. Impudence. What does that mean?"

Ba'al then let go of the knife and it flew into O'Neill's left shoulder. As O'Neill grunted in pain, Ba'al picked up another knife.

Ba'al then said "I shall begin again. Who are you?"

Jack replied "Colonel Jack O'Neill, U.S. Air Force. Two L's in that."

Ba'al replied "That may be who you once were, Tok'ra."

Jack then said "I may be a lotta things…but I'm no Tok'ra!"

Ba'al replied "It is true we were only able to capture the host. Your symbiote fled the body out of cowardice. But it is also true that Tok'ra share body and mind equally. You will know all that it knew."

Jack replied in a mocking tone "I think I know less than you…think I know."

Ba'al replied as he raised another knife to horizontal, "Why have you come to this outpost?"

Jack said back "Now, see, that's a perfect example right there. I haven't a clue."

Ba'al let the knife go and it flew into O'Neill's right shoulder. O'Neill yelled in pain as Ba'al picked up another knife.

Ba'al the said "You have been here before."

Jack replied "First time."

Ba'al said back to him as he raised an eye brow "You know your way to and from our most secret outpost. Clearly you have been here."

As Jack questioned him Ba'al asked him repeated questions

"Did you really hope to escape my personal guard?"

"Why did you abduct my slave?"

Jack then said now in obvious pain, "All right…look! This is the last thing I remember, I swear to God. I was sick. I agreed to let the Tok'ra put a snake in my head or I would have died. Right now, I'm kinda wishing I had."

Ba'al the said, smiling as he looked at the third knife "A wish easily granted, what is your mission here?"

Jack replied "No mission."

Ba'al then asked "Why have you returned?"

Jack replied "I've never been here."

Ba'al asked again "What did you want with the female?"

Jack asked exasperated "What female?"

Ba'al then said "Death will only offer a temporary escape. I can revive you again and again…a thousand times if need be. Only once you have told me everything I ask, will you be allowed to die."As he said this he brought the third knife to horizontal position.

He then said "One…last…time," as he let the third knife go and it flew towards O'Neill.

Everything then went black; the next thing Snape saw was Jack being dragged out of some sort of stone box. He was the dragged down a hall by two guards. He was then pushed into a room. After one of the guards moved his hand over a device on the outside wall the room changed. Jack then slid down as the floor suddenly becomes a wall. The doorway had become the ceiling, many feet above. The room contained two in-built benches and four lit panels which were in reach. Jack hit the lit panels, but they appeared strong and secure. A distant scream is heard. He looks up towards the doorway in the ceiling. A woman is sitting at the opening.

The woman asked "Is it you?"

Jack looked up at the opening, a puzzled look on his face.

Another man then appeared in the room and said "Hi, Jack."

Jack looked beside him to find a man, dressed in casual clothes, sitting on one of the built-in benches, who gave a little wave.

Jack then said "Daniel…"

Daniel replied to him and said "I leave, and look at the mess you get yourself into."

Jack gave him a quizzical look as Daniel continued "It's good to see you."

Jack replied cautiously "Yeah, you too."

Jack walked to the bench opposite Daniel and sat as he said "It's a shame you're a delusion."

Daniel replied "No, I'm here. I'm…really here."

Jack replied skeptically "Sure you are"

Jack then took off one of his shoes and throws it at Daniel, who winced. The shoe passed right through him and bounced off the wall back towards O'Neill.

Daniel then explained "Here in the sense that my consciousness is here, if not here in the full physical flesh and blood sense, which is really…neither…here nor there. The point is, you're not imaging this."

Jack replied "I just tossed my shoe through you."

Daniel replied "Yes you did. That's because I've ascended to another plane of existence."

Jack replied "Ohhh."

Daniel then continued and said "Remember Oma Desala, the whole…glowing thing, you helped me out. I couldn't have done that without you, remember that?"

"Yeah," Said Jack.

Daniel continued saying "I'm…I'm energy now."

Jack interrupted him and said "How's that workin' out for you?"

Daniel said "Good, actually…very…"

"Good," said Jack questioningly.

Daniel continued and said "Very good. You…however…"

Jack completed his thought by saying "Yeah, well…you know what it's like…", as he got up and picked up his shoe, he continued as he put his shoe back on "comin' back from the dead. Takes a while to get the color back in your cheeks."

Jack then asked Daniel again "So…not a delusion?"

Daniel shook his head and said "No."

Jack then said "Okay…show me your stuff. Bust me outta here."

Daniel then said "I can't."

"Why not "Jack questioned.

"I'm not allowed to interfere." Daniel replied

"You're interfering right now." Said Jack

"No, I'm not." Daniel replied again

"Yes, you are," said Jack.

Daniel the replied "No, I'm not. I am consoling a friend."

Jack then asked him "What good's the power to make the wind blow or toss lightning around if you can't use it to spring an old friend outta jail?"

"I would if I could," Daniel replied.

Jack questioned him "You can't do that stuff?"

Daniel replied back "I can. I just…I can't."

Jack then said "Well, thanks for stopping by, then."

Daniel replied back "Ba'al is torturing you and I wasn't just gonna sit by. Look, all he wants to know is the reason you came to this planet. You really don't know?"

"Do you," asked Jack.

Daniel then said "Well, all I know is that you…or more accurately, the symbiote the Tok'ra placed inside of you…congratulations, by the way…walked off undetected in the middle of the night and came here."

Jack said "I can't believe I actually let them put a snake in my head…my head. I agreed to this."

Daniel he said "It never shared with you why it would walk alone into a heavily fortified Goa'uld outpost?"

"There was no sharing! I was sick." Replied Jack

"I know," said Daniel.

"They did the implantation, a word I intend never to use again, and I woke up here. That's…my week, so far," Jack continued.

"So you really don't know." Daniel asked.

Jack sighed, trying to remember and then said "Uhh…something to do with one of Ba'al's slaves. I got a visual but I've never met her before."

"Nobody knows you're here." Daniel in formed him

Jack looked at him, stunned.

Daniel continued "Even if they did, they'd never be able to pull off a rescue because this place is a fortress. Ba'al is just gonna keep on torturing you to death and reviving you in a sarcophagus until…he finds out what he wants, which is impossible because you don't know anything, or until you're not worth reviving any more. But you'll cease to be the Jack O'Neill we know long before that."

Jack then said "Well…apparently, I've got a big day tomorrow."

Daniel replied "No, I'm not gonna let that happen. I won't let him destroy you."

"You just said you couldn't help," said Jack

Daniel replied "No, I can't stop Ba'al from torturing you any more than Oma could heal my radiation sickness, but…I can help you ascend."

The scene changed again Jack was back in the room where Ba'al had tortured him the first time. This time instead of knives a drop of liquid squeezed from a spout on a bottle was pointed at him. The drop moved horizontally into Jack's chest. Jack was once again pinned against the spider web panel and he appears to be burned in several places on his chest. He was in obvious distress.

Bail the said "The Tal'vak acid will take some time to burn through all the way. Though it cauterizes the flesh as it burns, a very small amount often finds its way into the blood and begins to spread. Why have you returned here, Tok'ra?"

"I'm human," replied Jack

"Hmm…betrayed by your symbiote," Ba'al replied.

"It used me," said Jack

"To do what?" questioned Ba'al

"I don't know! And I don't care!" replied Jack

Ba'al then asked "What did the symbiote call itself?"

Jack was struggling to speak as he said "I don't remember."

"Tok'ra retain the identities of both host and symbiote. You are O'Neill. What was the name of your symbiote?" said Ba'al.

Jack replied with more difficulty "I…just told you."

Ba'al questioned him again "What Tok'ra secrets could a single name reveal?"

"I don't know." Said Jack

"Why protect the one who betrayed you…abandoned you to…this?" asked Ba'al

Jack now in obvious pain and with anger said "If I knew the name, I'd give you the damn name! I don't care about protecting the Tok'ra!"

Ba'al the stepped forward and pointed the bottle at O'Neill again as he said "Tok'ra have been a nuisance for centuries."

Jack weakly, pleaded "Don't."

Ba'al then s aid "Even when we thought they had been wiped out. They've become all the more…insidious. Like…acid…burrowing holes into our empires."

Jack replied "Kanan! That's the name."

Ba'al lowered the hand holding the bottle.

"Kanan," said Jack again as Ba'al smirked at O'Neill and set the bottle on the table. He picked up another and walked toward the front of the platform.

Jack then said weakly "I…I just told you."

"Yes, you did," said Ba'al smiling.

Ba'al squirted more liquid from the bottle which again hit Jack in the chest. Jack flinched, but this liquid did not seem to be causing him any further discomfort.

Ba'al then told him "This neutralizes the acid and numbs the pain. So you see, the truth is rewarded."

Jack replied "I don't know anything else."

Ba'al then said "There may be much more of this Kanan still in your memory than even you know. It'll come to you…in time."

Ba'al pushed a device on the table where he has placed the bottles. The web panel opened and O'Neill fell into a very long, black tunnel.

Just then Snape realised Jack as he was now cowering on the floor with tears running down his eyes, Snape fell back against his desk as he realised that he had just witnessed someone tortured far worse than anyone that Voldemort had tortured., at least when he did that to someone he killed them when they were of no use. This man that he had just watched torture Jack O'Neill in Jakes memories had somehow brought him back to life only to torture him again a second time.

Harry went over to Jack and helped him up as he was muttering to himself "Ba'al, torture, had to show Snape."

Harry helped him to his feet and said "that's ok, you'll be fine."

Snape then got to his feet and asked Jake "why did you let me see that."

Jake looked back up at him as he wiped the tears from his eyes and said "I didn't mean to I was trying to block you from seeing that, but you didn't give me a chance to defined myself."

Snape looked at him and said "would you expect the Dark Lord to give you the opportunity?"

Jake shook his head and said "no why would any enemy give the opponent that type of opportunity? But wouldn't it also show Voldemort that he can torture me all he wants and I won't give up?"

Snape then turned to him and said "Do not refer to the Dark Lord by his name in front of me"

Jake looked at him and said "why do you fear the name more then you fear him? I just don't get why everyone here wants to give him that respect by allowing his name to induce so much fear that they won't speak it. For Example I will call Ba'al by his name, Hitler gets called Hitler and both of them have done way worse than Voldemort ever has. Tell me how are either of them any different then Voldemort?"

Snape looked at him and said "ten points from Gryffindor for showing lack of respect for a teacher."

Snape still seemed to be shaken from what Jake had said to him and also what he had seen in Jakes memories. He then turned to Harry and said "Potter are you willing to try again tonight?"

Harry stepped forward again as Jake sat down whishing that he could have a beer right now.

When Snape tried it again on Harry he triggered a memory Harry had of being by the Department of Mysteries and he realised that was where Mr. Weasly was on the night he was attacked. Harry then questioned Snape about what was in the Department of Mysteries. Snape told him that it didn't concern him and to try and forget about it as it didn't concern him. He then told them to return on Wednesday evening at the same time He also instructed Harry to try and rid his mind of emption before going to bed that night.

As they made their way back to the common room neither of them spoke to each other much. Mainly because Jake was trying to forget seeing the memories that Snape brought out of Ba'al's torture of Jack.

When they got back to the common room Jake sat down on the floor next to Charlie and sat there stroking him, anyone in the common room could see at that moment that the big German Sheppard just knew that his master needed him at that moment, he put his head in Jakes lap as he was petting him.

After a few minutes Jake began doing his homework as was everyone else in the room, except he still had a massive German Sheppard with its head still on his lap. After a while Harry said that he was tired and he couldn't finish Umbrige's homework that night, Hermione told him to mark it in his homework planer before going to bed, which he did. As he was going up the stairs Hermione suggested that someone should follow him just in case as he mind might be more open right now after his lesson with Snape. As Jake still had Charlie on his lap he suggested that Ron should follow him.

As Harry approached the dorm room he felt pain in his scar and he got the feeling that Voldemort was very happy about something. Ron came up to him and asked him what had happened. Ron told him what Hermione had suspected as he helped him into bed. As the others and Jake came up Harry lay awake wondering what could have made Voldemort so Happy that night.

Authors Note: Sorry for the length of this chapter I thought it would be interesting to have Snape see some of Jakes memories from when he was cloned and some of his memories of Jack being tortured by Ba'al