"Daniel Jackson, have you not been sleeping well?" Teal'c asks from across the breakfast table.

Daniel shrugs. He used to try to hide things like this from his team, but by now they know all of his damage.

"I will come to your room tonight for a meditation session. I have found them very helpful in helping me get to sleep since I have begun needing sleep," he says.

"Thanks," Daniel says, but he doesn't actually have a lot of hope that it is going to work.

-0-

The two men sit across from each other cross-legged, or as Teal'c has begun to refer to them jokingly, 'Jaffa style'.

"No candles?" Daniel asks.

"Not when you intend to go to sleep. The leaders of this complex are opposed to unattended flame." Teal'c says.

Daniel takes the big deep trying to release his worries as Omma, and Teal'c have told him to do many, many times.

"I am sorry, Daniel Jackson," a strong voice next to him says.

"For what?" Daniel asks.

"For the harm that I did before I defected to your side. For choosing Sha're. For the version of me, in some other reality, which shot you with a staff blast."

"Ours is the only reality of consequence," Daniel says still without opening his eyes.

Teal'c makes a sound of assent, deep in his chest. Daniel wonders if humans are even capable of the wordless communication that Jaffa are so good at.

"On Abydos, they believe that at the end of your life they will weigh your deeds against a feather. But I think…maybe we need a different balance. I tell you Teal'c, if you put your good deeds on one side of the scale, and your bad on the other. It would turn out in your favor."

Teal'c breaths a deep meditative breath, "That is not yet true. I must save six more worlds, and about 4,000 more people before I have saved as many lives as I ended."

Daniel bites his lip staring at the man before him, "That's why you keep count?"

Teal'c nods.

"Still, decades in the service of Aphophis, and you've only been making up for it for a little over a decade. You'll get there." There is a pause, "Did you count the way we saved the whole galaxy with the Ori thing?"

"I did not," Teal'c replies.

"Ok, well, you probably should," Daniel points out.

Daniel moves into deeper meditation, and has almost reached the level of true calm when Teal'c speaks again, "You have suffered much."

"Not as much as you," Daniel says opening his eyes.

Teal'c gives his tiny barely a nod.

"You know, I'm really glad you're on our side," Daniel says giving the man a smile.

"I am honored to have fought by the side of a warrior as noble as you," Teal'c replies.

The talking changes to meditation, and the meditation turns to sleep. The next morning Daniel wakes up with his head resting on Teal'c symbiot pouch. Teal'c's giant arm is resting across Daniel's stomach. It is the best sleep either one of them have had in a while, but they're not exactly going to talk about it.