Brother in Arms

Turning around Lizzie finally saw in her mind who she really was, the woman that had been inside of her all along, the being before her saw her remember and engulfed her. Jack and Teal'c could hear her last blood curdling scream as she reached out towards them and was bathed in the radiant light.

"Daddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Daniel ran through the gate, putting several SFs on high alert. He made his way up to the control room as quickly as he could.

"Walter!"

"Yes Dr. Jackson?" The shorter man sitting at the control computer was slightly off guard. He had been there when Landry had his conversation with Daniel, but was still concerned about what was going on.

"Dial the planet General O'Neill is on, now!"

Landry stepped up behind them, "Do it Walter."

"Yes Sir." And with that the technician quickly began to enter coordinates in the computer, not even bothering to call out the sequence.

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Jack and Teal'c watched as the light around Lizzie completely obscured her form.

A look of worry and fear crossed O'Neill's face as he looked towards his friend. "What did she just say?"

"I believe she was calling for her father, O'Neill."

"Teal'c, she was looking at us."

"O'Neill, I believe she was looking…at you."

The two turned their attention back towards the glowing light in the room. There was nothing for them to do as they stood watching in horror; wondering what could possibly be happening that caused the muffled screams they could still hear echoing.

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As the light became so bright that Lizzie could no longer see, she came to realize that she was no longer in the chamber. She was laying on her back in a vast and unearthly darkness. Slowly she rose to her feet, looking to see if she was truly alone.

"Nicky?" She called out. Now she knew who the boy from her dreams was, and why she had felt so close to him. But the connection she had made was all wrong. She knew that now and felt…dim-witted. "Nicky!!!!"

Abruptly a figure materialized before her. "Hello Danielle."

She breathed in a gasp. "But Paulson called out 'Danny'." Even though she had regained all her memories, there were some she was not ready to face on her own.

"He was calling out for you to stop. After all, Danni can be a girl's name too." He smiled.

"How?" She shook her head. "Oh God! Nicholas I'm so sorry, I never wanted to hurt you, I didn't…"

He walked up to her. "Shh. Shh. It's OK, I understand."

Tears were falling down her cheeks, but the sorrow was not completely in her voice yet. "I thought you would just ascend and come back…like your Dad."

"That was the plan."

"Nicky, what happened. What happened to us, why is this happening?"

He laughed a bit at her dramatic expression. "You're taking this 'all-knowing' part a little too literally."

She cocked her head at him with an unhappy grin.

"Look, we don't have long. I brought you hear to keep you safe, he's trying to kill you."

"Can he?"

"It's possible."

"How did he, it, how did it survive?"

"It, the Goa'uld inside me, that Aphrodite put in me when I went back…" He looked at her sorrowfully, showing her the regret and understanding of why she had done what she did. "It basically tagged along when I ascended. That's why I didn't get out immediately. I didn't reach the higher plane until after Colonel Paulson had put me in my tomb. By then the device had healed the symbiote enough that he was able to tap into my thoughts…and now we're kinda stuck here together."

"But why?"

"Because, he got here just like me, and they couldn't send us back. But we're 'together' because he used me to get here."

"Like Anubis?"

"Not exactly, but we're under some of the same restrictions."

"Restrictions?" Lizzie was beyond confused.

"Happens when you break the rules." He smiled. "Glad they finally found those walls."

"That was you?!" She shot out.

"Well, it was some very mystified Ancient Greeks…let's just say the Ancients didn't take too kindly to my interfering. So I've been here, with him, for a while now. If I hadn't been stuck, I would have helped you a long time ago."

"Is that why I couldn't remember anything?"

"No, that was the stasis chamber, and the part where you died for a bit in there. It caused a disruption in your brain…" He winced when he got a characteristic glance of her disapproving of his terminology. "I would have been there to help you remember, but they saw your amnesia as justifiable punishment for using Ancient technology to alter the past."

She opened her mouth in disgust. "Alter? As far as we know this has been happening over and over again on infinite cycles of time. There was a matter of fate involved her Nicky. Plus the Ancients are ones to talk about interference."

"I know that. But they are…" he waved his hands. "They're just opinionated."

"Like you." She smiled. Not sure if it would work or not she stepped forward and embraced her old friend. She felt him close and squeezed as hard as she could. "I'm so sorry." She sniffed.

He held her back. "Don't be. I could have been walking around doing some pretty horrible things if you hadn't stopped me."

She pulled her head back. "What about him. Am I gonna die now that I just figured it out?" She gave him an ironic smile.

"Not if I can help it." Nicky pulled back.

"Nicky no! If you…don't leave me!!!!!!!!!!" But with that he was gone and she was suddenly being pulled out of the darkness and into a painful light.

It was searing her skin, her bones felt like they were all shattering and the pain only continued to grow worse.

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"Jack! Come in!" Daniel's voice pierced the radio waves.

"Daniel? This is Mitchell, over."

"Cam, where's Jack?"

"He and Teal'c are in the vault, I haven't been able to raise them on the waves since they went down there, I think there's some kind of a field blocking the signal."

"Cameron, I need you to listen to me closely. Where is Lizzie?"

"She's down there with them. Daniel, aren't you suppose to be on Atlantis?"

"I'm at the SGC, I need you to get the rest of the team and bring them back to Earth NOW."

"Why Jackson? We're a little…" Mitchell's voice was cut off when he released the radio, but not before screaming could be heard in the background.

"Cameron? Mitchell!!!" Daniel was hysterical.

On the burned planet Mitchell had stopped speaking when he heard an echo of screams flood out from the opening of the tomb.

"Colonel Mitchell!"

"Sorry Jackson, I gotta go."

"Mitchell, what's happening?"

But Cameron had already stepped passed the barrier that blocked the signal. Daniel would have to wait until they returned. He asked Landry to be sent through, but the General refused to send him into a situation they knew little about. If the team didn't make contact within half an hour, he would send reinforcements.

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In the tomb the light over Lizzie began to dissipate as another light began to grow near it. To Jack and Teal'c equal astonishment, two versions of the man with blue eyes now stood on opposite sides of a female body laying twisted between them. One of the men matched the earlier views of the boy with blue eyes, but something about the other was dark and worn and then his eyes appeared like a Goa'uld. Jack raised his P-90 and shot a round that passed through the dark figure with ease. The shot never strayed either's attention.

"Get away from her." Nicky warned.

"She will pay for what she did to us with her death!"

"She's not going to die. You are." And with that the kinder figure shot forth a wave of light and was not stopped as Daniel had been. The ascended Goa'uld form of himself vanished."

Slowly the other ascended figure bent down over the girl and stroked her head without effect. "Goodbye, Danni." He whispered. But it was loud enough for Jack to hear.

Jack's eyes grew even wider upon hearing this. Then the boy with blue eyes stood and smiled at him before disappearing as well.

It took him a moment to come to his senses, but once he did Jack hurried over to the young woman now laying motionless on the floor. She was no longer the same. True her uniform was the same, but where once long straight silver strands had flowed down from her head, now spilled out shorter hair. It was shorter because it was now in thick, coffee brown curls covering her face as she lay in an unnatural position.

Jack laid his weapon on the ground as he crouched beside her. Teal'c still the cautious warrior, stood over them with his own weapon poised.

"Lizzie?" Jack questioned. She didn't stir. "Lizzie?" Still nothing. Jack reached over her face and pulled the curls away to reveal her features, like a doll's. He rubbed his fingers over her cheek as he went to feel for a pulse, but before he reached her throat she began to choke to life.

"Nicky!!" She screamed as she sat up almost knocking Jack over.

"Who?" Jack looked at her strangely as he began to pull his sidearm in defense.

Slowly she turned to him as she began to push herself back away. "Dad?"

"What?" O'Neill's question was quiet, but her statement had confirmed what he had asked Teal'c only moments prior.

"Where is he?"

"Who?"

"Nicky…the boy, with blue eyes."

"I think he's gone." Jack admitted slowly now beginning to realize that the boy was not the unborn Danny as he had thought.

She pitched forward and began to bawl into her hands.

Jack nervously reached over and held her shoulder. He was fairly confident now that she had not killed his son, but one huge question still remained unanswered. "Lizzie?"

Behind her hands and tears he discerned her reply. "That's not my name." She sniffed.

"Then who…"

She looked up at Jack and he now saw her eyes had returned to the shade of brown she had absorbed from him previously. But they weren't something absorbed, they were something inherited. "My name…is…Danni… O'Neill." She choked out.

Teal'c grew a look of amazement and lowered his staff weapon. He then drew nearer to the two still on the floor. "How is this possible?"

Jack looked back towards him. "I don't…no, Sam's pregnant with a boy…you're…"

She cut him off with a hiccupping voice. "The machine was wrong."

Jack cocked his head. "Then you are?"

"I'm your daughter." She whispered.

With a quick glance at Teal'c he turned back to her. "You got those eyes from me long before the Hive Ship didn't you?" It was somehow easier to believe as he began to put the pieces together. His eyes, the military skills, the brains from her mother, the highly advanced Ancient gene from him.

She nodded and sucked in her lips, still nervous as to his reaction.

With no second thoughts Jack reached out and pulled her into his arms. He didn't know why he was so willing to trust her. "What about the boy? The one that was just here. Is that your brother or something?"

"Brother…in arms." She answered in a muffled tone from against his chest.

"But his blue eyes were so…"

She pushed back. "Familiar?" The look on her face was angry, at herself.

"Yeah."

"Because they're Daniel's."

"What?"

Teal'c was listening whole heartedly. "I believe the young man she has identified as 'Nicky' is indeed the son of Daniel Jackson." His face showed that he was still questioning his own response.

She shook her head.

Jack shook her by her shoulders. "Why did you kill Daniel's son?"

"I wasn't trying to kill him, I was killing the Goa'uld inside of him." She wailed.

At that moment Mitchell came clamoring down the final flight of stairs. "What's going on?" His own weapon was ready in his grip.

"Stand down Colonel." Jack ordered.

Mitchell slowly took in the scene as Jack stood up. The brunette woman on the floor slowly turned to see him and he stuttered as he saw her face more clearly. "Is that?"

"Yeah." Jack answered.

"Is she?"

Jack didn't answer Cameron. He leaned over a bit to question the girl. "Can you walk?" She nodded without eye contact, and slowly rose to her feet.

Her face was blank with grief and shock, and she did not speak again while they were on the planet.

"Mitchell, take point. We're going home."

Cameron didn't question anything. "Yes Sir. By the way Sir, Daniel just radioed in some info. He says he needs to talk with you ASAP."

"We can talk when we get back. Call Landry and let him know we're on our way." Mitchell headed up the stairwell to be ready to send a message if the gate was still open.

Jack looked towards Danni who was staring at the line of crypts. "Come on." He took her by her arm when she didn't respond. He could only imagine what was going through her mind.

Even Jack's guesses couldn't compare to the truth. Inside Danni's head, images were continuing to flash. When she had been on the other plane with Nicky, she had been able to access everything in her mind, but now that she was back in her body, things were different. Things were still opening and closing; she would know things and then forget them in a second. But the one thing she did know was becoming more and more clear, she had killed her best friend, the son of her father's best friend, and now…she was going to have to explain why.