Truth & Lies

Briar Elwood

A/N: I know, I know, but you canNOT say I didn't warn you. Now you might ask how the play went. It was freaking awesome. I was scared to death but I got on stage and, dude, it was just like rehearsal. Which has never happened to me before. But it was pretty sweet. I'm sad its over now…can't wait for the musical!!!

So, anyway. This chapter…is not so good. While being distracted by the play…my muse was viciously attacked by the dreaded writer's block. BUT! Being the most wonderful and loving author that I am, I figured I should update anyway. So.

37: Care

"Tomin!" Daniel exclaimed, rushing into the interrogation room. Both Merek and Tomin looked up, confused. Daniel glanced up barely from the large book in his hands to make sure he wasn't about to run into anything and stopped. "Confuto verum. Does that sound familiar?"

"Excuse me, Dr. Jackson," Merek started. "But you cannot just barge in here—"
"Tomin?" Daniel prodded, ignoring the IOA official. Tomin looked thoughtful, a strange emotion playing in his eyes.

"Confuto verum…it…it sounds…vaguely familiar…"

"Do you have any idea where we could find it?" Daniel asked eagerly.

"Excuse me, Dr. Jackson!" Merek barked. "What is this…confut vur-um you are speaking of?"

"Confuto verum," Daniel corrected. "A possible way to win this war before it gets even more ugly. And I don't care what you have to say, Mr. Merek, I'm gonna search high and low for it until I either die or find it."

"The Ark of Truth?" Merek growled lowly. Daniel sighed, closing his eyes and finally turning to meet the official's glower.

"If you must know, yes. I knew it had to have another name and I figured Tomin might recognize it from its Latin name rather than its English name."

"I've heard it in passing," Tomin continued. "I think…I think it was something a Prior found some…where…and…and they brought it back to Celestis, to try to find out if we could use it."

"Celestis?" Daniel repeated, surprised. "Did they ever figure out how to use it?"

Tomin shook his head. "I don't believe so. Why? What does it do? It seemed to excite the people I overheard talking about it…"

"Yeah, it would," Daniel muttered. "It's used to convince someone that something is the truth. The Ori would love to be able to use it to convert the entire universe with a single sweep of their hands."

"And you have just let one of their warriors know all of this valuable information," Merek snapped, stepping up to Daniel menacingly. "Have you no common sense, Dr. Jackson?"

Daniel glared at him. "Obviously the Ori already know what it does, they just don't know how to use it. Neither do I, so it doesn't really matter.

"What does matter is we now know where the Ark of Truth is. And, as I've already said, I don't care what you say. SG-1's going to go get it."

A/N: I TOLD you it wasn't so good. (sighs) But at least I've updated again, right?

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