Daniel slowly opened his eyes and found himself in familiar surroundings.

"Great, just great," he muttered to himself. He really did not have time for this. Groaning, he slowly pulled himself off the floor. The last time the beings or aliens or whoever the hell they were had beamed him here, they had at least brought him here standing up. Pain shot through his back and his knees hissed at him. God they were getting just as bad as Jack's.

He looked around the room, but found himself alone. There wasn't even a damn chair in the room this time. What the hell was going on. It had been over eight months since he had last ended up in this room. Since then he only had a few vague flashes of being here, but now all his memories of this place came flooding back. He remembered everything the alien had told him, which to be perfectly honest really wasn't that much. Teal'c. The alien had looked and sounded like Teal'c.

Why now? Why was he back here now? He wandered around the bare room and a thought suddenly hit him. Children. "You and your children have much work ahead of you." That's what the alien told him. He didn't have children at that time, but now he did. Is that why he was here? Did his children have something do with this? Did they know about the twins? A small sense of panic coursed through him. Did these aliens have some ulterior motive? Were the babies in danger?

"We have no intention of harming your infants DanielJackson." The voice was pure Teal'c, but as Daniel turned around he knew it wasn't his friend but the alien.

Daniel eyed him suspiciously; uneasy with the fact that he knew what he was thinking, "How did you do that? Are you reading my mind?"

The alien stood very Teal'c like, with his hands clasped behind his back, "We have the ability to communicate without words."

"I'm not sure I like the idea of someone being inside my head," Daniel said with displeasure.

"It was not necessary to go into your mind to read your thoughts DanielJackson. Your concern for your children is very evident. It surrounds you."

"So you … you know about the twins?" Daniel asked nervously, still very suspicious of the alien's intentions toward his children.

"Indeed … we have waited in great anticipation for their arrival."

"You have?" Daniel's voice rose. He was no longer nervous; he was angry and boldly moved closer towards the being. "Why? What do you want with them?"

The alien did not seem the least bit intimidated by Daniel's movement towards him, he just calmly replied in Teal'c's deep voice, "They will bring your people to my people."

"They're just babies!" Daniel spat out, "I refuse for you to use them like some of lab rats."

"You fear that we will take them from you; this is not our intention. They must remain with your kind. The knowledge that you and Samantha Carter have passed on to them is all that they will need to bring our people together. As they grow in years they will look to you and your mate for guidance and wisdom."

Daniel's eyes shot wide open. "Mate? Sam and I are not mates," he said incredulously, "In fact I'm not sure if we really were meant to be together..."

"You humans are an exceedingly stubborn race," Teal'c replied and began to walk slowly around Daniel as he spoke, "You only see what is black and white. When adversity comes your way you are quick to give up in defeat. You must have faith that the tension between yourself and SamanthaCarter will only make you stronger.

"I don't know … there is so much anger between us." Daniel's anger had subsided and sadness was now etched in both his face and voice.

"There is a great bond between the two of you DanielJackson; a great love – for each other and for your children."

Daniel knew the alien spoke the truth, he was so much like Teal'c. In fact it was like Teal'c was actually in his head talking to him.

"I do love her, so much that it hurts," he whispered, as he desperately tried to hold back the tears that he felt forming in his eyes. "There is nothing more in this world that I want than for us to raise our children together as a family. But there is this wall that we have built up between us and I'm not sure how to tear it down."

"Patience DanielJackson. You must have patience and never underestimate SamanthaCarter. She feels the same way as you do."

"What?" Daniel's mood again made an abrupt change from sadness to anger again, "How do you know that?"

"We are with her ..."

"Here? Sam is here? What have you done to her..."

"You must not let your suspicious thoughts overtake you DanielJackson. She is not here. She is safe in your infirmary. We are with her giving her strength and healing."

"You can heal her?" Daniel asked in hopeful anticipation, "you can make her whole again. I mean you cured Jack's cancer. Right? You can do the same for Sam?"

"We do have the knowledge to cure what you call cancer," Teal'c replied, but Daniel could almost sense from the way the alien was looking at him, that he was not going to like what he heard. "Unfortunately even with our knowledge and technology we are unable to restore SamanthaCarter's reproductive system to what it was."

"Oh..." Daniel sighed, as he closed his eyes and hung his head in defeat, "I don't understand … you said you were healing her?"

"We are giving her the ability to recover from her physical injuries more quickly. You DanielJackson must help her heal the emotional ones."

"I don't know," his words were raspy and seemed to clog in his throat, "I'm not sure … I don't think she will let me. We have barely spoken ..."

"Talk to her DanielJackson. You know here..., " Teal'c touched Daniel on his forehead, " and you know here...," the alien put his hand on Daniel's chest where his heart was, "that the bond between you is very great. It surrounds you. Trust it. Trust in your love for each other."

Daniel never said anything, no matter how much this alien assured him, he was still skeptical about his and Sam's future. The whole situation was so damned confusing. He could not wrap his brain around what these aliens wanted from him, what they wanted from his children.

"You still have many questions. Many concerns."

"More than you could know … well considering how you can sense my thoughts, I suppose you do know … anyway I guess I just don't understand why you put this so called knowledge into Jack's head and then into mine … I mean I have spent hour upon hour in that lab trying to understand the language and I'm no farther along than when I started."

"You seek answers that you are not yet ready to understand. We were very skeptical when the Asgard said your people would be the fifth race. We knew of your existence and were curious about what the Asgard saw in you. To us you seemed to be a very primitive people."

"Ouch … did you say that to Jack?" Daniel asked, as a weak smile escaped his lips for the first time since he arrived, "He's not fond of that word."

"It was when we met O'Neill that we saw your people's potential."

"Really … after you met Jack?"

"O'Neill hides his true side behind a facade. You know this to be true DanielJackson."

Daniel nodded his head in agreement, "Yes I know. Jack likes to play dumb, he really is smarter than he lets on."

"He has great admiration and respect for you and for Samantha Carter. Your children can learn much from him. For now though it is late and you must go. You must return to SamanthaCarter. She is worried about you. You must have patience. When we meet again DanielJackson, your questions will be answered."

A white light began to spill over him and Daniel deep in frustration yelled at the alien, who slowly began to dissolve into the air, "What is the point? Why would you bring me here and tell me these things. I'm just going to forget."

"Daniel? … Daniel, come on snap out of it."

Daniel suddenly found himself lying on a hospital bed in the infirmary. Jack and Teal'c were both looking down on him.

"What the hell is going on?" Daniel muttered as he tried to raise himself up.

Teal'c had an annoyed look on his face and pushed Daniel back down onto the bed. "You should remain in bed DanielJackson; you fainted and were unconscious. O'Neill seems to think that you went to something he calls the white room."

"Yep … that's where I was alright." Daniel again tried to raise himself up but Teal'c was persistent and continued to hold him down.

"Daniel?"

"What?" he snapped at Jack and then glared at up at Teal'c. "Teal'c will you please let me get up. You're just as much a pain in the ass as the Teal'c in the damned white room."

"Daniel?" Jack pushed Teal'c aside and pulled Daniel up and looked him straight in the eye, "You were in the white room?"

"Yes Jack." Daniel, clearly annoyed, pushed Jack's hands away from him, "I was in the white room ... didn't I just say so." Then, as soon as the words came out of his mouth, Daniel gasped in amazement and flung himself off the bed. "Oh my god! Jack I remember! Oh my god I remember! I need to talk to Sam - I remember everything Jack. I need to talk to Sam."