Dang it! I just realized that I screwed up! Apophis was supposedly dead in the third season, and thus not around. Sorry about that. I forgot. Anyway, I'll just refrain from mentioning him from now on, okay? Anyway, here's the next chapter. Enjoy and review please!

Chapter 3

Daniel was about to step through the event horizon after O'Neill and Teal'c, but Carter's hand on his arm stopped him. When he turned to look at her, he realized that she had planned this from the moment she had seen him that morning-letting the others go through first to leave the two of them alone.

"Daniel…you sure you don't want to tell me why you couldn't sleep last night?" she asked with genuine concern.

The young archeologist looked at her for a moment. He knew he wouldn't have been able to say much about it to Jack or Teal'c, but maybe he could to Sam…After all, she was a woman, and she had always understood him a bit better than the other two…

Finally he broke her gaze and looked away, sighing heavily. "It was…nightmares."

Her face asked him to keep going. "I was dreaming about her…" he added quietly.

Immediately Carter's face softened even more in understanding. "Sha're?" Daniel nodded. The major put her hand on his shoulder and moved it to pat his arm comfortingly. "Hey, it's all right. We'll find her again."

"Yeah. I know she's out there somewhere…" His voice trailed off, stopped altogether. A moment later it came back, and it sounded suddenly for all the world as if the conversation they'd just had hadn't happened, like he'd pushed it to the back of his mind to get on with the mission.

"Well, we'd better get going," Daniel said, his voice no longer soft but at normal volume-maybe even a bit louder.

Sighing, Carter nodded in agreement, and the two of them stepped through.

Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c's journey was not interrupted. Safely they stepped out of the gate onto P5R-316. The virus had not awoken fast enough. They were allowed to pass to their destination normally. However, it had come to full attention by the time Major Samantha Carter and Dr. Daniel Jackson had stepped into the wormhole. Surreptitiously, so as not to alert anyone at Stargate Command, as it had been programmed, it altered their course.

It wasn't so un-noticeable to the two travelers it affected, though. Both noticed the severe jolt, even in their dematerialized state, and when they stepped through the Stargate on the other side, both realized immediately that had, in fact, gone wrong.

As expected, less than a second after stepping through the Earth Gate, Jack stepped through the gate on P5R-316, Teal'c right on his heels. He took a deep breath of fresh air and let it out with a sound of satisfaction.

"Well, kids, seems nice enough here. I wonder how friendly the locals…are…"

O'Neill's voice trailed off when he saw that the only 'kid' present behind him was Teal'c. The others weren't there.

At the look on his commander's face, Teal'c raised an eyebrow. "You should not worry, O'Neill. More than likely, Major Carter and Daniel Jackson were simply later than we were in going through the Stargate."

Realizing that the larger man was probably right, Jack nodded. "Right, just a little slower. We just have to wait." But something annoying at the back of his mind was telling him that maybe that 'wasn't' correct. He'd heard about the off-world activation last night. Maybe something was wrong…But no, just wait, he told himself. They'll be through in a minute. After all, the gate was still active, which meant passengers were still in transit, right?

A couple of minutes later, the Gate shut off.

"Uh…" Jack started. "Hey T…You got an explanation for that one?"

The eyebrow went up again, but this time seemed more urgent, if an eyebrow could look urgent. But of course, O'Neill had become accustomed to Teal'c's expressions, and this one was definitely more worried.

"I do not," he said, which didn't make Jack feel any better.

"Okay…Well, maybe something went wrong and they had to shut it down before they could go through. That's probably it. They'll dial again and send them through in a few minutes. Let's just…wait here for now," the colonel said uncertainly.

Nodding, Teal'c sat down on the stone steps before the Stargate, sure to stay out of the path an opening wormhole would cover, vaporizing anything it its path. Jack sat down next to him, and they waited.

The first thing Daniel noticed when he and Sam exited the Stargate was that there were no trees, and everything was the wrong color-not green, but gold.

"Uh…this doesn't look a heck of a lot like P5R-316, does it?" he said in confusion.

Sam shook her head, just as baffled. "No, it doesn't? And where are Teal'c and the colonel?" she said, raising her weapon in caution.

When she said that, Jackson looked around and realized that she was right. Their teammates were nowhere to be found, and neither was the M.A.L.P or the rolling, mechanized cart that had carried all of their extra supplies, which had gone through first, before Jack and Teal'c.

What Daniel noticed next forced him to suppress a gasp. The walls were gold, the writing that covered them was familiar, there was a set of rings at the other end, and many boxes and crates with familiar-looking designs.

"Uh, Sam…I don't know where they are, but I can give you a good guess, because I think we're in a Goa'uld facility." He couldn't have expected the answer he got.

"Your first guess is wrong, Doctor Jackson. Your friends are not here. It seems they managed to arrive at their destination safely. However, your second guess was correct. This base is, in fact, Goa'uld."

Carter whipped her head around in the direction the voice had come from. Daniel started as well, also turning immediately to seek the source. The voice had been clearly Goa'uld, but there was also something familiar about it…

What they saw was a contingent of jaffa entering the room from a large door to the side. They surrounded the one who had spoken.

The moment he saw the beautifully dressed woman in the center, Daniel Jackson's breath caught in his throat, and suddenly he felt suffocated, almost as he had in his dream the night before.

There was so much he should have said, wanted to say…but in the end Daniel was only able to force out one breathless word.

"Sha're."