"And then everything just disappears" – Episode 4
It's not like this is his first rodeo. Jack has been tortured before. Everything from water boarding to sodomization. The acid thing wasn't actually that bad. Sure it was excruciating but it wasn't terrifying. It wasn't humiliating. Having to listen to the guy gloat the entire time was a bit on the annoying side but he didn't expect any less of the other man's towering ego to have succeeded on accidently capturing one of his primary targets.
If Jack ever got his hands on that slimy Tok'ra snake that dragged him here then took off like a coward when he realized how deep the shit was about to get he'd make sure there was one less space snake. He wanted to be angry at Sam for talking him into doing it but he understood her motivations. He'd have done exactly the same for her.
He'd probably never see her again and that thought was singularly depressing. Of all his regrets, that was the one that swam to the surface every time he was thrown in his cell. Well, until Daniel showed up to keep him company. He wouldn't tell him how she was either which told him a lot anyway. She'd lost a brother and now… whatever he was to her. Jack had his hopes about that situation but his luck appears to have run out for good unless Daniel could pull one hell of a giant rabbit out of his ass this time.
He wouldn't put it past him.
Daniel kept trying to talk Jack into ascension but Daniel didn't get it. Jack couldn't ascend. Not because he didn't understand how or didn't want to. He couldn't do it because he'd spend the rest of Sam's life watching over her then the rest of eternity lamenting her loss when she inevitably died of old age.
Life without her was not worth living.
He'd end up punished like Orlin or worse. And for what? For being in love with someone? What a stupid reason to be punished. The Alterans were as bad as the military in that regard. He probably wouldn't even get in trouble about Sam first, it would probably be killing Anubus or some other Goa'uld. Jack just wasn't the kind of guy that could watch people he cared about being slaughtered from afar. Not if he had the power to stop it.
He was being dragged back to the torture table. Time for more fun and games with ol' Bocce. Great.
Jack enjoyed the fact that acting dumb seemed to piss the snake off. He was never getting the codes and he didn't have anything that would actually get Jack's cooperation as Daniel was a glowey space squid now and Sam was out of his reach. Nope, all space Ba'al had was cutting remarks and torture.
Hours of excruciating torture. And then a sarcophagus that Daniel warned him would make him addicted eventually. But Jack had kicked addiction before.
The acid dripped on him reached his heart once again. And then everything just disappears.
Until next time.
And the time after that.