(Note: This is kinda short, but then again, all the chapters will be. 1-7)
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~*~Chapter 3~*~
Daniel was exhausted but couldn't sleep. He lie against the gray wall, trying to ignore his protesting neck muscles against the angle he was at but couldn't seem to get comfortable enough to sleep. He just began to get relaxed, when he felt a chill wash over him and was startled to see a woman appear a few feet away from him. What shocked him more was the fact that she wasn't standing, but floating a good three feet off the ground.
'Floating?' She looked like a, "Ghost!" Daniel yelled, backing up as far as he could go against the wall behind him.
The woman, whose age was hard to tell, just looked at him with a sad look on her face. "I am called the Soul Keeper. You are called Jackson?" she asked as she glided towards him.
Daniel nodded and swallowed, "Daniel if you want," he said, not sure what to say. His above normal brain didn't seem to be thinking very well at the moment.
She cocked her head studying him a moment and said, "Spirit actually."
Now it was Daniel's turn to look confused as he asked, "What?"
She smiled and pointed at herself. "No, I am a spirit, not a ghost. I am not dead. Not fully anyway."
Daniel looked doubtful, but nodded. "What do you want? Why did you trap me here? Who did you say you were again?"
She raised a hand, stopping his questions, and merely said, "I will answer all of your questions, because I fear I have done a great injustice to you.
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After sometime, Daniel finally began to understand more of what was happening and asked the things he most wanted to know. "Will I be able to get back into my body, and if I do, will I be the same?"
The Keeper nodded slowly and smiled kindly. "It is possible to get back into your body yes, and you would be fine."
The answers suddenly Daniel feel slightly better, but he didn't know where to go from there.
"How do we get back to my planet then?"
She closed her eyes a moment and said, "You have other people of your kind that came back. They are in the same room you were in right now. Soon though, they will be leaving because they are frightened that what happened to you could happen to them. But you must know that I would not."
"I know," Daniel said gently. He'd just met this spirit, but from her story, he could hardly blame her for what she'd done. From what she's said, Daniel had a pretty good idea of who the invaders had been…
Out of curiosity he asked, "Can they see you?"
She merely shook her head. "No, they cannot, and neither will they be able to see you. We will use the ring they came through to follow them to your home Daniel, and only I will be able to get you back into your true body."
With determination, Daniel nodded. "Ok then, let's do it."
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Captain Jacob Hall of SG-8 blinked multiple times to clear the dust out of his eyes before he began to use the DHD to dial home. They'd been searching five hours for anyone, or anything, to help the find out what was done to Dr. Jackson, but had been ordered 'not' to touch anything. As he dialed, a chill crept up his spine and finally hit his arms, causing him to shiver violently for a moment.
'What was that?!' he asked himself suddenly as the wormhole blossomed in front of him.
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It had taken a good thirty minutes for Daniel to get in the habit of not walking, but gliding. For the Soul Keeper, it was easy, but she knew Daniel had never had to actually float anywhere, so it would be a shock for him. She had prepared him to see the outside, but no matter how prepared, he felt dizzy as he found himself back in the ruins, but still in the blue, almost translucent form floating off the ground. He and the Soul Keeper had watched SG-8 gather evidence, and finally, it was time to go back to Earth. As one of them dialed the DHD, Daniel experimentally put a hand on a man's back, causing his hand to go though, and see the Captain shiver.
'This is turning out to be a
strange and stranger mission every second.'
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