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Legacy: Consequences

Part two

'What happened sir?' Sam asked Jack the moment the bathroom door had closed behind him.

'He shot the hostage in the shoulder,' Jack informed her. 'It's not life threatening and we can afford to give it a little longer before we go in with guns blazing and cause more damage.'

'So what now?' Sam asked.

'We wait. It's like he's being controlled by something but he's still in there somewhere, we just need to figure out what's going on and how to get him to take control of himself again.'

Sam nodded, her thoughts returning to the scene in Hammond's office as they listened to the almost hypnotic words being whispered on Daniel's voice mail. Jack had been the first one to recall himself to the present.

'Well that explains where he's gone and what he's trying to do,' Jack had said. 'But I still can't understand why. I mean, Daniel's a smart kid, he wouldn't just hear something like that and disappear. There must be something else going on.'

'Maybe he's not recovered from Dr McKenzie's treatment yet,' Sam suggested. 'Maybe he's still got something in his system which is affecting him. Maybe…' Sam's seemingly unending suggestions on possible scenarios was halted by her CO.

'Carter, please. We all know something odd is going on and my priority is to get Daniel back here and let Dr Fraiser do her stuff. To do that we need to get him out of there in one piece first.'

'Agreed, Colonel.' Hammond had authorised the remainder of SG1 to attend the incident along with SG2.

SG2 were now searching the building to make sure it was clear and checking for other possible means of accessing the bathroom in which Daniel was now situated.

Jack approached one of the security guards who had remained behind at his request and had been standing against the far wall.

'Anything else you can tell us?' Jack asked him.

'Not much,' Simon informed him. 'There aren't any windows and there isn't any other way in or out of there. He's got the office manager in there with him, Alix Noble. He originally grabbed a kid who was here on a work placement scheme from school, Alix persuaded him to let the kid go and take her instead.'

Jack looked surprised and relieved. This confirmed that Daniel still had some control over his actions.

'Thanks, I'll get one of my men to escort you out.' Jack's cell phone starting ringing and he called Teal'c over to perform this task while he answered the call. 'O'Neill.'

'Colonel, it's Dr Fraiser, I've just turned up something in Dr Jackson's most recent blood work. I was checking it again to see if there were any traces of drugs still in his system which could account for this episode and I came across something I can't identify.'

'And you didn't tell us about this before because..?'

'We weren't looking for it, Colonel. It's a completely unknown substance and until I began looking for something out of the ordinary there was no way of knowing it was there.'

'Thanks, Doctor. Let me know if you turn anything else up.' Jack turned to Sam and Teal'c. 'It looks like Daniel's acting under the influence of some kind of drug. We don't know what yet, but we need to be prepared for Daniel behaving irrationally. Now, like I said before, we wait and see what happens.'

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Alix could feel herself being held securely in strong arms, being rocked gently. She could feel someone breathing on her neck, murmuring half to himself and half to her.

'Sha're…I didn't mean to hurt you…You know I would never hurt you…Sha're, why won't you speak to me? Tell me you forgive me…' The voice trailed off and Alix realised that the man who was holding her hostage and had shot her was now acting as though she were someone else.

As she moved, Daniel became aware that she had regained consciousness and looked at her, one hand gently caressing her face. Alix froze, trying to pull away from him, afraid of what he might do to her.

'Sha're, don't be frightened, I didn't mean to hurt you. It was an accident. Sha're…' Alix could feel the arms around her loosening their grip and she scuttled away from him until she was sitting with her back up against the opposite wall, facing her captor. With the movement came the realisation that her shoulder hurt, sharp pains that settled into a manageable throbbing providing she kept still. Taking several deep breaths, she looked into the face of the man watching her.

Alix could see pain in the blue eyes, pain and confusion. Sitting in silence for a few moments she decided she might as well find out what all this was about.

'Who's Sha're?' She asked.

Daniel's head jerked upright as he stared at her. 'How do you know Sha're? She's here isn't she, just like they said?' In that instant his voice hardened, and he seemed to turn into someone else, someone more dangerous.

'I don't know her. You were talking about her just now. Is she someone special?' Alix hazarded a guess at this, remembering the tenderness with which he had spoken about her, even through her fear she had sensed that Sha're was someone he had cared about.

'She's my wife. She was taken from me and they told me she was here, being held against her will.' A look of pain came into his face. 'They told me Dr McKenzie had her and wouldn't release her. He had me here as well and I know he doesn't really understand what was happening. It wasn't my fault I was here, he wouldn't believe it was that thing that got inside me that made me do those things. It wasn't until it got into Teal'c and I got better that they believed me. Jack said it was stress but he thought I was going crazy as well. It was killing Teal'c. Then it got into Dr Fraiser, Sam and Jack. Sam was fine though, Jolinar saved her and she used her blood to make them leave Jack and Dr Fraiser and then Teal'c.'

*Oh my god, he's insane* Alix thought to herself. *I'm not going to get out of here. I need to keep him talking. Help is out there, I just need to keep him talking.*

'Dr McKenzie's not here today, something came up and he had me rearrange his appointments for the next few days,' was what she said. Daniel looked more closely at her as she spoke.

'You work with him?' Daniel exclaimed in an angry voice. 'You know where she is then. Tell me. Tell me! TELL ME!' He spoke the words louder each time, moving across to where she was, shaking her by the shoulders until she gasped out in pain, trying to push him away.

'I don't know where she is. I just manage the administration for Dr McKenzie. I've never heard of a patient of his called Sha're - I know the names of most of his patients and I've never heard of her. You have to believe me. Please believe me.' Alix's voice had started out loudly but gradually diminished to a whisper as Daniel relaxed his grip and slumped back against the far wall, picking up the gun he had just dropped, looking at it curiously.

'You're right,' Daniel whispered in response. 'I know she's not here, I know Apophis has taken her as his Queen. I know she can't be here. But I heard the message telling me she was here and I just wanted her back so badly, I guess I just didn't think…' His voice trailed off and he appeared to be lost in thought. Alix could sense something strange was going on. Her instincts were telling her that there was more going on here than met the eye and in spite of what had already taken place, she could feel a sympathy for this strange man who seemed to be fighting against something that was trying to control him. She also had a strong feeling that he wasn't crazy as she had first thought.

'Who's Apophis?' Alix asked him, figuring that he seemed to be more in control of himself when he spoke about his missing wife.

'He's a goa'uld. A false god.' Seeing Alix's mystified look he explained further. 'The goa'uld are a race of parasitical beings that take humans as hosts, control them and behave like gods. They're cruel and don't care anything for the individual. To them humans are just servants, there to do their bidding.'

'I can't say I've ever heard of them. Are they some kind of cult?' Alix asked curiously.

'No, they're alien beings. They live on other planets. We go through the Stargate, what they call the Chappa'ai. It's like a portal that takes you to other worlds.' Daniel explained, the lack of control over his own mind making him careless.

'You're kidding right?' Although Daniel seemed to believe what he was saying Alix couldn't bring herself to believe such nonsense.

'I know it sounds crazy but it is the truth. Sha're isn't even from this planet. I met her when we first got the Stargate open and she was given to me as a gift.' A smile crossed Daniel's face as he recalled the idyllic year he had spent on Abydos before Jack had been sent to fetch him back again. 'We had one wonderful year together, then I unburied the 'gate on Abydos and Jack came to fetch me home. I opened the 'gate and Apophis came and stole her from me. It's my fault and I'll do anything to get her back.'

The look on Daniel's face made Alix believe what she was being told, or at least a part of it. She couldn't quite believe the bit about other worlds and aliens but the rest was the truth, she was sure of it. And the more Daniel was talking, the more he seemed to be in control.

'Ok, I get that your wife is missing, but what has that got to do with Dr McKenzie?'

'A message on my phone said she was here. I don't know why I believed it. It's not very likely, but I had this overpowering feeling that I had to come rescue her and kill Dr McKenzie. Me? Killing someone? I'm always trying to talk Jack into looking for the diplomatic solution, I couldn't do something like that.' Daniel looked puzzled, as though he were trying to fight through a fog of confusion, allowing his true self to surface.

'This Jack - isn't he the one who just came in?' Daniel nodded. 'He's in the army or something isn't he?'

'Air force.'

'And you…?' Alix asked.

'I'm a civilian. I'm an archaeologist, anthropologist and linguist. I also got the Stargate working in the first place. The Air force tried to figure it out for years, then I was brought in on it and it only took me a couple of weeks.'

'I see. Assuming this is all true, should you really be telling me this?'

Daniel just stared at her and Alix saw something happening. His face shuttered again momentarily, but this time she could see the real Daniel trying to fight back, making a conscious effort to control himself. Just as it looked like he was winning he started shaking, his body going stiff as he began convulsing, his eyes rolling back into their sockets. Moving as quickly she could, ignoring the pain shooting through her arm, she reached Daniel, grabbed his glasses from his face to prevent him from hurting himself with them and reached for the gun which she found to be in an unbreakable grip.

Daniel lashed out instinctively, the barrel of the gun cracking against the side of Alix's head, knocking her backwards and momentarily stunning her. Quickly pulling herself together she realised that the convulsions had now stopped, Daniel's body completely relaxed. She took the gun from his now limp hand and kicked it to the far side of the room, anxiously checking for a pulse.

Finding nothing, she bent over him and could not detect any indication that he was breathing either. Without any further thought for her own situation or injuries she yelled out for assistance and began CPR.

To be continued…