Of Two Minds
Part Three
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Jack O'Neill gripped the steeringwheel of his pick up tightly with both hands as his mind tried to wrap itself around the information newly supplied by Sam Carter.
"You...She..." He fumbled for words in the dark.
"What?"
"Jana Desal is in fact a Gaou'ld O'Neill." Teal'c replied calmly from the back seat.
"Ok" Jack said, desperatly trying to sort everything out.
"Carter? Aren't you suposed to be able to tell these things? You too Teal'c I mean, aren't you supposed to be able to sence them or whatever??"
"Normally yes but-"
"Then how in the HELL," Jack said almost excusingly, "Did you not notice she was a snake head??"
"Well sir I...Yes sir" She said talking into her phone once more.
"Right sir, we're on our way. Sorry Colonel," she said.
"Anyways, I don't know, usually I can sence a symbote right away, but this time... it was almost as if she were hiding her presence from us, but chose to reveal herself at the last minute I'm not sure how, or why, but it was her." Teal'c nodded.
"I too sensed it. It was coming from JanaDesal."
Jack opened his mouth to ask if they were totally sure, but closed it, even he could tell something had been off about her that night."
"Ok, so Daniels girlfriend is a Gould." He said.
"What now?"
"Well sir, General Hammond, along with two SG teams are heading over to his apartment building right now to try and head them off. We're supposed to meet them there."
"Ok so it's on to Daniels." Jack said and paused.
"Uh...has anyone actually BEEN to his place since his housewarming? I've been meaning to stop by but..." he trailed off into silence and neither Teal'c nor Sam said a word. "So...I'm thinking that's a no??"
Jana was giggling. Again. She absently played with the radio knobs, not saying a word. Daniel took the opportunity to do some thinking, while pretending to be concentrating very hard on his driving. Jana's "Carpe Deim" explanation for her change in attitude didn't sit well with him. This was not the woman he had intended to have dinner with. Sure, this Jana was fun and spontaneous, but thats not really what had drawn him to her in the first place. The woman he had first met, the one he wanted so badly to get to know was no where in the vicinity. He found himself recalling fondly their first meeting.
He'd been having trouble opening his mail box, just days after moving into the building. He'd pulled the key this way and that, and frustrated was about to give up when he'd heard a soft voice.
"You must be new, here," She'd said,
"Like this."
She inserted a key into her own box and while turning it slowly clockwise applied pressure to the upper left corner. The door opened easily.
"Now you try"
Daniel applied the same movement and his opened as well.
"Thanks!"
She'd just smiled.
Pulling out the mail he noticed her holding the latest copy of Egyptology In Middle America and, upon asking her why learned that she loved reading about other cultures. He'd laughed and showed her he too had a copy, along with Ruan Weekly and The Romanic Influential.
"I'm Dr. Daniel Jackson"
"Dr., of what?"
"Archeology." Her eyes had brightened at that
"Really? How fascinating! Oh.." she'd winced slightly
"I'm Jana, Jana Desal"
When they realized they lived on the same floor they had journeyed that way together, all the while discussing various ancient cultures and their influence on the modern day world. She'd admitted a certain fondness for Ancient Rome
"I would have liked to be apart of the people who built the first roads" She'd said, but added that Norse mythology was another of her favorites, she loved they way they described their gods.
"If I could meet one god of the ancient world, it would be Thor" Daniel had nearly choked, having actually met the Alien Azgard Thor on several occasions.
In parting at her door she'd accepted his invitation to "pop by sometime" with an innocent cautiousness that was so completely disarming that he had to smile.
"It was very nice to meet you Dr. Jackson"
"Please, call me Daniel"
But she'd mearly flashed a small smile while opening her door.
"Good Night...Dr. Jackson"
That was the first time he'd experienced what he would come to call "the sence". More then a feeling, he couldn't quiet describe what it was. It remained constantly with him, like a distant echo in the recesses of his mind; one that became stronger and clearer the closer he was to Jana. It had almost become a part of him, a tiny voice in the back of his head, but only as long as he was on the planet. The moment he went off world, it was gone, and though he couldn't feel it, he felt very keenly it's absence, and a great abiding loneliness would fill him. It would return however, the moment he stepped back through the Stargate onto earth, and he always welcomed it's coming, like a restorative to something missing in his soul. He didn't know what it was that made him feel the way he did, only that somehow, in some strange unexplainable way, he was very connected and not just in a physical way, to a girl who lived just three doors down.
Now, with her sitting less the a foot away, Daniel thought his head should be humming, but he felt nothing.
"Strange"
"What's strange?"
Daniel silently cursed at himself for speaking out loud. He looked around frantic, for a plausible explanation. They were pulling into the parking garage of their building.
"How fast we got home" he said quickly, hoping that he didn't sound too lame.
"Yea, that was a fast drive. Look" she said turning in her seat so she was facing him.
"I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"For being quiet the whole way home, for not being able to think of a thing to say now that we are alone...for not being the person I think you were expecting me to be."
Daniel put the car in park and turned off the engine.
"Jana I hadn't expected you to be any certain way, that's the beauty of the first date, you get to learn about a person you really didn't know before. I'm glad to have had the opportunity.
"Really?"
Daniel looked her over, she was chewing her lower lip in the most adorable fashion, as if waiting for a punishment.
"Really."
"So, your not going to think I'm some kind of freak and never speak to me again??" "Why would I do that?"
"Well.. Guys do that sometimes."
"I'm not every guy."
Jana smiled.
"I know. So" she added as they made their way inside.
"Do you want to stop by my place??"
Daniel swallowed. Did he want to? They stepped into the elevator and he pushed the number 8.
"Jana, I don't know... I mean I have to be out early in the morning and all."
They stepped out onto their floor. And Jana opened her eyes wide and then gave a little laugh.
"I didn't mean for THAT silly! I'm not that kind of girl, what do you take me for? I meant for tea, and talking. Maybe without all of your friends around I won't be so nervous and act so goofy."
Daniel glanced her way, she appeared sincere, earnest even.
"Just tea?" She smiled at him, flashing her dimples.
"And talk." Daniel shook his head as she opened the door.
"Ok."
The apartment was quiet when they entered, and Daniels eyes were just adjusting to the dimness when Jana turned on the light, which flooded the kitchen. He stepped into the middle of the room as Jana took off her jacket and tossed it onto a chair.
"Minty Rose, or Peach Passion?" She asked.
"Um.. The mint please"
Daniel heard the rattling of dishes and the sound of water being put in the teapot, but Jana didn't speak. Daniel again retreated into his mind, searching for the sence that had become so familiar to him, but it was nowhere to be found. Daniel almost didn't hear Jana as she approached him from behind. He turned at her touch on his shoulder. "I must thank you in advance Dr. Daniel Jackson" She said coking her head to the side, and giving him a long slow once over. Daniel had the uncomfortable feeling that he was being sized up, like a bug under a microscope.
"For what?"
He took a tiny step backward in surprise as her eyes momentarily glowed, and her voice changed.
"For giving me the opportunity to exact my revenge."
In an instant she had kicked him hard in the shin, digging her heal into his flesh. He fell to the floor and she was kneeling on top of him in a flash, her knees boring down upon his neck, constricting the airway. He gasped, trying unsuccessfully to breath. Gently, almost lovingly she traced the lines of his face with her fingertip.
"See him suffer?" She whispered softly, her face very nears his.
Daniel opened and closed his mouth, but no sound came out.
"Watch the life flow from his veins. See the fear in his eyes? Watch Jana, as he accepts the death you give him."
Darkness was beginning to creep into Daniel's vision as she struggled to hang on. Through the fog he thought he saw a blinding flash, thought he heard a voice. But as he tried to answer everything blended into peaceful oblivion.
Sometime later when Daniel opened his eyes again, the first thing he saw was Jack playing idly with his iv bag. For a moment Daniel wondered if they had wondered back in time, as it had not been the first time Jack had done so.
"Jack? Please tell me I'm not still recovering from appendicitus" He pleaded, his voice barley addible.
"Daniel, buddy, how you feeling..what? Apen..what?" Jack shook his head.
"You're here proving once again that you are extremely hard to kill me boy'o"
Daniel shook his head, trying to remember, but all he got was a headache.
"Who's trying to kill me?"
"What you mean today?" Jack smiled.
"Something like that...who?"
"Your girly friend Jana that's who."
Suddenly images flooded Daniels mind. Being in Jana's apartment having tea, hearing her voice change, bing kicked to the ground, hearing her whisper to him....
"Where is she? Where's Jana? Please Jack" Daniel said softly
'PLEASE tell me you didn't kill her."
"We didn't kill her. She's being kept in lockdown."
"Ohthankgod" Daniel mumbled bringing himself into sitting position.
"What happened?"
"Well" Jack said, settling onto the edge of the bed.
"Sam and Teal'c got a sence of the symbote, and we called out the calvary. General Hammond and SG's 2 and 11 met us at your apartment and after finding your place empty knocked down the doors of the apartments that were three doors to either side of you."
"Well I imagine old Mr. And Mrs. Millens weren't to happy about that." Jack laughed out loud.
"Not really, but they got over it, you know how… compensating the military can be."
"So what happened then?"
"We kicked down the door and found her kneeling into you...literally. You were nearly purple. So I zatted her, just once" he added at Daniel alarmed look
"and then Teal'c and SG2 neutralized her. By then you'd already lost consciousness, but you were breathing so we brought you here."
Daniel pulled back the covers and got wobbly to his feet.
"Woaw" he said softly as the room begin swimming again.
"Thats the second time that's happened to me today."
He pulled on his shoes, and Jack looked on inqusitivly.
"What'cha doin?" He asked.
"I'm going to see her." Jack stood in to doorway blocking Daniel's exit.
"Do you think thats really a good idea, you recovering from suffocation and all."
"Jack, please get out of my way...I...I need to see her." Jack shrugged his shoulders and moved from the doorway.
"Suit yourself."
Jana was being held in security lockup. Besides being in bars, their were lazars to track her every movement. Guards stood in each of the four corners and by the door, and Daniel found Teal'c sitting directly in front of her beyond the bars.
"DanielJackson" He said bowing his head slightly.
"I am pleased to see that you are well again."
Daniel ambled into the room slowly, his footsteps still a little unsure. Jana's eyes widened as she gazed out at him expressionless.
"You live yet." She said. Teal'c turned sharply towards her.
"That is the first she has spoken DanielJackson" he said, offering Daniel his seat.
Daniel sat and surveyed the Goau'ld before him.
"Who are you?" he asked after a time. Jana sneered.
"Why should I tell you, one who would take great pleasure in my destruction?" Daniel shook his head.
"I would do no such thing."
"Wouldn't you? After I took such great pleasure in almost having yours?"
Daniel looked her over thoughtfully.
"Why me? What have I done to provoke you?" But Jana mearly set her jaw.
"I will speak no more."
Daniel stared at her hard, trying to will her to give him the answers he sought. But she just stared back at him, smiling faintly.
And then it happened. The room began to darken, the walls started spinning until they blended together in one fluid picture. And then it stopped, and he was once again Looking into Jana's cell, but he was not the only one. Without turning his head he knew she was there, felt her presence even before she began to speak.
"How strange our roads do weave and cross on the way to the great path."
Oma Desala had not changed. Daniel wondered if someone like her ever did. A being as old and as powerful as she, could she ever be anything other then what she was?
"Oma." He said turning. She smiled.
She even looked the same. Those anciently bread features, the golden hair the shone in the light that was always surrounding her, those eyes, so full of wisdom. He was suddenly struck by the familiarity in Jana and Oma's names. Oma Desala...Jana Desal. Was their a connection? As if she heard his thoughts she shook her head.
"You know Jana don't you?" He asked.
"She's someone you ascended, isn't she?" Oma paused a moment before answering.
"If you know the candle light is flame-"
"I know I know, the meal was cooked a long time ago." Daniel said rolling his eyes.
"Could we please bypass the cones? I really need some answers here."
Oma mimicked his eye rolling and came to stand along side him.
"When I was young, before being what I am now...she was my sister." She said softly.
"Before you...you mean when you were human? Before you ascended??"
"Yes"
"But how...how old is she?" Oma chuckled.
"Older then I."
"Then...why is she here?"
"That I cannot tell you." Daniel scratched his head.
"Why?"
"You know why." Daniel began to feel impatient with this, the most ancient of women.
"Because you can't interfere? Isn't that kind of what you're doing right now??"
Oma smiled.
"Was it not you who gave Teal'c and the others the idea by which to free Colonel O'Neill from the Goau'ld Baal? Was it not you who asked SG-1 to aid the Abydonians when Anubis was looking for the eye?" Daniel flushed.
"Yea... but if you remember I got kicked out of the higher plane for that last one."
"Only when you took action against Anubis yourself." Oma continued.
"Call this a page from your book."
"Why are you telling me this?"
"Because" Oma said softly.
"She is still my sister." She placed her hand on one of the bars, almost wearily.
"She has no memory of who she was before, like you when she fell that was taken from her. But you must not let the Gaou'ld within her have access to those memories."
"Why?" Oma sighed.
"When she was cast out, she was not fully returned. She still retains much of what she once was within her. If the Goau'ld were to have access..." She trailed off.
"It would be like Anubis" Daniel finished for her. Oma nodded.
"Who is it?"
"Search your mind" She said placing a hand on Daniels cheek.
"The answers are within you."
"But Oma-"
Oma Desala was gone.
Daniel blinked several times as the world slid back into focus. He noticed Teal'c watching him closely.
"What is your train of though DanielJackson?" Daniel pulled himself into a standing position and motioned for Teal'c to follow him. Once outside he sighed.
"I need answers Teal'c, and apparently, they are within me."
"I do not understand."
"You have guided me through Kel-nor-eem before" He said.
"Could you do it again?"
Teal'c nodded.
"You must open your mind. See the darkness" Teal'c said.
They sat cross legged in Teal'cs room, the only light coming from the single solitary candle between them.
"Focus on the candle. Feel the darkness surround you." he continued.
Daniel kept his eyes closed but focused through his lids on the solitary light source.
"Pull it close. Like a blanket wrap it around you....let go of the outside world....reach deep within....."
The light was dying but Daniel was not afraid. In his mind her ran towards the darkness and jumped as if diving into a pool, to go to whatever lay beyond.
It was like a soundless movie. Pictures flooded his mind, and the emotions to go with them. The Anger, the fear, the deep hatred....
And then it was over. Daniel was sweating and panting hard when his eyes popped open.
"DanielJackson, are you ill?"
"No Teal'c I'm fine. Let's go find General Hammond and the others."
"May I enquire as to why you request their presence?"
"Because" Daniel said resolutely.
"The Goau'ld, I know who it is. He is called Chamdar."
End of Part III
Part Three
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Jack O'Neill gripped the steeringwheel of his pick up tightly with both hands as his mind tried to wrap itself around the information newly supplied by Sam Carter.
"You...She..." He fumbled for words in the dark.
"What?"
"Jana Desal is in fact a Gaou'ld O'Neill." Teal'c replied calmly from the back seat.
"Ok" Jack said, desperatly trying to sort everything out.
"Carter? Aren't you suposed to be able to tell these things? You too Teal'c I mean, aren't you supposed to be able to sence them or whatever??"
"Normally yes but-"
"Then how in the HELL," Jack said almost excusingly, "Did you not notice she was a snake head??"
"Well sir I...Yes sir" She said talking into her phone once more.
"Right sir, we're on our way. Sorry Colonel," she said.
"Anyways, I don't know, usually I can sence a symbote right away, but this time... it was almost as if she were hiding her presence from us, but chose to reveal herself at the last minute I'm not sure how, or why, but it was her." Teal'c nodded.
"I too sensed it. It was coming from JanaDesal."
Jack opened his mouth to ask if they were totally sure, but closed it, even he could tell something had been off about her that night."
"Ok, so Daniels girlfriend is a Gould." He said.
"What now?"
"Well sir, General Hammond, along with two SG teams are heading over to his apartment building right now to try and head them off. We're supposed to meet them there."
"Ok so it's on to Daniels." Jack said and paused.
"Uh...has anyone actually BEEN to his place since his housewarming? I've been meaning to stop by but..." he trailed off into silence and neither Teal'c nor Sam said a word. "So...I'm thinking that's a no??"
Jana was giggling. Again. She absently played with the radio knobs, not saying a word. Daniel took the opportunity to do some thinking, while pretending to be concentrating very hard on his driving. Jana's "Carpe Deim" explanation for her change in attitude didn't sit well with him. This was not the woman he had intended to have dinner with. Sure, this Jana was fun and spontaneous, but thats not really what had drawn him to her in the first place. The woman he had first met, the one he wanted so badly to get to know was no where in the vicinity. He found himself recalling fondly their first meeting.
He'd been having trouble opening his mail box, just days after moving into the building. He'd pulled the key this way and that, and frustrated was about to give up when he'd heard a soft voice.
"You must be new, here," She'd said,
"Like this."
She inserted a key into her own box and while turning it slowly clockwise applied pressure to the upper left corner. The door opened easily.
"Now you try"
Daniel applied the same movement and his opened as well.
"Thanks!"
She'd just smiled.
Pulling out the mail he noticed her holding the latest copy of Egyptology In Middle America and, upon asking her why learned that she loved reading about other cultures. He'd laughed and showed her he too had a copy, along with Ruan Weekly and The Romanic Influential.
"I'm Dr. Daniel Jackson"
"Dr., of what?"
"Archeology." Her eyes had brightened at that
"Really? How fascinating! Oh.." she'd winced slightly
"I'm Jana, Jana Desal"
When they realized they lived on the same floor they had journeyed that way together, all the while discussing various ancient cultures and their influence on the modern day world. She'd admitted a certain fondness for Ancient Rome
"I would have liked to be apart of the people who built the first roads" She'd said, but added that Norse mythology was another of her favorites, she loved they way they described their gods.
"If I could meet one god of the ancient world, it would be Thor" Daniel had nearly choked, having actually met the Alien Azgard Thor on several occasions.
In parting at her door she'd accepted his invitation to "pop by sometime" with an innocent cautiousness that was so completely disarming that he had to smile.
"It was very nice to meet you Dr. Jackson"
"Please, call me Daniel"
But she'd mearly flashed a small smile while opening her door.
"Good Night...Dr. Jackson"
That was the first time he'd experienced what he would come to call "the sence". More then a feeling, he couldn't quiet describe what it was. It remained constantly with him, like a distant echo in the recesses of his mind; one that became stronger and clearer the closer he was to Jana. It had almost become a part of him, a tiny voice in the back of his head, but only as long as he was on the planet. The moment he went off world, it was gone, and though he couldn't feel it, he felt very keenly it's absence, and a great abiding loneliness would fill him. It would return however, the moment he stepped back through the Stargate onto earth, and he always welcomed it's coming, like a restorative to something missing in his soul. He didn't know what it was that made him feel the way he did, only that somehow, in some strange unexplainable way, he was very connected and not just in a physical way, to a girl who lived just three doors down.
Now, with her sitting less the a foot away, Daniel thought his head should be humming, but he felt nothing.
"Strange"
"What's strange?"
Daniel silently cursed at himself for speaking out loud. He looked around frantic, for a plausible explanation. They were pulling into the parking garage of their building.
"How fast we got home" he said quickly, hoping that he didn't sound too lame.
"Yea, that was a fast drive. Look" she said turning in her seat so she was facing him.
"I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"For being quiet the whole way home, for not being able to think of a thing to say now that we are alone...for not being the person I think you were expecting me to be."
Daniel put the car in park and turned off the engine.
"Jana I hadn't expected you to be any certain way, that's the beauty of the first date, you get to learn about a person you really didn't know before. I'm glad to have had the opportunity.
"Really?"
Daniel looked her over, she was chewing her lower lip in the most adorable fashion, as if waiting for a punishment.
"Really."
"So, your not going to think I'm some kind of freak and never speak to me again??" "Why would I do that?"
"Well.. Guys do that sometimes."
"I'm not every guy."
Jana smiled.
"I know. So" she added as they made their way inside.
"Do you want to stop by my place??"
Daniel swallowed. Did he want to? They stepped into the elevator and he pushed the number 8.
"Jana, I don't know... I mean I have to be out early in the morning and all."
They stepped out onto their floor. And Jana opened her eyes wide and then gave a little laugh.
"I didn't mean for THAT silly! I'm not that kind of girl, what do you take me for? I meant for tea, and talking. Maybe without all of your friends around I won't be so nervous and act so goofy."
Daniel glanced her way, she appeared sincere, earnest even.
"Just tea?" She smiled at him, flashing her dimples.
"And talk." Daniel shook his head as she opened the door.
"Ok."
The apartment was quiet when they entered, and Daniels eyes were just adjusting to the dimness when Jana turned on the light, which flooded the kitchen. He stepped into the middle of the room as Jana took off her jacket and tossed it onto a chair.
"Minty Rose, or Peach Passion?" She asked.
"Um.. The mint please"
Daniel heard the rattling of dishes and the sound of water being put in the teapot, but Jana didn't speak. Daniel again retreated into his mind, searching for the sence that had become so familiar to him, but it was nowhere to be found. Daniel almost didn't hear Jana as she approached him from behind. He turned at her touch on his shoulder. "I must thank you in advance Dr. Daniel Jackson" She said coking her head to the side, and giving him a long slow once over. Daniel had the uncomfortable feeling that he was being sized up, like a bug under a microscope.
"For what?"
He took a tiny step backward in surprise as her eyes momentarily glowed, and her voice changed.
"For giving me the opportunity to exact my revenge."
In an instant she had kicked him hard in the shin, digging her heal into his flesh. He fell to the floor and she was kneeling on top of him in a flash, her knees boring down upon his neck, constricting the airway. He gasped, trying unsuccessfully to breath. Gently, almost lovingly she traced the lines of his face with her fingertip.
"See him suffer?" She whispered softly, her face very nears his.
Daniel opened and closed his mouth, but no sound came out.
"Watch the life flow from his veins. See the fear in his eyes? Watch Jana, as he accepts the death you give him."
Darkness was beginning to creep into Daniel's vision as she struggled to hang on. Through the fog he thought he saw a blinding flash, thought he heard a voice. But as he tried to answer everything blended into peaceful oblivion.
Sometime later when Daniel opened his eyes again, the first thing he saw was Jack playing idly with his iv bag. For a moment Daniel wondered if they had wondered back in time, as it had not been the first time Jack had done so.
"Jack? Please tell me I'm not still recovering from appendicitus" He pleaded, his voice barley addible.
"Daniel, buddy, how you feeling..what? Apen..what?" Jack shook his head.
"You're here proving once again that you are extremely hard to kill me boy'o"
Daniel shook his head, trying to remember, but all he got was a headache.
"Who's trying to kill me?"
"What you mean today?" Jack smiled.
"Something like that...who?"
"Your girly friend Jana that's who."
Suddenly images flooded Daniels mind. Being in Jana's apartment having tea, hearing her voice change, bing kicked to the ground, hearing her whisper to him....
"Where is she? Where's Jana? Please Jack" Daniel said softly
'PLEASE tell me you didn't kill her."
"We didn't kill her. She's being kept in lockdown."
"Ohthankgod" Daniel mumbled bringing himself into sitting position.
"What happened?"
"Well" Jack said, settling onto the edge of the bed.
"Sam and Teal'c got a sence of the symbote, and we called out the calvary. General Hammond and SG's 2 and 11 met us at your apartment and after finding your place empty knocked down the doors of the apartments that were three doors to either side of you."
"Well I imagine old Mr. And Mrs. Millens weren't to happy about that." Jack laughed out loud.
"Not really, but they got over it, you know how… compensating the military can be."
"So what happened then?"
"We kicked down the door and found her kneeling into you...literally. You were nearly purple. So I zatted her, just once" he added at Daniel alarmed look
"and then Teal'c and SG2 neutralized her. By then you'd already lost consciousness, but you were breathing so we brought you here."
Daniel pulled back the covers and got wobbly to his feet.
"Woaw" he said softly as the room begin swimming again.
"Thats the second time that's happened to me today."
He pulled on his shoes, and Jack looked on inqusitivly.
"What'cha doin?" He asked.
"I'm going to see her." Jack stood in to doorway blocking Daniel's exit.
"Do you think thats really a good idea, you recovering from suffocation and all."
"Jack, please get out of my way...I...I need to see her." Jack shrugged his shoulders and moved from the doorway.
"Suit yourself."
Jana was being held in security lockup. Besides being in bars, their were lazars to track her every movement. Guards stood in each of the four corners and by the door, and Daniel found Teal'c sitting directly in front of her beyond the bars.
"DanielJackson" He said bowing his head slightly.
"I am pleased to see that you are well again."
Daniel ambled into the room slowly, his footsteps still a little unsure. Jana's eyes widened as she gazed out at him expressionless.
"You live yet." She said. Teal'c turned sharply towards her.
"That is the first she has spoken DanielJackson" he said, offering Daniel his seat.
Daniel sat and surveyed the Goau'ld before him.
"Who are you?" he asked after a time. Jana sneered.
"Why should I tell you, one who would take great pleasure in my destruction?" Daniel shook his head.
"I would do no such thing."
"Wouldn't you? After I took such great pleasure in almost having yours?"
Daniel looked her over thoughtfully.
"Why me? What have I done to provoke you?" But Jana mearly set her jaw.
"I will speak no more."
Daniel stared at her hard, trying to will her to give him the answers he sought. But she just stared back at him, smiling faintly.
And then it happened. The room began to darken, the walls started spinning until they blended together in one fluid picture. And then it stopped, and he was once again Looking into Jana's cell, but he was not the only one. Without turning his head he knew she was there, felt her presence even before she began to speak.
"How strange our roads do weave and cross on the way to the great path."
Oma Desala had not changed. Daniel wondered if someone like her ever did. A being as old and as powerful as she, could she ever be anything other then what she was?
"Oma." He said turning. She smiled.
She even looked the same. Those anciently bread features, the golden hair the shone in the light that was always surrounding her, those eyes, so full of wisdom. He was suddenly struck by the familiarity in Jana and Oma's names. Oma Desala...Jana Desal. Was their a connection? As if she heard his thoughts she shook her head.
"You know Jana don't you?" He asked.
"She's someone you ascended, isn't she?" Oma paused a moment before answering.
"If you know the candle light is flame-"
"I know I know, the meal was cooked a long time ago." Daniel said rolling his eyes.
"Could we please bypass the cones? I really need some answers here."
Oma mimicked his eye rolling and came to stand along side him.
"When I was young, before being what I am now...she was my sister." She said softly.
"Before you...you mean when you were human? Before you ascended??"
"Yes"
"But how...how old is she?" Oma chuckled.
"Older then I."
"Then...why is she here?"
"That I cannot tell you." Daniel scratched his head.
"Why?"
"You know why." Daniel began to feel impatient with this, the most ancient of women.
"Because you can't interfere? Isn't that kind of what you're doing right now??"
Oma smiled.
"Was it not you who gave Teal'c and the others the idea by which to free Colonel O'Neill from the Goau'ld Baal? Was it not you who asked SG-1 to aid the Abydonians when Anubis was looking for the eye?" Daniel flushed.
"Yea... but if you remember I got kicked out of the higher plane for that last one."
"Only when you took action against Anubis yourself." Oma continued.
"Call this a page from your book."
"Why are you telling me this?"
"Because" Oma said softly.
"She is still my sister." She placed her hand on one of the bars, almost wearily.
"She has no memory of who she was before, like you when she fell that was taken from her. But you must not let the Gaou'ld within her have access to those memories."
"Why?" Oma sighed.
"When she was cast out, she was not fully returned. She still retains much of what she once was within her. If the Goau'ld were to have access..." She trailed off.
"It would be like Anubis" Daniel finished for her. Oma nodded.
"Who is it?"
"Search your mind" She said placing a hand on Daniels cheek.
"The answers are within you."
"But Oma-"
Oma Desala was gone.
Daniel blinked several times as the world slid back into focus. He noticed Teal'c watching him closely.
"What is your train of though DanielJackson?" Daniel pulled himself into a standing position and motioned for Teal'c to follow him. Once outside he sighed.
"I need answers Teal'c, and apparently, they are within me."
"I do not understand."
"You have guided me through Kel-nor-eem before" He said.
"Could you do it again?"
Teal'c nodded.
"You must open your mind. See the darkness" Teal'c said.
They sat cross legged in Teal'cs room, the only light coming from the single solitary candle between them.
"Focus on the candle. Feel the darkness surround you." he continued.
Daniel kept his eyes closed but focused through his lids on the solitary light source.
"Pull it close. Like a blanket wrap it around you....let go of the outside world....reach deep within....."
The light was dying but Daniel was not afraid. In his mind her ran towards the darkness and jumped as if diving into a pool, to go to whatever lay beyond.
It was like a soundless movie. Pictures flooded his mind, and the emotions to go with them. The Anger, the fear, the deep hatred....
And then it was over. Daniel was sweating and panting hard when his eyes popped open.
"DanielJackson, are you ill?"
"No Teal'c I'm fine. Let's go find General Hammond and the others."
"May I enquire as to why you request their presence?"
"Because" Daniel said resolutely.
"The Goau'ld, I know who it is. He is called Chamdar."
End of Part III