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Nearly 24 hours later, an amazed SG1 stepped back onto Earth.
"SG1. Welcome home. Debriefing is in one hour. I trust you don't need to go to the infirmary?" General Hammond greeted his first team.
"No sir, we're fine!" Replied a pleased but slightly worried Colonel Jack O'Neil, as Daniel bounded out of the room, not even glancing at a confused General Hammond. Sam, Teal'c and Jack followed, but at a slightly slower, and in Teal'c's case, more dignified, speed, but nevertheless, heading for the same place.
As Daniel ran on ahead of his friends, his heart sang with joy! If he was right, if he'd read the walls correctly, he could find her! He could get to his wife! Daniel had found a way to rescue Sha're! Yet still there was a part of Daniel that doubted, doubted if he would be there, doubted if she would be there. Even doubted that it even existed. However, that very small part of Daniel was surrounded by hope, love and need. It was soon engulfed by a picture of Sha're's beautiful, shining face, as Daniel rushed into his quarters and gazed at the promising face of his beloved Sha're.
That was how Sam, Jack and Teal'c found Daniel when they entered his rooms.
"Daniel... Daniel are you shore that you read those inscriptions properly, are you positive?" Sam was very worried about her friend. She knew he had dreamed of finding Sha're again before every mission. Was it just possible that this time he had manipulated the words to say what he wanted, not what was actually written? He had been in a terrible state this morning. The whole thing could mean something quite different!
"Daniel Jackson, it is indeed possible that you gave some of the figures the wrong meaning in your haste to find Sha're." Teal'c pointed out.
At Teal'c's words, though, Daniel looked so pained, that Jack could not bear to see him so lost, so, even though he didn't believe it entirely himself, he came to Daniel's defence. "Agh, c'mon you guys! Daniel's the best linguist in the world! Of course he's right." Daniel smiled gratefully at Jack and turned his thoughts back to Sha're. If he hadn't, he would have noticed Jack's sad face and his beaten shrug to Sam and Teal'c, who were not looking best pleased with him.
"Well, SG1, I presume you were successful in exploring P3X 182?" General Hammond greeting SG1 as they all seated themselves around the table in the debriefing room.
"Yes sir." Jack answered warily.
"Sir, Daniel read something on the walls."
"Yes, well I presumed he would Major Carter." Replied General Hammond with a frown. No matter what he said, he could tell that this was important to them all. He looked expectantly at his teams' faces, and was studying O'Neil's when he heard Daniel start to speak.
"Um, General Hammond, I read something on the walls, which may ultimately lead to finding... to finding Sha're." Daniel looked up as he finished his sentence. He was overwhelmed with the look of shock and relief radiating from General Hammond's face that he looked down and started taking apart his pen, piece by piece, with a look of such concentration on his face, that it could only be faked.
Sam took the hint and started relaying to General Hammond what had been written on the walls, but she soon found that Daniel was speaking again.
"Um, General, on the walls it talked about a home plant. Apophis's home world. It reads that he goes there every time the planets' two moons align. It is said to be a power giving sight, and only Apophis has seen it. Everyone else must avert their eyes. This spectacle is said to take place every one hundred years, and it just so happens that the next one is in 16 hours precisely. I can show you the planet's address. That was written on the wall as well." Daniel stopped talking and looked around the table with his frown. "General. I know that Apophis will return to his home world to see this, and, well, Apophis takes Sha're everywhere. He never lets her out of his sight."
"Am I to suppose that you want to launch a rescue mission to save your wife, Dr. Jackson?"
There was a pause as Daniel looked around the table for encouragement. He found none. Everyone was avoiding his eyes. Slightly angry, Daniel looked up. "Yes. You are." He took one last look around the table and, having failed even to lock eyes with Teal'c, he frowned and got up from the table, leaving the room and moving along the corridors to his quarters. He had said all he could. He'd given all the facts, and he had to leave it up to Sam to fight the battle now. He knew he would be no more use. He was tired and needed sleep. Daniel trusted Sam.
"Major Carter. Do you think it's possible that Dr. Jackson is right? Do you think that you can rescue Mrs. Jackson?" General Hammond was not entirely convinced, though he was pleased to see hope again in Dr. Jackson's face.
"Well, General Hammond, if Daniel read those walls right..." Sam sighed. "Yes. There is a chance of finding Sha're." Sam hoped what she was saying was correct!
"Well then. By all means, you must try. I can only imagine what Mrs. Jackson has been through this past year." General Hammond was all go. Jack smiled. He was happy for Daniel.
The evening wore on as they came up with a plan to rescue Sha're.