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Rating: G

Notes: Okay, one more chapter after this! So this is the last call if there are any more questions for me to answer. Hope you all like it! Let me know if you have any suggestions for future stories. I got a couple ideas but I'm open to suggestions! Now on with the story!

Mysteries Unraveled

By Ans4Christ

As Jonas and Teal'c headed down the corridor it held the same appearance as it had for Jonas only hours early. The same barrenness and the same darkness remained; after awhile it began to slowly slop as it had before. But within a few minutes of its sloping, Jonas noticed that something was very different. It was not becoming as steep; it was more of a gradual sloping. After a few more minutes Jonas began to see that it was getting a bit brighter as well. The brightness continued until flashlights were no longer needed, for everything could be seen with the naked eye. The steepness began to level out and become flat. After a few more moments they came to the same drop off only this time Jonas was able to walk to the precipice.

He looked on in wonder. What was this? This was the same place that he had tumbled down and fallen off of. Now it was flat and he could see what was around him. Light was pouring in from an opening in the side; there were even cracks in the ceiling. The place was alive with light. Below the stream was flowing and the coloring of the rocks were similar to how he had seen it earlier by the Guardian's light; although now he was beginning to wonder if that had happened at all. A path curved from the side of them and gradually went down to the ground and led straight outside.

Jonas felt like he was in some form of shock. How was this possible? What about what he had seen, what he had experienced? Had it happened at all? He glanced at Teal'c whom had been silent through all this musing; he must think I'm nuts he thought. "Teal'c," Jonas finally spoke," I don't understand. I'm telling you I was down this path earlier, it was dark, and I fell. How can it be different?"

"Is it not possible that it was a different direction Jonas Quinn? These pathways are very similar." Teal'c plainly stated.

"I don't think so, it was straight." He paused gazing down at the path below. The stream weaved straight and followed near to an open cave. The cave that Jonas presumed was where the Guardian had been. Jonas stared at the water, near the water's edge he thought he saw something; some sort of black object- like a flashlight. "Hang on a second." And he raced down the side pathway as fast as he could, despite Teal'c's protests. Jonas walked around to the opposite side of the stream. He approached the water's edge and picked up the black object. It was his flashlight. He looked upstream a moment, to see how far the stream extended. It was fed from a small spring coming out of the wall of the inner cavern. He looked up and saw that this was the only precipice in this area. This had to be his flashlight. He had to have come this way. Why was it so different now though?

Teal'c came beside him and saw him holding the flashlight. He gave him a look of inquiry." My flashlight fell out of my hand shortly before I fell. It landed in the water. Teal'c, I had to have come this way. I was in the cave over there." He stopped as he gazed at it." The cave." Jonas went towards the cave, Teal'c following silently behind him.

Jonas entered the cave. No one was there. There was no firelight, not even evidence of a fire having been there. The room was dark only lit from the light from the outer part of the cave. Jonas went to the end of the cave were the secret passage had been. The section of rock where the small object had been placed was no longer there. There was no evidence of anything or anyone having been within that cave for a long time.

Jonas walked silently out of the cave. He had been there hadn't he? There was no evidence, nothing, nothing except his flashlight. Had he dreamed it all? Had it all been made up; had it been nothing but some bizarre figment of his imagination? He felt like he must be crazy. What was all this?

"I was here Teal'c, I swear I was here." Jonas said looking to Teal'c almost doubting his own voice.

"I do believe that you were here Jonas Quinn. I am sure that there is some explanation for what you believed happened here. But now that we know there is a definite path outside should we not go back to the others and leave?"

Jonas shook his head coming out of a revere." Yeah, of course I don't know what I was thinking. Let's go back." As they walked up the path Jonas shook his head again. As confused as he was about all this, the idea of going home seriously appealed to him. He wanted to get as far away from this place as he could. His head was throbbing him horribly now, his running to check for his flashlight and the cave had triggered off his ribs, and every other part of him that was hurting. Yet his mind kept going back to the improbability of all this. Had he thought everything up? He did have a head injury. Or was it some serious after affect of the Naquadria poisoning; although that had been almost a year and a half ago. Or perhaps some remnant of his genetic splicing thanks to Nirrti? None of it made sense.

Jonas was so involved in his musings that he barely remembered making it back to the others and then heading down the same path. Colonel O'Neill looking exhausted and stressed, Sam looking almost white and as if she were about to pass out; Jonas finally took a notice of Teal'c whom seemed to be going a bit slower now, and appeared to be masking some serious pain somewhere. Than back to himself, along with his sides and headache, the dizziness was coming back along with some nausea. He felt like he couldn't breathe. When they walked down the path that led outside and he finally stepped out into the sunlight for the first time in what seemed like days he found himself embracing it more than he ever would have before.

They headed for the Stargate. Surprisingly everyone's pace seemed to pick up; perhaps it was the inward knowing that they were almost home. When they got there, Colonel O'Neill told Jonas to dial it up. As Jonas did so he thought of how banged up they all were, and the reaction they would probably receive once back at the SGC. As he went to leave through the Stargate, he chanced a glance back to the planet. It was still just as it had been the day before. Far off in the distance he noticed a rainbow fill the sky, vibrant colors seemed faint words for it. It was odd because there did not appear to be a way the rainbow could have been made for lack of water vapor. Jonas couldn't help but smile, this planet was the definition of odd, and it was certainly a planet that he would not soon forget.