DISCLAIMER: God I wish. Don't own the characters you recognize.

SUMMARY: Daniel has met a young woman who is held prisoner by the Go'auld. In trying to free her, he falls in love. He doesn't know yet what will happen to her. Don't worry. I don't plan on killing her off. I like Daniel and think he deserves a love that doesn't get killed or taken over by Go'auld.

JACK, Sam, Teal'c and Daniel were searching the cell, trying to find the controls to release the manacles on Shey's wrists and ankles. "Where are the controls to this thing?" Jack was getting frustrated.

"We've checked all the walls, sir. Nothing. Maybe they aren't in the cell."

Daniel started checking out the pillars scattered throughout the cell. On the pillar next to where Shey sat, a panel opened up when he pressed on one edge of it. "Sam. I think I may have found it."

Sam ran over. "This is it. I'm pretty sure it is." She started tinkering. Jack just smiled watching her go at this with all the tenacity he knew she would.

ABOUT an hour later, there was an audible click and the manacles fell away from Shey's wrists and ankles. Talorn picked up his sister and practically ran for the tunnels. "I guess he really wanted to get her out of here," Jack said with his trademark shrug. The team followed him.

TALORN carried Shey a good distance from the prison and into the woods nearby. When he stopped, it was right beside a small stream. He knelt down, laying his sister beside the stream. Dipping his hand in the water, he allowed it to drip over Shey's forehead.

Daniel and Sam watched with baited breath as her head started moving back and forth. Soon, her eyes fluttered open and Daniel saw them for the first time.

Weakly, she called for her brother. "I'm here, Shey. We got you out of there. We're in the glen."

"I can get home from here. I know the way." She struggled to her feet.

"But, Shey. You've been ill. Take it easy," Daniel cautioned.

"I always get ill when I'm locked inside for long periods of time. I'm outside and getting stronger." She had finally made it to her feet and started walking, shakily at first but getting steadier with each step.

She was smiling. However, that smile disappeared after she stumbled into Teal'c. She used her hands to begin mapping his face. Jack noticed at that moment that she must be blind. "Shey?" Daniel asked, an entire question in that one word.

"Yes, Daniel. I'm blind." She continued to map Teal'c's face until she reached the gold seal on his forehead. When she touched that, her smiled faded and she dropped her hands to her sides. Backing away from him, she had a look of stark terror on her face.

"What's wrong, Shey?" Talorn asked, coming up behind her and putting his arm around her shoulders.

"He's like them. Like the guards that came to the cell. The ones that tortured you, Talorn."

Daniel stepped forward. "No! Shey, no. He used to be. He's not one of them anymore. He's our friend."

He lifted her hand and put it to his forehead. "I'm not one of them. Neither is Sam. Or Jack. He doesn't even have a symbiote anymore. Shey, please trust me."

Shey stood up straight again. "I'm sorry. The guards who came for Talorn told me that they would never let us go."

"And they probably wouldn't have if we hadn't found the control panel to the manacles. That was what got you and Talorn out of there on a permanent basis."

"By the way, Danny, good job." Jack's voice was strange to Shey's ears. She had only heard it twice in the cell.

"And who are you?"

"I'm General Jack O'Neill." Shey nodded. Now she had a voice to put with Sam's memories. She knew the words but didn't know the voice. She stepped up to him and mapped his face as well with her hands to put a face to the name and voice.

The sense of loss that came off the man almost knocked her to her knees. She could tell that it was involving Sam but not why. Daniel had been right behind her when she stumbled and wrapped one arm around her shoulders.

"Shey?"

"Much loss. Deep loss." She shook her head but she couldn't let it go. "Why? You ask why him and not you. You wonder why now. You must deal with these emotions. You must make the decision. Only then can you be free of this pain."

Jack was puzzled. He didn't understand what Shey was talking about. Had she sensed something about him and Sam? 'There is no Jack and Sam. There couldn't be. There was just no way. She wouldn't give up her career for any man and I can't just walk away from the job that has kept me from going crazy so many times.'

"Jack, she reads emotions. When she touches someone, she picks up on the emotional baggage that they haven't dealt with in their life. She did it to me and Sam."

"What did she touch in you, Carter?"

Only an idiot could have missed the flash of pain that crossed Sam's face. "Nothing important, sir. Nothing important."

Shey could tell now why she was picking up what she had from the two of them. They wanted each other but couldn't have each other for some reason or another. She had to get them together. It was what they both needed.

A/N: I think I know how I'm going to get Pete out of Sam's life. But there you go. You'll just have to stay tuned to find out what I do next.