A/N: Thanks to all again for the lovely reviews! Made for great reading when I got back from the snow! I'm still overwhelmed by how much people are enjoying the story… I thought I was onto something good, but you never know, ya know?

Thanks for the input, Questionablelight, as you will read in this I'm taking a slightly different direction… but in response, I think I hate Togar so much that there's no way I would be that nice!

Thanks for the compliment jiltf… as much as I love fluff… I like to have some kind of plot to place it in! For the moment it means there's less (although I still manage to have cute bits every now and then), but I promise there will be more before I hang up my writing gloves!

Oh and finally, gatermage, you have no idea how much my heart swelled seeing your words… gotta love the compliments (my thesis supervisor doesn't come up with them often)

Both Sam and Jack simultaneously leapt from the couch at these words, ignoring the persistent yet dulled ache in their heads. Jack looked frantically from Sam to Urgo, back and forth repeatedly, before resting his gaze on the stocky man standing in front of him.

"Ok but how are we going to do this? What about Togar?" he was frustrated at not knowing exactly what the situation was outside of their containment cell.

"I'll transport you to the experimentation room and see you there." Urgo spoke quickly, his gaze on the ceiling in deep concentration. "I am disabling Togar's wrist devices so he shouldn't be able to react quickly. However you will have to distance him quickly from the control panel and restrain him."

"And Daniel?" Sam's voice was shaky as she considered the possible meanings of the phrase 'Daniel Jackson is nearly gone'. She was looking so intently at Urgo she didn't realise Jack had been edging closer to her until she felt the welcome touch of his lips against her neck.

"We'll get there first and then figure it out, k?" Jack whispered into Sam's ear before turning her head towards his and kissing her softly. "Everything's going to work out… Danny, T… you and me." He looked into her eyes meanfully.

Urgo let them have this one last moment of intimacy before clearing his throat again, motioning towards the ceiling. "I'm going to do it now. You will materialise in front of Togar, you'll both have to swing around quickly to take advantage of the surprise."

With those words, Jack pulled away from Sam slightly, though clasping her hand in his. He gave her a nervous smile as they were enveloped by the now familiar white light.

Whatever Sam was expecting to see when they arrived in the so-called experimentation room, it wasn't an unconscious Daniel, face down on what looked like a chiropractor's bed with a menacing-looking metal contraption poised above his spine with an enormous needle hovering just inches from his skin. From the puncture wound and concentrated bruising, she postulated that Togar had in fact injected Daniel with the drug he had tested on Teal'c. She felt the shock hit her body with immense force, realising how he must have fallen unconscious and how his mind must be filled with incredibly painful images as the brain damage accelerated due to the effects of the drug.

An angry growl behind her brought her back to reality. Turning quickly she saw Togar vainly trying to activate some controls attached to his wrist. Without looking at Jack, who seemed to have formulated the same plan inside his head, she moved swiftly around to Togar's left and wrested his hand behind his back, just as Jack did the same with their torturer's right hand. Both of them locked his shoulders painfully behind his back and frog-marched him to the wall, slamming him up against it with all the force he could muster.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS! INSOLENT HUMANS!" Togar roared angrily at them, trying in vain to twist his head around. The angle of his shoulders prevented him from doing so, as every attempt just sent searing hot shoots of pain up his neck. "UUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGOOOOOOO!" he roared angrily, "I WILL DEACTIVATE YOU PERMANENTLY FOR THIS!"

At this point Urgo materialised next to Togar, leaning casually against the wall of the room, looking supremely satisfied with the scene in front of him. He grinned wickedly at Sam and Jack, before leaning closer to Togar's face, confident of his safety.

"Hehehe… actually we were thinking of deactivating you!" he snickered, thoroughly enjoying the situation. He was impressed with the strength being displayed by both Sam and Jack, considering their ordeal of only mere hours ago. "How does life inside the computer system sound? Those pulsing electrical currents are mighty exciting." Urgo wriggled his eyebrows in an attempt to further provoke Togar, and was rewarded as the angry man struggled against Sam and Jack's hold again, only to cause himself even more pain.

"Urgo, great as this is…" Jack spoke between gritted teeth at the effort of keeping Togar pinned to the wall. The pain in his head seemed to be increasing with each moment, sapping his strength. "I don't think we can hold him much longer, and we need to help Daniel." He added, looking sideways at Sam, who seemed to be losing strength rapidly, her face was contorted with effort, or pain, or probably a combination of both.

"Oh right, oops!" Urgo's face scrunched up into a devilish grin as he mentally transported Togar from Sam and Jack's clasp onto the dentist-like chair across the room. He was restrained just as the members of SG1 had been, able to move his head and speak – indeed he was now roaring with frustration – but completely immobilised below the neck.

Sam and Jack collapsed against the wall, breathing deeply in an effort to regain their forces. Jack raised his arm with great effort to place in on Sam's shoulder and looked into her eyes, asking if she was ok. A small nod reassured him that she was. At the same time, they both slowly turned to face the centre of the room, supporting themselves by leaning heavily against the wall.

"He's still alive isn't he Urgo?" Sam's eyes were fixed on Daniel's motionless body. "How far did Togar get with the procedure?" She looked anxiously at Urgo, who was now deftly moving his hands around the exceedingly complicated control panel in the centre of the room.

"HAHAHAHA! There is no hope for your friend!" Togar's voice cut into the concerned atmosphere of the room. "The damage cannot be reversed! He is too weak – pathetic human!"

"YOU! SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Jack roared across the room, using every ounce of energy in his exhausted body. He seemed to have the desired effect as Togar stopped, even if the piercing glare did not waver from his expression. Jack turned back to Urgo, surprised to see the man looking at him, mouth gaping. "What?" he snapped impatiently.

"You swore!" Urgo breathed in wonder.

"Oh for crying out loud." Jack mumbled under his breath, looking to Sam with an expression of complete exasperation on his face. "Why did we promise to bring him back with us again?" he asked her tiredly, rubbing his hand over his eyes.

Sam suppressed a small smile, but before she could redirect the Colonel to the situation at hand, a small, fragile voice caught both their attention.

"Actually Urgo, he does that quite a lot." Daniel's voice was barely audible, muffled both by the intense anguish that still clouded his mind and the bed he was lying on, face down.

"Daniel!" Sam and Jack rasped at the same time, before launching their tired bodies off the wall to move to his side. Jack stood next to the bed, placing a protective arm on Daniel's shoulder while Sam scooted under the bed and turned her face up to look at him.

"Oh God Daniel, we thought-" Sam's voice caught in her throat as she struggled to contain the relief overwhelming her.

"Yeah buddy, glad to hear your voice." Jack patted Daniel slightly on the back, careful not to do him any harm.

Daniel tried with difficulty to make sense of the situation around him. He forced himself to keep his eyes open despite the searing pain in his head. He focussed on Sam's face, which was covered with concern, to avoid seeing the image of Sarah, eyes glowing. Looking into her blue eyes calmed him slowly, he forced himself to take deep breaths, but the pain in his head wasn't subsiding.

"Sam, I'm going to throw up." He managed to get the words out and hold on until her face was no longer in the line of fire.

Sam moved out of the way just in time, but stayed down low so Daniel could still see her out of the corner of his eye. Looking past him to where Urgo was standing behind the panel, she called out to him.

"Hey, can we get whatever's restraining him offline?" Urgo didn't seem to hear her, his hands still moving sporadically across the panel, busily altering god knows what.

"It is probably best he stays in his current position for now." Urgo sounded uncharacteristically in control of the situation as his concentration remained on the instruments in front of him. "I have rehabilitated his brain function greatly, but the effects of the drug will not fully dissipate for some time yet."

Jack swung his head around to check that it really was Urgo and not Togar standing in front of the control panel. The murderous expression on Togar's face in the chair on the other side of the room reassured him, as did the squeal of delight that came out of Urgo's mouth as he pressed a final button on the panel before swinging around just as Teal'c appeared in a flash of white light.

"T! Buddy!" Jack exclaimed with delight, only to rush to the Jaffa's side as his large frame collapsed onto the ground, apparently incapable of making the smallest move. Jack struggled to lift his immense frame and drag him to the wall, propping him up. His head lolled languidly from side to side.

"Urgo! What's wrong with him?" Jack's voice was strained with concern, matching the expression on his face.

"The same thing that was wrong with you, O'Neill." Urgo replied with exasperation, growing tired of Jack's inability to grasp the facts as fast as Sam could. "He'll be fine."

"The traitor is lying to you!" Togar's voice again infiltrated the room, much to SG1's consternation. "None of you will survive! The effects will accelerate until your timely demise."

Jack leapt to his feet and spun around on the spot, ignoring the pain in his head. He marched towards where Togar was restrained and leaned menacingly over the alien. "I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP!" he roared. Despite his intention to rant at the alien longer, Jack was forced to step back to clasp at his head, which was protesting to all the activity of the past couple of minutes.

"You see?" Togar smirked wickedly at Jack. "I have irreconcilably damaged your neuronal function."

"Shut up, SHUT UP!" Jack screamed, clasping his hands on his head to try and dull the pain. "Urgo, for the love of God GAG HIM!" With that Jack collapsed to the ground, clutching his head. Looking up slowly he saw Sam's eyes filling with tears as she looked from Daniel, to Teal'c to him.

Feeling the pain recede slightly in his head, he gained the strength to speak. "I'm fine Carter. We'll all be fine, right Urgo?"

"Yes yes yes," Urgo was intently reading something on the display screen in front of him. Togar's lying. His results here show that the effects will dissipate with time, although you must try to avoid exerting yourself, or you could make it worse temporarily." He glanced at Jack, who was still slumped on the floor, looking decidedly weaker than when they had transported into the room.

"Now I am currently trying to find your belongings to return them to you before we go back and then-" Urgo stopped suddenly. His face drained of all colour as he saw something on the screen. "Oh no." he looked wildly around the room, at a loss for words.

"What?" Sam's head had snapped up and she stood up, although her hand didn't move from where she had placed it, rubbing Daniel's back gently. "What is it?" She looked at Jack quickly, who seemed just as clueless as she was.

"They're coming." The sound of Urgo's voice resonated with fear, making Sam's heart skip a beat. Whoever 'they' were, it didn't sound good. With a sudden flash of light, Togar disappeared from the chair behind them and Urgo started working frantically on the control panel.

"I have to seal off this room, they mustn't be able to get in!" his hands were now shaking with fear as he worked, before suddenly the control panel started emitting small electric shocks.

"Who's 'they'?" Jack's voice sounded tired, resigned to their fate.

Urgo risked shock to press three more buttons before turning to Jack, clasping his burned hand against his chest. "The review panel," he breathed ominously. "They're here to examine Togar's results. We're safe, I've sealed the room… but now we're trapped in here."

TBC

A/N: Ok I know, I'm sorry, it's getting more complicated and going on longer than expected! As usual, I've discovered that just because something is obvious to me, doesn't mean the same for the reader. Therefore, I have to be more detailed and the story gets longer! But anyway, since when does SG1 ever get out of something according to the plan! Also, I've had their return to the SGC planned since I started this fic and I have to coordinate events on Togar's planet accordingly… they can't just stroll through the gate!

So… suspense music… how will our heroes escape from this conundrum?

Your comments are, as always, welcome and craved.