Daniel returned to his room and waited. He wished to see his former friends but he had to make sure his master was through with them before making an appearance. So the hours ticked by and soon, at nightfall, Daniel left his room and made his way through the winding and slightly confusing corridors of the base. He knew his way around so the thought of getting lost never entered his mind. Soon he was standing outside a large door. He glanced from side to side before entering the code that he knew would open it. Then he stepped inside and entered the code that would once again close and lock it. He let his steel blue eyes wonder around the room. It was small but served its purpose. There were four cells, two on each side of the room and all were different. The two that Sam and Teal'c were in had no gravity. And the other two had heavy gravity which kept the person in one place at all times. He stepped up to the cell which held Colonel Samantha Carter and smirked. There was no risk to him since a force shield kept the prisoners in just in case they found a way to get around the special designs of the cells. "Well, well, well." He paced back and forth in front of her cell. Almost like he was taunting her. His voice was still scratchy from years of non-use.
Colonel Samantha Carter couldn't do anything except float around and even that was getting frustrating. For three hours Baal had tortured her with his infamous acid. Her skirt still had the burn marks in it. After he received nothing from her, he released a large dose of the newly reformed acid. Once he was sure that she had died painfully, he had her placed inside the sarcophagus to bring her back to life. This would continue until she either told him what he wanted to know or the sarcophagus turned her into a shell of what she used to be. She was deep in thought, trying to devise an escape plan, when she heard something outside of her cell. She pushed off the nearest wall to turn herself around. Her eyes fell upon Daniel who seemed rather amused at their situation. She willed herself not to say anything to her former friend and lover. But inside she was hurting. It felt as if her heart had ben torn out of her chest. This was more torture than what Baal had done. Just seeing Daniel again, knowing that he is alive and serving a Goa'uld. "What do you what?" She gritted out, trying to make her voice void of emotion but failing.
A eyebrow raised as Daniel walked up to the force shield, letting a hand lazily move across it. It fizzled but didn't hurt him. "I want nothing except to look upon your face one last time." His voice was cold and dead, a far cry from earlier. His head tilted to the side as he turned his back and moved away several feet before turning back around, hands folded behind him. His eyes moved over her body, stopping at the holes in her shirt. "My masters new torture techniques are very formidable. They are also very painful." He moved his eyes to the cell that contained Teal'c who seemed to be floating in random patterns. "Unconscious?" He questioned more to himself than anyone. Shrugging he turned back to Sam. "This is the mighty tau'ri?" He waved a hand towards her cell then started to chuckle. It appeared as if he was slightly crazy if not fully. "The sarcophagus will suck your soul from your body long before you get the chance tell my master anything. Then...Then you will be nothing but an empty shell. My master may kill you out of disgust but then again, you might prove useful. Your body will be intact it's your mind that will be gone. Like a blank slate ready to be written upon." The corners of his mouth twitched as a smirk began to spread across his pale lips.
"What happened to you Daniel?" Sam wanted him to stop talking about the fate that awaited her. It was unnerving which was probably what he was going for. Trying to knock her off balance. "Explain to me how you could spent eight years fighting the Goa'uld then turn around and join them? Eight years!" Her feet bumped into a wall and she once again pushed off, keeping her line of sight on him.
A harsh chuckle escaped from Daniel's lips. "You really, truly do not know?" He snarled and his eyes flashed with anger. His fingers danced on the control panel, teasingly. "I could release you right." He mumbled off-handedly. "I could released you in knowing that you would not make it out of this room alive. Or I could just kill you right here and now. Myself. My master would not care. He has the shol'va which is an honor within itself." He was just mumbling, random thoughts which would further lead you to believe that he was more than slightly crazy. He shook his head and stepped back away from the control panel. He turned his gaze back to her. Letting his eyes lock with hers. There he communicated deep sorrow and pain. Remorse and regret. He let his inner most feelings flow through the gaze. But he had to look to the floor when tears threatened to fall.
Sam watched him intently as he jumped from subject to subject, mumbling to himself like a mad man. This was not the Daniel that she remembered. But when their gazes locked, she knew that he was somewhere buried deep inside of the man that stood before her. The moment that he looked to be near tears was when she knew for sure. She swallowed at the intenseness of those few seconds. "How many times have you been in the sarcophagus, Daniel?" She asked, quietly and turned her attention towards the wall as she heard a groan coming from the other cell. Teal'c was waking up.
Daniel blinked at her odd question. "The sarcophagus sustains our lives. I have been in the sarcophagus many times. I am a valued servant to my master and he wishes to keep me healthy." He cleared his throat and sat on the small bench that was located in the center of the room. He looked up towards the right corner of the ceiling and touched his palm. A white light flashed and faded. He returned his gaze to the cell that held Sam. He stood, once again, and walked over stopping directly in front of where she was floating. "I can only keep the security system offline for a few minutes without anyone noticing. So listen to me and listen closely. I can not and will not help you escape. But if you do manage to get out of here, leave with this information and know that you must make it back to Earth. My master has taken over Anubis's fleet and armies which you probably already know. But I'm guessing that you do not know who his allies are. Who has been helping him in secret amass this great power." He glanced at his palm then back to her, continuing. "These former allies of the tau'ri can not be trusted. Take the knowledge that the Tok'ra are not as you once knew. They have allied themselves with my master in order to gain rank and status within the new order. There is a Tok'ra here on this base. Not all of the Tok'ra have fully allied themselves with my master. Some still hold onto the beliefs that the Goa'uld are evil no matter what. They will be destroyed within the year. They think that the Tok'ra here is a spy who has carefully placed himself within the ranks of Baal's Jaffa. He is indeed a spy but not for them. He gives all information that he receives to my master and with that information they will be destroyed." He touched his palm and the light flashed again. "You can not escape so do not be so foolish as to try." He snarled, slipping back into the faithful servant act which really wasn't an act. The information that he told Sam wasn't because he wished to betray his master. But he could not live with the fact of knowing information that could save the human race. If he held that all inside and the tau'ri were destroyed, he wouldn't be able to live with himself.
Surprised was the only word that could of described Sam the moment that Daniel started to speak freely. The information that he was giving seemed a little too convenient but she wouldn't dismiss it. He took a great risk by telling her. It all seemed mind boggling. The Tok'ra becoming allies of the Goa'uld? She couldn't help but think of her father. He hasn't been heard from since he left with the Tok'ra when the treaty with Earth ended. Had he been killed? Or had Selmak taken him over as a Goa'uld would do only using his body and trapping his mind? Her thoughts were cut short when Daniel seemed to go back into loyal servant mode. This might be the last time that she saw him. A lot needed to be said. She licked her dry lips as she moved herself closer to the force shield that blocked their escape. "Daniel. I want you to listen to me. A lot has happened in two years back on Earth. Your leaving left us confused to say the least. The Col...General went about crazy trying to find out where you went off to. He was sure, we all were, that you had been taken over by a Goa'uld on that mission you were on with SG-12. But after a while we started to realize that it was impossible. You had your post-mission physical which showed no signs of anything abnormal..." She looked passed him for a moment as the doors hissed open and several heavily armed Jaffa entered and turned off the force shield and gravity generators of her cell. She had to get this all out before she never saw him again. Her legs wouldn't even hold her as they drug her out. No gravity really had a toll on your body. They pushed her forward but she stopped in front of him knowing she'd only have a few seconds before they forced her out of the room to face Baal once again for another torture session. She leaned towards him and lowered her voice. "I don't want to die, Daniel. I'm a big enough person to admit that. I..." She was jerked forward, forcefully. "I don't want our son to grow up without either parent, Daniel. Do you hear me? Our son!" She screamed as she was drug out of the room and down the corridor.
Daniel listened to every word that she said but his face showed any emotion. He didn't show any emotion until she was completely out of the room. Then a look of shock and horror crossed his face. "Son?" He mumbled. How was that possible? The shock and horror turned to anger when he started to remember walking in on Jack and Sam, sleeping after an obvious night of love making. The child could very well be Jack's and she was trying to trick him into helping them escape. Well, it wasn't going to happen. He turned and was about to leave when he heard Teal'c speak.
"Colonel Carter speaks the truth, Daniel Jackson." Teal'c voice was heavy with pain. "Jacob Jackson is very much his fathers son." He was silent then saying nothing else.
Daniel only stayed for a brief second longer after Teal'c spoke then quickly exited and locked himself in his quarters. His head was throbbing from a headache that suddenly appeared. A son? Impossible. Those were his last thoughts before he sat down at his desk and lost himself within a book that he had read a hundred times, if not more. He might have been reading but he had a lot of inner conflict. Conflict that could only happen on a base that was secret on a planet that was unknown.