Daniel made sure that Jacob was well cared for until his injuries fulled healed but what he didn't understand was why Jacob hadn't been taken to be tortured yet. Over two months had passed since he was first brought to him badly beaten. But he knew better than to make his discontent known, so he hide it. During this time he avoided going to see Sam and Teal'c so that Jacob wouldn't suspect anything and try some daring rescue that would get them all killed, not that it mattered to him. Daniel growled and slammed the book shut that he was reading. Something was bothering him today and he didn't know what. It appeared to be an ordinary day. The sun was shining brightly through the small windows. All was quiet and yet something was nagging at him. He proceeded to rub his temples.
Jacob watched Daniel from his place on the bed. The younger man seemed troubled, more so than usually that is. "Danny, are you all right?" He asked quietly.
Eyes darted to Jacob as Daniel seemed startled at hearing him. "I'm perfectly fine." He leaned his elbows on the desk in front of him and again began to rib his temples. Then it hit him. The thing that was bothering him. He began to dig through the parchment papers that lay scatted across his desk until he found the one he was looking for. His eyes scanned over it and he sighed. "Implantation." He said allowed as he looked to Jacob.
"Implantation?" Jacob repeated then frowned then his eyes widened. "Your not seriously thinking of letting them put one of those things in you? You know what will happen. It will take your body over and imprison you within your own mind."
"No!" He growled out then sighed. "I mean...I don't know. It is a great honor for a servant to receive the implantation right. My master went through a lot of trouble to get this honor bestowed upon me. To turn him down would be...unthinkable." And yet he was thinking of it. How could he let himself be taken prisoner in his own mind? Daniel was very confused.
The older man sensed Daniel's frustration and walked over to him, kneeling at his side. Jacob finally saw what he had been looking for in the two months that he had been there. A spark of doubt and hope within Daniel that he wasn't fully taken in by the Goa'uld. "Danny, listen to me. You don't want to do this. You said before that you came here because you didn't want found, why? What happened to make you do this? To make you betray your friends and beliefs?" Jacob's voice was soft and soothing. He needed Daniel to open up to him so he could see how far the Goa'uld had a hold on him.
Daniel turned his head to look down at the kneeling man. "I didn't betray them first." He mumbled then ran a hand through his slightly shaggy hair. It would be cut soon to make him look neat and clean. He had to admit that Jacob being there was actually comforting for him. It also opened his eyes ever so slightly to what he had done. "Sam..." He swallowed remembering her last words to him. "Sam and I...we had something good going. She was promoted when Jack took command of the SGC and also received a promotion." He looked down at his pale hands. "Shortly after her promotion, we started to spend more and more time together. I..." He looked over toward the window. "I was sent on a mission with SG-12 off world. It was supposed to last two weeks but we came home early. I was so happy to be coming home. To see Sam's smiling face. But stupid me." His voice turned cold. "I went home right after the post-mission physical. Jack's truck was parked on the street in front of my place and I didn't think anything of it." He closed his eyes, suddenly feeling tired. "I saw them. In bed. My bed. Our bed, together. Clothes were scattered all over the floor and they were curled up in each others arms, clearly naked by how the sheet was hanging. So I calmly let myself out and stayed at the SGC for the weekend and avoided them both the best I could on the following Monday. I was dead inside, Jacob." He turned back to the older man. "I asked Sam to marry me the day before I left on the mission and she accepted. Then I come home to her sharing our bed with another man. No! Not just another man. My best friend and her commanding officer. I made a choice. I gated to a remote planet that night and then let fate take control. It didn't take long before Baal's Jaffa found me. I pledged myself to him that very day. I saved his life, losing mine in the process. He revived me, of course."
Jacob was silent while Daniel spoke but was very shocked at his words. Sam and Jack sleeping together whole Sam and Daniel were engaged and he wasn't even around. He was off doing his job. "I'm sorry, Daniel. I really am." He couldn't really say anything else until the brunt of the information sunk into his head.
"They're here." Daniel mumbled. He was in too deep to turn back now. "Sam and Teal'c, I mean. They were captured inside the base just before you were captured and brought here. Lord Baal has been torturing them every day for the past two months. Killing them if need be then bring them back. I doubt that their souls will last much longer. He has gathered much from them, he is very good at what he does." He stated, offhandedly. "I still hurt from her betrayal but I know now that running didn't make it better. Hiding only made it worse. I've turned into the one thing that I swore to fight against until my dying breath. But I can't say that I've regretted it because I haven't. I have grown into a person that I could have never dreamed of becoming. I think it's time we got out of here." He stood and walked over to a chest that sat in the front of his bed. He pulled out several zats and laid them on the bed. Next came a small satchel that he put over his head and arm so it hung at his side, he closed the chest, walked over to the desk and began to gather his papers and books, shoving them into the bag. "We all gotta face the piper someday. Even if you're in a secret base on an unknown planet.