Author's Note: Thanks to everyone for keeping on reading this! I really appreciate it, and I hope it's worthy of LOTS of reviews!

…wow I didn't write much this time! It's a record!

Oh, and there's no Previous: on this part b/c it doesn't go off that part. It's a VERY new chapter, and it starts at the SGC.

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Sam knocked on the door of Daniel's lab to announce her presence. Though the door was open, he was too caught up in a tablet to notice her. He looked up at her announcement. "Hey, Sam."

"Hey Daniel. Someone said you needed me, what's up?"

"Well," he rounded the table to get another book off his shelf, "SG-3 found this on a planet that seemed to have no presence or record of the Goa'uld, except for this tablet."

She could see the frustration in his eyes, but this stone intrigued Daniel. She entered the room, closing the door behind her. Looking over his shoulder, she squinted at the inscription.

"Looks like a derivative of Goa'uld."

"It is Goa'uld," he turned the tablet over, "That is Ancient."

"One of these things is not like the other, eh?"

"That's not all. This tablet's writing suggests that the Ancients faced off with the Goa'uld and won, or at least made them back down. This seems to be some sort of peace settlement."

"I thought the Ancients were back in the Pegasus galaxy by the time the Goa'uld came to power."

"We've only speculated as much because of the lack of information or evidence proving otherwise. Actually, the myths of Atlantis have been dated back to around the times of ancient Egypt, I don't know why we haven't thought of this probability before, but—"

"Daniel." He was getting off track.

"Right," he turned back to the stone, "The part in Goa'uld says they will not intrude on the affairs of the Ancients and vice versa, but in Ancient, there is a specific gate address where the Goa'uld were not to go."

"Does it look familiar?"

"Unfortunately."

She gazed at him, waiting for his next response to her question, hopefully containing an answer.

"Well?"

"It's Baal's home world."

She shook her head once, shrugging her shoulders.

"Well, when the Goa'uld found the Ancients gone, they went to the first place they weren't supposed to go. But why does this matter?"

Daniel had his head stuck in another book, and so missed the last part of her question.

"You're probably right, Sam, but that doesn't explain this part here…" he ran his finger along the last line in Ancient.

"'Knowledge and power belong to the worthy, not the selfish, ergo the address following is off-limits' and then it gives the address."

She shifted her weight, leaning on the table. "Do you think the Goa'uld attacked the Ancients to get their technology?"

"Would sure explain the knowledge metaphor in the text."

They were silent, racking their brains to solve the mystery. In a matter of minutes, Daniel had his answer. "It's not that kind of power."

"Daniel?"

"It's not power in a physical source, like might or strength, it's the power of knowledge. Power of the knowledge."

"So…"

"What powers almost every kind of Ancient technology?"

Now she got it. "ZPMs."

He unclicked his pen in agreement. "ZPMs."

Daniel's hand found the table with a soft knock of success of the translation. Now what to do with it. "We have to tell Jack."

They both knew what that meant; Sam was just the one to say it.

"Oh boy…"

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"No. Absolutely not. Not happening, Daniel."

Jack had heard it all, and every word his friend had said made it infinitely easier to say no. Every question he asked brought more bad news. For example:

"Where is it?"

"Baal's home world."

"Why do we want it? Or, as the case may be, them?"

"We could help Atlantis. Explore Pegasus a little ourselves—"

"Where the Wraith are around every corner?"

"Right."

"Are you sure about this?"

"Well, define sure—"

"Daniel—"

"Relatively. Relatively sure, Jack."

He leaned on the door to his office, as Daniel had insisted on explaining everything as he walked down the halls of the SGC. "Look, Daniel, I'm sure this could be great, but there's no way in hell that I'm sending anyone, especially my best team, on a suicide mission that could quite possibly be a dead end."

"But Jack, I'm sure there's some way we can get in undetected. Now that we've got the Daedalus, we could—"

"Figure it out, talk to me then, and since SG-3 found the tablet in the first place, maybe I'll let them go."

Sam finally spoke. "That's not fair, sir, and you know it."

Jack saw the glare he was getting. The past month had been hard on them both. They'd only been able to be together once since the night at her house. And things had been extremely difficult at the SGC since Dr. Weir and the Atlantis team had come for more personnel. The president was thrilled about that one. Not to mention he'd been under the microscope since he still hadn't filled the space on SG-1 after he promised he would three months ago. And Teal'c had been at Takara more than the SGC recently ever since the rebellion was deemed successful. Things just weren't how they used to be. Or how he'd had hoped they'd be. Coming out of his thoughts, Jack answered Carter's accusation.

"I don't wanna pull rank, Carter, but I will if I have to. Now seeing as Teal'c is still away, let's let this wait until he gets back. I'm putting the remainder of SG-1 on vacation until then. You're dismissed."

Before either one could gape any longer, he was in his office, the door closed behind him.

Daniel swore under his breath as he went back to his lab to ready for vacation. Sam stayed at the closed door a bit longer than her aggravated friend, her arms crossed and teeth grinding. She thought to herself.

'You want a fight, Jack? Then let's fight. I always win.'

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Short, I know, but it's better than nothing, right? Also, I apologize, but this is before the current season, because it doesn't make sense with what's going on, but it's cool. Or it will be. Also, if anyone knows how to spell Daedalus, let me know, because I know I spelled it wrong. NOW REVIEW!