Sam cautiously walked in. A tiny figure, drowned in machinery lay on the bed. She took a chair from the corner and sat down. Her eyes then wondered over to the form of Daniel who was also hooked up to a variety of machines. Daniel's normally bright eyes were closed and his head lolled loosely to one side. Sam placed a gentle finger on his neck and was amazed at the touch. The skin was hot and his pulse throbbed steadily beneath. She drew her hand away to reveal Daniel's eyes, now staring straight up at her, warm, inviting and confused. Sam brushed her thoughts aside and jumped as Jack placed a hand on her shoulder. They had both been paged to the infirmary soon after their arrival.

Daniel and Thomas had collapsed as soon as they entered the infirmary. Janet was still running tests to determine what had happened. She had no clue to whom her patients were just that they were high priority.

Daniel smiled weakly and Sam placed her hand over his. His blue eyes widened for a second but he seemed to relax into the situation.

Jack had wandered off, looking for Janet to give him some recovery estimates and the low down on their conditions, and also unwilling to appear interested in Sam and Daniel's conversation. Though he did strain his ears whenever his quest came within range of them talking.

"Thought we had lost you, Daniel." Sam whispered so that Janet couldn't hear.

"Can't get rid of me that easily." Daniel tried to sit up but failed. His eyes soon sought out his son and he was near panic until he saw the boy in the bed right next to his.

Sam looked down at her fingers entwined in his and saw the little speck of gold on his finger. Gently, she lifted his hand to admire it. Her ring on his finger. It felt poetic. He smiled at the dopey expression on her face as she looked deep into his eyes, searching for a hint, a suggestion, a clue that something might be there. She found it. His eyes stared at her in love, lustful yet caring, consuming yet unselfish, content yet filled with desire.

Her Daniel, the brave, gentle scientist who loved her. Maybe this one thing, this one love, might last, grow become something more than friendship, more than romance. The one constant in her turbulent life, the one thing that remained intact, no matter what planet, what galaxy, what universe they were in. Samantha Carter and Daniel Jackson. The couple that beat the odds, conquered the statistics and won true love. Something straight out of a romance novel. Not for realistic application.

Daniel cleared his throat. "What happened? I remember being escorted in here but then everything went black." He gently pulled his hand from hers then eyed her. The burn on her arm appeared healed and wrapped with a bandage. "I see that you got your arm fixed." It wasn't a question just merely a statement.

Sam only shook her head. "Janet is still running some tests. They paged us as soon as you both collapsed." She placed a mask over her face to hide her pain from him pulling away from her.

"Yes. You've been out for three hours. Janet tended to my injury. Daniel? Do you know what happened?" She had a feeling that he knew but wasn't being very forth-coming with the information.

Two armed guards took their places on either side of Daniel's bed before he had a chance to answer Sam. "Doctor Fraiser must be done with her testing." He said sarcastically as he closed his eyes, not feeling like talking anymore.

Frowning, Sam stood and headed over to where Jack and Janet were talking quietly. "So...What did you find out?" She stuck her hands into the pockets of her pants.

Janet stopped talking when Sam approached. "Well, the Colonel was half correct about the Goa'uld theory which he only know was explaining to me. Daniel, I still can't believe it's him, has protein markers in his blood. I ran three samples to make sure. So he was blended with a Goa'uld and according to my calculations it was little over a year and a half ago." She glanced down at the clipboard that was in her hand. "The boy is human. He doesn't have any protein markers nor is he marked. And as far as I can tell, they both will be fine. Everything matches up. He is Daniel and the boy appears to be his son. They share common DNA strands." She gave them both a stiff smile before moving away to tend to things.

"Sir, Daniel will talk to me. But not with the guards around him. Like she said, Daniel was once blended but he no longer carries the Goa'uld within him..." She is interrupted by Daniel.

"No. I no longer carry the Goa'uld but it wasn't a Goa'uld." He growled then sighed. By then both Jack and Sam were at his bedside after dismissing the guards. "Six months after I came to stay on God's Paradise, I was expected to be a host. I lied before, Sam. I told you that my people were primitive and that the Jaffa assigned to watch over them had took pity on them. I told you that he was killed and the one that replaced him wasn't to happy about the development going on. He wasn't killed. He was like Teal'c. He rejected his false God and lived with my people. For all the kindness that he showed my people, the Cudelor offered his daughter as payment for the debt. He accepted. By that time more than half of the population had become hosts to his people. His new mate being one of them. But as time wore on...my people found something out. He wasn't a Goa'uld. He was a Tok'ra spy. An allegiance was made between the two people. That's how my people became so advanced. They had help. His mate became pregnant and was forced to flee. She landed on Earth. Took up the human way. Married a human man and soon after that gave birth to a baby . Me." Daniel turned his head to the side. "My people are no longer hosts but the Cudelor is expected to carry a Tok'ra within him or her so that certain traditions can be passed one from generation to generation. The Tok'ra that I carried died a month after the blending. We don't know why. His name was Neita and he knew your father, Sam" He said in a whisper. In saying this he knew that pieces would begin to fall into place.

Sam eyed Daniel. "He knew my father? You said that the Tok'ra forged an allegiance with your world...So that means you must have contact with them regularly. The Tok'ra knew that you were alive. Didn't they? My father knew you were alive? I can't believe you Daniel. And I surely can't believe that they would keep this from us. And why can't I sense that you've been a host?"

"Jacob wanted to tell you. But I forbid it. He said that his daughter had the right to know her own son. But he respected my wishes and the wishes of Neita. Jacob was the one that the Tok'ra sent to blend me and Neita. That's how he knew. Don't be mad at your father, Sam." Daniel closed his eyes. He felt so tired. "I know what happened. I know why we blacked out." Opening his eyes he gazed at Sam. "Once we left the comfort of God's Paradise our bodies went through a change to try and adapt to Earth's air. I know they may seem the same but long time exposure to Paradise air changes your bodies reaction to certain things. We basically had a allergic reaction to the air. But now that we are here, our bodies will adjust. Which means that we will never be able to return to God's Paradise. That's why we were attacked. They knew that if I left they would be without a Cudelor once again. We have ways to block other people from sensing that we were once blended. It's to protect us." Slowly a haze settled over his mind and he could hear Janet telling Jack and Sam that her patients needed to rest. That's all Daniel knew before sleep over took him.