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"Unscheduled off world Activation." Blared over the PA system.

Sam stood up and looked over at Daniel. No one had left his side in the past week. But she knew that she was needed in the gate room.

"What's that?" Daniel asked, indicating the message that was being repeated.

"Daniel, I got to go for a bit. I have to see what this is about. If you need anything you can call the nurses correct?"

Daniel nodded.

"You'll be okay?"

"Yeah. I'll be okay." He tried to sound convincing but it wasn't true. He was terrified of being left alone in the infirmary. He'd become so used to having people around to protect him, being alone, was scary.

Sam smiled and ran out of the room.

Daniel watched the empty door way for a few moments before slowly turning back to the computer on the table top.

He was a man, he didn't need a babysitter.

Sam ran into the control room as the iris opened. "What's going on?" She asked.

"Tok'ra time." Jack chimed, as they watched Jacob Carter walk threw the gate.

"Dad." Sam called as she ran down the stairs into her father's arms.

Teal'c, Jack, and General Hammond followed at a more sedated pace. "Jacob, what can we do for you?" Hammond asked as he shook the other man's hand.

"George, Jack, Teal'c." He shook all the hands. "Actually, what I got is more up Daniel's alley. We found some odd writings on a wall on our new base world. From what we deduce it has to do with the Jew's exodus from Egypt."

"As in the Ten Commandments?" Jack asked.

"As in the bible." He looked around. "By the way, where is Daniel?"

"Well that might be a bit of a problem."

"What happened? Is he okay?"

"Why don't we head to my office and we'll talk in there." Hammond directed everyone to a not so public place to discuss the latest that had happened to Daniel.

About an hour later Jacob was shown to the infirmary were Daniel lay. He was asleep again, and allowed Jacob to look closely. The story was enough to make any man sick. Any decent man, Jacob told himself. Just the though of what Daniel went through on that planet was horrible. But the fact that Daniel thought he was 11 and that his foster father did this to him was worse. Jacob was kind of pissed off when Jack told him that Mitchell was already dead. Jacob really wanted to take a piece out of the guy's ass.

To look at Daniel was just as bad. He looked like a young kid in bed, asleep. If Jacob didn't know any better he would guess that Daniel was in his late 20's not a decade older. The glasses and fallen off the swollen and discolored face. Bruises for some reason always looked worse after they had turned green and yellow.

The gown and blankets hid most of the other bruises and cuts that Jacob assumed was on his body. The two full casts that were his arms lay on top on the blankets. His fingers were taped and they caught his attention.

"Fingers?" He asked.

"And few toes too. His legs also have multiple breaks in them."

/We might be able to help./ Selmac added to the thoughts that were already floating around Jacobs head. He had tried to keep quiet as he learnt of Daniel Jackson's latest injury.

Jacob gave his consent for his symbiote to take control. "Do you mind if I see how grave his injuries are?" Selmac asked.

"Not at all." Sam quickly answered. Not giving Jack a chance to say something stupid.

Selmac nodded and took out the healing device he carried with him. Closing his eyes and finding his center, he activated the device.

He felt someone over him. He didn't understand the need of some of these people to check on him sleeping. He knew his parents used to do it, but these people weren't his parents. Why would they care if he was asleep or not?

Not like he slept much anymore. Anytime he slept he remembered his parents and that led to the nightmares. He hated the nightmares.

Daniel lay very still. They normally left after a few seconds. The seconds turned into minutes and Daniel still felt the presence above his bed.

He turned onto his side. Maybe Mr. Mitchell, no Colonel Mitchell would leave. Just as he had that thought he felt someone sit on the bed and a hand on his back. Stay asleep, he told himself. Maybe this guy just wanted to make sure he was really here. Maybe these people really wanted him.

That would be nice. He wanted a place he could live for a while. He missed his parents but he didn't think that they'd mind much if he started with a new family. He was tired of spending a few weeks with one family and then moving on to another one. He'd done that a lot in the past few months, while waiting for his grandfather.

Now that there was no chance of his grandfather wanting him, he now could live with a permanent family. Maybe the Mitchell's would be that family. Texas was nice and different from Egypt. It was a chance at a new life. Maybe he'd try it.

At least that's what he thought until Colonel Mitchell's hand traveled down his back and into his pajama bottoms. Daniel held his breath as the hand stopped on his butt and started to move around it.

"Please stop." Daniel whispered. He knew this was wrong. Why was this man touching him like this?

The hand continues to travel around his behind. It would sometimes move to his legs and try and get between them, but Daniel kept them together and bent. With his knees as close to his chest as possible.

He didn't like this. He didn't like it at all. Next was the finger that moved in-between his butt cheeks. "Please stop. I don't like this. Please." Daniel continued to plead. He kept his eyes closed tight. If he kept them closed then this wasn't happening.

Jack watched Daniel as soon as they walked into the room. He seemed to be in some sort of dream. He continued to watch as Jacob spoke to the rest of the group. He tuned them all out and focused on his friend. He saw Daniel's mouth move but he couldn't hear what he said.

He tapped Teal'c on the shoulder. "Does it look like there's something up with Daniel?"

Teal'c ran a cautious eye over the man lying in bed. "It doest seem that he's in some sort of distress."

The finger found something and he didn't like the feeling of that finger moving. He had to stop this. Then the finger entered him.
Daniel opened his eyes and saw the figure looming over him. "Leave me alone. Stop it." He cried. "Stop touching me. Stop it." The feel of it made him sick.

"OUT." Jack yelled at them all as he saw Daniel start to heave. He moved to grab the basin by Daniel's bedside, but once again he wasn't quick enough and Daniel vomited all over himself. "All of you out. Now." He yelled again. What ever Selmac was doing was causing what ever nightmare Daniel was in to be worse.

Somewhere in the background he could hear Selmac or Jacob apologizing but he didn't care. Right now he needed to care for Daniel.

Being he was mostly on liquids he was soon done with what ever was in his stomach. The nurses quickly stripped Daniel of the soiled clothing and Jack moved into hold him as the dry heaves continued to rack his abused body. "Shh. Calm down Daniel. It was all a nightmare. You're safe now. The Mitchell's are gone. You're safe now. I promise."

"Not safe. Comes at night." Daniel cried out between sobs.

"It's okay. I got you now. Nothing is going to happen."

"Touches me. I don't like it. I tell him to stop and he hits me. Please make it stop."

"Okay Daniel. We'll make it stop." Jack nodded at the nurse was injected a sedative into Daniel's IV. It was the only way to get him to calm down after one of these nightmares.

"Please don't leave me." He pleaded softly as the drugs took immediate affect.

"Not gonna leave you Daniel. I'll stay right here. I promise. I'll be right here." Jack continued to soothe.

Once Jack was sure that Daniel was asleep, he moved so that the nurses could finish cleaning Daniel up. He also needed a fresh shirt. Luckily he started leaving a change of clothing in the room they gave Daniel, for instances such as this.

Jack was surprised to see Jacob hovering outside of the room. Jack motioned him in as Jack changed his shirt.

"Jack, I wanted to apologize, we wanted to apologize. Selmac and I didn't think anything would happen."

"Daniel suffers from nightmares. Always has. He just knew how to hide it better when he was an adult."

"It was something else. He's badly injured. When such injuries occur and a healing device is used, controlling the healing is hard. It's almost like Daniel's body pulled the healing out of the device."

"Can you control it?"

"Now that I know what will happen, Selmac thinks he can. We want to try and heal Daniel, but it's going to take a while."

"You can't just wave your hand around?"

"If we had a sarcophagus then it would take a few hours. But the healing device can't heal serious injuries as fast. Selmac doesn't have that kind of stamina to deal with these types of injuries."

"So it takes a while no big deal. But it will heal him." Jack was slowly getting excited about this idea. Dr. Lew thought that once Daniel's body healed, his mind might soon follow. That way it could focus on something other than the pain.

"Jack, it's not going to be easy. First off, they are going to have to remove the plates and pins that are currently holding him together. That means at least four more surgeries to put Daniel through. While his body might be okay with it, will his mind? Also have you ever had a healing device used on you?"

"Not that I can remember."

Jacob was silent for a moment. "Jack, I want you to cut yourself with something. Nothing deep and nothing life threatening. I can't explain it but I think that you will understand why this might be a problem."

Jack nodded slowly. He didn't like where this was going. He pulled out his pocket knife and sliced his palm open. He watched as Jacob brought the healing device over his hand. He felt the warmth flow over the cut. Then there was the most interesting feeling as he felt tiny hands flying over the cut. Numerous fingers, working fast to close the wound. It was in that moment that Jack knew what Jacob was worried about and why Daniel reacted the way he did.

The cut was healed and Jacob looked at Jack. He understood. Both men stood in silence for a few moments before both glanced back at the man on the bed.

"Talk to Janet. See what she says. If she is okay with the physical ramifications we'll talk to Dr. Lew. I think that he will give the go ahead though. Make it known to both of them that the final decision is Daniels."

"You're a good friend Jack." Jacob put a hand on the man's shoulder.

"Yeah, right."

Jacob turned Jack around. "I am right. I know you're feeling guilty about what happened to Daniel. Both times." He held up a hand when he saw that Jack was going to interrupt him. "What happened to Daniel when he was a child none, and I mean none of us could have stopped. There was no way. He was in a place and in a time that would not have interacted with any place or time that we were in. As for what happened on the planet, that's the price of being in a first contact team.

"Daniel knows this. Sam knows this. Teal'c knows this and deep down inside you know this too. This could have happened to any of you. All four of you were caught off guard when you got threw there gate. All four of you ran in different directions. How long did it take you to find the other two members of your team? How bad were the injuries that you had to be taken care of on each other? They just found Daniel before they found the rest of you. It's the luck of the draw.

"Now worrying yourself to death over this isn't going to help. Are you taking care of yourself?"

"Yes dad." Jack smiled, he knew what Jacob was doing. "The three of us are taking turns. Sometimes the general sits with him too, so does Janet."

"Good. Someone has to make sure you guys stay well. I'm going to go find Dr. Frasier and let her know what we discussed. I'll let you know what they say."

"Stop by later. If Daniel's awake I'll introduce you to him."

"Sounds like a plan." Jacob smiled as he walked out of the room. They'd be okay. They'd take care of each other and they will survive this too.