Tag #5 – Resurrected
"Daniel."
He turned, trying to see through the sea of white around him. "Hello?"
"Daniel."
Turning again, he suddenly realized there was nothing underneath him, and panicked momentarily. "What's going on?" he shouted. "Who's there?"
"Daniel."
He looked up, and his eyes widened as he beheld two women, one dressed all in white and the other in tan robes. There was a nagging familiarity as he stared at them. "Who are you? Where am I?"
"Daniel, it is not yet your time," the robed woman chided, her blue eyes holding a mixture of concern and affection. "You must return."
"Return?" he repeated, confused. "Return where? The last thing I remember…I was in a throne room, and I tried to stop those guards from killing Colonel O'Neill."
"You succeeded, yet at the cost of your own life," she replied. "You are not yet ready to join us."
"Join you? I…I'm dead, aren't I?" The idea seemed ludicrous, but what else could it possibly mean?
"Lightning flashes, sparks shower, in one blink of an eye you have missed seeing," the lady in white spoke up for the first time.
Daniel blinked in confusion. "Uh…sorry?"
The first woman smiled. "Don't mind her." She stepped forward, taking Daniel's hand in hers, and he felt a strange warmth spread from the contact. "We will meet again, Daniel," she promised. "But for now, you must go back."
Daniel opened his mouth to ask what she meant, and found himself sucked into darkness.
Air!
He sat bolt upright, ripping a silk curtain from his face and gulping deep breaths. Adrenaline surged through him as he looked around, seeing a large empty room with himself in the center. Looking down, he saw that he was lying in what looked like an Egyptian sarcophagus.
Abruptly he remembered, and he reached down to the hole in his fatigue shirt. Only smooth, unblemished skin was underneath, without even a hint of pain emanating from it. For a moment he felt as though something had happened between him being shot and then waking up, but it slipped away like water through his fingers. Vowing to think about it later, he climbed out of the sarcophagus.