Author's Note: OMG! Wow! It's been a while. Sorry 'bout that, but you know summer, lots to do! So enjoy and review!

"You must beileve that Anubis is a god," Herak said proudly. "Only a god could have created such a clever plan to use his enemies to his own advantage."

"Oh, please," Daniel replied sardonically, "a teenager could come up with with that plan. Besides, if he's a god, why does he need the Tok'ra to destroy his competing 'gods?'"

"What you say is blasphemy!" Herak shouted. "I will not hear of it!"

"Well, I'm afraid you'll have to," Daniel told him. "If you kill me, you'd just bring me back with the sarcophagous anyway, so I can say whatever I want." Herak seemed to consider this, but not for long.

"It doesn't matter!" he said angrily. "You will be tortured horribly — killed and revived with the sarcophagus hundred and hundreds of times — and then you will be handed over to Anubis. He will use a mind probe on you to learn all the secrets of the Tau'ri."

"Well," Daniel said, "you may find a little snag in that I don't actually know all the secrets of the Tau'ri."

"If you reveal to us what we wish to know," Herak continued as though Daniel had not said anything, "you will still be tortured — for pleasure. However, you may yet be saved from the mind probe if you answer my questions now."

"That doesn't make any sense," Daniel pointed out. "You wouldn't be able to trust anything I say, so you'd have to use the mind probe anyway, so, since you've already said you would still torture me, it wouldn't make any difference whether I tell you anything now or not." Herak glared at Daniel for a moment.

"Have it your way, Dr. Jackson," he said eventually.

Jack and Sam had stumbled several miles into the dense forest when Jack collapsed, and Sam, unable to hold him up, collapsed with him. They sat on the ground with Jack breathing heavily. In the distance they heard the sound of the horn that was blown by Anubis's army. Jack groaned and bit his lip hard drawing blood.

"Carter, get out of here," he said.

Sam stood and offered her arm out to him, but he shook his head.

"No, Carter. I said get out of here. I'm weighing you down," Jack explained.

"No way," Sam said wiping the sweat from her brow.

"Carter…GO!" Jack said harshly.

"We never leave a man behind!" Sam said.

They heard the horn again, closer this time.

"You want me to make it an order? Fine, get out of here, that's an order," Jack said wincing in pain, "Get to the gate, and wait for the regular scheduled check in. When Hammond calls give him my regards, have him send in a generator and get the heck out of here!"

"Jack!" Sam said.

"Go!" he shouted as another blowing of the horn was heard.

Sam was silent a minute looking around at the dark forest that surrounded them.

"No," she said simply, turning back to face him.

"What?" Jack asked angrily.

"No, Jack, I'm not leaving," she said again.

"Carter! I gave you an or…" but he never finished because at that moment Sam bent down and kissed him. Jack's eyes widened as a response, before he moaned and pulled away.

"Sam…" he started, but Sam gave him a look and kissed him again. This time he didn't pull away and soon took control of the kiss, because what he'd seen in Sam's eyes, mixed with fear and determination, was love. He saw his own love mirrored in her eyes, and that shocked him.

"I love you," he whispered.

"I love you too," Sam replied, tears blossoming in her eyes.

It was against the rules, but at that moment, sitting extremely injured on the cold, hard ground with an army of Jaffa closing in and the woman he loved in his arms, he didn't care.

Two Jaffa guards dragged Daniel into a dark chamber where Teal'c was chained against a wall. Herak fired a zat at Teal'c and then turned to smile smugly at Daniel.

"Now," he said, still pointing the zat at Teal'c, "you will tell us what we want to know or I will kill your friend."

"It wouldn't make any difference," Daniel responded solemnly. "You'd just bring him back with the sarcophagus anyway."

"Maybe we won't bring him back," Herak said snidely. "He is a shol'va, after all."

"He knows too much," Daniel persisted. "You wouldn't want all that information to go to waste, especially considering you have mind probes to get it."

"It would cause your friend unnecessary pain," Herak told him. "Pain he could be saved from if you tell me what I want to know."

"And what do you want to know?" asked Daniel.

"Now, I will only ask this once," Herak said firmly, "what is the sequence of numbers needed to open the barrier covering the Tau'ri Stargate?"

"What?" Daniel asked loudly. Herak looked annoyed.

"Tell me the numbers you send through the Chapa'ai before returning to your world," Herak repeated angrily.

"Oh, uh," said Daniel, thinking quickly, "H-E-R-A-K-I-S-A-N-I-D-I-O-T." Herak looked at Daniel for a moment.

"I have a limited understanding of your written language," he said, "but I know those are letters and not numbers."

"Really?" Daniel asked as though he had not known this.

Herak held up the zat to the unconscious Teal'c and shot him again. Although Daniel knew Teal'c would be brought back with the sarcophagus, it still made him feel agitated, although he tried to not let this show. Herak was still pointing his zat at Teal'c.

"If I shoot him again, he will be disintegrated," he said. "At that point, not even the sarcophagus could bring him back."

"You would never do that," Daniel insisted. "He's too valuable to you."

"Are you sure?" Herak asked nastily. "Are you willing to bet your friend's life on that presumption?" Daniel didn't know what to say — he was fairly certain Herak was bluffing, but what if he wasn't? What if he was really willing to destroy Teal'c?

"Tell us the numbers needed to open your iris," Herak said harshly, "or the shol'va will die permanently."