So sorry about not updating! I told you had to hound me! But I just got recently busy so now I have a suprise for you because I'm going away for a while again...TWO CHAPTERS!!! Yay! Alright well go have fun and read!
Turns out that SG-5's communicator had broken down due to an accident with one of them falling down a hill. Daniel had felt a great pressure being lifted off his chest when the team explained.
He was due there next week to find the device that was talked about into this tablet. The only problem with this is he didn't know what the device was, and more importantly he didn't know where it was. That's why he'd asked Anna earlier in the week to help with the tablet.
He started for her office and found an odd sight. Her door was closed. Then he remembered that she was supposed to go home for some rest. Even so, he still knocked lightly and heard nothing. The light was on so he decided to let himself in.
"Hello?" He stuck his head in and saw no one, "Anna?" No answer, however he did see the tablet with several notes placed about it. Curious, he let himself wander over to read them and that's when he saw her.
Anna was lying on the floor in the corner, "Anna!" He went to her side and checked her pulse, "Anna! Wake up!"
Her hand flew up and she smacked him across the face and rolled over.
"Ow!" His hand when to his cheek, she had a good right hook.
She flinched and quickly looked up at him, "Oh god! Daniel! What are you doing in here?"
"Checking on you." He continued to rub his cheek, "What are you doing? Weren't you supposed to go home?"
She made a face and cursed, "Well…"
"Well what?" He asked staring at her, she did look exhausted. He suddenly felt slightly responsible for putting her this way. He knew she wouldn't stop until she figured out the meaning of the tablet.
"I don't…" She sighed, "I don't exactly have a home, yet."
"What? You mean you've been living here on base for the past two months." He looked at her and she smiled that horribly beautiful smile, "You know Jack warned us about you doing something like this."
"Well it's just I haven't had time too, and when I thought I would I was sent off world." She tried with the too busy excuse.
"I know for a fact that you had a week off, you could've done it then." He stood up and offered a hand to her.
She bit her bottom lip, a nervous habit that she exhibited when she got caught he noticed, and let him help her up, "Yeah well….you suck."
"Excuse me?" He raised an eyebrow questioningly.
"Why do you have to be so good with come backs, if I was more awake, I would totally kick your butt." She pointed a finger tiredly in his face followed by sitting down and laying her head in her arms, "Normally I find an unoccupied room, but lately all these officials have been showing up and staying over night so I sleep here."
"If you'd just ask Sam or I could've have helped you out." He leaned on the desk and stared at the back of her head.
She nodded and then shot her head up, "Oh! I found out where it's hidden!"
"Hm? Oh the device, don't worry about that right now." He put his hands on her shoulders and made her stand up, "Right now we're going to find a place to put you up for a little while."
This was harder then he expected, Sam was busy, Teal'c lived on base, and Jack well Anna said she didn't want to stay with him something about a really crappy couch. He sighed and looked at her leaning on the wall of the elevator. She wasn't going to make it far.
The elevator door opened and they walked out into the fresh air of the parking lot, "Come on Disobedient."
She let herself get pulled along into his car. He tried reasoning with himself that this was the only solution at the moment.
"It's just one night right." He mumbled as he closed the passenger door.
The drive wasn't long, but it was long enough for conversation.
"It's behind the wall." She said sleepily.
He assumed she was talking about the device, "Is it?"
"Mmmhhmm…" She yawned.
"Which wall, there were lot's of walls." He kept his eyes on the road.
She shrugged, "It just said 'THE wall.'"
"That doesn't make any sense." He made a face and shook his head, "There has to be something more specific."
"Or does there?" She told him, "Just because I like you for your mind, does that mean I have to like you for your looks too?"
He looked at her as she continued, her eyes closed leaning against the car window, "Specifics, and details are sometimes overrated and you should just accept what's right in front of you."
"What does that mean?" Daniel asked her.
"I don't know," She yawned again, "It's something my foster father told me before he died. I guess I just felt it appropriate for the moment."
As soon as he thought he had her figured out, she threw something new into the equation. She soon fell asleep and the rest of the ride was silent all the way home.
Daniel's eyes slowly opened, and he blinked several times before he remembered what happened the night before. He rolled off the couch onto the floor, "Ow…I have to find a better way to get off of these things."
He rubbed his face and walked through the kitchen toward his bedroom. He knocked lightly. He decided that if Anna was still sleeping he would just let her sleep.
No answer. He cracked the door and peeked in. She was gone.
"Anna?" He walked in looking at the strange neatness of the made bed. There was a note on the pillow.
Dear Daniel,
I had an epiphany and had to get back to Cheyenne Mountain. Don't worry, I did get some sleep. I can't thank you enough for letting me stay over. I took a cab to work, see you there!
Anna
Turns out her epiphany moved his mission up a few days. It would be him, Sam, Teal'c, and Anna.
They were standing in front of the gate, "Are you sure you really want me to come?"
"Yes I'm sure I want you to come." Daniel replied.
"Because if you don't want me too I don't-" He interrupted her.
"Anna! If I didn't want you to come I wouldn't have asked Jack to put you on the team." He looked at her.
"Right!" She smiled as she and Teal'c walked through the gate first.
"You know she's just checking because she doesn't want to steal your thunder." Sam walked past him.
He smiled and nodded following her, "I know."
He stepped through onto P3G-467. It still looked rocky and green.
"Where is this temple Daniel Jackson?" Teal'c asked looking around at the surroundings.
"It's just a little walk into the woods." Daniel told them as they started toward the tree line.
"This place is beautiful." Anna spoke to no one in particular.
Sam smiled, "It is isn't it."
"Nice place for a picnic." Anna commented again.
"What?" Sam looked at her.
Anna stopped, "Oh I'm not saying that we stop for a picnic, I'm just saying it's the type of place you'd seen in like a movie, ya know?"
"Right." Sam smiled and continued following Daniel, who was grinning at Anna's comment. There were certain times He really saw too much of Jack in her sometimes. From Sam's smile he assumed she thought so too.
They were soon coming up to a large temple of stone with vines covering much of it.
"It looks very Aztec." Anna dropped her pack on the ground.
"Yes it does, that exactly what I thought when I first came here." Daniel looked at her, "Now this epiphany of yours explained what wall it was."
"Yes, now one would assume that this device would be up at the top inside, when in reality it's through a wall and down." She smiled.
"Then which wall is it?" Sam asked.
"On the tablet it said 'THE wall'" She started moving at the base of the wall, "Now if you actually turn the tablet upside down, the letters become, NTH. Now in some cultures NTH means-"
Daniel finished it for her, "North! The north wall."
"Exactly!" She smiled and moved to the north side of the temple followed by everyone else.
It was that easy. They turned the corner and found stairs leading to a room that held a strange looking relic.
Daniel shook his head, "Specifics and details are sometimes overrated." Anna looked at him and he smiled back. She looked away at the ground, she looked sad, "You alright?"
"What yeah!" She smiled and turned away biting her lip.
"No you're not, what's wrong?" He pushed.
"I'm fine Daniel."
"No you're not"
"Daniel." She said in a warning tone.
"Anna."
"What's going on guys?" Sam walked in with Teal'c.
Anna smiled, "Nothing."
Daniel didn't say anything. Sam looked at him, "You okay?"
"Peachy." He said quickly staring at Anna.
Sam looked at Teal'c who stood behind and raised an eyebrow. Sam looked back at the two, "So do we know how it works?"
"No," Daniel looked back at Sam, "I'm assuming that it's written here somewhere." He pointed at the walls.
"Then we better get started." Anna told, "I'll take that side you start on the other."
She turned away from him and he raised his hands and pretended to choke her.
Sam looked at him strangely then turned to Teal'c, "Wanna go check out the area with me?"
"Indeed."
Teehee...