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Daniel walked down the ramp from the gate. The day's events had not been going well and he was hoping for better news at home.
"Daniel!" He looked up at Sam walking toward him with papers in hand.
"Is that it?" He said as he nearly leaped off the side of the ramp. She nodded handing the sheet of papers to him. He scanned the papers, "But that doesn't make any sense."
"Daniel we knew this could happen." Sam frowned.
He shook his head in frustration, "But she has to have the ancient gene, it's the only logical explanation on how she's the only one so far to have made the device work."
"Right, I know, but maybe there is another explanation." Sam looked at him and tried to smile.
Daniel looked back at her and sighed, "I'm sorry Sam, I shouldn't be pushing this on you, after what happened."
"Don't be, believe me Daniel I'd rather be doing something." She smiled and walked to the meeting room. Daniel nodded and watched her still feeling a pang of guilt for asking her help after her ordeal with the Replicators.
After the twenty minute check up and clean up Daniel was joining SG-1 in the briefing room. He looked at everyone and then at Jack, "Where's Anna?"
"Well if you must know she's at home." Jack smiled, "Thanks to you and Carter here for finding her a home for the zillionth time."
Sam smiled and looked at Daniel, "No problem sir."
"Yeah, it was either that or get drool all over my reports." Daniel smirked, sitting down next to Teal'c.
"Right, so about this device?" Jack got down to business.
"Right." Daniel opened his folder, "Well it doesn't look like Anna has the ancient gene, so there has to be another explanation."
"Could it possible be that only females can control this device?" Teal'c asked looking at the pictures from Daniel's folder.
"No," He shook his head, "That's was my first assumption when I couldn't use it."
"So I'm still confused," Jack tossed the picture to Sam like a Frisbee, "what exactly does it do again?"
"Sir weren't you listening the first time?" Sam inquired.
"No, I think I was trying to figure out something else at the time." Jack smiled.
"Like what, sir?" She looked at him weird.
Jack stared at her, "If you have to know I was remembering the time with all the ancient crap in my head, to see if I could help." He looked back at Daniel, "Danny, please continue."
"Well from talking to Anna a few weeks ago, it's a punishment device." Daniel started, "Only it hurts you more emotional instead of physically. When someone would grab on to the handle it apparently lets you see every horrible event in a person's life that you may have a grudge with."
"Ooo, I don't like the sound of that." Jack mumbled.
"Yes, it's not a fun experience I guess. It replays all these images over and over until it feels that you understand the person enough to resolve your issues." Daniel put his glasses on the table and massaged between his eyes, "From this I gather, that the people who used to inhabit this planet were not like the Goa'uld, wanting to conclude everything with fighting. We can assume that they were peaceful people."
"Wow all that from a little device under a building." Jack made a face, "You know that's what I don't get, why is it under a building like it's supposed to be hidden?"
"I don't know the thought really didn't cross my mind." Daniel looked back at Jack frustration laced across his face.
"Alright I think were done here." Jack stood up dismissing them, "Daniel, wait."
Daniel's heart stopped, he knew this was coming, "Yes?"
"I know that you don't really want to hear this, but…" He was interrupted.
"If I don't find anything soon I'm going to have to stop my research, right?" Daniel looked and the ground.
"Yeah…" Jack nodded, "I believe you when you say that there has to be something more, but the big guys are getting after me, ya know? I'll fight it for as long as I can, but I just wanted to warn you. No pressure." He slapped Daniels back and retreated to his office.
No pressure, right. What did he know about pressure? Daniel shook his head and started to retreat to his office passing the gateroom. He did a double take and saw Anna sitting on the wall staring at the gate.
He walked in coffee in hand, "Anna?"
She tore her gaze from the gate and smiled at Daniel, "Hey! How'd your trip go?"
He looked down at her, "Fine, still don't have anything, but well…" He made a face, "What are you doing here?"
"Here as in work, or here as in gateroom?" She asked.
"Ah, both?" He smiled.
"Well I'm supposed to come to work in a few hours," She smiled, "and I like sitting here, it's a good place to think."
"Is it?" He sipped his coffee and looked at the gate, "I suppose it would be."
"Join me Daniel." She patted the floor next to her.
He gave a quiet laugh and sat down, "So what are you thinking about?"
"I don't really know…" She laughed nervously and looked at her hands, "Everything I guess."
"That's a lot to think about." Daniel stretched his legs out in front of him setting his coffee by his side, "Anything specific about everything? Like work, home, etc…" She nodded silently not replying to him, he stared at her, "That's kinda vague."
"Vague is a point of view." She spoke up.
"How so?" He asked.
"Well think of splatter painting." She started.
He made a face, "A what?"
"The paintings that many people just say are spattered paint." She explained and watched his face change from slightly confused to understanding. She felt her heart flutter in her chest and heat rise in her face. This effect caused her to look away from him to compose herself.
"Are you alright?" He asked with concern.
She nodded, "Yes I'm fine, sorry, what was I saying."
"Something about paintings." He smiled, which made Anna's face become warm again, she hoped he didn't notice.
"Right and how vague is a perspective." She smiled, "The picture has all these colors splashed every where. To one person that's all they see, to another they see a landscape."
He stared at her and shook his head slowly, "That makes no sense to me."
She laughed, "I suppose not, but it's hard to explain."
He nodded looked at his watch, "I really have to go, I'm sorry. We should talk some more at lunch; maybe you'll find a better explanation to your 'vague paintings'."
"That would be nice." Anna said and watched him leave into the hall.
She sighed to herself once alone. She couldn't straighten things out with him, or rather she felt confused about him.
"What's there to think about Anna?" She said to her self, "You think he's gorgeous, you have since you first saw him."
She let her head slowly fall back to the wall. She heard the small thud and felt a vibration as she expected. However, this vibration persisted and was followed by the sound of clinks and whooshing of the gate.
Her head flew forward and she was soon hearing over the speakers, "Unscheduled off world activation!"
She would have moved if she could have, but soldiers suddenly filled the room and there was no escape as the doors were sealed off. The wormhole was established, but the iris wasn't closing. She could just barely hear the panicky voices out in the hall.
Her eyes grew wide as she saw Jaffa walking down the gate. One of them touched something on his arm and everything seemed to freeze. In fact everything did freeze.
Every SGC soldier was frozen to their spot in the gateroom. Anna looked around frantically as they advanced toward her.
"HELP!!" She screamed not knowing if she could be heard by anyone.
One of the guards smacked her hard across the face sending her to the floor with her head spinning. She blinked several times as she felt herself being thrown over someone's shoulder.
As they walked up the gate time came back and everyone fell to the floor. Anna managed to look up to the control room.
He was there standing next to Jack. He was yelling something, Jack was yelling back at him and at Sam who was at the computer.
She felt one of the guards reach across her legs and brush something on his arm, the gate was activated again. She looked desperately at the control room as tears raced to her eyes.
She blinked as they were moving and made eye contact with him. He looked terrified, it made her sad.
Only one word raced to her mouth, her only thought that she could comprehend at that moment, "Daniel!"
Then feeling of cold and black.
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