Daniel had begun to notice that the funerals that hurt the most were the ones that rained. He was so numb that physically and mentally; cold from the sudden loss of …of Anna.
Jack stood under the canopy struggling with his speech. Daniel didn't know if he was going to be much better. He glanced at Sam. She was a wreck, red faced, puffy eyed. He reached over and squeezed her hand. In return she gave a small smile.
"I've known Annabel Anderson since…since she was seven years old. I knew her parents well and it was a surprise one day when she was there. They had adopted her." He smiled and let a few tears slid down his cheeks, "After a few visits I was initiated to be her uncle when she…she…socked me good, right in the nose.
Jack finished his speech and turned teary eyed back to his seat. Daniel slowly stood to his feet and stepped up to the podium. Looking at the crowd around the grave he saw many people from the SGC present. Then the words came to him.
"Anna was loved." He felt tears brim around his eyes, "Um I had a speech that embellished how wonderful she is. How great she will always be, but it just doesn't seem like enough now…"
"She always had a great need to figure things out, even when she wasn't expected to." Many heads in the crowd nodded, "She always tires to make things right with people, even if it was hard for her. She cared about people and how they felt…"
"Anna was loved, is loved." He bowed his head, "there's not much more to say other then she's beautiful, smart, willing, nothing could, can be said to do her justice…"
He shut his eyes took a deep breath and looked out across the crowd, "Thank you…"
The actual burial was easier then the speeches, there was no body to bury. Only an empty casket lowered to the grave. They still couldn't find a trace of her anywhere. Anna had just vanished.
Daniel stood at the grave with Jack, Sam, and Teal'c. None of them spoke and eventually they all left. Each of them had there own time to heal and soon they were all back at work.
Daniel walked into the SGC halfheartedly, but eager to do something to get his mind off things. He mumbled greetings the people passing by, grabbed a coffee, everything was fine until he walked past her office.
He stopped and stared inside.
Anna walked out, "Hey you! I think I've got something!"
"Did you even take a break?" Daniel smirked.
She gave him a look, "Yes I took a two hour nap, thank you very much."
He stared at her, "Any conversations?"
She took a deep breath and sighed, "No not at all. I was hoping though, so I could tell them we're getting closer. Of course they probably already know." She tapped her temple lightly.
"Right." Since she'd gotten out of the MRI room she told them what happen. Rogir and Amielle seemed pushy to him, but he trusted Anna's intuition. To confirm her crazy dream was the MRI results her head looked exactly like Jack's did head with the Ancient knowledge.
"So what did you find?" He asked her as they walked into the mess hall.
"Well it explains how we need to go to PBLAH BLAH, and follow the map." She explained with a smile.
He laid the pictures out on the table and stared at them, "I got the map part, but the place how?"
"Right here." She came over onto his side of the table and pointed out the text, "See it actually explains how the stars were meant to be shown."
"Oh yes…I see that now…" He stared at her, not really looking at the pictures anymore.
"I made a point of checking out the other pictures." He blinked at her, trying to figure out what she meant.
"Uhh what other pictures?" He smiled.
She looked at him and raised an eyebrow high in surprise, "From this planet." She pointed at the gate address.
"We've never been there." He looked at it again, "Have we?"
"That's the first place I ever went!" She punched him in the arm lightly, "You know when the Lieutenant went loco on us and when we brought him back he was fine."
"Is that this planet?" He looked at her and stopped, "We have to follow this map and go to that planet."
"We need to tell Jack." Anna smiled, "I've already figured out most of the map we just need to go there."
"Great! I doubt Jack will have any objections." He smiled, "I'll try figuring out the rest of the map while you talk to him.
Well it turns out Jack did have an objection.
"Are we there yet?" Jack whined adjusting his sunglasses.
Daniel smiled, Sam rolled her eyes, Teal'c kept trekkin', and Anna stopped and looked at him, "You didn't have to come, remember you volunteered!"
"Yeah yeah…you didn't answer my question." Jack mumbled.
"It's just over the ridge, Jack." Daniel told him.
"See that's just the beginning. I remember being a kid, one ridge starts to become ten ridges." Jack pointed out.
Sam giggled and climbed the last few steps to the top, "Wow…"
"Pretty impressive isn't it?" Daniel stated.
"It has to be some sort new mineral," She smiled then raised an eyebrow, "well either that or these people didn't mind having their neighbors stare at them."
Anna giggled and headed directly down the hill into the city. The others followed slowly remarking at the structure of the buildings and density…
"Blah, blah, blah can't you just enjoy it for once?" Jack looked at Sam not expecting much of an answer from her.
Sam smiled and looked from him to the city walls, "Sorry sir."
Daniel walked up to Anna wiping off his glasses, "So we're looking for a wreath of many flowers?"
"That's what it said." He looked down at her. She had a very sharp look about her as if she was thinking past the present to the future.
"What are you thinking?" He smiled.
She looked up at him, "What?"
"What are you thinking?" He repeated.
"Oh, oh nothing really, just want to finish this." She smiled.
"Alright." He turned to find the others.
"Daniel." He turned right into a kiss. He stiffened at first then relaxed.
She pulled away, "I'm sorry, but it was for luck."
He was speechless as she walked away beginning to inspect a wall nearby, "Daniel."
He readjusted his glasses and turned to see Sam coming toward him, "Sam, what is it did you find something?"
"Well, no, but I was thinking," She started, "You said a wreath, could it possibly be the stargate?"
"I don't-"
"Daniel it was in a field of flowers."
He pulled out the translation and looked at his. His brow began to knit as he scratched things out, "Anna, I think we made a few mistakes."
He turned around and saw that Anna was nowhere in sight, "Anna?"
"Somethin' wrong?" Jack and Teal'c walked up.
Daniel scanned the area looking for Anna, "The translation is wrong, and Anna's missing."
"What?" Daniel knew that both bits of information were not something that jack wanted to hear.
"I don't know, she was just next to the wall there." Daniel looked back at the translation. It wasn't all wrong just certain words, "Oh no…"
"What?" Sam walked up to him.
"We have to find Anna right now." He told her and started for the wall Anna was looking at. It lead down an alleyway to another area of the city.
"Daniel what's going on?" Jack asked running after him.
"The translations wrong, she must have changed it knowing we would never let her risk…" He stopped, "risk it."
"What is the 'it' in that sentence?" Jack asked as the emerged on the other side of the city.
Daniel didn't answer but looked frantically up and down this new street, "There!"
He pointed up the way, they could see a figure running up a set of stairs. Acting quickly they all ran in the same direction.
"Anna come in." Jack tapped the radio, "Anna."
He received no response to his calls, which made the group hasten up the stairs. At the top of the stairs stood a room that looked very similar to the underground temple. Daniel was the first to reach the top.
Anna was in the room she looked at him sadly and smiled. He ran up to her, but was forced to the ground before he could get to her.
"Anna no, don't do this!" Daniel shouted getting to his feet and felt at the force field looking for some way to get past it. She didn't say anything, but simple looked at the ground, "Anna!"
Jack finally ran in and looked at Daniel, "What's going on?"
"She's fulfilling the map." He looked a Jack, "It wasn't a map it was instructions. She's going to die if we don't get her to stop!"
Jack looked at Anna, "Annabel Ana-Maria Anderson you get out of there right now." Everyone looked at him, his face was stern, "We can find a way to do whatever without losing anyone."
"It would be to late then." She said quietly, "A whole civilization, a lifestyle would be gone."
"Anna there has to be-"
"There isn't okay!" She looked up and stared at them all. It was obvious she was struggling with all this, "I have to do this."
"You don't have to do anything." Daniel said as Sam and Teal'c moved to the force field inspecting it.
"Daniel do you remember the lieutenant who went crazy." She continued not waiting for an answer, "He came here and he touched this." She pointed at the pedestal behind her, "but he didn't have what I have."
Daniel looked at her, pleading with her, "Don't do this."
"I can't find a way inside sir." Sam told Jack quickly.
"I'm sorry." Anna turned to the pedestal.
"Anna!" Jack shouted and pounding at the field.
There was a loud noise, then shaking followed by SG1 getting thrown out of the room and down the stairs. Daniel stared at the sky and felt his world go black.
"Do you think they're alright?"
"I don't know." Daniel groaned and opened his eyes revealing a young man and a young woman.
The girl smiled, "Rogir he's awake!"
Daniel shot up recognizing the name Anna had spoken to him, "Anna!" He felt a piercing pain shoot through his shoulder. He struggled to stand up and Rogir helped him to his feet.
"I don't think he should be moving." The girl said matter of fact like.
Daniel didn't care at the moment. He needed to get back into that room. As he walked up the stairs the others were slowly getting up.
Breathing heavily he walked into the room, "Anna!"
Nothing, the room was empty. There was no trace that anyone had been there at all. He fell to the floor, landing on his knees painfully. Again someone he cared for had been ripped form his life. Would he ever be rid of this curse?
He could her Jack cursing behind him, hitting wall and sinking to the floor. Sam began to cry as Teal'c held her and remained silent.
"Daniel?" He was brought back to the SGC with Sam's voice. He looked at her, how long had he been standing here staring at Anna's office?
"How you holding up?" She asked.
He shrugged, "No better then you I suppose."
"Yeah…" A silence fell between the two.
Finally Daniel worked up the courage to ask, "How's Jack doing?"
"The General's still in Minnesota, will be to the end of the week." She sighed, "I just can't get my head around what happened still. She could've said something."
"She did…" Sam looked up at Daniel, "we just never communicated well."
He smiled, "I can't get the feeling that her sacrifice in bringing the Solberians back to consciousness, their physical beans, ends here."
"They said that it did end there though, Daniel. It's in their histories that it ended at that room." Sam frowned, "But I know how you feel. It's like when you ascended, do you think…"
"No, she didn't really believe in the ascension process." Daniel told her sadly, still he couldn't fit the pieces together. Every culture he ever study explained where a person went after death, sacrifice or not, but the Solberians didn't.
He sighed, "I have to get to work and eventually clear Anna's office out."
"Right, if you need anything Daniel."
"I'll call you first." Daniel hugged Sam. This getting up and going to work was going to be a lot harder then Daniel started.
"Dr. Jackson," Daniel turned seeing a scientist walked toward him, "I was wondering if you could help translate the symbols on this device we found on PX7-102?"
"Yeah, sure." Daniel nodded, just another day at work.
Yup that's it...I know sucks to be Daniel Jackson, but I'll let you in on a little secret if I get some reviews!!!! But until then...yeah she's dead and Daniel is left alone again.