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Carter turned away and Teal'c watched fearlessly as their teammate fell. Jack's eyes started watering for the first time in a long while. Anubis was gleaming with horrendous pride as he handed the weapon back to his slave.

"It was actually better that he died this way, you know," Anubis mocked to SG-1. "It would have been quite more devastating for both himself and for you had I allowed him to live and suffer through his weakened state. Starving to death or dying of dehydration are both far worse ways to die than being shot and having it end almost painlessly."

"Or you could have just given him some water and food and let us all be on our merry little ways!" yelled a very irritated Jack.

"Yes. I must admit I could have, but then what would the fun in that be? I promised you I would let you go if you had just told me one simple little thing that I desire. But you could not even live up to that." Anubis said and started out the cell, having his Jaffa bring Daniel's body with them. At the doorway, he stopped and said, "Oh, and don't you worry about your friend, colonel. I promise I will bring him back so that we can all have even more fun together."

As he left, O'Neill attempted to rush to the door and follow him out. He was thwarted, however, when the door quickly shut behind the Goa'uld and his slaves. "Shoot," O'Neill muttered under his breath along with some other words. He lifted his head to meet the gaze of his two remaining teammates. The hurt in their eyes was almost as bad as Jack's. Neither of them had been expecting, nor wanting, Daniel to die again so quickly. Finally, Carter broke the silence, "You know, sir, if Anubis keeps this up, Daniel will get addicted to the sarcophagus again. Except, this time, it will happen sooner due to the fact that Daniel is actually being hurt, or rather, killed. Like what I assume happened with you and Baal..." she cut herself off and bit her tongue. Now was not a good time to bring up more painful memories to the colonel.

"I know, Carter," Jack said calmly. He walked back to the other side of the room where Daniel had been and near where the other two were currently standing. He looked up at the chains that had been binding Daniel's hands. There was blood caked on them all over. They had put those darn things on Daniel's wrists really tightly. O'Neill sulked around awhile in a silence that the others respected. At last, O'Neill said, "Let's open that jar. It was Daniel's idea. We should do it for him."

"But sir, what if it's a Goa'uld?" complained Carter.

"So what if it is? Daniel was right. We will never get out of here if we don't try something," Jack answered.

After some contemplation, both Carter and Teal'c agreed that opening the jar would be the correct course of action to take. Carter found the brick and once again opened the whole in the wall. When she took out the canopic jar, they set it down on the ground, and they stared at it for a little while. Finally, they looked at each other and made the decision.

"All right, we open it in 3...2...1" Jack yelled. They threw open the jackal-shaped lid. All of them turned away and closed their eyes, not sure of what to expect. When none of them heard any squeaking or whatever other horrible noises larvae Goa'uld made, they looked at each other first to make sure none of them had been taken over (the eyes would have glowed), and then they looked down into the jar.

Inside of the jar was nothing but a harmless piece of paper. The three looked at each other quizzically. Was this a trick? Teal'c reached his hand into the jar and pulled out the small piece of paper. It was similar in size to a piece of paper you may find in a "fortune cookie", he thought, remembering his first encounter with Earth Chinese food.

"It appears to be a message, but I cannot make out the symbols on it," he stated.

"Great," said Jack. "It's probably just some dumb fortune. So much for Daniel's idea."

"At least it wasn't a Goa'uld, sir," said Carter.

"Actually, right now Carter, I'm kind of wishing it was a Goa'uld instead of some stupid piece of paper. That way, it could have taken over you and at least have done something useful."

"We do not yet know the significance of this piece of parchment, O'Neill. I do not believe it wise to jump to such conclusions as of this moment."

"Oh, yeah? Well, I'm going to jump to whatever conclusions I want. I...wait. Do you hear something?"

The three paused and there was utter silence. They soon heard the faint sound of footsteps approaching. Teal'c quickly pocketed the paper while Carter and Jack put the remains of the jar into the compartment in the wall. They shut it just before Anubis walked in with his Jaffa and a very irritated looking Daniel. The Jaffa put Daniel on his wrist chains once again with a bit of a fight from the stubborn archaeologist.

"Doctor Jackson, come now, don't look so glum. You are healthy again, and your friends are all well. Of course if this doesn't make you cheerful, perhaps I can find something else that will," said Anubis.

Daniel's eyes got very narrow as he glared at the Goa'uld. "I think I'm fine with the way things are right now. Can't you tell?" he quipped.

"Make no mistake. I shall return. But for now, I have more important business to attend to than torturing you further, although I am sure that would be my preference over working."

As Anubis left Daniel just rolled his eyes. Anubis had forgotten to lower his shield. Not that it made a difference. He looked over at his friends. They had just been standing in silence. "So, you guys, whatcha doin'?" he asked them.

"Uh, nothing much, Daniel. How 'bout you?"

"Oh, same thing."

"'kay."

There was an awkward silence. Jack broke the silence again and said, "Well, we opened that canopic jar while you were gone."

"Really? And?"

"It was, like, a fortune cookie paper thingy," said Teal'c.

"Don't know what it says, though, because it's in some other language," said Jack.

"Well, then, let me see it."

Teal'c nodded and brought the paper over to Daniel and held it for him because Daniel's arms were chained up. "Um, sorry Teal'c, but, uh, you're holding it upside down."

Teal'c raised and eyebrow at Daniel, but turned the paper right side up. "Then you recognize these symbols, Daniel Jackson?"

"Uh, yeah, I do. They're kind of like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, similar to what we found on Abydos," Daniel said eying the paper.

"Come on, Daniel, read it out loud. The suspense is just killing me," said Jack.

"Okay. I'll try the best I can. Um, loosely, it says uh, well it was written by someone, a prisoner, who was here before. They, much like us, were tortured for quite a long time. Unlike us, however, the Goa'uld had not yet 'installed' the wrist chains or energy shield, therefore he was able to move around freely. He just so happened to come across a brick on the wall that pushed in. To his surprise, when he pushed it, a small opening appeared on the wall. The tiny door led right outside, where he was able to outrun his opponents and reach the chappa'ai. However, he was later recaptured with his friends. He tried desperately to find the same brick, but it was quite difficult because, you must push very hard to get it in and obviously hundreds of bricks make up the outside walls. It took him a long while to find the correct one. When he did, though, he this time, left himself a reminder of where it was. This he also hid in the wall, but he knew where to find it, for he put it 10 bricks down and 18 bricks to the right. He remembered because this was the date and month of his birthday. This coming from the upper left hand corner of the room..."

"Wait, wait , wait, Daniel. Your telling me all of this is written on that piece of paper?"

"Well, I'm not done yet."

"Daniel...explain..."

"Fine. Many of these symbols signify words. I'm also adding a lot of information on my own."

"Ah, okay. Continue. Even though I really have no idea what you're talking about. I'm sure Carter does."

"Anyway, so he knew where to find the instructions. But before he left, he rigged the 'door opener button' to work only for his people, so that the Goa'uld could not escape their own prison as he assumed that button was intended to do..."

"Oh, great," said Jack, "so we can't open it either."

"I didn't say that, Jack..."

"DANIEL! Yes you did! You said 'only work for his people', and I don't know anyone on Earth who has been able to rig a door opener button on a Goa'uld inhabited planet!"

"But, Jack, I didn't get to the part where it describes 'his people', yet. It might not be detailed enough to exclude other humans, or creatures other than the Goa'uld."

"Ah. Okay. Continue..."

"Right. So the description of his people...ah! Here it is. Uh, it says that when you find the correct brick, if you can read this, you will know what to do. All you must say is the password that is required to enter our pyramid on our planet...uh oh."

"Now, there, you see? No way we would know that," said Jack.

"Wait," said Carter, "wasn't there a pyramid on Abydos?"

"Yeah, but we didn't use a password. And like I said, the writing isn't quite like the one we found there."

"Where is the correct brick, Daniel Jackson?"

"Uh, it is 5 down, 5 to the right, 2 down, and 3 to the left from the one containing the canopic jar."

"It would indeed be worth trying to open. Perhaps the Goa'uld have once accidentally locked themselves in this prison and found a way to 'unrig' it."

"Okay," said Jack. He counted out the blocks and pushed as hard as he could. It would not budge. "Nope. Not gonna work."

"Drat," said Daniel.

The colonel looked sympathetically at Daniel. The poor guy had been trying so hard to get them out.

"Daniel, it's okay. It's not your..."

"WAIT!" Daniel cut him off, "I remember reading something on the cave walls when I lived on Abydos..."

"You mean you did archaeology work while you were there?" said Jack.

Daniel ignored him, "A long time ago, before Abydos was under the ruling of Ra, Many different Goa'uld patrolled the galaxy, particularly ancient Egyptian deities. Anubis was among them. Now maybe, Anubis came to Abydos once and managed to capture some of the people who chose not to worship the Goa'uld. There were always a number of people on the planet that chose not to believe. They had their own pyramid, a very small one, disguised as another 'temple' for worshipping the false gods. However, they would trick the others in the city to believing that their temple was for experienced citizens only. If you could read the minds of the ones already inside of the pyramid, then you were allowed in. If not, then you had to settle with the big one with the Stargate in it. To most people this was acceptable."

"But there were always some people on Abydos that wondered what exactly the others did in their pyramid that was so special. Finally, one night, they snuck into the pyramid to find the others burning statues of the Goa'uld that they had created. They quickly ran out to tell the city's leader of their 'wrongdoings'. The leader ordered them all executed."

"Ooh, lovely," muttered Jack.

"But, not all of the non-worshippers were in the pyramid that night, many escaped and ran from the city, fearing they would be found out. They created a smaller pyramid very far from the extents of the city. They had but a simple password to get in..."

"The password from the paper," continued Carter.

"Yes, possibly. The problem is, I don't remember what the password was, or if it was even on the cave writings I read. The password for the...wall seems to fit with the description of the password for the pyramid on Abydos, but I wouldn't know, or at least, remember it."

"Great. So there goes that brilliant plan."

"Jack..."

"Daniel...?"

"I might know it. I just can't seem to remember it right now."

"Uh huh."

"No, seriously! I mean, it's a wonder I can remember anything from those cave writings that I read over 7 years ago, okay!"

"Well, Daniel, how are we going to make you miraculously remember that one little, oh, so important detail, hmm?"

Daniel hesitated and closed his eyes. Boy, was he feeling the pressure.
Jack noticed and remembered what all Daniel had been through just recently. "I'm sorry, Daniel. I just really want to get out of here. I didn't mean to pressure you."

Daniel sighed and looked up. It was very odd for Jack to be so kind to him. He decided not to think about it too much, though, because his head already hurt from all that thinking about Abydos. Instead, he just smiled and said, "Thanks, Jack."

Jack nodded. "Why don't you get some sleep, Danny-boy? No offense, but you look awful."

Daniel smiled at Jack's remark. "Okay, sir. Whatever you say," he mocked.

Jack smiled. He had missed talking to Daniel since they'd come here. Ever since they had gotten here, it seemed Daniel was either unconscious or talking about some elaborate plan to escape. Not that he blamed him.

"Actually, colonel, I think I'm going to get some shut-eye, too," said Carter, who really had no reason to be tired, but, you know.

"Why don't you, Teal'c and Daniel all get some rest. I'll keep watch just in case."

"I do not need to sleep, O'Neill. I have done so just recently. Why do not you sleep? You have not slept well since Daniel Jackson first became injured. I believe you will need to do so soon, or you may become increasingly exhausted or possibly even ill. I will take watch."

"Thanks, Teal'c," said Jack, as he went to lay on the cold, hard dungeon floor. At least it was better than poor Daniel's position. He immediately closed his eyes and fell into the world of his own dreams.