"In Bed girls!" Jack called up the stairs as he grabbed two beers from the fridge. He handed one to Daniel, not sure if the girls had gone to bed or not.
Daniel sneezes.
"Nice Catch." Jack laughed.
"Sorry, Gate travel always seems to effect my allergies..."
"So you were saying?" He asked Daniel as he opened the beer.
"Well, after you left the Abydonian people realized they were free." Daniel said.
"Have a big party did you?" Jack laughed.
"Oh yeah, big big party." Daniel said as he took a swig of the beer. "The people of Abydos looked up to me as a savior, the worshiped me… It was a bit… Embarrasing."
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Up on the stairs Terri, Taryn and Mike listened to what was going on downstairs.
"Abydos?" Taryn whispered.
"It sounds like Ancient Egyptian." Terri whispered.
"Shhh… He's talking about his wife." Mike whispered.
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"Sha're was the complete opposite of everyone else. She practically fell on the floor laughing every time I tried to do some chore they all took for granted, like grinding yafeta flour. I mean, have you ever tried to grind your own flour?"
"I'm trying to kick the flour thing." Jack joked.
Daniel looked at the beer and laughed. "This is going straight to my head, What time is it anyways? I must have Gate Lag or something."
"Daniel, for crying out loud you've had one beer. You're a cheaper date then my wife was." Jack said.
"Yes, when am I going to meet your wife?" Daniel asked.
"Oh, probably… Never." Jack said. "After I came back from Abydos the first time she had already left. She left my girls with nothing to live on."
"I'm sorry…" Daniel said.
"Yeah, so was I." Jack said. "I think in her heart she forgave me for what happened to our kid, she just couldn't forget."
"And what about you?"
"I'm the opposite. I'll never forgive myself, but sometimes I can forget…. Sometimes…" Jack whispered.
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On the stairs Taryn held onto her sister as Terri cried. The twins held the secret that it wasn't that Charlie who killed himself, it was Terri. Terri and Charlie had been fighting over the gun cause Terri was trying to get Charlie to put it back. Terri's finger hit the trigger and Charlie fell to the ground. She hated that her father blamed himself for it. One day she would have the strength to tell him what happened.
"Let's go to bed." Taryn suggested.
Terri nodded as she got up. She smiled at Mike weakly as he headed to Charlie's old room and Taryn and her went to their room. Once Terri got to her room she got onto her laptop and ran a search for Abydos. When several search engines turned up nothing Terri decided she needed to go to bed before her father came to check on her.