(Unicorn682006, thank you for the review. I'm glad you liked the last chapter, and I hope you like the next part.

Sweetangel4, I'm glad you liked the Jolinar's Memories segments. I was worried it'd be confusing to what was her pov and what was really going on with Lantash. I'm glad you liked the Freya/Anise twist. I wasn't sure how people would react to her being married to Kela'an since I made him up.)

Part 18, A Box

-Sam-

Mark and I talk a long time, and I also end up talking to each of his children and his wife. I have no idea what dad and Kilso are doing, and I go looking for them afterwards. I find them in the mess hall. Kilso is having fun exploring Earth foods. "Hello."

Kilso is wiggling a red jell-o cube. He doesn't seem to notice that others in the mess hall are watching him. He's the first Tok'ra to not act serious while here. "You have interesting food." He eats the cube. "Not very nutritional, but it's interesting."

"Most Tok'ra pick out the more nutritional food when they eat here."

"I like this," he picks up a chocolate bar. "I like this the best."

"You've never had chocolate before?"

"As far as I know, chocolate is only on Earth," Selmak answers.

Kilso glances between us. "Selmak knew about this wonderful food and never told anyone. Shameful Selmak."

"We should be returning," Selmak says.

Kilso eats the last jell-o cube in his bowl. He puts his bowl away and eats chocolate on the way to the gate room. He puts the wrapper in a pocket when he's done.

Walter dials and we go back through. Back at the Tok'ra base, I'm not sure where the rings are. I follow the Tok'ra to find it. Jack has wondered how they know where the rings are. I've kind of wondered myself at times. The Tok'ra find them easily, and I head back to my room.

There is a box on my bed. I open it up and find leaves. Leaves? Something is under them. I go through them and pull out a dried flower. It's the one Martouf gave me on our first date. It had been left on Neeria. His flower...and leaves...

I turn around and he's there. "Hello Samantha."

"Martouf."

He walks closer. "Lantash wanted to return back to me before we told you how we felt."

I smile, looking to the box. Leaves have never meant so much before. "They're beautiful."

He moves in closer and starts kissing me. I kiss him back, all the while being careful not to drop the box. Lantash is in control for a second kiss. He pulls away afterwards. "I've been wanting to do that since my memories returned."

"You did a good job at keeping it from me."

He smiles. "Thank you." He kisses me again, massaging the back of my neck as he does. "Will you be staying another day?"

"Yes."

"We have time to make up then. I've been on the wrong side of this relationship for the past four months." He grins, then adds quickly. "Though that way was enjoyable. I had an intelligent and beautiful host. However, I do find I prefer being male again."

I grin.

"There is something else I've been wanting to do."

"Yes?"

He picks me up. "This." He smiles. "There is a beautiful place up on the surface. We should have lunch there."

My feet are wiggling. "We should talk to others first."

He sets me down. "People, then lunch."

I nod, taking his hand. I had been worried how they'd react to how I felt, and it turned out they felt the same way. "Lantash, I hope you aren't offended by anything I thought when I first saw you...in the tank."

He squeezes my hand as we walk. "I am not. I had worried in the past that you cared more for Martouf, or that part of you was disgusted with what I was. But you saw me, and all you did was love me." He moves his hand to gently pinch my hand where he had bitten. "It was my favorite memory."

I smile, and we leave the room.

-Daniel-

This morning the Tok'ra started keeping me busy by showing be assorted objects. They are from various planets that different hosts have come from, and they are curious to what I say about them. The hosts are curious if their culture is similar to any on Earth.

I look up when I here someone walk in. "Uh...A-Anise." Kela'an request that I not see her plays in my mind.

"Hello Daniel."

"Hi...should we be talking?"

"Kela'an's request was a bit unreasonable for the long term. We may find ourselves working together in the future after all."

I nod briefly, not sure what to say.

Anise moves closer and rests her hands on the table. "Most of the people with amnesia found some familiarity with the people they were close to, even if they didn't realize it. In the case with me, I chose rightly in which host to blend with, and I quickly took the chance to spend time with you..." She pauses briefly. "When I first met Kela'an and Drack, all I did was talk about you... They know how I felt about you in the past." She looks downward at the table. "They were so helpful and kind. They just tried to help me, and I didn't even realize I was hurting them."

"That wasn't your fault."

She nods briefly. She knows, but she still feels guilty. "When I got my memories back I told them the whole truth. They looked so hurt..." She looks pained right now.

I wish I could take the pain away. "It's better to be honest."

Anise nods. "It is." She looks from the table to me. "Freya and I still love them."

I knew she was going to say it, but it still stings. I take the route she did and look at the table.

"They say it wasn't my fault. I can't be faulted for having amnesia. The four of us have been together for three years, three wonderful years." She pauses. "Daniel, how Freya and I feel about you...it hasn't changed. Getting our memories back didn't make it disappear."

I wonder if hearing this would be any easier if it had.

She looks down again. "Freya and I want our marriage to work. We are going to have to make these emotions disappear, so... It's probably for the best that we don't see each other for a while. This is going to be our last conversation for the remainder of your stay."

I nod. "I understand."

"We are sorry, Daniel."

"No." I shake my head and look at her. "I'm just as at fault here. I-I didn't mean to interfere with a marriage. It's..." I look down again. "It's best this way. You need to work on your marriage."

"Goodbye Daniel."

"Goodbye Anise...Freya." I hear them walk away. I have no idea when I'll see them again, if I'll see them again.

-Gete-

I like it when you "Hee," Aldwin thinks after going through a random thought from four months ago. I wish I could have seen you in a man's blouse. You would look cute. What you wore to the festival was fine though.

I chuckle. I'm going through the tunnel in search of Malek. You don't have to answer my old thoughts.

So many things to catch up on, and you forgot most of them. I can't answer things you forgot.

I find Malek changing clothes in the Tok'ra clothing room. His clothes make him look like a Goa'uld. I bite my lip softly. That means he's leaving today. "Malek, you should give yourself time to recover."

"I have a mission."

"Which can wait a few days."

"No." He shakes his head as he looks over footwear. Right now his feet only have socks on. "I have to get away. There are too many emotions. Amb and I will deal with them better when we aren't around-" He stops, and the expression he holds tells me that Amb probably snapped a "shut up" at him.

"Around me," I finish.

He turns back to me. "Gete."

"You don't want to be around me."

"Argh!" He turns away. "I have feelings for Lantash, who is now male again."

"Well, that's not a problem. Your host prefers males."

"No, he-! Well, yes, he does, but right now he prefers you and Aldwin." Malek sits down quickly on a chair and slaps a shoe on. "I don't have feelings for Martouf in that way, just Lantash..." He slaps on the other shoe. "...and Samantha." He turns back to me. "It's confusing!"

"Malek-"

He gets up and starts looking through jewelry. "Between the two of us, we like four people, only two of whom are blended, and the other two..." He trails and looks down. "It was four of us, and we all loved each other, and now it's the three of them, and I'm out."

I walk over and kneel next to him. "They don't mean to hurt you."

"I fell in love in them. Why did I fall in love with them?" He shakes his head looking hurt. "I want them to be happy, but I can't...I can't sit here and watch them." He looks up to me. His eyes are pained. "I want to leave before they know I'm going. I'm just going to disappear. It's best that way."

I take his hands. "If that's what you want, I won't tell them."

"Can you tel them I want them to be happy together?"

I nod. "Yes."

"And can you tell them I'm happy for them."

"You want me to lie?"

"Yes, I'm asking you to lie. I can't do it. They'll know I'm lying." He looks down. "It hurts."

"I'll lie for you."

"I'm sorry I ruined what you and Amb had. I intruded."

I shake my head. "You didn't intrude." I look at the ground. "It was wrong anyway. Amb was blended with Aldwin and..." I chuckle. "I'm supposed to be blended with Aldwin, not dating him."

Malek briefly gives a light smile, and it's quiet for a moment. He finally gets up. "I need to go."

I realize there is no chance with Amb again. Malek has no interest. I nod, keeping a look on the ground. "All right." I fell in love with Amb, and I could very easily love Malek too.

"Goodbye."

"Bye." I look up to see him walk away. Aldwin starts working to stop forming tears, but I shake my head. Let them drop.

Aldwin stops and hugs me. Do you want me to keep answering your earlier thoughts?

The words make me smile, but I shake my head. I don't really want to think about anything involving those memories right now.

-Lantash-

Martouf chuckles. Stop that. He serves some lunch to Samantha. She's staying the extra day.

What? I ask.

You're snuggling my spine. It feels strange.

I missed it.

Martouf laughs again. You missed my spine?

Along with the rest of you.

He adds some fruit to Samantha's plate. "Did I ever tell you that Lantash can be very strange?"

Samantha smiled. "I figured that out."

I take over and move closer to Samantha. I take the plate that Martouf just served her and kiss her. We're seated, but my quick movements knock her down a little. "Martouf's memories of you tease me."

"You were there too."

I play with her hair and smell her. "You smell Samantha-y."

She chuckles to the joke from a while back. "Thank you."

The lunch passes by too quickly, and Samantha doesn't feel alone enough to do anything more than kissing. That is very unfortunate. Martouf and I respect her wants so we enjoy what we have. It's probably better I wait a bit anyway, given the recent memories I discovered. I haven't brought it up with Martouf yet. It wouldn't be fair to Samantha to have him thinking about Jolinar.

The day itself moves too quickly. Samantha spends part of it with us and part of it with her father. It's not long before she and the other Tau'ri are leaving. Anise and Malek seem to be missing for the goodbye. I expected it from Anise. I heard she is now avoiding Daniel. I wonder where Malek is though? Aldwin said he didn't know where he was, but that Malek had said something about wanting us to be happy together, and him being happy for us. I know that last part was a lie.

I walk Samantha to the steps of the gate. Daniel dials, and most of the Tau'ri go through. I watch Daniel slowly move up the steps. "Goodbye Daniel."

He stops briefly and glances to me. "Bye Lantash." Jacob passes him and goes through. He thought he should be there when Samantha visits Mark.

I take Samantha's hands.

She looks at mine. "No offense, but I wish Malek was here."

"So do I, but I understand his reasoning for not being here."

Samantha moves her hands, the her left touches the back of her head. "You were here, and now you're there, and it's better that way, but I miss you."

I pull her into a hug. "I know. I miss you too."

"I never thought...after..." She doesn't want to say Jolinar's name. She usually does, but she probably feels the topic is extra sensitive right now. "As least now you know why."

I nod, and I feel Martouf's surprise and anger. What? You know?!

I used a memory device, I admit in guilt. I rub Samantha's back. She rightly assumed I had already told Martouf the truth. "I can tell you why."

Did you plan on telling me?!

Samantha shakes her head. "No. I forgave her. It doesn't matter why."

I nod. "I understand." Of course I planned on telling you...after Samantha left.

Martouf mutters a few insults in my direction before demanding control. He continues to hug when he gets it. He calms for Samantha's sake before pulling away. "We'll miss you." You're telling me right now.

Samantha nods and heads up the stair. Daniel is still there. He has his hand in the gate, basically holding it for her. He goes in when he sees her heading up.

In a second, I reply to Martouf.

"Samantha," Martouf calls.

She turns back to him. "Yes?"

"We love you."

She smiles. "I love you too." She heads up and through.

Martouf turns away after the wormhole disengages. Now.

I mentally replay what I learned, and he quickly understands why I waited until Samantha had left.

Martouf pauses in his walk. It was an accident then. He smiles before he continues walking.

She still broke the law-

I know. I know, but... He's still smiling. The first part was an accident.

She wanted our forgiveness in the end.

She had mine a long time ago. He goes down the rings. If Samantha is able to forgive her, how could we not?

-Sam-

After several greetings Daniel and I seek solitude in his office. I look at artifacts that had been left. There is an article that Daniel had started reading four months ago. He picks the article up. "Jack never gave up on us." This office is proof of that.

I nod briefly, feeling a mixture of emotions. I miss what I had in those four months, but I'm not completely losing anything completely.

Daniel sits down with the article, but he's not reading it yet. "I guess we go back to our old life."

Not quite. I nod for his sake though. "Yeah. Well, I'll go see to my office."

"Goodbye Saman-" He pauses. "Sam."

I smile and start heading out, but I turn back to him. "Daniel, are you going to be all right? Do you want me to stay?"

"I'll be fine. I'm just going to start on my work."

It sit down. "Maybe you can tell me about some of these." I indicate to the stuff on the table. I'll go to work in a few, but there is no need to rush out. I won't be able to start work anyway. I'll be leaving as soon as Dad arranges our transport. He wanted to be the one to do it.

Daniel smiles and immediately starts talking about one of the artifacts on the table. I enjoy listening to him. He's right for the most part. We have our old lives back, but it's no the same. My life will never be the same again.

The End

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Thank you to everyone who reviewed. I hope to hear how you enjoyed the entire story, and now that the story is done, maybe I'll hear from new people. ::looks hopeful::

There are some issues here I'll finish out in future stories. If there's anything in particular you wish to see, let me know since what I have in mind may not be what you have in mind. Next though, I think Mark and Martouf should meet. Don't you think?)