Someone mentioned the timeline for this story in one of the reviews (I think) and this story is obviously post-Mitchell, pre-Vala. No particular episode its after just yet, I should probably think about that..
Sam and Jack had locked Daniel out of his own office.
Daniel had spent the first hour of this knocking on his own door, pacing in front of it, and trying to get the card reader to accept his card. Of course, Sam knew everything there was to know about the system and more so she had easily locked him out and made it impossible for anybody to fix his current predicament. Siler reported that the security cameras had been disabled the moment the two officers walked through the door of the office, and they refused to answer the phone or any of Daniel's shouted inquisitions.
He's got to be the most annoying person I've ever met.
Definitely the most persistent.
Yeah, well. He loves his lab. He spends most of his waking hours here.
True.
The pair of them were standing at Daniel's desk, looking over the manuscripts they'd stolen from him. In plain Ancient, the words seemed to be nonsense, much as the spinning lock on Dakara had seemed. Most of it rhymed in little nonsensical verses, though the Code hidden within was far from nonsensical.
If we have to do this much longer I'm gonna scream. Jack informed her after another hour. She was suddenly bombarded with his memories of learning some of the Ancient language while looping. Her breath caught and she glanced up at him when she caught sight of another memory from his time spent in the time loop.
Does Teal'c remember that part...?
He wasn't in the room.
But...
Don't worry about it, Sam. If he'd seen it he would've said something by now. Or, knowing Teal'c, even if he saw it he might not feel a need to hold it over my head.
Our heads I do believe.
Yeah, but he wouldn't know that you know about it.
True.
And its not like that's the worst thing we've done...
At least I remember the... other things. They both smiled before returning to their work. It was the first time they were together since their weekend together, even though the weekend had only ended a few hours ago when he'd gotten on the plane.
We have incredibly busy lives. Jack commented, following her train of thought. She smiled, wanting to lean in and kiss him, but worrying about the cameras. Sam cleared her throat and returned to their work with some difficulty. It was comforting to know that Jack completely understood what she was doing, another man would've taken the gesture to be one of discomfort, but he knew better. Of course it helped that he could hear her thoughts telling him all about how she really felt.
- - - - - -
Daniel had taken a break from yelling at his friends through the door to get himself some lunch and returned to the door to find none other than Morgan Le Fay standing outside of it. She was wearing the same white dress she'd worn in the hologram, though she wasn't glowing this time.
"M... Morgan Le Fay?" He stuttered, surprised at her presence.
"Dr. Jackson," she said, looking at him as though they bumped into each other like this every day.
"Um... What're you doing here?"
"They have locked us out."
"What?"
"They have locked us out."
"I know what you said; what do you mean?"
"The others were surprisingly accepting of what I had done. They agreed that the pair of them were the right selection for the job, even if they'd have never approved of the plan if I'd asked them before initiating it."
"What're you talking about? Wait, you didn't answer my question."
"There are prophecies among the Ancients. Most of which fell into myth long before we learned to ascend; we stopped believing in them as our technology progressed."
"That seems to happen in most cultures," forgetting the question he'd wanted answered.
"Indeed," she glanced back at the door before continuing. "One such prophecy concerned two descendants who would posses our knowledge. Of course, this was one of the first things dismissed, we created the Code so something like that would never happen. Of course, we never expected the Ori to gain enough support in the galaxy they were banished to, to be able to threaten us," Daniel shrugged and nodded at this, holding his tongue and his opinions. "The Code is a very complicated language we created from our own; very difficult to decipher if you have not been given the proper tools."
"Tools?"
"It is complicated, Dr. Jackson."
"That's what they said."
"Really? That is quite interesting..." She didn't move to elaborate, going back to staring at the door.
"So what about that prophecy?"
"The two descendants would have our knowledge and get a second chance to do what we cannot."
"That's it?"
"In a nutshell, as you would say."
"What?"
"We were acquaintances when you were among us, Dr. Jackson, a few of us learned some of your unique phrases," she smiled at him. He just stood there looking slightly confused.
"So, um... what're they doing?"
"As I said, they have locked us out."
"Well, I'm aware of that, but you can just go through the wall, right?"
"No. They have locked us out. They do not even know what they are doing though..." Morgan smiled. The door burst open a second later, revealing Sam and Jack looking very tired and slightly upset. Daniel rushed in immediately to check the safety of his rocks.
"Don't worry, Daniel, we didn't break anything," Sam assured him, though he didn't pay any attention. He carefully sorted through the piles before looking back at them. The three were standing in his doorway staring at something behind him with heads tilted slightly to the side.
"What're you staring at?" He spun around to look at the papers that had been taped to the wall. Some of them were from the folder Sam had taken the first image out of, the rest seemed to have been taken out of various folders. He groaned. "This is gonna take ages to get sorted back into the right places," he glared at his friends though they didn't seem to notice.
He returned his attention to the papers on the wall. It was quite amazing, now that he looked at it. The wall was completely covered in the papers, forming a solid block of text since all of the margins had been trimmed away.
"It has been such a long time since I have read these words..." Morgan said nostalgically
Yeah, still not sure where this is going, still hoping for lots of ideas thru reviews and whatnot. Sorry this is so short! The good news- my computer is fixed so I can write whenever I want now instead going over to the library and hoping to find an empty computer :)
