Chapter 12

Scott walked into his wife's office fifteen hours later, she wasn't there. He stepped out of her office and walked into her brother's office. There she was. She sat on the ground leaning up against Daniel desk, Daniel sitting at it.

"Hey," Scott said, noting that neither of them looked up and mumbled something inaudible to him. Alex and her brother obviously were very intrigued with there books, "You two need to get a life!"

"Uh huh," Alex mumbled standing up from the floor, her knee cracking, "I'm getting to old for this."

"You twenty-three," Scott said wrapping his arms around his wife, kissing her gently on her forehead, "Have you eaten anything today?"

Alex looked down at her watch, "Wow! I didn't realize how late it was."

"Yup, it is 2100, so, have you eaten anything today?" Scott said grabbing onto Alex's hand and they walked over to Alex's lab, leaving Daniel enthralled in his book.

"Nope, had some coffee this morning, but, other than that," Alex let her voice trail off sitting down at her desk opening her book back up.

Scott quickly shut the book, "Well, then why don't we go and get you some dinner?"

"Scott!" Alex said as her husband grabbed her wrist and dragged her out of the room, she finally got back up on her feet, and walked gracefully next to her husband, to the commissary.

Alex and Scott sat down across from each other in the commissary. Scott had a bowl of jell-o in one hand and a cup of water in the other. Alex had a bottle of water on her tray along with a salad.

"So," Scott said putting a large glob of jell-o into his mouth.

"What?" Alex said, laughing at her husband. She put a small piece of lettuce and a bite-size tomato into her mouth.

"What were you translating, ALL DAY!" Scott asked pretending to be mad at Alex.

"Well," Alex started, "We think they're ruins from a Babylonian city."

"Really?" Scott said enquiring, nodding his head.

"Yeah, it's pretty fascinating." Alex replied, she continued to eat her salad.

"Sounds like it." Scott said pretending to be interested.

Alex and Scott both finished eating, they walked back to their quarters and lay down on the bed.

Alex had put her light pink spaghetti strap tank top on, and her pink and purple plaid pj pants, Scott had stripped down to his boxers. They both crawled under the covers and Scott had his arm around Alex, she was resting her head on his chest enjoying the warmth of his body. She fell asleep like this, and soon, Scott did the same.

Daniel sat in his office continuing to work on the translation he and his sister had been working on all day. He glanced up from his book to look at the time. 0100. Daniel sighed, he knew he should go to bed, but, he wanted to stay up at work on the translation.

"Unauthorized off-world activation!" A voice echoed from the intercom system throughout the base.

That would surely wake everybody up that was sleeping on the base.

Alex rolled over, waking up to the sound of the loud klaxons and the intercom. Scott woke up to.

"Alex," Scott muttered.

"Yeah," She replied.

"Go back to sleep." Scott said weakly, aggravated that his wife was a light sleeper. He was a very heavy sleeper, but always woke up if Alex did.

"I will," Alex said aggravated, "Once the gate shuts down and they turn off all the loud noises."

"Ok," Scott said calmly and went back to sleep.

Daniel received an alert on his computer that the gate activation had been SG-3 coming back early, they were under fire from Ba'al's forces. He continued to translate the ancient writing.

SG-3 walked briskly down the hallway. They were heading straight towards Daniel's lab for reasons unknown to the people around them. They pulled out a zat gun, a weapon used to only stun humans, and shot a security camera right outside Daniel's lab.

"Daniel Jackson," One of the members of SG-3 said as they all walked into Daniel's lab.

"Oh, hey," Daniel said not bothering to look up from his translation, he soon felt his hands being pulled behind his back, "What in the world is going on?"

"Shut up," Major Makepeace said slapping Daniel across the face. Daniel felt blood dripping down his face from where his teeth had cut the inside of his cheek, "Do not speak, unless spoken to."

Daniel thought that Ba'al must have brainwashed them, but why would he want them to get Daniel. Major Makepeace's second in command, Lieutenant Smith, zip tied Daniel hands behind his back, so tight that it broke through the skin and started to bleed.

"What does Ba'al want from me?" Daniel asked, trying to get answers. He shouldn't have though.

"I told you, do not speak, unless spoken to." Makepeace replied, an evil glare in his eye. He clenched his fist and hit Daniel right in the eye socket, knocking him unconscious, "Take him to the storage room on Level 15, no one will find him there."

Lieutenant Smith picked up Daniel fireman style and lugged him down to the storage room. Daniel lay there unconscious.