Jack followed behind Sam as they walked toward the curtain area; once reaching it he stood off to the left while she took the right. When signaled to go they both pulled back at the curtain waiting for anything that might be there. There was nothing in the area. They both looked up at the same time to see a bright blinding light engulfing them quickly.

"Ah, great!" Jack sighed in frustration, as they were completely covered by the light. Then just as quickly as the light came it disappeared, with Jack and Sam in tow.

For Jack and Sam there was no chance to regain their bearings before they heard a voice talking to them. "You have passed the test. I have been waiting many centuries for a pair to pass the test and you are the first to do so. You must be the ones that the Great Master said were coming." The highly excited voice spoke.

"Wow." Jack said, as he looked towards the voice and found a man standing in front of them in outdated clothes. He appeared to be in his 60's and at one point in his life had obviously had a full head of light sandy brown hair. "What is going on here?" Jack demanded, looking around him. Off to his right was Sam in the same position she had been in while pulling the curtain back. There were shelves filled with all sorts of technology and books; from where Jack was standing he could see Asgard, Furling and Ancient technology, and others that he did not recognize.

"Oh, sorry." The man said, quickly blushing. "I am Jan; I am the protector of the Great Master's treasures." At Sam and Jack's curious stares the man continued. "I was sent by the Great Master to watch over this place until the rightful ones came. I was instructed to look for the ones that traveled great distances, had overcome great obstacles and were true of heart.

"I have had many people set off the trigger, and I have studied their memories, their morals and those that accompany them. You two have been the first that have made it through all the tests. You were fascinating to watch; you have done a great many things together and traveled many places." Sam and Jack looked at each other, nodded to say he was correct, and then looked back at him.

"I found that you both had overcome lots of obstacles in your lives," Jan turned towards Sam, "You lost your mother at a young age, had things you held dear taken away from you, lost your father, had two different consciousnesses invade your mind and countless other traumas and you have always kept true to who you were." At Sam's look of denial Jan continued, "You might have temporarily lost sight but your morality never let your short term pain and anger get out of control. You are a strong woman and have always kept true to your beliefs." Sam blushed as the man turned his attention to Jack.

"You have had to overcome much, the death of both your sister and your son at young ages, countless imprisonments, military operations you would rather forget, the downloading of knowledge into your consciousness twice and tortured repeatedly; even through all of that you are an honorable man. You are a protector, one with constant watch over your people, a man of few words but of many actions." Noticing Jack's disbelief and stunned shock Jan continued, "Though you think you are not worthy of all I am telling you; you are a remarkable person and have a strong moral code; though different to hers; yours is of protection and that is what triggered the test."

Sam looked at Jan with a questioning look, always wanting to know the mechanics behind everything. "When you, Jack, were in the church above your thoughts were about how to best protect her-" he told him as he was pointing to Sam, "-and the other gentleman you were with, from any unseen dangers as they were overly engaged into finding this place." Jack's posture showed he was not impressed by this guys reasoning. "Most people that walk behind their companions are thinking about what else they could be doing instead; they are not assessing the situation around them about how best to keep their companions safe. In the more than 400 years that I have been here, I have had only 17 people trigger the switch, though none of them possessed every factor that the Great Master left for me. This place has been kept for you." Jan finished as he motioned with his right arm to all the technology around them.

"How were you able to scan our minds? How were you kept alive for so long? A stasis pod?" Sam asked quickly. Her inquisitive mind taking over as the scientist in her began racing a mile a minute to understand.

"I was kept in stasis and was able to scan the minds of those that had triggered any of the switches the Great Master had set."

"So the other sites lead here also?" Sam asked; remembering that Daniel said there were 10 total.

"Yes, there were originally 10 sites to begin with, sadly, through the years some sites were destroyed; it was out of that fear that the Great Master created 10 sites. Some of the sites were harder to get to and thus never were triggered but merely there incase all the other sites were destroyed. As for the site at the church, I thought it was going to be destroyed during the hard times a few hundred years ago but lucky they did not harm any of the graves."

"How do you know for sure this was meant for us?" Sam asked, "There could be others out there that fulfill those requirements."

"I just knew, the Great Master said I would. I knew before I started looking into your pasts, which were quite fascinating. When I saw your memories overlap I found it interesting that you did not know. All those times you had crossed paths, I had to show you what I saw; caring for strangers, helping in their time of need no matter how big or small, you helped each other. I wasn't supposed to show you what I saw but I felt that it would be a shame not to. You became what you are today from those moments and I felt you needed to know." Jack looked like he was about to say something but Sam beat him to it.

"You said you were not supposed to show us those memories." Jan nodded his head in affirmative. "Was-"

"What did Oz have to do with this?" Jack broke in with his question.

"Oz?" Jan asked, perplexed.

"The houses with no people, yellow brick road, Emerald City." Jack replied frustrated.

"It's where we were before we were beamed here." Sam answered calmly, but with a trace of doubt in her voice.

"Ah yes that place I took from your memories. I believe you both have it filed as a "movie" in your memories." Jack looked at Jan as if to say hurry up and get to the point. "It was to test your thought process and your determination. It was very interesting; you-" he pointed to Sam. "-wanted to study it and find an explanation, a concrete solution. While you-" Jan now looked at Jack, "-excepted the surroundings for what they were and wanted to act on getting to the Emerald city, though you let her do all her researching just in case." Jan explained with excitement. "You are who I have been kept here for. This is all yours and now it's my time to finally travel on from this place." Jan said as he walked towards the stasis chamber, he pressed a few buttons on the controls when it dawned on both Jack and Sam what he just said.

"Wait, what do you mean travel from this place? How do we get out of here? Where are you going?" Jack asked, walking quickly up to Jan's location.

"You leave from there-" Jan said as he pointed towards the platform that Sam was still standing on when they arrived. Looking down at where she was standing, Sam quickly stepped off. "-and you may re-enter by any of the locations that remain. Only the two of you may enter this place but you may take any and everything out of here." With that he stepped into the stasis chamber.

"Sam, figure out how to stop that thing." Jack ordered, as he waved his hand towards the stasis chamber; it was slowly filling up with the ice like substance. Sam quickly walked over to the controls that Jan had been using just seconds before.

"Sir, I don't know what he did, I don't think I can stop this." She said in defeat as she tried to comprehend what was happening. They both stood there and watched as the stasis chamber finished filling up. As soon as it was done Jan was gone; just gone.

"What the…?" Jack cursed in frustration.

"I don't know." Sam said as she looked over the controls one more time to see if she could spot anything but without knowledge of what she was looking at she was walking blind. "I can't do anything else without my equipment." She said after several minutes "We have to go back up." She finished with a tone of frustration.

Walking back onto the platform Jack and Sam looked around to see if there was something they needed to press but in the end it was a simple thought of the Oude Kert that set the bright white light upon them and they quickly found themselves back in the church; a bit disorientated but they were getting used to the sensation. Watching Daniel's retreating form Sam called out to him. "Daniel!"

Daniel turned around at hearing his name, "Jack, Sam what just happened?" Daniel asked confused.

"We found it." Jack said, nonchalantly.

"Really? But you weren't gone more than - How? Who left it?" Daniel started to babble.

"Daniel calm down. Yes, we found it. The Great Master left it. How long have we been gone?" Jack asked. To him it felt like they had been gone for days but the state of the surrounding area showed no change from what Jack had remembered.

"Really! What was there? How did you get..." as if remembering there was another question Daniel stopped mid thought. "Uh, you were gone no more than a few minutes."

"Really, there must be a time distortion field down there, Jack we have to get back to my lab and get my instruments. This is facina…" Sam started excitedly.

Daniel simultaneously was interjecting questions of what happened, "What did you see? How much stuff was down there? What about the other sites-"

"Ah." Jack said, interrupting them both as he put his hand out in a shushing fashion. "We have plenty of time to talk and to tinker around with the new stuff. Let's update Landry and go from there." Jack said as he walked towards the exit of the church; ignoring the two babbling scientists behind him.

The End!
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