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Chapter 3

Although Sasha's words reminded him that he was no longer a human being, in the inside he refused to behave otherwise. Why? Why did he have to give up so much just to become a superior being? Did he couldn't have everything? Wasn't happiness about that?

"There are so many enemies out there that it's kind of frustrating to have the power to overcome them but not use it." Sasha and Daniel were at the top of a mountain, surrounded by snow but enjoying the views. "Once I had something akin to absolute power."

"Harcesis." She said no more.

"Yeah. Seriously, is there anything you don't know?" She gave him a warm smile but remained silent beside him. "I begged him to help us, and he said he could not but if I wanted to, if I really wished he would give me the power to know the secrets of the Goa'uld, and I said yes." He chuckled although there was no trace of humor in his face. "I guess I did not even think on it, you know, the consequences of have such a huge superiority. It corrupted me, in a way you can not imagine. Yes, of course you know, but you only know what you can see in my mind but not what I felt."

"It was a power too big, Daniel, there are not many who had supported it, and it was not fated for you."

"Sha're trusted me to take care of the baby, but I knew I couldn't, so I had to deliver him. And when Shifu returned to me and gave me all that knowledge… At first I felt very well, excited to be able to fight the Goa'uld in such a brutal way, but everything changed quickly and I was barely able to control it."

"The origin of that power was evil, and your soul is too pure to accept it, but I am sure that at least you got to understand the lesson that he was trying to teach you. You are now a wiser man, Daniel, and that's what counts."

SG-1

Despite how much he was learning from her, Daniel needed to stay alone to have time to organize his thoughts. There was a lot to understand and he felt his head was going to explode with so many plans and ideas.

To meditate and comprehend himself were concepts that he had spoken to Sasha, and he had begun to use. Spending alone time helped him to focus and see things in perspective, but he couldn't stand how much he missed his friends. He used to visit them at the Stargate Command or at their homes, sitting with them to keep them company, or simply to watch them. He needed to keep that contact with them although his presence was not ever known.

He sat next to Jack on the porch of his cabin in the woods, and they both stared at the lake that extended a few meters away.

"Jack, I know maybe I was selfish when choosing this path, but you have to understand that I hadn't many more options: to keep existing in this way or die. The decision was not difficult once I knew what it meant." He put his hand on his friend's shoulder who stopped the beer bottle before reaching his mouth, as if somehow he could feel him. "Someday you'll see things like I do, although you'll never admit it." He smiled at the thought of his skeptical buddy, and how he would argue with him.

"Daniel?" He asked, but shook his head and sipped his beer. "I miss you, kid, you don't know how much."

"I miss you too."

"I knew you would be here." Daniel turned to see Sasha standing on the wooden porch. "I am not surprised, it is a beautiful and very quiet place. Nature is the best environment to relax."

"Yeah. I used to come here with Jack, Sam and Teal'c, we had a good time, but now it seems a bit…"

"It is normal to feel sadness, Daniel. They are your friends, you miss them, but if you continue clinging to them you will not be able to follow your path."

"And what if I don't want to?" He snapped frustrated. "Can't I stay here if I wish to? With them, protecting them."

"Sure you can, but it would be like giving up a great opportunity. You are not that kind of person, Daniel, you do not surrender and give up something important without having had a look before, am I wrong?"

The doctor had to admit that Sasha was right, but to abandon everything as if it never existed was not simple at all. "Sometimes I envy you humans." Daniel looked puzzled at her. "Yes, it seems weird, but it is like that. You all have the ability of doing amazing things without anyone stopping you, but I can not afford that luxury. My race is as it is, has always been as it is now, and I doubt anyone or anything will change our way of being and behaving." The young man continued watching her silently. "It may seem unfair not to do anything when we have the power to tip the balance, but what we would become then? Humanity would cease to exist, and us superior beings should only watch and never act."

"Maybe it's time to change the rules."

"Maybe.

Daniel and Sasha remained silent with Jack between them, and although the colonel couldn't see either of them, somehow he felt things would improve, even if his friend was no longer at his side.

"It is possible that he can feel you although he can't see you, and that would allow him to move on, to do his job and protect those who are defenseless. That is what matters, Daniel, and I know you understand but it is difficult to accept."

SG-1

"It was pretty weird, as if he were there." Teal'c and Sam looked at the colonel and then to each other. "I'm not crazy, okay?" He hastened to make it clear. "It sounds crazy, but I tell you what I felt."

"With meditation you can experience things we can't see at first glance, O'Neill." Teal'c said with his usual calm.

"I wasn't meditating." Both the Jaffa and Sam knew he was probably drinking a beer, or more. "I wasn't drunk. But I tell you something strange happened, and suddenly it was as if he were there with me, accompanying and telling me that he missed me. All of us."

"I still believe Daniel hasn't gone completely." The skeptical Sam surprised both men. "What? I prefer to think that than to believe he is dead. Because he is not dead, we don't really know what happened, and Daniel might be here right now with us, although it's obvious we can't see him."

SG-1

Daniel Jackson knew a month had passed since he kept watching his friends, although in his current state the time had no meaning. He saw that they were slowly improving, recovering from the loss of a friend, and they continued getting through the Stargate in search of new adventures and missions.

Actually Daniel used to accompany them but they never knew of his presence; perhaps the young man needed to be sure nothing bad would happen to them, and he often explored the planet they were sent to before they got there. It was his way of protecting them, but if there was any danger he would have no way to warn them about it. Still, Daniel felt better doing it, as if somehow he could soothe the guilt he felt within.

"Nice planet." Sasha appeared among the trees and Daniel startled to hear her voice. He was sitting on the steps of access to the Stargate, waiting for his team to arrive. "It seems quiet and harmless, but you never know, right? There are dangers that can not be seen."

"What are you doing here? I asked you for time to…"

"To do what? To carry on exploring worlds with your friends? You know that is not possibly anymore. They can't even see you, Daniel, and I do not intend to be rude, but the sooner you accept that the sooner you can continue with your path." Path, a word Sasha kept repeating to him, but lately frustrated him. "You no longer belong to the world you knew, you have evolved."

"Evolved? How, if I can't help them? Help those who need it?" Doubts about his new status made him reconsider the decision he made, and it was pretty hard to accept that he was no longer the man of flesh and blood who would risk his own life to save others. "Is this what you call evolution? We abandon to their fate to those who need us, looking away as if that would fix everything. But it's not like that, Sasha, and you know it."

"I do not make the rules, Daniel, I only follow them. And I must also make sure you do the same. What you are now opens up to you a new world of possibilities, but there are rules that must be respected. I am sorry, but it is the truth, and I am afraid you can not change it."

"You said…" he began, looking up at her, "you said that maybe these rules should be changed, and now you don't think the same. Why?" Sasha remained silent. "Don't play with me, please. If you are going to tell me something at least I hope it's the truth. If you're my guide, as you claim to be, then you have to be honest. I know I can read your mind, but I'd rather listen the words from your lips."

She walked to the place where he was sitting but stopped in front of Daniel. "I have been warned."

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