Gate of the Demon
... vision
...host/symbiote
Days later, Ker'wa was re-introduced into, repairing the rest of the damage that had been inflicted on Daniel's body, but to every one's disappointment, he did not wake up. Amy, being quite stubborn, refused to leave Daniel's side and sang occasionally, hoping that Daniel would wake up soon. She was currently crooning a song that she had heard on the radio called 'I want you to live', sung by a man named George Canyon. Her soft voice echoed through the halls, causing the personnel present to blink away tears from their eyes. Luckily for them, no one ever asked what was wrong for most of the base had been around to see Daniel and had heard her angelic voice.
Eyes opening slowly to get accustomed to the bright light overhead, Daniel hid a smirk as he listened to Amy singing. For some reason or another, he knew that Amy had always been by his side since he had arrived at the base and that his brothers had come around nearly as often as she.
Daniel! You certainly took your time waking up! Ker'wa excitedly exclaimed.
Please turn it down a bit, Ker'wa. You're a little loud. I'm sorry if I took my time waking up, but I just wasn't ready enough to do so. Daniel replied. It is good to know that you are all right, my friend. I could hear your screams of anger even though you had been ripped out of my body.
As I could hear your pain, Daniel. Wake up now. Amy has been here for days, refusing to leave you alone. Ker'wa told his host.
"Keep singing like that, Amy, and you'll go far in life," Daniel said as soon as his inside conversation was over and done with.
"Daniel!" Amy cried out, burying her face in his shoulder to hide the tears that fell from her eyes, though they soaked through his shirt. "Why didn't you wake up before?"
"I'm sorry, Amy. I just wasn't ready to wake up before now," Daniel replied, brushing the girl's hair out of her face and behind her ear. They talked a bit until Amy fell asleep against Daniel, who smiled. Over the next few days, as he healed up, anyone who walked on that level heard songs of happiness and hope.
Seeing as Daniel had to take physical therapy to get his legs back under him, he was confined to a wheelchair, which he often complained about, though he was quite amused when Jack was caught wheelchair racing in the halls by Dr. Lam and when he was chased out of the infirmary by the threat of one very large needle. When Jack snuck back in, he said that Carolyn had to be related to their old doctor, Janet Fraiser, due to the same threats that they both used.
One day, Amy asked if she could accompany Daniel to his office when he was allowed to work. She used her best puppy impression to make sure that she could go with him and look around.
"Sure, climb aboard," Daniel replied, waiting while Amy hauled herself up on his lap. He wheeled his way to the elevator and let Amy swipe his card through the reader, while he punched in the number of the level his office was on. He was sure that the girl would love it there.
He was right. Amy looked as if she was in heaven. The sight of all the ancient artefacts nearly made her drool. "I'll be in this wheelchair for a few more days, so we'll go look for a house later on during the week. Meanwhile, how would you like to help me translate some of these?" Daniel asked, positioning himself at his desk.
"Really?" she exclaimed.
"Yes, but I want you to be very careful with them," Daniel warned, adjusting his glasses and grabbing a tablet written in ancient.
Nodding, Amy ran a hand lightly over another tablet on another table nearby and froze. Her eyes went large and unfocused as she witnessed the past events that centered around these people in her mind's eye.
People screamed as they were shot down and killed by orange balls of energy coming from very strange staff-like weapons. A stone circle was activated, spilling forth people dressed in fine garments that looked as if they came from Egypt, and others dressed in metal armour with the head of a dog covering their faces. A woman was shrieking in fear as a type of snake entered her body, her blue eyes glowing. There was a strange ship shaped like a pyramid, floating around a planet like Earth, but this one was very different.
"Daniel!" Amy cried out, jerking her hand away from the tablet as if it had been severely burned.
"Amy, what's wrong?" Daniel asked, concern lacing his voice.
Between sobs and gasps of air, the girl told him what she had seen.
"I have an idea. Let me call General Landry and see if it is okay with him," Daniel said, reaching for the phone. A minute later, Daniel was heading down to the briefing room when he met Sam and Dean in the elevator.
"Dude, where are you going?" Dean asked.
Without saying a word, Daniel motioned to them to follow him, which they did without question, though they clearly wanted to know what was going on.
"Amy, I want to show you something. I know that you just saw it in your vision, but I want to explain it to you anyways," Daniel said, wheeling straight up to the window and letting her look down into the Gate room, aware of Sam and Dean looking as well. "That is the Stargate, the Gateway to the Heavens, or as Teal'c and the rebel jaffa call it, the chappa'ai. We ravel to other planets through it, to help keep Earth and our allies safe from harm." He quickly told them all about the Stargate.
At the same time as Daniel finished telling his brothers and the girl about the alien device, it started dialling in. A sudden feeling of dread swept over him. Letting Ker'wa help him to his feet after depositing Amy beside him, the wormhole connected, washing over both host and symbiote with a feeling that the symbiote identified as an alien race "Reetou," Daniel muttered out loud, making his way down to the set of stairs that connected the briefing room to the control center.
"We aren't receiving an IDC and the iris is not responding," he heard Walter state as he ran down a smaller set of stairs and into the Gate room. Using his abilities, he pushed the personnel out of the room and closed the blast doors. He straightened up, blue eyes hard and clear, devoid of emotions or pain. Silently, he psychically sought out the aliens and killed them one by one as they came through the open event horizon. Daniel closed the iris and then killed the two reetou that remained. As though e was located far away, he heard people calling his name and the Stargate shutting down as he collapsed.
Daniel, we need to rest. I cannot help you for much longer now, Ker'wa said.
I know. But I have to open the blast doors. I made sure that they wouldn't open for the reetou, and it'll take too long for the others to open them, Daniel responded, but fell unconscious before he could do anything.
It was well over half an hour before anyone could get the blast doors to open. The guns and defence mounts that had been packed tightly against the doors clattered noisily to the floor. Some people immediately went to clear the debris from the blast shield that protected the control room and the briefing room while others went to check on Daniel.
"He only overdid it," Dr. Lam proclaimed in the infirmary once she had looked the archaeologist over. "He'll be up and around tomorrow or the day after that."
"That's good to hear," General Landry said.
"Um, Sir, I would like to ask you a question, if it's possible," Sam said.
"What is it?"
"Can we read up about Ker'wa? I mean, Daniel is our brother, and we would like to know how he obtained this symbiote. The man who adopted Dean and I knew something that Daniel figured out as soon as he laid eyes on him," Sam asked.
"I'll allow it," Landry answered. "You'll each have a copy of the reports submitted to your rooms in an hour."
An hour and a half later, Sam and Dean made their way to their respected rooms, where they settled down and read their copy of the reports.
Sorry for the very long delay people. We got a new computer and I had to re-write everything for this chapter. Still, don't forget to review this chapter, or any of my other fics if you would like to check them out (and, no, I'm not urging you to do that, I'm just suggesting it, though I'll give you a virtual cookie to you who visit, read and review).
Next time, part one of the reports that indicate how Daniel got Ker'wa, the oldest Tok'ra symbiote. This bit is a three part report from Jack's, Sam's and Daniel's P.O.V. covered in three separate chapters.