NOTE: Here we go, this is the second half of the tale. Was the last bit confusing or easy to follow?

Chapter 22 – Remember

"We have some information on you from that time." said Daniel.

"What sort of information?" asked Giya.

"Um," Daniel fished around in a pile of papers, "here." He pulled out a photocopy of the parchment on Jas'ak that he'd found and handed it to her.

She took it from him and started to read as everyone watched. They watched her face began to strain as she read it. She made a choking swallow and almost slammed the paper down on the table to get it away from her. "This is real?" was all she was able to say.

"It is." Daniel nodded, speaking gently. All her story was familiar and he now understood the pity that he felt. "How did it all happen?"

"I pretended to be a…a goa'uld who was an expert on Ancient technology." Giya was still trying to get her emotions under control. "I rose up in Anubis's ranks and eventually had a position of power. I gave him miniscule bits of information while at the same time I could undermine some of his plans, slow down projects, divert his course.

"Obviously I couldn't just jump into the ranks of the Goa'uld System Lords. I need help, for that I needed Jas'ak. When I met him I was shocked, he was the first Jaffa I had ever met that doubted the goa'uld as gods. I managed to convince him to help me. I trusted him above anyone else, more than I have ever trusted anyone in my life. Together we managed to gather many more Jaffa and turn them to our course. We went to Aberon and found the humans there more than willing to help us.

"After Anubis was killed I guess we just had too many battles to fight." There she stopped.

"Now that is quite the tale," said Landry, "but as you can see in that document, you're supposed to be dead." He let out a frustrated breath. It had been a long day and he sensed they were close to the heart of the matter.

"Well…I…" Giya was at a lose. "I don't remember."

"What do you mean you don't remember?" asked Daniel.

"I remember seeing the stargate activate and the Jaffa coming through." Giya screwed her eyes shut and tilted her head to one side as she tried to remember. "They killed everyone they saw. I…I ran back to the sanctuary…"

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"Oh, thank goodness you are all right. Have you seen anyone else?"

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"…I found Jas'ak…"

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"We have to stop them from getting anywhere near this."

"Do they even know about it?"

"Jas'ak, I can't take that risk. Even if there is just the smallest chance I can't let them have this."

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"…We heard the Jaffa breaking through…"

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"What was that?"

"They'll be in here soon." Jas'ak gripped her arm tightly and he pulled her along the tunnel. She hurtled along behind him in the darkness, not knowing what they could do, until she fell slack to the ground.

"GIYA!" Jas'ak's voice was strangely distant. Next thing she knew she was watching the stone ceiling fly by. Jas'ak was running down the tunnel with her in his arms.

"Halt, Jas'ak!" The voice was strange to her and distant as Jas'ak's had been. "You cannot run from us now!"

"Tel'nar…I swear…I mean no harm."

"Give up Jas'ak. Look what you abandoned your god for has been reduced to."

Something warm and damp was seeping along Giya's back and she could feel the lights in her desperately trying to heal something on her side.

"What about you, why do you fight for Lord Yu instead of the all powerful Mordel?"

"Lord Yu liberated our people half a year ago and showed us the light. But I will tell you what happened before that, in the weeks after you vanished. They found my sister and niece running and hiding in the hills. Your wife and child! They were put to death for aiding you. I watched them kill a woman and a female child to death on the steps of Mordel's palace. And now I will avenge them."

"Do not do this Tel'nar, we are brothers."

The lights in her were like pebbles trying to change the path of a great river. Everything started to grow fainter and the voices faded further into the background.

"WE ARE NOT BROTHERS! When you left my sister for this we ceased to be brothers but you are right. Our connection does warrant a greater punishment for your sins."

Giya noticed Jas'ak bruising grip on her less and less as she drifted away.

"You have caused the lose of much life already so we will not let you anymore. This pathetic excuse of a god of yours will be allowed to live."

She was outside her body now, following that familiar thread. Bellow her she was Jas'ak kneeling on the floor of the sarcophagus room, clutching her bleeding form, surrounded by armed Jaffa with one standing forward addressing him.

"Jaffa, kree!" the one standing forward order and two stepped forward and pulled Jas'ak to his feet, letting her dying body roll forward. "We will give her a proper funeral and place her in the sarcophagus. My new position in Lord Yu's army allowed me access to much new knowledge. I will be able to prevent her from being able to open the inside." Tel'nar stepped forward so their faces where an inch apart. "You may not have mourned the death of my sister, let us see if you will mourn the life of your god."

As everything faded into blackness Giya could just hear Jas'ak's shaking voice. "You wouldn't. No. Tel'nar no. NO! GIYA!"

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"…and after that I was floating." Giya's expression was far-away, still lost in the fresh memory. "I was stuck in between my two bodies, the sarcophagus prevented me from regaining consciousness but I hadn't properly severed my ties with that form to move to the other." She wasn't looking at anyone in particular and a lot of the team felt almost like they were eavesdropping on her own private mutterings to herself but she didn't stop. "I had absolutely no concept of time. I just caught glimpses of the universe bellow.

"Sometimes, I was able to find the will to manifest but only ever for a few minutes."

She turned and looked straight into Daniel's face. "It was then that I saw Daniel join the ascended. I heard you tell tem your story and I heard them tell you many more, including mine. You were outraged." Giya managed to break a small smile for a moment. "You seemed to have had quite a short fuse then, always fighting, always advocating the other view, always walking that line of theirs. Then I saw you go too far and be cast down, for fighting none other than Anubis himself. I was quite saddened then, I thought the Ancients had finally found someone to break them out of their rut.

"After that I drifted further and further. I could see more and more of the universe."

There was a silent moment.

"And…" Cam was pretty much on the edge of his seat. Weather he liked it or not Giya's story had captured his interest.

"Do you all believe me?" she asked suddenly.

There was another strained pause.

"Well…" Landry said slowly. "All the evidence seems to be in accordance with your story but their isn't much of it. However, I think that if Dr Jackson can vouch for you…it would be enough."

"Daniel?" she turned to Daniel yet again.

For Daniel's part, he was in utter turmoil. All his common sense told his to distrust this woman who had hurt his friend. But she had healed Vala and had seemed genuinely sorry. Above all of that was the story she had just told. It was almost unbelievable but in the back of his mind it was it was all familiar to him, all made perfect sense. He had felt a pull like this before. It was from that dark corner, tucked away in his mind that the few memories of his time as an ascended being had come. At that moment he was pulling as hard as he could against that tug. It felt hopeless, like trying to push a tank up a hill on his own. But suddenly something gave way. "I believe you. Everything that you've said, I believe you." he said, quiet and simple.

Landry nodded. "I think that's good enough everyone." He looked around the table to see nods from everyone in turn. He motioned for her to continue. "Now tell us this warning of yours."

Giya nodded and looked down at her hands for a moment. "Like I said, I was drifting away. I saw you make contact with the Ori – distant cousins of my people – and I saw them sent their crusade. I couldn't do anything about it, all I could do was watch.

"Not too long ago however I was in a sort of daze but I was brought to my senses. At first I thought I was finally going mad, the others didn't seem to be able to hear it. Maybe they couldn't, maybe they just didn't care but I could hear it.

"It was the crashing drum beat of an army preparing for war.

"So I reached out, trying to find someone I knew would be able to help. That was when I found you, Daniel. I was too far gone to manifest myself but I focused all my will, all my energy into passing on two things. 'Help me' and the address of Aberon which was the last place I remembered being.

"Obviously you were able to find me. I've come to tell you that there is an army preparing to run rampant over this galaxy. The Ori are preparing to march. They believe they have enough power to wipe out the Ancients and claim every being in the galaxy as their own. I don't know how long they will be. A month, two maybe. But don't doubt that they will come."

NOTE: *sniff* Jas'ak!!! So what do you think of that big flashback? Sort of breaks up the telling and does a bit of showing.