Authors Note edit 1

This is the revised chapter 2. Hopefully it's better than the previous one. If it's not, be sure to yell at me! I have the backup somewhere around here...

Chapter 2

"Classified? What do you mean classified?" I yelled.

This is just great. I thought.

"You know, as in, I can't tell you..." Daniel replied casually.

"Just great..."

"Why did this rune start glowing? Where do I know this from Daniel?"

Daniel turned his head and looked at me, "What do you mean, you've seen this symbol before?"

I shook my head in confusion, "I think so..it looks so familiar but I can't place it. I feel like I've seen it in the strange dreams I've been having for the last few months."

Daniel looked concerned and extremely interested at the same time, "What kind of dreams?"

"I can't really believe what I'm saying but it's as if remembering parts of my life that I've forgotten. Like something that happened eons ago. It just doesn't make sense though because the stuff in my dreams just couldn't have happened."

"Tell me about them."

I told Daniel all my dreams, about the ships, the city, everything I saw.

He stared at me with his mouth wide open like I'd told him the secret to life itself or something. "This can't be happening." He said.

Many hours later

"Could this elevator go any slower?" I asked, still slightly annoyed.

"Yes, I'm sure it could. It's just a long ways down is all, we still haven't even made it to the second elevator." came the reply.

"Second elevator?" I said as I tapped my foot on the floor.

"Ok Tim, just wait here, I'll be right back." said Daniel.

"Alright, alright, you better have a good reason for doing this. I was going to get smashed at the reunion you know."

I then sat down in a comfy chair that was but one of the many chairs in this room surrounding a large oval table. Daniel then walked to a door and lightly knocked.

"Come in!" came the bellowing reply.

Daniel walked in and sat down in a chair across from his friend, General Landry.

He looked up from his papers and saw Daniel. "One moment Daniel, just have to finish up a couple signatures." said Landry sounding bored.

After a few minutes the General finished and looked up to where Daniel was sitting. "Alright Daniel, what can I do for you? I thought you were on leave like the rest of sg-1?"

"General...I did something sort of bad." Daniel said slowly while looking down at the ground.

A gentle laughter came forth from the general. "What did you get yourself into this time?"

"Umm, sir, I..." Daniel said slow and cautiously.

"Well spit it out, I don't have all day." said Landry after waiting for a few moments.

"Ok sir...here it is." Followed by a long pause then, "I brought someone without clearance onto the base, oh.. and he's right outside your office."

I was still sitting at the table looking around at the seeming military base when I heard something.

"YOU DID WHAT?" came a loud angry voice from the room Daniel went into a few minutes earlier.

Good job Daniel, going to get me and yourself in trouble...Why am I even here?

Then Daniel and I guess the person yelling at him came through the door and out into the conference room.

"What is he doing here?" asked the man pointing at me. I didn't know the man but I could already tell he was getting red from anger.

"Sir, he has the gene and he seems to be the most proficient with controlling it, even better than Jack. Err, I mean General O'neill." came the simple reply from Daniel, as if what he said would just explain everything.

"And how does that give you the brilliant idea to bring him here. We know that a not insignificant percent of the population has the gene. That does not give you the right to bring him here."

"Well sir, it's just that when I gave him an ancient rune I found on a mission once it lit up when he held it and started...inspecting him." Daniel said on the defensive. "And sir, he has been having some very interesting dreams, dreams about the wraith and the ancients and Atlantis. I think there's something going on."

Atlantis? Ancients? What the hell is he talking about? I wondered.

General Landry looked at me and seemed to be thinking about everything. After a few moments pause he finally said, "And you think we should look into this, whatever it is that's going on?"

Daniel looked at me too and said, "Yes sir. Something is definitely going on."

"Well than, go ahead Daniel, you already brought him here and showed him the base and the stargate, might as well tell him the rest. Maybe we'll learn something from all this."

"Showed me the what?" I asked confused.

Half an hour later

"...and that's why I brought you here, you have the ancient gene and some sort of...I don't know, genetic memory?" said Daniel in a placating tone.

"Wait..you're telling me I'm some alien?"

"No, you just have a randomly expressed gene from..." here Daniel hung his head and shook it trying to think of the best way to tell him about the 'ancestors' of humans, "..some alien ancestor yes."

"And this is a good thing? A bad thing?" I asked, still confused why I was here and being told all about aliens and inter-galactic wars.

"It's a good thing. Not many people have it expressed, and even those that do, some of them aren't very proficient with ancient technology."

"Ok... So why is it a good thing and how do you know that I'm proficient with this technology?"

"I know because one other person with the gene has already touched that rune, and he is one of the best natural users of ancient technology we've seen around here, his name is Jack O'neill."

"Ok, this is the secondary storage area, it's where we've been keeping some things that we've retrieved from the stargate. And over here is the section where we keep all the ancient technology that we know what they do, but we haven't had anyone with a natural proficiency with the gene to activate. They're in a sort of short supply." said Daniel in a excited fashion. "Who knows maybe you'll even 'remember' how to use some of this stuff." he said jokingly.

"And...you want me to what, turn them on?" I asked, still not quite believing everything that's been told to me.

"Yes, exactly."

"Alright, I can try...I guess..."

I walked over to the first item that looked like some sort of keyboard, a big wide keyboard. I touched it and nothing happened.

"Concentrate on the thought 'On'" said Daniel.

I reached out and touched the device again, concentrating. I thought 'On', and much to my surprise the device came to life.

"Perfect, I'll look at that later, lets keep going." Daniel said with a look of pure joy on his face.

When we came to the 12th device I immediately felt something strange. The object felt familiar, even though I've never seen anything like it before. It was a very strange feeling.

As I went to touch it I realized where I thought I'd seen it before, it was in that dream where I was on a spaceship and we were fighting some weird looking ship.

As I picked up the baseball size device, and moved it around in my hands, I looked at it.

It was square and its bottom was larger than the rest of it, it reminded me of boxes of smaller and smaller size stacked on top of each other. I noticed on top there was a circular slot.

I wonder...

I pulled out the rune Daniel gave me and put it in the slot, it fit perfectly.

I rested the device in both hands and thought 'On'.

I opened my eyes slowly, feeling very tired and groggy. I looked around and noticed that I was in the infirmary. I saw Daniel to my right in a chair fast asleep I and wondered what I was doing here.

"Daniel! Pssssst, Daniel! Wake up!" I said, weakly.

He slowly opened his eyes and then realizing what was happening sat up with a start.

"You're awake! Be right back!" he exclaimed happily.

He came back a couple minutes later with an attractive looking doctor.

"Hello, I'm Doctor Lam. How are you feeling?"

"Wow, you're beautiful!" I said, not quite knowing why I blurted that out. "I mean...ummm. You are very attractive! I mean...why am I saying these things?"

Doctor Lam blushed a little and she and Daniel looked at each other a little confused.

Daniel said, "Ok, he is usually not that blunt. He's pretty shy."

Doctor Lam, who at this point in time was somewhat red, looked back to me and said, "Thank you. So how are you feeling?"

"I feel tired, and I'm very confused. Why am I in here? The last thing I remember is activating those devices with Daniel."

"That last one you activated did something strange, it glowed brightly and two lights came out of the top and went into your eyes. Then you fell down on the floor and I brought you down here. That was three days ago, we were getting worried about you." replied Daniel slowly and with concern.

"No wonder I feel so tired. I have a major headache too. Can I get something for that?" I asked.

"Of course, I'll be right back." said Doctor Lam.

"Oh Daniel, Tarfino Hancores." I said, not quite knowing why...

Why am I saying these random things?

Daniel, looking confused himself now said, "Tarfino Hancores? That's...that's ancient."

"Ancient? Like that race of people that we evolved from? What does it mean?" I asked while sitting up in the bed.

"It doesn't mean anything, it's a stargate address!"

A couple minutes later

"General, it's a gate address! He said a gate address in ancient!" Daniel said excitedly.

"Ok, it's a gate address, to where doctor?"

"I looked in the database and I found it listed. It's on the list of address that General O'neill entered when he had the knowledge of the ancients downloaded in him from the repository of knowledge."

"Ok, well what was there?" asked Landry.

Daniel looked at him smiling and happy and replied, "We don't know, we haven't been there yet. I think now is as good a time as any to go check it out."

Landry nodded in agreement and said, "Walter, call SG-1 to the briefing room. Looks like they have a new mission." said Landry.

Half an hour later in the briefing room

Daniel is talking and pointing to images on the main display, "...and remember, each symbol on the gate has a corresponding pronunciation used by the ancients. Tim said Tarfino Hancores. That's six symbols right there, Tar-Fin-O Han-Cor-Es. The seventh symbol being the point of origin, earth, or by the ancient's terminology 'At'."

"Okay, I get that, sorta. The question I have is how did he know that?" said Col. Mitchell pointing at me.

"Well, there's the tricky part. The bright beams that came out of the device when Tim activated it looked a lot like the beams that came out of the repository of knowledge when Jack used it both times." replied Daniel.

"Well if this is an ancient address and the Goa'uld didn't know about it, I'd say you have a go SG-1... and Tim." said General Landry.

I was surprised to say the least, "Uh, me? I'm not so sure I'm up for that." I said.

Everyone around the table turned their heads and looked at me like I was speaking in some strange language.

"What?" I asked.

"Is that ancient?" asked Mitchell.

"Yea it is, Tim's mind must be getting the ancient knowledge in his mind sorted through as we speak." replied Daniel.

"I'm speaking ancient? What the? I don't want to speak ancient!"

"What did he say?" asked Landry.

"He said he would love to go on this mission with us." Daniel said smiling widely.

Teal'c and Cam were the first two through the gate. Followed by Vala and Sam, then Daniel. They spread out and looked around in the darkness then radioed back through the gate saying that the area was clear and that I could come on through.

I stepped out from the event horizon and walked a couple of steps, the darkness making me a bit anxious. As I thought that it was too dark lights started to come on all by themselves.

All along the floor and on the ceiling lights were coming to life. As more and more lights came on I stopped in amazement when I realized that the inside of this area looked a lot like the dreams I had been having. The interiors were the same type of artistic looking decorated floors, walls, and ceilings.

As the rest of the lights came on we all got an idea of how big this area was. We seemed to be inside a building and the area around the gate was flat and open. There was various corridors that led off from all directions that led out into blackness where the lights hadn't turned on. This place was absolutely huge.

"It's amazing!" I said while looking around and taking everything in.

"What did he say?" asked Cam.

"He said it's amazing. I'm inclined to agree." replied Daniel.

Just remembering that I wasn't speaking English made me a little angry and worried. After all I didn't want to have a translator with me all the time deciphering what I say.

Then something strange happened and it felt like my body wasn't under my control. It just started walking off towards one of the long scary dark tunnels, I couldn't even will myself to speak.

"Hey! Where's he going?" shouted Mitchel.

"I don't know, but I think we should follow him." replied Daniel, now noticing that the lights were automatically turning off as I was walking away from them.

"Good idea." said Mitchel.

"Indeed."

I walked into a room that was circular in shape and was very beautiful like the rest of this place was. Still not under my own control I walked up to a raised area that had three distinct and identical sides.

What is this? I wondered.

I saw two strange looking devices that were sitting slightly above two of the sides, they were about a foot tall and looked like yellow crystals.

Potentia. Came the thought into my conscious mind.