"I wonder what Jackson wants to talk to us about?" said Cameron to Anna.

The two of them were in the elevator heading down towards the briefing room at Stargate Command after arriving back the day before from their honeymoon.

"Mmm..."

Cameron turned to her. "Okay Doc, spill. What do you know?"

Anna paused briefly considering. "The truth? Not much..." She paused again, unsure how to explain. Her conversation with Daniel had been vague to say the least. "He asked a lot questions. Mostly about the Entity that merged with me."

"Merged? Is that what we're calling it now? Seemed more like it was getting you to do your best Linda Blair impersonation," said Cameron, giving her a quick smile to let her know he was okay talking about what the entity had put her through. Personally he hoped she'd never have to go through anything like that again. It had just about killed her. Seeing her suffer like that had been hell.

"I know, maybe not the best choice of words. Despite what it did to me, it wasn't its intention to cause me harm. Anyway, Daniel was interested in knowing more about it. I get the feeling he might of found something out about it, on the planet. He's been away a lot, I think he's been doing research on the Entity."

"Yeah, Sam mentioned that none of them had heard anything from him since we left. Its a bit unusual, even for Jackson. Even when he's doing his thing, he still makes time for people. Must be good, whatever it is."

As the elevator stopped and they stepped out, Cam pulled Anna towards him. Glancing quickly around, making sure no-one could see them, he gave her a kiss.

"Why Colonel Mitchell, does that mean I get a kiss every time we come to work?" she said, smiling at him

Cameron smiled back at her with his bad boy grin. "Yep. The rewards of being in command". He gave her another kiss, before pulling gently away. "Come on lets go and see the gang."

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General Jack O'Neill looked up as Cameron and Anna arrived in the briefing room. At least they weren't holding hands, he thought. He had wondered how it was going to be having a married couple working together. It was a first for the Stargate Program, and there had been some concerns, but he knew that both Cameron and the Doc were more than capable of acting professional.

He smiled when he saw the Doc's t-shirt through her open jacket. It was black with a 'little green man' on it, looking a bit like an Asgard, and the words 'We Come In Peace'.

The Doc had a sense of humor. It was one of the reasons he had hired her. That and the fact that she had a brain, was good at her job, and she had guts. You had to admire a woman who could tell a four-star general exactly what you thought of him, especially when she had been wearing a t-shirt with a Muppet on it at the time. Her language, he had heard, had been particularly colorful. True she had nearly been fired after wards, but she hadn't backed down. Yep, he liked what he had seen and heard about her. Unconventional as hell, he knew she would fit right in.

"Okay Daniel, we'll all here. Tell the others what you told me." Jack turned to the others, "You'll going to love this."

"We've always assumed that the Ancients were one of, if not the oldest race in the universe, going back millions of years," Daniel paused, making sure they were listening, "What if they're not the oldest? What if there was something here before them?'

"You mean the Entity," said Anna, more as a statement than as a question.

"Yes," replied Daniel, giving a nod to Anna.

"But its dead," said Cameron looking around at the others for confirmation, "Isn't it?"

"Maybe. We have no way of knowing for sure. But you're right. I do think it has gone. But I think there might be another one."

Cameron looked at Daniel in surprise. "There's another one?" He looked around at the others to see what their reactions were. "You're joking, aren't you? Didn't that thing go on about being 'alone'? You're trying to tell us that it was what, pulling a fast one?"

"Daniel, why don't you carry on," said Jack quietly.

"I found some references in the Ancients database on Atlantis. Unfortunately its kind of vague, but they make reference to an intelligent being, one that learned about ascension from. And we know from the Entity itself that it called the Ancients 'the young ones."

"Daniel we know this." Seeing the looks on the others faces, Vala carried on, "Well, we do! We were all there when that thing spoke. And besides Anna told us it was disappointed in the Ancients. I mean, if it was disappointed with beings on a higher plain, what's it going to think of us? That's if there is another one. I'm with Mitchell on this one. Didn't it go on, and on about being 'alone."

"I think it thought it was 'alone.'" With that he brought up an image of the cavern on a screen up front. Going up to it Daniel continued, "We assumed that these 7 pillars that were standing were all of them. One of the pillars was in Ancient. But I also found evidence of 2 other pillars. In pieces, buried under dust, like they were part of the floor. Some of the writing on these pieces was in Asgard."

"So the Asgard knew about this entity also?" asked Sam. Daniel was being very calm, she thought. Usually when he had a big announcement like this, he got very excited.

"Yes they did." Daniel decided to jump right in with the real news. "I also found a gate address. Each symbol was next to a pillar. It took awhile to make them clear enough to see." With that he brought up 9 symbols on the screen.

"Daniel, that's... nine symbols," said Sam, trying to keep the surprise out of her voice and failing.

"Yes, it is," he said calmly.

"That's not possible," she said shaking her head. She was beginning to think that maybe Daniel had lost it. He really had been working way to hard...

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