Anna sat crossed legged on the floor, looking around the room she was in.

Though the room was in semi-darkness, Anna knew she was back on the Ancient ship, in the same room that they had all been held captive in. Knowing that there was no way out other than through a opening, which was as far as she could tell protected by some type of cloaked force-field, she sat where she was, waiting.

She knew that the Furlings would come for her. And she knew that there would be pain.

She had experienced pain before. She was prepared as best she could be.

The loss of her family, first her parents when she was 7 and then her brother and the boy she had love when she was 18, had been the worse kind of emotional pain but she had come through it and was she hoped a better person for it. She knew that life was precious, a gift and she focused on all the good that life could bring.

Her work had also shown her some of the pain that people endured. Due to the nature of her job she had experienced more than some civilians working for the military. Determined to gain some kind of understanding of things that the men and women she dealt with as part of her job undertook, she had spent time with a few different units, sleeping with them, eating with them, training with them, going on assignment with them. It had been physically grueling at times but it had been worth it.

She knew there was good and bad in life, but she chose to focus on the good. And she had the added bonus of Cameron. Loving him and knowing that he loved her, gave her even more strength.

All of these thoughts went through her mind as she waited, taking slow deep breaths to calm the hammering of her heart, concentrating her thoughts on Cameron and the others, pushing the fear back.

~*~*~*~

"Somehow the Furlings must of figured a way through the Asgard shielding. Instead of taking out all our systems, they just knocked out that one section." Sam looked up from the console she was working at. "But why take Daniel and Anna?"

"I think the question is, why did they wait to take Daniel and Anna?" Cameron was doing his best not to think what the Furlings were going to do to Anna and Daniel, instead he focused his mind on finding out the what and the why. Or more importantly how they were going to get them back, because leaving them with the Furlings was not an option.

"It would appear that the Furlings require something from Doctor Jackson and Doctor Mitchell," said Teal'c.

Cameron smiled slightly at hearing Anna being called Doctor Mitchell. It was the first time he had heard her being called by her married name. It sounded good. "Yeah, I've been thinking about that." Cameron looked over at Sam, giving her a smile. "Sam, you're one the smartest people I know, yet they left you alone. Why?"

"Because Daniel and the Doc are different." Jack had a feeling he knew where Cameron was going with this, the thought had occurred to him also.

"That's one way to put it." Cameron knew that Jack was thinking the same as him.

Vala seeing the looks between Cameron and Jack knew that they had figured something out. "Well, share. You obviously know something. What's so special about Daniel and Anna?"

"Daniel was an ascended being. Do you really think the Furlings would pass up an opportunity like that." Jack sometimes wondered if Daniel realized that this whole ascension thing could be a right pain in the ass.

Sam suddenly realizing where they were going with this joined in, "The entity. That's what makes Anna target. They were using them as bait. Or they wanted them to find something, maybe something to do with the entity or the Ancients."

"Looks that way. I would say that being 'merged', as Anna would say, with something that 's older than the Ancients definitely makes her a target. That and the fact that it stepped in to help the Ancients and the Asgard. The Furlings aren't exactly warm and cuddly."

"It pissed them off," said Jack.

"Yep. And having a pissed off Furling is not a good thing." Cameron only hoped that whatever it was that the Furlings wanted from them would prevent them from killing them.

"Then Daniel Jackson and Anna Mitchell are in grave danger." Teal'c knew that Daniel and Anna would need all their inner strength to get through this. He was confident that they would survive but he knew that would suffer greatly first.

Vala glared at Teal'c. "I think we know that!" she said, turning her attention to Cameron, "So, what's the plan on getting them back?" Cameron didn't reply, he just looked at her with a serious look on his face. "You do have a plan? Don't you?" she asked worriedly.

"We're going to get them back, we've just got to find them first." Cameron looked at Vala, knowing his answer wasn't much help.

"Actually, there is someone who could help us." While working on getting more of the systems back on-line Sam had been thinking about the Furlings and what Thor had told them.

"Thor." Jack, Cameron and Sam said his name all at the same time.

"Indeed," said Teal'c, nodding, the same thought occurring to him.

~*~*~*~

Daniel woke up. The headache and nausea were back, though not quite as bad as before. Hearing movement he pulled himself slowly up, looking around as he did so. He was in what looked like a science lab. Seeing Ancient writing on a holographic screen in front of him, he realized he was back on the Ancient ship. Light was coming from the screen, other than that the rest of the room was in darkness. As his eyes adjusted to the dimness he saw a Furling standing near the console.

Hearing Daniel move, the figure turned and moved towards Daniel, stopping a few feet in front of him. "You will provide us with information." The voice that spoke was deep and husky, as if it was unused to speaking.

"I would of thought that mind probe would of told you everything I know."

The Furling took a step closer. "It has limitations. We have encountered your species before, your minds are too... primitive for the device to work accurately."

Daniel judged from how the Furling said the words species and primitive that it didn't think much of humans.

"We know that you are not Asgard or Ancient, yet you have Asgard technology and can activate this ship. From the few memories that we were able to read it appears your kind as not quite as primitive as we first thought."

The Furling took another step forward, reaching out and grabbing Daniel by the throat. It held him there, applying gentle pressure on his thorax. "Now that the ship is active we can access the Ancient's database. It will provide us with the information we seek," it said, pressing just slightly harder, causing Daniel's knees to give out slightly, "You, on the other hand, will help us find the entity."

Struggling to talk Daniel spoke, "Sorry to disappoint. Actually I'm not sorry. I don't know where it is. I don't even know if there is one here. The one we found died. Or was my primitive mind unable to tell you that."

"I would not worry about your primitive mind. There are other ways of getting what we want. It will be most informative learning about your kind. With that the Furling let go of Daniel's throat. As Daniel fell to his knees, grasping slightly for air, the Furling grabbed Daniel's hand and quickly pushed his index finger back causing it to snap. Daniel cried out in pain, pulling his hand to his chest.

The Furling looked down at him. "Yes we will learn much from you."

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