Found - part 4

Here's the next chapter! Please review - it encourages me to write and post faster! It's not blackmail - honest! :-P (cheeky grin)

As they finished their meal and got up to leave, Daniel caught Haley's arm. "I'll be here a little while longer. I want to talk to Jack and Sam." He told her. Haley nodded and smiled, understanding that he might want a chance to catch up with his old friends.

"We'll leave the lights on for you." She said.

Daniel then went back to the table where Sam, Jack and Tally still sat.

"So …" he said slowly, as he sat down.

"So…?" Jack echoed.

"You guys have made a few very … confusing, comments. I get the feeling you know something about the time I spent ascended."

Sam and Jack exchanged a long look. "I'll tell him. We'll go for a walk." Sam said, her eyes never straying from Jack's.

Eventually Jack gave in, grudgingly giving up the opportunity to tell Daniel himself. "Okay. Don't take all day about it though, the 'ole spacemonkey and I have some catching up to do." He grinned at Daniel, who rolled his eyes at the old nickname.

Sam got up and looped her arm through Daniel's. "Come on you. We've got some talking to do."

Sam took Daniel up to the hill that she and Jack used to go to in the evenings, and sat down, patting the ground next to her to indicate Daniel should do the same.

"I take it you don't remember visiting us here while you were ascended?" Sam started, squinting at him against the evening sun and her failing eyesight.

Daniel shook his head. "No. Oma made me forget."

"Oma?" Sam's eyebrows rose.

Daniel waved his hands. "Long story. Tell me what happened here."

Sam took a deep breath. "Short answer: you saved my life and the life of my daughter." She frowned, looking out towards the horizon as she gathered her thoughts.

"Less than a year after we arrived here, we found a lab that had been built by an Ancient named Rokezar. It's fascinating; we've learned so much from it in the time since then. Originally though, it caused us some problems. A council member named Nassem – a real arrogant self-centered son of a bitch if ever there was one – found it first, and set off a sub-space signal, which was so powerful it had the potential to reach a goa'uld and alert them to our presence. That's when you showed up. You pretended to be an automated hologram in order to get Nassem to either turn the signal off, or get me to help him do it. Unfortunately, Nassem's pride stopped him asking for my help, and the Ancients' non-interference laws stopped you from telling him directly how to do it.

"Eventually though, Jack and I found the lab too. We ringed down there, but were trapped for a while when we couldn't find the controls for the rings, as they were operated by a remote that Nassem had. Jack discovered that he could turn on the power in there, and between us we figured out that someone had been down there and turned on the sub-space signal. When Nassem came down in the morning, it was clear he was the culprit. He, uh, summoned the hologram, which of course was you, and you told us that Nirrti was nearby, and might pick up the signal if we couldn't turn it off."

Daniel's eyebrows shot upwards. "Nirrti? Wow. We haven't heard a thing about her since before you guys went missing. It's like she just vanished."

Sam smiled slightly. "In a way, that's what happened. We weren't able to turn off the signal in time, and she came for us. You and I were alone in the lab when the first jaffa came down in the rings. Obviously there was nothing you could do without breaking your Ancient laws, and so they took me."

Daniel looked shocked. "God, Sam … I can't believe I let that happen. I'm so sorry."

She squeezed his hand. "Don't worry, you redeemed yourself. Once Nirrti had me, she quickly found out that I was pregnant. You tried to reason with her, and when that didn't work you threatened her, but she wouldn't let me go. She told me –" Sam swallowed, still uncomfortable with reliving this particular memory. Daniel rubbed her arm supportively.

"She told me that she was going to take my baby, and experiment on her. She was trying to make the perfect host, you see. Anyway, at some point they knocked me out, and when I came round, I was in a cell, I felt awful, and I wasn't pregnant anymore."

Daniel closed his eyes. "No." He whispered.

"It's okay. You turned up, and you told me that my baby girl was alright. Nirrti had accelerated her growth to make her a fully-developed baby, but she hadn't hurt her yet. I begged you to help us, and … I guess you just couldn't bear to stand by and do nothing anymore. You told me you could destroy Nirrti, and get me and Tally back to Jack. You didn't know what the others would do to you though, or even if they'd allow you to do what you could before they intervened. You disappeared for a while, and Nirrti turned up to roast my brains with her hand device. She wanted information, but I wouldn't tell her anything. When torturing me didn't work, she brought out Tally. I swear, Daniel, I almost broke. If you hadn't stepped in right then … but you did. Nirrti held something over Tally – one of her medical devices, I don't know what it was for – but just as it began to glow, everything went white … and that was you. Jack was about to be killed by jaffa back on the planet – you saved him too – and then, according to him, there was a bright white light and he found himself here on the hillside with me and our baby next to him. The ship was gone, the jaffa were gone. You saved us all."

She watched Daniel carefully once she'd finished her story. He was frowning, and staring out into the distance. He suddenly turned his sharp gaze on her.

"I really did that?"

Sam smiled. "Yeah, you did."

"And that's why Oma sent me back." He muttered.

"Daniel?" Sam prodded after a moment, which he'd spent lost in thought.

Daniel shook himself back to the present. "I woke up on a planet with no memory of who I was, much less where I'd come from. SG-3 found me there, and Teal'c convinced me to come back with him. Once I was home, my memory came back … but I never remembered my time as an ascended being."

Sam nodded. "Maybe the mortal mind can't handle that kind of concept of self." She suggested.

Daniel smiled at her softly. "I missed you."

She smiled back, and rested her head on her old friend's shoulder. "I missed you too."

Yes, I know, very short, and probably a little boring if you've read Lost recently and remember exactly what happened. But I wanted Daniel to find out what he did and there didn't seem to be any way of doing that properly without a little recapping.

THE POLL: The results came out with an overwhelming majority wanting Tally to have other sibling(s). So, she will have. I know nothing's been mentioned explicitly yet, but trust me, there is a reason, and all will be revealed! Unfortunately it does mean I have to do a little re-writing so it may take a little longer between chapters, but ultimately the story will be better for it. It needed a little added something.

Please please PLEASE review! I want to know if you're still enjoying it!

Beka