Author's Notes:- Thanks to Stonedtoad for betaing.

The next part is with Toad already so it will hopefully be up soon and I am working on Part 8.

Enjoy.

She listened to the conversations between the Jaffa, discovering that they were finally returning to Earth. This was going to be her only chance to escape and keep him safe. She just hoped that she would be able to do it.

Daniel took the mug of coffee Maria offered him. He smiled as Elizabeth joined them with several croissants and muffins.

"Thanks," Daniel said, regaining his memories had meant he wanted to reconnect with his sisters. This was the first of what he was determined to make a weekly ritual, breakfast once a week where they would just sit, talk and laugh.

Elizabeth grabbed one of the muffins, "I am so hungry. I was up half the night studying."

"About that," Maria noted, "When exactly are you going to tell Mom you quit your job and are training to help Sara?"

Elizabeth shrugged, "I'm waiting for the right time."

"Like when?" Daniel threw in, it had taken very little time for him to get completely comfortable as their big brother again, "When she walks in to see Sara and finds you with a patient?"

"We're not doctors," Elizabeth replied, the stuck out tongue implied in her tone, "Besides, I guess I just don't want to disappoint her."

"Mom wants you to be happy," Daniel reminded her.

Elizabeth rolled her eyes, "This from the 'Golden Boy'.

"Hey."

"Leave him alone," Maria scolded their sister, "It's not his fault he's the only one to follow Mom's footsteps."

"Did you two forget Kelly?" Daniel asked sarcastically.

"Kelly didn't know Mom was an archaeologist," Maria reminded him.

Daniel opened his mouth to retort but was interrupted by his cell phone ringing. He pulled it out to answer it.

"Yeah?"

Maria and Elizabeth sat eating, waiting as Daniel talked to Jack.

"Sorry," Daniel hung up, "I have to go. We've got visitors coming."

The nodded, Maria catching him before he left, "Your ringtone is the Star Wars theme?"

Daniel shrugged, "Teal'c fixed it. My technical skills don't stretch past dialling and the occasional text message. I'll see you guys next week."

"Same time, same place," Elizabeth called after him, receiving a wave as their brother headed out of the cafe.

Maria smiled, "I think this was a great idea."

"Mom, you won't believe this," Daniel motioned to the armband wrapped around his wrist, "I can read amazingly fast, I have gone through my entire library and every book on the base in less than three hours."

Claire stared at her son, a little stunned at how almost manic her son seemed to be.

"I feel so..." he hesitated slightly, "Energised."

"Danny," Claire took his hand, "Janet is worried about you all."

He shook her hand off, "Mom, I'm fine. I feel fantastic."

"Danny..."

He threw his hands in the air annoyed, "Mom, I'm fine. Jack and Sam are fine. These things are...are...are fantastic."

Claire sighed, she watched him bounce away to his office to read more as she went to see Hammond.

x

"I thought you had confined them to the base?" Claire demanded.

Several hours had passed since her conversation with her son and she'd grown more concerned each hour. The Tok'ra, Anise, was irritating her as well; her cavalier attitude towards Claire's son and his friends definitely hadn't endeared her to Claire.

"I had," Hammond replied, "However, they decided to ignore my orders."

"Sir," Janet interrupted, "They're not thinking properly. These armbands are like a drug."

Claire stared at her, "Are you telling me they're high?"

"Claire, I'm working on this," Janet promised, "And we'll find where they went."

Hammond sighed as his phone rang; he answered it and motioned both women to wait for a moment.

"We found them," he told Janet and Claire, "They went to O'Malleys."

Janet frowned, "Why do I have a feeling that this isn't going to end well."

"They got into a bar fight," Hammond told them, "They're being brought back to the base now."

Claire shook her head, "I'm going to kill Anise. Her claims that these were perfectly safe..."

"Hey," Janet rested her hand on the other woman's arm, "Calm down, Claire. I'm sure Sara will want to join you in murdering the arrogant alien, we should wait for her."

Hammond managed to keep a straight face, and continued working as the two women left his office. He had ideas himself about what to do to the Tok'ra, most concerning drop kicking her through the wormhole."

x

Daniel winced as he followed Jack into the briefing room, seeing his mother standing and she did not look happy. His only consolation for this was that Sara was at Claire's side, glaring angrily at Jack.

"Mom," Daniel greeted her.

Claire held up her finger; her eyes filled with annoyance but she didn't say a word at first, letting Hammond yell at them. Daniel winced as Hammond glared at them before he ordered them to stay on the base.

As they headed down to the room they were to be trapped in, Daniel noted Sara move to Jack's side and saw Claire coming to his.

"Hi, Mom," he greeted her lightly.

Claire stared at him angrily, "Daniel Nicholas Jackson, what on Earth did you think you were doing? Disobeying George? Starting a fight in a bar? Do you have any idea how disappointed I am in you?"

Daniel dropped his eyes, "Mom, we didn't...I didn't..."

"I don't want to hear anything," Claire stopped him; "You stay in this room."

"Mom..."

"Daniel Nicholas Jackson," she noticed him flinch as she used his full name for the second time, "Do it."

Daniel slunk into the room where Sam and Jack were waiting for him. He took once last glance at his mother before sighing in relief as the door closed.

Steven sat going through the work Daniel had given him before whatever was happening had started. He had learned very quickly within the SGC not to ask what was going on with SG1, they were trouble magnets according to the rumour. It still astonished him that he was here, especially since he and Daniel hadn't parted company in Chicago under the best of terms.

A folder caught his eyes; Daniel had dropped this off before whatever had happened. Steven flicked through the file; he found a note in Daniel's scrawl – Possible Osiris and Isis information!

Steven started going through the file, this had come from the Tok'ra and he stared at the pictures of Sarah who was no longer the woman he had known. He remembered so many nights the three of them would sit in the office arguing over some minor point, life had taken some strange turns for them all. He glanced over to the picture that sat at the side of his desk. It was a picture of him and Maria taken the night they announced their engagement, he found it endlessly amusing that his bride-to-be was his once most hated rivals half-sister.

Looking back down from the picture, something in the back of the picture on top of the file caught his eyes. Steven hunted through his desk for the magnifier, finally finding it and pulling the picture to him.

He reached out and grabbed the phone, "I need to see General Hammond as soon as possible."

x

Hammond paced nervously, waiting for SG1 to return from their unauthorised mission. He hadn't wanted to send Teal'c in as well but knew he would be the only one with a chance to get the other three out.

"Sorry to interrupt," Steven Rayner appeared in the briefing room, "But I've discovered something important."

Hammond motioned him in, "What have you found, Dr?"

"Daniel gave me this," Steven explained, "These are the pictures the Tok'ra spy managed to get on Osiris and Isis' ship."

"I've seen them many times," Hammond replied, "We wanted you to try and translate the writings around the sarcophagus."

Steven shook his head, "That's not what I found," he pulled out the blow ups he'd got, "In one of the pictures showing the bridge, we've got a picture of one of the screens. Here," Steven pulled out the marker and circled what he was showing the General, "They know exactly where Daniel lives and from what I've translated they have something in there to alert them to his presence; the moment he's there then they've got him."

Hammond frowned, "We knew they were after him but..." he paused, "Until we're convinced he's safe Dr Jackson will be confined to the base."

Steven nodded, "I'm going to see if we managed to get anything else in the background."

Hammond nodded and watched him leave; once he got SG1 back he was going to have a long talk with the Tok'ra.

x

Hammond sighed in relief as his three lost sheep plus the 'dog' he'd sent after them fell, literally, through the wormhole and onto the ramp. All three of them looked so apologetic and Hammond had no idea how he managed to keep a straight face until he'd sent them to the infirmary. Now they were safe and had managed to destroy Apophis' ship as well, all in all it could have been worse.

"Doctor," Hammond turned to Janet, "Please do every test you can to ensure that they are back to normal."

Janet nodded, "Of course, sir. I'll keep a close eye on Daniel especially."

Hammond gave her a quick nod, "Can you send Colonel O'Neill up here once you're finished with him please."

"Of course," Janet replied, turning and heading to the infirmary.

Claire stood in the corner of the infirmary waiting to see if her son was all right.

"Hi," Daniel looked up at her sheepishly when Janet had finished that round of tests.

"How are you feeling?" Claire pulled over a seat, "You were very...upbeat earlier."

Daniel winced, "Look, I'm sorry about that."

Claire shook her head, "It was interesting to see, Danny," laughing as he grimaced, "How much of what you read do you remember?"

Daniel shrugged, "I'm not sure but I doubt Hammond will let us on base for a few days after this."

Claire bit her lip, she'd been told about what was possibly in her son's apartment and wasn't sure he knew. She'd overheard them talking about how worried Janet was about the withdrawal of the armbands, especially on Daniel.

She waited for Janet to finish taking the latest blood sample from her son, catching the look of concern Janet was giving him.

"I'm fine," Daniel spoke up, "Janet, you don't have to worry."

Claire frowned, "Worry about what?" she demanded of the doctor.

"I can't..." Janet started, trailing off as Daniel held up his hand.

"It's okay," he breathed, "She'll find out eventually."

Panic filled Claire, "Find out what?"

Daniel sighed, "It happened a few years ago. I was in an accident and I was put in a sarcophagus to restore me to health," Daniel could see Jack, Sam and Teal'c nearby listening to him, "But after I was healthy again, I was persuaded to continue using the sarcophagus even though I was fine. I became addicted to it and the withdrawal nearly killed me."

"Danny," Claire gasped.

Daniel reached out and hugged his mother tightly, "I'm fine. Honestly, I didn't want to worry you but...Mom, please stop worrying."

Claire sighed, wishing she didn't constantly feel like she was catching up on her son's life.

x

"Are we sure?" Jack asked Hammond, he stared at the enlarged photos on the table in front of him.

Hammond shook his head, "Not yet. I'm confining Dr Jackson to the base until we have done a sweep of his home. Dr Raynor and the Tok'ra Aldwyn are heading there along with Major Ferretti and his team."

Jack nodded, "Good. Any idea how they managed to get something planted in Daniel's apartment?"

"I wish I knew, Jack," Hammond replied.

Jack leaned back in his chair; they were just going to have to wait for the signal from Ferretti that they'd found whatever was lurking in Daniel's apartment. The two men sat in silence as they waited; Jack nervously started playing with the pen looking up as the phone rang.

"Major?" Hammond demanded, hitting the speakerphone on.

"Aldwyn seems convinced we found it," Ferretti reported, "It's a rock, sir."

"It used to belong to Sarah," Steven threw in, "Daniel took it to give him something to remind him that he had to help her. I took a statue."

"It's possible that this was set up before they escaped Earth," Jack noted, "I really don't like that."

"Neither do I," Hammond murmured, "Remove the device safely and return to the base," he hung up the phone and turned to Jack, "Dr Jackson is to remain on the base until I'm sure he is no more danger."

Jack nodded, in complete agreement with his CO.

This was it. She sat up and took a deep breath, hoping she had the strength to do this, hoping that the fever that raged through her body did not stop her.

She used the piece of cutlery she'd managed to steal to prise open the control panel and shorted out the crystals, releasing her from the prison cell she was in. She knew the pattern of the Jaffa, so she was sure she would be able to avoid every one of them on her way to the transport room. Osiris and Isis had managed to steal this technology, along with the technology that would allow them to track the homing device Isis had left in Sarah's apartment. She needed to destroy that equipment and send them back into hyperspace but after she transported down to Earth.

Simple, she thought irritated.

She could hear Jaffa moving nearby and held her breath, scrunched in the corner as they marched past her.

Relief filled her as she slipped out of the corner to continue her mission to free herself. It took her a few minutes to reach the room and once she was there she hoped she could do this.

x

She focussed on the controls in front of her and hoped she could do this; she couldn't fail because failure would mean his death. Noise behind her made her spin, thinking she'd been caught and she stared at the Jaffa who was staring back at her.

They stood staring at one another for several minutes before he turned and walked away, closing the door behind him.

Relief filled her; he was a member of the Jaffa rebellion. She started manipulating the controls, her exhaustion pulling her down, she was so weak from her captivity but closing her eyes she thought of everything she would gain when she managed this.

With determination she destroyed the machine to track the device; set the ship to go back into hyperspace, making sure that it would burn out before they would be able to reverse their course before she set the transporter.

With a soft prayer to whoever could help her, Sha're pushed the button that would deliver her to Earth and hopefully her husband's arms.