Kajos: Here it is. Mystery answered…well partially. Hope you enjoy it. I am attempting to improve on the number of typos and spelling errors but it is slowing down update speed.

James had been sat for hours with the Tollan's prototype on his head, right through the return of Jon, Jack and Teal'c and the subsequent argumentbetween the colonel and his clone. The new devise consisted of a helmet constructed from strips of metal. On a screen to his left Garron had set up a display, a single colour to indicate who was in control of the body, James was green; the other consciousness was yellow. While Sam watched in fascination what Garron was doing Daniel and Teal'c were busy trying to convince Jack that the Tollan were not now going to create an army of Jack clones.

So Jon and James were left to talk.

"How's high school?" James asked,

"Difficult. I'm on some sports teams but most of the guys are jerks and while I'm doing quiet well at some subjects that's mostly because of doing them twice and having to have a basic understanding to work at the SGC. So I'm not really popular with the smart crowd either."

"Caught in the middle?"

"Just a bit. I mean I was all over the sports crowd when I was this age first time around but they really are idiots. And anyway I've only got to live with it for another year and a half so no biggy."

"Nice bright side there." James said his tone dripping with sarcasm.

"Look whose talking, mister home schooled." Jon shot at him with a laugh, Garron interrupted before James could reply that they were going to test the device again.

"Ready?" Sam asked.

"And waiting for ages. Can we get on with it?" Sam simply nodded to Garron and the screen turned yellow. Sam and Garron cheered as James starred around in shock.

"No!" he shouted. "You have to stop!" The colonel stepped forward as he had been authorised to question the secondary consciousness if they were successful.

"Nice to meet you to, I'm Colonel O'Neill. What can we call you?"

"Nothing!" He was now starring panicked at his questioner. "I can not surface. He is not ready for the conjunction. He is too young." Jon a little freaked having not had to deal with these things in a while backed away from the person.

"That's not an answer. Name and what's this conjunction?" It starred around at everyone in the room.

"Please, you don't understand this will kill him…us." Daniel and Sam began to look uncomfortable.

"Name?" It gave up.

"I don't have one. I should never need one!" It said annoyed,

Daniel looked at Jack who shrugged and indicated for him to take over.

"So you take the name of your host?" Daniel probed.

"Host? There is no host. I am part of… I'm sorry I don't know what his name is."

"What's yours?" Jack countered.

"Jack, give him a chance. You said he that implies there is a separation between him and you."

"There is now, but not always. I will become part of him."

"Well, you see that's the part you keep mentioning that concerns us. We need to know if you are a threat to the owner of that body or us. Perhaps if you told us what you are?"

"It will hurt him if I remain in control for much longer, I am as much part of this body as he… but I think… I understand what you're asking. This has never been an issue in the past never before has technology been advanced enough to discover me. I was not even aware I existed."

"That's possible, you were only showing up as not much more than a dream." Sam pointed out.

"Interesting." It said. "As to what I am…I am memory, this is just my most recent existence before the conjunction this information is pasted to the…child I think would be the best description through dreams. I am no more than an amalgamation of personalities and memories."

"Can you take control of 'the child' at will?" It winced at the implication of this question.

"No, if there is great enough danger the child may draw upon memories or knowledge that is part of me to help itself but this is only done in the greatest of dangers. Afterwards if the knowledge has not already been passed on in preparation for the conjunction it is forgotten." His voice was beginning to sound strained. "Please. This…it is damaging. The body and the mind are not ready for this yet."

"Okay, please give us just a little more time. When will this happen?"

"Four years. It takes four years for the body and mind to mature. The conjunction will happen then." He was gasping in pain now.

"The subject is in pain. I'm sorry, this stops now." Garron said pushing something so the screen went green and James screamed.

It took an hour or so for James to calm down and for the pain to fade. Either the switch back had caused a large increase in the pain or the other thing had a very high pain threshold. During this time Garron ran tests to see what the cause of the pain could be. So far nothing had been found as Daniel asked Jack to follow him into the corridor leaving Jon to support James while Teal'c stood by in a protective stance.

He indicated to Jack that they move away from the door and down the corridor some ways.

"We're not doing that again." He said firmly to the Colonel.

"What? We were sent here to assess if that thing is a threat to us. I haven't heard enough to do that yet. So as soon as James has recovered we're going to fire up that machine again. You saw we'd have at least a few minutes before he's in pain again." Daniel shook his head.

"No. I know what our mission is but I also know that I am responsible for James' well being and putting him through that again is not in his best interests. You heard it as well as I did. It can't take control at all unless James is in danger."

"And we only have its word to go on for that."

"I don't care Jack, unless you can assure me that James won't be in pain we are not activating that machine."

"Sir! Daniel!" Carter called from the doorway before walking over to them. "I think we've found something. James adrenaline levels are low." Both men looked at her blankly. "Both James and that other thing were in a lot of pain and scared. His adrenaline levels should be pretty high due to the fight or flight reflex."

"And this means?" Jack said waving his hand in a go on gesture.

"Well…the thing it said it can be accessed when 'the child' as he put it is in extreme danger. Right? Well if James were in a lot of danger then it's safe to assume he would have a large amount of adrenaline in his system." A light bulb seemed to light up over Daniels head.

"Are you saying that accessing that things is eating through James adrenaline?"

"That exactly what I'm saying. If safely accessing it uses adrenaline then, well, James was calm and relaxed before we activated the devise. There would have been very little of it in his system at the time."

"Cut to the chase here Carter." Jack said.

"If we were to make sure James adrenaline levels were high before activating the device it's possible that the thing would be able to talk with us with out whatever that was happening."

"How much would he need?"

"Well a lot. One dose could be dangerous to James. This thing was eating through it like crazy."

"Dangerous? Too much adrenaline could kill him." Daniel pointed out.

"We could avoid giving it all to him at once. If we used a drip then we could monitor the amount in his blood stream with the Tollan's technology and make sure there as a regulated amount in his blood stream."

"So it would be safe?" Jack asked.

"Reasonably."

"Satisfied?" he asked looking at Daniel, who though about it for a moment.

"Fine. If James agrees then we'll try it but we stop the second he's in pain." The two members of the military nodded and the three returned inside to discus the new idea with the guinea pig.

James was pretty sure he had enough adrenaline in his system. This new approach with a needle stuck in his hand while he waited to effectively black out on command had him terrified. He'd had to be filled in on what had happened earlier and he wasn't sure about any of this. He'd agreed only because it seemed like something was going to happen to him over the next four years and he really wanted to know what.

Sam looked at him and he swallowed before nodding. Jack watched as his expression was transformed from fear to annoyance.

"I told you this would hurt us! You saw what happened!"

"Hey. We're not idiots." Jack said ignoring the look he got from Daniel. "We've come up with something we think might give us some more time or even prevent that completely."

"Why are you so determined to do this?"

"Because we need to know things. We need to know what were dealing with. Now explain this conjunction thing in detail."

"Currently we are human but after the conjunction we become something else. That requires preparation. To start with, nothing significant will happen for two years. At that point aging appears to stop completely and memories start to be transferred through dreams. Aging stops to allow growth of muscles and bone structure in reparation for the conjunction through not noticeably unless you're able to view the structure under the skin. There is very little pain, more problems normally occur with the mind. Many of the memories can be traumatic and overwhelming, in the past the child has not survived to the conjunction because they have ever been considered insane or taken their own life. Considering…what is his name?"

"James." Daniel offered ignoring Jacks glare.

"Considering James will be aware of what is happening there should be no such issue but it will be difficult often we struggle before and after with the memories intruding, I believe last time it was refured to as a flash back. The feelings and emotions of the memories are real and are experienced as though they really occurred to the child. He will live decades every night. It is unpleasant but nessecary in order for the conjunction to occur saftly."

"Why?" Jack asked.

"The conjunction is when James will become an adult of our species. I'm sorry, I have no name for us it was lost long before we came here. During the conjunction the body finishes its transformation and the mind must change with it. In a way he will be wiser than any before. The final change to the mind is the transfer of personalities, the minds of all are combined into one. James will still be James but he will also be everyone he has been before."

"Why do your people use this method? James wasn't born was he? So why grow why the need to develop like this?"

"You are correct, he wasn't 'born' my people die and at that point we change I takes decade of time but this is what we become it is like a metamorphosis cycle. We don't have children often, not of our kind. We return like this because it means we can learn. We are 'born with knowledge of a childhood and an education that matches our location and often we are only reborn when we find we are needed."

"How would you know?" Sam asked.

"I don't know I have no memory of the time in between but a long time ago it was suggested that when we are not here we are watching over this earth and that what we see is what goes towards the next childhood. A form of metal connection to the world around us as we sleep."

"It makes sense, James clearly had greater psychic ability than a normal human."

"So this conjunction. How changed will James be afterwards?" Jon asked.

"In the past it has only been small things, sudden change in eating habits such as changing likes or dislikes and the occasional habit, I have unfortunately been a compulsive nail bitter for thousands of years. Maybe I shall be lucky this time round."

"What about physically?"

"He will be very changed physically but he will be able to hide it from immediate notice but with modern medicine as it is he will have to be careful." Daniel looked to see if any of the others had any immediate questions.

"Is there anyway you could be able to make this change easier on James?"

"I do not know. It I have no control over the physical but I suppose t might be possible to start the memory transfer earlier. It would still take four years but he would not have to cope with as much at once. On the condition that James agrees."

"One last question." Daniel said looking closely at him as he asked. "Do you have any names in the past that we might recognise? As a form of character reference." He thought for a while on this.

"The name I have been best known of that has been remembered even till today and was given to me over several lives is Gabriel." Daniel was stunned.

"As in before Christ, Gabriel." Gabriel simply nodded and Garron turned off the machine. They all stood in silence as James looked at them.

"Well the adrenaline worked I see."

Kajos: There you go. More explanation to come but that long update was the first meeting with Gabriel. I apologise to anyone who has any religious qualms about this but I would like to promise that this story does not discuss the validity of any religion nor does it explore God in any more significant way than the stargate series themselves do.