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Love's Sweet Release
by
Will

Chapter Twenty

“He is not dead, but he soon will be.”, a voice echoed over Daniel’s limp body.

“No, there is much for him to do yet. He brought evil and good together, to work together as was ordained to be.”, another voiced echoed over his body.

A soft glowing light filled the room as two beings came into view kneeling beside the steal body of Daniel Jackson. With their hands lifted in the air, both beings began to recite, “What was bound to this one, let now be unbound. Instead of the feeling of loss, let there be closure. Heal the hurts of the soul, the heart, the mind, and the body.” As the final word was said, Daniel’s body was enveloped in a softly glowing light that ebbed and flowed all around him. His body lifted off the ground and floated for a short time, while the light coursed around and through him. Before the eyes of the two beings, the cuts on Daniel’s face closed, leaving not a mark. The sound of snapped vertebrae coming back together reached their ears. The legs that were at odd angels, straightened out and the skin closed. As the light faded away, Daniel’s body floated back to the ground. With a pass of their hands, the bracers on Daniel’s wrists vanished into nothingness. With nods to one another, the two beings faded once more from sight.

As the group of gliders neared the location they had detected the wreck at, everyone’s heart leaped into their throat. What they had known to be an intact temple was now a blasted ruin. Landing the gliders in a clearing not far from the site, the team rushed to where they knew Daniel had crashed. As they neared the temple, they could make out bits and pieces of the ship Daniel had been piloting, not a single piece was larger that a fist. They knew with sinking hearts that nobody and nothing could have survived such a crash. Walking in to the remains of the temple, the destruction was immense. Everything was charred and melted. The thought came to everyone at how disappointed Daniel would be if he were with them to see this level of destruction.

The team fanned out to see if they could locate any remains of their now dead friend. As Teal’c neared what would have once been an alter, he caught site of gloved hand protruding from under a slab of blackened rock. Seeing that he could not dislodge the hand without moving the slab, he worked his way around it to see if he could push it over. When he came fully around he realized that he had not just found Daniel’s hand, but in fact he had found Daniel. With astonishment in his voice Teal’c called out, “Over here, I have located DanielJackson.”

As everyone came running up to where Teal’c stood, it was with a mixture of relief and heartbreak that they looked upon the body of their friend. Lying on the ground, completely covered in blood, was their teammate and friend. No sign of life could be seen as he lay there, what nobody could understand was how his body was in one piece. “I don’t understand,” Sam was saying, “the ship is in millions of pieces, yes here he is in one piece.”

“Maybe the ship had some sort of ejection capability, Sam.“, Jacob replied. “Maybe he managed to eject before crashing.”

“Let’s get this thing off of him so we can take him home.”, Jack said with a heavy heart.

It took Teal’c, Jack, Jacob, and Le’at several minutes before they were able to push the slab over. Then they all knelt down beside Daniel’s body to give a silent prayer. Just as Jack was reaching to pick up Daniel’s corpse, Daniel’s back arched off the ground and he took in a deep gasp of air. It took everyone by such surprise that they all fell backwards in shock. As air once again filled his lungs, Daniel began to sit up and open his eyes. Seeing his friends sitting on the butts staring at him, Daniel said the first thing that came into his mind. “What are you all staring at me like that?”

With her initial shock passing, Sam launched herself at Daniel and wrapped her arms around his neck. Sobbing into his shoulder, Sam held her friend and sent up silent thanks to every being that existed. Recovering from their shock, the rest of the team continued to sit in silence while Sam cried into Daniel’s armored shoulder, and he sat with an arm around her holding her. After what seemed like an eternity, Sam pulled her self back together and moved away from Daniel. “How did you manage to survive Daniel?”, Jack asked.

“I don’t know.”, Daniel said rubbing his head. “The last things I remember are firing missiles at the An’Kesh and seeing it explode. Then feeling a sharp pain in my chest and knowing that Sha’re and Sarah had been killed. At that point, I guess I died as well.” Looking around at the destruction, Daniel’s face went pale and his eyes went round.

“There is no way that I should be alive right now. There is nothing left of the ship I was in, yet here I am whole and breathing, and covered from head to toe in blood…. my blood.”, Daniel stammered.

“Maybe we got Sha’re and Sarah into the sarcophagi in time. You revived enough to eject before it crashed.”, Sam offered.

“No Sam, if that were true, the chair I was in should be around her, but it is not. I didn’t revive before the ship hit.”, Daniel stated. “Wait, you said that you placed Sha’re and Sarah in sarcophagi?”

“Yeah, we got to them on the landing pad right after they were shot. We took out the Jaffa that shot them and then went to check them out. I found a weak pulse, so dad and Le’at used their healing devices to keep them stable till we put them in the sarcophagi.”, Sam sputtered.

Trying to use his mind to contact them, Daniel found that he could not. Searching the sensations within his body, he realized that he did not feel them. Taking off the armored gauntlets he wore, he found that the bracers were also missing. “I can not hear their thoughts, can not feel their souls, and the bracers are gone. Somehow I have been unbound from them.”, Daniel said staring at nobody in particular.

“May I suggest that since you are alive, we get back to the castle and see if Sha’re and SarahGardner are also alive.”, Teal’c offered.

“Yeah, let’s go.”, Daniel said jumping to his feet.

Putting the armored gauntlets back on, Daniel followed the group to the clearing. Climbing into the seat behind Sam in her glider, he could not help but feel very confused. It did not take long before the entire team was airborne again and heading back towards the castle. After about fifteen minutes of flight, all four death-gliders docked back in the landing bay of the Al’Kesh, and it was all anyone could do to keep up with Daniel as he ran towards Sha’re and Sarah’s chambers. Just as Daniel came around the corner of the hall where he wanted to be, Daniel came to a sliding halt as over thirty staff weapons were leveled at him and charging. When the rest of the team caught up, they too came sliding to a halt.

When recognition filtered into the minds of the Jaffa standing guard, they lowered their weapons and moved out of the way. Moving into the room that the Jaffa had seemed to be positioned in front of, Daniel saw Sha’re and Sarah both sitting on a chaise lounger. As their eyes fell upon him, both women ran over to him and wrapped their arms around him, and kissed him on the cheek. After several minutes, they both took a step back and looked more closely at him. “Dan’yel, you are covered in blood, yet there is not a mark on you.”, Sha’re said with wide eyes.

“We tried to call you with our minds, but we could not hear you. Then when we searched our souls, we could not feel you. All we could feel is one another and hear one another.”, Sarah said with sad eyes.

“When I came to, the team told me what happened. I tried to reach out to you and could not hear or feel either of you.”, Daniel stated. Removing his gauntlets and letting them drop to the floor, Daniel held out his wrists. “The bracers are gone as well, look.”

Looking at his wrists and then their own, both women saw that they still wore bracers, but he did not. “Then it is as we both dreamed. You are no longer bound to us, Dan’yel.”, Sha’re said.

“What do you mean, as you both dreamed?”, Daniel asked. It struck him that this only seemed startling, not painful as he thought it should.

“While we were healing from our wounds, we both dreamed that a being came to us and told us that you had more ahead of you. That you destiny was not woven with us, but with your team and with another.”, Sarah explained. “The being told us that we would continue on, bound together as that was our destiny.”

The image of an angel hand-in-hand with a demon flashed through Daniel’s mind, and he smiled. “I think I understand. Right before I was knocked unconscious in the temple when I first arrived, the last thing I saw was a mural of an angel and a demon standing together holding hands. I was never meant to be bound with the both of you, but you were meant to be individually bound within yourselves and then to one another. The host part of each of you is good by nature, and the Goa’uld in each of you was evil by nature. When the Goa’uld turned in their nature each of you had already began to merge with them. The rite of binding only completed that process. Now the two of you are bound one to the other to share in your life-forces to compensate for not having the symbiotes anymore.”

“So, because they are young and health, their combined life-forces will give them an extended time to live, much as having the symbiote would have done.”, Sam exclaimed.

Thinking about this for a minute, Daniel caught the shadow that crossed the eyes of both Sha’re and Sarah. “I still love the both of you.”, Daniel stated while taking each of their hands.

“We know Dan’yel. Our futures and our destinies do not lie together with yours. We will continue to help and protect the people of this planet and the others we claimed while as Goa’uld, but we will never venture forth from his sector of space.”, Sha’re said.

“But your destiny lies out there among the starts and other planets. You must continue on, defeating the Goa’uld that continue to hurt and enslave others.”, Sarah finished.

“You will always hold a special place in our hearts, and will always be more than welcome to visit with us or stay with us when you can.”, both women said. “We will also be more than willing to let you hold more if that is your desire.”, the both grinned playfully and let their eyes flash.

“We will help you to clean up your dead and heal your wounded.”, Le’at offered. With a nod, Selmak agreed.

After beaming down personnel from the Prometheus, it did not take long to have the Al’Kesh on the landing pad flight worthy again. The things from the lab that they were being allowed to take were inventoried, crated, and beamed into a cargo hold on the Prometheus. Several days later, the landing pad was encircled with the Jaffa that had been freed of servitude, of their symbiote, and were now clad in the Kull-based Jaffa armor. It had been agreed upon that Le’at would remain behind to help, and SG teams would be cycling through on a regular basis. Some permanent parties would be setting up mining operations in the hills to extract Naquada as well. On its next trip here to bring the miners, the Prometheus would bring the extra Stargate from area51…Sam was sure she could reprogram it to work for this planet.

Jack had tried to get Sha’re and Sarah to let the SGC have one of their Goa’uld motherships, but finally agreed that they would probably need all the ships they had to ensure the safety of the planets under their control. With fond farewells and promises to return, SG-1 and Selmak beamed aboard the Prometheus and headed for home.

“Glad to have you still around with us Daniel.”, Jack said patting Daniel on the shoulder.

“I am glad to be here as well. Jack, I am sorry for how I acted before I took off. I shouldn’t have treated you like that.”, Daniel said looking at Jack and extending his hand.

Jack reached out and took Daniel’s proffered hand, “I know what you were going through, been there myself. So, Daniel, are you back now?”

“Yes Jack, I am back. Let’s go find some ruins to explore and Goa’uld to destroy.”, Daniel said with a lilt in his voice.

“I can do without the rocks, but I am all for killing snakes.”, Jack guffawed.

Standing back in the shadows, Sam and Teal’c watched and smiled. “It is good to have him back T. I never thought I would see Daniel smiling again.”, Sam whispered.

“You are most correct, Samantha Carter. It is indeed good to have the team together once more.”, Teal’c whispered back.

End of
Love's Sweet Release
by
Will

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