taxonomites | 1 [Holo-Location: Sanctuary]

All he did was blink, how could everything have changed so drastically? Daniel blinked again, hoping despite himself that he’d only imagined he’d seen a metal room with him standing on a platform. No luck. He glanced around, warily, before calling out.

“Thor?” Surely it had to have been the Asgard’s transporting beam, right? Except without the flash of white.

“Jack?” He tried again. Despite the fact Jack hadn’t been on the Prometheus with him, weird things tended to happen when Jack was involved, so it was generally a safe bet to assume he had something to do with this. Still nothing. He gave a sigh, reaching a hand up to ruffle his hair.

“This isn’t funny, guys.”

Only then did he look up and spy a rather odd and unusual device.

“..Okay, definitely not Asgard.”

Feeling a strange weight on his wrist, he sent an enquiring glance at it, only to do a double-take. What the heck was on his wrist? It didn’t hurt, despite the fact the metal seemed to be fused to his skin.

“Oh that can’t be good..”

He also noticed at that point the pedestal standing next to him. Was something wrong with his sight that he’d not noticed that? He stared at the tablet resting on top of the pedestal, the metal bracelet attached to him temporarily forgotten as he walked carefully around it before reaching out and picking the tablet up. Then he glanced around again.

“Jack?” Silence. “Isn’t someone going to say I shouldn’t have done that?”

This was getting tiresome, and he was starting to feel even more uneasy. He stared back down at the tablet, if only so he wouldn’t be looking around the large room anymore and see no one. Without really expecting anything to happen, he tried to open the tablet, finding it flipped open quite easily, as if it were a cell phone. He sighed again, glancing around once more despite himself.

“Jack, I know you have to be there. I get that you must be laughing your socks off, but this really isn’t funny.”

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Jack would take offense to that if he knew about that mental tally.

"You do that, Daniel," he goes relatively silent for the next few minutes as he makes his way over. His visual soon going black as he apparently shoved the thing in a pocket. Audio still transmitted as evident by the sounds of footsteps. He's really bad about turning it off when he's done.

What he did with the tablet becomes less important as he reached the Sanctuary and entered, "Helloo...?"

Daniel remained seated, barely listening to the footsteps he could barely hear as he waited for Jack to find him. He did, however, notice with the screen went black while the footsteps continued. He shook his head with some amused exasperation, leave it to Jack to forget something like that.

Hearing the call, he fiddled with the tablet, managing to turn it off-or so he thought-after a couple minutes. Standing up, he started walking towards where Jack's voice seemed to be coming from.

Coming within view, he gave a small wave.

Jack's demeanor brightened considerably when he saw him. A rather goofy grin crossed his face and he spread his arms wide, "So! Didja miss me?" Not that he expected anything more than awkward look and Daniel suddenly pretending he didn't know him.

As hard as Jack is to read sometimes, he is very very happy at this moment. It's like Daniel coming back from the dead all over again.

Of course he should have expected that greeting. And yet it surprised Daniel every time. He paused in walking, obligatory awkward look plastered on his face before he tried a smile. And really, while looking awkward, one should not try a smile. It almost always ends up looking strained.

"Uhm.." His eyes darted about a bit, almost frantically as he tried to decide just how to answer that. Yes, he had missed Jack. But he wasn't about to say so.

"Well..No one had to die this time." He simply settled on that, giving a small shrug as he let Jack figure it out from there. Which, knowing Jack, was hit or miss on him actually getting the real message.

Jack just grins anyway, "Yes! There is that." He wags a finger at him and walks over.

"So. You got no memory of this place and from the sounds of it... I'm guessing different time period?" That's right, Jack can be smart if he feels like it. Being in Taxon this long has made him think of everything in when someone was from.

And regardless if Daniel wants one or not. He's getting a hug. It's hard to stop Jack when he feels like hugging.

Daniel shook his head at the questions. "It sounds like I am missing a few memories," and that was a reluctant, and understated, admission. "What..time was I from before?" Jack's laid-back attitude only occasionally fooled Daniel into thinking his friend was stupid.

Would Daniel really stop Jack from hugging when said general, or colonel, was in the hugging mood? No, he wasn't that stupid. It failed every time before, so why would this time be any different? Not that he really wanted to try. What more could he do but awkwardly return it?

At least, Vala didn't come out of nowhere to create a Daniel sandwich. Y'know, she still could. Ya never know. Jack patted him on the back before finally releasing him, "Wouldn't be the first time," Jack pointed out with a smirk. As for that question, he shrugged, he was only paying attention half the time when he was told before, "You--well, he, didn't tell me too much. But! He said something about being after the Tok'ra pulled out Ba'al's snake."

He took a step back and looked around, "So, how about we get outta here?"

It was probably a good thing Vala didn't show up just then, being squished between them would be a bit much at the moment. He gave a quick smile when Jack let go of him, then couldn't resist rolling his eyes at the comment.

"Yeah..That's not happened for me..yet.." He blinked, thinking that made sense but really, one never completely knew with him.

"Lead the way."

"Yeah! Me neither!" just in case Daniel felt left out. Jack has gotten slightly used to being behind in the time line from everyone else.

He turned to lead him out into the street. Once there he took a look around, "So. Where to? The Mountain showed up south of here, near the city wall. My cabin showed up on the west side. I'm just guessin' but..." he glanced over Daniel for a second, "Some place of yours probably showed up too."

Daniel gave a wry smile as he followed Jack outside, blinking a bit at the oddly warm weather. It made his black uniform feel warmer than usual.

"..Following that reasoning, yeah. But how'd you figure out where your cabin is?" He didn't quite want to think of what might have followed him, with his luck, something from Abydos had appeared. And he doubted he'd have to look all over the city just to find it, though he'd be wandering around at some point anyway, just so he knew what was there.

"Uh.... found it on patrol," Perfectly reasonable explanation in the land of of Jack O'Neill.

Knowing Daniel's history, Jack personally hoped it was just Daniel's apartment or something like that that came with him. He let out a sigh and gestured to the city, "This is it. Far as we can tell... the sky isn't real," he looked up at it with a squint.

"Right, of course." Daniel smiled in amusement at his friend. How could he have thought otherwise. He glanced up at the 'sky' as well, still trying not to think too hard on what he might find.

"Not much to patrol, is it?"

Jack cleared his throat, "City is pretty big. Still hoping to find something to get us out here." There is a very slight tiredness to his voice, he's been at this a long time.

"I don't like being trapped here, Daniel," as if he needed to tell him, "No matter how 'nice' it is."

Daniel frowned, hearing what Jack wasn't saying and not liking the toll it seemed to be having on him.

"It never does matter how nice a place is if you know you can't easily leave.."

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