The Truth of it all

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Daniel walked into the men's locker room at the SG's base and made his way over to his locker. When he reached the locker he noticed the envelope that was waiting for him. Daniel put his bag down on the bench behind him and gently pulled the envelope from its place on the locker. He turned the envelope over in his hand and he immediately recognised Jack's handwriting. Why would Jack write him a letter? He would most probably bump into him on the base. Daniel sat down on the bench and opened the envelope. He then began to read what Jack had written to him only a few hours ago.

5 minutes later...

Daniel had just finished reading the letter when an alarm bell sounded though out the base. Daniel quickly put the letter into his pocket and ran up to the room that over looked the stargate. Sam and T'leac were already there when he entered the room.

"General Hammond it's the Tok'ra sir," Sam said as he sat at the computer that helped identify incoming and out going travellers on the stargate.

"Open the iris," General Hammond ordered.

The iris opened and seconds later a tok'ra member stepped though the stargate.

"Close the iris Major," General Hammond said.

"Iris closed sir," Sam said. As she got up from the desk and followed General Hammond, T'leac and Daniel down to the stargate to meet the Tok'ra.

"Dad, what are you doing here," Sam asked with a surprised tone of voice.

"Jacob," said the general as he reached out and shook Jacob's hand.

"General Hammond where is Colonel O'Neil. The tok'ra wish to speak with him urgently," Jacob said.

"Perhaps we should discuss this in more comfortable surroundings," General Hammond said as he led the group up to the briefing room. When everyone was seated the general took a breath and told everyone what Jack had done just a few hours earlier.

"Jack has retired from the stargate program," Hammond said being blunt and to the point.

"Why didn't he say goodbye to any of us," Sam demanded angrily.

"He felt it was for the best," Daniel said as everyone in the room turned round to look at Daniel, surprise on their faces

"How do you know this Daniel Jackson," asked T'leac

"He wrote me a letter. *I found the letter when I went to get some gear out of my locker," Daniel said

"What did he write," Sam said, wanting to know why the Colonel would write to Daniel but not to her.

"Its private," Daniel replied.

The room went silent at this new piece of information. It was at this moment that General Hammond broke the silence in the room.

"Jacob why do you want to speak with the colonel," asked Hammond.

"It is the Tok'ra who wish to speak with the Colonel. It is concerning some of the things he told us when we last met," Jacob said

"Well since the colonel has retired. The only way for this to proceed is to bring Jack back out of retirement," Hammond said.

"Is that possible sir? I mean hasn't he retired before," asked Daniel. Who wasn't too sure what the military guidelines were for a situation like this.

"His retirement application has appeared to have got lost in the post," General Hammond said with a smile on his face.

"The only way which can contact the colonel quickly is his home phone number," General Hammond said

"Contact him now general Hammond. It is very important that the Tok'ra speak with the colonel," Jacob said.

General reached over to the phone in front of him and dialled Jacks phone number. He then pressed the speakerphone button so that everyone else could be involved in the conversation. The phone rang for a few moments before it was answered.

"Colonel its general Hammond. I have someone here, who wants a word with you," General Hammond said as silence answered him.

"Colonel it's Jacob," Jacob said.

"Call me jack I'm retired now," jack answered

"Jack the letter appears to have become lost in the post," General Hammond said.

"Jack the tok'ra wish to speak with you urgently it is concerning the conversation we had when we last met," Jacob said.

"Menanat," was the reply that answered Jacob. It was a single curse word that not even Daniel knew the translation of.

"I'll be at the base within the hour. Any questions you or the tok'ra may have can wait until then Jacob. Sam, T'leac and Daniel I'll see you all later," jack said as he hung up the phone.

"Until jack gets here your all dismissed. I expect you all to be back in this within the hour," General Hammond said as he walked out of the room and made his way to his office. Jacob followed the general out of the room. Sam, T'leac and Daniel watched them leave.

"So why do you think the colonel has been so secretive," Sam asked curios to know.

"Everyone has things they like to keep to themselves Sam," Daniel said.

Jack made it to the base within an hour. He went straight to the briefing room and found that everyone was already seated and waiting for him. Jack found his seat and sat down, waiting for the barrage of questions that would soon follow.

"Colonel the tok'ra wish to speak with you about the conversation you had with Jacob," Hammond said.

Jack let out a sigh and looked around the room. His gaze finally settled upon Jacob.

"What about it," Jack snapped

"The tok'ra wish to know more about the history of earth and our enemies association with earth," Jacob said

"Shouldn't you be asking our resident expert on them," jack said pointing an angry finger in Daniel's direction.

"Colonel it is you the tok'ra wish to speak to. You are the one that has the most knowledge of earth and the stargates of the other planets," Jacob said.

"You're joking right. Dad since when does jack know more information about the stargate than either Daniel or me. All knowledge Jack has about the stargate and others planets is from the reports and briefings before each mission," Sam said

"The colonel knows a lot more about all of this than any of you give him credit for," Jacob said coming to the colonel's defence.

"I would have known," Sam said. Angry that the colonel would have deceived her in such a manner.

Though out all of this the colonel had remained silent. He finally spoke up after Sam's little outburst.

"Jacob this would have been easier if you had just come to my house," jack said

"The tok'ra felt this was the best course of communication," Jacob replied

"What you mean to say is that if you had called at my home I could have just ignored you," jack said with a wry grin.

"Colonel what is dad on about," Sam said wanting to know what the colonel was hiding.

"Colonel," Hammond said prompting Jack to speak up.

"Jacob this was meant to stay as a conversation between the two of us. I didn't want you the Tok'ra to come and find me for a so-called talk. If I had wanted you to do that I would have made sure every tok'ra member heard what I was telling you. Hell you've most probably relayed the whole conversation to your leaders," jack said as he trying to keep a firm hold on his temper.

"Colonel O' Neil calm down," General Hammond ordered

"I'll calm down when I damn well feel like it," Jack snapped.

"Jack no one is here to hound you. The tok'ra only wish to have a simple conversation with you," Jacob said.

"I know that Jacob. How would you feel if the tok'ra were threatening to reveal your biggest secret to a room full of people who regard you as the colonel who is a good commander for the SG 1 team. When it comes to mission reports and briefings he has no clue. Hell I know more than any of them give me credit for," jack said.

"Perhaps we should all start from the beginning," General Hammond said

"What is it you want to know," jack said not willingly to give away too much just yet.

"Start from the very beginning of earth's history," Jacob said

"At the beginning there was the big bang. No big deal really," jack said with a smile on his face.

"O'Neil," Hammond said.

"Well he did say start at the beginning," jack said.

"As far back as you can remember Colonel O'Neil," Jacob said

"No interruptions until I have finished," jack said as everyone nodded their agreement.

"As you al know fire was created on earth 15, 089 years ago. Man had nothing to do with the sudden appearance of fire. It was a gift from what people of that time assumed was a god. People willingly accepted this new gift. It gave them light, a means to keep warm. A few days later someone discovered they could cook food on the fire, when someone dropped a piece of the raw food on it. The gift of fire was just the start of the supposed god's gifts to humans. Two thousand years later whole families begin to disappear. Most people thought the animals ate them. That explained away a few of the disappearance but it couldn't account for the amount of humans that suddenly disappeared. People who study history will tell you that is the day a group of people just up and left there home for greener pastures. They couldn't be more wrong if they tired. The land was fertile; people came to this area, as it was known for its wildlife. Why would three thousand people just up and leave. They were taken by the so-called gods and never heard from again. Three thousand years later the wheel was invented. This is one invention that a human did think of by himself. Then there were the pyramids of 3000bc. They were built by T'leac false gods in exchange for some people. The Egyptians willingly handed over thousands of people without even asking what the people were needed for. All the Egyptians cared about was those bloody pyramids. Mankind builds a huge wall across china. It was built to try and defeat the advancing army of the false gods. Hell it even worked and the Chinese managed to defeat them, but that day was not recorded in history. People think it was built for another reason completely. 230 years later the saviour of mankind is killed. The false gods hunt him down and kill him. He comes back to life a few days later and then dies again. A few years later one of the false gods comes to earth to repent his sins. He stays on earth until he dies. In the year 1000AD the holy wars start. You can blame the false gods. They were all pretty pissed of that some of the people on earth had realised who they were. The wars lead to the deaths of a lot of very good people. A false rumour is started so that people of the future will think the wars were started for a different reason. In 1500 AD some the Spanish go looking for another country to settle in, the false gods had pretty much screwed their country and they want to go someplace else. They found a place that was later to be known as America. Hey, Daniel you know you're always on about Shakespeare. Yeah he was nearly a false god until that accident he had minutes before he was due to become a host. The person, who was going to make will a host, met with an accident. Some nerd claims to have discovered gravity. When it comes to gravity its only common sense, but he had his 15 minutes of fame that he craved. So he died a happy man at least. The Americans come up with the constitution. This was done in secret the first time round so the false gods wouldn't find out the truth. They would have done anything to stop it from happening. The 1800's the telephone is invented. It's a brilliant idea for the underground movement. The false gods played a hand in both the world wars. You can guess what the role was in World War 2. I mean its obvious isn't. The false gods left earth after World War 2. I think they finally discovered that not all humans were a complete pushover. There is of course a lot more information about earth and the false gods interaction with mankind, but most of that was classified by the underground movement," jack said as he watched the surprise go across there faces.

"Colonel how can you know all of this," Sam asked.

"This is exactly what I didn't want Jacob. For people to discover whom I really am. Hell you've got what you came for now can you go back home and tell the other tok'ra," Jack snapped as he got up form the table.

"Jack can you answer Sam question. I would like to know how you know all of this," Jacob said.

Jack glanced at Daniel. Daniel would understand me. I can't talk to him like this though.

"No. You don't really to know that," jack said

"Colonel O'Neil sit back down. We still have a lot to discuss," said the general.

"No we don't this conversation is over," jack said as he walked out of the room leaving the others in stunned silence at his behaviour. Daniel broke the silence by getting out of his chair to have a private word with jack