I know, I should NOT be starting any more fanfics, but this one came to me, stole an entire day off me and ended up being seven pages long… so I decided to upload it. There will be a bit of Daniel-whumping later, but this will have a plot, and we will be with the other characters to =] PLEASE review this chapter, if you can, I like reviews 3 they give me life…

Yours, Taii xx

It took a good few moments after Daniel stepped through the gate before he even realised he was falling. There were a few surreal moments where he thought something along the lines of "wow, there's normally a floor there…" before he started screaming. It felt like a few hours before he saw the floor, but it couldn't have been more than a few seconds. He threw up his arms and braced himself, despite knowing that he was unlikely to survive the landing.

He pondered, in his remaining moments, if he would stay dead this time, then realised that that was a very depressing thing to think. He decided to make up for it by saying something rather profuse, but realised when he tried to open his mouth that he was already screaming…

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Jack was rather quick to the chase, swearing the moment he realised he was face down, rather than right way up. He pondered the odd feeling of suddenly having gravity go off on a tangent and face the wrong way, then realised that he was falling. He swore again, attempting to look around as the wind streamed past his eyes. He couldn't, however, make anything out except the general colour of grey. He looked down and realised he could already see the floor approaching. He put his arms across his chest to avoid breaking anything on the walls, or protruding objects. He then realised that it was rather pointless, as he cant avoid the floor too well, when he came to hit it, not without a rather odd chain of events. Just for the hell of it, Jack swore again.

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Carter was looking behind her at the general, in the control room when she walked through the gate. This meant that she had a good view of the horizontal gate disappearing above her as she fell. Her eyes widened suddenly, and she screamed. She then stopped when she didn't hit the floor yet. She decided not to look behind her, and just to wait for the floor to come to her. She was interested to work out that the UAV had not continued forward because the accelerator was stuck, but because forward was infact downward. She wandered why the facility was built sideways. Perhaps she thought it is som-. And with that, the floor arrived.

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Teal'c was last to walk through the gate, and had a few moments to notice the rest of the team plummeting before gravity grasped him and decided to ram him into the floor to. On his decent, he thought silently of Rya'c, Drey'auc, Bra'tac, and his other his friends on Chulak. He then thought of his new friends of the SG-C, and hoped that they would continue as they are now. He then thought of the Jaffa rebellion, and the cause he had been fighting for. He hoped that it will go well after his death. He then closed his eyes and waited. He made no sound.

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Daniel woke up.

After a good few seconds, his pounding head made him decide it had been a rather insane idea, and he spent a while trying to beat his consciousness back into submission. After discovering that he was loosing the fight, he gave up and turned his mind to the surrounding area. He was lying on rocks. He was cold. He could hear water. He opened his eyes, but white light exploded behind his eyes, and he closed them suddenly, groaning. Concluding that he knew very little about his situation, he decided it was probably safe to try and remember how he got there. He braced himself, aware that he often woke up feeling like this after a few bad experiences.

He stepped through the gate. Ripping, travelling, re-forming. All normal. Falling. The floor approaching. Screaming – less normal. Daniel sat up suddenly, letting out a small shout from the shock of the memory. He rubbed his eyes, wandering why he hadn't died when he hit the floor. He heard a joyous shout, and looked up at his surroundings. He was in a room with four pedestals, the room seems to be made of mainly rock, much like the concrete holding cells at Stargate command. Daniel was sitting on one of the bed-sized blocks of rock, and Jack and Sam were each lying on their own. The fourth was empty. The shout had come from a man who was standing outside the door. The door made a few clicking noise and then swung open, letting Daniel look at him. Standing there was a tall man with long, shock white hair. He wore a green bandanna, matching his startlingly bright emerald eyes. He wore a long, white tunic, with emerald green decorations. On his feet he had on two tall white boots, which bore worryingly high heals. A sword hung from one of the many belts around the waist of the man, and a waist long cape was draped over his shoulders. He grinned madly and walked into the room, waving his arms around excitedly.

"Ah!" He exclaimed "You are awake! This good news is!! Come!" He grabbed Daniel's hand and began to drag him out of the room "You must your friend that you are not dead tell before he ends Bookkeeper!" Daniel, in complete shock, found himself led out, his mouth opening and closing like a goldfish

"uuh..ah, uhm.. well.."

"Yes yes" the man said "Questions will become with answers in time. First, needed is your help." The man slowed down suddenly, causing Daniel to run into him. The man hushed him and began to sneak along, "hello~" He called, slinking off. He turned round to Daniel and signalled for him to follow. Confused, Daniel did so, looking around. He was being taken along a long corridor, once again made of a rock that had been set, much like concrete. The walls had many strange markings on, but they looked like directions rather than the stories one would normally find near the Stargate. This was very obviously a military bunker.

"Hello? Bookkeeper has your friend! Look" The man grabbed Daniel and shoved him through a doorway "Hes not dead!" He shouted through the door, not daring to go in himself. Daniel stumbled before correcting himself. Helooked around to find another holding room, without the beds. In the middle of the room, sat Teal'c. Around him, sat carnage. Teal'c smiled slightly and nodded to Daniel.

"Daniel Jackson"

"Teal'c, hi…" Daniel looked at the wall next to him, where a demolished chair sat dejectedly under a hole in the wall, apparently having been thrown.

"He attempted to constrain me, and took a weapon to me when I did not co-operate. He would also not answer me when I asked after the rest of Sg-1" Teal'c explained.

"Bookkeeper did! Bookkeeper implored unhurt they were!" A call came from around the corner. Teal'c raised an eyebrow, and Daniel smiled slightly, aware that Teal'c is not very trusting of strangers, and feeling rather sorry for their captor, momentarily. He then realised that he was their captor, and turned round, stony faced.

"Who are you? what is your name? what does bookkeeper mean? Is that your job?" He asked the man peaking around the corner.

"Nono, Bookkeeper cannot you tell now, Bookkeeper-" Teal'c got up and loomed behind Daniel menacingly "ah-" the man stuttered "uh, bookkeeper I am called. I'm not really, uh, in possession of name, really." The man stuttered"

"Why are you keeping us here?"

"Safety, yes! Yours! And for help…" The man nodded, not explaining further, before turning and leaving "Come, you will see! And not to kill Bookkeeper now, please, dark one!" He shouted behind him. Daniel and Teal'c look at each other and Daniel shrugged. They followed him. They found him in a large room full of computers, each beeping slightly. He was running around, pressing what seemed like random buttons, singing a small tune to himself. He finally giggled and ran over to the main console and pressed a large button. "see!" He shouted, pointing at it. There was, on the screen, what seemed like a live video of a large mountain, with the top cut off. There, was a floating object

"Is that the Stargate?" Daniel asked the bookkeeper.

"uh, Door to the Starsea, as we call it, yes" He nodded. Starsea Daniel wandered. He guessed that must refer to the water-like event horizon.

"Uh, why is it there?" He asked

"High council of the library, death to all who exit the Starsea they wished…"

"Why didn't they just bury it?"

"Bookkeeper knows not – them not bookkeeper is. " he shrugged.

"Who are you then?"

"Uuh… bookkeeper"

"yes, I realise that…"Daniel struggled "But what is the bookkeeper? What does the bookkeeper do?"

"Keeps books!" The man grinned and skipped off to the other side of the room, and pressed a few buttons on the computer bank. He looked at two screens and murmured to himself. "More questions not, upon awaking your friends shall fear. As is not my intention." He walked out of the room, Daniel and Teal'c following, against their better judgement. They followed him back to the room where Daniel had woken up just ten or so minutes before. Jack had got up and whipped round when they came in.

"Daniel. Teal'c. Care to explain?"

"We know very little, Colonel O'Niell."

"He says he's called the bookkeeper. That's, uh, pretty much all we know." Daniel explained. Jack raised his eyebrows, and turned to the bookkeeper, who was bouncing on the balls of his feet excitedly

"This is good, good, yes!" He commented "you are hearty, if I may presume?" he asked

"uuh…Yeah?" jack glanced sideways at Daniel, confused by this mans way of talking

"good news, good news! I am glad by it!" The bookkeeper walked over to Sam "And what of the female! She than all of you sleeps longer normally?"

"Uuh…" Daniel said, taking a few more moments to re-arrange this particularly encrypted sentence. In the silence, Sam groaned slightly and stirred, waking up slowly. The bookkeeper laughed and clapped his hands together. He leaned close over Sam, looking right in her face

"You are well?!" He exclaimed. Sam opened her eyes, screamed and fell off the bed. Jack and Daniel ran over to her. She sat up, rather dazed

"Carter! Are you ok?"

"uh, I think so, sir…" Sam rubbed her head and looked at the bookkeeper confusedly

"I am the Bookkeeper!" He commented, grinning, "I am thankful you are well! Lucky, all of you, that I saved you! Be thanking" He nodded and indicated himself

"Uuh, thanks?" Daniel said. The bookkeeper looked expectantly around the rest of the group, until Jack and Sam murmured their thanks as well. Teal'c remained stonily silent, observing with a single raised eyebrow.

"It will do" The bookkeeper said, then turned to leave. Sam caught up with him

"Wait, so you saved us? How?"

"Simple! Force that pulls you down had taken you to the middle of the mountain, to stop you death would have brought upon you. Thus, Bookkeeper turned force that would pull downwards into force that would pull sideways. Distance to hard floor is shorter, thus, no?" The man giggled, and Sam rubbed her head

"Uuh, did anyone get that?" Jack asked, now following behind Sam and the bookkeeper.

"I think he turned gravity, uh, sideways, Sir. This meant that we didn't die when we hit the floor."

"…well that's good"

"indeed yes! Lots of good! All is good for you now, lucky all of you that bookkeeper was here!"

"Bookkeeper…" Daniel started "You said you had us for our safety and your help. What did that mean?"

"Your safety – if Bookkeeper had not held you, wandered, you would have, exploration you would have bee driven to. Traps and precautions against such would have death brought upon you. Bookkeeper had to hold you until such that you understood. Only with Bookkeeper is one in these halls safe. And for help for bookkeeper – bookkeeper's books are sought! With Guns and weapons attempt they to access Bookkeepers library! Not good!"

"Why?" Daniel piped in, thinking that maybe this knowledge could be interesting for him "What is in the library." The Bookkeeper looked at him confusedly

"Ones whom not of my library have heard?"

"Uh, no, we haven't heard of it…"

"Odd, odd" The man said. He indicated a corridor and began down it "Ok, now is time for questions to become with answers. I will talk. Quiet you will be until I am finished. Then, questions will become." He cleared his throat. "in times past, the library was founded by Aleck'zan'dra, great leader of my peoples. The taking of knowledge from those who pass from the Starsea began, and knowledge was collected. With time passage, more knowledge was prized. People became sent through the Starsea in seeking of knowledge and friends. As knowledge of the library spread, evils heard of it and seeked out knowledge. Many civilisations fell with knowledge of weapons that gained were from our library. The high council, in time, chose to end visiting of others upon the knowledged halls. The placing of the Starsea door gave to Bookkeeper time to decree whom the visitor is, and his threat, and choose should he live or fall."

"So, you thought we would be safe?"

"Indeed not! I save all, in name of the peace. I the day where my library can be opened once more await! It has been in coming a long time."

"How long have you been here?" Daniel asked

"1000 lifetimes, but I have lived each new life differently, from child to adult. A new face, and personality, but my memories. It is enjoyable. I fear of my sanity sometimes, as a child, when clearest is my head, but the life always ends happy. I think not mad I am anymore."

"suuure…" Jack mutters

"most still have heard of library mine, but few believe it. A myth, it has become. Saddening for me, this is. Still however, a few come to leave information if they are to die. Saddening indeed"

"Wait…" Daniel commented "Who did you say founded this library of yours?"

"Aleck'zan'dra, and his offspring thrice…"

"This is the library of Alexandria." Daniel muttered in awe…

"Ah, you are of planet Frt952."

"Pardon?"

"It seems he has a manner of naming planets similar to ours, sir…"

"Indeed! So, what knows you of my library now?" He asked Daniel, who was muttering to himself

"Xerxes took the first library of Athens, an act which set a fashion for sovereigns and sovereign cities to seek out the books of all peoples, especially those of alien lands…and by the act of translation render them…uuh…render them, their languages, and their stories open to all…" Daniel scratched his head "It is said that Alexandria the Great paused on a journey along the Nile and stated that here would be a very best place for a city to be built, and the city would prosper, and commanded that a great library would be built inside this new city… and it would bear his name…and Alexandria's successors, the first three Macedonian kings, did so, creating an institution that would reach outwards in space and endure in time, bequeathing a vast legacy…" Daniel muttered.

"Almost, indeed, you are good, I wish to keep you, but I will not. That library, a traveller of this place set up, in hope of more information gaining. Many such were set up on many planets. This is the original. Welcome" The bookkeeper put a hand on the door he had reached "To my library" He pushed open the door and indicated the room. The four of the team stepped through the door – into the biggest room any of them had ever seen. None of the walls other than the one the door is set in could be seen. And, all over the room, covering ever spare inch, was shelves And on every shelf was thousands of books. The four of them stood in awe.

"I can see the curvature of the planet…" Daniel squeaked. The bookkeeper laughed

"Indeed. Many books, many. Some of paper, some of metal and light. All of knowledge! Highly sought, are these books."

"Sir, think of the things we could learn from this library…" Sam muttered in awe. Jack didn't reply, for once without a smart comeback.

"You have seen the library now" The bookkeeper's voice was suddenly stony, and broke the four out of their dazes. "Now, you its importance understand? Will help me you? save it from the evils of the universe?"

"Why? Who is trying to get here?"

" Young for the library they are, but for many of Bookkeeper's lifetimes have they been know through the galaxy. For they have plagued here only two lifetimes. A parasite, within those like you they are. Evil, in their hearts resides."

"Goa'uld" The four of the team said in unison

"learned of them, are you?!"

"More than that, they're our enemies."

"I could not have wished for more! Always were they not evil, yet now they will only for evil use my libraries knowledge! Charged I for its protection I was, but I fear that it is unsafe! I need help to protect it!"

"Sir, if this came into the hands of the Goa'uld-"

"-I know, Carter, we'd all be snake-meat. That cant happen"

"Then helping you consider?!" The bookkeeper exclaimed

"Considering. Only." Jack muttered

"Jack, think of what we could gain from this!"

"I know Daniel, but I need to keep our safety in mind."

"Oh come on, Jack!"

"I know, ok! Fine, we will help." The Bookkeeper hugged him suddenly

"Thankyou. Thankyou so much…"

More to come, some time… I don't know how often I will update… But PLEASE REVIEW!!

Thanks, Kaizoku xxx