Lost and Found

Daniel stood in the silent underground tunnel, looking down at the sheet-covered lump on the floor. The Goa'uld was dead, the brainwashed boys and girls had been rescued and reunited with their parents, and the SGC had confiscated all the heavy ordinance and destroyed all evidence of alien presence. Seth would destroy no more lives, whether directly or indirectly.

He pulled the sheet off the body, revealing the face, eyes still open and staring at the tunnel's ceiling. It only took a moment to remember the face how he'd last seen it at age eight. There had been no beard then. The eyes had been hidden behind glasses.

"I don't know how this happened," he told the body, "but I'm glad you aren't suffering under his control anymore. I only wish I'd known sooner."

Covering it back up, a son walked away from the shell of his father.