AN: When Isa asks, I try to jump. I might need Farscape someday…
Spoilers: Er…nothing really. Vague season seven, I guess, if you’re being picky.
Disclaimer: Not Mine. Not Mine At All. Sigh…
Summary: Go down Moses...
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Let My People Go
When Israel was in Egypt Land
Let my people go!
Oppressed so hard they could not stand
Let my people go!
He had asked Daniel Jackson for a selection of rhythmic chants to aid him in his meditations once he could no longer kel’no’reem. He had relied upon his symbiote to set the even pace that allowed them both to heal, and once he lost it, he found himself unable to quiet his mind with such ease. It galled him more than a little to know that this was yet another thing he had depended upon a race he hated for. He had tried other methods, but once Daniel returned and began to join him in his nightly ritual, the idea of using a chant had begun.
No more shall they in bondage toil
Let my people go!
Let them come out with Egypt’s spoil
Let my people go!
The first time he’d heard the song, he’d snapped right out of his trance. Daniel had left to go to his own quarters for sleep. As his memories returned, Daniel meditated less and less often with Teal’c, but left his friend the CDs with the chants on it. Teal’c was using the second disk for the first time and he had just managed to get lost in the music when it changed. Daniel told him that some of the songs were in English, but Teal’c had not been expecting this one.
You need not always weep and mourn
Let my people go!
And wear these slav’ry chains forlorn
Let my people go!
Teal’c knew that Earth was not a world that was free of slavery. He knew that it was present today in various shapes and forms, and he knew that it was part of the history of the country he lived in. He had not had a lot of time to investigate the matter since his arrival, however, as the SGC kept him occupied. Still, he had read the Bible, and Sam made him watch “Gone With The Wind” once, and when he’d asked Daniel about Martin Luther King Jr. Day, he’d discovered Black History Month and the wealth of movies starring Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman that lay therein. He was not a fan of “Malcolm X”, but “Amistad” had moved him greatly, and “Glory” made him prouder than ever of his team and their accomplishments.
Your foes shall not before you stand
Let my people go!
And you’ll possess fair Canaan’s land
Let my people go!
Teal’c didn’t meditate to that song anymore. He listened to it instead. Each time he heard it, he became closer to his purpose, closer to his goal. When the song washed over him, he knew that his freedom was inevitable. It had happened here, again and again. It would happen out among the stars. It would happen to his people too.
Go down Moses
Way down to Egypt Land
Tell Old Pharaoh
To let my people go!
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fin
AN: er…not exactly what I planned, I think. But I really do like that song. Which is public domain, apparently.
gravitynotincluded, May 12 2006.