Title: Lost in love
Summary: Sam tells Daniel how she feels, but
how does Jack react when he finds out?
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: low sexual contact
Pairings: Sam / Daniel
Subjects: romance, hurt/ comfort (more hurt
then comfort)
Disclaimers: I don't own Stargate SG-1, even
though I have spent many nights dreaming that I did. And if Sci-Fi and MGM want to sell Daniel, I
will buy him!!!!!!!!!!!
Janet sat in her office looking
at the pile of never ending paperwork. She
looked down at the next file on the pile. ‘Dr. Daniel Jackson’ it read; he had to have the largest
file out of everyone in the SGC. He was
almost in the infirmary as much as she was, not that she minded him there. He was always a sweetheart to her and all the nurses. He was also the only member of the SGC (but
her) who knew all the names of all the nurses and never got them mixed up. But she wasn't sure that he knew how many of
them would love to take him home after work and buy him dinner. Well, he is a very attractive man, and with
those big, beautiful blue eyes, who couldn't take a second look at him? Janet
was e pretty sure he had even heard some of the married women talk about how
cute he was.
Janet flipped open the folder. The first page had all of his basic background
information, and clipped to it was a picture of a younger Daniel Jackson. She pulled the picture out of the folder and
looked at it. His hair was still long
and had fallen into his eyes when the picture was taken. He had a sweet, shy smile on his face. Janet
could remember that he had gotten the picture taken a few days after he had
gotten back from
"Janet..."
She looked up from the picture
to see Sam in her doorway.
"Yes, Sam…"
Sam looked slightly pale and
very tired.
"I thought SG-1 was supposed
to take the next week off? At least that’s what I remember telling all four of
you. I think Jack went fishing and
Teal'c went off world to see his family. But it seems that you and Daniel just don't
understand what time off is."
Sam smiled at her. Janet hadn't expected Sam
or Daniel to leave the base, especially when they had new 'toys' from
off-world.
"Well, you know how I just
love the base so much." Sam said sarcastically. "No I just wanted to
know if you had some time to talk." Sam moved in to the office and sat
herself in to the chair across from Janet’s desk.
"Yeah, I always have time
to talk. What’s up?" She said as
she slipped Daniel's picture back into his file.
"Well, I have a question."
"Go on."
"Okay, well you know how
if you’re around a person … well, I mean a friend … after a while you become
more than friends? But you don't know if the other friend feels the same
and...."
"Hold on, Sam, you sound
like Cassie when she asks me about the boy in her class who she thinks is
cute."
"Thanks, Janet, but do you
think you can help me?"
Sam noticed her mistake within seconds. Janet
knew that Sam was trying to make her think she was trying to help a friend, but
that was gone now.
"Okay, Samantha Carter, who
is he?"
Sam just looked quietly at her
hand.
"Is he here on the
base?"
Sam looked even more nervous.
"God, Sam, is he on SG-1?
Is it Jack?"
Sam looked up sharply.
"What?!"
"I asked if it was Jack."
Sam just shook her head.
Then it clicked …
"DANIEL????"
"Not so
loud, Janet."
"I'm right that it's
Daniel?? Wow, that’s something that I didn't expect."
"Why do you say
that?"
"Well, I and over half the
base think that you’re in love with Jack."
"Well, it’s not that Jack
isn't a attractive guy, but to him I will always be
Major Carter. I'm Samantha, and I'm a
woman and I have other needs. I need someone who can treat me that way, and
I need a lover."
Janet was quite taken aback by
what Sam was saying, even though it was the same thing that she had been
feeling in so many ways.
* * * * *
Daniel sat in his office,
filling out his late report from the last mission SG-1 had gone on. He was rushing it in many ways so that he could
move on to a set of tablets that SG-7 had found on P3X-47J2. He knew that he
should be going home instead of being here, but how could he? This was so fascinating.
He would give up almost anything to stay here and work on the tablets.
Still, it is nice to have some time and to sit and breathe. Of course Jack had asked him to go fishing
like he did every time they’d get any time off-base. Daniel finished throwing together his report,
then grabbed one of his many journals and walked over to the table which
contained the tablets. He grabbed a
pencil and did a quick sketch of the larger of the two tablets. They both
looked like they were Egyptian. Go
figure, he thought to himself, but they both still piqued his interest.
"Hey,
Daniel."
He turned to see Sam standing
in his door way.
"Hi, Sam, how are
you?"
"Good. You?"
"Good," he smiled at
her. She was the only other person he knew
who would stay on base just to play around with some cool 'toys' they found
off-world.
* * * * *
Sam looked at the two large
tablets on the table in Daniel’s office. It
was a miracle that the table could hold them up.
"Those are cool," she
said, looking over at Daniel. His big
blue eyes were on her, and just looking at them made her want to melt. He took
a few steps closer to her.
"I know. Why do you think I stayed?" he smiled at
her. "Well, there are other reasons,
too."
"Oh, so what are the other
reasons?"
Now she could feel his eyes on
her, but she couldn’t look up to meet them.
"Well, what would I do if
I went home, sit alone in an empty apartment?"
"I know what you mean, I would do the same thing. I don't really have a life outside of the
SGC."
"You don't have to tell
me. I don't talk to any of the people
who I knew before Katherine pulled me in to this whole thing."
"Yeah, I know. I don't have many friends or a boyfriend or
anything off base. I don't want have to
explain all the nights I'm not home and all the injuries from off world."
"I know, they would probably
think you were seeing someone else or avoiding them."
She nodded. He was right, but she was trying to avoid the
fact that she didn't want someone she would have to lie to since she wanted
him.
"Hey," h said as he
looked down at his watch. "Do you want to go get something to eat? I mean,
its getting late and I'm starving."
"Yeah,
as long as it’s off base. I would love to eat some real food." She let out a small
giggle.
"Okay, I'll meet you
topside."
"Sounds
great. I'll see you in around 10."
She turned and slipped out the
door. Now all she had to do was change
her clothes.
Five minutes later she was
locking her office door. She had thrown
on a pair of jeans and pale blue shirt with her jacket over that. Right about now she started wishing she had worn
something a bit nicer this morning. She
made her way up to topside. When she got
there, Daniel wasn't there yet so she walked over and lead against the walk by
the door.
After about two minutes, Daniel
walked through the door. Damn, he looks good, she thought as she looked
him over quickly. He was wearing a pair
of black jeans and a blue t-shirt that was mostly covered by a dark brown
leather jacket.
"Hey," he smiled
"Hi, there," she
smiled back at him. "You
ready?"
The two got in Sam's car and
made their way to a little Chinese restaurant.
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"Did Jack ask you to go
fishing?" Daniel asked as they sat down at a table by the widow in the restaurant.
"Yeah," she said as
she looked over the menu, which she noticed was all in Chinese. "Um, Daniel this is all in Chinese."
He smiled at her.
"Did you forget who you’re
eating with?"
She felt her cheeks grow red as she put 2 and
2 together.
"Would you like me to
order for you?" he asked her with a wide smile.
"Yes, my Chinese is a
little rusty."
The two broke out laughing.
A waiter walked up with a smile.
"What can I get you?"
he asked.
Daniel turned to the man and
gave him the orders in perfect Chinese. The
waiter paused with a surprised look on his face, and then wrote down their
orders. When he walked away, they both
let out a few more laughs.
"I don't think he expected
that."
"Well, how many white,
skinny geeky kids do you know who speak Chinese?" he said, pulling off his
jacket. She noticed how the blue of the
shirt pulled the blue out in his eyes. It seemed every time she saw him he was even
better looking than the last.
* * * * *
Daniel set his jacket on the
back of his chair. Sam smiled at him. God, she’s
beautiful. Damn I,t I can't think of her that way. She's Jack's, not yours, he thought.
The waiter set their food on
the table.
Daniel looked at Sam as she
started eating. Taking a bite of his food, he hoped she liked what he ordered
for her.
"This is good," she
smiled at him.
After they finished their
dinner, Daniel really wished he could have spent more time with her.
"Hey,
Sam?"
She looked over at him as they walked out of
the restaurant.
"Yeah."
"Do you want to go see a
movie together tomorrow?"
"Sounds
good to me."
"Okay, so when do you want
to meet up?"
Sam unlocked the doors of her
car.
"Daniel …"
"Yeah,
Sam?"
"Thanks for this dinner,
it was great."
"It's nothing."
He had no idea how much that
the dinner meant to her. She started the
car, and pulled out on to the road and back to the SGC.
* * * * *
"Hey, Daniel, since it's
late and nether of us have to go back to the SGC, do you want to come over for
a cup of coffee?"
She could tell that he was
surprised by the question, but he answered in just the way that she had hoped.
"Yeah."
Sam turned down a street and
backtracked her way back to her house.
They were pulling into Sam's
driveway ten minutes later. Sam pushed open her front door and threw her keys
onto a nearby table as she switched on her lights. She led Daniel into her living room.
"Have a seat and I'll go
make a pot of coffee."
"Let me help you with
that,” he said as he dropped his jacket on one of the arms of the couch.
"No, that's okay, just
have a seat," she said as she pointed at the couch, trying to see if it
might get him to listen to her.
"Are you sure?"
She nodded, and to her surprise
he sat down as she walked out of the room.
* * * * *
Daniel leaned into the coach,
waiting for Sam to come back in. Why had
she asked him to come over? Not that he minded. He could think of a few times
he had been in Sam's house before, but that was only with the rest of SG-1.
Sam walked into the room with a
coffee mug in each hand. She gave Daniel
one as she sat down next to him on the couch. He took a long sip of his coffee.
"Daniel, I really need to
talk to you."
He looked at her. She looked very serious, so he set his coffee
cup down and gave her his full attention.
"Yeah?"
"Well it’s about us."
Okay, now this was like nothing
he had expected.
"What about us?"
She had gone from serious to nervous.
"Okay, I'm not going to
beat around the bush here."
She took a deep breath.
“Daniel Jackson, I love you."
Daniel was now very glad that
he had set his coffee down because if he hadn't he would have just dropped it. This
is to good to be real, he thought to himself. He
had dreamed about this about a million times before. This is the part where he
wakes up and is alone, remembering the fact that Sam loves Jack.
"Daniel?"
He jumped. He had forgotten she was still there.
"Sam, I don't know what to
say."
She looked away sadly and Daniel knew that she
thought he didn't love her.
"Sam I mean, I love you
too."
He cupped her face in his hand
and lowered his lips to hers. All she
could do was pull closer to him, and he kissed her deeper, searching her mouth
with his tongue. To his pleasure, she
responded in the same way. He slid his
hand down her back, and then pulled his lips from her and slowly kissed her down
her neck. He could hear her moan as she
arched her neck.
"Daniel …" she moaned
"Yes, Sam?" he asked
as he looked at her, seeing the passion and lust in her big blue eyes.
"Let’s go to my
room."
He smiled and then picked her
up off of the couch. He carried her into
her room and put her on the bed.
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Sam woke up, wrapped up in
Daniels arms. She thought of the night before
and how great it felt to make love with him, to feel him inside her. She smiled to herself.
She was pulled away from her pleasant
memories by a knock on her door. She slipped out from Daniel’s arms and pulled
her robe on over her naked body. She walked
out to the front of her house and opened to door.
"Hey, Sam."
"Jack! What are you doing
here?" She exclaimed as she looked at him in shock.
"Um … well, you see, we've
been given time off and I wanted to know if you wanted to go do something since
you won't go fishing with me."
"Well, Jack ... um …"
"Sam?" another voice
called.
She turned to see Daniel walk
out of her room in nothing but his boxers as he put his glasses on. He jumped when he saw Jack.
"Hi, Jack....um …" he
started as he looked over to Sam for help.
"Jack, can you come by again
later?"
"No, that’s okay. I can
see that you’re very occupied, so I won’t waste your
time."
He walked out of sight.
* * * * *
Jack made his way down the
street to his car. God damn it, had he
just seen that? Why Daniel? Why not him? I should wring his little neck,
damn it. He knows how I feel about her.
He knew that I was in love with her, he
thought. All the things that
Daniel had just done with Sam were the things he had been dreaming of doing for
years. When Jack got to his car he slammed his fist into it with
enough power to leave a dent.
"Jack ..."
He turned to see Daniel running
down the sidewalk. Jack didn't really
want to hear what Daniel was going to say, but for some reason he didn't walk
away; he stood there waiting.
"Jack," Daniel leaned
over with his hands on his knees to catch his breath. “I really need to talk to you." he managed
to say in between a few heavy breaths. He
stood up and looked at Jack.
"Okay, Jack, I know how
you feel about Sam and I didn't do this to hurt you."
Jack wanted to hit him, but he
let Daniel finish.
"I wouldn't have done it, but I lost control
when she told me that she loved me."
Jack could control himself any
longer. He gave Daniel a upper cup to his lower jaw. He watched Daniel hit the sidewalk, his lip bleeding.
Jack knew that he shouldn't have done
that and should help him up, but instead he just got in his car and drove away,
trying to sort through all the things that had just happened.
* * * * *
Daniel pulled himself from the
ground, wiping the blood from his lip. How
was the team going to work if Jack hated him and Sam? Well, he didn’t hate Sam,
he loved her. He was just pissed because
he – as well as everyone else in the SGC - thought Sam liked him back.
"Daniel, what
happened?" Sam asked as Daniel walked into the house.
"Well, Sam, I know that … well,
you see, um .... Well, there's the fact that even though you’re not in love
with Jack, he is in love with you and … well … I think this whole thing was a
big blow to him."
Sam wetted a small cloth and
put it to his lip.
"Look's like you’re the
one who got the real blow."
"Well, I kinda earned it, you see, because I know he loves
you."
"Daniel, just because you
know doesn’t mean that you should give up your happiness for him. What I mean is that I could never like Jack more
then I do now. I just wouldn't be
happy." She pulled him in to a hug.
"Daniel, I love you and I always will."
"I love you, too, Samantha
Carter."
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