fanfic: Behaving strangely (2/?)
Title: Behaving strangely
Characters: Daniel, Vala, Sam, Teal’c, Cam, Jack
Pairings: Daniel/Cam
Word count: this chapter: 1088
A/N: It’s been a while since I wrote first chapter. Sorry. Third chapter will be much sooner, though. Like always: sorry for all my mistakes.
CHAPTER TWO, IN WHICH DANIEL AVOIDES CAMERON
“Have you seen Daniel?” Cameron asked.
“No.” Sam denied. “I haven’t seen him since yesterday evening. Did you check his study?”
“Yeah, he isn’t there.” He answered.
Actually, Samantha was not surprised that Cam could not find Daniel. She would not be surprised either if Daniel was simply avoiding him. Because of recent incidents, Daniel probably did not want talk with Cam, or anybody of the SG-1 team, but especially with Cam. She was surprised too, because Cam did not look like someone who knew about everything which was happening to Daniel. Vala never could keep her mouth shut, she had always been such a gossiper! So, yeah, Sam was surprised. Apparently, she hadn't told him about this. Yet. Sooner or later she would mouth off.
“The SG-1 team requests to Landry’s office.” Suddenly they heard from the radio.
“Let’s go.” Sam said. “Landry asked for the whole SG-1 team, so I guess Daniel will be there.” She added.
“Let's go then.”
*
By the time they got to Landry's office, Vala and Teal'c had already been there for a while, but Daniel wasn't with them
“May I ask a question, sir?” Cameron did not wait too long. He just could not.
“Of course, Mitchell.”
“Where is Daniel?” He asked.
“Actually, that’s the reason I summoned all of you here. “ General Landry started. “Doctor Jackson took a few days off, so before he comes back, you’ll go on mission without him.”
The whole SG-1 team was surprised. Daniel had never taken a few days off before. Cameron was the most surprised; Teal’c probably too, but he did not show this. Samantha guessed the reason of Daniel’s break from work, so did Vala. Sam thought that was the right thing to do. Daniel really needed time to relax, and to consider everything. Finding yourself attracted to men at his age was hard. It was not that Sam had something against bisexual or homosexual people - Daniel had just found about it really late. And, of course, it was more than that. The man who was attracted to him was his co-worker, and his friend, and when you add to this that he was a military man, you get a really hard situation. Cameron was one of Daniel's best friends and finding that he crushed on him really complicated things between them, even though Cameron did not know about it. Yet. The truth will always come to light.
“May I ask, sir, when will he come back?” Cameron asked.
“He’ll come back next week.” The general replied. “Anything else? You may return to your duties.”
“Yes, sir, I have one more question. What's the reason for Daniel’s break?”
“Doctor Jackson just took a few days off, he didn’t give a reason.” General Landry said in a sad tone. Even though he did not show this, he was worried about one of the men of the SG-1 team. When Doctor Jackson went to his office this morning and asked for permission to take a few days off, he immediately said yes. Doctor Jackson did not look well. He looked tired, and as if he was suffering, but General did not ask him about it. Doctor Jackson would not answer anyway, probably. He had always been a more secretive person than the others. “Now, back to your duties.”
“Yes, sir.”
*
He knocked on the door. He was hoping that Jack was in his house.
“Daniel.” Jack opened, and went out to him. “What good wind brings you here?” He asked.
Daniel supposed that Jack was surprised. He did not come here often, to Washington. More often Jack came to him, to Colorado Springs.
“I just needed a break, so I took a few days off.” Daniel said.
Jack looked at him in shock.
“You never take a few days off!”
“This time I really need it.” Daniel explained.
“Ok.” Jack nodded.
“That’s all? You won’t ask me why I took a few days off?” Daniel was more than surprised.
“Do you want me to do this?” Jack asked. Daniel denied. “That's what I thought. I’m guessing that you’ll tell me when you'll want to do this.”
“I’ll tell you later, though. Right now I just need to think.” Daniel said. He was not sure if he would tell Jack everything. He was not sure how he would react. But he was his best friend, after all, and he had a right to know.
“That's what I thought. Later we’re going hunting to the forest in Massachusetts.” Jack announced.
“Hunting? Massachusetts?” Daniel had a really stupid look. “Why?”
“Let me think.” Jack laughed. “You need an adventure, and a break, I need an adventure, and a break. I really hate my job - I really would prefer off-world missions.”
“You know, Jack, I have enough adventures in my usual work-day. You know. Goaul’d. Ori.”
“Yeah, but it’s been a while since we last saw each other, so I say, let’s go hunting.”
“So you missed me?” Daniel smiled.
“Don’t flatter yourself, Danny!”
They laughed at the same time, and somehow Daniel knew that was a good decision to take a few days off and come here.
*
“Hey, Sam, I thought you’d be here.” Cameron said, going to her lab.
“What can I do for you, Cam?” She asked, having stopped typing on her laptop for a moment.
“I’m worried. Why didn't he tell us that he’s leaving? And why did he take a few days off? He never takes a few days off, even one day off!” Cameron started.
Of course, he was talking about Daniel. Everybody was worried about him.
“Maybe he had a good reason?” She knew that Daniel had a good reason to go, but she could not tell Cam about it.
“Yeah, maybe, I mean I’m his friend, we all are his friends, he can tell us everything, so why didn’t he tell us why he took a few days off? Why did he just leave?” Cameron was really worried about their friend.
“He’ll tell us why he left as soon as he comes back.” She just said. She could not tell him anything more than she said.
“I don’t think so. I think he’s been avoiding me for a week. I haven’t seen him often since last Friday or so.” Cameron said. “But I really can’t recall what I had done to make him start avoiding me.”
“I’m sure he isn’t avoiding you, he just needed a break.” Samantha said, but she knew that Cameron was right.