The Things We Do (Chapters 8-11)
After asking a few people that were wandering the around the streets, Jack managed found Hacen’s house, which turned out to be clear on the other side of the village.
The man’s home was much like its owner. Warm and inviting. He knocked on the heavy wooden door and waited.
Hacen’s face appeared in the small window cut into the door, “Jack?”
“The one and only. Can I come in?”
“Of course,” the other man quickly opened the door, moving aside to let Jack pass.
The inside was just like the outside, with a large fireplace made of smooth light colored stone, and roughly made chairs that still managed to look comfortable at the same time, on a large fur rug set before a roaring fire. The Kitchen area had herbs hanging from hooks and on small smooth stone table, a worn leather bag was tipped over and some of it’s contains spilled over the surface.
There was a thud from the back of the house, causing Jack to look up. Hacen had left the room, without saying anything, so Jack followed his ears into a small bedroom, where he found the ex-trainer filling a bag with clothes that had been piled on a sturdy log-framed bed.
From the first glance the 40 year old man seemed to be angry, but Jack was a Pro at going past the first look (he was in love with Daniel for crying out loud!) and it was easy to see that Hacen was miserable. Now all the Colonel had to do was figure out how to get him to go back to the prince.
“You leavin’?”
Hacen looked up and nodded, “The prince will have banished me by sunrise any way. As I said before…no one refuses the love of the prince. Even if he does not banish me…the people of this village will no longer speak or trade with me.”
“Look, Hacen. The first thing you gotta know about love…is that it’s not always easy. You have to forgive and be patient sometimes.”
The trainer shook his head, “You are correct,” he said, folding some more of his clothes and putting them in a pack, “but this is not love. It was…obsession. I should have left long ago, when Marr first denied me.”
“No you shouldn’t have,” Jack grabbed a garment out of the man’s hands, “You did the right thing. You waited for him to come to his senses and he has! Everyone wins!”
“No… I will go to another village and find my true mate, and Marr will-” Hacen looked unsure for a brief moment before smiling weakly, “Marr will find another lover. He has easily before.”
Jack sighed, “No! I’m not happy for you. You waited all this time for him, and now that he finally wants you…you’re doing the same thing to him that he did to you! Even though Marr’s a stuck up, no good-” he stopped when he saw Hacen was frowning, “guy that doesn’t deserve it, I really think you should give these whole thing between you another chance. He ‘really’ likes you.”
“He would not be with me to spite his father! How is that love?!”
“I didn’t say it was mature love,” Jack awkwardly put his hand on Hacen’s shoulder, “But it is love. Believe me…because I’ve been doing the same thing to Daniel…and I don’t know what I would have done…if he-” Jack swallowed, “If he hadn’t forgiving me for being such a jerk.”
“You…?” Hacen frowned, “But you would not hurt him…you love him.”
“God damn it! Yes I love Daniel! I’d probably die without him, but that doesn’t mean I don’t hurt him. I don’t mean to sometimes, sometimes I just want to make him jealous or shut him up! But I do hurt him Hacen! And he forgives me…because he loves me too,” Jack relaxed a little, “Marr is going to kill himself. I came here to get you, so you could stop him. Even though I think the guy’s a ‘complete’ ass and you deserve better, it’s not up to me to decide. That’s your job, and last time I checked, you might be mad at him, but you don’t want him dead.”
“Marr would not do such a thing!”
Jack just raised both his eyebrows, “Oh really? Well I guess I misunderstood him with he said he had to ‘ease your pain as well as his own.”
“He said…” Hacen looked conflicted between wanting to believe him, and wanting it to be a lie.
“After you left he said he was going to kill himself because he upset you and it would make you feel better if you didn’t have to ever look at him again.”
Hacen turned his head away, “There is a story…of a pair who loved each other very much, but one lost his memory of the other, and grew to hate them. In desperation, the one that still remembered their love…took their life, to please and release the other from the pain they caused them. The other…” he looked pained and wouldn’t finish the story.
“Carter and Daniel went off to stop him,” Jack quietly whispered to him, “and I was sent here to get you. You helped me with Daniel…it’s only far that I try to help you with Marr.”
Looking up into Jack’s eyes, the man nodded, “Thank you, but you must promise me something.”
Jack looked reluctant, “What?”
“That if we cannot save him…that I might go with you, back to your world and live with you and Danyel at your home.”
“WHAT?!” the colonel stared at him. That wasn’t like him at all, even though he’d only known the guy a few hours. Jack searched Hacen’s grey/blue eyes, trying to figure out what he was up to.
“It is forbidden for any of our people to leave through the circle of the gods, unless a god takes you, but I…I wish to stay with you and Daniel…Not as a lover!” he said quickly, “But…I will die here, if you leave me behind. I will either be killed outright or starved.”
Jack thought about it for a few seconds, “You’re sure you want to? I mean…It’ll be harder to…be accepted where we’re from, and I’m not sure that my boss will understand.”
Hacen frowned, “Your…boss? I do not…is that what you now call your Danyel?”
Jack chuckled, “Not yet…look…Let’s go find Daniel and Carter…and hopefully they’ve found Marr.”
“He would be in the Clar’shell….It is a building where we have Rites and Bondings…and also keep ceremonial…weapons…”
Jack nodded, “Right…” He gave a half bow and motioned to the door, “Shall we?”
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“Daniel…I think we’re lost,” Carter looked around, frowning at a side street.
“No…the man said that he saw the prince headed this way. We just have to find…which way ‘this way’ is.”
Carter sighed, “What if he lied to us?”
“I don’t think so…” Daniel trailed off, looking toward a large building that, for some reason, reminded him of a church.
“The prince went into the Clar’shell,” it was the red headed woman that had been with Sam. “I was on my way there myself…but…only one maybe at the wall…at a time…He was my prince…so…I can wait for his time to pass.”
Carter frowned, “The wall?”
“It is the place of…release. Marr must have been denied,” the woman met eyes with Sam who looked appalled.
“Ces! I didn’t-”
“Place of release? You mean he’s going there to kill himself?”
“Yes. Mostly it is done by ones that have had their lover Pass…but…sometimes…”
Daniel nodded to her, “Thank you.” He started off toward the building but he didn’t hear Sam behind him, “Sam?” he turned to see her staring at the woman.
“You can’t-”
“Sam,” Daniel called, “She’s not going to do anything right now. Come on.”
She nodded and turned away jogging over to Daniel, “Right.”
He nodded and they both took headed toward the building. The large doors were ajar and the torches in the halls were lit. Daniel looked at all the doors, lining the way, “Ok…Which one?”
There was a noise from farther on down the hall. Sam nodded down the hall towards the noise and the followed their ears down to a T intersection. Three doors down, there was an orange glow from one of the rooms, and a flicker of a shadow moving around inside.
Daniel hurried down to the doorway and came into the room, “Prince Marr?”
The man in question, looked up from a wall covered in blades, “Danyel…you should not be here.”
“Well, then neither should you…” Daniel moved farther inside, letting Sam have clear entry. He looked around the room and saw a long cream colored, patterned stone altar on the other side of the room. It seemed like it was made for someone to lay down in it and then cut their wrists, throat or whatever suited them and let the blood run down through the pattern cut into the stone.
“I must be here,” Marr reached up and ran a hand along the handle of a sky blue bladed knife, “Hacen…needs to be comforted…”
“Getting rid of the man he loves is comforting?” Daniel moved so he was standing just behind the prince, “Your death will cause him more pain.”
“I suppose this is not the way of things on your planet?” Marr looked over his shoulder and gave him a wary smile.
“Think about what you’re doing, if not for Hacen, for your people. Your father only has you, to rule after he’s gone. Who’s going to be king, if you’re not here?” Carter glanced at Daniel to be sure she’d said something that might help him.
“My cousin would…” he trailed off looking unsure. He shook his head, “That does not matter to me…Hacen needs me to-”
“No…he needs you to be patient. Love is about waiting sometimes.”
“I have Danyel and I have mad him wait,” Marr’s finger tips brushed under a sharp silver dragger, with a blade that looked like flames.
“You need to try talking to Hacen again. You’re giving up too easily!”
Carter sighed watching the prince. Daniel was getting no where and Jack was taking way too long, “He loves you Prince Marr. He just needs to be reminded. You don’t wait around for someone as long as he did, if you don’t love them.”
“Samantha…do you not understand what I have done to him? I let him watch me be with others, I let him think I did not care for him any more…I denied our love even after my father gave me…I also have been foolish to think I could take you from your chosen Danyel,” his hand trembled as he touched a knife with gems that were silver/blue in color set in the handle. “Do you not see that I almost made you unhappy as well? I did not even realize you were unaware of my testing.”
“Jack understands,” Daniel put a hand on his shoulder. “You weren’t the first person to ever want to me…like that.”
Marr turned to look at him, “Jack…let you…be with other men? While he was watching?”
“Well…uh no…mostly it’s been women that have been… The point is there have been others and he forgave me…and them. Jack always complains about having to save me from ‘getting married again’, but he doesn’t mind.”
“He enjoys being your hero?”
Daniel blushed, “Yeah. I guess you could say that.”
“Hacen would never want to save me like your Jack does.”
“He would. You’ve just never wanted him to,” Daniel said softly.
Marr looked into Daniel’s blue eyes, “I have…but he never…”
“You wanted him to? When?”
Marr nodded, “I wanted him to…tell me to stop…to make me mate with him, but he…he let me do as I please…so I kept…”
“My Prince?,” Hacen’s said as he came into the room, with a very worried but angry look on his face. “Is that true? Not because of your father, but because you wanted me to make you be mine?”
Jack hung around in the doorway and waved at Daniel, who sighed in relief.
“When you were my trainer you told me what I was to do, but when I was titled, you stopped…No one has ever cared enough about me to stop me…not even my father would…”
Hacen glared at him, “It is forbidden for me to make such demands on you! You are the prince! I cannot order you around like you are beneath my position.”
“Not even to save my life?!” Marr’s eyes filled with tears, “I went out of my way to get someone to stop me! I had to almost marry myself to a false god to do it! No one CARED!”
“My prince,” Hacen stood beside Daniel, shocked. “I…”
Daniel looked over at Jack who had caught his eye. The older man was grinning…and it looked wicked.
“Hacen…Jack…would like to talk to you for a moment…I think,” Daniel went over to stand next to Marr, “I’ll stay with him ok?”
The graying man nodded and went over to Jack, who motioned with his head out into the hall.
Marr looked at Daniel, tears now running down his cheeks, “What is he doing?”
“I think he’s telling Hacen something that he needs to know…” Daniel smiled.
I few moments later both Jack and Hacen came back in. Hacen looked at Jack worriedly, but he nodded over toward Marr.
Hacen nodded and walked over to where Marr and Daniel were standing, “Marr…come home with me right now.”
Marr glared at him, but stopped crying, “No…”
“Now!” Hacen snapped, “If you don’t…I will leave with Jack and Danyel and never come back.”
“I am going to give release to you!” Marr cried out, “You do not have to leave!”
Hace looked him in the eye, “I do not want release…I want you.”
Frowned, “I would kill myself for you and you-”
Hacen frowned and grabbed Marr by the arm and pulled him over to the other side of the room, to the altar. He sat up on the top and yanked Marr over and forcefully put him over his knee, “Marr, you may be my prince…but I will punish you if I have to…”
“Let me go!” Marr thrashed about and kicked his feet, beating on Hacen’s leg with his fists.
The older man looked over at Jack while keeping a firm hold on the younger man.
Daniel turned to Jack and saw him nod back at Hacen.
“I’m sorry my prince…” he pulled at Marr’s clothes and soon his bare bottom was out for all to see, causing the young man to start screaming even more.
Swallowing Hacen raised his hand up and smacked it down hard on the prince’s bottom, leaving a red hand print.
“Ahhh!”
Carter turned to look at Jack who raised his head slightly as Hacen’s hand dropped down again with a resounding slap.
“Stop!!!”
“I warned you,” Hacen muttered, smacking is bottom again.
Daniel watched and swallowed hard, looking from the scene in front of him, to Jack who looked relaxed, to Carter who was blushing and back again. This isn’t what he hand thought Jack was going to tell Hacen to do…
“I am sorry!”
The cry from the prince rang out, silencing everything. Hacen looked down at the man over his lap, “For what?”
“For…”
Hacen’s hand dropped down onto the fiery red bottom again, making the prince cry out in pain.
“D-d-denying us…and f-f-for lying…”
The older man’s hand dropped again several times in quick succession, “And?”
“F-f-f-for yelling at y-you…”
He smacked him again, harder than he had before, “And?!”
“P-p-p-please! I am s-s-sorry!”
Hacen looked up at Jack.
“If you think he means it…make him promise to never do it again,” Jack whispered.
“Promise never to do these things again…”
“I promise! I am sorry!”
The older man released his hold on him and carefully covered Marr, while holding him to his chest, “I am so sorry my prince…Please forgive me…but I love you…and I can not let you keep on…as you have been.”
Marr snuggled into his neck, sobbing quietly.
“Sir?” Sam looked over at Jack who was smiling.
“Don’t worry about that Carter…It’s just something I learned from a long time ago. I’ve thought about doing it to Daniel sometimes,” he looked over that the linguist but got a heated glare. “Or not?”
The prince pulled his face out of Hacen’s neck and swallowed, “I am sorry.”
“I know,” Hacen smiled and leaned down, kissing the green eyed man. Marr moaned in surprised pleasure and pressed himself up against his Trainer, wrapping his arms around his neck.
When they pulled apart, Hacen rested his forehead against Marr’s, “Am I forgiven?”
Marr nodded and he pushed himself to the older man kissing him passionately, making mewling, whimpering noises.
Daniel turned and looked at Jack and Sam, “Well I think we should leave them alone…”
“Right!” Jack hurried out of the room closely followed by the other two.
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Sam, Jack and Daniel stood outside the Clar’shell in the night air, staring up at the stars that dotted the night sky. Finally Major Carter smiled and yawned, “Sir, I think I’m going to back to my place.”
“Hot date Major?” Jack asked smirking.
Her face fell, “No Sir. After I told Ces that I wouldn’t be able to stay on this planet, she got mad and left. No one bothered to come in after her so I’m guessing she told everyone I wasn’t worth it. Night Colonel, Daniel.”
“Night Sam,” Daniel called after her, frowning slightly.
Jack saw the look on his face, “Something happen?”
“I think she might have accidentally said something to ‘Ces’ to make her feel like Marr did.”
The colonel turned toward him, “Carter upset her girlfriend?”
“Yeah…she was the one that told us where the prince was. Sam seemed really upset when she found out…”
A sly grin spread out on Jack’s face, “Well, maybe she picked something up from Hacen that will fix the problem.”
“Jack! Really? A spanking? That was risky even for you!” Daniel smiled at him though.
“Yeah…but it worked,” Jack leaned down and kissed Daniel. He cupped the younger man’s cheek and pulled away, “Bed time.”
“I suppose you want to sleep in the same bed as me?”
“Well, Dr. Spacemonkey, if you remember correctly, you’re bunking with me any way…and I happen to be very good at sharing a bed with hot blue eye linguists.”
“How many other hot blue eyed linguist have you slept with Jack?” Daniel rubbed his noses against Jack’s.
“I was hoping you’d be the first…and only one…”
“Nice save,” Daniel smiled against Jack’s cheek and kissed him. He reached down and took Jack’s hand leading them back toward the building they were staying in. “Jack?”
“Hmm?
The younger man sighed, “How did you talk Hacen into coming back with you?”
Jack blushed, “Uh…well you see…Daniel some things are better left unknown.”
“Jaaack!”
“I told him he could come back to Earth with us…and I kinda promised he could stay at my place if Marr wouldn’t take him back,” Jack looked nervously at the side of Daniel’s face.
“Live with you? And where was I supposed to fit into all this?”
“Uh…there with us? He just wanted me to be the person to watch over him…He said he was leaving the sex stuff up to us.”
“General Hammond would never have let you keep him at your house! You’re not there enough to watch over him!”
“I know…but…I didn’t see the problem with him staying with us if Hammond would have-”
Daniel stopped dead in his tracks, “What?!”
“See I knew you would get mad.”
“Jack! That was the man that you were making out with a few hours ago! He would not be allowed on our house!”
“Danny,” Jack tried appealing to another side of Daniel, “you said to get him there. You didn’t say how.”
“Well bribing him with a home and sex wasn’t what I had in mind! What if we would’ve lost our jobs over him?!”
“Retire off-world?”
Daniel’s anger burned in his eyes, “Seriously Jack! You just found out that I like you, and you were willing to throw it all away?”
“Throw it all away?! Daniel he was only going to live in my house!”
“How do you know that?! What if he was going to try to seduce you away from me?”
Jack calmly looked at Daniel, “Wouldn’t have happened. I only love you Daniel…you know that. Why waste my time with other people when I have you?”
Daniel went into a self hug, “I don’t know that. I don’t want to loose you again…Not to someone else. Not when you just figured out that I loved you too.”
Jack lowered his head, “I’ve kinda known that for…a long time, or I thought I did, but you tend to look at…a lot of people like you want them. People have fallen for you…and you didn’t really want them…I’ve seen you upset over it…and I didn’t want to just be another one of those…”
Daniel frowned, “I didn’t think you noticed that.”
“Well…I did and I’ve had a lot of time to think about it. You didn’t need someone else declaring their love for you when you didn’t want it.”
“But I wanted you….I guess I should have said something.”
Jack took Daniel’s head in his hands, “I’m old, Daniel, I have bad knees and I’m cranky if I don’t wake up on my own after sex. Are you sure you want to spend the rest of your life with me? Because if you aren’t…we shouldn’t do this. I’m too old for this stuff.”
“I’m sure,” Daniel whispered forcefully, “But do you want a cranky, coffee addicted linguist sharing your bed at odd hours of the night?”
“Daniel-” Jack started, looking deeply into the younger man’s cerulean eyes, smiling warmly, “I’ve wanted that ever since I met you.”
The colonel kissed him softly on the lips, before sucking on his bottom lip meaningfully. He pulled away holding the sides of Daniel’s head in his callused hands, looking into hooded eyes, “God I love you.”
Daniel smiled, “Yeah…backatcha…”
Jack silenced him with another kiss, pulled Daniel off toward their rooms.
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Jack cracked his eyes open and found that he was looking at the sleeping face of one Daniel Jackson. He smiled, finding himself drawn to the area where Daniel’s eyelashes rested against his cheeks. From there they traveled down along his neck to his naked shoulders, and down the linguist’s arms to his chest. He’d never seen anything more beautiful in his entire life.
“O’Neill? DanielJackson?” Teal’c’s voice called from the other room.
Jack bolted up-right into a sitting position, grabbing a handful of sheets and hastily throwing them over himself and Daniel.
“Uh yeah?” Jack yelled back glancing at, a now moaning, Daniel who was burying his face deeper into some pillows around his head.
The Jaffa came into the room and smiled when he saw Jack blushing and Daniel burrowing, “The first meal of the day is being served in the Royal Hall. MajorCarter requested I retrieve you.”
“We’ll be there in a minute or two…or three,” Jack said uncomfortably.
Teal’c looked at the partially buried linguist, then back to Jack. He smiled slightly and bowed his head at the older man, “You have completed the second step of the bonding ritual with DanielJackson. You now need only to complete the final step and you will be together forever in holy union.”
Jack frowned, squinting up at Teal’c, “What?”
“The bonding ceremony of this planet has three steps. The first is courting, which I have observed you doing for many years with DanielJackson, O’Neill. The second is sexual intercourse, and the third is a public ceremony. I am sure you will be asked to participate in the one held by PrinceMarr and TrainerHacen, since it was because of you they are together.”
“Whatever,” Jack said shaking his head, trying to clear it, “Do you think you could leave so we could get up?”
“I have seen you and DanielJackson naked many times O’Neill.”
“Well now is different! Daniel will be all embarrassed if he wakes up and you’re in here and he sees you…seeing us…in bed together. You now how he is with personal stuff…l”
Teal’c thought about his past experiences with Daniel, before bowing slightly, “I believe you are correct. I will inform MajorCarter that you will be along shortly.”
Jack sighed in relief as the Jaffa left. He looked back over at Daniel, who had buried himself in the pillows up to his shoulders, “Danny?” Jack asked quietly rubbing the young man’s broad back with a single hand, “Wake up. It’s time for breakfast.”
“Just a second, General. I’m almost done with the translation…just five more minutes,” Daniel mumbled.
Jack smirked wickedly, shaking his head. He leaned down removing pillows until he uncovered one of Daniel’s ears. He gently took the lobe into his mouth, nibbling on it.
“Oh gawd…” the anthropologist moaned into the bed, “Not now Jack…in a briefing…”
If his young lover wouldn’t have been laying on his stomach he would have been delighted to add more onto that dream. Instead he decided to play a different type of dirty, “Dr. J! We just received some images back from P4X-493! It looks like there’s a 50ft long wall covered in the writings of the ancients! There even seems to be a city in the distance!” He said in what he hoped was a disguised voice, of an egger coworker.
Daniel’s head shot up, “Where?! Do you see my glasses?! Show me the images!”
“Easy there Daniel!” Jack said grabbing his linguist’s shoulders, “It’s just time for breakfast.”
“But,” he frowned confused for a moment before a look of realization flooded into his eyes, “Jack! That wasn’t funny…” He stuck his tongue into the side of his cheek, glaring as best he could without his glasses to help him focus his eyesight.
Jack loved that look on Daniel. It meant he was being thoughtful and not always in a good way. Revenge thoughtful more like it, “I know, but you were calling me ‘General’. Something had to be done, because everyone knows I’ll never become a General,” Jack said as he cupped Daniel’s cheek with one hand and kissed him soundly on the lips. “I’d have to sit at a desk and…do paperwork. Court-martialed maybe, but General O’Neill? I just don’t see it happening.”
“I didn’t!” Daniel blushed, “Did I?”
“Oh yeah… So then I tried nibbling on your ear and then you told me I couldn’t because we were in a briefing…A General that nibbles on a civilian’s ear while in a briefing!”
“Gawd!” Daniel blushed even more, “Please Jack don’t ever try that in real life! The nibbling on my ear in a briefing part, not the General…part.”
Jack smirked, “I’ll think about it…”
“Jack!”
“Oh come on Daniel,” Jack said crawling up over so he was straddling him, “You can’t honesty tell me you haven’t daydreamed about it while Carter was gabbing about one of her ‘discoveries’.” He leaned in and nibbled on the younger man’s soft lobe again.
Blue eyes closed in bliss, his breath coming in pants, “No…actually…”
“What do you think about?” the colonel asked, pressing a kiss, just behind Daniel’s ear, then one on the side of his jaw, and on down his neck.
“Kissing you….mmm….like this,” Daniel started to writhe under him, trying to get some contact with the other man’s skin, “Jack!”
“Hmm?” the older man hummed as he wetly kissed Daniel’s right nipple. He pulled back slightly to blow on it, causing it to harden more then it already was from arousal.
“Touch…more…” the linguist arched up, his hands reaching out to pull the older man closer.
The colonel’s hands snaked down between the two of them and stroked Daniel’s shaft, causing the young man to gasp, “Like?”
Daniel nodded, his body quaking at the sensation. How long had he dreamed about doing this with Jack?
Smiling playfully, Jack slid down Daniel’s stomach, nipping and kissing. He glanced up a second before lowering his head to get give his lover’s cock an experimental lick.
“Oh Gawd!!!” Too long.
“Sir? Daniel? Are you alright?” Sam called from the next room. “Teal’c said you were on your way but I just wanted to make sure-” she came into the bedroom and stopped dead when she saw her adopted little brother panting and sweaty, and a large lump in the bed sheets, just about where-, “Oh God!” She darted out of the room, “I’m sorry! I didn’t know-”
“Carter!” Jack bellowed. He cleared his throat, trying not to sound husky and aroused. That was the second time in less then 24 hours. She’d better hope that was the last time too, “Get out! We’ll be there…soon…”
“How soon is ‘soon’ Sir?” She asked. By the sound of her voice, that on some sick level, she was enjoying their discomfort greatly and probably the peek show too.
Daniel grabbed a pillow, burying his face in it, “Oh Gawd!”
“Carter!! Just go!”
“Going Sir! Have fun Daniel!”
“Sam!!” Daniel yelled into the pillow embarrassed.
Jack sighed as he heard her run out of their rooms, laughing, “She just had to go and ruin the moment…again! Guess we’ll have to finish this later.”
Two panicked blue orbs stared down at Jack, from under the pillow, begged him to have mercy and not leave him like this.
“I’m not that cruel, Danny. I only meant that I have to wait… ”
Daniel panted shallowly, his body relaxing as much as it was able. He closed his eyes and then covered his head again, “Never been so embarrassed!”
“At least you weren’t awake when Teal’c was in here.”
“Was-”
“Yep.”
Daniel looked out from under the pillow, “Saw us-”
“I’d just woken up. I got us…undercover.”
“Never leaving this room!”
Jack took this moment while his lover was off-guard and lowered his head again, only this time he took Daniel into his mouth.
“Ahh! Jahhck!” he pulled the pillow from his face to so he could breathe properly.
Chuckling, Jack continued his job. After all, he was hungry, and Daniel, as tasty as he was, wasn’t going to sate his hungers, either of them, any time soon. At least not with Carter around.
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Twenty minutes later Jack led a clean, and newly dressed Daniel into the place where they’d eaten the night before. Sometime in the early morning, someone had left two sets of clothes in their bathroom, and had taken their old ones away. Now both of them were dressed comfortably in silk like pants and wraparound tops. Daniel’s were a marbled cream and Jack’s were a marbled grey.
“Good morning Campers! How was your night?” Jack asked happily, as he led Daniel around to the spot he’d sat at the night before. He tried to get Daniel to sit in his lap but he was quickly shot down with a look from the younger man that said, ‘If you ask me to sit on your lap, I’m not sleeping with you for the next 6 months.’
“It was most enjoyable,” Teal’c said smiling at the man who was almost asleep at his side.
Sam however, didn’t look as happy about her night, “How was your night Daniel?” she asked, after taking a drink of juice.
“Uh…Good…” he said blushing.
Jack glanced over at him, “Just good?”
Daniel glared at him before turning back to Sam, “Where are Marr and Hacen?”
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“Someone came down a few minutes before you two got here and told us that they’d be a little late,” she smiled, and blushed lightly, “Apparently they didn’t get here until early this morning.”
“Then why weren’t we aloud to be a little late?” Jack asked, sliding a hand into the small of Daniel’s back. “I mean…we were the cause of that…we deserve to sleep in.”
The younger man looked uncomfortable for the first few moments, but then reluctantly relaxed into Jack’s touch, “Maybe because we want to make a good impression,” he said some how managing to look up at Jack from under his eyelashes, even though they were about the same height when they were sitting.
“MajorCarter and myself believed it would be harder to remove you from your bed, if allowed to sleep in, O’Neill,” Teal’c was smiling.
Daniel quickly started eating to avoid any looks or questions that might be sent his way from Sam. He just knew she was laughing her ass off, especially after she’d seen them earlier.
“Well damn. I’ve been found out,” Jack mumbled in a mock angry tone, pressing a small kiss to the linguist’s temple.
“It’s no wonder,” Daniel mumbled, his face burning. “You’re not trying to hide anything.”
“We’re not trying to hide anything Daniel,” Jack corrected, reaching for something that he hoped was a fruit. A ‘normal’ fruit, if he had any luck to spare. Getting the man he’d been after for so long was more luck then he was used to, “At least not here. We don’t need to. Teal’c’s ok with it. Carter’s ok with it-”
Sam mumbled something that sounded strangely like, “Carter is enjoying it,” but Daniel couldn’t be sure.
“-and I’m more then ok with it. A lot more then ok…So what’s there to worry about?”
“Going home,” Daniel whispered, looking down at his plate.
“Going home is not going to change a thing. I won’t let it. If it bothers you so much I can retire-”
“You can’t retire!
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Sam was sure she was witnessing their first fight. If she’d only seen them last night, “Sir, he’s right. Thor likes you the best, and many of our other allies feel they can depend on you. If you leave the SCG, we might mess up and lose a lot of what we’ve worked for.”
“I believe MajorCarter is right. The process of training a new team member is a most difficult, and unpleasant experience I do not wish to go through,” Teal’c said looking disgusted at the thought.
Jack had to agree with them, even if he didn’t like to, “I’ll… think of something!”
“What if Hammond finds out?” Daniel asked worriedly. “I know he probably wouldn’t care but we can’t expect him to lie for us…”
“Daniel you know as well as I do that if it was for the good of the SGC, Hammond would let us get away with mass murder, and not mention a word of it,” Jack said, “And trust me, our relationship is for the good of the SGC. I get damn cranky if I haven’t had s-”
“Sir!” Carter stared in shock at her commanding officer.
“What?! It’s true!”
Daniel glanced over at Jack frowning, “Then who was keeping you in a good mood before me?”
“Uh…” Jack opened and closed his mouth several times, before settling on an answer he hoped would be good enough for Daniel, “No one! I was always in a bad mood.”
“No you weren’t,” the younger man countered, looking madder by the second, “Who were you with?!”
“For you information, my right hand!” Jack snarled, “And a picture of you!”
“Really?” Daniel blushed, looking surprised but pleased.
“Sir, I really didn’t need to know that.”
Jack looked up, “Uh…sorry about that Major. You can pretend I didn’t say it.”
Teal’c looked at his team mates with a raised eyebrow, but chose to say nothing.
“You really were thinking about me when you…” Daniel whispered, glancing at Jack’s lower regions, giving him a wary little grin.
Jack grinned and leaned in close enough to kiss the younger man’s nose, “Yes. Sometimes right in the SGC locker room before a mission. I can show you how it’s done sometime if you like…”
“Jaaack!”
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The man’s home was much like its owner. Warm and inviting. He knocked on the heavy wooden door and waited.
Hacen’s face appeared in the small window cut into the door, “Jack?”
“The one and only. Can I come in?”
“Of course,” the other man quickly opened the door, moving aside to let Jack pass.
The inside was just like the outside, with a large fireplace made of smooth light colored stone, and roughly made chairs that still managed to look comfortable at the same time, on a large fur rug set before a roaring fire. The Kitchen area had herbs hanging from hooks and on small smooth stone table, a worn leather bag was tipped over and some of it’s contains spilled over the surface.
There was a thud from the back of the house, causing Jack to look up. Hacen had left the room, without saying anything, so Jack followed his ears into a small bedroom, where he found the ex-trainer filling a bag with clothes that had been piled on a sturdy log-framed bed.
From the first glance the 40 year old man seemed to be angry, but Jack was a Pro at going past the first look (he was in love with Daniel for crying out loud!) and it was easy to see that Hacen was miserable. Now all the Colonel had to do was figure out how to get him to go back to the prince.
“You leavin’?”
Hacen looked up and nodded, “The prince will have banished me by sunrise any way. As I said before…no one refuses the love of the prince. Even if he does not banish me…the people of this village will no longer speak or trade with me.”
“Look, Hacen. The first thing you gotta know about love…is that it’s not always easy. You have to forgive and be patient sometimes.”
The trainer shook his head, “You are correct,” he said, folding some more of his clothes and putting them in a pack, “but this is not love. It was…obsession. I should have left long ago, when Marr first denied me.”
“No you shouldn’t have,” Jack grabbed a garment out of the man’s hands, “You did the right thing. You waited for him to come to his senses and he has! Everyone wins!”
“No… I will go to another village and find my true mate, and Marr will-” Hacen looked unsure for a brief moment before smiling weakly, “Marr will find another lover. He has easily before.”
Jack sighed, “No! I’m not happy for you. You waited all this time for him, and now that he finally wants you…you’re doing the same thing to him that he did to you! Even though Marr’s a stuck up, no good-” he stopped when he saw Hacen was frowning, “guy that doesn’t deserve it, I really think you should give these whole thing between you another chance. He ‘really’ likes you.”
“He would not be with me to spite his father! How is that love?!”
“I didn’t say it was mature love,” Jack awkwardly put his hand on Hacen’s shoulder, “But it is love. Believe me…because I’ve been doing the same thing to Daniel…and I don’t know what I would have done…if he-” Jack swallowed, “If he hadn’t forgiving me for being such a jerk.”
“You…?” Hacen frowned, “But you would not hurt him…you love him.”
“God damn it! Yes I love Daniel! I’d probably die without him, but that doesn’t mean I don’t hurt him. I don’t mean to sometimes, sometimes I just want to make him jealous or shut him up! But I do hurt him Hacen! And he forgives me…because he loves me too,” Jack relaxed a little, “Marr is going to kill himself. I came here to get you, so you could stop him. Even though I think the guy’s a ‘complete’ ass and you deserve better, it’s not up to me to decide. That’s your job, and last time I checked, you might be mad at him, but you don’t want him dead.”
“Marr would not do such a thing!”
Jack just raised both his eyebrows, “Oh really? Well I guess I misunderstood him with he said he had to ‘ease your pain as well as his own.”
“He said…” Hacen looked conflicted between wanting to believe him, and wanting it to be a lie.
“After you left he said he was going to kill himself because he upset you and it would make you feel better if you didn’t have to ever look at him again.”
Hacen turned his head away, “There is a story…of a pair who loved each other very much, but one lost his memory of the other, and grew to hate them. In desperation, the one that still remembered their love…took their life, to please and release the other from the pain they caused them. The other…” he looked pained and wouldn’t finish the story.
“Carter and Daniel went off to stop him,” Jack quietly whispered to him, “and I was sent here to get you. You helped me with Daniel…it’s only far that I try to help you with Marr.”
Looking up into Jack’s eyes, the man nodded, “Thank you, but you must promise me something.”
Jack looked reluctant, “What?”
“That if we cannot save him…that I might go with you, back to your world and live with you and Danyel at your home.”
“WHAT?!” the colonel stared at him. That wasn’t like him at all, even though he’d only known the guy a few hours. Jack searched Hacen’s grey/blue eyes, trying to figure out what he was up to.
“It is forbidden for any of our people to leave through the circle of the gods, unless a god takes you, but I…I wish to stay with you and Daniel…Not as a lover!” he said quickly, “But…I will die here, if you leave me behind. I will either be killed outright or starved.”
Jack thought about it for a few seconds, “You’re sure you want to? I mean…It’ll be harder to…be accepted where we’re from, and I’m not sure that my boss will understand.”
Hacen frowned, “Your…boss? I do not…is that what you now call your Danyel?”
Jack chuckled, “Not yet…look…Let’s go find Daniel and Carter…and hopefully they’ve found Marr.”
“He would be in the Clar’shell….It is a building where we have Rites and Bondings…and also keep ceremonial…weapons…”
Jack nodded, “Right…” He gave a half bow and motioned to the door, “Shall we?”
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“Daniel…I think we’re lost,” Carter looked around, frowning at a side street.
“No…the man said that he saw the prince headed this way. We just have to find…which way ‘this way’ is.”
Carter sighed, “What if he lied to us?”
“I don’t think so…” Daniel trailed off, looking toward a large building that, for some reason, reminded him of a church.
“The prince went into the Clar’shell,” it was the red headed woman that had been with Sam. “I was on my way there myself…but…only one maybe at the wall…at a time…He was my prince…so…I can wait for his time to pass.”
Carter frowned, “The wall?”
“It is the place of…release. Marr must have been denied,” the woman met eyes with Sam who looked appalled.
“Ces! I didn’t-”
“Place of release? You mean he’s going there to kill himself?”
“Yes. Mostly it is done by ones that have had their lover Pass…but…sometimes…”
Daniel nodded to her, “Thank you.” He started off toward the building but he didn’t hear Sam behind him, “Sam?” he turned to see her staring at the woman.
“You can’t-”
“Sam,” Daniel called, “She’s not going to do anything right now. Come on.”
She nodded and turned away jogging over to Daniel, “Right.”
He nodded and they both took headed toward the building. The large doors were ajar and the torches in the halls were lit. Daniel looked at all the doors, lining the way, “Ok…Which one?”
There was a noise from farther on down the hall. Sam nodded down the hall towards the noise and the followed their ears down to a T intersection. Three doors down, there was an orange glow from one of the rooms, and a flicker of a shadow moving around inside.
Daniel hurried down to the doorway and came into the room, “Prince Marr?”
The man in question, looked up from a wall covered in blades, “Danyel…you should not be here.”
“Well, then neither should you…” Daniel moved farther inside, letting Sam have clear entry. He looked around the room and saw a long cream colored, patterned stone altar on the other side of the room. It seemed like it was made for someone to lay down in it and then cut their wrists, throat or whatever suited them and let the blood run down through the pattern cut into the stone.
“I must be here,” Marr reached up and ran a hand along the handle of a sky blue bladed knife, “Hacen…needs to be comforted…”
“Getting rid of the man he loves is comforting?” Daniel moved so he was standing just behind the prince, “Your death will cause him more pain.”
“I suppose this is not the way of things on your planet?” Marr looked over his shoulder and gave him a wary smile.
“Think about what you’re doing, if not for Hacen, for your people. Your father only has you, to rule after he’s gone. Who’s going to be king, if you’re not here?” Carter glanced at Daniel to be sure she’d said something that might help him.
“My cousin would…” he trailed off looking unsure. He shook his head, “That does not matter to me…Hacen needs me to-”
“No…he needs you to be patient. Love is about waiting sometimes.”
“I have Danyel and I have mad him wait,” Marr’s finger tips brushed under a sharp silver dragger, with a blade that looked like flames.
“You need to try talking to Hacen again. You’re giving up too easily!”
Carter sighed watching the prince. Daniel was getting no where and Jack was taking way too long, “He loves you Prince Marr. He just needs to be reminded. You don’t wait around for someone as long as he did, if you don’t love them.”
“Samantha…do you not understand what I have done to him? I let him watch me be with others, I let him think I did not care for him any more…I denied our love even after my father gave me…I also have been foolish to think I could take you from your chosen Danyel,” his hand trembled as he touched a knife with gems that were silver/blue in color set in the handle. “Do you not see that I almost made you unhappy as well? I did not even realize you were unaware of my testing.”
“Jack understands,” Daniel put a hand on his shoulder. “You weren’t the first person to ever want to me…like that.”
Marr turned to look at him, “Jack…let you…be with other men? While he was watching?”
“Well…uh no…mostly it’s been women that have been… The point is there have been others and he forgave me…and them. Jack always complains about having to save me from ‘getting married again’, but he doesn’t mind.”
“He enjoys being your hero?”
Daniel blushed, “Yeah. I guess you could say that.”
“Hacen would never want to save me like your Jack does.”
“He would. You’ve just never wanted him to,” Daniel said softly.
Marr looked into Daniel’s blue eyes, “I have…but he never…”
“You wanted him to? When?”
Marr nodded, “I wanted him to…tell me to stop…to make me mate with him, but he…he let me do as I please…so I kept…”
“My Prince?,” Hacen’s said as he came into the room, with a very worried but angry look on his face. “Is that true? Not because of your father, but because you wanted me to make you be mine?”
Jack hung around in the doorway and waved at Daniel, who sighed in relief.
“When you were my trainer you told me what I was to do, but when I was titled, you stopped…No one has ever cared enough about me to stop me…not even my father would…”
Hacen glared at him, “It is forbidden for me to make such demands on you! You are the prince! I cannot order you around like you are beneath my position.”
“Not even to save my life?!” Marr’s eyes filled with tears, “I went out of my way to get someone to stop me! I had to almost marry myself to a false god to do it! No one CARED!”
“My prince,” Hacen stood beside Daniel, shocked. “I…”
Daniel looked over at Jack who had caught his eye. The older man was grinning…and it looked wicked.
“Hacen…Jack…would like to talk to you for a moment…I think,” Daniel went over to stand next to Marr, “I’ll stay with him ok?”
The graying man nodded and went over to Jack, who motioned with his head out into the hall.
Marr looked at Daniel, tears now running down his cheeks, “What is he doing?”
“I think he’s telling Hacen something that he needs to know…” Daniel smiled.
I few moments later both Jack and Hacen came back in. Hacen looked at Jack worriedly, but he nodded over toward Marr.
Hacen nodded and walked over to where Marr and Daniel were standing, “Marr…come home with me right now.”
Marr glared at him, but stopped crying, “No…”
“Now!” Hacen snapped, “If you don’t…I will leave with Jack and Danyel and never come back.”
“I am going to give release to you!” Marr cried out, “You do not have to leave!”
Hace looked him in the eye, “I do not want release…I want you.”
Frowned, “I would kill myself for you and you-”
Hacen frowned and grabbed Marr by the arm and pulled him over to the other side of the room, to the altar. He sat up on the top and yanked Marr over and forcefully put him over his knee, “Marr, you may be my prince…but I will punish you if I have to…”
“Let me go!” Marr thrashed about and kicked his feet, beating on Hacen’s leg with his fists.
The older man looked over at Jack while keeping a firm hold on the younger man.
Daniel turned to Jack and saw him nod back at Hacen.
“I’m sorry my prince…” he pulled at Marr’s clothes and soon his bare bottom was out for all to see, causing the young man to start screaming even more.
Swallowing Hacen raised his hand up and smacked it down hard on the prince’s bottom, leaving a red hand print.
“Ahhh!”
Carter turned to look at Jack who raised his head slightly as Hacen’s hand dropped down again with a resounding slap.
“Stop!!!”
“I warned you,” Hacen muttered, smacking is bottom again.
Daniel watched and swallowed hard, looking from the scene in front of him, to Jack who looked relaxed, to Carter who was blushing and back again. This isn’t what he hand thought Jack was going to tell Hacen to do…
“I am sorry!”
The cry from the prince rang out, silencing everything. Hacen looked down at the man over his lap, “For what?”
“For…”
Hacen’s hand dropped down onto the fiery red bottom again, making the prince cry out in pain.
“D-d-denying us…and f-f-for lying…”
The older man’s hand dropped again several times in quick succession, “And?”
“F-f-f-for yelling at y-you…”
He smacked him again, harder than he had before, “And?!”
“P-p-p-please! I am s-s-sorry!”
Hacen looked up at Jack.
“If you think he means it…make him promise to never do it again,” Jack whispered.
“Promise never to do these things again…”
“I promise! I am sorry!”
The older man released his hold on him and carefully covered Marr, while holding him to his chest, “I am so sorry my prince…Please forgive me…but I love you…and I can not let you keep on…as you have been.”
Marr snuggled into his neck, sobbing quietly.
“Sir?” Sam looked over at Jack who was smiling.
“Don’t worry about that Carter…It’s just something I learned from a long time ago. I’ve thought about doing it to Daniel sometimes,” he looked over that the linguist but got a heated glare. “Or not?”
The prince pulled his face out of Hacen’s neck and swallowed, “I am sorry.”
“I know,” Hacen smiled and leaned down, kissing the green eyed man. Marr moaned in surprised pleasure and pressed himself up against his Trainer, wrapping his arms around his neck.
When they pulled apart, Hacen rested his forehead against Marr’s, “Am I forgiven?”
Marr nodded and he pushed himself to the older man kissing him passionately, making mewling, whimpering noises.
Daniel turned and looked at Jack and Sam, “Well I think we should leave them alone…”
“Right!” Jack hurried out of the room closely followed by the other two.
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Sam, Jack and Daniel stood outside the Clar’shell in the night air, staring up at the stars that dotted the night sky. Finally Major Carter smiled and yawned, “Sir, I think I’m going to back to my place.”
“Hot date Major?” Jack asked smirking.
Her face fell, “No Sir. After I told Ces that I wouldn’t be able to stay on this planet, she got mad and left. No one bothered to come in after her so I’m guessing she told everyone I wasn’t worth it. Night Colonel, Daniel.”
“Night Sam,” Daniel called after her, frowning slightly.
Jack saw the look on his face, “Something happen?”
“I think she might have accidentally said something to ‘Ces’ to make her feel like Marr did.”
The colonel turned toward him, “Carter upset her girlfriend?”
“Yeah…she was the one that told us where the prince was. Sam seemed really upset when she found out…”
A sly grin spread out on Jack’s face, “Well, maybe she picked something up from Hacen that will fix the problem.”
“Jack! Really? A spanking? That was risky even for you!” Daniel smiled at him though.
“Yeah…but it worked,” Jack leaned down and kissed Daniel. He cupped the younger man’s cheek and pulled away, “Bed time.”
“I suppose you want to sleep in the same bed as me?”
“Well, Dr. Spacemonkey, if you remember correctly, you’re bunking with me any way…and I happen to be very good at sharing a bed with hot blue eye linguists.”
“How many other hot blue eyed linguist have you slept with Jack?” Daniel rubbed his noses against Jack’s.
“I was hoping you’d be the first…and only one…”
“Nice save,” Daniel smiled against Jack’s cheek and kissed him. He reached down and took Jack’s hand leading them back toward the building they were staying in. “Jack?”
“Hmm?
The younger man sighed, “How did you talk Hacen into coming back with you?”
Jack blushed, “Uh…well you see…Daniel some things are better left unknown.”
“Jaaack!”
“I told him he could come back to Earth with us…and I kinda promised he could stay at my place if Marr wouldn’t take him back,” Jack looked nervously at the side of Daniel’s face.
“Live with you? And where was I supposed to fit into all this?”
“Uh…there with us? He just wanted me to be the person to watch over him…He said he was leaving the sex stuff up to us.”
“General Hammond would never have let you keep him at your house! You’re not there enough to watch over him!”
“I know…but…I didn’t see the problem with him staying with us if Hammond would have-”
Daniel stopped dead in his tracks, “What?!”
“See I knew you would get mad.”
“Jack! That was the man that you were making out with a few hours ago! He would not be allowed on our house!”
“Danny,” Jack tried appealing to another side of Daniel, “you said to get him there. You didn’t say how.”
“Well bribing him with a home and sex wasn’t what I had in mind! What if we would’ve lost our jobs over him?!”
“Retire off-world?”
Daniel’s anger burned in his eyes, “Seriously Jack! You just found out that I like you, and you were willing to throw it all away?”
“Throw it all away?! Daniel he was only going to live in my house!”
“How do you know that?! What if he was going to try to seduce you away from me?”
Jack calmly looked at Daniel, “Wouldn’t have happened. I only love you Daniel…you know that. Why waste my time with other people when I have you?”
Daniel went into a self hug, “I don’t know that. I don’t want to loose you again…Not to someone else. Not when you just figured out that I loved you too.”
Jack lowered his head, “I’ve kinda known that for…a long time, or I thought I did, but you tend to look at…a lot of people like you want them. People have fallen for you…and you didn’t really want them…I’ve seen you upset over it…and I didn’t want to just be another one of those…”
Daniel frowned, “I didn’t think you noticed that.”
“Well…I did and I’ve had a lot of time to think about it. You didn’t need someone else declaring their love for you when you didn’t want it.”
“But I wanted you….I guess I should have said something.”
Jack took Daniel’s head in his hands, “I’m old, Daniel, I have bad knees and I’m cranky if I don’t wake up on my own after sex. Are you sure you want to spend the rest of your life with me? Because if you aren’t…we shouldn’t do this. I’m too old for this stuff.”
“I’m sure,” Daniel whispered forcefully, “But do you want a cranky, coffee addicted linguist sharing your bed at odd hours of the night?”
“Daniel-” Jack started, looking deeply into the younger man’s cerulean eyes, smiling warmly, “I’ve wanted that ever since I met you.”
The colonel kissed him softly on the lips, before sucking on his bottom lip meaningfully. He pulled away holding the sides of Daniel’s head in his callused hands, looking into hooded eyes, “God I love you.”
Daniel smiled, “Yeah…backatcha…”
Jack silenced him with another kiss, pulled Daniel off toward their rooms.
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Jack cracked his eyes open and found that he was looking at the sleeping face of one Daniel Jackson. He smiled, finding himself drawn to the area where Daniel’s eyelashes rested against his cheeks. From there they traveled down along his neck to his naked shoulders, and down the linguist’s arms to his chest. He’d never seen anything more beautiful in his entire life.
“O’Neill? DanielJackson?” Teal’c’s voice called from the other room.
Jack bolted up-right into a sitting position, grabbing a handful of sheets and hastily throwing them over himself and Daniel.
“Uh yeah?” Jack yelled back glancing at, a now moaning, Daniel who was burying his face deeper into some pillows around his head.
The Jaffa came into the room and smiled when he saw Jack blushing and Daniel burrowing, “The first meal of the day is being served in the Royal Hall. MajorCarter requested I retrieve you.”
“We’ll be there in a minute or two…or three,” Jack said uncomfortably.
Teal’c looked at the partially buried linguist, then back to Jack. He smiled slightly and bowed his head at the older man, “You have completed the second step of the bonding ritual with DanielJackson. You now need only to complete the final step and you will be together forever in holy union.”
Jack frowned, squinting up at Teal’c, “What?”
“The bonding ceremony of this planet has three steps. The first is courting, which I have observed you doing for many years with DanielJackson, O’Neill. The second is sexual intercourse, and the third is a public ceremony. I am sure you will be asked to participate in the one held by PrinceMarr and TrainerHacen, since it was because of you they are together.”
“Whatever,” Jack said shaking his head, trying to clear it, “Do you think you could leave so we could get up?”
“I have seen you and DanielJackson naked many times O’Neill.”
“Well now is different! Daniel will be all embarrassed if he wakes up and you’re in here and he sees you…seeing us…in bed together. You now how he is with personal stuff…l”
Teal’c thought about his past experiences with Daniel, before bowing slightly, “I believe you are correct. I will inform MajorCarter that you will be along shortly.”
Jack sighed in relief as the Jaffa left. He looked back over at Daniel, who had buried himself in the pillows up to his shoulders, “Danny?” Jack asked quietly rubbing the young man’s broad back with a single hand, “Wake up. It’s time for breakfast.”
“Just a second, General. I’m almost done with the translation…just five more minutes,” Daniel mumbled.
Jack smirked wickedly, shaking his head. He leaned down removing pillows until he uncovered one of Daniel’s ears. He gently took the lobe into his mouth, nibbling on it.
“Oh gawd…” the anthropologist moaned into the bed, “Not now Jack…in a briefing…”
If his young lover wouldn’t have been laying on his stomach he would have been delighted to add more onto that dream. Instead he decided to play a different type of dirty, “Dr. J! We just received some images back from P4X-493! It looks like there’s a 50ft long wall covered in the writings of the ancients! There even seems to be a city in the distance!” He said in what he hoped was a disguised voice, of an egger coworker.
Daniel’s head shot up, “Where?! Do you see my glasses?! Show me the images!”
“Easy there Daniel!” Jack said grabbing his linguist’s shoulders, “It’s just time for breakfast.”
“But,” he frowned confused for a moment before a look of realization flooded into his eyes, “Jack! That wasn’t funny…” He stuck his tongue into the side of his cheek, glaring as best he could without his glasses to help him focus his eyesight.
Jack loved that look on Daniel. It meant he was being thoughtful and not always in a good way. Revenge thoughtful more like it, “I know, but you were calling me ‘General’. Something had to be done, because everyone knows I’ll never become a General,” Jack said as he cupped Daniel’s cheek with one hand and kissed him soundly on the lips. “I’d have to sit at a desk and…do paperwork. Court-martialed maybe, but General O’Neill? I just don’t see it happening.”
“I didn’t!” Daniel blushed, “Did I?”
“Oh yeah… So then I tried nibbling on your ear and then you told me I couldn’t because we were in a briefing…A General that nibbles on a civilian’s ear while in a briefing!”
“Gawd!” Daniel blushed even more, “Please Jack don’t ever try that in real life! The nibbling on my ear in a briefing part, not the General…part.”
Jack smirked, “I’ll think about it…”
“Jack!”
“Oh come on Daniel,” Jack said crawling up over so he was straddling him, “You can’t honesty tell me you haven’t daydreamed about it while Carter was gabbing about one of her ‘discoveries’.” He leaned in and nibbled on the younger man’s soft lobe again.
Blue eyes closed in bliss, his breath coming in pants, “No…actually…”
“What do you think about?” the colonel asked, pressing a kiss, just behind Daniel’s ear, then one on the side of his jaw, and on down his neck.
“Kissing you….mmm….like this,” Daniel started to writhe under him, trying to get some contact with the other man’s skin, “Jack!”
“Hmm?” the older man hummed as he wetly kissed Daniel’s right nipple. He pulled back slightly to blow on it, causing it to harden more then it already was from arousal.
“Touch…more…” the linguist arched up, his hands reaching out to pull the older man closer.
The colonel’s hands snaked down between the two of them and stroked Daniel’s shaft, causing the young man to gasp, “Like?”
Daniel nodded, his body quaking at the sensation. How long had he dreamed about doing this with Jack?
Smiling playfully, Jack slid down Daniel’s stomach, nipping and kissing. He glanced up a second before lowering his head to get give his lover’s cock an experimental lick.
“Oh Gawd!!!” Too long.
“Sir? Daniel? Are you alright?” Sam called from the next room. “Teal’c said you were on your way but I just wanted to make sure-” she came into the bedroom and stopped dead when she saw her adopted little brother panting and sweaty, and a large lump in the bed sheets, just about where-, “Oh God!” She darted out of the room, “I’m sorry! I didn’t know-”
“Carter!” Jack bellowed. He cleared his throat, trying not to sound husky and aroused. That was the second time in less then 24 hours. She’d better hope that was the last time too, “Get out! We’ll be there…soon…”
“How soon is ‘soon’ Sir?” She asked. By the sound of her voice, that on some sick level, she was enjoying their discomfort greatly and probably the peek show too.
Daniel grabbed a pillow, burying his face in it, “Oh Gawd!”
“Carter!! Just go!”
“Going Sir! Have fun Daniel!”
“Sam!!” Daniel yelled into the pillow embarrassed.
Jack sighed as he heard her run out of their rooms, laughing, “She just had to go and ruin the moment…again! Guess we’ll have to finish this later.”
Two panicked blue orbs stared down at Jack, from under the pillow, begged him to have mercy and not leave him like this.
“I’m not that cruel, Danny. I only meant that I have to wait… ”
Daniel panted shallowly, his body relaxing as much as it was able. He closed his eyes and then covered his head again, “Never been so embarrassed!”
“At least you weren’t awake when Teal’c was in here.”
“Was-”
“Yep.”
Daniel looked out from under the pillow, “Saw us-”
“I’d just woken up. I got us…undercover.”
“Never leaving this room!”
Jack took this moment while his lover was off-guard and lowered his head again, only this time he took Daniel into his mouth.
“Ahh! Jahhck!” he pulled the pillow from his face to so he could breathe properly.
Chuckling, Jack continued his job. After all, he was hungry, and Daniel, as tasty as he was, wasn’t going to sate his hungers, either of them, any time soon. At least not with Carter around.
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Twenty minutes later Jack led a clean, and newly dressed Daniel into the place where they’d eaten the night before. Sometime in the early morning, someone had left two sets of clothes in their bathroom, and had taken their old ones away. Now both of them were dressed comfortably in silk like pants and wraparound tops. Daniel’s were a marbled cream and Jack’s were a marbled grey.
“Good morning Campers! How was your night?” Jack asked happily, as he led Daniel around to the spot he’d sat at the night before. He tried to get Daniel to sit in his lap but he was quickly shot down with a look from the younger man that said, ‘If you ask me to sit on your lap, I’m not sleeping with you for the next 6 months.’
“It was most enjoyable,” Teal’c said smiling at the man who was almost asleep at his side.
Sam however, didn’t look as happy about her night, “How was your night Daniel?” she asked, after taking a drink of juice.
“Uh…Good…” he said blushing.
Jack glanced over at him, “Just good?”
Daniel glared at him before turning back to Sam, “Where are Marr and Hacen?”
.
“Someone came down a few minutes before you two got here and told us that they’d be a little late,” she smiled, and blushed lightly, “Apparently they didn’t get here until early this morning.”
“Then why weren’t we aloud to be a little late?” Jack asked, sliding a hand into the small of Daniel’s back. “I mean…we were the cause of that…we deserve to sleep in.”
The younger man looked uncomfortable for the first few moments, but then reluctantly relaxed into Jack’s touch, “Maybe because we want to make a good impression,” he said some how managing to look up at Jack from under his eyelashes, even though they were about the same height when they were sitting.
“MajorCarter and myself believed it would be harder to remove you from your bed, if allowed to sleep in, O’Neill,” Teal’c was smiling.
Daniel quickly started eating to avoid any looks or questions that might be sent his way from Sam. He just knew she was laughing her ass off, especially after she’d seen them earlier.
“Well damn. I’ve been found out,” Jack mumbled in a mock angry tone, pressing a small kiss to the linguist’s temple.
“It’s no wonder,” Daniel mumbled, his face burning. “You’re not trying to hide anything.”
“We’re not trying to hide anything Daniel,” Jack corrected, reaching for something that he hoped was a fruit. A ‘normal’ fruit, if he had any luck to spare. Getting the man he’d been after for so long was more luck then he was used to, “At least not here. We don’t need to. Teal’c’s ok with it. Carter’s ok with it-”
Sam mumbled something that sounded strangely like, “Carter is enjoying it,” but Daniel couldn’t be sure.
“-and I’m more then ok with it. A lot more then ok…So what’s there to worry about?”
“Going home,” Daniel whispered, looking down at his plate.
“Going home is not going to change a thing. I won’t let it. If it bothers you so much I can retire-”
“You can’t retire!
”
Sam was sure she was witnessing their first fight. If she’d only seen them last night, “Sir, he’s right. Thor likes you the best, and many of our other allies feel they can depend on you. If you leave the SCG, we might mess up and lose a lot of what we’ve worked for.”
“I believe MajorCarter is right. The process of training a new team member is a most difficult, and unpleasant experience I do not wish to go through,” Teal’c said looking disgusted at the thought.
Jack had to agree with them, even if he didn’t like to, “I’ll… think of something!”
“What if Hammond finds out?” Daniel asked worriedly. “I know he probably wouldn’t care but we can’t expect him to lie for us…”
“Daniel you know as well as I do that if it was for the good of the SGC, Hammond would let us get away with mass murder, and not mention a word of it,” Jack said, “And trust me, our relationship is for the good of the SGC. I get damn cranky if I haven’t had s-”
“Sir!” Carter stared in shock at her commanding officer.
“What?! It’s true!”
Daniel glanced over at Jack frowning, “Then who was keeping you in a good mood before me?”
“Uh…” Jack opened and closed his mouth several times, before settling on an answer he hoped would be good enough for Daniel, “No one! I was always in a bad mood.”
“No you weren’t,” the younger man countered, looking madder by the second, “Who were you with?!”
“For you information, my right hand!” Jack snarled, “And a picture of you!”
“Really?” Daniel blushed, looking surprised but pleased.
“Sir, I really didn’t need to know that.”
Jack looked up, “Uh…sorry about that Major. You can pretend I didn’t say it.”
Teal’c looked at his team mates with a raised eyebrow, but chose to say nothing.
“You really were thinking about me when you…” Daniel whispered, glancing at Jack’s lower regions, giving him a wary little grin.
Jack grinned and leaned in close enough to kiss the younger man’s nose, “Yes. Sometimes right in the SGC locker room before a mission. I can show you how it’s done sometime if you like…”
“Jaaack!”
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