fic- "A Little Gift" Stargate SG-1 Part 10
Title: A Little Gift
Author: CJ aka WritinginCT
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Pairing: Jack/Daniel
Rating: Teen - PG13
Warnings: Slash, Romance, Humor
Disclaimer: I don’t own the recognizable characters I’m just inspired by them. Hopefully they’ve had fun playing in my sandbox.
Comments: A friend of Daniel’s is leaving the SGC and gives Jack & Daniel a little gift.
Notes: This fic is a Jack/Daniel relationship storyline along with an OFC/OMC relationship storyline. Because the folks at the SGC know that life is too short not to be with the one you love.
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Jack had to wake Roslyn from the grip of another nightmare. This time though she couldn’t shake it off and although she was awake her body gave into the terror and she started trembling violently.
Jack didn’t know if it were necessarily the right thing to do or not but he just pulled her into his arms and held her tightly, murmuring soothing words. After what seemed like an eternity her shaking stopped. He looked down and saw a look he had never seen on her face. It was look of loss and longing. She had unshed tears filling her eyes and it was the saddest thing he had ever seen outside of his ex-wife’s face when their son had died. He wondered what she was thinking about.
“You wanna talk about it?”
A wane smirk flashed for an instant on her face, “I had a date to talk to Daniel about it, I sorta missed it.”
“Calvorn?”
“Yeah.” She explained about Mianash and Livvan and the whole incredibly impossible situation.
“So they asked you to be the new host?”
She pulled away from and sat up to look him face to face, “No. They didn’t. I hadn’t even thought about that possibility. I was wrapped in the idea that there was no way I could ever be with Calvorn once they found Mianash a new host. It just wouldn’t work.”
“I’m surprised, the first time we met the Tok’ra they were hounding us to be hosts.”
“Maybe they don’t think I’m a suitable candidate.”
“Oh please. But seriously, is it really something you would consider?”
“I don’t know. I hadn’t thought about it. Guess it’s a moot point now. I’m never going to see him again.”
“Hey. Don’t you give up on me. We’ve gotten out of worse.”
“I just don’t know how much more my body can take, Jack. It may not be up to me.”
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The second night Jack and Roslyn were missing the others had to halt their search for them when a strong desert sand storm blew through the area. They battened down close to the rock walls and waited out the storm that blew all night.
First light dawned across their camp and Teal’c instantly went on alert when he heard someone approaching. Two robed figured made their way into the campsite, one was absolutely enormous, out shadowing even Teal’c impressive stature.
The giant kept repeating “friend” over and over and seemed more concerned with the other robed figure than any of them. When the smaller figure pushed back the hood obscuring any features, they were all shocked. It was a woman. Who looked remarkably like Roslyn, so much so that Daniel did a double take until he realized as she opened her cloak that the woman was very pregnant.
Once the giant had settled the woman down as comfortably as she could get he started speaking very quickly. Daniel and Calvorn were the only two that had a basic understanding of his language and they tried to sort out what he was saying so quickly.
He finally managed to convey that he knew where Jack and Roslyn were and that they were being held by a Gou’ald. He wanted them to watch over his woman while he went back for them.
Daniel and the others spoke at length about this turn of events.
The giant, named Keenal, insisted that he would be able to get Jack and Roslyn out safely by himself. Unfortunately the Gou’ald holding them would be able to sense the naquadah in the others making it impractical for them to help.
They formulated a quick plan. Sam and Calvorn would take Keenal’s wife back to the oasis settlement and see if they could rally some reinforcements and get them back to ptegu quickly. Teal’c would go part way with Keenal and provide assistance if needed. And Daniel and Jacob would continue searching ptegu to hopefully learn its secrets before any more goa’uld arrive.
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Daniel was not happy with the plan. He wanted to go with Keenal to rescue Jack and Roslyn. He just couldn’t get over the feeling that something really horrible was happening to them both and he should be with them. If anything ever happened to Roslyn he wouldn’t forgive himself. He was the one that brought her to the SGC in the first place.
He thought about the first time he saw her back in college. She was sitting on the concrete steps to the building housing the English department. She had looked up from the book she was reading and gave him a shy smile. Everyone else up to that point had looked at his sixteen year old self like he was a sideshow freak, but she just smiled being in the same boat. They turned out to have several mandatory classes together that even their brilliance couldn’t get them out of taking. They became friends, confidants, even lovers. And Daniel was able to admit now after all these years that maybe there could have been more if they both hadn’t been so scared. But instead they just held onto each other through the good and bad times.
He knew that their relationship now was stronger than it had ever been. And because he knew that, he could admit that he knew that he had hurt her terribly ten years ago. She had been trying to pick up the pieces of her life after a man that she had been desperately in love with stole all of her doctoral research and claimed it for his own. Thomas had been about ten years older than her, but it didn’t matter in her eyes. She loved him to distraction and when he ended things after stealing her work by telling her that he never cared about her and that he was just using her, Roslyn shut down. Her work in ruins, her name a laughingstock, she had no one to turn to but Daniel. And he held her though the tears, and the depression, and trying to figure out what she was going to do next.
She had finally gotten excited over an opportunity to go to Afghanistan for two months during the summer on a work trip to help preserve some of the oldest historical sites in the country. Somehow she managed to obtain permission for Daniel to accompany the expedition. Everything was planned and they were both looking forward to the trip. Then he met Sara and suddenly his life became very convoluted. Sara immediately disliked Roslyn and was jealous of any time Daniel spent with her. Roslyn took everything in stride. And he suspected that Sara had made some not-so-subtle comments to Roslyn when he wasn’t around. Roslyn never said anything, just kept reminding him about the trip.
Sara hadn’t wanted him to go since she first heard about the trip. He was also man enough now to realize that back then she led him around by the nose, or in actuality a portion of his anatomy that was much lower. The night before he and Roslyn were supposed to leave Sara waved a very large carrot in front of him, a trip to Egypt with her to work a dig that his parents had started years ago.
He would never forget the devastated look in Roslyn’s eyes when he went to her apartment the morning they were supposed to leave and told her he wasn’t going. She didn’t say a word to him, just nodded and put her knapsack in the cab to go to the airport. When he came back from Egypt at the end of the summer he could sense that something in Roslyn had changed and their relationship was strained. His relationship with Sara was also strained and soon broke under the pressure. Roslyn was there for him, although he felt a distance between them that had never been there before. Slowly they found a common ground they were both comfortable with, and it provided the foundation for the unshakeable relationship they had now.
Daniel had loved and cared about Roslyn for over half his life and didn’t know what he would do if something happened to her.
Jack was another story entirely. He needed Jack like he needed air to breathe. They completed each other in ways that he had never though possible with another person, let alone another man. With Jack he had a home and a family. They wanted a future together, a forever together.
Daniel couldn’t allow himself to think too much about Jack right now, he needed to be able to think clearly and not be guided by his emotions. And although he didn’t like the plan to rescue them, he knew it was the best shot given the circumstances.
He glanced over to where Sam, Calvorn, and Keenal’s wife Gana were packing up for the trip back to the oasis. Gana’s resemblance to Roslyn was almost spooky, and Daniel had to bite back a little smile as he wondered if that would be how Roslyn would look pregnant.
The three parties went their separate ways and Daniel and Jacob went back to the task of finding ptegu’s secret.
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Chapter List for A Little Gift
Author: CJ aka WritinginCT
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Pairing: Jack/Daniel
Rating: Teen - PG13
Warnings: Slash, Romance, Humor
Disclaimer: I don’t own the recognizable characters I’m just inspired by them. Hopefully they’ve had fun playing in my sandbox.
Comments: A friend of Daniel’s is leaving the SGC and gives Jack & Daniel a little gift.
Notes: This fic is a Jack/Daniel relationship storyline along with an OFC/OMC relationship storyline. Because the folks at the SGC know that life is too short not to be with the one you love.
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Jack had to wake Roslyn from the grip of another nightmare. This time though she couldn’t shake it off and although she was awake her body gave into the terror and she started trembling violently.
Jack didn’t know if it were necessarily the right thing to do or not but he just pulled her into his arms and held her tightly, murmuring soothing words. After what seemed like an eternity her shaking stopped. He looked down and saw a look he had never seen on her face. It was look of loss and longing. She had unshed tears filling her eyes and it was the saddest thing he had ever seen outside of his ex-wife’s face when their son had died. He wondered what she was thinking about.
“You wanna talk about it?”
A wane smirk flashed for an instant on her face, “I had a date to talk to Daniel about it, I sorta missed it.”
“Calvorn?”
“Yeah.” She explained about Mianash and Livvan and the whole incredibly impossible situation.
“So they asked you to be the new host?”
She pulled away from and sat up to look him face to face, “No. They didn’t. I hadn’t even thought about that possibility. I was wrapped in the idea that there was no way I could ever be with Calvorn once they found Mianash a new host. It just wouldn’t work.”
“I’m surprised, the first time we met the Tok’ra they were hounding us to be hosts.”
“Maybe they don’t think I’m a suitable candidate.”
“Oh please. But seriously, is it really something you would consider?”
“I don’t know. I hadn’t thought about it. Guess it’s a moot point now. I’m never going to see him again.”
“Hey. Don’t you give up on me. We’ve gotten out of worse.”
“I just don’t know how much more my body can take, Jack. It may not be up to me.”
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The second night Jack and Roslyn were missing the others had to halt their search for them when a strong desert sand storm blew through the area. They battened down close to the rock walls and waited out the storm that blew all night.
First light dawned across their camp and Teal’c instantly went on alert when he heard someone approaching. Two robed figured made their way into the campsite, one was absolutely enormous, out shadowing even Teal’c impressive stature.
The giant kept repeating “friend” over and over and seemed more concerned with the other robed figure than any of them. When the smaller figure pushed back the hood obscuring any features, they were all shocked. It was a woman. Who looked remarkably like Roslyn, so much so that Daniel did a double take until he realized as she opened her cloak that the woman was very pregnant.
Once the giant had settled the woman down as comfortably as she could get he started speaking very quickly. Daniel and Calvorn were the only two that had a basic understanding of his language and they tried to sort out what he was saying so quickly.
He finally managed to convey that he knew where Jack and Roslyn were and that they were being held by a Gou’ald. He wanted them to watch over his woman while he went back for them.
Daniel and the others spoke at length about this turn of events.
The giant, named Keenal, insisted that he would be able to get Jack and Roslyn out safely by himself. Unfortunately the Gou’ald holding them would be able to sense the naquadah in the others making it impractical for them to help.
They formulated a quick plan. Sam and Calvorn would take Keenal’s wife back to the oasis settlement and see if they could rally some reinforcements and get them back to ptegu quickly. Teal’c would go part way with Keenal and provide assistance if needed. And Daniel and Jacob would continue searching ptegu to hopefully learn its secrets before any more goa’uld arrive.
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Daniel was not happy with the plan. He wanted to go with Keenal to rescue Jack and Roslyn. He just couldn’t get over the feeling that something really horrible was happening to them both and he should be with them. If anything ever happened to Roslyn he wouldn’t forgive himself. He was the one that brought her to the SGC in the first place.
He thought about the first time he saw her back in college. She was sitting on the concrete steps to the building housing the English department. She had looked up from the book she was reading and gave him a shy smile. Everyone else up to that point had looked at his sixteen year old self like he was a sideshow freak, but she just smiled being in the same boat. They turned out to have several mandatory classes together that even their brilliance couldn’t get them out of taking. They became friends, confidants, even lovers. And Daniel was able to admit now after all these years that maybe there could have been more if they both hadn’t been so scared. But instead they just held onto each other through the good and bad times.
He knew that their relationship now was stronger than it had ever been. And because he knew that, he could admit that he knew that he had hurt her terribly ten years ago. She had been trying to pick up the pieces of her life after a man that she had been desperately in love with stole all of her doctoral research and claimed it for his own. Thomas had been about ten years older than her, but it didn’t matter in her eyes. She loved him to distraction and when he ended things after stealing her work by telling her that he never cared about her and that he was just using her, Roslyn shut down. Her work in ruins, her name a laughingstock, she had no one to turn to but Daniel. And he held her though the tears, and the depression, and trying to figure out what she was going to do next.
She had finally gotten excited over an opportunity to go to Afghanistan for two months during the summer on a work trip to help preserve some of the oldest historical sites in the country. Somehow she managed to obtain permission for Daniel to accompany the expedition. Everything was planned and they were both looking forward to the trip. Then he met Sara and suddenly his life became very convoluted. Sara immediately disliked Roslyn and was jealous of any time Daniel spent with her. Roslyn took everything in stride. And he suspected that Sara had made some not-so-subtle comments to Roslyn when he wasn’t around. Roslyn never said anything, just kept reminding him about the trip.
Sara hadn’t wanted him to go since she first heard about the trip. He was also man enough now to realize that back then she led him around by the nose, or in actuality a portion of his anatomy that was much lower. The night before he and Roslyn were supposed to leave Sara waved a very large carrot in front of him, a trip to Egypt with her to work a dig that his parents had started years ago.
He would never forget the devastated look in Roslyn’s eyes when he went to her apartment the morning they were supposed to leave and told her he wasn’t going. She didn’t say a word to him, just nodded and put her knapsack in the cab to go to the airport. When he came back from Egypt at the end of the summer he could sense that something in Roslyn had changed and their relationship was strained. His relationship with Sara was also strained and soon broke under the pressure. Roslyn was there for him, although he felt a distance between them that had never been there before. Slowly they found a common ground they were both comfortable with, and it provided the foundation for the unshakeable relationship they had now.
Daniel had loved and cared about Roslyn for over half his life and didn’t know what he would do if something happened to her.
Jack was another story entirely. He needed Jack like he needed air to breathe. They completed each other in ways that he had never though possible with another person, let alone another man. With Jack he had a home and a family. They wanted a future together, a forever together.
Daniel couldn’t allow himself to think too much about Jack right now, he needed to be able to think clearly and not be guided by his emotions. And although he didn’t like the plan to rescue them, he knew it was the best shot given the circumstances.
He glanced over to where Sam, Calvorn, and Keenal’s wife Gana were packing up for the trip back to the oasis. Gana’s resemblance to Roslyn was almost spooky, and Daniel had to bite back a little smile as he wondered if that would be how Roslyn would look pregnant.
The three parties went their separate ways and Daniel and Jacob went back to the task of finding ptegu’s secret.
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Chapter List for A Little Gift