AUTHOR: .

DATE: 11/13/08

SUMMARY: Slash. Jack/Daniel with mentions of John/Rodney. Really AU.

What a Situation...

"We're supposed to be getting in an archeologist beamed in. A Daniel Jackson...do you know him Jack?" Rodney's early morning mumble cut across the table. The older general's head shot up quick at the mention of his old team mate, a dark look coming to his eyes.

"Yeah, I know him. We served together on Earth, old team mates." Though the words should have been fondly said they were laced with an odd bitterness none of them could guess at. None of them but Samantha Carter. She knew what made Jack sad and dark at the mention of Daniel...the same wound that made Daniel angry and sad when she mentioned Jack those rare times she saw Daniel now.

The fallout had been gruesome. It ripped both men involved in two, nearly breaking them both. In the end Jack had retired to Atlantis and Daniel had joined another SG group. After it was all over with she didn' know who to be more irritated with; Jack for letting Daniel walk away or Daniel for trying to play the martyr. Sam knew what happened, everyone in the base had found out what happened in the end. Well, after Jack had left and Daniel joined an out-of-Earth team that is.

Flashback-thingy

Jack O'Neill and Daniel Jackson had been lovers. Shocking as it was, the truth was evident when one actually looked. They stood too close, laughed too long, knew too much about the other...It was really obvious once you knew. Then General Laundry found out and it was his duty to inform Daniel that Jack could lose his job if their 'affair' continued. It wasn't the General's fault that it was that way, he had to do his job. He'd told Daniel first, to give him a chance to fix things. Danile had, in a way.

He came up to Jack in the cafeteria the next morning and told him things had to end. That he didn't care for Jack anymore, that he'd been nothing more than an affair. Neither looked at the other through out the talk or they would have seen how much it was costing them in self control not to break down. Once Daniel had finished his short explanation he'd stood and left the room without looking back. That was why he didn't see the rough and tough Jack O'Neill heart-broken, nearly crying were he was. Sam, who had watched the whole thing from the side-lines couldn't believe it. Daniel just didn't have flings, he loved deeply and truly.

She eventually got the whole story out of him. Daniel knew how much Jack cared about his career, knew he wouldn't risk it for anything. What Daniel didn't know was how much Jack cared about him. So much more than his career, more than just about everything. Daniel thought the best thing to do was to break it off with Jack so he could keep his job. Sam cursed him an idiot and stormed out when the story was over. She couldn't get over how stupid and insecure men could be at times.

End of Flashback-thingy

"Ahhh crap." That was all Sam could say at that moment. She just knew things would get interesting very soon. Rodney and John gave her a curious look, but she just shook her head and mouthed 'You'll see'. It was at this point, that over the intercom, they heard the announcement of arriving people.

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