"DANIEL JACKSON!"
The sound of her voice alone left everyone in the hallway feeling dread as they scrambled out of her way. Doctor Janet Frasier, though she was small, was a powerhouse that no one in their right mind would want to mess with. She had an understanding with needles. Period.
With everyone scurrying out of her way, Janet allowed herself an inward fiendish smile as she prowled down the hallway that led to the man in question's lab. She was furious; people knew that and so therefore were getting out of her way. She found that quite amusing…and also what her hurt ego needed.
Continuing to storm down the corridor, her heels madly clicking the ground, she watched as everyone pressed themselves to the walls and stood very still as she passed. Janet's mind acknowledged that she'd have to apologize to them later, but she didn't particularly care at the moment. She needed to vent her frustrations, and nothing was going to get done before that.
Daniel Jackson, at work in his lab, unfortunately hadn't heard her shout. Completely oblivious to his fate, he sat hunched over at his desk, an artifact from another planet before him. He had been at translating it since yesterday afternoon, and had only gone home very late at night after Janet had firmly, yet gently, insisted.
So he went home.
He then came back bright and early in the morning—well, it wasn't that bright at 3:00, but it certainly was early—and had continued working on it from where he had left off.
Just as he was adding a final note to his analysis of the artifact, however, someone forcefully threw his door open, making it hit the wall behind it with a loud bang. That sudden noise, in contrast with the peaceful silence his lab had been before, made the archeologist jump, knocking over his mug full of stone-cold coffee…right onto his notes.
"No!" the man cursed, and ran to save his hard work from the evils of the coffee, not even bothering to look at who had made the noise. That was Daniel's first mistake. His second was not putting his findings directly into the computer. He found, after wiping the stained and soaking papers off, that he could not read more than half of what he had just finished.
Mentally cursing himself, he finally looked up at the person in his doorway…and wished that he had never gone to work that day.
Janet Frasier, the one who always healed him good-naturedly after his injuries, was looking at him like he wasn't human. Her arms were folded over her chest, her normally beautiful face was distorted into a scowl, and her deep chocolate eyes were regarding him like he was a bug. He knew it did not look good for him.
Placing his soggy papers back on his newly dry desk, Daniel adjusted his glasses and decided to bite the bullet. "Janet? What's wrong?"
The woman huffed at him and took a step into his lab. "Sam just told me that you have a girlfriend who you're madly in love with," she said, her voice a combination of coolness and something else Daniel didn't recognize.
What she said shocked him. He didn't remember talking about his love life with Major Carter! Then the time Sam had come over to ask about a translation popped into his head and he recalled that she had stayed to chit-chat afterward. They had had beers…several beers.
Had she gotten him that drunk that he told her?
"Girlfriend? " he stammered out, looking up at her as he raked his fingers through his short brown hair. "Well, um, not an actual girlfriend…just someone I…like."
"And who is she?" the doctor demanded as she stepped towards him.
"Why do you want to know?" Daniel countered.
"Well, I…uh…" Janet was suddenly tongue-tied and found the floor very interesting.
Daniel looked at her, a soft expression on his face. "I won't tell you outright who it is, but I'll tell you what she's like…maybe you can figure it out from there. She's the strongest and most amazing person I know. She puts people first before herself, and she doesn't stop until she has performed every miracle that has been asked of her. She is determined, stubborn, and can hold her own against the toughest and biggest men."
Daniel paused. Blue eyes met brown…brown eyes that no longer held fury in them, but a slight dawning of understanding. "She doesn't complain because I get hurt a lot, and she heals all my injuries. She's there for me to talk about anything that happens to be on my mind, and is my rock whenever I need it. And for all this, I think I've fallen in love with her."
Janet's face fell into disbelief. "But it can't be…?"
Daniel nodded a little shyly, pushing his glasses up yet again. "It is, Janet. I don't know when it happened, but I think I've fallen for someone...and that someone's you."
"Me?" she said, walking slowly forward. The archeologist nodded, and that was all she needed. Taking his head in her hands, she leaned upward and kissed him lightly. "I thought it was someone else…" Janet confessed, liking the feeling of his arms around her, "…someone else I had to hunt down and destroy!" She said the last part with a wink.
"Nope," he said with a smile. "No one but you."
"Sam is gonna get it…later," Janet muttered under her breath, making Daniel laugh before he swooped down to claim her lips ardently once again.
Sam walked down the corridor that had Daniel's lab attached to it. She had been working on a new Naquadah reactor and had taken a break when she had heard from a passerby that Doctor Janet Frasier had stormed down that hallway to Doctor Jackson's lab. She wanted to see if either one needed saving…or if something had happened between them.
She had known before that Janet liked Daniel a lot—and she knew from their little talk before that Daniel really liked Janet. So, Sam just hadn't given Janet all the information she knew…just enough to get her frustrated enough to go over to his lab. Carter hoped that her small plan had worked, and subconsciously crossed her fingers.
Casually walking past Daniel's lab, she stopped right in the doorway and couldn't help smiling. It had worked! Her plan had actually worked! Janet and Daniel were both inside his lab…and instead of arguing, both were quite happily kissing the other…very passionately.
Deciding to give them some privacy, Sam left to find Teal'c. He owed her some money for this!
