As he walked down the long hallway, Doctor Daniel Jackson was completely consumed in his own thoughts. For days, he had been trying to translate the tablets that SG-16 had brought back from P4X-650 only a few days earlier. It had not been as easy as he had initially thought, but at least now, he saw the light at the end of the tunnel. Now he was headed for the archives at sublevel 24, where he hoped to find just the last piece of information, so he could finally finish this pesky translation.
Now as he was rounding the corner, just a few doors down from the archives, he found himself sprawled on his back on the floor. "I have got to learn to watch where I am going," Daniel thought to himself as he slowly opened his eyes. When he opened his eyes and got his glasses pushed back on his nose, he was staring into the eyes of the most beautiful creature he had ever seen before. Deep blue eyes, long blonde hair pulled together in a ponytail, and the reddest natural lips a person can only dream about. She was wearing a white lab coat and with the light falling just right behind her she looked just like an angel. "I surely must have died and gone to heaven," was his immediate thought, but as soon as he had thought it, he could not contain the sudden blushing of his face. He then again closed his eyes, and hoped that it all was just a bad dream, and that he had not just embarrassed himself.
"Doctor Jackson? Are you okay? I have to learn to watch where I am going. I am so sorry!" the young blonde scientist was rambling as she reached out to give Jackson a hand to help him off the floor.
"No worries, it was entirely my fault," Jackson said after getting back on his feet. He was now bending over to help the captain picking up the stack of file folders that now was strewn across the hallway. "Thank you, Sir!" she said as she took the folders handed to her by Jackson. A strange feeling, like electricity, was running through Jackson as their hands slightly touched. She gave him a small smile as she turned and hurriedly walked away.
"What a cutie!" she silently thought.
The incident far from forgotten, Jackson walked to the archives and continued on with his workday.
Back in his office, and finished with the translation, Jackson now just sat at his desk, again consumed in his own thoughts. "You ready?" Major Carter said as she knocked gently on the open door to the office. "Huh?" the doctor said. "Are you ready, Daniel?" she repeated. "What? For what?" Jackson fidgeted with a few papers on the desk, trying to recall what exactly it was he was supposed to be ready for. "Um… Lunch! Team! Commissary! Forget?" Carter said with a slight smile. "Oh, yeah, oh," Jackson said "Sure, yeah, I am coming." Jackson got up, and along with Carter, he headed for the commissary. "What is wrong with me? It is not as if I haven't ever met a beautiful woman before. Then why can't I stop thinking about her. Come on, Jackson; get her out of your head. She is probably taken already, and if not, why would she want a geeky scientist?" Jackson thought as they walked along the corridors of the SGC. Although he was trying to make himself stop thinking about the blonde woman he had bumped into earlier in the day, he just could not keep his mind off her. "…that was pretty ridiculous, wouldn't you say so, Daniel? Daniel, are you with me? Daniel, where did you go?" Carter said as she stopped and turned a full one-eighty looking for her friend who she seemed to have lost. As she turned, she saw that Jackson had suddenly, for no apparent reason, stopped walking. He was standing there, arms crossed with one hand on his chin, staring at the floor. "Huh? Oh sorry Sam, just thinking." Jackson said as he walked briskly to catch up with his teammate. "What's got you so wrapped up in thoughts today? Anything I can do to help?" she asked. "No, no it is nothing." Jackson said as they continued their walk. No way was he going to admit that he had a school boys crush on a woman he had only just met. In addition, no one could really call that a meeting anyway.
At the commissary, their team members, Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c, met them and they sat down to eat their lunch. The team had made a habit of meeting for lunch several times per week, for no other reason than just hanging out. They were so much more than just a team, and through the years, they have come to respect and honor each other just like a family. No other SG team had such closeness, and from time to time SG-1 had experience a slight jealousy from other teams. It never did bother the members of SG-1 though. They were all content with their close friendship with the other team members. None of them really had anyone else. Both Carter and Jackson were too busy with work that they have never really had time for a personal life. Teal'c had left his family behind on Chulak to help SG-1 fight to free the Jaffa from slavery. And O'Neill haven't had a personal life since he had lost his son to a fatal accident before going to Chulak the first time, and then only came home to find that his wife had left him. Now they all relied on each other, as only friends and family can.
Today, they were enjoying their lunch while talking about future missions, and trying to think of things they could do together this coming weekend. It had been a couple of especially grueling weeks and they had been promised three days of downtime, starting Friday at 1600 hours. They were to report for duty Tuesday morning.
Jackson was again lost in thought and could not really get into the conversation, which caused the rest of the team to worriedly glance at their friend from time to time throughout their meal. It was not as if they did not know that when Jackson was thinking about work he would go to a far away place inside his own brain. However, for some reason this time it was different. No one could put a finger on it, but it was different. Jackson had barely touched his food, and he just sat there staring at nothing, somewhere on the wall behind O'Neill and Teal'c. They all knew that there would be no point in dragging Jackson back to reality, so they just let him sit until he would pull out of it by himself.
The three teammates had all agreed that a camping slash fishing trip was what they all needed, so they were now just finishing up with their last decisions to be made. Who to bring what, and where exactly they were going. They knew that Jackson had not heard one word of the conversation, although he did let out small grunts of agreement. "We will fill you in later, Daniel." O'Neill said as he gave the doctor a curious look. "Huh? Oh sure, okay," Jackson said, not really knowing what had been said. Just then, she, the very attractive scientist, walked through the door to the commissary. Jackson dropped his fork on to his plate with a very large clang, and his face immediately turned a crimson red. His friends followed his gaze and located who Jackson was looking at. O'Neill looked at Jackson, then at the scientist, then back at Jackson. "Hmmm…" O'Neill said with a small smile as they all returned to stare at the young woman. She was standing by the bulletin board, and was in the process of hanging up a small note. "Hmmm…" O'Neill said again as he turned around to look at his friends. "Pretty. Don't you think so, Daniel?" he said with a sly grin on his face. "Yes, she is. I mean... what? Ummm… I really didn't look." Daniel answered with a stutter, feeling his face become hot again. His friends were all looking at him with knowing smiles. Then quickly they all got back to their conversation about the upcoming camping trip. All knowing not to pressure the very shy archeologist. Jackson again back in his own thoughts. "What is going on with me? Sure, I have had crushes before, but this is somehow different. I have never even felt like this before. It is not like I have had a lot of crushes, maybe it is just because I am older that it feels different…" his thoughts trailed off as his eye caught the small piece of paper on the bulletin board. "I will have to check that out later. No need to give the gang any more material for jokes right now." Jackson smiled as he started getting back to reality. And when he finally looked around at the faces of his teammates, he realized that they were all looking at him. "What?" he asked with a whine and curious look on his face. "Nothing!" they all answered in unison as they each scurried to clean up the table and take their trays to the nearby trashcan. As Jackson walked his tray to the bin, he passed the table now occupied by the stunning young woman. He had not even realized where she had gone, until he suddenly heard her familiar voice. "Doctor." she said with a slight nod of her head. Jackson was so surprised that he only managed to mutter a nearly inaudible "Doctor!" before he hurriedly disposed of his tray and met up with his friends at the door. All of whom greeted him with knowing smiles.
Doctor Jessica Swenson was having lunch with a couple of her colleagues, whom were now all giving her curious looks. There had never been a woman in the history of the SGC who had not had thoughts about the handsome Doctor Jackson. However, they had all concluded that he was a lost cause as he was clearly either gay or married to his job. Today was the beginning of Swenson's second week at the SGC, and although she was assigned to Doctor Jackson's department, today was the first time she had actually met the famed doctor. She had of course heard many stories during her first week, but she had dismissed the stories, as no one person could be as wonderful as her colleagues had described him. Yet she had not been able to get her mind off him since her meeting him in the hallway early in the morning. She had only come in to hang a note on the bulletin board, but decided to accept an invitation to join her new friends for lunch. She had not noticed the doctor until after she was seated at the table and started listening to her friends talk about the handsome man. She had turned around and noticed the doctor seated at a table only a few yards away. Her heart had immediately done a little jump, and she was sure she had blushed. When the doctor walked past her to leave, it took all she had to get one word out. He had mumbled something back, but it was so low that she could not make out what he had said. She felt a little tinge in her heart when she had realized that he did not even know she existed. "Forget about him Jess, you have a career to take care of. Just forget him!" she thought as she got her tray ready to leave the commissary to go back to the lab.