In the middle of the night, darkness all around them, Daniel stirred, finding himself in an unfamiliar bed, with an even more unfamiliar source of heat in his arms. He slowly smiled as his fingers found long hair in a gentle exploration, and skin. Smiling in utter contentment that something he had never thought would happen had actually happened, he kissed the top of Sam's head in the darkness and felt her stir too.
Sam, happy too for all of his reasons and more, kissed his chest and then raised herself over him to kiss his lips. She couldn't help but giggle as his cheeky sense of humour surfaced and he played with her breasts during the embrace.
She switched the bedside light on and after they had become accustomed to the initial influx of light into their retinas, they smiled at each other. She remarked as she gazed down at him, tracing his lips with her fingers,
"I can't believe… this happened."
He replied with a mirroring smile, "Neither can I."
He sat up so he could hold her in his arms, and she asked in concern as she turned to face him, touching his jaw affectionately, "Daniel, what happened between us?"
Realising that she was referring to their relationship in general as opposed to the happenings of the past few hours, he shrugged, kissing her neck as he replied softly, his smile gone, "I don't know. We just… grew apart."
Now straddling his lap, she rested her head on his shoulder. "I hated every minute of it."
"So did I. I think it was the stress of a new enemy on the block… and everything appearing to go to hell. I'm sorry for pushing you away, Sam. I just couldn't handle it all."
She looked at him in surprise and said, shaking her head as she held his face in her hands, "Oh… no, Daniel…"
He shook his head. "No, don't tell me that it wasn't me. I really messed up. I got so caught up in everything that I forgot who I was, who my friends were." He gazed at her, his eyes looking troubled. "Can you ever forgive me, Sam?"
She hugged him, playing with his hair as she replied quietly, kissing his neck, "I won't forgive you because as far I can see, you didn't do anything. I guess I should have been more aware of everything and tried harder to reach you."
"It's not your fault. It never was. Things just got so complicated."
As they rested their foreheads together, their arms still around each other, she asked with a sudden cheeky smile, "Do you think things would have been different if we'd done this well before now?"
He kissed her and replied with his own smile, "I think so." His smile faded briefly. "I always thought it was you and Jack."
"And until Vala got with Cam, I thought it was you and Vala. You really have no idea how that affected me."
"Same here." He paused. "Me and Vala?!" He snorted. "Like that would happen. She'd drive me up the wall within a week."
She smiled in amusement as she rested her head on his shoulder, her hand on his chest as he gently ran his fingers up and down her back. He suddenly whispered with a cheeky smile,
"We're idiots."
She snickered. "Oh yeah. Well… theoretically, an idiot and an idiot cancel each other out which means…" she kissed him and smiled when he looked dazed, "… we're not idiots anymore."
"I like your logic. So…" he raised his eyebrows suggestively with an innocent smile, "… what do you want to do tomorrow?"
She grinned at him, remarking as he promptly blushed, "Play with the Doctor's sonic screwdriver."
They kissed and he retorted, his voice a little hoarse as they lay together in each other's arms, "Maybe Madame de Pompadour will make it to the TARDIS this time."
She laughed as he lay over her, and she asked, reaching up to smooth his neck, "So… whose idea was it for you to dress as the Doctor?"
He smiled as he nuzzled her neck, replying, "Teal'c's."
She groaned as his caresses intensified, and she remarked, her eyes closed as he drove her to the brink of ecstasy, "That is the last time I answer his seemingly innocuous questions about my TV preferences."
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The Madame de Pompadour and the Doctor thing, if it puzzles you, is from the series 2 Doctor Who episode, Girl in the Fireplace, where the Doctor (David Tennant) meets Madame de Pompadour in Paris and then at Versailles..