Sorry the coding went crazy on this chapter. I haven't a clue what happened. This should fix it.
Just a short chapter with moody Jack.
Special thanks to the gorgeous 3StarJeneral for her input and encouragement.
Tags-The First Commandment
Jonas Hanson. Jonas Fucking Hanson. Jack snorted. He didn't regret that the man fell through the gate before the codes were sent, and splattered against the iris. No, that was exactly what Hanson deserved. What he did regret was that his fists didn't get to make contact with the man's face a few times before it happened. What could Carter have possibly seen in him? She'd said he'd been different, when they'd been engaged, but aside from a lobotomy or a snake in his head, there was no way anyone could be THAT different.
Jack took a long draw from his beer bottle and watched the lightning streak through the dark sky. The weather suited his mood. Carter had been engaged to that ass. How? More importantly, why? Had she really loved him? She'd said he was charming. What did that even mean? Charming? Charming or not, Hanson was so far out of Carter's league, they weren't even playing the same sport. The fact that he'd convinced her to marry him, or at least agree to marry him, as she apparently came to her senses and called it off, was baffling.
He made a mental list of the things Carter might have seen in Hanson: good looking, he supposed; alpha type, which some women found attractive; career military, which might not be so much a plus, as merely a common factor; fitness, which a Jack really decided went hand in hand with looks and the fact that the man had been military; age, though that one rankled him for reasons he'd rather not think about. It didn't add up. Oh, sure, in Carter world, she could probably find some way to prove that two plus two did in fact, equal five, but no way could she make her and Hanson add up. Had she felt pressured? Not by Hanson, he thought, a she was more likely to take him out in single combat, a thought that made Jack smile, but if not, then by whom? Society? She was of an age when many women were already married. He supposed it was considered the norm, but Carter was about the furthest thing from the norm he could possibly imagine. Her family? He didn't even know what family she had. He realized he knew very little about Carter's life outside the military. They'd shared that dinner a while back, but had mostly talked about their careers, not families. Jack generally steered clear of talking about his family, or lack thereof. Only Daniel, and now Hammond, knew about Charlie, and he was fairly certain they kept that to themselves. No, he definitely needed to find out more about Carter's family. Perhaps he'd check out her personnel file. He'd given it a brief glance, back when she first came on the team, but only to see what the scientist, as he'd thought of her then, had really done. He had to admit he'd been impressed, but he never read any of her actual personal information. Perhaps that would give him more insight into the whole Hanson nonsense.
Finishing off his beer, Jack stood, and wandered down the hall to his bedroom. He briefly wondered why he even cared. Why did this a Hanson thing bother him so much? If he were being honest with himself, he might admit to a smidgeon of jealousy. If. When it came to a certain Doctor Captain, or Captain Doctor, he wasn't sure, he was quickly realizing that being honest with himself wasn't something he should really do. Nope, not at all.