Raven couldn't help but laugh at the look on Daniel's face as her Mom turned on him. He knew that Sam was going to find out tonight, Raven had told him so after he had proposed. She figured that he hadn't realized that she would feel this way. They both knew that there would be difficulties in their relationship. Raven had been in love with Daniel since the first night they met. Sighing softly, she let her mind wander back through the years and the memories.
The first time they met was back in 1997 when the SGC had been formed and Sam and Jack had just been on their first mission together, bringing Daniel back to earth, and had found Teal'C. Jack, Sam and Daniel had all been invited to a private function where the president would be attending and Raven had begged her Mom to let her come with her as her 'date'. She was so excited to be going and once she was there, she found herself quite bored. No-one wanted to talk to a fifteen year old who was smarter than they were. Sitting quietly in the corner while everyone was talking, she looked up to see a gorgeous, yet sadly depressed man walking towards her. He softly said hello. Raven was too shy to say anything at first, but her memory told her that this had to be the infamous Daniel Jackson. She soon engaged him in a conversation ranging from his point of view on the Mayan culture to her theories on wormhole physics. As the night wore on, they exchanged numbers, each feeling that they could be close friends. Jack soon spotted them and dragged Daniel away muttering something under his breath about Raven being only fifteen.
They kept in contact via phone. At least once a week, one would contact the other. Raven knew that Daniel was looking for Shar're, his wife, and was not interested in her in a romantic way. She had her own distractions, having started the airforce academy, she was constantly having to prove that she deserved to be there. The teachers had no problem with her of course; she was top of every class she was taking. The other students however liked to give her a hard time, so she looked forward to talking with Daniel. He was her confidant. The one person she could tell how she really felt and not be told that it will get better and be worth it, or that it was her decision to join. If it passed the due day for their contact, she would start to worry, knowing that he would be offworld.
Finally Raven graduated and was asked to join the SGC. Almost immediately she jumped at the opportunity. Daniel had found Shar're only to loose her again after Teal'c killed her. Being at the SGC meant a lot to the both of them. He needed her for support just as she did after her first mission. Her first trip through the gate had been a disaster. The team she was on was ambushed and one of them died. Raven fought hard just to make it back to the gate alive. She had never been so scared in her life. While she was in the infirmary Daniel had come to see her. At the sight of him, she broke down, finally letting the tears flow that she had kept hidden. As he held her, she told him that she wanted to leave the SGC. Daniel looked her in the eye and told her that if she did that, it would be the first stupid thing he had ever seen her do. He explained that almost every mission was hard, you never got over it or forgot those that were lost, but you kept fighting just to make sure that they never died in vain. It was at that moment, Raven felt her love for Daniel start to grow.
As Raven and Daniel started to slowly get closer, Raven was asked if she would like to join SG-1. They both had known that something was going to happen between Sam and Jack, everyone just wished that they would have done something about it sooner. Their relationship didn't last though. Neither one of them wanted the other to give up their career so they decided that they had to move on. With Sam back on SG-1, Raven was placed with whichever team needed her expertise. The science department was always wanting to pick her brain as she had the same knowledge as her Mom. Daniel and Raven began spending most of their free time together and finally had to come clean to Jack when he caught them sharing a kiss in Daniel's lab. Since then they had been inseparable. Neither one of them cared about the age difference. All that mattered to them was that they loved each other. Now that Sam knew, they hoped that they would be allowed continue their relationship forward without having to sneak around and hide anything.
A hand on Raven's shoulder shook her out of her thoughts and she blinked a few times and saw that Jack was leaning over her.
"Are you ok? You don't seem to be enjoying yourself as much as you normally do."
Smiling, Raven gave him a reassuring kiss on the cheek.
"I'm good. I was just thinking."
Laughing at the look he gave her, Raven grinned and lent back in her chair watching her 'family'.