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Daniel sighed has he pulled at his Greek style toga. It was a beautiful shade of medium bright blue with copper trim. Daniel knew all it was, was just a long piece of cloth, but he looked stunning in it, even with his glasses still on.
He glanced over at Prince Marr was walking toward him, followed by two older men. He was wearing an emerald green, long loose shirt with an extra sheet of lighter green attached to the shirt at his left shoulder and went down to his waist at the right, and continued to drape down to his ankles. If it were not for the matching emerald pants he wore, Daniel would be able to see everything the prince had to offer and so would everyone else.
"Danyel! This is my father King Sonal and his Mate Rence. My beloved father, this is Danyel Jackson who has come through the circle of gods, with three others. They battle to stop the false gods."
The King was very old and his husband was as old as he or older. They both were wearing silver and gold clothes about their aged bodies, and the King wore a silver and gold, circular pedant around his neck, that had a diamond in the very center, "You are the first to come through the circle without a god, and only the second to have courage to say they are false with us," the King said as his golden eyes took in Daniel's form.
"He truly hates the false gods father, and has been hurt by them greatly, many times. Will you do us the honor of joining him and his companions this night at the meal?"
The King smiled weakly, "I am sorry my son, but I am far too old to stay awake so late in the evening. I am almost asleep on my feet where I stand. Tomorrow at mid-day meal, I will talk with Danyel and his companions."
Daniel saw that Marr was getting angry, so he quickly jumped in, "Good King Sonal, I look forward to speaking with you at tomorrow's mid-day meal. I am most grateful that you would find time to speak with my friends and me."
The king's mate smirked, his silver eyes glancing over at Marr, "You are a peace keeper, not a fighter. Why do you wish to stop the false gods if it is not your nature?"
"The false gods know nothing of peace, so to keep peace, they must be destroyed, Good Mate of the King."
Sonal smiled, "You are wise, yet you are young. I will enjoy meeting with you, but now I must rest." With that the King and his mate went on down the hall.
Marr turned to and watched them go, "You should not try to please him so. He is a fool."
Daniel was shocked, "Prince Marr, he's your father."
"He is controlling, and I do all that I can to ignore what he says I can do, and do what he says I can not. Come Danyel, the others will be waiting for us."
Once in the meal hall, Daniel took the seat that was right next to Marr, because the younger man had made him. The archeologist looked down the table and saw that Teal'c was seated on the left side with a man that 'looked' about his age, who was cuddling fondly with him, and the bigger man didn't seem to mind. If anything he looked like he was enjoying himself.
Sam was sitting with a bright red haired girl with teal eyes on the right side and looked more than happy. The red head was smiling at her, and whispering things in her ear while dishing different foods onto their plates. Sometimes she would take some food and hold up to Sam's mouth for her to eat, which the Major did with a smile.
At the very end of the table Jack was setting with a man, who seemed to be glued to his side and was constantly sliding a hand over Jack's abdomen affectionately. To Daniel's shock the Colonel seemed to be encouraging the touches, by leaning into the other man and whispering things.
Marr seemed to be notice that too, "Jack O'Neill, you are enjoying yourself so far?"
"Y-" Jack cleared his throat, "Yeah! Place is great. People are 'very' friendly. I think I've found a new place to retire."
Daniel felt something twist inside of him. However he saw the anger flashed in the prince's eyes and pushed his own feelings down, "Hacen! I will have a word with you after the meal, is that understood?"
The man's head snapped up, "My Lord?"
"Understood!"
The jealously in Marr's voice was easily heard. Daniel looked across at Jack again and he felt the same thing.
"Of course my Lord!" The man stilled his hand but did not remove it from Jack's waist.
The prince continued to glare at the other man and soon the hand was removed, and the man bowed his head shamefully.
Daniel noted that the rest of the meal was awkwardly silent and when Marr had finished eating, he got to his feet and walked angrily into a side room, leaving the door open.
'Hacen' whispered something to Jack, before standing and followed the prince into the room, closing the door.
"Teal'c? What just happened?" Jack asked watching the door with vexed eyes.
"It would seem the prince still feels for his Trainer, O'Neill. They were very much in love, until his father forbid them from seeing each other."
"The whole world seemed like it was covered in shadow when that happened, remember my Teal'c?" the man next to the Jaffa asked sadly.
"I remember," the woman said next to Major Carter. "We thought that the dark days would never end. Ones who live right next to the castle and next to Hacen's house say they still haven't."
An hour later, the door still hadn't opened and everyone was starting to worry. Jack moved to get up but the two natives told him he must not interfere.
"What if Hacen's being hurt?" he asked.
The woman next to Carter shook her head, "The prince will not kill him. I doubt he could even find it in himself to strike him."
As she finished speaking, the door opened and Hacen ran out of the meal hall and outside, Marr came out soon after calling his name.
"Danyel," Marr looked over at the man, still sitting at the head of the table where he had been left, "I am sorry but I can not test you any longer. My heart belongs to him. Do you understand?"
"Test me?" Realization dawned on the blue eyed man, "You were going to court me!"
"You did not know?" Marr was confused and shocked.
Daniel glared at him, "You never asked me!"
"I thought-"
"I believe the more time you spend talking to DanielJackson, the farther Hacen gets from you. If you are going to catch him, you must leave immediately," Teal'c said softly.
Marr nodded and with one last look at Daniel, jogged out of the hall.
The girl next to Carter smiled widely, "There will be a bonding ceremony at the end of this week. I am almost sure of it. Come Samantha. It is time for bed."
Teal'c's mate got to his feet and helped Teal'c to his, "You will come also, for it is been long over due for you to be in our bed."
Daniel frowned and rubbed his face, "Great. I don't know where I'm supposed to sleep."
Jack thought, "Uh…you can stay over at my place. Only one bed but I can sleep on the floor, in another room. I won't say a word to you."
For a moment Daniel glared at him angrily, but then he noticed how Jack looked upset and regretful and he softened a little, "I guess I have no other choice."
Jack nodded and led the way to the building where his rooms were. He didn't dare look at Daniel, because he knew it would set the other man off, and talking was out too, because he doubted the other man even wanted to be on the same planet as him.
Once inside he walked over to one of the closed off sections and pointed to Daniel and then through the doorway.
"You can tell me where everything is," Daniel mumbled. He just wanted this to be over as soon as possible.
"Bedroom. Bathroom is through there," he said pointing, still not meeting Daniel's eyes.
He walked into the bedroom and grabbed three of the pillows off the bed and brought them out into the entrance room, and set up a little place by a potted plant. Jack made sure the cushions were in the right positions before crawling onto them and curling up so he was facing away from Daniel.
Daniel watched him, his heart clinching in his chest, leaving an uneasy cold feeling behind, "Do you love him?"
"I could've been happy with him, but I don't love the guy," Jack mumbled.
Blue eyes rested on the older man's back, "I didn't know you were bisexual."
"Why? Are you bothered by it? Guess it doesn't matter though does it? You were bothered by me long before you knew this."
"Jack…" Daniel started his heart clinched again.
"Don't Daniel. I'm tired. I've already decided to retire…for good when we get back home. It's better that way. No one has to lie for me then."
The younger man's eyes widened, "Jack…you can't…"
Turning over Jack sighed, "What? 'Can't leave?' I can't stay either. The SGC isn't where I need to be anymore."
"Jack, being bisexual isn't wrong," Daniel tried, "You don't have to go."
"I need to get out of the program. I can't stay around where…" Jack sighed, "I need to move on."
"No you don't," he saw Jack flinch and he sighed, "I'm sorry."
"For what happened at my house? Don't be. It was my fault. I had dreams for me…and this old friend of mine."
Daniel crossed his arms over his chest, frowning and acting a little snarky, "Oh yeah?"
Jack nodded, "Yeah…See…I was going to tell him that I loved him…but I screwed that up too."
Daniel's mind stopped, trying to wrap itself around what Jack had just admitted.
"So I'm leaving. I can't stand be around the guy I'm in love with, because…he hates me. I can't live like that."
"You love…" Daniel stared at Jack's back, "Why didn't you say something?"
"To him? I can't. He's out there…I left him behind, because I loved him and I couldn't admit it to myself, let alone him. So I ran off. Now I've lost him for good."
Daniel was silently giving himself a hug, feeling like a jerk. Jack had been trying his best to say he was sorry, and he'd yelled at him. At the guy he loved.
"I deserve to loose him though. He doesn't need me around, screwing his life up. He probably would have been disgusted by me liking him any way."
Daniel swallowed the lump in his throat, "You don't know that."
"We were friends. That was it. He wouldn't wan to know I thought he made a hell of a lot hotter archeologist that Harrison Ford. Or that I actually enjoyed his meaning-of-life stuff sometimes."
Daniel moved over by Jack "You really mean that?"
Jack looked up into his eyes, "Yeah…And I'm going to miss you…" Jack whispered.
Daniel kneeled down next to the colonel, "Jack, you can't leave, because…"
"Don't try to make this any harder for me Daniel. Please? I just want to-"
"No!" the younger man snapped, "You can't leave, because I…can't go through the Stargate…without knowing you're going to be there."
"Why not? I thought I was ignoring you? Why would it matter if I was there or not?"
"Because, I don't think I would survive getting captured, by evil aliens, unless you were there to reassure me that we'd get out ok. Sometimes…you were all I had…" shyly Daniel bent down and kissed him on the lips.
Jack inhaled sharply, when Daniel kissed him, despite begin ready for it. He once again felt awkward like he had with Hacen, and didn't kiss back.
Daniel pulled away, "I shouldn't have-"
"No!" Jack propped himself up on his elbow as Daniel sat back, "I'm just not…used to kissing…guys…"
Daniel looked into the dark brown eyes of the man on his side, before him, "You want to tr-"
"Yes!" Jack said quickly, blushing at his eagerness, "But can I…start? I think it might help."
Daniel nods, and licks his lips subconsciously.
Jack smiles at action. Pushing himself up, he carefully reaches out and brushes his fingers along Daniel's neck, up over his chin and to his lips, giving them a light caress. Daniel presses his lips to the fingers as they pass, and Jack grins, and finally leans in. He started with licking at Daniel's pouting mouth, but soon stepped up to devouring as much of the man below him as he could before he had to come up for air.
"Daniel?" Jack asked in a quiet voice, "Ok?"
"Oh Gawd, yes Jack," he said breathily, before leaning in and kissing him again.
When they broke apart again Jack smiled and pressed his forehead against Daniel's, "I need to tell you something else."
"What?"
"Do you think you could get one of those hats and a whip like Harrison Ford had?"
Daniel laughed aloud and smacked his arm playfully, "Shut up and kiss me…Jonathan."
Jack mock glared at him, "Don't call me that, Spacemonkey."
"That's Dr. Spacemonkey to you, Colonel," Daniel whispered against his lips.
The older man moaned as Daniel started to kiss him again. He buried his hands in the linguist's short brown hair, "Say it again."
"Colonel! Daniel!" came Carter's shocked voice from behind them.
Daniel jumped at Carter's voice and fell into the Jack's chest, turning his head up to see his friend, "Uh…hi Sam," Daniel blushed.
"Carter! Why'd you have to go and ruin the moment, huh?"
"I'm sorry Sir, it's just that I never really expected you and Daniel to get together. I always thought you would go 'round and 'round with one another."
"'Round and 'Round?" Jack asked glancing at Daniel, "Carter…What have you been keeping from us?"
"Sam, you mean to tell us you've known the whole time we've liked each other and you never mentioned it?"
She shrugged, "I was just keeping it to myself like you each told me to."
"But we liked each other Carter!"
Daniel nodded, "There's a difference Sam. When you know that two people have a crush on one another, and they're scared to tell the other, you 'should' 'let the cat out of the bag'."
"I tried Daniel. I didn't come out and say it but, didn't you both think it was weird that I would talk to one of you and then the other so much?"
Jack frowned, and thinking back, found that it had been sort of weird that during the time he wasn't speaking to Daniel that Carter had become really close with the both of them, "Does that mean you really didn't want to come over and watch the game with me all those times?"
Daniel pulled back from Jack, glaring at him, "You wanted to spend time with her and not me and you liked me!"
"It's complicated," Jack whispered, looking away from Daniel.
"Well since you already know that he likes you, the Colonel had some 'dreams' about you starting a few months back and he got scared, thinking that if he ignored you they'd go away."
"And they didn't? Did?" the doctor tried.
"Didn't. Of course he'd also started noticing that you looked good in your blue BDUs, which you do by the way, and started sticking up for you whenever someone on base started making fun of you. By sticking up, I mean he was planning their untimely and painful deaths."
Jack was playing with the corner of the pillow, "I also kinda realized I'd been taking you out to dinner at some really nice places."
"I didn't realize it. I just thought you wanted to go somewhere different," Daniel smiled softly. "But I was impressed."
Jack leaned up to kiss Daniel, but paused when he heard a yell.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Hacen ran quickly into the room and got behind Jack, pushing Daniel away in the process. "He will not leave me alone! You must protect me!"
Daniel glared at Hacen, "You! Get away from Jack"
"Hacen! Stop running from me!" Marr said coming into the room. His green eyes started to burn a hole in Jack when he noticed the object of his affections was hidden behind the man he'd been making out with earlier, "I want him as my mate and I will have him."
"You just want him because he finally got over you and you couldn't accept it!"
Daniel turned on him, "Are you saying that you would rather have him than me? If you are, I swear to any god I can think of Jack, I'm going to-"
"I'm not saying that Daniel! I'm just saying this guy only wants him because he was with me. Hacen's had the hots for him ever since he was 25 and Marr over there was 15."
"How old are you guys now?" Carter asked.
Hacen blushed, "I am 40 seasons."
"Which makes Marr 30…15 years…I mean seasons and you just now…," Daniel trailed off, glancing at the older man hiding behind Jack.
"I have always loved Hacen! My father has wanted me to mate with him for the last 12 seasons, and because of that I have not!"
"You have ignored me because your father gave his permission!"
"My father is a controlling fool!"
"And you are a willful ass!" the blue/silver eyed man yelled at the prince.
Marr's eyes widened, "What did you call me?"
"An ass! I have longed for you for as far as I care to remember. I watched you be with others because your father did not approve of our love. I begged the true gods that your father would realize we were meant for each other and allow you to come choose me." Hacen glared at him and if Jack thought Daniel's eye were bad when he was angry, then this man's gaze could kill a group of people with a glance. "And now you say you would not be with me because…your father wanted it? How can I ever mate with you! I would rather die alone then wake up every morning next to someone who denied our love just to spite his father!"
Marr's eyes were brimming in tears, "Please…"
"You only loved me in the first place was because you were going against your father!" Hacen hissed out, getting to his feet, "Rot in hell Prince Marr."
"No…Hacen…That is not true!" the younger man whispered as his old Trainer walked past him.
Jack snorted, "Oh stop whinin'! It's your own damn fault!"
"Jack!" Daniel snapped at him.
"What? The little prick deserves it."
Marr nodded, "He is right Danyel. I deserve it…and much more. I must…ease my his pain…by ending my own."
Jack's eyes widened, "Now wait a minute-"
"No you are right Jack O'Neill. Hacen will never forgive me now. My death will be my remove me from his mind. He will no longer have to look upon the face of someone who would do to him such horrible things," he looked at Jack and Daniel, "I am only glad you were allowed to find your love, by my mistake." Marr moved slowly out of the room leaving the three alone.
"Well…we can't let this happen." Daniel sighed, moving to get up, "If he kills himself we might not ever get off this planet."
"Why not? I say we grab Teal'c and make a run for it," Jack voted.
"We could Sir, but these people are friendly, and they would be good allies to help us fight against the Goa'uld, especially if they let us make a base camp here."
Daniel looked pointedly at Jack, "You're going to have to go talk to Hacen and get him to forgive Marr."
"Why me!"
"Because he trusts you," Daniel said tightly. "He'll listen to what you have to say."
Jack grimaced, knowing it was true, "Can't we just…leave and send another SG team back? I bet ol' Marr'll chicken out any way."
"Jack King likes me. We're not going to screw up our ties with this planet if we can help it. Beside for all we know, if he did kill himself one of us would be made to be the prince in his place."
"And that's a bad thing?" Jack asked.
"We'd have to stay here forever!"
Jack looked around, "And that's a bad thing?"
"Sir! We don't have time for this. Daniel and I will go and try to stop the prince from doing anything drastic. You go and find Hacen."
"Fine! I'll see what I can do," Jack said getting to his feet, and then helping Daniel up, "But you know what happened last time you sent me to consol someone!"