He lay completely still, she was still asleep in exactly the same position as which she'd fallen asleep last night. He smiled, this was the first time in three nights she'd slept through. He slowly turned his head, trying not to stir her, he looked toward the clock, almost 0800. He'd have to wake her up soon, but not yet. He looked down at her, so peaceful, much more peaceful than she had been over the past few nights. He reluctantly tried to wake her up. He gently brushed a stray hair off her face,

"Janet." He said softly, she groaned, moving her arm across his chest. "Janet, wake up." He said, still softly, she groaned again, opening one eye.

"Daniel?" She asked trying to get her bearings. He smiled at her fuzzy expression,

"Morning sleepyhead." He said getting up. She buried her head in a pillow,

"Morning." Came the muffled reply. She lifted her head up, moaning as he turned on the light, "What time is it?"

"About 0800." She groaned and buried her head in the pillow again. He came back to the bed,

"Come on, you've gotta get up honey, you need to go to work."

"I don't wanna." He laughed at her childish response,

"I know, me neither." He lay down again, wrapping his arms around her. "I'd rather stay here." He got up again, "But I can't. Come on, get up."

"I'm up already." She slowly pushed herself up off the bed. She stood up, and walked over to Daniel, she looked unsure,

"What's wrong?"

"I, I just need to know, you're sure, about us I mean, you want there to be an us?" He put his arms around her, pulling her closer to him and he kissed her,

"I'm sure." He said pulling away. She smiled,

"I just had to make sure." She paused, "I better go." Daniel followed her to the door, before she had a chance to open it, he grabbed her back for another kiss.

"How about lunch?" He asked once they were done,

"Lunch is good." She replied,

"I'll come get you." She nodded and opened the door, going back to her own quarters to get ready for another shift in the infirmary, life at the SGC was definitely looking up. Daniel jumped in the shower as soon as she left, quickly drying off and getting changed, he rushed out of his quarters quickly, he had promised to sort out this thing with the evaluators and that's exactly what he was going to do. He stood in the elevator going over exactly what he was going to say in his mind, he had it all worked out, he rounded the corner to the office and knocked on the door a lot more loudly than he intended to.

"Come in." Boomed the response, "Dr. Jackson, what can I do for you?" Hammond asked putting down the bit of paper in his hand,

"Actually General, I need to ask you a favour." He stopped,

"Well don't just stand there son."

"It's about these evaluators sir."

"What about them?"

"Well, um, you see, Dr. Fraiser, kind of..lost her temper with them yesterday...slightly." This wasn't going like he'd planned.

"I see."

"She's been having kind of a rough time recently sir, actually she was planning on resigning."

"What?" Came the angry question before Daniel had a chance to continue,

"I managed to talk her out of it sir, but these evaluators, they could have written some pretty, detrimental comments in there reports. She hadn't been sleeping properly and she was having some...issues."

"Issues?"

"It's all been resolved now sir."

"I see." Hammond took the hint that it was private. "Don't worry son, as far as I'm concerned she's the best damn doctor in the air force, I'll be damned if I lose her because of some evaluation, those two have been nothing but a pain in the ass since they got here, I'll sort it out." He said picking up the phone.

"Thank you sir." He said getting up and leaving. He went to his office and spent the next few hours trying to work, but he was finding it very difficult to concentrate. He was called to the briefing room and arrived to find the rest of SG-1 waiting, before he had a chance to speak to them General Hammond came in and told them that they all had a week's leave as of 1900 tonight, when the evaluations finished. Daniel exited the room quickly, not wanting to risk an invite to go fishing. He returned to his office and, after what seemed like an eternity of waiting, lunchtime finally came, he headed down to the infirmary. He found Janet in her office.

"Hey." He said as he entered it.

"Hey." She said looking up from the paperwork on her desk. "General Hammond called me down to his office, I've got a week's leave as of tonight." She said smiling,

"Me too." He said returning the smile,

"What did you say to him?" She asked getting up from the desk and walking over to him,

"Me?" He asked innocently, wrapping his arms around her and pulling her close,

"He told me you spoke to him." She said resting her head on his chest,

"Oh."

"Oh."

"Does it matter, you don't need to worry about the evaluators and we've both got a week off." She snuggled in to him tighter,

"I guess not."

"You coming to lunch or are we just going to stand here all day?" She laughed,

"Much as I'd like to, I think lunch is a good idea." She said, walking out of the office, he followed behind her. "so, you think there'll be anything resembling food today?" She asked as they got in the elevator,

"That stuff last night looked like food, it just didn't taste like." He joked, They exited the lift and headed to the commissary to find almost deserted, they both picked the pasta, after all it was pretty difficult to mess that up, and they sat at a table in the corner. Taking a mouthful Janet spoke up,

"This is actually pretty good."

"Yeah. Makes a change." They smiled, "So what are you going to do with you're week off?"

"I have no idea, Cassie's still away on that field trip."

"Field trip? I thought you said she was having problems at school?"

"She was.is. It was these damn evaluations, I couldn't make her stay at home if I wasn't even going to be there. Besides, she usually stays at her friends when things like that are going on, and since they were all on the trip there wasn't much chance of that."

"Couldn't you hire a babysitter or something?"

"Daniel, she's sixteen, most babysitter's are younger than her." He smiled,

"True. Childminder?"

"I don't think there's much chance of them staying with the teenager from hell, besides I couldn't afford that for three days."

"Don't the air force help you out with stuff like that? I mean you did kinda take her off their hands." "They gave me some help at first, but it was only supposed to be a temporary thing, anyway, they don't help any of the other single parents working for them, why should I be any different?"

"I guess."

"What about you're parents, do they never help?" She laughed,

"Are you kidding, the practically disowned me when I got married, they never came to the wedding. I got the 'I told you so speech when I got divorced'. They did actually disown me when they found out I'd adopted a child out of wed lock." Daniel looked shocked,

"They disowned you?"

"Oh yeah, did I mention I come from a really small town, as far as I'm concerned they did us both a favour. Anyway, what are you going to do all week?" Daniel sat for a minute, trying to process what he'd just heard.

"Ugh, I dunno, I thought maybe we could spend some time together. If you want to that is." She smiled at his insecurity,

"I want to." He took her hand from where it rested on the table into his own.

"Good. You want to go out for that dinner tonight?" She nodded,

"I'd like that."

"I'll pick you up at eight." Just as he said that Sam and Jack entered the commissary, they both instinctually pulled their hands apart as their friends approached the table.

"Hey Daniel, Doc." Jack greeted them as he sat down next to Daniel, Sam sat next to Janet.

"Hey." They both replied. Janet quickly excused herself,

"I've got to get back to the infirmary." And walked out, Sam and Jack looked at each other,

"I see she's still in a mood then." Jack said. Daniel glared at him.

"Jack did you ever stop to consider that maybe she wasn't just in a mood, that maybe something was bothering her?"

"What?" Jack asked,

"Daniel, if something was bothering her, she would have told us." Sam said.

"Would she?" Daniel asked rhetorically, getting up and following after Janet. He didn't catch up with her until she was back in her office. He never even bothered to knock, just walked straight in.

"Daniel!" She jumped in surprise.

"What was that, are you still mad at Sam and Jack?" He asked, she dropped her head into her hands again, leaning forward onto her desk,

"No..yes..I don't know. I don't think so."

"Then what?" She looked up at him,

"When they walked in, we both jumped apart. Why are we hiding this from them?" Daniel broke the eye contact,

"I don't know, it was just, instinct. Do you want to tell them?"

"I don't know, is there even anything to tell them?" As she asked this, Daniel rounded the desk as he had done before, gently pulled her forward out of her seat and hugged her again, she put her arms round his back and he allowed his hands to rest on her hips. Pulling her lower body closer to him.

"Yes, there's something to tell them. I love you and I think they deserve to know."

"Ok, I gue-" She stopped mid-word, pushing off of him and looking up at him. "What?" She said quietly. He smiled,

"I said, I love you." A big stupid grin appeared on her face, her eyes filled up.

"I love you too." She said, beginning another round of tonsil tennis with him. He eventually pulled away from her,

"I'll pick you up at eight." Daniel spent the rest of the day wearing a similar big stupid goofy grin to Janet's. He couldn't get over it, he'd went right out and said it, and she'd said it back. He couldn't believe that in a matter of hours things had gone so far with her, he'd told her he loved her and he meant it. He was pretty sure she meant it too. He avoided the rest of his team for the day, it wasn't difficult as he was pretty sure they were avoiding him after his little outburst in the commissary. He called the restaurant and made reservations. 1900 couldn't come quick enough. He rushed of the base as soon as the announcement was made that the evaluations were over. He wanted tonight to be really special.