Cassie waited until her mom left then quickly dialed the phone number.

"Hello?"

"Hi Giles, is Dawn around? It's Cassie."

"Hello Cassie." Giles said smiling as Dawn's head popped up from the couch. "Yes, I'll let her know and…" he was abruptly relieved of the phone.

"Hi Cassie, what's up?"

"Dawn, we have a problem."

Dawn sat down, "Is Jon ok?"

"Oh gosh, yeah. I saw him today, still as annoying cheerful as ever. No, it's about Jay." Cassie reassured her friend quickly.

"What about Jay?"

"Something happened to Jay and he's temporarily blind."

"What?!" Dawn jumped up, making Giles look at her anxiously.

"But he didn't want anyone to tell Buffy."

"Oooh, Buffy's going to be mad."

"Good, have her call and chew him out." Cassie said with a smile in her voice.

Dawn looked over at Giles, "Oh, I will. Thanks Cassie, and tell Jon that I said hi."

" I will, he said to check your e-mail everyday."

"Will do. Bye Cassie." Dawn hung and looked over at Giles, "Where's Buffy?"

"She went out for a run. What happened to Jay?"

Dawn went over to get her jacket, "Jay is temporarily blind and made everyone promise not to call Buffy."

"Oh dear. Buffy is going to be most unhappy with him." He looked over his glasses at Dawn.

"There's an understatement." Dawn said dryly and stepped outside to look for her sister.

It was late afternoon when Janet's phone rang. "Dr. Frasier."

"Janet, how is he?" Came Buffy's anxious voice.

"He's better. Do you want to talk to him?"

"Oh yes, indeedy."

Janet smiled and put Buffy on hold. She walked into the infirmary and over to Jay.

"Colonel, you have a phone call. Let's get you up and over to the desk." She took him by the arm and led him over to sit at the nurses desk. She picked up the phone and pressed the hold button, and gave it to him, "Ok, go ahead and talk." And then she scurried out of the infirmary, almost mowing Daniel down.

"Sorry Janet I.." Daniel began but she dragged him off.

"What's going on?" he asked in bewilderment.

"Cassie told Dawn who told Buffy and now Buffy is going to let Jay know what she thinks." She hissed, hovering in the corridor, out of Jay's hearing.

Daniel snuck a peek around the corner, "Good for Cassie."

"Colonel Coburn." Jay said, honestly expecting one of his team or someone in the mountain.

"Sooo, you didn't want me to know." Came Buffy's voice.

Jay gulped, Buffy was pissed as hell. "Hi Babe. Know what?"

"Colonel James Coburn! I thought that you said you loved me." Buffy demanded, hurt in her voice.

"I do! I do love you Buffy, it's just that.."

"Love means letting the other person know when they're needed, not hiding problems from them." Buffy spat.

"Buffy." Jay sighed, his hand moving up to rub his eyes, then dropping it when he realized what he was doing. "I didn't want you to worry." He said lamely.

"Not worry? I had a dream about an explosion then no phone calls from you. I was already worried you idiot. I love you, don't you get it?"

"I love you too Babe, and I'm sorry." His voice was contrite.

"Good, why don't you let me decide for myself what I can worry about. Tell me what happened."
They talked for almost an hour, Buffy listening to the story, then to his fears. She reassured him over and over, making him feel better but miss her terribly.

"I wish I was there for you." She said quietly.

"Oh Babe, me too."

"And this is the last time that you keep things from me. Deal?"

"Deal. I love you Buffy Summers. With all of my heart."

Buffy smiled, tears in her eyes, "Same goes Colonel, same goes. Make sure you call me when you can see again."

Jay hung up with a sigh, then turned his head hearing a noise.

"I wonder how she found out?" Cassie asked with a smile in her voice.

"Cassie Frasier." Jay shook his head, "I should've known. How are you kid?"

She moved over to him and wrapped an arm around his shoulder and kissed him on the head, "I'm going stir crazy. I actually miss school."

Leaning into her he smiled, "Won't be much longer kiddo. How's Jon?"

Chuckling Cassie told him about the contest between herself, Dawn and Jon for the best grade point average for graduation. "Jon's mad because Dawn aced her chem exam and he got a B+, so now he's been studying like a maniac."

"What about you?" He asked.

"I'm acing everything except calculus and American government. The whole government thing just makes me confused."

"Let me know if you need any help."

"I might. So, do you want to play cards? I bet I'd win." Cassie asked mischievously and Jay threw back his head and laughed. Daniel and Janet looked at each other with relief and walked into the infirmary together.

On February 12th Jay was a nervous wreck. It was officially over the 48 hour mark and they were going to check his eyes. Jack and Daniel were beside him, Sam and Teal'c close by talking quietly as Janet undid the bandages.

Janet carefully pulled off the bandages, picked up the saline and flushed Jay's eyes out. As he finished blinking and looked up at her she said, "There you are Colonel. How does it feel?"

Jay blinked up at the fuzzy doctor, "You're really fuzzy." There were sighs of relief from the others.

"To be expected. Give it 15 or 20 minutes to let your eyes adjust. How's the headache?"

Jay smiled at his friends, "Better, though Jack is still here."

"Yadda." Jack said mildly, thumping his friend on the shoulder with affection.

Janet smiled at them fondly, "And now you can call Buffy and let her know that you're going to be ok." She paused, "Right now."

With exasperated snort Jay stood, "Alright, alright. I've learned my lesson, thank you very much." And Janet watched as Daniel and Jack marched him to the phone.

Buffy was working at her desk at St. Thomas Aquinas High School on Valentine's Day. A knock at her door made her look up to see a pair of legs attached to a large bouquet of daffodils and white tulips.

"Delivery."

Buffy stood, "Wow. Look at those." She gasped. "There must be a couple of dozen."

The delivery guy sat it on her desk with a relieved sigh, "3 dozen actually." He handed her an envelope and smiled, "Enjoy." Then he left.

One of the Jesuits came to stand in the doorway, "Somebody loves you." He smiled.

"Hi Tim, and yes, yes he does." She opened the envelope and melted into a puddle of mush. It read:

"This is how I see you. All sunshine and joy. I love you Babe, Jay."

When she looked up Tim was gone and Robin was in his place, leaning against the doorway with a smile on his face. "The Colonel strikes again."

"And what did you get Faith?"

Robin chuckled and walked in, seating himself in the chair normally reserved for troubled students, "Faith informed me that if I bought her flowers I was going to eat them. So I got her a crossbow." He grinned wickedly, "And a dozen roses with the biggest thorns that I could find."

Buffy sat back and laughed, "Perfect. You know her so well."

Jay was on the ramp at the SGC, wondering how Buffy was. He was all geared up, checking out his team, making sure that they had everything.

"Ballard!" He barked, making the younger man jump.

"Sir?"

"Where's your weapon?" he asked mildly as the man looked frantically around before noticing it was slung over his shoulder.

"Gotcha." Jay grinned and Sgt. Ballard rolled his eyes, "Very funny sir. Har de har har."

Daniel came in at that moment with an envelope, which he handed to Jay, "Here you go. Don't open it until tonight."

Jay turned it over in his hands, then lifted it to his nose and sniffed it, a smile lighting up his face. "Buffy."

Daniel laughed, "Yes, Buffy. Have fun campers." He said cheerfully, unconsciously channeling Jack.

On P473x21 there were rocks, rocks and more rocks. They had been sent there because the flying malp had detected a weird sort of energy emanating from the planet, along with some crystalline splashes of light from the ground. Then the malp had disappeared. He looked around, boring to the extreme. Sgt. Ballard walked around and looked back at Jay, "No sign of footprints, or sign of anything else for that matter."

"Good, set the alarm Hailey and let's find somewhere to camp." Jay ordered, looking over at Hayden who had bent down to pick up one of the rocks.

"What kind of rock is this?" He asked quizzically, holding it up for Jay to take a look at.

Are rocks always rocks?