Sorry about the delay with my weekend job and desperately cramming for my exams I havn't had the time, luckily most of my exams are over now though!!

Anyway...

That weekend Dan knocked on the door to Jack's house waiting nervously for a reply, he couldn't believe he'd actually done it; he'd actually met his dad. Sure Jack could be a complete and utter jerk but at least he seemed to respect Dan unlike Pete and now he had this brother he'd never known existed.

He really hoped this Callum liked him as he'd never had a brother before and the one he'd thought he'd meet would have been about 30 by now so Dan had always figured they wouldn't get on that well. This boy was only about a year or two older than him, which could be a good thing or a bad thing depending if they were anything alike.

Jack had not been much better since finding out about Dan. Daniel and Jonas had all but had to restrain him from calling Jacob from the Tok'ra home world and doing something they were sure he would regret later. Anything Jack had felt for Sam was replaced with a deep anger and then an ache in his heart that would not go away.

He'd filled Callum in on what had happened and to his credit CJ hadn't seemed phased or if he had he'd covered it quickly, he was used to strange things happening as he knew most of what went on in the SGC. He would often go and visit his brother and new family offworld also it would have been hard to explain to an inquisitive 6 year-old where the father he hardly remembered had suddenly appeared from.

CJ was a lot like Jack in the fact that he couldn't be bothered with authority or school in general. He was defiantly his fathers' son. He had the same sarcastic manner and laid back attitude to life, he had however inherited his mothers' patience and objective manner. CJ's only reaction to hearing he had a brother was "shit". Jack had long since given up telling him off for swearing as long as it was not in front of the little ones as CJ's response was: "well you do it so why can't I?"

CJ opened the door to his half-brother; the boys stood staring at each other intently for a few seconds. CJ was 2 or three inches taller than Dan, when he stood next to Jack they were almost the same height. His brown hair stood up at awkward angles refusing to go down no matter what he did to it, it was the same length as Dan's. Although CJ was tall he was also quite lean and muscular, his chocolate eyes sparkled with mischief.

The two boys did look alike with the same build and handsome good looks. Dan was first to speak, "I'm..."

"I know." CJ said matter of factly, Dan was a little taken aback.

"So, you're..."

"Yep" CJ interrupted again.

"And we're..."

"Apparently." Dan was beginning to get annoyed when CJ broke into an infectious grin, "So you're Danny? Dude you better be worth it dad's been in such a bad mood since he found out bout you." He then saw Dan's hurt expression, "No, no, no. Not with you he's just real pissed that he missed out on doing all this dad stuff with you and your mom really hurt him this just brought it all back to him. By the way I'm Callum but I like you so you can call me CJ."

"Ok is this just weird for me then coz you seem not bothered by this at all."

"Well that's Cal for you he's not phased by anything, you're lucky he likes you or he could be real trouble." Jack said coming up behind CJ and putting a hand on his shoulder and grinning, "so are you two going to stand here talking all day or are we going to paint?"

They spent the rest of the day painting Toby and then Hazel's room in preparation for them getting their own rooms. Dan found out a lot about Jack and CJ and their relationship, an easy banter flowed between the trio. CJ was an avid hockey player (currently the captain of his school team) he'd been at training during Lucy's party he'd already promised Dan that he could come and watch some time.

"So Danny," began CJ, normally Dan would have hated being called Danny but it was different when it was being said by his older brother, it was strange that even though he'd only known him for a day CJ already felt like his brother, "Do you play sports or stuff?"

"Yeah, I play basketball well at least I did I dunno if I want to anymore though but I play guitar I have been since I started school so I'm pretty good now."

"Nice. I play drums my mate Max plays keyboard then his little brother Tom's on vocals, we've been looking for a guitarist for a while our last one, Kyle, had to move. Tom's in your year at school I think you'd get on well you seem to be in the same kinda headspace as him." CJ said.

They'd already found out that they would be going to the same school and that Danny would be in the year below CJ. He was going to live on the other side of town, about a half hours walk away from school and a 40-minute walk from Jack's house. Dan had been quite worried about starting school but now he knew CJ and was going to meet some other people things didn't seem too bad and his dad wasn't an ogre well yet anyway.

"So Dan what do you want to do when your mom gets back, do you want to tell her or what?" Jack asked carefully choosing his words.

"I'll talk to her about it when she comes back." Dan lied, he had no intention of telling his mom anything about Jack because he didn't want to upset her by making her think that she hadn't been a good enough parent for him and what was the point if it didn't turn out right anyway. There was also Pete to think of now he'd want to meet Jack and that would mean Jack seeing his mom again and Dan knew Jack wasn't ready for that, not yet, possibly not ever.

I never intended for this to be in the story but the character of CJ needed to be explored more. Please Review