A/N: Reviews! Gotta love 'em! Thanks to all you out there that have reviewed this thing, and to those of you who haven't, well, I guess thanks for reading even though I don't know it.

Jack and Daniel do get together in this chapter! Finally!

Enjoy!

Daniel sighed has he pulled at his Greek style toga. It was a beautiful shade of medium bright blue with golden copper trim. Daniel knew it was really just a long piece of cloth, but even he thought he looked good in it, with glasses and all.

He glanced over at Prince Marr who 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 today, with three others. They battle to stop the false gods. They wish for friendship and knowledge, and are most willing to trade in equal value."

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 up late anymore and 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 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 I at all."

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 bid thee goodnight." With that the King and his mate went on down the hall.

Marr turned to look behind himself, glaring, "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 basically 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 about his age, 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, brushing a hand here or there and sending happy looks to him.

Marr seemed to be noticing what was going on too, "Jack O'Neill, you are enjoying yourself so far?"

"Y-" Jack cleared his throat, "Yeah! Place is great. People are very friendly. I could stay here forever. I think I've found a new place to retire."

Daniel watched as anger flashed in the prince's eyes, "Hacen! I will have a word with you after the meal, is that understood?"

The man's head snapped up, "My Lord?"

"Understood?!"

Marr's voice was angry but Daniel heard jealously too. He looked across at Jack again and he felt the same thing. :How could he?! I throw myself at him and he ignores me, but we go off world and some other guy spends an afternoon with him, and he manages to steal his heart?! Jack doesn't even know that slime!:

"Of course my Lord!" He stilled his hand but did not remove it from Jack's waist.

The prince glared at the other man longer and soon the hand was removed, and the man bowed his head shamefully. Jack seemed to get the message too, and he stopped as well.

Daniel noted that the rest of the meal was basically silent and when Marr had finished eating, he got right to his feet and walked angrily into a side room, leaving the door open. 'Hacen' got to his feet hurriedly and followed him into the room, closing the door behind himself.

"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. That man taught Prince Marr everything he knows, and 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 had still not opened and everyone was starting to worry. Jack got to his feet and started over to the door but the two natives called him back.

"What if Hacen's being hurt?" he asked pain clear in his eyes, which only served to anger Daniel more.

The woman next to Carter shook her head, "The prince will not kill his Trainer."

Just then the door opened and Hacen ran out of the meal hall and outside, Marr came out soon after calling his name, but he didn't run after him.

"Danyel," Marr whispered, "I am sorry but I can not test you any longer. My heart belongs to my Trainer. Denying what I feel…no longer is an option. 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 by the sound of it 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, he raced out of the meal hall.

The girl next to Carter smiled widely, "There will be a bonding ceremony at the end of this. I am most 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 bed."

Daniel frowned and rubbed his face, "Great. I don't even know where I'm suppose to sleep."

:Now or never.:, Jack thought, "Uh…you can stay over at my...place. Lots of space, in the rooms they gave me. Only one bed but I can sleep on the floor in another room. Promise I won't say a word to you."

For a moment Daniel glared at him angrily, for recreating how it'd been two weeks ago, before his face softened a little, "I guess I have no other choice."

Jack nodded and led the way to the building where his rooms were.

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, not really meeting eyes with the other man. He just wanted this to be over as soon as possible.

"Bedroom. Bathroom is next door," he said pointing, but not looking at his ex-friend, knowing he would either blush or tear up. He walked into the bedroom and grabbed three of the many large 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. "He's off limits now, so it doesn't matter."

Blue eyes rested on the older man's back, "I didn't know you were bisexual."

"You never asked, and I didn't think it mattered or it doesn't matter now."

"Jack…" Daniel started his heart clinched again.

"Don't Daniel. I'm tired enough as it is, and I don't want to screw up again and get you even madder than you already are at me. I've already decided to retire…for good, when we get back home. It's better that way."

The younger man's eyes widened, "Jack…you can't…"

Turning over Jack sighed, "What? 'I can't leave?' I can't stay either. I'm looking in all the wrong places. The SGC isn't where I need to be anymore. It's more fun for you then it is for me, and everything will be ok again as soon as I'm gone."

"I'm sorry," Daniel tried. Making Jack leave the SGC wasn't part of the original plan and it wasn't in the revised version either. Daniel wasn't even sure what the plan had been any more or even if there had been one, but Jack couldn't leave, because he wasn't sure he could go through the gate anymore without the Colonel being with him.

"For what happened at my house? Don't be. It was all my fault, because I'm a fool. I had these huge plans for someone I didn't realize hated me. I had dreams for me and my friend, but…unfortunately I heard he was left all alone when he thought I died fighting the Goa'uld, and I don't know where he is."

Daniel's blue eyes were leaking, "I'm right here."

Jack smiled sadly, "You can't be. He's all alone out there somewhere and if you were him, it would have taken me a lot longer to find you. When I get home, I'm going to start looking for him everywhere, because I have to tell him something."

"What?" Daniel asked, swallowing hard.

"That he makes a hell of a lot hotter archeologist that Harrison Ford, and his adventures definitely more important. I also think I'll tell him he needs one of those hats and a whip."

"Jack?!"

"I have to tell him that I'm…in love with him, Danyel. I don't want him to go on being alone anymore. I got to tell him I didn't mean to leave him out there. I have to tell him that I miss him, even though I don't think he'll ever forgive me, he has to know…ya know?"

Daniel was on his knees beside Jack at once, "You really mean that?"

Jack looked up into his eyes, "Yeah Danyel and if I ever see Daniel again, I'm going to tell him that. You look a lot like him, ya know. I'm sorry I mistook you for him before. I just wanted him back so bad…I wanted to tell him I'd come back."

Before Daniel could stop himself, he leaned into Jack and kissed him soundly on the lips, pouring every once of passion he could into a single kiss. He licked, nipped, chewed and devoured 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, "Is that you?"

"Oh Gawd, yes Jack. I heard every word," he said breathily, before leaning in and kissing him again.

When the broke apart Jack searched his eyes, "Even the part about the hat and whip?"

"That was the best part, 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, burying his hands in his short brown hair, "Say it again."

"Colonel?! Daniel?!" came Carter's shocked voice from behind them.

In shock, the younger of the two men lost his balance and fell into the other'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 hiding from us?"

"Sam, you mean to tell us, you've known the whole time we've liked each other and you never mentioned it to either of us!"

She shrugged, "I was just keeping it to myself like you guys 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 on dinner dates to some really nice places, to impress you."

"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! He protects me now. You're on your own!"

"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…I'm going to have to agree with Jack on this one, Marr," Daniel said 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 own eyes widened, "What did you call me?"

"An ass! I have longed for you for as long as I care to remember, even when you were a little boy and did not know the ways of love and passion. I begged in tears for you at your feet, and you just walked past me to another!" 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 Daniels with a glance. "I will never mate with you! I would rather die alone then wake up every morning next to someone I spent my youth chasing after, because he wanted to go against his father's wishes!"

Marr's eyes were drowning in tears, "Please…"

"The only reason you said you 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…" the younger man whispered as his old Trainer walked past him, cold and indifferent, leaving his prince to fall to his knees. "What have I done?"

Jack snorted, "It's your own damn fault! I told him he was too good for you."

"Jack!" Daniel snapped at him.

"What? The little prick deserves it. You almost got married off again because of him!"

Marr nodded, "I will die soon. It will be payment of my stupidity."

Jack's eyes widened when he realized what the prince was talking about, "Now wait a minute-"

"No you are right Jack O'Neill. I have caused my chosen much pain and he will never forgive me now. I must leave this world to ease his pain…as well as my own. He will no longer have to look upon the face of his tormentor. I am glad you found your love though. His beauty must be envied by even the gods…" Marr got to his feet and slowly left the three alone.

"Now look what you did!" Daniel yelled pointing at the doorway, "If he kills himself we are never going to get off this planet!"

"How was I suppose to know that was going to happen?! I was just trying to be supportive!" Jack said frowning.

"You meant well Sir, but that's not the point."

Daniel sighed, "You're going to have to go talk to Hacen and get him to forgive Marr."

"Why me?! You know I'm no good at comforting people Daniel!"

"You comfort people perfectly fine, or at least you better learn to and fast."

Jack sighed, "Wouldn't they just banish us and tell us never to come back?"

"No the King likes me and would probably make me be prince in his son's place!"

"And that's a bad thing?" Jack asked.

"I would 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 and do whatever it was you did before...only opposite."

"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!"

A/N: The next chapter IS ready to post but I'm holding it captive until I get some more reviews. It's safty is in your hands.