A/N: I up-dated for all you fans of this story. Think of it as a bonus chapter.

I would like to thank my reviewers once again, because they're what keeps this story going.(Looks at Rachael for that one Review.) (Shakes heads) I still love all my reviewers and reviews, even if some of them do say weird things sometimes...(smiles)

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A few minutes later, after asking a few people that were on their way home for the night, Jack found Hacen's house, which turned out to be clear on the other side of the village.

The man's home was much like himself. Warm and inviting, with a large fireplace made of smooth light colored stone, and two comfortable, but rough looking chairs on a large fur rug set before a roaring fire. The Kitchen area had herbs hanging from hooks and on small smooth stone table, a worn leather bag was tipped over and some of it's contains spilled over the surface.

There was a thud from the back of the house, causing Jack to look up. He followed his ears into a small bedroom, where Hacen was filling a bag with clothes, that had been dumped on the sturdy log-framed bed.

From the first glance the 40 year old man seemed to be angry, but set in his decision, whatever it was. Unfortunately for the slightly younger man, Jack was a Pro at going past the first look (he was in love with Daniel for cryin' out loud!) and it was soon easily seen to him, that Hacen would bolt back to the prince if he was given a good enough reason. Now all the Colonel had to do was find that reason, without scaring the crap out of the poor guy.

"You leavin'?" Jack asked, his voice a little on the shaky side. :This is a bad idea Carter:

Hacen looked up an nodded, "The prince will have banished me by sunrise any way. As you said, I am too good for him."

"Look, Hacen. The first thing you gotta know about me is that I say some pretty stupid stuff sometimes."

The trainer shook his head, "You are wise," he said, folding some more of his clothes and putting them in a pack, "I should have left long ago, when Marr first denied me."

"No you shouldn't have," Jack said grabbing a garment out of the other man's hands.

"Why are you doing this? Are you not happy for me? I will go to another village and find my real true mate, and Marr will-" Hacen looked unsure for a brief moment before smiling, "Marr will find another lover. He has easily before, he can do it again."

Jack sighed, "Yes! I'm very happy for you, I just think…after seeing him…I was wrong Hacen. I think that stuck up, no good-" he stopped when he saw Hacen was frowning, though not looking at him, "'great' guy, should be giving another chance. I think he 'really' likes you."

"You are saying this because your chosen has told you to. He does not want the prince to be unhappy, for he loves him."

"Daniel doesn't love him! He didn't even know that Marr was testing him for Christ's shakes! I told you he doesn't understand those things sometimes."

"You are doing this because he asked you to though. I liked you better when you were not forced to be someone you are not," Hacen said turning away.

"God damn it! Look at me!" Jack grabbed the other man and turned him so they were looking right into each other's eyes, "Marr is going to kill himself. I came here to tell you that, even though I think the guy's a 'complete' ass. It's not up to me to judge him. That's your job, and last time I checked you wanted him bad."

"Prince Marr would not do such a thing! He does not love me and…I do not love him…anymore. I have moved on!"

Jack glared at him, "Don't feed me that line of bull! You've been in love with him for 15 years. No one just moves on from that!"

"And no one denies their love for that long! Marr is not being truthful with me, or you, or Danyel!"

"After you left he said he was going to kill himself because he upset you and it would pay the debt of his stupidity or something like that."

Hacen turned his head away, frowning, "That is a custom but…"

"Carter and Daniel went off to stop him, and I was sent here to get you. If you don't believe me, then we can go see him! No harm done, right?"

Looking up into Jack's eyes, the man nodded, "Fine! If we come to the prince's rooms and he is not going to kill himself, you must promise yourself to me in his place."

"WHAT?!" the colonel couldn't believe the other man said something like that. It wasn't like him at all, even though he'd only met him a few hours ago. Jack searched Hacen's grey/blue eyes, trying to figure out what he was up to.

"I will have you as my mate if he is not going to kill himself. You will live here with me and you will forget all about your Danyel."

Jack thought about it for a few more seconds, "Fine. You can have me, bad knees and all, if Marr's not going off the deep end."

Hacen looked surprised, "You give up Danyel so easily?"

"I'm not giving him up!" Jack said, trying not to sound nervous, "I just know that Marr's got that look in his eye." :O'Neill, you better hope to hell he does, or Daniel is going to murder you before Hacen can cope-a-feel.:

"Very well," the other man said, leaving his room quickly, "We must hurry, if Marr is bad as you say ."

Daniel begged with the prince who was looking through his collection of blades, "Good Prince, please think about what you are doing."

"I have Danyel, and there is no other way," Marr ran a hand along the handle of a sharp silver dragger, with a blade that looked like flames.

"Of course there is! There must be someone else, or you could try talking to Hacen again. You're giving up way too easily!"

Carter sighed watching the prince look over the countless knives, Daniel was getting no where and Jack was taking way too long, "I'm sure he loves you Prince Marr. He just needs to be reminded."

"I have put him through a great amount of pain, and I have been foolish to think I could take you from your chosen Danyel," his hand trembled as he touched a knife with gems that were silver/blue in color set in the handle, "Do you not see that I almost made you unhappy as well? I did not even realize you were unaware of my testing."

"Well that happens to me all the time. Jack understands," Daniel said in his most calming voice.

Marr turned to look at him, "You are led away many times by others?"

"Well…uh yes. I get distracted and get myself into…trouble all the time. Jack always complains about having to save me, but I know he likes to do it."

"He enjoys being your hero?"

Daniel blushed, "Yeah. I guess you could say that."

"Hacen would never save me like your Jack does."

"I bet he would. He's just never had the chance," Daniel said resting a hand on his back.

Marr looked into Daniel's blue eyes, "He does now."

"Well…that's not quite the same, but I'm sure if he heard that you were thinking of killing yourself, he would come to see you and stop you."

"He would not. He would love to see me die a horrible death."

"My Prince?," Hacen's voice said as he came into the room, with a very worried look on his face. "What are you doing? Surely you do not plan to-"

"I do. What of it? You have wished it deep in your heart for many years that I would die, because I denied you. Now is no different."

Jack strolled into the room and did a silent 'Yes!', knowing he wouldn't have to marry Hacen and he could stay with Daniel.

"My prince…no matter how many times you denied me, I never wished you dead! I will die myself if you were gone. I know the sun will come up every morning because you are alive, even though you are not mine."

"I want to be yours! Please! Not a day more without you Hacen, because it will be my last. I swear."

Hacen came forward and wrapped his arms around the younger man, "Not a day more, ever again Prince Marr. I will be yours."

He leaned down and started to kiss the green eyed man, using his tongue like Jack had done with him earlier.

Marr's moaned in surprised pleasure and pressed himself up against his Trainer, wrapping his arms around his neck.

When they pulled apart, Hacen rested his forehead against Marr's, "Am I pleasing?"

"Where did you learn that? Again!" He ordered kissing the older man passionately.

Daniel turned and looked at Jack, "Jack…"

"Sorry."

"I think you have just single handedly destroyed a whole culture!"

Carter giggled, "I don't think so Daniel. If anything I think he helped it."

"Yeah Daniel! They wouldn't be where they are now if it wasn't for me!"

Daniel glanced over and saw that the two men were becoming negative of clothing, "I think we should just leave them alone."

The other two agreed wholeheartedly, and they departed from the room rather quickly. Once outside in the night air, Major Carter yawned, "Sir I think I'm going to back to my place."

"Hot date Major?" Jack asked smirking.

She smirked back, "No Sir. After I told Ces that I wouldn't be able to stay on this planet, she got mad and left. No one bothered to come in after her so I'm guessing she told everyone I wasn't worth it. Night Colonel, Daniel."

"Night Sam," Daniel said smiling. Jack grunted and then turned walking back toward his rooms.

"You're not going to ask me to join you?" the blue eyed man asked teasingly.

"Well, Dr. Spacemonkey, if you remember correctly, you don't have any other place to stay for the night. My rooms are your rooms. You don't need permission to come into your own house do you?"

"No I guess not," Daniel said as he took Jack's hand and started walking with him. "Jack?"

"Hmm?"

The younger man sighed, "How did you talk him into coming back with you?"

Jack blushed, "Uh…well you see…Daniel some things are better left unknown."

"Jaaack!"

"Ok fine! You're going to be mad though," Jack sighed. "When I told him Mirror-"

"Marr," Daniel corrected.

"Whatever. When I told him that MARR was going to kill himself, he didn't believe me and the only way he would go is if, when we got there, the prince would have to be going off the deep end."

"And if he wasn't?" Daniel asked.

"If he wasn't…I would have had to marry him."

Daniel stopped dead in his tracks, "What?!"

"See I knew you would get mad."

"Jack! What if Marr had just been acting?! You and Hacen would…what about me? I thought you-"

"Danny you said to get him there. You didn't say how."

"Well bribing him with marriage wasn't what I had in mind! I thought you'd goad him into seeing the prince or at least make it sort of challenge. What if you would have lost?!"

"You marry the prince and we have an affair together behind their backs?"

Daniel's anger burned in his eyes, "Seriously Jack! You just found out that I like you, and you were willing to throw it all away?"

"No! I would never just throw that all away! Hacen isn't a bad guy but he's nothing compared to you. It wasn't just a matter of getting married to him. It was a trust…thing. If I was willing to bet my life away so easily, I had to be pretty sure of the out come and he knew that. I don't think that he would have made me keep my word anyway. He was just looking for a reason to go back and tell the prince he'd changed his mind."

"How do you know that?!"

"Because I saw it in his eyes!"

Daniel's glare intensified, "His silver/blue eyes! You've only known him a fucking day and you can read his eyes? His feelings?! You're lying Jack. You can't read people's eyes or you would have known that I liked you a long time ago! Because you've known me a hell of a lot longer then…that-that-that…thing!"

Jack lowered his head, "I have known for…a long time, or I thought I did, but you tend to look at…a lot of people with you expressive eyes that scream want and innocence. You've fallen for and gotten in trouble with so many people, because you couldn't tell them no or because you didn't realize…I've seen you feel horrible because you didn't know you were sending them signals, and I didn't want…"

Daniel frowned, "I never thought of it like that."

"Well I've had a lot of time to think about it, believe me. You didn't need someone else declaring their love for you."

"You're wrong about that. That's just what I needed. Someone who loves me, who will take care of me."

Jack took Daniel's head in his hands, "I'm old Daniel, and you've never fallen for someone my age before. I know you need love…love that doesn't stop and that can go on forever."

"Yours will," Daniel whispered forcefully.

"Danny-" Jack started looking deeply into the younger man's cerulean eyes, begging him to understand.

"No Jack. You've always been there. Nothing keeps you away from the team…from me…for long. Wild horses, Jack. That's never going to change and that's what I need."

The colonel kissed him softly on the lips, sucking on them thoughtfully and meaningfully. He pulled away holding the sides of Daniel's head in his callused hands, looking into hooded eyes, "God I love you and your meaning of life crap."

Daniel smiled, "And I love you and your act now think later crap, which is what we should be-"

Jack silenced him with a passionate kiss, pulling Daniel off toward the rooms Hacen had given Jack earlier.

A/N: Want another quick up-date? Well you know what I like...(smirks)