CH8: desires

[December 19, 2002]: Over the last two or so weeks since the Tok'ra rescue mission, Nat has been hanging out with our team. Lately it's become a routine that after dinner, if there is no mission, Nat hangs out with me in my study. We've been playing Egyptian solitaire, and/or talking about our lives before the SGC, missions we'd been on, past loves, etc. I feel sorry for her when I get to go home and she has to stay at the base every night. Tonight I'm staying on base because I have to research a bit more on some artifacts we'd found last week.

Daniel could hear knocking on the door. Nat was standing at the door wearing only a long, oversized, knee length army green T-shirt. Daniel tried his hardest to keep his eyes fixed on hers, instead of running his eyes down to her bare legs, up to her slim figure, wearing nothing but a t- shirt.

"Nat," was all that Daniel could mumble. Nat walked into the room, her face looked so oblivious to the fact that she looked incredibly sexy with her messed up hair and little clothing.

"Dan, I thought you went home with the others?" Nat said quietly as she walked upto Daniel. He tried his hardest not to think about sex as she walked up to him. He kept his chair pushed in under the desk, for fear of getting a hard-on in front of her.

"Nah, I decided to stay behind and work on these translations," Daniel replied, trying to keep his cool. He closed his journal. Nat walked right upto Daniel and grabbed the underside of Dan's chair, rolling the desk chair out from under the desk. Nat stood between Daniel's legs and looked right into his bright blue eyes.

"That's good to hear," Nat whispered as she slipped his glasses off his nose and placed them on the desk next to her. Daniel remained silent, unsure of what was going on. Nat cupped Daniel's face and smiled. She slowly closed her eyes and leaned towards Daniel. He could feel the warmth of her breath on his lips. Nat's tongue licked Dan's bottom lip before her lips pressed up against his. Dan ran his hand down her back, slowly moving down to caress her ass...

"Daniel! Yoohoo! Daniel!"

Daniel woke up to find that he had fallen asleep at his desk. Nat Stood next to him in her army green T-shirt and a pair of large black boxers, unlike the clothing in Daniel's dream. "Nat? What are you doing here?" Daniel asked, as he re-adjusted his crooked glasses.

"Well I got up to go to the bathroom, and your study is on the way there. Tonight I saw your light on so I came in to see if you'd left your lamp on. Then I see you asleep on the desk," Nat explained. "Why didn't you just go home?"

"Well I wanted to work on these translations," Daniel yawned mid sentence.

"I know it's against regulations, but sleep in my room until the morn so you don't have to sleep on your desk. You can leave early before anyone knows you stayed in my room overnight," Nat offered.

"You want me to sleep in your bed?" Dan asked, raising one eyebrow.

"Well it is a double bed, but I shotgun the left side! Just pure sleep. Just sneak out early before Jack and the rest of them come in for the day so I don't get in trouble for you being in my room okay?" Nat explained. Dan nodded and they made their way to Nat's room.

* * * *

Dan woke up and looked at the alarm clock. 5:15am. Most personell start arriving at 6am. He almost didn't get out of bed. That night Nat had fallen asleep first. Just as he was falling asleep, Nat rolled over to face Daniel. In the morning he woke up with Nat curled up in his arms. He took one last look at the sleeping beauty. Daniel quickly kissed her on the forehead before exiting the bed. He put his boots back on and left the room to go back to his study, as if he'd been there the entire night.

* * * *

[9am: Daniel's study]

"Good morning campers!" Jack entered the room, smiling cheerily. Nat and Daniel were working on the translations that Daniel didn't end up finishing the night before. "Daniel, when did you get here?" Jack asked.

"I never left Jack," Daniel replied, taking off his glasses to clean them.

"Never left? You must have been working hard," Jack smiled. He looked from Dan to Nat, then from Nat to Dan, suspicious that Daniel was hiding something. "Well lieutenant, since you're going to be living in the early 20th century, you might aswell live like someone in the early 20th century. I thought I'd bring you some cd's for you to listen to," Jack put a pile of Cd's on the desk in front of Nat. "It's stuff Cassandra's into at the moment. Major Carter thought you'd enjoy Cassie's taste in music more than my own tastes." Nat picked up the cd's to examine them.

"Cassandra Frasier? She was one of the top psychologists of my time. She tried to figure out how telekenisis works," Nat replied, then went back to looking at the cd's. Jack looked at Dan. Both shrugged at eachother. "Britney Spears? Pink? Evanescence? These are golden oldies in my time!" Nat looked through the cd's. Jack huffed then plonked a set of keys on top of the cd pile. "What are the keys for?" Nat asked, picking them up.

Jack smiled. "We think it's about time you got your own apartment. It's in the same apartment building as Teal'c and Daniel's apartments. Nat smiled.

"Thanks colonel! When can I get to see it?!" She squealed.

"Well," Jack said looking at his watch. "General Hammond said we've got a mission at oh thirteen hundred, so I guess we can go now. I'll go get Teal'c," Jack explained as he made his way out of the room.

"What about Sam?" Dan asked. Jack paused and turned back around.

"I saw her just before I came in to see you guys. She's got another one of her projects again. She must've had a brainstorm overnight because she asked me to leave her alone. I don't think we should be disturbing her," Jack explained. Dan shrugged and helped Nat carry the cd's out of the room.

* * * *

[Nat's apartment]

"Home sweet home!" Jack said cheerily as he opened the door. He held the door open for Nat and Teal'c, but purposely closed the door on Daniel.

"Jack! Haha very funny," Daniel said sarcastically, pushing the door back open.

"Well you got, kitchen, complete with oven, microwave, fridge. One bedroom with double bed, but no clothes- Sam said she'd take you shopping this week. You got, one study, and lastly, one living room with 68cm TV and dvd player," Jack explained, as he walked room to room, posing like those women who pose next to the TVs in the commercials. Teal'c sat himslef down on the couch and put on the sports channel.

"T, What are you doing?" Jack asked, moving away from the T.V.

"It is the replay of last nights Hockey game," Teal'c replied, smiling slightly.

"Hockey? Gimme that!" Jack took the remote off Teal'c and changed the channel. "You're missing the Baseball replay!" Jack said, lounging back on the couch. "Now THIS is sport!"

"Wow! Jack, thanx for this. In my time I was thinking about moving out on my own. Where are Teal'c and Daniel's apartments?" Nat asked. Daniel sparked his attention when Nat said his name.

"Teal'c is across the hall in 213, so keep the music down, especially when he's in kelnoreem. Daniel is one floor up in room 315. And all our phone numbers, along with the SGC's are on the frigde," Jack explained.

"Oh, guys it's just past eleven thirty. Shouldn't we be getting back for our briefing?" Daniel said, pointing to his watch.

"Yeah I guess you're right. Let's go," Jack replied. Jack and Teal'c got off the couch, turned off the TV and they headed back for the SGC.

* * * *

That evening, Sam and Janet had taken Nat out to buy clothes. The three ladies sat at a café in a nearby Mall.

"..And then Daniel pushed Jack into the lake!" Sam laughed. The other two laughed at Sam's story.

"So Sam, I was just wondering, how come you havent made a move on Marty yet?" Nat asked. Sam nearly choked on her drink.

"Well, Nat, it's exactly what Ive been asking Sam for the last year," Janet ccommented.

Sam put her coffee back down and Gglared at Janet. "How did you-"

"Daniel's journal," Nat replied, smiling oh so innocently. "He thinks you should get with Marty aswell. Teal'c rekons Martouf has made many attempts to show that he has feelings for you."

"What? Daniel? Teal'c? But I saw a picture of my marriage to Jack in the future Journal," Sam replied defensively.

"Sam, in the future you once told me that the future is never certain. Just because you have seen a future event, it doesn't mean it will happen," Nat explained. "Plus, he's cute!"

Sam smiled. "He is a bit, isnt he."

* * * *

Nat got back from shopping with Sam and Janet at about 8pm. She carried her many shopping bags to her bedroom and plonked them on the floor at the foot of the bed. She was too tired to put them all away. She walked into the kitchen and saw that the answering machine had one message. Nat pressed the play button.

"Hey Nat it's Daniel. Gimme a call when you're home from shopping with Sam. I was thinking maybe we can have a mini housewarming party, just us two."

Nat was surprised by the message. She grabbed the cordless phone and checked the fridge for Dan's home number.

"Hello?"

"Hey Dan, it's Nat."

"Oh hey Nat. How was shopping?"

"Really good! I finally have my own wardrobe! It's so good!" She squealed. "You wanted to have a mini party?" She asked.

"Yeah."

"Well I AM in the mood to party a bit. Even if it's just us. Ive got munchies here, but I don't really have anything to entertain you with, except for the TV and Cassandra's cd's."

"That's okay. When do you want me to come over?" Daniel asked.

"Well, give me about 5 minutes to clean up a little, then come on over!" Nat looked around her apartment and figures she needed to fix the cushions on the couch, clean the kitchen a little and make her bed.

"Okay, I'll see you in five!",

* * * *

*knock knock*

Nat opened the door to see Daniel in a blue shirt and cream coloured kaki pants. Nat thought that Daniel looked exteremely hot with his top two buttons undone, exposing the flesh on his neck.

"Hey!" Nat said cheerfully as she let Daniel into her apartment. Daniel handed her a bottle of champagne.

"Just a little something to liven things up a bit," Daniel smiled. He watched Nat take it to the kitchen. She wore her jeans, which flared at the bottom, and a tight black t-shirt, which barely reached the waistline of her jeans. Daniel tried not to stare at the little bits of exposed skin between the bottom of her T-shirt and the top of her pants.

"I must have ESP Dan becasue I bought a bottle of tequilla today just incase there's a party," Nat called from the kitchen. Dan walked into the kitchen.

"Sounds like it's going to be a real party then," Dan smiled. Nat turned to face Daniel and smiled. She handed him a tray with cut lemons, salt, 2 shotglasses and the tequilla bottle.

"You look good," Daniel blushed. Nat smiled from ear to ear.

"You too. Now I looked in the T.V guide and there's a National Geographic show about the pyramids on T.V. I know you loved that stuff, so did you want to watch that or a movie? Theres some golden oldie movie on called 'Event Horizon' on. I havent seen it but my dad loved it." Nat explained as she and Daniel made their way to the living room. Nat put the champagne and 2 glasses next to the tray she'd given Daniel. She also put a abowl of chips on the table.

"Well if you said the old me loved the pyramid stuff, let's put on the movie. Something different for a change!" Daniel smiled, rolling up his sleeves. 'Is it getting hot in here?' he thought to himself.

[.... Half a bottle of tequilla and 2 champagne glasses later...]

"So Danny boy, is your apartment like mine?" Nat asked, rubbing her tired eyes.

Dan and Nat sat face to face on the couch, neither of them paying attention to the movie anymore.

"It's pretty much the same layout, but mine's got more artifacts around the room. Jack thinks it looks like a museum," Dan explained, his voice slurring a bit. "So tell me something funny from the future."

Nat thought about it for a bit. "Well, when I was 18, I was at a party with some high school friends, celebrating the end of high school. There was this boy named Aaron. We were both completely drunk and sitting just as we are now, on the couch, facing eachother. He told me he wanted to kiss me and I said okay. So he got in real close," Nat explained, inching forward, closer to Daniel until she was almost nose-to-nose with him.

"Then he leaned in to kiss me," Nat whispered as she got so close to Daniel that he could feel her breath on his lips. His heart was pounding because he'd dremt this more than one hunderd times since he'd met Nat.

"Then, he passed out!" Nat laughed. Daniel didn't laugh and Nat noticed. She also realized how close she was to Daniel. Daniel ran his right hand up Nat's arm, resting it on her back. His other hand still resting on his leg. Nat placed her hand on his. She could feel her heart pounding. She wanted to badly to kiss Daniel, and this was the opportune moment. She looked into Daniel's eyes and leaned in for the kiss. Her lips lightly touched Daniels. He lightly pulling her towards him with his hand that was on her back.

*knock knock*

Nat pulled back from the almost kiss and huffed. "I better get that," She whispered. Both Daniel and herself felt what could only be described as utter devastation.

Nat stumbled to the door and opened it. It was Sam.

"Nat," Sam smiled. "You left this in my car," Sam said as she held out a shopping bag. She looked at Nat and could smell the alcohol on her. "Are you drunk?" Sam asked. Sam pushed the door open further to see Daniel sitting on the couch, rubbing the back of his head.

"Hi Sam," Daniel said nervously. He got up off the couch. "I should get going. It's late," Daniel said, stumbling to the door.

"You're both drunk!?" Sam asked, surprised. Nat explained that Daniel came over for a mini house warming party.

"Daniel, I'll walk you to your apartment," Sam said. She didn't know how to react to what she'd just seen. She suspected that something must have been going on. Daniel said his goodbyes and he and Sam walked to the elevator.

"Daniel. What just happened?" Sam asked.

"We drank, we watched TV, then talked. Then you came past. That's it. Why?" Daniel slurred. Sam huffed and helped Dan to his apartment.

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[Dec 26th: Ive come to the dig site on P3X-486 with Sg-7 to determine whether this site really was a planet whereby Goul'd were exiled or imprisoned. There are remains of what we think is a jail of some sort. The area we are looking at today is what we think was the grave site. It's been a week since I nearly kissed Nat and all I can think about what would have happened is Sam had'nt knocked at the door. Nat apologised to me the next day and said that she was drunk and sorry that she made a move on me. Wasn't it that obvious that I had wanted this for so long? Maybe she thought that I only proceded to kiss her because I was also drunk. I wont see her until New Years Eve, when I can come back to Earth. I find that I cant concentrate anymore because I havent told Nat how I feel about her. I'll tell her as soon as I get back.

**authors notes: so what do u guys think? I think I fixed all the spelling mistakes! Ahah i was riting like a drunk person todae! Leme no wat u guys think!**