Title: Jeanette
Summary: Janet's an Immortal, and the rest of the SGC doesn't know about it...yet.
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Spoilers: Crossroads, Exodus, Between Two Fires, and 48 Hours
"You know, you're not the first person to call me that, Jack." Janet glared at him over her wire frames.
"I'm not? Well, so much for originality. Who else calls you that? Are they still alive?" Jack grinned cheekily at her.
"Yeah, the Old Man's been calling me that for the last center– er...last few years or so." Janet hoped that Jack hadn't caught her little slip.
"Old man? I thought you were divorced. You talkin' about your dad? 'Cause I'm sure you're not talking about me, this time." Jack smirked.
"No, another guy I know, lives up in Washington state somewhere. Last I knew. Might have moved by now, doesn't like to stay in one place for too long." Janet noted some data down on Jacks' chart, then set it down, and pulled out a cuff, and took Jack's blood pressure.
"Does this mystery guy have a name, or is that a secret?" Jack asked. Janet laughed.
"You could say that his name is a secret. Mostly he goes by Adam. Has grandeur or being named after the first man. I keep telling him that they only named the first man Adam because they couldn't decide weather or not Aaron had one A or two." Janet wrote down the numbers on the digital dial, then snapped the cover down on the clip board.
"You're good, and free to go. And since you've been such a good patient, this time, you get a lolly. Which flavor?"
"Cherry. Thanks. Just out of curiosity, how long have you know this Adam guy?" Jack hopped off the bed, and stood with his hands in his pockets.
"Oh, long time. Centuries, almost. Or, it seems like. Why?" She glanced at him, then at her watch.
"No reason, really. You just seem fond of him." Janet laughed at that.
"Yes, I'm fond of him. He's a good guy. And before you start matchmaking, he's got a boyfriend." Janet laughed at both his disappointment at not being able to meddle in her love life, and his surprise at how she knew what he'd been thinking.
"He's a lot like you, Jack. Obviously, different, in some cases, but still, similar. You'd probably like each other." She paused, and Jack stood there, patiently waiting for her to finish.
"You remember Tanith, right?" At Jack's 'duh' look, she continued. "Of course you do, not something you'd easily forget, right? Well, anyhow. The strange thing is that they could of been twins, physically, at least. When you described him to me, the first time we ran into him, I thought you were talking about Adam, which was really weird, 'cause I know for sure that Adams' not an alien. He might be from outer space, we're not quite sure about that so far, we're waiting on the results, I'm personally betting Mars, but hey...whatever. Whoa, full on babble mode, right? I'll stop now."
Jack looked kind of stunned at the flow of words that just erupted from the usually more succinct doctor.
"Have a nice night, Colonel. See you tomorrow." Janet gently shooed him out of her infirmary.
"Yeah, you too." Still stunned, he walked down the corridor, stopped, turned around, and when the other way. Janet stood and watched him wander off to absorb what she'd told him.
She went back into her office, and began to file the report on SG1 for General Hammond. A few hours later, she clocked out, and went home.
Riding on the elevator to the surface, she thought about what she'd told Jack earlier. She decided that it'd been a while since she saw her old teacher, and that she'd give him a call later that night.