Chapter 5
Going Home and Talking
Hey guys sorry I haven't posted lately but I was working on my other fic. This one is probably going to be pretty long, but I'm not going to tell you what's going to happen you have to read and find out. Hope you enjoy, and please review when you get a chance.
Several days later, Angela was much better and her fever had broken. She was out of the infirmary and mostly staying in Daniels lab with him while he worked. Sometimes Janet would come and take her to the commissary or have her help he in the infirmary with some light work.
One day while she was helping Janet, she kept shifting and moving around. Janet looked up at her and watched her for a few minutes.
"You ok Angela?" She asked.
"Yea," She said.
"You sure, you seem restless to me, your not starting to feel bad again are you?" Janet asked her.
"No…I just want to go home, I'm sick of being at the base all the time." She said.
"Have you told Daniel?" Janet asked.
"No cause when he finishes working its to late to go home, and if I did that would be what he'd say." Angela said.
"Come on," Janet said putting her paper down, and standing up.
"Were are we going?" She asked.
"To talk to Daniel," Janet told her.
"Ok," Angela said and following Janet's lead put the papers down and getting up.
Janet smiled and led her out of the office and towards Daniels Lab. When they got to the lab Janet walked in and right over to Daniel and picked the Artifact that he was working on and held on to it.
He looked up and Janet and glared, "Janet what are you doing?"
"Getting your attention," She said.
"Well you've got it, what do you want?" He snapped.
"I want you to take Angela home, she needs to get away from the base, and she's getting restless." Janet said.
"Janet I can't, I got to get this done," Daniel said.
"I don't care Daniel, I'll tell Hammond I told you to," Janet said.
Daniel sighed, he got up and got his keys out of his jacket, "Here, give her the keys she knows the way." He said and gave the keys to Janet and set back down.
He had apparently not seen Angela hanging around the door of his lab, and when he had said that a look of hurt went across her face that didn't go unnoticed by Janet.
"God, Daniel, you are being a jack ass you know that. She doesn't want to go home alone, she wants to be with you. Since she has been able to move around you haven't been spending as much time with her. It's hurting her Daniel, and that isn't what she needs. I know I heard you tell her, when she was still seriously sick, that when she was well enough and out of the infirmary that you would take her up to the cabin. She's been out of the infirmary for a week Daniel, and she hasn't been out of the base, and you haven't made any attempt to keep that promise. Keep your keys I'm going to go find Angela." Janet said setting the keys back on his desk and walked out.
Daniel set there and thought about what Janet had said, she was right, "God I've been acting like she was still missing." He said to himself.
He set there a little bit longer and then something else hit him that Janet said, "Oh crap Angel heard me." He said again to himself and got up and headed out the door.
He headed down to the infirmary to see if that was were they were, and when he couldn't find them he went to his and Angela's quarters. He didn't find them there, 'where would she go if she is upset?' he thought to him self. 'Jack or Sam' he remembered and went running to Sam's lab first. He ran in there and knocked on the door to get her attention.
"He Daniel what's up?" She asked.
"Has Angel been in here?" He asked, "In the last five minutes?"
"Yea, but then she left, I don't know where she was going. But I do know she was crying," Sam told him.
"Damn," He said, "Thanks Sam, I know your probably confused, but I'll explain later I promise."
"It's ok, go find her." She said, he nodded and ran back out.
He headed to Jacks office and when he got there heard crying and Janet and Jack talking soothingly. Daniel's heart broke hearing Angela crying and he ran in there.
"Daniel you better make this up to her or I'm going to kick your ass." Jack said holding Angela.
"I know, and I deserve it," He said and slowly walked over to Jack and Angela. He bent down in front of her and reached up and brushed some tears off her face.
"Baby look at me," He said softly.
She turned and looked at him tears streaming down her face, he could tell he had hurt her, and it broke his heart all over again. He reached up and cupped her face with his hand.
"I'm sorry sweetheart, I've been a jerk. I've done the one thing that I swore never to do to you, and that is hurt you and make you cry. I also broke a promise, I promised you that when you were able to we would go to the cabin, and instead of doing that, I just stayed here and worked. But if you'll let me I'll make it up to you and we'll go wherever you want, I promise, weather it's just to the apartment, or to the cabin, or somewhere else." He told her rubbing her check.
She sniffed, "Promise?"
"Yes baby, were do you want to go?" He asked her.
"I want to go to the cabin," She told him.
He smiled, "Ok, then the cabin it is. First we need to go to the apartment and pack…actually first I need to see how long I can get off."
Jack smiled, "Hey you haven't had time off since the princess went missing, Hammond will more than likely let you off for a while."
Daniel nodded, "Well you stay with her while I go talk to him?" He asked.
"Yea, its fine." Jack said.
Daniel smiled, "Thanks Jack."
He then looked at Angela, "Is it ok with you?" He asked her and she nodded.
"I'll be back as soon as possible, then we'll go home ok?" He told her and she nodded again.
He stood up but not before he kissed her check on the way up. He then turned to leave and looked at Janet.
"Janet, thanks for yelling at me, it helped me come out of it." He said hugging her.
"No problem Daniel, I'm glad it worked. Now go talk to Hammond." She said pushing him out of the door.
He made his way to Hammonds office and knocked on his door, when he heard him say to come in, he opened the door and walked in.
Hammond looked up and saw Daniel, "He Daniel, what can I do for you?" He asked.
"Angela wants out of here, and I promised her I would take her to the cabin when she was out of the infirmary. She really wants to go, I was wondering how long I could take off with her." Daniel told him.
Hammond looked at him, "Well Daniel you haven't taken off since Angela was taken, you have quite a bit of vacation. Why don't you start with a month, I know she needs to talk, if you need more than that call and tell me and it'll be fine, and before you ask yes you will be paid."
Daniel smiled, "What about sg1?"
"Well you all need some time off," Hammond said.
Daniel smiled again, "Thank you sir, I'll go tell them."
"No problem Daniel, Angela is a important part of this place, and before she can get back to working full time, she needs to be able to talk, and I think you are the best one for her to talk to." Hammond said.
Daniel nodded, "Yea, I think your right."
Hammond smiled, "Is that all Daniel?"
"Yes sir," He said.
"Then get out of here and take care of your girl." Hammond said.
"Yes sir," Daniel said and turned around and left.
He arrived back in Jacks office a few minutes later and smiled at them as he walked in. He walked over to Jack and Angela and bent down.
"Hey, Hammond is letting us have a month and if we need more all we have to do is call him and tell him." He told her and she smiled broadly, he smiled back at her and then looked at Jack, "He's giving the rest of sg1 time off to."
"Sweet, maybe I can get Sam out of here for a little while. She hasn't left in a while," He said and Daniel smiled.
"That would be good for the two of you," Daniel said.
Angela looked up at Jack, "You and Sam are still together?"
"Yep," He said smiling down at her.
"Cool," She said.
Daniel smiled, "Well were off now, why don't we go and pack some things from my office, that we BOTH can work on, then go home and pack some clothes."
She grinned and nodded, "Sounds good."
Daniel smiled, "Than let's go," He told her and helped her up from Jack's lap.
He then turned to Jack, "Thanks for taking care of her Jack."
"No problem, buy you make her cry like that again when all she needs is some attention and I'll will kick your ass," Jack told him, meaning every word of it.
"Don't worry Jack you won't have to do that," Daniel said kissing Angela's forehead, "I'm not going to make her cry anymore."
"Good, now get out of here, I got to go find Carter." He said getting up.
"She's in her lab, Jack," Daniel said.
"Oh," Jack said and as Daniel and Angela walked down the hall he called after them, "Thank you," In his typical sarcastic way.
"Welcome Jack," Daniel called back, just as sarcastic.
Jack smirked and then headed to Sam's lab to drag her out of there and to go home.
Daniel and Angela got to his lab and he started gathering some things while she watched, she wanted to help but was still pretty weak, and Daniel had told her he just needed a couple things. So she watched as he gathered a few books and notebooks and stuck them in a bag. Then he went over the artifact he was working on and wrote something down on a piece of paper and placed the paper on it and then put the artifact in a shelf. He then turned to Angela, smiled and walked over to her where she was on his couch.
He set down next to her, "Hey do we need anything out of the quarters?"
"Floppy," She said.
He smiled even when he was there she had to have her dog, "Ok, lets go get Floppy." He said standing up helping her up.
About twenty minutes later, they had gotten her stuffed animal and were on their way to the apartment. Angela looked out the window the whole time and seeing what was different and what was the same. Daniel watched her out of the corner of his eye as he drove making she was ok.
When they got to the apartment building and he parked he turned the car off and looked over at Angela who was still looking out the window. He reached over and touched her arm to get her attention, she looked at him and smiled.
"Hey you ok sweetie?" He asked.
"Yea, just weird seeing new things around," She said looking a little upset and confused.
"I know, but there is a lot that is the same, that didn't change." He told her rubbing her check.
She nodded, "I know…still a little weird." She said.
"That's understandable," He said and then got out of the car and walked around to her side and opened her door for her and held out his hand.
"Come on Angel lets go up to the apartment," He said and helped out of the car.
He shut the door behind her and led her to the door and into the building. He then walked her over to the elevator and pushed the button for up. He watched her as they waited for it to come down and noticed she looked tired. He reached out and wrapped his arm around her and pulled her to him.
"You tired?" He asked her.
"Yea, guess I'm still week from being so sick." She said laying her head on his shoulder.
"Yea Janet said to expect you to be tired quickly." He said smiling at her head on his shoulder, "You hungry?"
"Yea," She said softly.
"Well then when we get up there you can go lay down on the couch or our bed while I fix us something to eat." He said as the elevator got there and he led her into it.
"Ok." She said and he smiled and hit the button for their floor.
A few minutes later they were in the apartment. She had decided she wanted to lay down on the couch were she would closer to Daniel and had fallen asleep. He covered her up so she would be warm, bent down and kissed her check and then headed to the kitchen.
He looked in the fridge and found some lasagna makings and set to work on making lasagna. He would stop and check on Angela every once in a while and then go back to the food. About an hour after he had started the lasagna it was done and he was placing it and a salad on the table. He then walked over to the couch and set down next to were she was curled up in a little ball.
He smiled at her and reached out and brushed her hair out of her face, and she opened her eyes.
"Hey supper's ready, made your favorite, home made Lasagna." He told her and she grinned real big, "you ready to eat?"
"Yea," She said and yawned.
He smiled and got up, "Good, then you can go to bed and I'll pack us for the trip tomorrow."
She looked at him, "You'll stay in the room wont you?"
He nodded, "Yes Angela, I'll pack in our room, I won't leave."
"Ok." She said and got up.
He led her over to the table and held her chair for her and then put her food on her plate for her and set it down in front of her. She smiled up at him and he smiled back and then set down in his chair and put some lasagna and salad on his plate and then they started eating. The rest of the dinner was quite cause they were both enjoying the meal. As soon as they were finished Daniel picked up their plates and the other dishes and went to work on cleaning them up. She watched him for a minute and then got up and went in there with him and started helping him.
"You don't have to help Angel, you can go get ready for bed if you want." He told her.
"I want to," She said meaning helping him.
He smiled, "Ok then." He said.
They spent the next few minutes cleaning up from dinner. Then when they were done they went into their room and Angela got some PJ's and went to the bathroom to change, while Daniel started packing.
When she came out, Daniel pulled back the covers on her side and then held his arms out to her. She walked into his arms and hugged him. He pulled back and kissed her and then helped her into bed.
"I'm going to get us packed, but I won't leave you I'll be close by, I promise." He told her tucking her in.
"Ok." She said and smiled at him.
He smiled back, "Night Angel." He said.
"Night," She said and slowly closed her eyes.
He smiled and watched her for a little while, happy to have his Angel back in the apartment. It hadn't been the same, the past year. But he knew that it was going to take a lot of TLC to get her through this. That was why he was working so hard to get them packed, so they could go to the Cabin the next day. He got up and went back to his side of the bed and went back to work on packing them.
Several hours later he had them all packed, the clothes, toiletries, and his books and notebooks that they might work on. He looked over at her holding floppy, he wasn't going to take it from her. She could take it with her in the car the next day. He went and got ready for bed, came back and laid down next to her and wrapped his arm around her and fell asleep.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed, the next few are probably going to be longer, and more dramatic. I hope that it will be a lot better. Please review and tell me what you think, I'll have the next one up soon. Talk to you later, liz.