CHAPTER SIXTEEN
After a long day traveling, they finally arrived. Rooms were assigned, as everybody unloaded their luggage from the rentals.
While everyone was taking their stuff into the cabin, Jack noticed Megan walking towards the small dock.
Handing his bag to Sam silently asking her to take it in for him he followed his daughter.
"What you doing?" He asked as he approached
"Nothing, just remembering all the good times up here with Charlie, and with my Daniel. This is where he actually proposed to me." Megan said with a far away look in her eyes.
Jack walked up behind Megan and put his arm around her shoulder. She leaned into him putting her head on his chest.
He had surprised himself with how easily he fit back into the fatherly role. Granted Megan wasn't a kid any more, but no matter how old you are you still need a daddy occasionally, or so Sam had told him.
They stood that way for about ten minutes just surveying the view, appreciating the beauty.
They were rudely interrupted by a naked toddler racing past them at 100kms an hour running straight to the end of the dock and jumping in, splashing water everywhere.
Daniel came racing down from the cabin chasing Johnny still trying now, to get the boy to put on his swimming shorts and floaties.
"I wouldn't bother Daniel. He is a water baby, he can swim rather well. But you might want to be careful when you jump in because it isn't that deep at the end of the dock. And Johnny knows it." Megan said as she took a towel from Daniel's hands chuckling at his worried expression.
"Trust me Daniel, he will be fine. If you stood up in the water it would only reach your knee if that." Walking to the edge Daniel saw that the boy was actually sitting in the water and it only reached his waste as he sat. Upon seeing his father Johnny promptly splashed some water in his direction.
Jack watched on, reminiscing about the times he spent up here with Charlie when he was that age.
The spell was broken as Megan wolf whistled from beside him. He turned to see what she was whistling at, and was rather shocked to see a bevy of scantily clad women heading his way. Sam took his breath away. She was wearing or should he say almost wearing a sapphire blue sting bikini. Holding a towel in her hands she looked straight at him as she walked down to the lake, swaying her hips seductively.
He snapped out of it when Megan reached around from behind him and promptly pushed his jaw up with her finger until his mouth was shut again.
Janet and her daughters were also making their way down to the shore, with the twins in their capsules.
"Well I guess I better go up and get changed into my togs (swimmers for any one that doesn't know)." Megan stated when she noticed Daniel stripping off his shirt getting ready to go in with Johnny.
"Megan you don't need to do that." Jack said as he grabbed her from behind and hoisted her over his shoulder, and promptly dumping her off the deep end of the dock. Standing up in the shoulder deep water Megan looked up at her father who had a shit eating grin plastered on his face until Daniel took revenge and pushed the older man into the water next to Megan.
Soon everybody was in the water.
Megan had disappeared back up to the cabin to go and get changed into her togs. And was now sitting on the dock on her towel enjoying the summer heat.
The twins were asleep under the shade of a tree at the edge of the dock.
Everyone was having a ball. At the moment, Caitlin who was sitting on Daniel's shoulders had pulled him under the water when Jack, who had Cassie on his shoulders, had pushed the younger two crumbling into the water.
Johnny was quietly playing in the shallow water with Sam and Janet who were both thoroughly enjoying them selves.
After a couple of hours playing in the water Jack made his way back up to the house with Daniel and Johnny in tow.
They were going to find the BBQ in the garage and give it a clean to be ready for dinner.
Megan was inside feeding the twins and in the process of putting them down for an afternoon nap when Sam and Janet came in.
"Where are the girls?" Megan asked as she finished fastening Nick's nappy.
"They are out on the row boat trying to impress the boys they spotted out on a pontoon further out in the lake." Janet said with a half worried expression etched on her face.
"Don't stress Janet, Jack and Daniel can see them from the back of the cabin and they said that they would keep an eye on them." Sam stated as she went into hers and Jack's room to find a shirt, the breeze outside had picked up a bit making the afternoon air a bit chilly.
Megan settled her self down on the front porch with a bottle ready to feed Lachlan, as Janet rocked Nick to sleep.
She felt a little strange being up here again.
Everything was mostly the same, she noticed a few differences, like the color of the paint on the boat shed was a slightly darker green then she remembered it, there was an old oak tree that had stood about 100 meters away from the cabin, that over hung the lake. It wasn't there any more, and neither was the rope swing out over the water.
Janet sitting next to Megan was staring out over the beautiful view watching her eldest daughter shamelessly flirt with one of the boys from the pontoon who had swam over.
"I hope I was never that obvious when I was that age." Janet said to Megan pointing towards her daughter the flirt.
"What do you mean that age?" Sam said as she walked out the door and sat on one of the stairs in front of the other women.
"Am I missing something?" Megan asked.
"Yes, I would like to know what your implying Samantha Carter." Janet said mockingly, knowing full well what she meant.
"Well, let me see. Where shall I start? Oh that's right, Janet and Jonas sitting in a tree, K I S S I N G." Sam sang the last part.
At the humorous look that Sam received from Megan she went on to continue.
"You knew about that man that came from the other planet with the upgraded Naquada."
At Megan's nod of recognition Sam continued. Ignoring the foul looks she was getting from the vicious doctor.
"Well, the first thing that Janet said to me about this guy was YUM, and I quote directly."
"You had to examine him right?" Megan asked Janet.
"Yes, I did and I did not say yum. I said yummy." Janet started giggling.
"Ok, she said yummy. Either way, she was practically drooling over his shirt. He seems a bit strange to me a little naive, but nothing a certain brunette doctor couldn't cure." Sam corrected receiving a jab in the arm for her effort.
"Janet didn't you tell me that he was in his early twenties?" Megan asked as she got Lachie in the position to burp him.
"I did, yes but I found out that in earth years he is about 26ish." The doctor replied.
"So let me get this straight. Cassie is going to have a step father that is ten years older then her. I'm sure that's illegal in at least one state." Megan said trying to keep a straight face, and failing horribly when Sam made eye contact and the two women burst out laughing.
"Just remember girls, one, I didn't say I wanted to marry him, I only implied other things, and two, women hit their prime in their mid thirties, men hit it in their mid twenties. That puts both me and Jonas in our prime, all I can say to that is that if the bedroom's a rockin' don't come a knockin'."
"And before either of you two says a word, may I remind you that even if they are supposedly past their prime, cause I know that that is what you are thinking at least." Sam said pointing at Janet. "That it doesn't mean that they can't rock a bed or two."
"Are you saying what I think your saying? Oh my god I'm going to have to go and throw up. Wash my ears out with turpentine or something. That was mean Sam, yuck, yuck, yuck." Megan squirmed in her seat until she passed Lachie to Sam and stood up and went in side as fast as she could.
"What she puking about?" Jack asked as he and Daniel walked around the corner of the house with Johnny swinging in between them.
The only answer that he got was both women still left out on the porch looking directly at him and bursting out laughing.
"I think Ill go and check on Megan, are you right with Johnny?" Daniel asked Jack, who still looked completely bewildered as to what was happening.
Jack looked down at his grandson, standing beside him and picked him up. "I will completely understand if you want to become a priest. After all Johnny, women are nuts, can't live with them and can't kill em." Jack said as he turned away from two USAF Majors, who were practically rolling around on the floor.
Daniel took that as a yes as he headed off in search of Megan.
Finding her in their room, he walked in and shut the door behind them.
Looking around the room he silently watched while she unpacked.
Knowing full well that she would tell him what was wrong when she was ready.
He thought about how deceptive this place was, from the outside it looked rather small and he was actually worrying where they would all fit when they drove up.
He was definitely surprised to find that it actually had five bedrooms and they were rather big as well.
He and Megan had one, Jack and Sam the master room, Janet had one all to herself and the girls had their own room as well complete with a couple of bunk bed.
That left that last room, which appeared to be a converted study for the boys. Megan had bought two portable cots with them and was in the process of trying to find the sheets for the cots that she had packed.
Johnny was supposed, to be sleeping with the babies, but he had told his father that he wanted to sleep with the older girls, especially when Jack had told them that there were bunk beds in there.
Cassie and Caitlin said that it was ok, and Johnny was told that he could sleep in there only after he was told that he couldn't sleep on either of the top bunks.
"Did you hear that your son is turning into a womanizer?" Megan said when she successfully located the sheets.
"Just like his old man." Daniel replied laying back on the bed.
"Oh, please. He told me quiet matter of factly that he was going to be sleep with the girls and when he said it he winked at me. I have a sneaky suspicion that my father had something to do with that." Megan said as she sat next to Daniel on the bed.
He still hadn't replaced the shirt that he had taken off down at the dock.
He was stretched out on the bed in nothing but board shorts.
Admiring the view, Megan noticed how much his tan had improved over the last few weeks. He hadn't been cooped up inside reading books, he had actually been doing yard work, and playing with Johnny in the sun.
Even though hers and Daniel's relationship had yet to progress past a certain point, she felt so close to this man.
They had slept together in the same bed ever since Megan had gotten back from the hospital.
They had never gone past second base, as Cassie put it, but she was starting to wonder if he actually wanted to take their relationship further, what if he didn't want to.
She told herself that she was just being stupid, he wasn't a selfish man and properly thought that she wasn't ready to take the next step.
He was properly right in some respects, she had been physically able to go further with him for at least two weeks. It had taken a while for her systems to get back in check after she had Johnny but this time around everything was running like clockwork.
She was a little worried that he didn't find her attractive, he had told her plenty of times that he thought that she was beautiful. But you can say that without meaning it.
After all he had seen her give birth to twins, granted it wasn't the normal way but it still had to be a bit traumatic.
Her body had bounced back completely which had surprised Megan to no end. She had a scar on her lower belly and a few stretch marks because she got so big, but that was about the only reminder that she had had three children.
Daniel had seen her scar, in fact he had seen her naked, he walked in on her in the shower at one stage about a week ago. He had looked her up and then down and had smiled at what he saw.
But he didn't say any thing. He just turned around and walked out again.
As if reading her thoughts, Daniel sat up behind her on the bed so she could lean against his chest. He wrapped his arms around her waist and leaned in and kissed her on the neck.
"You are so beautiful, have I told you that today." All Megan could do was shake her head slightly as a response. He knew that her neck was one of her very sensitive spots.
"You looked absolutely gorgeous laying on the dock in the sun. You took my breath away."
Megan sat up suddenly and turned to look at his confused face.
"What's wrong Megan what did I say?"
Megan just fled the room, running straight past the women at the front door and headed to one of the walking tracks that led around the lake.
Jack heard all the commotion and hurried around to the front of the house where he had left Janet and Sam.
"What's wrong? What was all the noise?" Jack asked just as Daniel came bolting out of the house.
"Where did she go Sam?" He asked after looking around for a few minutes.
The look that Jack gave Sam stopped her answering.
"What did you do Daniel?" Jack asked in a raised voice, positioning him self in front of the younger man so he couldn't escape.
"Jack get a grip, I didn't do anything. I told her that she was beautiful and that she took my breath away and then she bolted." Daniel answered as he barged his way past the angry father.
"Ah, Daniel I don't think you should go after her." Sam said as she suddenly remembered something.
"Daniel sit down and Ill explain it to you." Sam continued as she stood up and placed a sleeping Lachie in his capsule.
"After Megan first arrived at the base, you remember after the first briefing, Janet and I took her to her room. After a while I asked her how she and the Daniel from her world had gotten together. She explained to me how it all happened. The short story is that we all had to go to some fancy dinner, she knew us cause she lived with her dad, and was often home when we visited. Either way Megan and her Daniel, went out on the balcony and in short he told her that she took his breath away and that he had trouble breathing looking at her right then. She told me later as she was crying herself to sleep that she knew that was the moment that she loved him with all her heart." Sam wasn't sure whether Megan wanted this Daniel to know that story, but she didn't feel that she had a choice.
When he did go to find her he needed to be prepared.
The others just sat there dumbfounded, Janet with a romantic smile in her eyes, Jack was pacing watching in the direction that Megan had gone, and Daniel got up and went to find her.
Megan slowed to a walk and told her self that she had to sort out her feelings right then and there. She couldn't string him along if she couldn't commit to this relationship.
No that wasn't it. She thought to her self. It wasn't that she couldn't commit, she was fully prepared to commit to this man.
She found a log off the track a little and sat down overlooking the lake. She did love Daniel, and she knew that it wasn't because of some warped obsession with her dead husband. She loved him because he was different, he had different scars, he had a slightly different personality and he was in awe of the family that he now had.
It was then that it hit her.
She was scared to love him just in case anything happened to him while he was away on a mission.
Megan didn't want to put her self or the children through that again. She was scared, that was it.
The realization of the truth hit Megan like a hammer. Would she always be this scared? What if she couldn't get over it?
She heard someone jogging up the path, coming to the conclusion that it was most likely Daniel she turned her back to the path hoping that he wouldn't see her.
She needed a few more minutes alone.
She was glad that she had thought to put on a shirt and shorts when she had gone into their room to look for the cot sheets. It was starting to get a bit cold.
She heard him stop, right behind her. He slowly walked in her direction, obviously seeing her in the shadows.
"Megan, are you alright?"
He sat down next to her on the log, but didn't touch her. He gave her some space.
"Daniel, I'm sorry. I can't do this any more."
"Do what?" He asked with trepidation in his voice.
"This, us. I can't put you through this any more. It's not fair on you, or the kids. I'm a wreck. I don't know what I want, and I'm most likely going to drive you nuts while I try to figure it out. I'm so sorry Daniel."
All of a sudden, he stood up and started pacing. She could tell he was angry, she was willing to suffer his anger rather than having to suffer the effects of his death if god-forbid it ever happened.
He pulled her to her feet and gave her the most passionate kiss that she had ever received in her entire life.
They stood there in each other's arms for a long time. Finally he pulled away from her, raised his hands to cradle her face and looked into her eyes.
"Now tell me that you don't want this to happen. Tell me that you didn't just go weak at the knees. Tell me Megan, and I will never mention any of this again. I promise."
Megan looked up at him, and didn't say a word. She leaned into him and put her cheek to his chest, hearing his heartbeat.
"Daniel I'm scared, I don't want to loose you." She whispered to his heart.
"I'm not going anywhere, I could never leave you. Don't you see, you are the most important thing in my life? Ever. You and the boys are the only thing that has gone right in my life for a long time. I love you with all my heart and soul Megan. I need you to understand that."
"My husband told me that he wasn't going anywhere, and look what happened to him. You do such a dangerous job, if any thing ever happened to SG1, I would loose my father, two of my best friends and you all in one blow. I couldn't do that again. I can't stop loosing my father from hurting, but I feel that if I let my self fall in love with you something like that is going to happen. I don't want to go through that again."
"Megan, anything could happen whether we are together or not, wouldn't you prefer for us to be together now and being happy rather than denying what we feel and waiting for something to happen. What if nothing happens, and I live to a ripe old age of 103. Think of the time we wasted on the chance that something could happen to me. I don't want to do that."
He held her close when she started to sob. She appeared to be weighing up her options.
Be happy now maybe forever, or unhappy waiting for something that may never happen.
Eventually she looked up at him through puffy crying eyes. "Daniel, I love you so much it hurts. I'm sorry for not believing in you."
It happened right there, the thought came into his mind and in an instant he was on his knee. He held both of her hands in one of his. He reached into his pocket with his other one.
"Megan, I hope I have proved to you over the last two months, how much you mean to me. I want to be able to come home to you every night, to have you and the children with me always. It would mean the world to me if you agreed to become my wife."
She looked at him dumbfounded.
A slight look of confusion passed over her face, followed by a look of ecstatic surprise as he opened the box that he had pulled from his pocket.
He presented her with a white gold engagement ring, centered with an emerald and surrounded by small diamonds. Her heart leapt in to her throat, she couldn't speak.
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After a long day traveling, they finally arrived. Rooms were assigned, as everybody unloaded their luggage from the rentals.
While everyone was taking their stuff into the cabin, Jack noticed Megan walking towards the small dock.
Handing his bag to Sam silently asking her to take it in for him he followed his daughter.
"What you doing?" He asked as he approached
"Nothing, just remembering all the good times up here with Charlie, and with my Daniel. This is where he actually proposed to me." Megan said with a far away look in her eyes.
Jack walked up behind Megan and put his arm around her shoulder. She leaned into him putting her head on his chest.
He had surprised himself with how easily he fit back into the fatherly role. Granted Megan wasn't a kid any more, but no matter how old you are you still need a daddy occasionally, or so Sam had told him.
They stood that way for about ten minutes just surveying the view, appreciating the beauty.
They were rudely interrupted by a naked toddler racing past them at 100kms an hour running straight to the end of the dock and jumping in, splashing water everywhere.
Daniel came racing down from the cabin chasing Johnny still trying now, to get the boy to put on his swimming shorts and floaties.
"I wouldn't bother Daniel. He is a water baby, he can swim rather well. But you might want to be careful when you jump in because it isn't that deep at the end of the dock. And Johnny knows it." Megan said as she took a towel from Daniel's hands chuckling at his worried expression.
"Trust me Daniel, he will be fine. If you stood up in the water it would only reach your knee if that." Walking to the edge Daniel saw that the boy was actually sitting in the water and it only reached his waste as he sat. Upon seeing his father Johnny promptly splashed some water in his direction.
Jack watched on, reminiscing about the times he spent up here with Charlie when he was that age.
The spell was broken as Megan wolf whistled from beside him. He turned to see what she was whistling at, and was rather shocked to see a bevy of scantily clad women heading his way. Sam took his breath away. She was wearing or should he say almost wearing a sapphire blue sting bikini. Holding a towel in her hands she looked straight at him as she walked down to the lake, swaying her hips seductively.
He snapped out of it when Megan reached around from behind him and promptly pushed his jaw up with her finger until his mouth was shut again.
Janet and her daughters were also making their way down to the shore, with the twins in their capsules.
"Well I guess I better go up and get changed into my togs (swimmers for any one that doesn't know)." Megan stated when she noticed Daniel stripping off his shirt getting ready to go in with Johnny.
"Megan you don't need to do that." Jack said as he grabbed her from behind and hoisted her over his shoulder, and promptly dumping her off the deep end of the dock. Standing up in the shoulder deep water Megan looked up at her father who had a shit eating grin plastered on his face until Daniel took revenge and pushed the older man into the water next to Megan.
Soon everybody was in the water.
Megan had disappeared back up to the cabin to go and get changed into her togs. And was now sitting on the dock on her towel enjoying the summer heat.
The twins were asleep under the shade of a tree at the edge of the dock.
Everyone was having a ball. At the moment, Caitlin who was sitting on Daniel's shoulders had pulled him under the water when Jack, who had Cassie on his shoulders, had pushed the younger two crumbling into the water.
Johnny was quietly playing in the shallow water with Sam and Janet who were both thoroughly enjoying them selves.
After a couple of hours playing in the water Jack made his way back up to the house with Daniel and Johnny in tow.
They were going to find the BBQ in the garage and give it a clean to be ready for dinner.
Megan was inside feeding the twins and in the process of putting them down for an afternoon nap when Sam and Janet came in.
"Where are the girls?" Megan asked as she finished fastening Nick's nappy.
"They are out on the row boat trying to impress the boys they spotted out on a pontoon further out in the lake." Janet said with a half worried expression etched on her face.
"Don't stress Janet, Jack and Daniel can see them from the back of the cabin and they said that they would keep an eye on them." Sam stated as she went into hers and Jack's room to find a shirt, the breeze outside had picked up a bit making the afternoon air a bit chilly.
Megan settled her self down on the front porch with a bottle ready to feed Lachlan, as Janet rocked Nick to sleep.
She felt a little strange being up here again.
Everything was mostly the same, she noticed a few differences, like the color of the paint on the boat shed was a slightly darker green then she remembered it, there was an old oak tree that had stood about 100 meters away from the cabin, that over hung the lake. It wasn't there any more, and neither was the rope swing out over the water.
Janet sitting next to Megan was staring out over the beautiful view watching her eldest daughter shamelessly flirt with one of the boys from the pontoon who had swam over.
"I hope I was never that obvious when I was that age." Janet said to Megan pointing towards her daughter the flirt.
"What do you mean that age?" Sam said as she walked out the door and sat on one of the stairs in front of the other women.
"Am I missing something?" Megan asked.
"Yes, I would like to know what your implying Samantha Carter." Janet said mockingly, knowing full well what she meant.
"Well, let me see. Where shall I start? Oh that's right, Janet and Jonas sitting in a tree, K I S S I N G." Sam sang the last part.
At the humorous look that Sam received from Megan she went on to continue.
"You knew about that man that came from the other planet with the upgraded Naquada."
At Megan's nod of recognition Sam continued. Ignoring the foul looks she was getting from the vicious doctor.
"Well, the first thing that Janet said to me about this guy was YUM, and I quote directly."
"You had to examine him right?" Megan asked Janet.
"Yes, I did and I did not say yum. I said yummy." Janet started giggling.
"Ok, she said yummy. Either way, she was practically drooling over his shirt. He seems a bit strange to me a little naive, but nothing a certain brunette doctor couldn't cure." Sam corrected receiving a jab in the arm for her effort.
"Janet didn't you tell me that he was in his early twenties?" Megan asked as she got Lachie in the position to burp him.
"I did, yes but I found out that in earth years he is about 26ish." The doctor replied.
"So let me get this straight. Cassie is going to have a step father that is ten years older then her. I'm sure that's illegal in at least one state." Megan said trying to keep a straight face, and failing horribly when Sam made eye contact and the two women burst out laughing.
"Just remember girls, one, I didn't say I wanted to marry him, I only implied other things, and two, women hit their prime in their mid thirties, men hit it in their mid twenties. That puts both me and Jonas in our prime, all I can say to that is that if the bedroom's a rockin' don't come a knockin'."
"And before either of you two says a word, may I remind you that even if they are supposedly past their prime, cause I know that that is what you are thinking at least." Sam said pointing at Janet. "That it doesn't mean that they can't rock a bed or two."
"Are you saying what I think your saying? Oh my god I'm going to have to go and throw up. Wash my ears out with turpentine or something. That was mean Sam, yuck, yuck, yuck." Megan squirmed in her seat until she passed Lachie to Sam and stood up and went in side as fast as she could.
"What she puking about?" Jack asked as he and Daniel walked around the corner of the house with Johnny swinging in between them.
The only answer that he got was both women still left out on the porch looking directly at him and bursting out laughing.
"I think Ill go and check on Megan, are you right with Johnny?" Daniel asked Jack, who still looked completely bewildered as to what was happening.
Jack looked down at his grandson, standing beside him and picked him up. "I will completely understand if you want to become a priest. After all Johnny, women are nuts, can't live with them and can't kill em." Jack said as he turned away from two USAF Majors, who were practically rolling around on the floor.
Daniel took that as a yes as he headed off in search of Megan.
Finding her in their room, he walked in and shut the door behind them.
Looking around the room he silently watched while she unpacked.
Knowing full well that she would tell him what was wrong when she was ready.
He thought about how deceptive this place was, from the outside it looked rather small and he was actually worrying where they would all fit when they drove up.
He was definitely surprised to find that it actually had five bedrooms and they were rather big as well.
He and Megan had one, Jack and Sam the master room, Janet had one all to herself and the girls had their own room as well complete with a couple of bunk bed.
That left that last room, which appeared to be a converted study for the boys. Megan had bought two portable cots with them and was in the process of trying to find the sheets for the cots that she had packed.
Johnny was supposed, to be sleeping with the babies, but he had told his father that he wanted to sleep with the older girls, especially when Jack had told them that there were bunk beds in there.
Cassie and Caitlin said that it was ok, and Johnny was told that he could sleep in there only after he was told that he couldn't sleep on either of the top bunks.
"Did you hear that your son is turning into a womanizer?" Megan said when she successfully located the sheets.
"Just like his old man." Daniel replied laying back on the bed.
"Oh, please. He told me quiet matter of factly that he was going to be sleep with the girls and when he said it he winked at me. I have a sneaky suspicion that my father had something to do with that." Megan said as she sat next to Daniel on the bed.
He still hadn't replaced the shirt that he had taken off down at the dock.
He was stretched out on the bed in nothing but board shorts.
Admiring the view, Megan noticed how much his tan had improved over the last few weeks. He hadn't been cooped up inside reading books, he had actually been doing yard work, and playing with Johnny in the sun.
Even though hers and Daniel's relationship had yet to progress past a certain point, she felt so close to this man.
They had slept together in the same bed ever since Megan had gotten back from the hospital.
They had never gone past second base, as Cassie put it, but she was starting to wonder if he actually wanted to take their relationship further, what if he didn't want to.
She told herself that she was just being stupid, he wasn't a selfish man and properly thought that she wasn't ready to take the next step.
He was properly right in some respects, she had been physically able to go further with him for at least two weeks. It had taken a while for her systems to get back in check after she had Johnny but this time around everything was running like clockwork.
She was a little worried that he didn't find her attractive, he had told her plenty of times that he thought that she was beautiful. But you can say that without meaning it.
After all he had seen her give birth to twins, granted it wasn't the normal way but it still had to be a bit traumatic.
Her body had bounced back completely which had surprised Megan to no end. She had a scar on her lower belly and a few stretch marks because she got so big, but that was about the only reminder that she had had three children.
Daniel had seen her scar, in fact he had seen her naked, he walked in on her in the shower at one stage about a week ago. He had looked her up and then down and had smiled at what he saw.
But he didn't say any thing. He just turned around and walked out again.
As if reading her thoughts, Daniel sat up behind her on the bed so she could lean against his chest. He wrapped his arms around her waist and leaned in and kissed her on the neck.
"You are so beautiful, have I told you that today." All Megan could do was shake her head slightly as a response. He knew that her neck was one of her very sensitive spots.
"You looked absolutely gorgeous laying on the dock in the sun. You took my breath away."
Megan sat up suddenly and turned to look at his confused face.
"What's wrong Megan what did I say?"
Megan just fled the room, running straight past the women at the front door and headed to one of the walking tracks that led around the lake.
Jack heard all the commotion and hurried around to the front of the house where he had left Janet and Sam.
"What's wrong? What was all the noise?" Jack asked just as Daniel came bolting out of the house.
"Where did she go Sam?" He asked after looking around for a few minutes.
The look that Jack gave Sam stopped her answering.
"What did you do Daniel?" Jack asked in a raised voice, positioning him self in front of the younger man so he couldn't escape.
"Jack get a grip, I didn't do anything. I told her that she was beautiful and that she took my breath away and then she bolted." Daniel answered as he barged his way past the angry father.
"Ah, Daniel I don't think you should go after her." Sam said as she suddenly remembered something.
"Daniel sit down and Ill explain it to you." Sam continued as she stood up and placed a sleeping Lachie in his capsule.
"After Megan first arrived at the base, you remember after the first briefing, Janet and I took her to her room. After a while I asked her how she and the Daniel from her world had gotten together. She explained to me how it all happened. The short story is that we all had to go to some fancy dinner, she knew us cause she lived with her dad, and was often home when we visited. Either way Megan and her Daniel, went out on the balcony and in short he told her that she took his breath away and that he had trouble breathing looking at her right then. She told me later as she was crying herself to sleep that she knew that was the moment that she loved him with all her heart." Sam wasn't sure whether Megan wanted this Daniel to know that story, but she didn't feel that she had a choice.
When he did go to find her he needed to be prepared.
The others just sat there dumbfounded, Janet with a romantic smile in her eyes, Jack was pacing watching in the direction that Megan had gone, and Daniel got up and went to find her.
Megan slowed to a walk and told her self that she had to sort out her feelings right then and there. She couldn't string him along if she couldn't commit to this relationship.
No that wasn't it. She thought to her self. It wasn't that she couldn't commit, she was fully prepared to commit to this man.
She found a log off the track a little and sat down overlooking the lake. She did love Daniel, and she knew that it wasn't because of some warped obsession with her dead husband. She loved him because he was different, he had different scars, he had a slightly different personality and he was in awe of the family that he now had.
It was then that it hit her.
She was scared to love him just in case anything happened to him while he was away on a mission.
Megan didn't want to put her self or the children through that again. She was scared, that was it.
The realization of the truth hit Megan like a hammer. Would she always be this scared? What if she couldn't get over it?
She heard someone jogging up the path, coming to the conclusion that it was most likely Daniel she turned her back to the path hoping that he wouldn't see her.
She needed a few more minutes alone.
She was glad that she had thought to put on a shirt and shorts when she had gone into their room to look for the cot sheets. It was starting to get a bit cold.
She heard him stop, right behind her. He slowly walked in her direction, obviously seeing her in the shadows.
"Megan, are you alright?"
He sat down next to her on the log, but didn't touch her. He gave her some space.
"Daniel, I'm sorry. I can't do this any more."
"Do what?" He asked with trepidation in his voice.
"This, us. I can't put you through this any more. It's not fair on you, or the kids. I'm a wreck. I don't know what I want, and I'm most likely going to drive you nuts while I try to figure it out. I'm so sorry Daniel."
All of a sudden, he stood up and started pacing. She could tell he was angry, she was willing to suffer his anger rather than having to suffer the effects of his death if god-forbid it ever happened.
He pulled her to her feet and gave her the most passionate kiss that she had ever received in her entire life.
They stood there in each other's arms for a long time. Finally he pulled away from her, raised his hands to cradle her face and looked into her eyes.
"Now tell me that you don't want this to happen. Tell me that you didn't just go weak at the knees. Tell me Megan, and I will never mention any of this again. I promise."
Megan looked up at him, and didn't say a word. She leaned into him and put her cheek to his chest, hearing his heartbeat.
"Daniel I'm scared, I don't want to loose you." She whispered to his heart.
"I'm not going anywhere, I could never leave you. Don't you see, you are the most important thing in my life? Ever. You and the boys are the only thing that has gone right in my life for a long time. I love you with all my heart and soul Megan. I need you to understand that."
"My husband told me that he wasn't going anywhere, and look what happened to him. You do such a dangerous job, if any thing ever happened to SG1, I would loose my father, two of my best friends and you all in one blow. I couldn't do that again. I can't stop loosing my father from hurting, but I feel that if I let my self fall in love with you something like that is going to happen. I don't want to go through that again."
"Megan, anything could happen whether we are together or not, wouldn't you prefer for us to be together now and being happy rather than denying what we feel and waiting for something to happen. What if nothing happens, and I live to a ripe old age of 103. Think of the time we wasted on the chance that something could happen to me. I don't want to do that."
He held her close when she started to sob. She appeared to be weighing up her options.
Be happy now maybe forever, or unhappy waiting for something that may never happen.
Eventually she looked up at him through puffy crying eyes. "Daniel, I love you so much it hurts. I'm sorry for not believing in you."
It happened right there, the thought came into his mind and in an instant he was on his knee. He held both of her hands in one of his. He reached into his pocket with his other one.
"Megan, I hope I have proved to you over the last two months, how much you mean to me. I want to be able to come home to you every night, to have you and the children with me always. It would mean the world to me if you agreed to become my wife."
She looked at him dumbfounded.
A slight look of confusion passed over her face, followed by a look of ecstatic surprise as he opened the box that he had pulled from his pocket.
He presented her with a white gold engagement ring, centered with an emerald and surrounded by small diamonds. Her heart leapt in to her throat, she couldn't speak.
Please read and review. Ellie Mae
