ANOTHER WORLD – III. Our World by Betty Bokor
Sam/Daniel. Daniel wakes up in the wrong place.
Spoilers: All seasons, including 9 and 10.
Disclaimer: The Stargate original characters belong to MGM/Showtime, Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Film Corp. This was written strictly for the purpose of entertainment. No attempt at copyright infringement has been made.

Our World

Chapter 3

After having some hearty Italian food and spending a couple of hours watching the movies Sam had recorded in her DVR, they settled in the den to have a cup of tea before going to bed. They talked about the time Daniel had spent in Dan's world and he ended up confessing what had happened with Vala.

Sam felt uncomfortable by the notion of Daniel making love to a Vala, no matter in what universe.

"Is Vala the woman with whom you want to have a relationship?" she asked him suddenly.

"Eh? No, no Sam. I haven't thought about that at all."

"Why? You didn't enjoy being with her?"

"No, it's not that. I did, I enjoyed it. It was more or less what I expected."

"So, you had thought about it beforehand?" she wanted to know.

"Sam, that would have been hard to avoid. She hardly talks about anything else when we're alone."

"Then, what's stopping you now? She doesn't have a husband anymore."

"What happened with that Vala happened because we both needed it. She had lost Dan and I had lost-" he hesitated for an instant, "I had lost everyone I care about. No matter how many of you were there, they were not my people."

"It could happen again."

"No, it won't. We were both curious. I think she wanted to compare us. I wanted to know if I felt something else besides the physical attraction."

"And?"

"I care about her, but I don't love her enough to want to have a full relationship with her."

They talked about it for a few more minutes and then Sam decided Daniel needed to go to bed. She completely refused to allow him to sleep on the sofa and she guided him to her bed. She left him brushing his teeth in the bathroom as she changed into her nightgown. Then, she took him to the bed and sat him on the edge. She helped him take his shoes off and then she helped him with his shirt. She made him lay back with his head on the pillows and started unbuckling his belt.

"Sam, I can do that," Daniel said feeling slightly uncomfortable.

"No, let me." She finished with the belt and pulled his trousers down. She neatly folded them and put them on the back of a chair as he covered himself with the sheets.

"Not yet," Sam said as she came back to the bed. She moved the sheets aside and took Daniel's socks off. Then she climbed on the bed and straddled his legs.

Daniel had not overcome his surprise when she pulled up her nightgown and passed it over her head.

"What are you doing?" Daniel asked timidly as his body suddenly felt like it was being hit by an electrical current when the naked Sam sat back on his legs.

Sam did not respond and moved her hands to the sides of his boxers and started pulling down. She smiled at him and said, "I'm going to make love to you."

Daniel grabbed the top edge of his underwear and kept them in place. "Wh-what?" was the only thing he was able to say.

"You heard me. I'm going to make love to you," she said slowly, enunciating every word as if talking to a hearing impaired person

"Why?"

"Why not?"

"I don't think it's a good idea," Daniel insisted.

"You're lying," Sam smiled. "I think it's a great idea and your body does, too," she added as she removed his last piece of clothing with one swift movement.

Daniel forcefully sank his head backwards on the pillows, ashamed and incapable to hide the evidence of his lie. "I don't think I can carry a logical argument with you there," he said with his eyes closed.

"Great. I don't want to discuss anything. I just want to make love to you." She slowly slid on top of his body and reclined her head on his chest. "The other Sam waited until her Dan was dying to get here. I'm not going to do that, Daniel," she said very softly. "You showed me today how lonely and cold your life feels now and that isn't right, because there are people like me who would do anything for you."

"You don't need to do this, Sam," Daniel argued.

"You're right. I don't have to do anything. I'm doing it because I want to do it. Look at me, Daniel," she said as she raised her head to be able to look at him. "This is I, giving you the only part of me you don't have."

"This is too much; more than I deserve," Daniel said with his eyes full of tears.

"You deserve everything I can give you and more. I'm not asking you to marry me or to choose me to be the mother of your children. Not even your lover. This has no conditions. I know we love each other very deeply and I want to make you feel how much I care for you. I've had very few men in my life, Daniel, and today I wish there had been none, so that this would mean more to you."

"Even if this was it, if you stopped right now and changed your mind, you have no idea how much this already means to me, Sam."

"That's good, but I'm not going to stop now. I want you to understand this, you're not alone, you'll never be as long as I'm here, and you can come back to me every day, every time you need me, every time you need someone to hold your hand or every time you don't want to go back home alone. And if later on you find another woman to take this place, I won't stop you, I won't complain." Daniel was about to say something, but she put a finger on his lips. "Let me say this. It took me a while, but now I know exactly why the other Sam allowed Dan to keep seeing Vala. She loved him so much that she was willing to share him in order to make him happy and I'm sure she would have let him go without a word if that was what he needed."

"I don't know Dan, Sam, but I, seriously, I don't deserve that much. There are very few women like you in the world, in any reality. When I was there I kept trying to figure out what he had done to be able to share his life with you, with his Sam. When I touched her belly and I felt their baby moving there, all I could think was how it would be to feel my son in you."

"You did?" she asked as she softly caressed his temple.

"I knew I didn't have a chance."

"Why not?"

"I'm no competition for Jack, Sam."

Sam looked at him for a minute. Daniel suddenly felt he had offended her or that he had brought up something Sam would not want to discuss. After all, she was there with him and not with Jack. He was ready to apologize when she finally said, "Well, if you thought you were competing with Jack, now you know who won." She lowered her head onto his chest again and remained there in silence.

Daniel slowly raised his hand from behind her and gently caressed her back. "Sam, you said you weren't asking for anything, but what if I asked you?"

"What would you ask?"

"I'd ask you all those things. To be my lover and my wife, and, if we both survived long enough, to have a family with me."

"Is that what you really want or are you just settling for me?"

"If I chose anyone else I'd be settling for her, but with you, it would mean to have everything a man could ask for."

"I don't care about what men ask for. I want to know what would make you happy."

"You."

"Then we both have what we wanted." She raised her head and kissed his chin. "Now, if I say yes, can we go back to the making love part?" she asked with a smile.

"When you said that for the first time it really scared me," Daniel confessed.

"Why?"

"I didn't want to just have sex with you."

"This has nothing to do with sex. It's strictly about love, Daniel. It's about sharing with the bodies what we already share with our hearts. Does it still scare you?"

"No, I think there's enough love in this room to fuel hundreds of years of happiness."

"Good. I'm sure there's enough coming from my side…" Sam said softly.

"You know how much I love you, don't you?"

"I suppose so, but it's good to hear it out loud."

"Then I'll say it, just for you." He softly turned his body sideways pushing Sam to lay down on the bed and then he started kissing her gently, moving his mouth over her body, lifting his lips only to say one more couple of words, "I love you, Sam. Te amo. Je t'aime. Io ti amo. Ich liebe dich. Maite zaitut. T'estim molt. Ti voglio bene. Eu te amo. Te quiero tanto. Ani ohev otakh. Ego te amo. Rojhayhû. Te adoro..."

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