Chapter 6: Waking Up

Jack woke up slowly. He unconsciously spooned up closer to Sam as he gradually became more aware of his surroundings.

Wait a minute! Jack froze in alarm and slowly rolled away from Sam. No! Major Carter. But even as he corrected himself he remembered all too clearly the events of the last several days. Days? Weeks?

Jack shook the last of the fog from his mind just in time to take in the young acolyte waiting patiently by the curtained doorway, waiting for them.

She gave him a small bow as he noticed her. "I'll let the others know that you are awake," she said and then she slipped out before Jack could stop her.

"Shit! Carter, you got to wake up," Jack said nudging her shoulder carefully. He scanned the room quickly and found that he was in a completely unfamiliar room. The window was large and open. No bars. No force field. The door was blocked by only a curtain, which would have been great if he was looking to sneak out, but the curtain was also the only decoration in the place. The 'bed' that he woke up in was nothing more than a bare pallet on the floor.

"Sir?" Sam asked waking up slowly. She gave a cat-like stretch before she suddenly realized where and how naked she was. When that realization struck, she squeaked and her arms suddenly snapped back down and around her chest as she tried to curl up into as small a form as possible.

Before Jack could reassure her that they were alone, Daniel waltzed through the curtained doorway carrying a rucksack. "Hey guys…" he said before he noticed their very naked state. "WHOA!" He whipped around to face the curtain and greeted them tentatively, "Uh, Jack. Sam."

"Daniel," Jack replied casually.

"I… uh… brought you this," Daniel held out the rucksack.

Jack strode over and grabbed the bag. He quickly opened the bag and started sorting clothes, tossing Sam's stuff over his shoulder at her.

Jack was pulling a shirt on when Sam squeaked again. Jack stopped himself from turning to look at her, and instead asked, "Carter?"

"Are you alright, Sam?" Daniel echoed in concern.

"All I can say is 'commando,' Sir," Sam replied, testily.

Jack glanced down at his boxers and noticed that the chain that was attached to the ring on his cock was still firmly in place. He flashed to a memory of Sam playing with the chain and his cock twitched.

The pleasant memory was suddenly replaced by painful twinge as his boxers pinched the chain and painfully jerked on the ring. Jack winced and quickly removed the boxers in favor of the 'commando' style of uniform wear. In other words, no underwear. Of course the pants would cause the same painful pulling, but he wasn't willing to do without those too.

"Right," Jack sighed more to himself than anyone else, like he had a choice. He quickly finished dressing and glanced at Sam to see if she was done. He caught her as she was pulling at the waist of her pants with a wince, loosening the belt.

Feeling a bit more confident with his clothes on, Jack finally addressed Daniel, "We're decent, Daniel," he started in a forced jolly tone.

Daniel cautiously turned to face them, relived to find them both finally dressed.

"So, Daniel, where have you been? What have you seen?" Jack asked as a way of greeting. He was trying for casual. He was trying really hard to not think of anything. He could think later… when he wasn't on a hostile planet that had held him captive for God knows how long… NO THINKING!

Daniel's eyes went wide with shock, "I didn't see anything, Jack. Really. Nothing. I didn't look… I mean… Ah… Home, you know. Earth." He tried to look nonchalant, but just ended up looking nervous.

"Daniel?" Jack asked alarmed. "What's going on?"

"Nothing, really… well, not 'nothing' nothing… but… okay, we're… ah… helping to broker a treaty between Aphrodite and the Tok'ra," Daniel finished with an innocent smile. As Jack continued to glare at him he recanted, "Alright, there was less brokering and more message delivering, but still… things… were done…" Daniel was in full defensive mode hugging himself.

"Uh huh," Jack replied suspiciously. "So are we expected to… you know… broker…s tuff?" Jack asked watching Daniel closely. Jack so didn't want to stick around and play nice. He was pretty sure that he would blow if he stuck around too long. And losing one's temper generally put a damper on treaty negotiations.

Daniel looked relieved, "You guys, no, not at all. We are acting more as a bodyguard for Selmak and Jacob."

"My DAD is here?" Sam shouted in shock.

Daniel winced, "Uh yeah. He… ah… said to say 'hi'."

"Holy Hannah, I don't see the man for MONTHS and he picks NOW to show up. Figures!" Sam ranted as she jumped up and started pacing.

Jack knew the feeling. Jacob was so gonna kick his ass. He turned back to Daniel, "So, is anyone else 'visiting' that we should know about, Daniel?"

"Um… SG-3 is sort of our backup…" Daniel jumped to reassure them. "But they didn't see any… thing…" Daniel finished lamely, realizing that he said more than he wanted.

"Now, ya see, Daniel. That's the second time you talked about 'not' seeing something," Jack replied. "Carter, I think Danny's hiding something from us."

"I think you're right, Sir," Sam added stalking up to Daniel with her arms crossed over her chest. She winced again and adjusted her arms again so they crossed under her breasts. Jack was momentarily distracted from Daniel.

Daniel blanched at the use of 'Carter' and 'Sir.' "You… ah… might want to avoid those words when we rejoin Jacob."

"What words, Daniel?" Sam asked with her eyes narrowed suspiciously.

"Um, 'Carter' and… ah… 'Sir'," Daniel offered cautiously.

"Why?" Sam spat, anger blazing in her eyes.

"Can we not talk about this now?" Daniel asked hopefully.

"Daniel!" Jack shouted in warning. Daniel was quickly pushing his prissy mood directly into deadly territory.

"Yeah… I guess now is good. Well, you see… We… ah… got here a couple hours ago. And we were… concerned… for you… both… so, we… ah… came directly to the temple… and… ah… SG-3 stayed outside. So it was just Teal'c, Jacob, and me… and we saw you… you know." Daniel added a hand motion, hoping to avoid actually saying the words. "And we saw… you… just enough to know that it was you… and… and… both of you… were, ah… were kinda loud."

Sam slapped her hand over her mouth, "Oh my God!"

"You watched!" Jack shouted angrily.

"NO! No, oh God, no," Daniel retorted, blushing furiously. "We thought you were scrubbing floors, for Christ's sake. Not… you know. So we came by to say 'hi' and kinda got the shock of our lives."

"Great, just great," Jack said to himself before turning back to Daniel. "So does the whole world know?" Oh yeah, way past pissed now.

"No," Daniel replied blandly. "Just Teal'c, Jacob, and I are cursed with that particular image. Thank you very much." He sighed and turned back to Jack, "SG-3 has no idea. They have been left out of the discussions…"

"There have been 'discussions'," Sam asked, barely restraining her anger.

"Hey, we had to find out what they gave you guys," Daniel said defensively. "You sure weren't acting normal. So we talked to the High Priestess Alana and Teal'c was even able to get a sample of the Tears."

Daniel took on a pained look, "Look, we can continue to talk about this here, or we can go home. Queen Aphrodite said you can leave whenever you want. Jacob and Selmak should be about done, so we can just have everyone meet up at the Stargate and go home. Okay?" he asked. He watched as his two friends took on a decidedly angry look.

"Fine," Jack finally agreed. "Let's get the hell out of here." Jack stormed out of the doorway.

Sam glared at Daniel, "This isn't over, Daniel." She whirled and stomped after Jack.

Daniel gave a tired sigh to the empty room, "I didn't think it was." Resigned, he followed his friends out the door.

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