Jack O'Neill found his friend in his quarters. He had never seen him this angry, or upset and he knew that he needed to talk. He also knew that something was tearing him apart inside, and he wasn't about to see his friend go through more pain. In the last few years Jack had seen him go through his own fair share of it, and even though he always teased him, and they always wound each other up, he wouldn't wish what Daniel had been through on anybody.

"Space monkey...you feel like telling me what that was all about." Jack asked as he sat down on Daniels bed, looking at Daniel who was pacing up and down his room.

"No, Jack actually, I don't." Daniel replied.

"Don't make me hurt you Danny boy."Jack replied causing Daniel to turn round and glare at him.

"Look sometimes it helps to talk about things. You've had a lot to take in, in a short period of time, and leaving the briefing like that didn't do much to make me believe there isn't anything going on in that big head of yours." Jack told him.

"I do not have a big head." Daniel replied.

"Whatever." Jack replied. Daniel still carried on pacing.

"Okay fine...if you don't want to talk I'll go." He then told Daniel getting up to leave. Just as he was at the door Daniel turned round to face his friend.

"Damn it Jack, things were already confusing and now this has to happen? Why is it always me?" he asked hitting his fist against the wall.

"How are things confusing?" Jack asked shutting the door and then walking back over to where he had previously been sitting.

"They just are." Daniel replied.

"Okay that helps." Jack told him sarcastically.

"Jack, Janet and I, we've only really just started to talk here. I mean before it was just the Doctor patient thing but now it feels different, it feels as if we're becoming more than that and it's nice. I mean we've started to want to be around each other more and get to know each other, and not just in a professional capacity. And now for him to come here asking her to do this...something where there could be complications and where she is gonna get emotionally involved, after everything that's happened lately...I guess I just don't want her to go through it."

"I see. So what your saying is that you're falling for the Doc and you're scared your gonna lose her through all this?" Jack asked.

"That's not what I said Jack." Daniel told him quietly.

"But it's what you feel, am I right?" Jack asked. "There's no point lying to the master." He added making Daniel smile.

"Yeah, I guess it is." Daniel replied shyly.

"Well then you gotta tell her. You gotta tell her why you walked out of that briefing and why you don't want her to go ahead with this. I won't lie to you Daniel, I think she's going to go through with it, she felt too bad when Cassie was sick not too. But I do think Space monkey that she's gonna need you. This is your daughter even if she is in another universe and you both need to come to terms with what has happened there." Jack told his best friend.

"When did you start talking sense?" Daniel asked his friend.

"Its Sams influence." Jack told Daniel truthfully, then blushing as he remembered just how close they had gotten lately, and just how much he wanted to be near her.

"Well I guess I better go find her huh." Daniel replied getting up off the bed they were sitting on.

"Yeah I think you'd better."

"But first I gotta go to the infirmary, that wall, it's pretty hard you know." Daniel replied cradling his sore hand.