Title: Wanna Get Married? Strikes Back!
Season: Before Hero's Part 2, so 6th season then?
Summary: An interesting website changes some very important facts about Janet and Daniel's relationship.
Note: Ok, so here's what I got from the reviews I received. Some are worried that this will be far too canon and realistic, in which Jack an' Sam & Daniel an' Janet won't be going at it in the co-ed bathroom. Apparently the companion piece to this was not er, drastic enough. To rectify this situation, I've started this chapter out showing the way this story is going to go. I apologize for any confusion your preconceived notions did to ruin your enjoyment of my writings. Enjoy!
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Walking through the crowded hallways and eating pie was becoming a lot more difficult than Sam had initially thought, but with no sight of the Colonel, Carter was fairly sure her pie was safe. Until a mysterious arm wrapped around her side and propelled her to a storage closet. It was all Sam could do to keep the pie from touching ground, although she lost her fork in the ordeal. The door snapped into place behind her and Carter was plunged into darkness.
"Hello?" The waver in her voice more had to do with the fact that Sam could no longer eat her pie than anything.
"You have something I want." the voice dark and mysterious, Carter felt the familiar but oh so delectable shiver run down her spine at the tone in his voice.
"And what might that be?" keeping her tone airy and light, Carter moved the pie a bit closer to her chest.
"I think you know." unheard were his footsteps, she could feel his breath hot on her neck. Carter turned quickly to face him, telling herself her heartbeat was so erratic by the movement.
"Refresh my memory?" Sam suddenly had very vivid images of what exactly married people do. Like mowing their lawn, and er...
"Somehow," a step closer, "ol' doc Fraiser got the last cherry pie." step "And it's supposed to be mine." only the pie between them "I want it back."
"Sorry Sir, but I was bribed with this fair and sq-" his mouth interrupted her tirade and pretty much ruined all coherent thought. The pie was forgotten, at least for the moment, as it was put on a box of 'need to be assembled' brooms. Yeah, who knew? And then almost dropped as Carter was pushed up against the very same box. Jack's quick fingers, oh Carter was going to enjoy those, grabbed the pie just in time. And then broke off the kiss.
"Hm. There's still a good half a pie here, and guess whose going to eat it?" his overjoyed looks and smile would have made Carter laugh, and let him keep the pie purely out of his joy, but unfortunately for him, the room was totally black. So out of the five senses which did Carter have? Hearing. So Carter only heard the taunting edge in his voice, and decided right then, technology be damned, she was going to have that pie, and eat it all.
A quick kiss disarmed Jack in one fatal swoop as Carter grabbed the pastry, grabbed the door, and yanked it open. Not even turning around to meet the gaze Jack was boring into the back of her head, Sam spotted her fork, wiped it on her pants, and continued on her merry way to the lab, knowing she had two more flights of steps, four more corridors, and a forty-three second elevator ride. Not in that order.
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Shock was something Janet dealt with in everyday life. A patient comes in with what seems like a routine concussion and then BAM it turns out they're sporting a goa'uld, the newest fashion accessory for this fall line.
But reading the words Daniel had typed, Janet couldn't think competently past the word, 'gah'. Ok, so it was just another one of those bets the Colonel started, and apparently Daniel had already 'married' Teal'c and the lunch woman with the big... but this was, this was Daniel. This was marrying Daniel, who already had a wife. Who was dead. Oh, right.
For the second time that day, Janet let a string of curse words leave her mouth, and for the second time that day, Daniel happened to walk into her office at that precise moment.
"Deja Vu."
"You ah, weren't supposed to hear that."
"Computer break again?"
"Oh no, Sam fixed it for me. I was just reading your e-mail."
"Oh." Never before had Daniel sounded so beaten down. Or Janet so entirely not notice.
"Yeah, I bribed her with pie. Cherry actually." Janet watched in confusion as her comment didn't elicit a wry comment, a smile, or even a raised eyebrow. Daniel just looked like he'd been kicked.
"Well, I 'll let you get back to.. doing what you were doing, so I'll go." Janet stared at him oddly as he turned around and head for the door, wondering what exactly she'd done to make him seem so, forlorn. His hand was on the door knob, intent on shutting the door with him, when Fraiser realized how her words sounded.
"Wait, Daniel?" He turned around, wondering if she was going to call him four-eyes just to seal the deal when,
"I'd love to marry you." the look of a school boy who'd just been told he could go outside and play ran Daniel's features, but Janet couldn't decipher this, as the entire base went dark.
It was Daniel's turn to swear.
-VWX-
The meeting room was meant to intimidate, with the long oval table and large black chairs, looking out into the embarkation room. But with the base still in total blackout, and everyone given personal flashlights, it all seemed more like a night out for ghost story telling than anything. Jack was currently explaining shadow puppets to Teal'c, who was humoring O'Neill more than anything. Daniel was explaining to General Hammond why Dr. Fraiser was needed for this briefing, and Carter? She stood at the front of the long table, standing near the projector, which was silly now, with the power still out, but hey, more power to her. General Hammond finally gave up trying to reason with Daniel, and just nodded his head in ascent, and Carter gladly misinterpreted as her go-ahead to speak.
"It seems we've determined the reason for all these power fluctuations." Carter began and O'Neill immediately stopped her.
"Oh really? Because that's what you said the last time. And the time before that." Before Carter could defend herself and her teams work, the lights turned on. Carter shot a pointed look at O'Neill and everyone turned off their flashlights.
"As I was saying, it seems the new protective casing from plant PRX-472 for the wire system in selected parts of the base hasn't been reacting well to some of the fumes in the air and has since eroded, creating electrical problems in its wake.
"What kind of fumes. Are they dangerous?" O'Neill's goading manner was unually sharp, and it was all because of Carter's-pie-that-was-supposed-to-be-his. And that kiss earlier. God that was hot.
"Just regular airborne substances. Like carbon monoxide." Carter was having none of his atitttude. The pie was hers. And she silently agree that their kiss was indeed very hot.
"And that would account for all of the problems we've been having lately?" General Hammond asked, needing to look like he was paying attention to his lead Scientist, and not the quickly disappearing distance between Daniel and Janet.
"Yes Sir. It covers the power blackouts, the reason we haven't been about to dial out for hours and then keep open a wormhole open for-."
"So, pretty much everything." Jack was nothing if not succinct.
"Pretty much. We've essentially replaced the test spots, and there shouldn't be any more problems."
"Right." The word was barely out of O'Neill's mouth as all the lights on the base shut off.
"Major?" When Carter managed to turn on her flashlight and point it at the General, she saw that he wasn't pleased.
"Right. We can fix that." The words didn't look to comfort the General, and Carter quickly shut off the flashlight, as it was aimed right at Hammond's eyes.
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