Title: No Divides
Date: June 11, 2001
Status: Complete
Author: Jmas
Category: Drama, angst
Rating: PG-13
Email: jmasg1@bellsouth.net
Spoilers: Divide and Conquer
Summary: A look at a friendship….
Author's note: Another of the missing scenes or tags for season
4 I promised to the HC list.
Disclaimer: The characters mentioned in this story are the
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No Divides
By
Jmas
‘You know these are the Jack O’Neill moments I’ll
miss the most…’
Jack grinned at the memory of Daniel’s earlier words,
at the stressed tone that lent a sharp edge to the sentiment
that told Jack just how true the words were. The Daniel of
even a year ago would have danced around his feelings with
all the grace and finesse of long practice.
Standing, Jack moved closer to his friend and tried to meet
Daniel’s eyes; a difficult task at the best of times,
but all the more so at this moment when Daniel was trying so
hard to not let his emotions get away from him. The younger
man stood there in full ‘don’t ask, I won’t
tell’ mode, arms clenched so tight around his waist Jack
was sure Daniel’s black t-shirt would shred apart at
any moment, eyes down and away under brows clenched into tight
furrows of conflicted emotion.
“Hey….” Jack kept his tone low and level,
suddenly unwilling and unable to let what could be their last
moments together become another in a long line of jokes. The
situation was painfully not funny and he couldn’t even
pretend anymore that things were miraculously going to be okay.
It was going to take more than a miracle to get out of this
one in one piece, much less alive.
Daniel had been a solid presence since the Tok’ra machine
had tagged Jack and Carter as possible time bombs waiting only
for a target to set them off. Every moment he hadn’t
been slaving over the document that would make Earth and the
Tok’ra uneasy co-riders of the universal plane, Daniel
had been with Jack or Carter, waiting and sweating right along
with them. It had helped, and Jack appreciated the familiar
solidity of their friendship.
“Hey…” Daniel looked up and smiled; a shaky
smile, granted, but one that acknowledged the four years of
incredible and sometimes unbelievable highs and lows they’d
shared.
Jack wanted to say a lot of things to his steadfast friend:
things like how much he valued their friendship, a friendship
built on the kind of trust that might occasionally be shaken,
but never broken. Things like how much he’d changed for
the better as a result. Things like he didn’t regret
a moment of all the time they’d spent building the solid
foundation that even now let Daniel see all those things in
Jack’s eyes.
With a nod, Daniel smiled again, reading the message loud
and clear, and returning it in his own inimitable fashion.
Daniel wasn’t giving up; he wouldn’t.
Whatever happened in the next hours, Jack was sure Daniel
had gotten the message. Whatever happened - they were okay.
They were okay.
“Hey….”
*fin*
