Atlantis Is Waiting... 3

A New Start Together Beckons

by Bethany

URL: http://area52hkh.net/asb/bethany8/atlant03.php
Summary: Intimate moments alone for Jack and Daniel

Jack rolled over to reach his bedside cabinet, and looked at the alarm clock as he did so... Definitely less than 48 hrs to Pegasus now... Finding his quarry in his bedside draw, he scooped it up, and rolled onto his back, handing Daniel, next to him, one of the two small boxes. "Open it..." He spoke out-loud.

Daniel threw Jack a sideways glance of curiosity and a show of his usual independent thinking, but he complied. He found a ring inside the box. An elegant platinum ring. He rolled onto his side, so that he could meet Jack's eyes, and he saw an identical box, and ring, in his lover's hands. He watched Jack put the ring he held onto his own finger, and look, lastingly at Daniel. Daniel knew the deep meaning in that warm, dark chocolate stare...

"Tomorrow is a new start..." Jack stated genuinely.

"Like a wedding day..?" Daniel looked to Jack, finding the confirmation he sought...

"For us, hopefully..!" Jack rolled over to face Daniel, and put the ring on his finger.

Daniel touched, and re-adjusted the ring on Jack's finger.

They looked at each other a moment later, and kissed. They wanted to make love again so much, the tiredness suddenly so removed that it surprised them.

"We have an early start tomorrow..." Daniel whispered, touching Jack's lips...

"Hmmm..." Jack murmured. "First wave of Atlantis pioneers..."

"I so don't want a repeat of what happened to Sha're and her people..." Daniel spoke his fears aloud. "Stop me from doing anything stupid when we get there, won't you?" He looked directly into Jack's eyes.

"That was never your fault, Daniel, and you won't do anything stupid when we get to Pegasus..." Jack caressed Daniel...

Daniel leaned into Jack's caress, into the man he believed in, and let himself begin to be made love to...

* * *

Samuel Hanna looked at his friend, G Callen, in the smallish quarters at the SGC they shared for the night, and after tonight, one more night...

"You okay?" G Callen asked Sam, knowing the answer. Marine Sam Hanna would miss his children, even if he didn't see them much since his marriage had broken up years before... Sam though, was the kind of guy, that since, whatever his thoughts about the Mission were, it was going ahead anyway, he wanted to be there, to ward any danger away from his family... He couldn't just sit around day after day, waiting for it to come to them... And, since he was not in his kids lives as much as he wished he could be, he could at least do this for them – Be their guardian.

G didn't have any family, not anymore... He had grown up alone, kind of like he'd read Doctor Daniel Jackson had done... G didn't even have a name. Just an initial... He only had the family Henrietta Lang, his former boss, had given him, his NCIS team, and he was taking the most important member of that family with him, Samuel Hanna...

The End

Next: The Time Draws Near