The Sum Of Its Parts

by Twist

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Summary: Jack notices someone else noticing Daniel

Jack was heading for the commissary with a spring in his step and a smile on his face. The sort of smile that told the world that yes, he really had gotten lucky last night.

Of course, no one knew just how lucky.

You could take winning the lottery, your favourite team (any sport) winning the league championships and finding a Calvin Klein brand of anti-Goa'uld deodorant at your local chemist going for less then half price and then adding whatever else took your fancy and you still wouldn't come close to knowing just how lucky Jack had gotten last night.

Daniel loved him.

Daniel had told him that he loved him and just thinking about it made the Colonel's smile wider and the spring in his step just that little bit springier.

That was the reason behind the smile on his face. Daniel had dropped by unexpectedly and somehow an awkward moment of silence on his doorstep had been broken by Daniel confessing to how he felt about a certain pain in the ass Air Force Colonel.

Jack would never wash that doorstep again.

Of course, hearing Jack admit that he loved Daniel too had been a bit of a surprise for the archaeologist, but once they'd gotten over that hurdle, everything else had just fallen into place. Easy. Just like it was always meant to be.

They'd talked all night, growing gradually more daring in both words and touch. By the time they noticed the dawn making an appearance through the curtains they had been curled up together on the couch, making plans for their future together.

Anyone who wanted to think Jack had simply had sex last night could go right ahead and think it. He didn't care. He was too happy to care.

Pushing open the door he scanned the cafeteria, looking for and finding Daniel. Finding him sitting across from Major Davis.

Or Paul, as he liked Daniel to call him.

Daniel had his back turned to the door, so he hadn't seen Jack walk in. Davis was sitting directly opposite him and he was looking at Daniel.

Looking at Daniel the same way Jack would look at him.

A faint stir of jealousy wove it's way through him.

Daniel was his damn-it! Didn't the world know that by now? Wasn't there something about Daniel that told the rest of the human population that he was off limits now? That the position of loving Daniel had been filled?

Obviously not, thought Jack.

Davis looked like he wanted to save Daniel from the likes of Jack, which, Jack had to admit he could understand. If you weren't a Goa'uld or just plain old out to kill Daniel for some nefarious reason or other, then you just wanted to protect him. It was human nature. Or possibly some sort of pheromone thing, he wasn't sure.

Problem was, Davis also looked like he wanted other things too. Things that involved taking him out to fancy, expensive restaurants before getting his slimy hands on Daniel's naked body.

Davis looked up then, and caught Jack looking at him from the doorway. Daniel, noticing that for once since Davis had sat down with him that he wasn't the sole focus of the Major's attention turned round to look at what he was looking at.

And saw Jack.

The look on Daniel's face just then was worth not seeing him for nearly 3 hours. If every time they parted, Daniel greeted him with that same look of surety and love, then Jack could very possibly learn to except any time they spent apart, knowing that he had this to come back to. That he would always have this to come back to.

Jack felt his heart swell, knowing and seeing just how much Daniel really truly loved him and again he felt like the luckiest man on all the worlds he had been to. Daniel was his, just as he was Daniel's. He had nothing to worry about.

Feeling generous, Jack sauntered over to Davis's side, sitting down and greeting Daniel as if it were just another ordinary day in the commissary. Davis could look all he liked. Only Jack got to play with this archaeologist.

He could have sat beside Daniel, but Davis had the best view and that he didn't mind sharing at all. Not when he got everything else that mattered.

The End