'In These Dreams', Jack/Daniel, PG (Dreamverse Chapter One)

[sid]

Summary: Jack finally makes his move. ~600 words. Angsty humor? Not quite my usual

IN THESE DREAMS

It was the one answer Jack hadn’t anticipated. The world abruptly tilted five degrees and he scrambled to regain his mental footing.

All the time he’d spent running scenarios in his head… all the shouting, all the punches to the jaw, all the kisses (the sweet and the fierce and the sloppy), all the times he’d been coldly shown the door, warmly embraced, awkwardly, gently refused, dragged to the bedroom or down on the living room floor… not once had he envisioned this.

“I’m seeing someone.”

Daniel’s words hung in the air and the silence stretched.

“Well,” Jack finally managed. “Don’t I feel like an idiot.”

“Jack.”

“No. No, no. Just…” Jack turned towards the door. It was only about a mile away and uphill. “Just let me get out of here.”

“Jack, no. Listen.” Daniel followed him.

“Not listening. No listening. Not one word. Daniel, not another word.” Jack lurched the last step to the door and gripped the knob.

“No, Jack, you have to…”

“Be going,” Jack said firmly. “Sorry I disturbed your evening. Disturbed you, probably. Hell, I know I’m disturbed.” He swung the door open and stepped into the hallway.

“Jack, let me… come on, Jack! You can’t just leave after that. You have to listen… Jack, you know how much….”

Jack spun on his heel, fists clenched. “Not another word. Don’t you dare.”

Daniel smacked the door with the palm of his hand. “Fine! All right? You know what? Make it harder on yourself. See if I care.”

“What would make it harder,” Jack said, willing his voice to remain steady, “would be listening to you saying all the right things. You’ll excuse me if I pass on that pleasure.”

Daniel gaped for a second. “You think….” His face reddened. He reached out and grabbed Jack by the arm. “Get your butt back in here.”

Jack had never heard quite that tone of voice coming from Daniel Jackson before. He let himself be pulled through the doorway.

“You really are an idiot.”

Jack slid his hands, which weren’t shaking at all, into his pockets. “That’s already been established.”

Daniel snorted, sounding more like an angry bull than an amused man. He shoved at Jack’s shoulder, not hard. “Stop that.”

Jack rocked a little.

“You and me… you and me together, world’s worst idea.”

Jack rocked again.

“Seriously.” Daniel looked at him with a mournful face and eyes that invited him to see reason. “You’d want to kill me within a month. Probably sooner. Seriously.”

Jack shifted his shoulders uneasily.

“You thought I was going to say something soppy, didn’t you? Something about how much I care, and how honored I am and how I really wish things were different?” Daniel waggled his head back and forth, a smile beginning to tug at the corners of his mouth.

Jack lowered his head and pursed his lips.

“When have I ever said things just to make you feel better?”

Jack sniffed.

“Never. Right. We’d be a disaster. Better to forget about it.”

Jack cleared his throat.

Daniel eased to his side and threw an arm around Jack’s shoulders. “Come on in the kitchen and I’ll give you a beer and you can interrogate me about Bjorn. Come on.”

Jack began to shuffle forward, surprised and relieved to find the ground level beneath his feet. “What, you’re dating a Viking?”

Daniel laughed and squeezed his shoulder. It felt good. It was always going to feel good. Jack smiled, just a little.

“Does Thor know?”

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Now a WIP: Chapter Two, 'Scenes from a Mall'

Comments

[sg1danny.livejournal.com]

Oh boys *shakes head*

Daniel will break up with Bjorn inside a week and Jack will be there with the shoulder to cry on ;)

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

Aww, boys.

You're even meaner than I am, you know that?

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

“When have I ever said things just to make you feel better?”

perfect. just perfect!

[maab-connor.livejournal.com]

i would just like to take a moment to announce the founding of the We Hate Bjorn Club. We meet next door to our comrades-in-arms Bjorn Must Die, every Thursday evening.

Thank you, that is all.

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

Excellent! It was the very last thing I ever expected to hear Daniel say! (Or you write...you rock, you know?) Yeah, poor old Bjorn is so toast. Jack will be there to pick up the pieces.

And I bet Thor introduced them. :oD

[jd-junkie.livejournal.com]

I'm with Maab. I'm running off 1,000 copies of Bjorn: 1,001 Ways to Kill A Loser. Send cheques or cash or use PayPal. I'm not fussy.
Daniel surprised me here and so did you. Totally unexpected reaction.
You rocketh. :-))

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

I get it! Bjorn's a psychiatrist. Right? Otherwise, totally unexpected ow. :(

[paian]

::still laughing over the last lines of banter as I type this::

Yikes, poor Jack! But it's a totally possible thing for Daniel to say. Love the set-up -- that second paragraph is so wonderful, and the beat of Daniel's statement so perfectly timed -- and the salvaging of the friendship.

[lavenderlocks.livejournal.com]

Poor Jack.

He's talkin' about his feelings here, and Daniel's boyfriend is Bjorn? Oy. Like, as in ABBA??

Still, this sitch is cool: if Daniel doesn't want him ...


I like this, it's an unexpected twist.

[chattycatsmeow.livejournal.com]

“What, you’re dating a Viking?” ... “Does Thor know?”

Such very Jack humour - thank heavens it ended on light note, so I'll be smiling as I hunt down Bjorn and send him on a one-way trip to Valhalla.

[lokei.livejournal.com]

Oh, fer cryin' out loud!

*grin* You got us all good. You wrote that just so that all of the hardcore J'D'ers would cry into their suppers, right? 'Cause this...

Jack lowered his head and pursed his lips.

“When have I ever said things just to make you feel better?”

Jack sniffed.

“Never. Right. We’d be a disaster. Better to forget about it.”

You made Jack CRY! *hugs him*

[kayra42.livejournal.com]

It may not be your usual, but I LOVE it!! :) Both looking embarrassed. Daniel getting aggravated with Jack. Jack trying to leave.

Always the one to be in the minority, I like Bjorn. hmm.. wonder who... er... what he looks like. *wink*

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

you're right! it's the one answer we never expect to get! you're amazing. now let me just pick the little pieces of my heart up off the floor here.

[kazbaby]

*hides I ♥ Bjorn fanclub bumpersticker*

Just kidding. :D

[theantipam.livejournal.com]

I predict a transfer to Atlantis in Bjorn's future... possibly without benefit of the Stargate.

[charmedstrange1.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I love Jack salvaging the moment with humor, and Daniel with his (brutal?) honesty. *g*

And of *course* Daniel is seeing somebody. Have you SEEN him? After all, he had no idea his true love was about to come 'round.

Heh. I like the idea that Daniel isn't *surprised* by the idea of the two of them together. Against it, maybe.. surprised? No. *eg*

kill Bjorn

[msbeata.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one thinking Bjorn/Daniel/Jack?

or maybe even Bjorn/Daniel/Jack/Thor

[kuonji14.livejournal.com]

Ack! Oh, poor Jack. How devestating! I really felt for him. Though, given Daniel's reaction, he would have been turned down anyway.

Don't worry, Jack, Bjorn will have some great opportunity in Greenland that he can't pass up, and he and Daniel will have an amicable break up, and then you'll wear Daniel down. Eventually. And then you'll get to tell him 'I told you so' for the Rest Of Your Lives. How sweet will that be? :D

[ivorygates]

And now Jack will find true love with someone else, and Bjorn, who's a SECRET EVOL BASTARD WHO WAS JUST USING DANIEL TO FURTHER HIS CAREER will dump Daniel, and Daniel will come crawling to Jack begging for his love and he won't get it because he was a stupid short-sighted FOOL and he will die lonely and alone and broken-hearted for being stupid and mean to Jack and AND IT WILL BE WHAT HE DESERVES and he will never know Jack's love never never never never....

*AHEM*

Daniel must atone for his actions, is all I'm sayin'.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

I agree, with sg1danny. Except Jack will hunt Bjorn down, and make him disappear, *then* be Daniel's shoulder to cry on.

Tragic (LOL)

[darkladyz.livejournal.com]

And all was butterflies and flowers, until two weeks later when Bjorn was bisected in a tragic and improbable Xerox-machine accident.

Jack, of course, had several witnesses to testify that he was all the way across town at the time it happened - eating pie. *grin*

[tresa-cho.livejournal.com]

Awwwww. Poor Jack. It's okay, I'm sure you'll get your chance. *pets Jack*

[natsuko1978.livejournal.com]

Gah.

This settles it. I'm friending you. When my comms make my friend page impossible, I click "Journals only" so I missed this and would have missed your latest - which led me to this - if not for tejas's LJ. Hope you don't mind. I'm around for about a month, after all.

BJORN?!

Okay. I don't *hate* him. I want to meet him first - I'll give him the benefit of the doubt if he makes Daniel happy(ish) *for NOW* and gives him much good lovin' and smoochies.

But. Jack ;_; OMG Poor Jack! He came out and said... took the risk... and, and... GAH! I want to hug him... so it's good that Daniel sorta IS. ;)

You are evil. But I love you/ your writing.

YAY friendship. The "closest thing to" Best Friends (aka BFF) and the banter is right at the heart of my love for Jack, Daniel and Jack/Daniel.

The Lover who is also the Best Friend is what makes them soooo good and right and PERFECT. And it WOULD work, Daniel. I can see why you think not, but you will be SOOO good together and FOR each other. Try it. Please? (That and the fact that both their actors are smokin')

[writinginct]

Weeeeee!!! I'm sitting down to read this whole thing in a sitting (I've read a few of the earlier parts already but want to read it all from start to finish)

Love Daniel being assertive and not letting Jack leave without some sort of closure to the conversation. :)

Onto part 2!