FICLET: The Walls of Jericho, Jack/Daniel. Partlet - 6

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The Walls of Jericho - 6 (from part 1 here)
by Icarus



One of the fastest ways to screw up a command was to get a crush on someone you worked with. Long ago Jack learned that you avoided that by not looking at those under… or over, or across… your command. They were family, and annoying family at that; the kind you didn't look forward to seeing at Christmas. Who kept you up all night with talk about seismic events when it sounded like a lava flow was inches from your pillow, and bugged you with annoying, penetrating questions. That were none of their god damned business.

Jack stretched, paced the campsite, and announced, "Good morning! It is a balmy… twenty-three degrees Fahrenheit… winds at about three knots out of the west, at a cruising altitude of, oh," he peered over the ridge, "six hundred feet. We should be arriving in six hours march if we get our asses in gear. That's a big if. And it's still dark out. Any volcanoes go off last night, Carter?"

"I think you would have noticed, sir," Sam flushed, crouching over the coffeepot.

"Good! Glad to hear it," Jack said. He kicked the side of Daniel's tent and was rewarded with bleary, grumpy face squinting irritably through the doorway. "Wake up, Daniel! You've got third watch tonight for keeping me up late, talking."

Daniel put his glasses on but didn't look like he could see any better. "Abusing your authority, Jack?"

"That's what it's for."

"Actually, sir, I'd like to borrow Teal'c and see if we can find that lava flow, to take some surface readings," Sam said, wiping her palms on her pants as she stood.

Jack waved absently, already contemplating coffee. "You do that." As an afterthought he added over his shoulder, "but be back in an hour! By this time tomorrow I want to be waking up in a nice soft alien bed."



(working on the rest)

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Crushes! Yay!