Friday Night Fic Challenge #1 – Of Coffee and
Pizza
by elfin
Daniel has had too much coffee and too little sleep when Jack drops by
to see him.
Cautiously, Daniel opened the door.
Jack held up a warning finger. “Before you start, yes I know what
time it is, no I shouldn’t be tucked up in bed, and yes there are anchovies
on this pizza.”
Mug in one hand, jug in the other, Daniel stood in the doorway. He
stared at Jack, mouth falling open.
“What…?”
“What what?” Jack pushed passed him. “It’s getting cold, Danny.”
He looked around for somewhere to put the large, flat cardboard box.
Abandoning the mug, taking a swig of the neat, dark coffee from the dip
in the rim of the jug, Daniel let the metal door bang shut.
“What are you doing here?”
Turning, feigning hurt, Jack held up the box. “Pizza. Thought
you might need some.” Scratching his head, Daniel shrugged and joined
the other man where he’d cleared some space on the work surface. “Hope
there’s no pesky pizza-eating lifeforms around here, Danny.”
“Just me.” Daniel bounced his eyebrows for effect before flipping
open the warm lid of the box and peering inside. “Umm, yum.” He
plucked a slice from the whole, keeping hold of the coffee jug in his other
hand.
“Have you been eating properly?” Jack asked as he watched his archaeologist
eat most of the slice in one mouthful.
“Yes, Mom,” Daniel muttered between munches. He washed it down with
more coffee.
“I bet.” Jack looked around the fairly impressive lab facility.
“Where is everyone?”
“Sh-“ Daniel swallowed an anchovy, “-sleeping.”
“Are you’re not sleeping because…”
“…because I’m not tired.”
Jack didn’t miss the undertone of childish petulance. He grabbed
a slice of pizza before it was all eaten out from under his nose.
“So… what have you been up to?”
“Discovering ancient tribes, unravelling the mystery of the history of
the Tau’ri. We might have discovered the location of a civilisation
who also fought the Goa’uld and won.” Jack smiled proudly, all in
a day’s work for Dr Jackson, star of the SGC. “Drinking coffee.”
Jack sat up on one of the metal surfaces. “You drink too much coffee.”
He glared. And Daniel managed to look suitably chagrined. He
grabbed another slice of pizza.
“Jack… General Hammond let you bring a pizza through the Stargate?”
It was the colonel’s turn to stare. “Yeah, right! I had Sam
distract him and then bribed Norman to open the gate.”
Daniel grinned. “Thank you.”
“Anytime. Come here.”
Daniel crossed to where Jack sat, swallowing the last of the latest pizza
slice and following it with the last of the coffee.
Five seconds later, Daniel was enfolded in his lover’s arms. Tilting
his head up to speak, he was silenced by Jack’s mouth covering his.
The colonel was going to leave it at that, but with feline grace, Daniel
clambered up on the surface and into Jack’s lap, mouth still locked to his
C.O.’s, arms tightening around the other man.
“Danny…!”
Sitting back slightly, breathing hard, Daniel panted, “What?”
“We shouldn’t….”
“We shouldn’t?”
“No.”
“Broken enough rules for one night?”
“Well, now that you put it that way…. Where’s your bunk?” Jack
accompanied his question with a wiggle of his expressive eyebrows.
“Oh, with Robert.”
Eyes narrowing, Jack frowned. “What?”
“I bunk in with Robert, Dr Rothman. There aren’t enough beds and
since I’ll only be here for two weeks….”
Arms tightening possessively, Jack threatened, “Tell me you’re kidding,
Jackson, or I’m taking you home right now.”
The innocent expression on Daniel’s face was priceless. “Gee, Jack,
you’re so gullible.”
“But you love me anyway,” he said, just before he attacked Daniel’s ribs
with very skilled fingers.
fin
elfin
