Whatever Way Our Stories End, You Have Re Written Mine By Being My Best Friend
by Bethany
URL: http://www.stargateslash.com/asb/bethany6/whatever.php
Summary: Jack prepares for life without Daniel, but his heart aches at the thought..!
Whatever Way Our Stories End, You Have Re-Written Mine, By Being My Best Friend, and a Handprint On My Heart, For Good..!
'I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn...'
Jack looked at his friend's face, as they stood together in the locker room. He wanted to hug him, to hug Daniel... Even if he had called him Jim! Thank you for coming back into my life, Danny... He thought. This was the friend, the comrade, who had once taught him how to live again, and, as he, Daniel, had returned again, Jack honestly felt a new breath of life... A breath that, in some ways, he didn't even know was gone, while in others, he'd buried the memory of it... Now, he buried that breath so deep in his heart that it would be impossible to really ever let it go again...
'And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you...'
Jack hoped he had been of help to Daniel... He didn't want to leave him. He didn't want to go to Washington, but he had to... He knew, and his bosses knew, that SG1 would always come first, no matter what... And though he hated himself for leaving his friends to the mercies of the Universe, Daniel especially, Jack knew he had to go, to take the job he'd been offered, so that he could still somehow be a part of it all; close to his friends...
'Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good'...
He was a different kind of soldier for knowing Daniel, Jack realised that much... But he could live with it.
'It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend... '
Jack feared their separation; He really did. Was he doing the right thing? Would he lose Daniel for good? A dozen times, he'd sworn never to do that again, and yet, here he was... Since Daniel had first come back from Oma land, life had had to move on so very much... But, without Daniel, in the year when he was gone, in all the moments during and since, the moments when Jack yet again feared he'd lost him forever, moments like this one, when he feared what might happen if he let Daniel out of his sight, Jack didn't know how to go on... He'd learnt this lesson so many times, first with Charlie, then with Daniel, but Daniel wasn't a child to Jack... He was just as cherished; But cherished in an altogether different way. Just as special, just as inquisitive, even now, though his ways were undoubtedly a tad more wary with age... He was just as vital. Daniel was a special soul. Jack knew that, believed it totally, even though he knew how poetic/new-agey or Anciently mysterious it sounded... And as he said farewell, farewell he hoped, not goodbye, Jack feared that he was neglecting his real duty, not doing what his heart truly wanted him to, ignoring its call to be loyal to and protect, his dearest one, Daniel...
The End
Author's Note: I make no money, and mean to step on no one's toes at all,by writing my stories... Feedback welcome as long as it is always polite.
