Wrong Place And Time: Wrong Hatred!
by Bethany
URL: http://www.stargateslash.com/asb/bethany6/wrongpla.php
Summary: Daniel is beaten up on Earth, by a gang of bigots, and Jack could do NOTHING to help, Except shoot the bad guys dead..!
Info: This story gives no details of the violence, and is set solely after Daniel gets beaten by the homophobes
"I'm sorry, Jack, I'm sorry..." Daniel welled up with yet more tears, as he lay in the Infirmary bed...
"Daniel, it's not your fault... Those guys were beating on you bad... You couldn't help it. There were more of them... What was I supposed to do?"
"But I've trained for years, Jack, alongside the U.S.A.F – I shouldn't have let them get me! I'm still not good enough!!" Daniel replied.
"All of this is there fault, not yours...!" Jack replied. "There's no way, in any Galaxy or Realm, that this is your fault! And, I couldn't do anything either... You are good enough, Daniel, but I wasn't!"
"But you'll get dishonourably discharged, and I'll get thrown off the program, and the world might go to Hell!" Daniel sighed, highly agitated, despite the sedatives and painkillers in his system, unable to hold back the tears.
"These things happen, Daniel... Your life was in danger! You could have died, and I'd rather be without a job than without you..!" Jack answered him, taking Daniel's hand in his.
"This is gonna go through the courts... What if the journalists find out about The Stargate Program because of me..?" Daniel feared.
"It wouldn't be because of you, and it won't get found out – It's protected." Jack brushed Daniel's hair back from his bruised brow carefully.
"It's going to have to go through two courts, isn't it? Military as well as Public..." Daniel worried. "And, you know what the Prosecution's gonna say; They'll say you were fearful of being forced out of the closet, so you got rid of witnesses..! Jack, it's all my fault! They're gonna make it go to the Citizens Court!! And you didn't do it for anything other than to save me because I couldn't save myself, I know you didn't! And the case will get dragged out..!!"
"It might not have to, Daniel... The General's on our side!" Jack stated.
"I'm so sorry I caused this, Jack..." Daniel cried.
"Daniel," Jack replied. "You did Not a thing to cause this, and ALL you could to stop it..! It was me – I stupidly held your hand when I thought we'd got far enough away from here to be together... There is not such thing though! Jesus! I should have known better! I do know better, for Chrissake! I held your hand just as that gang of guys saw us... And I shot them dead when I couldn't break up their onslaught on you... I was the one who couldn't stop them punching you!! Me! Me, who's been in the Air Force all my damn life... I pulled out the gun! It seems that I only know how to kill people, or let them die by my own freakin' gun!!!"
"You didn't let me die..." Daniel looked into Jack's eyes. "Thank you." Daniel paused, turning his head as far as he could, to look at Jack properly. "Don't leave me, Jack, because of all this. It's not your fault, and I don't want to be without you either..."
Jack almost let his tears overwhelm him, as he nearly had days earlier, when he called the SGC Infirmary, and all the relevant people, as he sat on a pavement outside the shopping mall, a battered Daniel on the ground. The field medics came, almost too late... And, no one had really come to their aid, apart from the people who would now soon try to tear them and their lives apart even further...
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.
