The Mountain We Climbed Together
by Bethany
URL: http://www.stargateslash.com/asb/bethany7/mountain.php
Summary: Daniel and Jack are members of a Mountain Rescue Team. Jack & Daniel cope with life after Daniel's leg is amputated
Info: This story is meant to cause offense to NO ONE... I am SORRY if it does so! I realise I might not know what I'm on about... And yet, in some ways and themes and moments of this story, I might
He kept me alive. I held on to him, and he to me. He keeps me alive in the same way even now... And me him.
We met when we worked for the same Mountain Rescue Organisation... I remember when we first got together. After our first night, my friend, Vala, asked me how it went! She's never been shy.
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"Come on, Daniel, please, tell!" Vala leant across the table where we drank coffee together. "Please!" She paused. "Or I'll just ask Jack!"
"No you won't!" I spluttered. "And a gentleman never tells!"
"You, a gentleman!?" She laughed. "Come on! You've wanted him for forever!!"
"That's true!" I admitted. "It was amazing... Cliché as it is, I never thought it got that good in real life, until last night..!"
"Well, they do say it happens to a lucky few!!" Vala grinned. "I am so jealous!"
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Then, it happened. A rescue mission went wrong. The team was stuck in the snow all night. My leg was broken in the initial disaster... And though Jack held me all night, and kept me alive, there was nothing any of us could do about my frostbite!
I had to have the leg amputated, and through it all, Jack stuck with me...
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"Jack, you shouldn't give all this up for me!" I argued. "You won't be happy!"
"I won't be happy without you, Danny!!" He insisted.
"You're life won't be the same... Neither will mine." I mused. At this point, I'd been in the hospital forever, and I didn't want to think about before forever. Before the avalanche brought all of this tumbling down on me. "It's not fair to let the Avalanche freeze you out of your life, too!"
"You're my life, Daniel..." Jack explained to me again.
"It might not be a very happy life, Jack!" I told him.
"Without you, it won't be..." He said. "I refuse to let that Avalanche bring our relationship tumbling down around us, as well as everything else! I'm not going to a Memorial for us!"
"I could turn out a ghost of who I was, Jack..." I held his hand and looked into his eyes with conviction. "You, too, if you stay..."
"I'm staying!!" He replied, gripping my hand. "We're going to build a new life together!"
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Now is the moment, the moment that on one hand, or leg, I should say, I dread, but on the other, I long for... We're in bed, intending to make love for the first time since... And I don't know what's going to happen, or how it will happen, or not! I still have days where my balance eludes me. I still have pain. Wait bearing is occasionally still a problem. Hell, yeah, the movie days, and nights, are well and truly over!! I don't know what it's going to be like tonight... And I can see the nerves in his eyes. I want to calm him, and myself, but I'm afraid he's right..! It's not so much the scars. I just don't know what to do for the best? Take the thing off, leave it on, try and wrap it around him? What do I do? Let him lift my leg? Move the stump? I've no idea...
He holds my hand. "We'll get through this... I've told you that before."
"Yeah, last time I lost my leg. Jack, I'm so damn afraid of what else there is to lose; what we might have already lost! We had it so great! The best ever... And now..?" I ask, as he still lays beside me.
"And now, we're gonna make it great all over again, if we need to..." Jack says. "Even if you're not ready tonight, there'll be other nights, other times. And there will always be love from me to you..."
"I still love you, too, Jack. I haven't lost that at least..!" I caress his arms as I'm speaking with him. "I love you..." I repeat, and kiss him. "Let's do this!!"
He kisses me back, and begins our lovemaking...
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.
