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Disclaimer: : Stargate SG-1 and its characters are the property of Showtime/Viacom, MGM/UA, Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Productions---wish I could have just an itty-bitty piece, but am forced to be satisfied as a spectator.
Author’s notes: Beta-read by Chezza.
Okay, so I’m not *completely* naïve about women or sex, but currently? I’m in a state of total confusion. Now what do I do? She’s awake and so am I. Do I ask her *why* we’re snuggled together? *Why* we’re lying like lovers after a passionate encounter? I mean, we’re even breathing in time with each other! How can I just lie here, knowing she’s awake and hasn’t yet pulled away ? Why isn’t she embarrassed to be cuddling with me? Not to mention the fact that I now know, that she knows, that we’ve been ‘embracing’ for the last three hours! Has something changed between us that I haven’t noticed? Does she feel something for me which I would never have thought possible?
What am I supposed to say to her? Do I say anything at all?, Or should I just accept that we are now a ‘we’? Is *that* what she’s trying to tell me? Without saying it out loud? Or is she just saying she wants to go back to sleep? With me? What am I going to do? Wait a minute, let me put this into perspective. Somebody else’s perspective. What would Teal’c do? Probably nothing, he knows for *certain* that his feelings for Sam are only that of friendship.
Okay, then what would Jack do? Nope, not going to go there. Not only am I ‘sleeping’ with the woman Jack wants to sleep with, but also being in his ‘shoes’? I highly doubt we’d be sleeping at all… What would he do if he knew about tonight? Actually, I *really* don’t want to think about that either… Just how would I explain *this* to him? I know, I’ll just say, “Hey Jack, did you know that while you were on watch last night, Sam rolled over and started snuggling and cuddling with me? I thought she was asleep, but she wasn’t. She just wanted to be with me.” I can already *see* his fist slamming into my face as I finish the sentence.
Nope, there’s not a chance in Hell I’m *ever* going to let him know about tonight. Never in a million years, will he find out that I’m lying here with Sam in my arms and her head resting gently on my chest. With her hair tickling my cheek and her breath warming me - inside and out. Maybe this isn’t how it seems, but I’m kind of wishing that it was how it appears. Yeah *right*, in my dreams… Or maybe not just mine. After all, Sam *is* the one who rolled onto me. She *is* the one who suggested we share a tent in the first place. And she hasn’t acted strangely around me. Even after all of my embarrassing and stupid mishaps lately. Hmm, maybe I’m not *so* far off the mark. Maybe she thinks that we *could* be a ‘we’?
“Daniel, if you don’t go back to sleep right *now*, I’m going to go sleep with Teal’c. He may snore, but he’s just as warm as you. And *he* doesn’t mind my cuddling. He thinks it’s sweet.”
Oh. Well. Maybe not a ‘we’ then. But we are still friends. Cuddling cousins, maybe?
“Daniel…”
Maybe not.