Love Takes Many Forms by Lunar
J/D, Daniel/OMC, First Time, Angst,.  Hurt/Comfort
Rating: NC-17
Warnings:  Domestic Violence/Abuse not the act, but the effect.
Notes:  A very hard fic for me to write
Even the strongest person can find themselves in a situation out of their control.  

Love Takes Many Forms  by  Lunar 

Jack drew up outside Daniel’s apartment building.  He wondered yet again why he was here.  He’d had an evening of watching the game on TV all planned.  The beer was sitting in his fridge and all he had to do was order the pizza and he was all set.  But no, here he was sitting outside Daniel’s place and it was all Carter’s fault.

  He'd been on his way home for his hot date with the TV remote when Carter had accosted him not five steps from the gear-up room.

  “Colonel!”  Carter’s voice stopped Jack mid stride.

  “Carter?”  Jack answered warily without turning round.

  Sam Carter came round to stand in front of him.  “Sir, is….ah….is Daniel okay?”

  “Why?”  Jack frowned, he hadn’t expected that question.

  “We–ll,” she hesitated, “he’s been kinda distant lately.  Not really with us if you know what I mean.”

  Jack nodded he knew exactly what his 2IC meant.  Just recently Daniel had seemed preoccupied.  He avoided answering all Jack’s questions and hadn’t joined them for team nights for months now.  Jack felt a twinge of guilt as he’d stopped asking Daniel over because of the hurt he felt at Daniel’s refusal of every invitation.  Daniel didn’t seem to want to continue their friendship so Jack had let things drift.

  “I just wondered if he’d spoken to you about what’s going on?”

  “No, he hasn’t.”  Jack was suddenly irritated.

  Why should Carter assume that he knew all there was to know about Daniel?  He tried to pass her but she blocked his path with a quick side step.

  “Do you think someone should talk to him?  Try to find out if he’s okay.”

  “Good idea let me know how you get on.”  Again Jack tried to shake Carter off.

  Unsuccessfully.

  So here he was about to try and pry out of Daniel what was going on courtesy of Major Samantha Carter.

  Jack gave himself a mental shake, left the truck and crossed the street.  He hesitated in front of the entrance.  He took a deep, calming breath and squared his shoulders before going through the door.  He acknowledged the doorman.

  “Doctor Jackson in?”

  “Yes Colonel, go right up.”  The doorman replied having seen Jack in Daniel’s company many times.

  Jack took the elevator up to the eighth floor, still not convinced he was doing the right thing.  He exited the elevator and knocked on Daniel’s door before he could change his mind.  When the door wasn’t opened Jack wondered if Daniel was asleep. ‘Maybe I should leave it’ he thought, grabbing gratefully on to an excuse to leave.

  He pressed the call button for the elevator and then heard the sound of something breaking from within Daniel’s apartment.  Jack crossed the hall lobby in three strides and banged on Daniel’s door again.  Jack was pulling the emergency key Daniel had given him from his pocket when the door opened.

  “Can I help you?”

  Jack suspiciously eyed the stranger in front of him.  “Is Daniel there?”

  “And you are?”  An equally guarded man asked.

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