Daniel woke with a start and realized he’d fallen asleep at the computer – again! The screen was unbearably bright in the darkened room and he screwed his blue eyes shut as he set about saving his work to date and shutting off the unit.

// This is crazy!// He chided himself while he waited for the screen to tell him he could shut his computer down safely. Stretching back and yawning he checked his watch and nearly fell backwards off his chair when he saw it was after 3:30 in the morning. He had to be up in three hours to start work again!

“//Great!// He sighed, rubbing his hand over his bristled face. Yet another night where he’d sat for over six hours yet felt like he’d accomplished nothing. He extracted his coffee cup from the mountain of research books and towers of writing tablets before easing himself up out of the chair. He yawned again, stretching back and hearing the pop of his spine as he realigned his vertebrae. He picked up the small artefact that he’d been researching for the past week since they discovered it on P3x7787. The hieroglyphs were proving to be quite challenging to decipher and he was growing more and more frustrated with the whole thing. It crossed his mind once or twice to ‘accidentally’ drop the ugly vase thereby ceasing all further work on the project, but the archaeologist in him still couldn’t bring himself to destroy any artefact – no matter how damn annoying it was. Besides, it seemed the message was some kind of warning, and he’d hate to destroy it when it might help them against a common foe or warn them of pending doom.

He shuffled his way to the bathroom, leaving his coffee cup on the vanity unit while he relieved his overfull bladder. Promptly forgetting the cup, he washed his hands and headed off to bed, tiredly removing an article of clothing every few steps. By the time he reached his bed he was stark naked. Climbing in carefully, he pulled the quilt up over his waist and snuggled against the back of his already sleeping lover.

//I’ve got this waiting in bed for me every night, not to mention the sheer bliss of a full nights sleep, and I still can’t get to bed at a decent hour! What's wrong with you, Jackson?//

“Oh, an early night I see!” He cringed when he heard Jack’s raspy comment, the voice thick and deep with sleep. 

Daniel didn’t blame Jack for being miffed. He’d really been burning the candle at both ends of late, trying to fathom the strange message on the vase. They were off again the day after tomorrow and he hated going to a new world with old work on his desk.

“I’m sorry, Jack,” he whispered his response as he brushed his lips over the corner of Jack’s bare shoulder. Jack’s hand moved to cover the cool one now sliding over his waist to lie against his stomach.

“I’m just worried about you, baby. That’s all. Getting no sleep night after night is not good for you! And - you’re drinking way too much caffeine,” he mumbled sleepily as he patted the hand lightly.

Daniel’s lips, although pressed against the warm flesh of Jack’s back, curled into a happily contented smile.

//God, how he loves me!//

He littered the shoulder with several light kisses.

“Shh, go back to sleep! It’s late and we have to be up for work soon.”

Jack went to say something but Daniel spoke again,

“Besides, I’m fine! You know me!” He said as he continued to kiss the skin lightly. He pressed his tongue onto the salty skin, enjoying the tang against his tongue, before kissing him again.

“I know you? Oh? Have we met?” Jack teased his lover who’d had a week of late nights and very little physical contact. It didn't bother him enough to be angry, but it did give him good fodder for teasing the anthropologist.

Daniel smiled again then shook his hand free of the handhold. He zig zagged his finger down Jack’s stomach along the hairy trial and down to the elastic waist on his lover’s boxer shorts. Skipping it over the cool cloth, he landed on the top of the warm thigh. Snaking his finger up over the soft skin, he slipped his hand up into the cotton pants as he purred in Jack’s ear; “This might remember me!”

His fingers tickled at the soft, fat, flaccid muscle as he continued, “whereas this” – he kissed Jack’s temple, implying his brain – “might well have forgotten-”

Jack groaned softly, enjoying the stirring within his groin.

“Up here remembers you much better than down there,” he commented as he laid his hand over the shorts, feeling Daniel’s hand playing inside. The younger man smiled as he felt Jack roll back against him fully, his legs shifting as the muscle between them grew larger and harder.

“I see I need to reacquaint your body then-” Daniel mumbled as his lips brushed Jack’s ear, sending a shiver down the older man’s spine.

“That ‘might’ work,” Jack purred. He caught his breath as Daniel’s tongue delved deeply into his ear, laving at the folds and well of the unsuspecting orifice. Cascades of tingles ran down the side of Jack’s body culminating in his groin, sending it rock hard. Daniel chuckled as his hand accommodated the thicker muscle.

“I love doing that,” he whispered in the wet ear, adding shivers to the tingles.

“I love you doing that,” Jack said, almost breathlessly.

Daniel shifted so that Jack could roll completely onto his back now and the younger man knelt up beside him. He crawled across his lover and switched the lamp onto the lowest setting, chuckling as he felt Jack kiss his stomach while it hovered over his face. Sitting back onto his heels, he looked the man up and down slowly while Jack took the opportunity to fold his arms and tuck them under the back of his head. He watched as his young lover feasted on his semi-naked body. Daniel smiled then looked up at Jack.

“I’m not sure how I want to start this,” he confessed, feeling like a starving man at a banquet.

“Oh?”

Daniel drew in a deep breath as he reached across to the other side of Jack with his arm and lightly trailed his finger down the sensitive side. Jack squirmed with pleasure as he turned to gooseflesh wherever Daniel’s finger touched him. On hearing his lover’s soft moan Daniel knelt up and reached across the body to place a soft kiss on the raised skin, now electrified by the caress. His long hair draped across Jack’s body as Daniel moved across the stomach, placing peck after soft peck on the warm skin.

Daniel sat back onto his heels once more, flicking his long hair out of his blue eyes as he turned to see Jack’s smile.

He knelt up and placed a hand either side of Jack’s chest, straddling him with his arms. His face hovered over Jack’s and he stared down into the cimmerian eyes. Wordlessly they just stared at each other until Jack lifted a hand to slowly caress the back of one curled finger down Daniel’s cheek. He lightly pinched the stubble-covered chin in his hand and extended his thumb to brush it over Daniel’s bottom lip. Still no word was spoken, their eye contact held as they said all they needed to in the caress of the face and the light nudging of Daniel’s erect shaft across Jack’s flattened stomach.

Slowly Daniel lowered himself so that his mouth reached Jack’s. They kissed - long, and languid, tongues gently jousting together then vying for supremacy, then back to playing together. Pressing himself up again, Daniel broke the kiss slowly then he stared down at Jack for another long moment before moving to sit all the way up, while Jack returned his hand to under his head.

Daniel turned from Jack now, moving so that he could dispose of the white cotton shorts his lover was still wearing. The thick shaft, heavy and wide but still not rigid enough to stand on its own, flopped across the dark curls as it reached up towards Jack’s navel.

The blue eyes gazed upon the area for a long time, allowing his finger to trace up the vein on the heavy shaft. The muscle twitched, bobbing to keep contact with the feather light touch. Shifting slightly, Daniel placed a hand on each of Jack’s inner thighs, slowly tickling his fingers from Jack’s groin to his knee then back to his groin again, teasing at the courser hair where it grew thicker nearer the crotch. He loved this area of Jack. Loved being here, the intimacy it involved and the pleasure it gave to his lover whenever he touched him there. He repeated the gentle but firm massage a few more times, and each time Jack’s shaft twitched until it finally rose from the bed of curls, straining up and brushing against the soft, smooth chest of the man above it. But Daniel had other ideas and ignored the silent begging of the hard shaft beating lightly against his chest. Instead he gripped the thighs within his hands and pulled Jack’s legs apart gradually. After a week of abstinence he was going to take things slowly here.

He gently coaxed the legs wider apart as he lowered his face and reached right down between Jack’s legs. The older man moaned deeply as he was opened so completely to his lover, exposing his most vulnerable region to the longhaired man.

“Danny,” Jack whispered hoarsely, running a curled finger up the back of the hairy thigh and over the smooth white butt-cheek beside him. Daniel knew what that meant. Jack wanted him to straddle his face and to drop his long shaft down his throat – so far down that he could feel Jack’s teeth against his base while his lover’s throat close around the tip. But Daniel didn’t want that –at least – not yet.

“No,” he whispered firmly, as if in a reverent place. His breath wafted over the sensitive sac and his hair tickled the shaft lightly as he went on to explain, “I won’t be able to reach if I do that.”

Jack covered his eyes with his hand and gave a long, deep growl. He ‘loved’ it when Daniel got dominant on him, making him submit to his every whim and allowing him the freedom to give in to ultimate pleasure. It was all he could do not to thrust up and force that face into his region, make Daniel stop tormenting him so deliciously and finally getting the ‘touch’ he was twitching to have.

But Daniel was a master at teasing. He had Jack in so many cases of blue-balls at work, merely by looking at him in a certain way, or by mouthing words across the debriefing room that –had the others every seen – would have exposed their year long relationship completely. The Space Monkey knew exactly which looks got Jack so horny that the older man squeaked and itched in his seat, and the blue-eyed wonder, who had perfected the innocent look so completely, used this information to his greatest advantage – often.

Daniel widened the thighs further, dipping his head so that he could reach past the sac and onto the fleshy strip between Jack’s groin and his anus. His teeth grazed the skin lightly, making Jack jolt then squirm as the lips softened the attention on the highly sensitive skin. The floppy sac and hard balls rubbed against Daniel’s cheek and chin as he kissed, licked and sucked the strip of flesh until Jack gripped his head, begging him to stop.

“Baby!” He hissed, letting the incredible build up of tingles subside throughout his body so that he could breathe again. Daniel’s mouth paused in its ministrations, but it was only a pause. He gave Jack a few moments, then returned his lips to the overly sensitive skin again. Teeth scraped the skin once more, eliciting loud moans and sending violent shudders throughout the colonel’s body.

Jack purred as he reached up onto his elbows to watch the incredible sight of Daniel, with his head tucked down between his thighs. The curtain of shiny long hair shielded the administering man’s face from Jack’s view but he could see glimpses of skin through it as his lover’s jaw worked at applying pleasure to him while ignoring the hard, red shaft rubbing against his cheek.

“Oh, Danny!” Jack said softly to himself, his head spinning and his heart thumping hard in his throat.

Daniel allowed his finger to come into play now. It tickled and teased at the tight, hot opening, tracing lightly over the puckered skin.

The older man flopped back, groaning and squirming even more, listening to the soft sucking noises Daniel was making against his skin. Suddenly he felt the cool air waft over him as Daniel lifted his face and looked up at him. His mouth was rubbed red, but his smile was oh-so-breath taking!

“Before you go…further-” Jack said, easing himself into a sitting position. “I just want to freshen up. I wasn’t expecting this tonight.” He smiled as he reached out and cupped Daniel’s face in his hand. The younger man nodded and remained kneeling in the middle of the bed as Jack headed towards the bathroom. Biting his lower lips gently, Daniel kicked his feet over the edge of the large bed, jogged down the two steps of the dais his bed was on and followed Jack to the bathroom.

*

By the time he reached the brightly lit, predominately blue, bathroom Jack was standing near the vanity, his sudsy hand gliding up and down his hard shaft - cleansing, not stimulating, himself. Daniel grinned as he stepped up behind him, one arm draped across Jack’s back to grip his shoulder as his lips dropped onto the other shoulder, kissing the soft skin lightly. When he looked up he met Jack’s eyes in the reflection of the mirror. The both smiled at each other then Jack’s eyes closed slowly as Daniel’s hand took over the task of cleaning him. Turning his face, Jack kissed the point on Daniel’s jaw just under his ear, moving up until his lips brushed the small ear lightly.

“Daniel-”

The whispered name hung heavy in the air between them, carrying with it all of Jack’s love and adoration for his partner.

Daniel dipped his face and met Jack’s lips in a tantalizing brush, then his arm slipped across the front of Jack, his long fingers reaching for the hard nub and tugging on it as his tongue plummeted in and out of the hot mouth. Jack reached across his body so that his hand could touch Daniel’s cheek and in doing so, he turned within the hold and faced his gorgeous Adonis. Now face-to-face, the two highly aroused men rocked against each other, their hard shafts digging into the other’s soft stomach, their hands gliding over electrified skin to satisfy a need to touch and be touched.

Jack’s hands finally settled onto Daniel’s face, cupping his bristled cheeks, his thumbs poised on the edge of their joined mouths, enjoying the teasing touch as every now and then a tongue brushed the fingers.

Daniel’s hands glided up and down the sensuous curve of Jack’s well toned back, feeling the muscle play beneath the tanned skin then they moved simultaneously onto the firm, rounded butt, where they gripped him tightly and pulled him closer, away from the edge of the vanity.

One of Jack’s thumb entered the mouths now, and Daniel turned his attention to the invading digit, sucking and playing with it, leaving Jack’s slick tongue alone a while. At the same time he opened his blue eyes and watched in the large mirror behind Jack as they kissed long and languidly. His vision followed his own hands as they glided across his strong lover’s back and up into his hair. Oh, how he loved the sight of Jack’s back – so strong and manly - smooth, firm and well toned. Gripping up a handful of hair into his fist, the younger man broke the kiss amidst loud, harsh breathing. His plump, pink lips were still close enough for Jack to reach with his tongue as he swiped at the mouth while Daniel tried to talk.

“Want to join me in a shower?”

Jack’s tongue traced across Daniel’s top lip then he felt the gently nip on his bottom lip from his lover. He considered pointing out the time to his gorgeous partner, but decided that the offer was just too good to pass up.

“Love to!” He said, with a wicked grin that dimpled his cheek. Daniel chuckled as he saw the lascivious look in Jack’s eyes then he kissed the tip of his lover’s nose before reaching through the glass door and turning on the shower. It was already preset to their preferred temperature so they shuffled into the cobalt blue cubicle together, both moaning as the steaming water hit their skin.

Jack watched as Daniel ran his face beneath the stream, wetting his hair and causing it to stick to his forehead while he opened his mouth and allowed it to fill with water. Rivulets poured from the corners of his mouth as it filled to over-flowing and Jack quickly moved to lap it up, then closed his mouth over Daniel’s. The water slowly seeped from the corners of the joined lips as their tongues tangled together within the warm liquid.

Languidly Daniel ran his hands into the gray hair, stretching out his body so that it pressed completely against Jack’s. In doing so, he sandwiched his lover between his body and the cold tiled wall behind him. The older man’s yelp was swallowed by Daniel’s mouth as his tongue plummeted in and out of the hungry mouth.

Placing his hands onto the sodden chest, Daniel pressed back away from his lover now and stared into the shining dark eyes. Without a word he moved out of the cubicle, going across to the edge of the bath to retrieve an imitation plastic urn that Cassandra had given to him once. She’d found it at the school fete and decided, because of the Egyptian print on it, that Daniel would like it. He’d accepted it graciously, but kept it in a cupboard for a long time. That was, until he and Jack started taking baths together. Now it was left on the edge of the tub, the cobalt blue used on the dresses of the little Egyptian people matched in with the rest of the room’s decor. The men now used it to scoop water over each other’s backs and they filled it with clean water to rinse shampoo from the other’s hair as they bathed together.

Stepping into the cubicle once more he held it up under the spray, quickly filling it up. Jack frowned at him.

“What’s that for?”

“This.”

Daniel said it so quickly, then doused Jack’s still rigid shaft with it so suddenly before dropping to his knees that he had swallowed Jack’s thick muscle before the older man even knew what was happening. As his hands clenched into tight fists, Jack gave something between a sigh and a cry while Daniel suckled on him tenaciously. After a few hard sucks Daniel looked up at his lover.

Shaking his head, Jack said with a soft laugh, “you ought to give a man some warning!”

With a shrug, Daniel climbed back up to his feet then looked Jack square in the eyes.

“Okay,” he said deliberately slowly, ducking his face and touching his thumb briefly to his own bottom lip before looking up at Jack again. His long lashes blinked over the wide, blue eyes quickly as he said, “I’m about to turn you around and rim the hell out of you, Jack. Is that warning enough?”

The look in the eyes, the tone of the voice, Daniel might well have been reciting his shopping list. Jack’s stomach jumped excitedly, closely followed by his rigid shaft that thumped against Daniel’s hip at that welcomed suggestion.

“Well, sure..” He said with a little shrug. “See? Warning! That’s ‘all’ I ask for…” Jack quipped. Daniel laughed and twirled his finger at Jack, indicating for him to turn around.

With a playful sigh, Jack mumbled, “Well, if I ‘have’ to!” He turned and braced himself against the glass wall while Daniel dropped to his knees behind him, positioning the urn so that it would fill once more.

The roar of the shower filled his ears as he waiting in high anticipation for Daniel’s first touch. Slowly his eyes closed as he felt Daniel’s hand close over his ankles. Symmetrically, his hands slid up the long, wet, hairy legs and then over the smooth butt cheeks, coming to meet at the cleft. Jack’s breath hitched as he felt the hard slippery soap go into the valley and press at his tight ring, pushing so that it cleanse just inside it as well. Daniel made himself comfortable on the floor of the shower, sitting with his legs bent casually, both hands occupied with the tantalizing ass before him. After the soap swiped at the puckered opening, Daniel smoothed his finger there rubbing and cleaning the area. He couldn’t resist and nipped the white cheek next to his face. His teeth grazed the fleshy surface, as he nipped then sucked the skin lightly. Picking up the urn that was again filled with water, Daniel rinsed the valley clean, using his fingers to ensure it was now soap free. Shifting again, he now knelt for better access. With his hands he parted Jack’s ass gently then he pressed his face into the tender area and swiped his tongue at the freshly cleansed anus. Jack moaned and his back arched at the touch. Wriggling his hips, he encouraged Daniel to repeat what he’d just done. Never one to let his lover down, Daniel’s tongue came out and flattened over the tight pucker, rubbing at it firmly. Jack moaned loudly as he carefully grounded his ass against his lover’s face. Daniel’s arms came around Jack’s thighs, hugging him close as his tongue pointed to poke at the tight ring, gently forcing it open a fraction.

“Oh, gods! DANNY!” Jack cried out and his hands gripped the top of the glass wall for support as his legs started to give way on him. Daniel tightened the arms around him, giving him confidence that he was there, supporting as well as loving him. Jack felt himself sink further onto the face so eagerly pleasing him.

After long moments of delicate deliberation, Daniel’s tongue began to tire. He pulled his face back, breathed loudly and gasped for air as he rocked his bristled cheeks over Jack’s butt. He lifted his blue eyes, but not his face, and stared straight up into Jack’s dark eyes. With his head bowed and tucked slightly under one arm, the older man had been watching his lover. While not able to see the actual act from that position he still enjoyed watching Daniel’s tanned, slick arms straining with the act of parting him, then the shoulders bulge and move as he caressed Jack’s inner thighs throughout the rimming.

“Holy..,” Daniel whispered as he brushed his face over Jack’s ass, then he lifted one heavy hand up to touch the soggy, red opening. Jack moaned softly as Daniel gently forced his index finger through the pucker. Grinding his hips, the colonel wriggled until Daniel found the hidden prize then he arched as the lover swiped him repeatedly, sending jolts throughout his groin and prickling down his shaft. Again, Daniel insatiably licked and nipped at the opening, inserting another, then another finger into his willing lover before climbing to his feet once more, his fingers still buried deep within Jack.

The older man looked back over his shoulder, his mouth opened wide and waiting for Daniel’s. He didn’t disappoint as he plunged his tongue deep into Jack’s awaiting mouth, delving and rubbing against Jack’s own tongue. Blindly and without breaking the kiss, Jack squeezed conditioner into his hand and reached behind him, encasing Daniel’s hard shaft in it. He loved the way Daniel’s moan rumbled through their joined mouths then he mentally braced himself as he felt the slightest movement in Daniel as he put himself in position. Extracting his fingers then resting his tip against the readied ring, Daniel gripped both of Jack’s hips before thrusting himself into the very willing and long awaiting body. Arching his own back, Daniel’s head went under the spray of water and directed a flow of warm water between the two men now, causing incredible sensations as it rained over the joined bodies. Daniel growled as he moved to allow water to wash between them again and Jack tightened as the warm water washed over his stretched ring. Shaking his face under the shower spray, Daniel opened his mouth once more and gathered up some water. Straightening up, he reached around the unsuspecting colonel and as their lips met, he forced the water into Jack’s mouth. Most was blubbered out but some of it Jack swallowed then he felt Daniel press deep into him again to lean around him once more, offering another mouth filled with water. Jack tilted his face back and parted his lips sensuously, allowing Daniel to open his mouth and the water cascade from the anthropologist to the soldier. Jack swallowed it all now then smiled as Daniel grinned at him.

“You’re so gorgeous, Jack,” he whispered lustfully as he stared into the soft, doe-like eyes. The older man smiled, his eyes dipping from Daniel’s eyes to his mouth then to his eyes once more.

“Ever looked in a mirror, Danny?”

A shy smile crept over the young man’s face. “Yeah, as we were kissing tonight actually.”

“Oh?”

Daniel bit his own lip between his teeth as he smiled at Jack.

“Yeah. Do you have any idea how sexy your back is?” He asked in a voice deep with arousal.

“No, don’t see it that often,” Jack quipped, then moaned as the rod within him twitched intentionally. Daniel’s hands played over the back before him.

“I see it. I see it a ‘lot’,” he said quietly, his fingers following the contours of muscle towards the dip in the back where the spine was. He trailed down the dip until his fingers reached his own groin, and the sliver of hard shaft that remained outside Jack’s body. Gripping the sharp hips in his hands, Daniel pressed into Jack fully - eliciting a loud moan from the impaled man.

“And - it’s - so - gorgeous!” Daniel said, ramming himself deeply into the compliant body. Jack arched his back, his butt lifted to give Daniel better striking angle and the young man rammed into him over and over. Jack bit back a yelp as he felt Daniel’s hand finally close around his begging shaft and match the rhythm of the strokes perfectly.

“You want to finish later? Or together now?” Daniel asked in a shaky whisper as his hips slapped against Jack’s back.

“Together!” Jack barely managed to speak his voice was now harsh and his energy completely sapped by the slow build up to this point.

Pressing his face into the curve of Jack’s neck, Daniel worked his lover up to the edge of the chasm, feeling the twitches and jerks within the muscle in his fist. A year of loving Jack; of knowing him so intimately, of holding his hard, heavy shaft in his hand while he pumped him rigid, had taught Daniel to know ‘exactly’ when Jack was about to explode.

Rolling his head back against his lover’s face, Jack murmured and pleaded with Daniel not to ‘stop, never stop… never…’ and Daniel obeyed. His fist tightened on the throbbing red shaft, pumping him in firm strokes, feeling as the twitches grew within Jack’s body and weakened the man by the incredible state of arousal.

Daniel’s tip twitched and expanded in the confined space of Jack’s body. Giving his gorgeous lover pleasure always gave Daniel pleasure, but it did help to be slapping his groin, right down to the base, into his incredible lover’s ass! Jack was the first to dive into the chasm, his body twitching and shivering as the warm pearly liquid squirted out, all over Daniel’s fingers and the glass wall that Jack’s chest was now pressed up against.

Jack didn’t mask his cries on completion. The sound of his loud, breathless gasps filled the bathroom, ricocheting off the walls and echoing around the room as his hands tightened their hold on the top of the glass panel. So tight was the hold that Jack’s fingers were dented and circulation was cut off in one of his fingers temporarily.

“Oh GOD!” He said with one final shudder, then Daniel released him immediately before digging his long fingers into Jack’s side and thumping into his ass as fast and as hard as he could while he cried out as well. No words, just lust-filled babble that Jack could never quite understand. The meaning was clear though, as the opening was stretched by the now throbbing, twitching muscle while Daniel poured himself into his lover.

As the weary man’s forehead came crashing down onto Jack’s shoulder, his mouth still mumbling quiet pleas and prayers, he rolled his forehead over the fleshy muscles.

Lying his weight onto his lover’s back, Daniel murmured in a shaky voice, “Oh, god.. Jack! That was incredible! YOU are incredible!”

Jack rocked his hips forward, slipping Daniel’s softened shaft from him now, and then he turned to look at his drenched lover. Wrapping his arms around him, one hand brushing hair off the wet face, Jack smiled and kissed the flushed face lovingly.

“YOU are incredible!” He told him. Heavy, hooded eyes lifted to look at him.

“I’m wiped,” he said, then swallowed as he caught his breath. “Totally … wiped!”

Jack kissed the curve of Daniel’s cheek again then switched off the shower and eased his lover out of the cubicle. Grabbing up two fluffy blue towels, he steered Daniel to the bedroom, then allowed the exhausted man to flop onto the bed, his wet body making the sheets damp. Jack looked at the towels in his hands then at his satiated lover, who wore such a smile on his face now that Jack had to lean down and kiss him gently. Daniel gave a contented purr as he rolled onto his side. Jack cradled against the back of him, his hand lightly stroking Daniel until he fell asleep.

On the crest of sleep, Jack whispered, “Danny?”

“Ah huh?”

“I love you!”

A smile appeared on the near-asleep man’s face. Jack couldn’t see it but he knew it was there as Daniel replied, “I love you too, Jack. Now get some sleep.”

He chuckled to himself. Perhaps now wasn’t the time to bring up the fact that he had been asleep -for five hours before Daniel came to bed and attacked him. Shifting his eyes towards the window, Jack noted that daybreak was starting already. He reached back and lifted the clock off the side table. It was very late – or early – depending on how you looked at things. He saw that the alarm was on and flicked the switch, disabling the alarm. He placed the clock by the bed and cuddled against the back of Daniel again. Brushing his lips over the warm, damp skin, he wondered if he should remind Daniel that tomorrow was Saturday.

Nah, he thought to himself, let the Space Monkey just sleep in.

THE END