Wedding Day

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=120 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="01078642egerdp.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=428 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="00f64643.jpg"> <div> <B>Wedding Day</B></div> <div>  <A NAME="wedding_day"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="3a2b8180.jpg" border=0 width="440" height="280" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> This lovely manip was done by the fabulously talented Sandy... aka Pen....aka Madaboutms - or as her friends know her MadBottoms.  heh  I saw this little piccie and I just had to fic.  And thanks much to Sandy for her graciousness in letting me post this pic here on my site.</div> <bR> <div> "So."</div> <bR> <div> "So." Jack fussed with his tie.</div> <bR> <div> "Guess that happened." Daniel looked around the church, now empty. The bouquet on the steps where it had been dropped.</div> <bR> <div> The minister walked up the aisle slowly, shaking her head as she approached the altar. "I've seen a lot of weddings stopped at the last minute, but I've never seen one like this."</div> <bR> <div> Jack winced. "Carter alright?"</div> <bR> <div> The minister gawked. "Carter?"</div> <bR> <div> "Habit," Jack mumbled.</div> <bR> <div> "She's devastated. How do you think she'd be?"</div> <bR> <div> "Kinda hard to lie in front of God," Jack said. He raised his eyes and held hers. "Don't suppose that license is transferrable."</div> <bR> <div> "Now is hardly the time to be making jokes." She whipped her robes around her legs as she sat down.</div> <bR> <div> "Minister Leary..."</div> <bR> <div> "And I certainly don't need to hear anything from <I>you</I>, Doctor Jackson. Asking if there's anyone who objects to the marriage is tradition...not something people are to take literally." She crossed her legs and sat back against the pew. "I don't understand," she sighed, brushing a trailing piece of hair from out of her eyes. "I don't understand any of it."</div> <bR> <div> "Join the club," Jack said.</div> <bR> <div> Daniel loosened his tie and rested his arms on his knees. "It would have been a lie for them to marry. And they would have both been...worse off if it had taken place and then they'd had to divorce."</div> <bR> <div> "Sam said you hadn't put anything in joint accounts yet, nothing in both your names? Is that right?"</div> <bR> <div> Jack nodded. "I couldn't do it. I told her we'd take care of all that when we got back from the honeymoon."</div> <bR> <div> "She didn't even know where you were taking her."</div> <bR> <div> "Neither did I," Jack said sadly.</div> <bR> <div> Daniel turned to look at him. "You hadn't booked your honeymoon?"</div> <bR> <div> Jack shook his head. "Never quite got around to it - something always seemed to come up."</div> <bR> <div> "You had no intention of going through with this, did you?" asked Leary.</div> <bR> <div> "I did," Jack said. "Until I heard Daniel object." He swallowed.</div> <bR> <div> "What on earth did he say?" she demanded of Jack.</div> <bR> <div> "It wasn't what he said, it's the fact he said anything at all. I turned and looked at him and I just ... knew. Knew I was doing the wrong thing ... knew I had to stop it before I cost Carter and I more than a little embarrassment. Knew I was standing up there with the wrong person."</div> <bR> <div> "My God," breathed Leary. "It's you two, isn't it? The two of you wanted to be together."</div> <bR> <div> Jack flushed a dark red and tried to look anywhere but at the minister sitting directly in front of him. Daniel answered instead. "It was just me, I thought. I was certain Jack was going to deck me when I said I objected. But when he looked at me - I saw it. In his eyes. I could tell - this wasn't just a one-way thing."</div> <bR> <div> "Let's just say I had a sudden moment of clarity," Jack said.</div> <bR> <div> "Oh?" asked Leary. "And tell me, what would that have been?"</div> <bR> <div> "Ten years down the road, being called 'Mr. Carter' while I watched the kids run around the grocery store and wonder what to cook for dinner while Car...Sam's away on a mi...at work."</div> <bR> <div> "And when you think of that same thing with Doctor Jackson?"</div> <bR> <div> Jack shrugged. "Doing what we do, watching the game, telling bad jokes, me disturbing him while he tries to get some work done."</div> <bR> <div> Daniel smiled and nodded slowly. "Just like we've always been."</div> <bR> <div> "Yeah," Jack said, "something like that."</div> <bR> <div> Leary sat back and shook her head. "Amazing." She reached over and grabbed one of the many single-use cameras they'd had laid out for the people in attendance to use during the day. She looked through the view finder and clicked a picture of the two men.</div> <bR> <div> "What's that for?" Jack asked.</div> <bR> <div> "Everyone should have a picture on their wedding day."</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> ~finis~</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="mailto:claforce@plotexpo.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:claforce@plotexpo.com"><U>Give the author's ego a marshmallow . . . please feed the bear.</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id3_sg1_slash.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stargate SG1 Slash Fiction"><U>Back to Fic List</U></A>     <A HREF="id2_directory.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Directory Listing"><U>Back to Directory</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=120 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="01178643.jpg"> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=52 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="00f64643.jpg"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="161" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 45 ><NOBR><div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="39" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="29"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Plotexpo.com"><U><IMG SRC="0181d270.jpg" border=0 width="29" height="39" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="45" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="15" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id200.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A New Beginning"><U><IMG SRC="017271d0.jpg" border=0 width="39" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ReEvaluation"><U><IMG SRC="016271d0.jpg" border=0 width="39" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>