Happy Birthday, Janet!
by Becca and Kat
EMAIL: Becca: yuna_ezri@yahoo.com and Kat
kathalcyon@yahoo.ca
CATEGORY: D/J romance
ARCHIVE: Dan and Jan, go ahead.
RATING: PG
SUMMARY: Janet has a birthday
DISCLAIMER: All publicly recognizable characters and
places are the property of MGM, World Gekko Corp and
Double Secret Productions. This piece of fan fiction
was created for entertainment not monetary purposes
and no infringement on copyrights or trademarks was
intended. Previously unrecognized characters and
places, and this story, are copyrighted to the author.
Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is
coincidental and not intended by the author.
AUTHORS' NOTES:This fic was written by Becca and Kat over AIM as
Bryn's birthday present. She has authorized us to
share it with you all. Hope you like it!!
DEDICATION: Bryn, happy birthday. We
love ya, babe!!
Another year older, another birthday forgotten by her
friends.
Janet sighed. 32. It was depressing. 32 and she wasn't
married, let alone seeing anyone.
She sighed again and turned back to her medical
reports. Another day of boring work.
Janet decided that it should be illegal for people to
work on their birthdays. How was she supposed to
concentrate when she'd reached the big three-two?
Okay, maybe it wasn't a big birthday. But it felt like
it.
She pushed the medical reports away and wondered if
she could take the day off by calling in sick. She
could go home, relax in a nice hot bath and read some
trashy romance novel to take her mind off her friends
missing her birthday.
Even Cassie had forgotten. Some daughter. She couldn't
believe that not a single person had remembered. When
Sam had had a birthday, the entire base had thrown a
party. But hey, Sam was a member of the celebrated
SG-1 team. Janet was just a lousy doctor.
She sighed for the umpteenth time and decided that
telling the General she was sick was a good idea. She
just wanted to curl up and forget that she had turned
32 and that she was stupid and lousy that no one had
bothered to say Happy Birthday to her.
Janet called the General, tidied up her desk and left
her office. She frowned. There was a red rose lying
outside her door. She picked it up and opened the note
attached to it.
It said simply, "Happy Birthday" no name, no
identifying marks, nothing. She wondered who would
remember, but not tell her in person. She grabbed the
rose and walked out the door.
There was another rose a few feet down the hall. It
also had a note. It said: "Keep following the
flowers."
Janet didn't know what to think about this odd way to
say Happy Birthday. She kept following the flowers,
wondering just what she was going to find at the end.
The trail of roses led her to the top of the mountain.
The sun was shining. There wasn't a soul around,
but there was a bouquet of roses. She smiled and
opened the note attached to it.
"10 paces to the left, turn right and straight on to
morning." Janet shrugged, and began doing what the
note had told her to do.
She did as instructed. It didn't take long until...
"SURPRISE!!! Happy Birthday, Janet!" Everyone from the
base was there, shouting at her for her birthday.
Janet couldn't remember when she had last been this
happy.
Her day, which had started out so horribly, had become
almost perfect. There was only one more thing she
could have wished for.
Daniel.
Almost as if he could read her mind, there he was. He
pressed through the crowd to come and stand by her.
"Happy Birthday, Janet," he said, smiling at her. "So,
the big thirty-two, huh?"
She forced her mind to start working. It had a strange
tendency to turn to mush whenever Daniel was anywhere
near her. "Uhh.. yeah..." she stammered.
Daniel smiled and pressed a gift into her hand. "Here,
it's from me."
She could do nothing but stare at it for what seemed
like a very long time. She looked up into his
unbelievably blue eyes and said, "Uhh... thanks." She
carefully unwrapped the shiny silver paper.
Once she had gotten past the shiny paper, she found a
small, velvet covered jewelry box. Her breath caught
in her throat for a second before she reminded herself
that it couldn't possibly be the ring she had wanted
from him for ages.
She opened it slowly. A gold chain sparkled on a cream
satin background. A small amber-toned stone was hung
from the chain.
She stared at it a moment, wondering at its fragile
beauty, before turning around and hugging Daniel.
He seemed surprised by that, but it took less than a
second for his arms to wrap around her. She tried to
subdue a grin, but couldn't quite manage it.
She pulled herself away from him and said: "Thank you,
Daniel. It's perfect."
He smiled back, before gently pulling the necklace out
of the box and turning her around to put it on.
"I'm glad you like it." Did he sound a little choked?
No, of course not. It was her imagination.
She instantaneously got shouted at, by no less then a
dozen people, to come over to the present table and
open some more. Janet got pulled over, and was urged
to pick a present from the huge pile.
Janet opened several of her gifts. Everyone seemed to
have gotten her chocolate. She looked around for
Daniel as unobtrusively as she could, but he had
disappeared in the crowd.
She opened a couple of boxes, and passed them around
to everyone.
After finishing opening her presents, she got pulled
over to the food table. This, of course, was heaped
with all kinds of fattening foods, designed to make
her forget all about any diet she might have been on.
She wondered briefly if this was a plan created by her
best friend Sam and her obscenely high metabolism. She
then decided that not even Sam would be that cruel.
But, the cooking staff down in the commissary was. She
was tapped on the shoulder by a cook she recognised
from begin in the commissary.
"Happy Birthday, Dr Fraiser. We hope you like the
food," he said, jovially.
"Of course, it's wonderful," she replied, before being
pulled away in another direction.
The puller was Colonel O'Neill. "Doc, get over here.
We have another surprise for you."
She followed along behind him, wondering what the
surprise could possibly be. She was amazed by all of
this. What else could they possibly give her?
Jack led Janet back into the base. He stopped in front
of a door. "It's just in here." Janet opened the door
and stepped into the dark room. Before her eyes had a
chance to adjust, the door behind her was slammed
shut.
Janet wondered what the hell they were doing. But
slowly, after her eyes had adjusted, she realised just
what they, or Sam really, had in mind. Daniel was
waiting for her at the back of the small room, a small
smile playing over his face.
Janet's heart leapt when she realised she was alone in
a darkened room with the object of her affection, but
she hid it well. She narrowed her eyes. "What's going
on?" she asked.
"Why don't you tell me?" Daniel asked, as he moved
forward towards her. "But while we're in here…I may as
well give you the present I was planning on saving for
later."
Janet thought she had calmed her heart down, but it
was beating furiously again. "You already gave me a
present."
"But I have another present that no one else is
supposed to see," Daniel replied, still smiling. He
kept moving toward her. Janet licked her lips
nervously, wondering about what it could be. She knew
what she wanted it to be, of course.
"What is it?" she asked, her voice shaky.
Daniel took another few steps towards her. "I'll show
you."
He pulled her to him and carefully lowered his lips to
hers.
It seemed like forever before they had to break apart
for air. Janet stared up at him, unable to believe
this was happening.
He grinned down at her. "Happy birthday, Janet."
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