Prodigal's Return by Brenda Anders (PG)

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Rec Categroy: Jack and Daniel friendship

Pairing: none
Category: angst, hurt/comfort, friendship, episode tag
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website:  www.bunnyfic.com

Link: www.bunnyfic.com/Brenda_A/Prodigal%27s_Return.htm

Why this must be read: This fic is an episode tag for season four's The Curse. After being ribboned by Osiris, Daniel escapes from Sam and Janet to try to reconnect with his roots in a city he knew as a young man. Jack goes to find him. Jack's role in this story is small but essential to the story.

O'Neill sighed as he stared out at the passing cityscape from the back of the vehicle driven by the Air Force arranged driver. He had already admitted to himself ripping out the cell phone batteries so he and Teal'c wouldn't get any more phone calls at the cabin was a pretty childish thing to do. But they were on vacation. The whole point of a vacation was to get away from everything and have some fun. How were you supposed to do that if a linguist - who was supposed to be safe and sound on his own vacation - was calling every half hour for help on a translation? As he told Teal'c - oh, about fifty times or so since they left Minnesota - he didn't know Daniel had found a brand new Goa'uld to play with, and that he and Carter and Fraiser were playing with it in Egypt. The team was supposed to be on a goddamned vacation. (Although why Daniel was at the SGC working on translations instead of using the time for a real vacation was a question he hadn't asked himself in Minnesota. It had only begun gnawing at him on the long flight to Cairo.)