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Author's notes: This was written as gen "with slashy undertones", but I'm categorizing it as pre-slash out of precaution for all the sensitive souls out there.
But really, if you're a gen-reader - don't fear!
1. Buy him a coffee plantation, perhaps in Africa. Carter mentioned political unrest over there, and he thought “Oops. It’s Daniel”, so the idea was ditched and forgotten. Years later, he asked George what he thought about a food-plantation-planet, but there was talk about excessive costs and “still not the right time” and something about coffee not being a food group. With a fond smile Jack was waved from the General’s ofice (weeks later Jack realized he had never mentioned coffee per se). Every time he would see Daniel getting orgasmic over a cup of coffee, Jack would think about how some costs should be justified.
2. Make him smile and laugh all day long. He was damn close on several occasions, though:
** A day out with Cassie, back when she was just a kid. Two men and a little girl. An S&R mission intruded that evening.
** A trip to Disneyland for Daniel’s birthday. Team vacation, SG-1 style. Teal’c on a merry-go-round. Too scary for words. A call from the Tok’ra killed the atmosphere just as they were posing for a photo with Merlin the Wizard.
** A weekend at the cabin after another one of disasterous missions. Just the two of them and a mixup with Daniel’s painkiller-dosage that last day. His recuperating archaeologist fell asleep after gulping down the sneaked, forbidden glass of vine, a smile on his relaxed face. But that was several hours before midnight, and artificially induced, so it didn’t really count.
** When Daniel called Jack “Jack” instead of “Jim”. They were both smiling like loonies that day, but then Daniel remembered Abydos and ended up crying himself to sleep in Jack’s arms.
** When his kids got him home after the memorable vacation in Antarctica. Daniel was dead tired, but Jack’s smiling shadow all day long till Weir babbled out something about “hopes for promotion” and with that, Daniel’s face froze.
He would keep trying, though. One of these days...
3. Steal a time ship and drag Claire and Melbourn away from that coverstone, minutes before the chain brakes. But what ifs and what thens would usually stop that idea in its tracks.
4. Get him a year off on a nice, peaceful planet. A year of digging in dirt with fellow geeks and occasional... okay, often... visits from Jack and the gang. That one’s still in his desk’s drawer in a form of a signed official request, with blanks for planet designation and dates.
5. Move back to the Springs himself, to his old house, retired from everything but life, once and for all, Universe be damned. That one’s not up to debate, and one Daniel’s counting on.