Hearing it elicits a familiar, sickening pang of frustrated distance. Sensing this conversation might go smoother at even eye level, Daniel moves over to drop onto the couch, one thumb rubbing at the other hand's palm.
"Reynolds often ran support for us," he answers with a tiny, clipped nod. "If, if we needed it. And Jack, um. Well. Jack's the closest thing I've had to a best friend."
Family, actually, if one decided to go against the traditional definition of the term. It had always been family, because Daniel was the one who no longer had any left to speak of. The others had their roots and their outside bonds, but Daniel only ever had the three most important people in his life. Had. He remembers his tenses this time.
It wrenches a little to say it, to have remembered it, even in the form of a dream manifestation. He can't help but wonder dully if the rest of the SGC has given up trying to find him by now, whether he's been tentatively declared MIA because they've long since stopped trying to declare him dead, and he wonders how long it will be before Jack's absolute conviction that he'll come walking back from this one dies out as well.
He misses him. He misses all of them, and it would be nice to be able to send some sort of signal that he's not dead, but Daniel doesn't think they believe he's dead anyway. Or maybe they do and are just impatiently waiting for it to be reversed, because when isn't it?
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"Reynolds often ran support for us," he answers with a tiny, clipped nod. "If, if we needed it. And Jack, um. Well. Jack's the closest thing I've had to a best friend."
Family, actually, if one decided to go against the traditional definition of the term. It had always been family, because Daniel was the one who no longer had any left to speak of. The others had their roots and their outside bonds, but Daniel only ever had the three most important people in his life. Had. He remembers his tenses this time.
It wrenches a little to say it, to have remembered it, even in the form of a dream manifestation. He can't help but wonder dully if the rest of the SGC has given up trying to find him by now, whether he's been tentatively declared MIA because they've long since stopped trying to declare him dead, and he wonders how long it will be before Jack's absolute conviction that he'll come walking back from this one dies out as well.
He misses him. He misses all of them, and it would be nice to be able to send some sort of signal that he's not dead, but Daniel doesn't think they believe he's dead anyway. Or maybe they do and are just impatiently waiting for it to be reversed, because when isn't it?