" THE HERE AND NOW "
" April ! "
" Yes dad! "
"We are going to be late for school!"
Jack oneill never tought he would say those words ever again in his life. Fate as it seemed wanted to give him a second chance and who was he to argue? He always keept what little happines he got and this little munchkin had made his life very complicated but in a good way.
Fifthy miles from the O'Neill recidence Samantha Carter frowned and searched for her keys. She knew she had put them down on the coffee table last night. She knew that, right? But of course something told her that her husband had taken her keys instead of his own, which annoyed the hell out of her.
" Aron, time to go!"
"I'm ready mom and dad said that you should used the spare set cuz he couldnt find his keys again."
"Right."
She tried to keep the anger from her voice, the annoyance and the bitterness and found she had failed miserably. She told her son, the only one who made her days happy and made her content to wait in the car. As she rushed towards her car she smiled and shock her head and once again reminded herself she was doing this for him.
Thirty minutes later she was in front of the school waving good bye to her son as he entered the school. His first day, she was worried and wanted to be there for him but she knew better. As she was turning to head back to her car, she saw a truck screech to a stop infront of her car. A read headed girl jumped from the passenger seat and rushed passed her.
"You forgot your lunch young lady! "
The blur of red head rushed back and snatched the bag from the man Sam was all to familiar with. Silver hair, leather jacket, khaki pants and the all to sexy scar on his left eye brow. He was Jack O'Neill, she knew it the moment she saw him, she knew it was him.
"Thank you dad!"
"Ok, now April remember what uncle Daniel told you."
"Yes dad!"
"And what aunt Janet said also."
"Ok dad!"
"And forget what Teal'c said ok?"
"Daaad!"
The blur of red head rushed pased Sam and this time the the silver haired man saw the golden haired woman standing just a few feet away from him. She was Samantha Carter, there was no doubt about that and she was staring at him and was taking tentative steps towards him, gauging his reaction. He didn't back down, he smiled and raised his eye brows.
"Hey Carter!"
"Hello sir…"
"Jack."
"Huh?"
"You're retired remember?"
"Yeah...old habits I guess…"
"Yes, well, they do die hard."
She smiled for the first time in what seem like an eternity, without her son to cheer her up or make her smile. This man whom she had not seen in five years made her smile for the first time in a while and she felt chated somehow at what she didn't know.
"So... your kid?"
"Ah yes, Aron...just started you?"
"I think I'm a little old for school, Carter."
Jokes lame, funny, sarcastic and just plain horrible made her laugh out loud not only suprising him but her as well. She had not laughed, not smiled like this in a while and now here with him, her ex comanding officer, she was laughing and smiling and for a moment it felt like old times, but only for a moment.
He was older and so was she his face showed his age and she saw that he no longer had that mischief about him. Something had change while she was away. The man infront of her was Jack O'Neill, but this Jack O'Neill was missing something. And it apeared that he was still looking for it.
They talked for a while, exchanged phone numbers and waved their good byes. He drove off to work and she just stayed in her car and looked off into the direction he had droved off. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She had work to do, the house nedeed to be cleaned, the boxes nedeed to be unpacked and dinner had to be bought.
She found herself wondering of the past and of what it offered her. At the SGC General Jack O'Neill was somewhat in a state of disbelief. He still couldn't figure out if he had imagined the whole encounter with his ex colonel, or if it was real. It was weird, she was older now, but she looked the same to him. Like a zombie he walked towards his office, sat down and put the paper with her phone number on his desk.
"Jack I ...Jack ? "
Daniel Jackson had been waiting for his friend. He nedeed a favor, he nedeed to go off world to a site were they nedeed his expertise, but noticing his best friend's state he wondered if every thing was ok, or if he should even go to the mission. Jack never looked so confused about anything.
"Carter… "
"Sam ? What about her?"
"I saw her today ...said we should get together… "
"Wait, wait she is back?"
"Yeah, her kid is going to the same school as April."
"Weird…"
"I know."
"So we should go visit her or do something right?"
"I dont know…"
"Right...so...umhhh ask Janet?"
"Ask Janet?"
Off they went to seek Janet and as for Jack, his mind keept repeating a cliche. He wasnt to particularly found of it. Daniel noticed his odd behaviour and raised an eye brow in question. Jack smiled and shock his head.
"Of all the schools in all the world she had to walk into mine…"
"Funny."
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