Daniel was in his lab looking at the artefacts that SG-6 had just brought back that morning, he was looking so intensely at one of them that he hadn't moved a muscle in his body in over 10 minutes that was except for his eyes which were looking so fiercely over the object that if anyone was watching him they would think that he was trying to imprint the image into his brain so he could never forget it.
He jumped in shock when the alarm on his watch went of, he quickly turned it of and looked around to make sure that there was no one there to see his reaction. Letting out a sigh when he realised he was alone he headed out of the lab door.
As he made his way to the lift he thought about how much he wanted to stay and carry on examining the artefacts, but there was no way that he was going to miss this for anything.
When the lift finally reached his floor the doors opened to reveal Teal'c already occupying the lift.
"Hey Teal'c" Daniel said as he entered the lift and stood beside the tall Jaffa.
"Good afternoon Daniel Jackson, I presume you are also heading to level 16."
"Yup" Daniel replied, "You know me know me, wouldn't miss this for the world" he said with a grin.
"Indeed" Teal'c replied.
When the lift doors opened they headed for the security station that was just down the hall. The room consisted of a smaller version of the control panel, down in the control room, this was used to operate the SGC in the event an emergency, the room also housed many screens which were mounted on the walls, these were used to view the essential rooms in the building at all times, and were also the reason that Daniel and Teal'c were here.
When they got there, they found that Walter was already there at the control panel. "Hey guys," he said as he saw them entering the room, "I'm just setting up now"
"Great" Daniel replied with a grin as he went to sit on one of the chairs and Teal'c stood near the back of the room with his hands locked behind his back and watched Walter work with the controls.
Not half a minute later Dr Lee came in with a bowl of popcorn, "Hi guys, thought this might be a good idea" he told them indicating the popcorn.
"Sure was" Siler said as he slipped into the room behind the doctor and stole some of the popcorn. Everyone laughed, well except for Teal'c who merely gave a hint of a smile.
"Right I'm done" Walter said as he turned in his chair away from the controls. There on the 4 screens in the centre of the main wall were live views of the gym from each corner of the room. As they waited for something to happen on the screen a few more of the SGC personnel trickled into the room, and quiet bets were placed but most kept their eyes hungrily on the screen.
After what seemed like forever to the people gathered in the room, there was finally some movement on the screen and Colonel Jack O'Neill and Major Samantha Carter walked into the gym each with sports bags over their shoulders, right at that moment Janet Fraiser practically ran into the security station out of breath and announced "sorry I'm late" to the people gathered around the monitor only to find herself shushed by most of them, hardly any of them taking their eyes from the screen.
She worked her way into the room and sat by Daniel, "have I missed anything?" she asked quietly.
"They've just arrived," he answered with a smile, his attention still riveted to the screen. Just then voices came out of the speakers on the wall.
"Ready to get your butt kicked Carter?" Jack asked with a smile on his face after he deposited the sports bag to one side of the gym while Sam put hers on the opposite side.
"I wouldn't be so sure of yourself Sir" Sam answered, flashing an innocent smile toward him.
"Oh it's on" he replied grinning from ear to ear.
Back in the security station, everyone was grinning, and making themselves comfortable, everything quiet except for the sound from the speakers and the distant munching of popcorn.
Back in the gym Jack and Sam were stood opposite each other on the training mat.
"Ready Carter?" Jack asked.
"Ready Sir" Carter replied.
They both took their stances and began circling, each trying to work out the best first move before the other decided on theirs.
Jack moved first hitting out with his left fist to find it deflected by her left arm, she quickly retaliated by hitting out with her right fist have it stopped in its path by his right arm. The fight went on like this for 5 minutes or so, neither of them really gaining the upper hand, just strategically attacking and defending against each other.
In the security room they watched as Jack was the one to finally gain the upper hand and had her pinned to the floor, the first time the people that were gathered in here had seen him do that to her they had each held their breaths waiting to see if anything out of the ordinary was going to happen, it hadn't, so from then on this move was just like any other, and as usual Sam found some way to get out from under his hold and they were then both circling each other again, but something different happened this time when they got up Sam quickly jabbed Jack in the gut, then hit him on the side of the face, Jack had seen this move coming and so had dodged back a little so it only looked like she had tapped him.
"Come on Carter you can do better then that" Jack teased
So Sam quickly hit him across the face again, this time harder. Jack swayed backwards a little, then shuck his head a little.
"How was that Sir?" Sam found herself asking.
Jack walked towards her and Sam went to kick him high on his left leg but he grabbed her thigh and lifted her up dragging her whole upper body towards him.
"Oh my God is she…." Janet couldn't finish her question
"Straddling him?" Daniel completed for her, "yeah looks that way," he said with a shocked look on his face.
Back in the gym Jack hadn't moved to let go of her and Sam had made no move to make him do so, they found themselves panting hard and their faces were mere inches apart both had their eyes focused on the others, and their faces inched closer and closer together
"Wow" someone at the back of the control room said.
Jack and Sam's faces were mere just millimetres apart now just one move forward from one of them would have them kissing each other, just as they each moved to do just that, an alarm blazed from the speaker on the wall, shocking them both so much that Jack almost dropped Sam. "of world activation" a voice blared over the speaker.
The moment lost, Jack put Sam down gently and turned towards his bag so that he wasn't facing her, she also turned her back to him and headed to her bag. Each took out a bottle of water and took big mouthfuls of the refreshing liquid.
Sam finally turned back to her CO, while he still had his back to her "thanks for training with me sir… but I have to get back to my lab… I've er… got some work to finish up…."
"No problem Carter" he hesitated, then asked "same time next week?"
"Sure, sounds good"
"Great" he said turning back to look at her briefly.
"I'll see you later sir"
"See ya Carter"
"Quick Walter get the outside hall camera on one of the screens" Janet told him.
He did as he was asked and brought it up on one of the 4 screens taking away the back view of the Colonel.
They saw Sam leave the gym and walk into the hall only to stop after a few paces and lean her back against the wall, softly landing her head against it and sighing, at the same time in the gym Jack had sat on the bench against the wall pressed his head into his hands and sighed then both voiced the same word at the same time: "Crap"
Everyone in the security station was in a shocked silence, nobody knew whether they should go, or if it might be an idea to talk about what they just saw, but when they looked at the others gathered in the room they could see by the looks on each others faces that they were going to keep this to themselves.
"So…" Daniel said breaking the silence first, "same time next week?" he asked.
"Sounds good," replied Janet
"Indeed" replied Teal'c
"But wait" Dr Lee said over the sound of everyone getting up to leave, he found he now had the eyes of everyone trained on him, in any other circumstance he would have been a little uncomfortable, but he just had to know about this.
"What about the bets?"