Author's Note: Really random one-shot I came up with during a power cut at home. For Li ("I don't wanna go to Antarctica coz I'll diiie..."), Sam ("Who said fandom wasn't sexy?"), Jill ("Reaction? Gooey puddle of drool...") and Ani ("Bet Jack wasn't complaining...")

Uh...post Threads, basically. Janet's still alive. Humour me. The people who decided she got killed should be shown the error of their ways.

BLACKOUT: Part One – Lights Out

She could still hear the murmuring in the background as her eyes slid shut, her body aching and complaining at the position it found itself in.

"No sleeping on the job, Carter," his voice penetrated her thoughts and she cracked an eye open at him.

"Very funny, sir."

"Tough mission?" He offered her a drink, and she accepted it, opening her eyes properly and sitting up to face him properly as he settled in the comfy chair opposite her.

She paused for a moment, wondering if it would be worth giving him a white lie, but her deliberations were ended as Janet stepped down from the kitchen to the sitting area, carrying her own drink and going to sit over by the window. "I'll say."

He raised his eyebrows as a crash of thunder, loud enough to drown the petite doctor's voice, rolled overhead, and she waited for it to finish before she started again. Her glare reached Sam over the rim of her glass as she went to interrupt. "I'm surprised you came out with bruises, nothing more, Sam."

Sam shrugged, looking into her glass. "It was wet. And cold. The mission itself wasn't too strenuous...the natives were nice enough people...but it just didn't stop raining the whole time we were there."

"And Daniel kept tripping on the way back to the gate, apparently," Janet added, suppressing a grin.

"That wasn't my fault!" Daniel's voice came from the kitchen.

"Indeed, Colonel Carter was having as much trouble keeping her balance as Daniel Jackson," Teal'C's voice followed Daniel's.

"Thanks, Teal'C," Sam grinned, letting out a small laugh with Janet when it was followed by a, "You are welcome."

"I see you brought the weather back with you," Jack commented, tilting his head towards the window. Outside, a flash of lightning could be seen, splitting the sky apart for the briefest of seconds, revealing the torrent of rain still pouring down on them. The storm had started sometime that afternoon as SG-1 returned from their latest mission, and had become progressively worse over the course of the evening as the team and their CMO had gone to Jack's house for a team-evening in.

"Indeed."

Janet snorted.

"Uh...you might want to stay here tonight, people," Jack commented. "I don't think it's going to let up any time soon, and I'd rather not have you driving in your current states." He shot a meaningful glance over to Sam, and she grinned despite herself before letting her head drop back onto the seat and watching the lightning reflect in the ceiling.

A yell and a crashing noise brought her back to reality, and she righted her head to find Janet and Jack standing at the partition between the kitchen and the sitting room, watching Daniel and Teal'C who were still in the kitchen.

"What's going on?" she asked. Janet was grinning, and Jack rolled his eyes before turning to Sam.

"We're going to order takeout now, that's what."

Apparently Daniel wasn't as good in the kitchen as he claimed to be.

Sam reached out with her chopsticks to grab one of the last prawn crackers sitting in the bowl in the middle of the table, just as Daniel leant over to grab his drink and Jack attempted to gain access to another prawn cracker. The ensuing fight was solved by Daniel grabbing the bowl and taking it with him into the kitchen as he went to get a refill. Neither of the two ranking officers could muster enough energy to get up and chase him, so they just grinned at each other and carried on eating their Chinese.

For a moment they sat in comfortable silence, Janet and Sam stretched out on the sofa at either ends, Teal'C on a chair they'd pulled up to the coffee table, and Jack in one of the two comfy chairs.

Two minutes later, they were plunged into darkness.

"GAH!" Daniel yelled, dropping whatever he had been holding at that moment. Judging by the wet splat noise it made, the others guessed he had been holding a carton of drink.

"Leave it Daniel, we'll clear it up when the lights come back on, "Jack told him. "I'll find the fuse box and see if it's just that tripped out."

She could hear the movement as he stood up. Teal'C was probably settling down for a brief kel'no'reem session before the lights came back on. "Jan?" she murmured, wondering what her friend was doing.

"Sleep..." came the replying mumble. Oh well, seeing as it was dark, she might as well settle down too.

"I'll join you," she replied, knowing that Janet was very adept at grabbing a quick power nap, and that her words probably hadn't sunk in.

It was pitch black with her eyes open, and pitch black with her eyes closed. The only difference was that with her eyes open she could see the lightning every so often, but with the amount of sleep she'd been getting lately she decided that she wouldn't be awake long enough to watch the storm anyway.

Until she sensed a presence in front of her. Her eyes shot open, but she still couldn't distinguish between the shadows and the plain darkness.

A pair of warm and strong yet gentle hands cupped her face gently, and tilted her head up. She took in the scent that she had been familiar with for so long, and her eyes closed in anticipation. A pair of lips brushed over hers so lightly and briefly that she found herself wondering if it had really happened or if her imagination was going into overdrive again, when suddenly they were back, pressing against hers, demanding more.

And she was willing to give more. Her hands found their way up to the strong shoulders, and her fingers entwined themselves in short hair that she could only imagine the colour of. As a tongue slipped past her lips and into her mouth to assault her senses, she found herself drowning in sensations, feelings and emotions, leaving her light-headed and dizzy.

It was over all too soon. Her grip relaxed and the person pulled himself away from her, after brushing another light kiss over her lips. It seemed like an eternity had gone past since the kiss first started, but in reality it had only been a minute. One heavenly, 'drug'-induced, passionate minute.

"Found the fuse box yet?" Daniel's voice brought her back to reality, and she shook her head to get the groggy feeling away.

"Nearly," came Jack's voice from the hallway. Her heart shot into her throat. If he was there...Daniel was in the kitchen...and it certainly wasn't Teal'C...

She must have been dreaming. There was no other explanation.

She winced as the lights flickered back on again, punctuated by Jack's triumphant shout. Daniel cursed when he saw the mess he had made, and she stood up, stretched and turned to look at Janet and Teal'C. As she suspected, both had their eyes shut; one in light meditation and the other power napping.

"I'll help, Daniel," she commented, as she walked up the steps into the kitchen and began to clear up his mess. Grinning and grabbing his drink, he swayed slightly and tottered back down into the sitting area, where she knew she would have lost her seat. That would be the last time she would allow him to mix his drinks. Although after years with Jack O'Neill he was slowly becoming more adept at handling his drink, he was still the first to go tipsy.

Just as she put the carton in the bin and wrung out the cloth in the sink, she felt a warm presence behind her. She froze, not trusting herself to move.

"It was you," she murmured, wondering if his first reply would be 'what the hell?' and if she would have to spend the rest of the evening explaining a very vivid dream to her teammates.

"You forgot about my Special Ops."

Ah. Stealth. Of course. How could she have forgotten that?

His hand brushed lightly across her waist and she shivered at the contact, before she felt him move away, his voice ringing out as he bounced down the steps to the sitting area. "I'm guessing we'll have a full blackout within an hour or so."

As she settled down into the comfy chair by Teal'C, she found herself musing over what happened earlier, trying desperately to convince herself it wasn't a dream. Emotions were warring within her, and she didn't think it was anything that was going to get resolved any time soon.

She glanced up and caught Jack's gaze on her. He was smirking at her?

A smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, and she looked back down to her glass, attempting to hide the blush that rose in her cheeks. Daniel and Janet were oblivious to anything at that moment apart from each other, and Teal'C was still kel'no'reeming.

If that's what he did during a power cut, she couldn't wait to find out what he would do during a full blackout.

Author's Note: Woah. Random. Review. Please. Want any more? I'm quite happy to write one more chapter.