Cassie's Wedding

Disclaimer: not mine… sadly.

Cassie entered the reception hall, her arm linked with her new husbands. She squinted her eyes as she adjusted to the blinding brightness of the spotlight. As soon as she could see again she scanned the room and finally spotted them. Sam, Jack, Daniel and Teal'c, the original SG-1 team and the closet thing she'd ever have to a family. Along with them were General Hammond and the 2 newest members of SG-1, Vala Mal Doran and Colonel Cam Mitchell. They were all beaming at her and she beamed back, this really was one of the happiest days of her life.

As the party progressed, she and her husband, Dominic, made the rounds saving the SG team for last. She finally reached them and immediately pulled Sam into a bone-crushing hug then Jack and hugging him while he kissed her cheek, turning and doing the same to Daniel and Teal'c. She even hugged General Hammond who smiled at her, Cassie greeted Cam and Vala a little more hesitantly, she didn't know them like she knew the others, but she had wanted them here all the same.

"Cassie you look beautiful!" Sam said, practically shouting so as to be heard over the music while Jack, Daniel and Teal'c pulled over Dominic and began threatening him with the same threats he had heard since he and Cassie had started dating. Even though he had heard them a thousand times before he was still terrified of the three men. Cassie twirled showing off her dress, when she came full circle and stopped, she looked at the colonel for the first time that night.

"And you're not so bad yourself Sam," she said with a smile. She had forbidden military wear of any kind. "Not even the shoes Jack!" she remembered saying to a disappointed general. She looked the military officer up and down, she did in fact look quite stunning. Her knee length black dress that hugged her body perfectly, the spaghetti straps hanging loosely on her shoulders that she could swear she saw Jack looking at out of the corner of his eye, though he denied everything. The two girls began talking until Cassie noticed her husband looking particularly terrified. She walked over linking her arm with Dominic's and glaring at the three men. She laughed at the innocent looks the donned.

Music began to play in the background and she heard the DJ announce that it was time for her "father"- daughter dance. Seeing as Cassie had no father on earth she grabbed Jack's hand and led him onto the dance floor. She remembered back to when she had asked him to do this for her. It was right after she told them all that she was engaged.

He was there with the rest of them his happy expression just slightly off with the sadness that his Cassie really was all grown up now. She had already told Sam what she planned to do and she thought it was a great idea.

"So… Jack," she said, he looked up when she said his name, their eyes met for a second before Cassie let hers fall to the floor, "Would you… um… would you like to give me away?" She looked up after she finished the question. She smiled at the look on his face. He was blushing, actually blushing, and his jaw hung open in shock, though his lips slowly formed a smile as he settled into the idea.

"I'd love to Cassie," he said and she let out a breath she didn't know she was holding. Everyone was silent for a few moments just happy that Cassie was happy. Then he said, "But do I have to give you away to him?" he asked sounding slightly hopeful, "Can't I just keep you, where no boy can ever touch you?" She took off her shoe and threw it at his head; he dodged it and pulled her into a hug instead.

She smiled at the memory as Jack pulled her to him gracefully, one hand on her waist the other in her hand. He smiled at her and she was happy she had chosen him to do this. He began to twirl her around on the floor while everyone watched.

"You look beautiful Cassie," he said, in the way a father would say to a daughter.

"And look at you, you handsome devil," she replied looking down at his black suit, very proud of her no military wear condition.

"You're quite a good dancer, Jack," she said and he smiled a little twirling her around on the spot. As he pulled her back to him she glanced over at her husband and smiled; Jack followed her gaze and smiled too.

"He's still scared of me," he said proudly. She looked back up at Jack and shook her head.

"You shouldn't torture him like that, he hasn't done anything wrong," she said

"Yet!" Jack growled.

Her smile grew, "You have plenty of people at the pentagon to scare."

"But that's no fun, Cass," whined at her, jutting out his lower lip just a little. She laughed at the look and he smiled at her laugh.

"Listen Jack, I love Dom and he loves me. He'd never do anything to hurt me and you know it," she said ending the joking argument there.

"I know, I know," he said sounding defeated.

"Speaking of love," she began in a tone she used for plotting. He immediately became suspicious and narrowed his eyes at her though they didn't miss a step. "If you don't ask Sam to dance soon I'm gonna find a way to get you court-marshaled," she said.

He sighed, he had seen this coming. She knew his feelings for the blonde scientist, how she knew he never found out, but she knew. She also knew about the regulations though. "Dancing with her could get me court-marshaled," he said sadly.

She rolled her eyes at him, "Jack, what is your current job?"

His eyes widened in shock, he hadn't been expecting this. "Uh… pretty much paper work for the Pentagon." He said thoroughly befuddled.

"And do you really care about this job?" she asked, her tone suggesting that she already knew the answer. Now he saw where she was going with this. He thought about the item in his coat pocket as he swirled Cassie around the floor. He wouldn't tell Cassie just in case he chickened out, but he knew it was there and his thoughts revolved around it as he answered her question.

"Yes, I live for the thrill. There's a constant threat of paper cuts and ink stains, it's practically a war zone," he replied his voice dripping with sarcasm as they continued to spin around the floor, hundreds of eyes on them with no idea what they were talking about and how pivotal it was, pivotal to the two dancing anyways.

Her smile grew, "And Sam, do you care about her?"

"What do you think Cass?" he responded, glancing at the blond in her seat. He could tell she was crying, but so were most of the girls in the room, even Vala looked a bit teary.

"Okay, so here's a suggestion…" she said as he twirled her one last time and the song came to an end. She leaned up, her heels leaving the ground so that her lips were next to his ear, "Prioritize," she whispered, as the cheers began. She kissed his cheek, really hoping he would piece this together. He stood frozen in the center of the floor watching her walk away, Dominic meeting her half way. Clinks rang out as people brought their knives and spoons to their glasses, asking the couple to kiss. They gladly complied, watching them kiss like that; he couldn't keep his thoughts away from Carter and how much he would love to kiss her that way. Hell, just to kiss her could be nice.

He knew what she was getting at, how could he not. He had thought about the possibility of retiring who-knows how many times. He already had the letter written up, undated and unsigned, hidden away. He glanced toward the woman in question. She looked amazing, when she had walked out in that dress his jaw nearly hit the floor and he stammered for about five minutes before being able to form coherent sentences in her presence. Her spaghetti straps were dangling on her shoulders, the curvy neck dipping just low enough to drive him wild, the dress itself was alright, but on her it looked a million dollars. His eyes looked over her, following every curve that the perfect dress accentuated all along her body, reaching her heels he worked his way back up. She looked up, feeling his gaze, thankfully he was back on her face by then, and she smiled.

A beautiful, dazzling smile that made Jack's old knees grow weak. He loved that smile; he would do anything for her if all she did was grace him with that gorgeous smile, his smile. At that moment he made up his mind and he grinned at her. A smile that he always saved, just for her, a smile that made her stomach fill with butterflies. He began to walk over both beaming, but not before he threw a look at Cassie whose face clearly said, 'Finally.'

Watching Jack head toward Sam made Cassie smirk, she was winning the battle; she was finally, finally going to get those two together. She turned her gaze to the rest of her make shift family. She saw Vala waving a hand at a slightly delirious Sam, Cam telling a story to Teal'c who merely smiled and George who was laughing, and then there was Daniel. She looked at Daniel and that's when she saw it, that look you get when you're in love. The head-over-heels, I'm in deep trouble kind of love, the love that she had with Dom and Sam had with Jack. She curiously followed his gaze across the table to a one Vala Mal Doran.

Another smile lit up her face, a plan already forming in her head and she flew over there as fast as her dress would allow. She walked over to the men and tapped Teal'c on the shoulder bringing him out of his conversation with Cam and George, "Excuse me sirs, but do you think I could borrow Teal'c for a minute?" The men both smiled and nodded and continued their previous conversation while Cassie dragged the jaffa away from the table and out of ear shot. The burly man merely raised an eye brow, wondering what Cassie was up to now.

"So, I was just looking at Daniel and I saw him gazing at Vala looking a bit like a love sick puppy," she started, she figured why not get straight to the point. Teal'c smiled and she took this as a good sign, "If I happened to look at Vala might I see the same picture?" she asked, hopefully.

"Indeed," came the deep-voiced answer.

"Good…" and the plotting tone was back in her voice.

"…and so then he said… Sam? Sam are you still with me?" Vala had been talking to Sam, had being the operative word. She was a little peeved that her best friend would just stop listening to her mid- juicy gossip story. Sam's head was turned away and she was smiling a vibrant smile that Vala had never seen on her before. She leaned over and followed her gaze across the dance floor, she smiled, she should have known, Jack.

He was beaming at her like a goofy teenager in love. She looked away to give them their moment together. She glanced around at her friends, she watched Cassie walk over and pull Teal'c away but she continued to scan the table. Cam and General Hammond were talking and they were getting boring to look at fast, she figured she could chance a look at him now. She looked over to Daniel Jackson and found that he had been staring at her. They locked eyes and held for a second before both looked away in embarrassment. It had been like this for a while now, all the uncomfortable tension between them. She wondered what had shifted that finally put them over that line. He turned and joined the conversation with Cam and the General but kept shooting glances her way. She figured she had given the two love birds time enough to be alone and turned back to them to save herself from looking at the man across the table.

A/N: so this is my first non-one shot, it was going to be a one shot but was just getting too long. so now it will be a bit longer.

lemme know what you think, please *shamelessly points to review button*