Title: Observant - Part 1
Author: Jemma
Story Status: In progress
Series/Sequel Info: Part 1/6
Season: Six
Spoilers: Little tiny one for Descent
Categories: Humour, little bit of Romance
Pairings: Sam/Jack
Rating: K
Content Warnings: Very mild swear word
Summary: Jonas brings to light Sam and Jacks little, ahem, situation.
Archive Permissions: Please ask.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters relating to Stargate. They belong to MGM and any of their associates. I'm just playing around with them for a little while!
Authors Note: Only my second fic, and I haven't seen S6 yet, so...be gentle!!! I've just decided to make this into a series. Hope you enjoy!!!!

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As we stroll down the corridor towards the infirmary for our mission check up, I'm wishing that I was here with anyone else but Jonas.
I don't mind Carter and Teal'c of course, but I still haven't taken to the idea of Jonas being part of the team.
There's just something about Jonas that makes me want to bop him one.

It's probably the fact that his race is responsible for Daniel's 'disappearance'. I know it seems trivial, cause deep down I know Jonas is probably an OK kind of guy, but there's a part of me that's never gonna forget what happened and blame Jonas for it.

We arrive at the infirmary all too quickly for my liking and I tell Carter and Teal'c to go first for the obligatory needle in the butt treatment.

So, I sit there on one of the infirmary beds, and Jonas sits opposite me. He never stops looking around at stuff. The other patients, the instruments, the floor, the ceiling, the other nurses...yes...I've seen him.

I'm caught looking as he turns his observant little eyes on me. I give him as good a smile as I can, knowing the guys trying his best and that I should too. Then come actual words.

"So, Colonel, what time is the de-briefing?"
Come on Jack, get brain in gear, its not like he's never spoken two words to you.
"Ahh, 1900 hours," is my quick reply before I avert my gaze to the floor and fiddle with a dohickey I found on the top next to the bed.

Just then Carter strolls to us from behind the curtain. God I've never been so happy to see her, and it must have shown to cause I feel my face muscles straining where I'm smiling so much, and I haven't done that in a while. I stand up and drop the dohickey on the bed.

"Hey Carter, have fun?"
"As always sir," she answers in the tone that lets me know she's being a little bit Jack O'Neill. God I love this woman. Ahh, wait, I really shouldn't say that, in my head or aloud.

I don't really know how long we stood there grinning at each other, but it must have been a while because Doc had to come out and get me.

"Colonel, your up."
The words just about get through to my brain, and I give her a quick, what I hoped to be an un-noticeable wink and walk round her to where the Doc is standing.

"Do your worst Doc," I quip before I'm practically shoved behind the curtain.

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My god, he winked at me. He hasn't done that for years. As he walks past me I feel myself shiver just slightly, holding his gaze until he is out of view.

I mentally shake myself and go and reoccupy the place he was sitting, deciding to wait for the rest of the team before going to the de-briefing.

"Hey," I say to Jonas.
"Hey Sam. You examination went well?"
"Yeah, Janet gave me the all clear, even thought I'm sure I've got 50 pints of ocean swimming around inside me."

He doesn't really seem to know what to say to that, so instead he says something else totally unexpected.

"You were afraid for him weren't you?"
"Huh?" is the only syllable that manages to leave my mouth at that point.
"The Colonel. When you guys were trapped. You were scared for him," he repeats.

OK, engage brain, process words, meaning of the words if they are true. Oh my god.
"I was worried for both of us, and everyone else," I answer in what I can only hope is a neutral tone of voice.
"I don't doubt that, but there was something more."
"Jonas, how can you say that, you weren't even there."
"It doesn't take someone to have known you years to know how you two feel. I have been watching you over the past few months. Today's events just confirmed things for me. He always goes to you for advice, explanations, he values you above all others."

OK, what the hell do I say to that? From the tone in his voice, he knows he's right...wait, he's right? Oh god he's right!

"Look, Jonas, the Colonel and I are very good friends, but there's stuff you don't know about."
"Regulations."

OK, maybe stuff you do know about.
"Yes."

At that moment Teal'c comes back from his exam with one of the other nurses.
"Jonas Quinn, your presence is requested in Cubical 5."
"Thank you Teal'c."

Thank god he's leaving. I don't mean that in a bad way, but I don't think I could take an interrogation about mine and the Colonels love situation. Wait...love situation?? Oh crap.

"Remember Sam, the heart knows its destiny," he says quietly to me as he walks away.
What the hell does that mean? My heart knows it wants the Colonel? Well, I knew that.

Speaking of the Colonel, I see him re-emerge from his exam with Janet, and it's quite possible that he heard Jonas obvious cliché. Jonas then walks past him to his exam with that nurse the Colonel claims to have seen him watching a lot...

Teal'c stands near the doorway and the Colonel just stands where he his a few paces away from me. I'm snapped out of my thoughts by him speaking to me.

"What was with the alien cliché? What was it...the heart knows what it wants kinda thing?"
Damn it! Why did he have to hear?
"Don't worry about it Sir. Jonas was just being...observant."

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15/07/2002