A drabble that's been wandering my mind for the last few day's
Sam sat in the commissary. It was almost empty now. She had been sitting here for god knows how long. Lately things at the SGC have been different, with Colonel O'Neill being promoted to general and her leading SG-1.
She grabbed a blue Jello before the mess hall workers retired for the night, she stayed in the booth in the far corner.
She heard the door open and looked up.
"General." Sam went to stand up at the sign of her CO.
"Carter how many times do i have to tell you?" Jack asked more then stated.
"Yes sir." Sam said and sat back down.
Jack browsed through the dessert window.
"Ohhh cake!" Jack exclaimed with childlike glee and grabbed the chocolate chocolate cake, he sat across from Sam.
"Sir?" she questioned.
"Don't mind me. So why do you like blue jello so much?" he asked.
"Why do you like cake so much?" Sam countered.
"Fair enough carter." Jack said grabbing a spoonful of his cake and eating it, but not answering..
"Ah and now its awkward." Jack said. Sam went to get up and leave.
"Its okay I need to get back to my lab any way." Sam said. Jack grabbed her arm softly.
"Sit down, I need to talk to you about something."
"Uh... what sir?"
"First of all, drop the sir, when I took this command I made a deal with the president."
"What kind of deal sir... uh..."
"I'm sure your aware of the regulations... of course you are."
"What are you saying?" Sam asked looking into Jack's eyes. He brought his hand onto hers.
"I told them the only way I would take this job is if they would give you and myself a pardon from the regulations."
Sam looked shocked.
"Wh... why?" Sam asked.
"Because Samantha I love you and I didn't want to loose you."
"I... you love me? Why'd you wait so long to tell me about this?" Sam asked, she was still very shocked by all this new information.
"Because I chickened out but after this latest mission. I thought Baal had captured you, I knew I couldn't wait any longer. Can you tell me you at least feel the same way about me?" Jack quite nearly pleaded with Sam looking at her with wide brown eyes.
"I... of course I love you too Jack but they did give the pardon, right?"
"Yep, so if your willing to give us a try, we can do so without the dire threat of court martial."
"That's great. So Friday my place?" Sam asked with a flirtatious edge to her voice.
"Of course and the president would like us over for dinner in two weeks." Jack said smiling at his new pronounced love.
"Really?" Sam said her face all smiles .
"Ya sure you betch ya."
"And to answer your original question, it reminds me of the stargate and how it's changed my life." Sam said. They had so much to look forward to in the future and they would make the best of it.