Author Note: Hope you guys enjoy this chapter and plz review, so I know what you think. Sadly I can't read mind through the computer =). Also I have to thank Ikhoward88 who beta read this chapter, thanks! This chapter may be a little slow but thing should pick up more in Chapter 3.

Sam joined the guys at the table, hoping her face wasn't too red, or at least that it was masked by her sunburn. Digging into her food she tired to ignore the knots in her stomach, as her eyes keep wandering over to stare at Jack sitting across the table from her. He seemed un-affect as always. Sam wish she could do the same even though she guess it was all an illusion and that he was just as conflicted about the whole event as she was. At least she hoped so.

He was talking about tomorrow's trip and Daniel was trying to join in on the small talk, but his eyes keep drifting between the two as if waiting for either to do something. Teal'c on the other hand merely ate quietly a smirk barely visible on his face. Jack was acting as if nothing had happened. Then again nothing had but then why had Jack made that comment at the end. Had he wanted something more to happened, even if it costed them their careers? They both knew about each other's feeling thanks to the Za'tarc incident. Still it hadn't changed anything.

Forcing herself to stop staring at Jack who had caught her watching him several times; she focused on her uneaten chicken. A part of her was so excited at Jack's last comment, he still felt the same way she did. He still had feeling for her, and she had started to wonder.

God, this wasn't fair! Why did Jack have to bring up her old feeling again? Why couldn't there be -anything- at all that would force them to return to the SG Command so everyone could forgot about the whole thing, so Jack and her could go back to ignoring their feelings?

Here, it was just too hard, to pretend nothing existed. There was no sense of a threat of getting caught or the price they would pay if they gave in. Even more bothersome was the fact she knew Teal'c and Daniel wouldn't snitch them out, making it just that much harder to stop herself.

Unable to take it anymore and having lost her appetite she quickly rose from the table saying, "I'm going to take a shower," before fleeing from the room. Entering her room, Carter could escape the guys but not the rising anxiety at having to spend another hour with the Colonel let alone two days.

She wanted him, yet she couldn't have him, not without the chance of ending both their careers, something Carter wasn't willing to do. Grabbing a set of clean clothes she headed to the shower hoping it would help relax her. Entering the small bathroom which consisted of a tub combined with a shower she pulled out a towel as the water warmed. Undressing she let the warm, soothing water loosen her tense muscles. Part of her was loving the trip, it remind her that Jack still felt the same way she did, yet another part of her was dreading it. She couldn't escape the nagging feeling that SG-1 luck would catch up and somehow this trip was going to end in a disastrous event. What was she going to do?

Meanwhile in the living room, Jack was thinking that it was safe to assume Sam still had feeling for him, by the way she keep checking him out at table like a teenage school girl. Sitting on the couch, O'Neill fought the images that keep rising into his mind of Carter. Images that weren't exactly acceptable, yet they kept coming no matter how much he wished them to go away. They weren't helping things. Why did Sam have to be so damn hot? It wasn't helping that he could hear the shower which made new images jump into his head.

What had he been thinking, telling her that stupid corny line? It was the worst hit line he ever pitched to a woman, let alone Sam. Why did she make it so hard to be a good soldier? She was his subordinate, yet that didn't matter, not anymore. They had become more then that and Jack wanted her to be more then what she was now. Whether the damn rules said so or not. The question was if he would chance throwing it all away, would she?

Neither of them wanted to leave the military and both loved their jobs, well most of the time. Could either of them give it up? Did they dare try to hide it? Hammond would figure it out sooner or later but would he out them? All these crazy question keep racing through his head driving him insane. Time slowly passed and Jack even tried to fix the TV which wasn't working to get his mind a distraction.

"You guys can save the galaxy and walk into the heart of a goa'uld stronghold but you can't fix a TV, now that's irony." Jack turned, glancing at Sam who was leaning on the couch with a big smile. In a simple t-shirt and jeans, her hair still wet from the shower she still looked good.

"How about you give it a try, seeing you're the brains of the operation?" Daniel moved away as Sam walked over examining it for about a minute before answering. "I'm sorry to tell you guys but I think the cable bill wasn't paid. Or something broke."

"That's great now what are we supposed to do all night? " Daniel groaned, flopping on the couch and looking rather bored.

"We could enjoy each others wonderful company?" Jack remarked as he went to the refrigerator. "Anyone want a beer?"

"Why not?"

"Sure."

"Yes."

The group made there way out on to the deck, enjoying the warm summer night. Jack handed out the beers, leaving Sam for last.

"Thanks." she gave him a quick smile as she took the beer and he took a seat in the chair next to her propping his feet on the deck rail.

A few stars were beginning to appear in the darkening sky and the breeze blew up from the lake. Jack started up some conversation, and it wasn't long before everyone was enjoying themselves. Jack realize that even through they spent so much time together they never really just sat around and bullshit, probably because they were always too busy saving the planet or their lives. And if they were at home they were busy at work on their own tasks, well at least Carter and Daniel were. The conversation they were in was interrupted by Daniel's, phone going off. He slip it out and glance at the phone for a little bit.

"Wow looks ancient." his eyes straining to look at a picture on his cell phone. He quickly got up heading back inside without another word. "Ah, I'm going to," he state poking his head back outside.

"Go ahead, but you not getting out fishing. Not even if that thing can help stop every enemy we have including the Goa'uld and no I stay up too late excuses either," Jack worry a smirked as Daniel vanished into the house. There was a slightly too long pause as they all just sat there. Jack watched Carter who seemed distant, watching the stars over head.

"I will retire as well." Teal'c gave each of them a slight bow as he rose, heading inside the cabins, and leaving the two alone.

"Nice night" Carter didn't look at him.

"Yep." His eyes were still watching Carter, in the dim light. He didn't want to deny his feelings anymore, even if meant trouble.

"It's kind of peaceful." She added, her beautiful eyes returning to him.

"Kind of take the mystery out of them."

"Mystery out of what?" she gave him a puzzled look.

"The stars, the fact we have been to dozens of them and know what's out there. It sort of steals the mystery they once held."

"Actual we have only been to a fraction and many of those aren't visible form earth. Beside think of all the things we haven't found." Jack could only let a laugh escape his mouth. Carter was alright. Always the scientist to the very end.

"What?"

"Nothing, I still like them better when the alien were only in Hollywood scripts." When they weren't trying to kill you and everyone dear to you, Jack thought sharply.

"Can't say I disagree." Her eyes returned to the stars, a peaceful yet a thoughtful look covering her serene face. Jack wondered what was going through her head.

As he continued to watch her, he made up his mind. He vowed, he was going to give in to temptation before it was too late.

Carter on the other side still viewing the star vowed that she would not give into temptation for both their sake.

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