The Academy Life of Sam Carter
Cinderella2122
Chapter 2
A/N: Sorry this has taken so long but I had school work and stuff to do. The first half of year 11 is brutal. Well, here is the long awaited chapter 2! SORRY BOUT THE MIX UP IN NAMES THIS JONAS WAS ORIGINALLY PETE!
Sam sat in her astrophysics lecture doodling on her page. She had already learnt all of the information their 'teacher' was trying to teach them. She was no artist that was for sure, she was just drawing swirls around her neat words that read 'astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of stellar phenomena'. There was the odd star around it, but mostly just swirls.
By the end of the lesson she had completely tuned out and covered the page with swirls in the several different colored pens she had in her small pencil case. It was Friday and she just wanted to get back to her dorm and change before Jack got there. As soon as the other students in the class started to stand she was down the stairs and out the door. It took her three minutes to reach her dorm instead of the usual five. She already had her clothes ironed and laid out on the bed. So she jumped into the shower quickly washing off the boringly long day, before getting out and blow drying her short hair. She wrapped her towel around herself and quickly applied some light make-up. She pulled on a pair of dark blue, low rise, wide leg jeans, and a tight black 'Coraline' shirt. Just as she was slipping on her purple converse sneakers the door swung open.
"Look who I found," Kat smiled as she pulled Jack into the room. "He said something about a date you two have? I thought you weren't dating my brother?" Sam flushed and turned bright red.
"It's not a date, it's coffee. So Jack, are you ready to go? Kat, you are quite welcome to join us." Sam smiled as Jack's eyes went wide.
"But you wouldn't like it! We will just be talking about the old times that we stalked each other but never actually spoke," he smiled again and took Sam by the elbow. "See ya later, Kitty-Kat."
Sam grabbed her hand bag as he pulled her out the room. Janet was walking down the hall at the same time.
"Hey Jan, this is Kat's brother Jack. He's here for coffee. Jack, this is a really good friend of mine and Kathryn's, Janet Fraser." Janet had been told all about the night at Jack's place by Kat, and so she smirked at them.
"Hi Jack, nice to meet you." They exchanged pleasantries before Janet excused herself to go hang out with Kat.
Jack lead her to his green truck and they drove to a near by coffee shop, where they settled into a corner booth, with their coffee's and cake. "So you're not a chocolate girl?" Sam smiled down at her slice of caramel mud cake.
"I am. I just really like the caramel mud cake here. I found this place about two days after I moved here and I dunno, I come here at least three times a week and have a cappuccino with an extra shot and a slice of this cake." Jack smiled.
"You wanna try this?" he asked, pointing his fork down at his marble mud cake. She nodded softly and he loaded his fork with the smooth gooey cake and lifted it to her lips. She opened her mouth slowly and sucked the cake off the fork. They kept their eye contact the whole time this little manoeuvre was taking place. She moaned slightly as the taste of chocolate swirled around her mouth. "Wow, that's good cake."
The rest of their 'not-a-date' went very well and after their coffee and cake they went for a walk to get rid of some of the calories they had just consumed.
***
Several months later they sat in 'their' booth in the diner. They came here at least twice a week for coffee and cake now.
They sat in a comfortable silence, smiling at each other and not breaking eye contact when someone spoke.
"Samantha Carter is that you?" The moment was broken by a voice Sam knew very well. "It is you, Sammy!"
"Jonas," she groaned. He was not someone she wanted to see again, especially not right now. "What are you doing here?"
"I was just getting a cup of coffee. Wow, I haven't seen you in ages!" He pushed her over slightly on the chair as he slid in next to her.
"Yeah, Jonas, it's been a while, but I'm kind of in the middle of something." It was then that Jonas noticed Jack.
"Oh, Sam who's your, ah, friend?" He looked Jack up and down.
"Jonas, this is Jack O'Neill. Jack, Jonas Hansen (I'm sorry for the mix up there this was originally Pete but my BETA thought it was more of a Jonas character, So sorry bout the mix up what can I say I am human… I think?), a friend of my brothers." Jack held out his hand to Jonas who just ignored it.
"Right, you're a little old aren't you? What do you do?"
Sam looked at him. "That was really rude, Jonas!"
"I am a captain in the Air force. What do you do Jonas?" Sam was staring down at her cake.
"I'm a cop. You mean Sammy hasn't told you about me? Sammy, I'm surprised. I am your boyfriend!"
"Ex-boyfriend," Sam growled, "Jonas, we broke up six months ago. You have got to let this go!"
"Sammy, I don't see that as a breakup - more of a recess." Sam was getting angry just with his presence.
"Jonas just go away, I don't want to see you again!"
"Come on Sammy, don't be like that." He touched her thigh and she pulled his hand away sharply, bending his fingers right back. "Don't touch me, Jonas!"
"Look Jonas, I think you should go. Sam doesn't seem to want you around," Jack told Jonas. He stood and motioned for the man to leave.
"I don't want to leave. I think you should leave. Sammy and I have things to talk about."
"She has made it clear she wants you to leave, now you should go," Jack stood over the man looking down at him. "She asked you to leave, and if I hear anything about you even coming near Sam again, we will have a problem. You got that, Jonas?"
Jonas left rather quickly after that. They sat in silence for a few moments. "How long has he been harassing you?" She diverted her eyes, playing with her fingers. "Sam?"
"A couple weeks. He's been calling me, sending me text messages." They sat there for another few moments in silence. "He was a friend of my brothers, a couple of years older than me. He asked me to the prom. I was only a sophomore at the time, but he sounded so desperate, that I went with him."
"You don't have to explain it to me, I don't think anything of it," Jack said, but Sam continued anyway.
"It was fun, the cheer leaders talked to me, that I didn't really understand. Pete was on the football team, it was the only reason he was popular. The other guys on the team thought he was an idiot. We dated for a couple months, then he graduated, and I started my junior year. We hardly saw each other, but when we did he made me feel special, so we kept dating although he was always trying subtly to talk me out of applying for the academy. We had a big fight about half way through senior year. He proposed. I told him 'I'm only seventeen and I didn't want to get tied down yet.' He got mad, told me I had to marry him, and that I wasn't allowed to join the academy."
She paused, took a deep breathe then continued, "I asked him how he was going to stop me? Said I'd already applied and that my dad was good mates with the guy in charge. He knew I was coming. That was when he hit me."
Jacks fists clenched at the last statement. "It was his only opportunity, because I hit him back hard and broke his nose. Two days later I got a call from Jonas's boss telling me my brother had been arrested for assaulting a police officer. Mark did a bit of damage too. I hadn't spoken to Mark for three weeks before that. Since he had moved out, he refused to talk to me, because I applied for the academy. Apparently someone at school heard about it and told his girlfriend."
She wiped a tear away from her face. "He won't talk to me but, he'll beat up someone for me." Jack stood from his seat and slid in next to her, holding her against him.
"That's because he is your brother and he loves you. No matter what you do, you will always be his baby sister and you can never do anything to make him forget that." She looked up into his deep brown eyes.
"How do you know that?" she whispered softly.
"Because I have a baby sister. I could kill Kat sometimes! She drives me insane, but she will always be my baby sister. No matter how old she gets, no matter what she does, I will always think of her as my baby sister, and I will always love her. Just don't tell her I told you that." They both laughed softly.
"You feel better?" She nodded, not breaking their eye contact. Neither were sure who made the first move, but before they knew it, their lips touched softly. Jack hesitated for a moment, but Sam pressed her lips harder onto his. They stayed like that, lips moving softly against each others for what felt like hours, before they hesitantly pulled away.
"Wow," was the first thing Sam said. Her mind was still a puddle of mush and she couldn't think straight. "Yeah, wow!"
***
Jack drove her back to the academy, and walked her to the door. "So can I tell Kat? I mean, I know she's your sister and all, but she's my friend and I kind of like talking to her. I didn't really have friends like that at school."
"You can tell her if you like or we could tell her together," Sam smiled at him and they lent in to kiss when the door swung open.
"Ha, I knew it!" Kat squealed in delight as her brother and friend stood with their faces merely centimetres apart. "Ok, let me get out one thing, 'EW he's my brother how could you like him EW!'" She tried to look disgusted, but she was too happy for them.
Kat invited Janet around for a girls night and they sat around talking, mostly about Sam and Jack. Sam tried to steer them off the subject but they wouldn't bite.
A/N: I am sorry to say that i will be unable to upload for a while as i am in the middle of school production, have a major English speach due in two days (review and tell me if you can help write a speach on satire, aimed at 15-16 year olds) & then i am going on holidays to visit family over the other side of Australia for two weeks home for three days (one of which is my seventeenth birthday YAY) then off to school snow trip! Very little time to write :( But i will try and update soon after this next 4 weeks.
Lot's of Love
Jenn
