Part 3 (Most Likely To…)

Oh please don't this be an awkward game… please please please.

"So our first game will be the superlative game. I'll explain to you how it goes: Well each one will write five superlative sentences on the superlative blog I've opened on our intranet. Well, yeah I know a thing or two about computers! So as I said, you'll fill them in as in the example posted. Then the voting will begin. you'll choose from the attendee sheet who most likely fits the sentence. Then I'll read the answers out loud and it will hopefully be much fun. So see you up here 30 mins"

Oh boy! This will so not end well!

I mean this is a disaster waiting to happen

….

"Ok moment of truth!"

Oh god! This won't be good.

This just keeps getting better.

Of course he had to come stand next to me for the announcements.

With his beaming and grinning.

I mean sure I like the company. I like being near him.

I love being near him.

But this will be just too awkward.

My ideas were interrupted with the announcement of one of the superlatives

Most likely to get married:

"Dum Dum Dum and the happy couple is…." general Landry takes a peek inside the results pane and his face turns considerably

"Ahem, the couple is…"

Oh boy!

"…General O'Neill and Colonel Carter!"

I think I'm gonna be sick. I hope it's not showing on my face.

The whole room is looking in our direction, so imagine their faces when they find us standing next to each other, a mere 2 inches preventing our bodies from touching.

Jack is standing the dumbstruck. I can see he's thinking of some joke to get us out of the situation but as always when faced with something similar, he fails miserably.

He just grins childishly and looks around him innocently as if nothing had been said.

I follow his lead. That's the only thing I now how to do: follow his lead.

Landry catches the tension and jumps to the next sentence on the list

"So most likely to…."

The game goes on for another 30 min or so.

But it sure as hell continues without us.

I'm certain that neither of us listened to any other word spoken after that.

There was lots of cheering and laughing but it was as though we were looking at it from the outside.

We were in our own universe.

Lost in a silent conversation.

Lost with our language, our way of communication.

Eye Contact.

The looks exchanged were of deep meaning.

We both knew how we felt.

I mean I knew how I felt.

I wasn't sure about him though.

But the way he looked at me, it assured me.

His eyes told me all I needed to know.

He loved me too.

He hadn't forgotten what we'd left behind in a room 6 years ago.

He still felt the same.

And my eyes assured him I still felt the same too.

We both understood, that being a couple was what we wanted.

We both knew that we still wanted, what we've longed for for years.

But we also knew that it was still complicated.

We both knew that it was too dangerous too sacred to be even spoken in plain words.

We knew we couldn't say it out loud.

We still had to keep to ourselves.

But now we both were assured.

This was not over.

It will never be

….

As if the night couldn't have gotten more awkward the snacks time was kind of a small recap to the game.

"So Jack, how'd you like the game?" Daniel asked acting innocently

"Whaddaya mean Daniel?" Jack was a bit testy, he saw right through his friend's innocence

"Nothing, just asking your opinion. I for one found it hilarious. Teal'c, didn't you enjoy it?"

"Indeed it was most amusing" even Teal'c couldn't hide the smirk on his face

"Jack and Sam were under a tree, K I S S I N G!" Vala came singing and hopping around like a kid

"Oh come on Vala, don't be mean!" Daniel teased as if really wanting Vala to stop.

"Oh well hallo, sir. Enjoyed the game?" Cam came also putting up the innocent face. Boy was he gonna get it. Jack is surely gonna just stare him down. He's after all the only one around that would be scared enough of him to stop.

"Yes Colonel Mitchell. I did. You got a problem with that?" Jack gave him the whole soldier face

"No sir!" Cam couldn't help but be intimidated by Jack, though he knew he only mean to tease him, which he really did. "I think I'll go get a piece of cake."

Just as Cam was heading toward the buffet Jack stopped him

"The hell you are!"he was trying to sound as serious as possible. We all knew were this was going and were trying to muffle our chuckles as hard as we could. Poor Cam, he really had no idea what was going on.

"No one here will eat cake except of me! You see I have a thing for cake! Chocolate cake. So no cake for you, lots and lots for me! Got it?" Jack was trying to sound as if he was discussing an attack plan not the distribution of cake.

"Aha sir. I'll get you cake then. And I'll get…." Cam looked at Jack questioningly waiting to see what he was allowed to eat

"Tuna."

"Tuna, sir?" Cam tried to convey his disgust.

"Yep."

"But…"

"Tuna."

"Well I guess…"

"I'm kidding , son. Go get whatever the hell you please."

"Ay, ay sir."

"Just lay off the cake!" Jack shouted after him

By then all of us had already failed miserably at containing our laughter.

We were laughing hysterically. Even Teal'c was.

And of course Jack had joined in, enjoying the fruits of his labour.