"Go away." She yelled to whoever was ringing her doorbell. She dragged herself off the couch where she had been napping and over to the front door. She opened it just a little and when she saw who it was she closed it right away.

"Come on, I brought flowers"

"Go away." She yelled through the door.

"Can I please have a chance to explain?"

"No."

"Carter, let me in. That's an order." He heard the door unlock. "That actually worked?" He asked himself.

"What do you want?" She asked opening the door and looking at him.

"I brought you these." He handed her the flowers.

She looked at the bouquet of red roses in his hand. "I don't want them."

"Well can I at least come in?" She looked at him not sure if she really wanted to let him in. "Please?"

"Fine." she opened the door wider.

"For starters, I'm sorry. I should have told you I had a girlfriend."

"Ya think?" she asked in a very O'Neill like manor making herself think that she spends way too much time with him.

"But can you look at it from my perspective?"

"You didn't tell me you had a girlfriend and you let me sleep with you."

"I got caught up in the moment."

"You had a girlfriend!"

"I know but being with you, standing that close to you I forgot where I was or when I was, being that close to you brought back all those years of sexual tension and all those feelings and I knew now that I'm retired I could finally act on them." He stared at the ground not wanting to look at her. "And I'm sorry I should have told you, but things happened so fast I didn't know when."

"I never thought I'd be the other woman." She said. "You know I've been cheated on before, more than once, and every time I came home to see my boyfriend in bed with another woman I swore I'd never do something like that anyone. And then yesterday, when that woman came in…" Sam was fighting back tears and didn't know what more to say.

"I'm sorry." He said again. "I didn't mean to do that to you."

"You didn't know." she said calming down a little and starting to think maybe she could forgive him.

After a second Jack said, "You know I can't really get over the fact someone would cheat on you." He half smiled and looked at her.

"Yeah well apparently I'm emotionally closed off."Sam shrugged then remembered how angry she was, "But that's not what we're supposed to be talking about right now." She shook her head thinking about how no matter how mad she is at him he could always find some way to make her forget about it and that made her even angrier.

Jack took a deep breath then blew out some air and nervously asked, "What do you want to do?" He knew he might have blown his only chance with the woman he's in love with and he knew he probably didn't want to hear her response.

"I…" she said angrily then sighed, "I don't know."

"That can't be a good sign, Colonel Samantha Carter not having a plan."

"This is serious."

"I know." He said looking at his feet again still thinking about the very likely possibility of losing her forever.

"I'm just so conflicted. On one hand I'm so angry you didn't tell me you were seeing someone and I'm angry at myself for hurting that woman like that, and I'm disgusted in myself for being the other woman. But on the other hand I don't want to lose you." Her eyes started tearing up at just the thought of losing him.

"I don't want to lose you either." He said looking at her. "Maybe we can have a do-over pretend this never happened."

"I don't think I can do that, sir. I don't think I can pretend this never happened."

"What are you saying?" Jack asked not really wanting to know the answer.

"I'm saying…." She took a deep breath trying not to show how upset she truly was. "I don't think I can do this"

"And by this you mean…?" He asked slowly already knowing what she was going to say.

"Us." She bit her lip "I think you should go."

"I understand." He stood up. "So I'll see you around." He said awkwardly.

She shook her head. "No you won't." She stood up too. "I don't think we should see each other anymore, at all, ever."

"What about when-"

"Never." She said. Reading the disappointment on his face she added, "I'm sorry, but the only way for me to move on from this, and you, is to never see you again."

"Yes I made a mistake but I don't think it should ruin our friendship permanently."

"You don't get it, do you? What I did-what we did, I don't just do that with anyone. You know that right? I have real feelings for you, but after what happened, I don't want to." She paused not sure what else to say. "I'm sorry." She said again. "But I need to try and move on without you."

"I understand. And if you change your mind you know where to find me."

"I won't." She said.

He nodded and slowly walked towards the door. When he reached the door he turned to her and said, "Goodbye, Sam."

"Goodbye… Sir." And with that he walked out of her life.

The end (JK)

A/N: Don't worry, I'm kidding that's not the end. I would never end a story like that, more to come soon. What do you think so far?