Interruptions

Chapter Six

It was 0830 when Jack lightly shook Sam awake. "Sam, wake up." He said in her ear.

She groaned.

"No, you can't have five more minutes." Jack said, and he pressed a kiss to her neck. "You have a briefing in half an hour."

Sam groaned again.

Jack's hand, which had been resting on Sam's stomach, began to creep upwards.

Sam wriggled.

Jack grinned, and continued upwards. Surely this will wake her up. Sure enough…

"Ah!" Sam jumped up. She turned and glared at Jack.

He gave an innocent look back. "Ticklish Carter?" Then his eyes wandered up and down Sam's body. He took in the gorgeous long legs and her tossled blond hair.

"Do you have any clue as to how beautiful you are?" He asked.

Sam blushed. "I'm nothing special."

"Oh yes you are." Jack replied. "Extremely intelligent, resourceful, strong, brave." He checked everything off on his fingers. "Did I forget anything? Oh, yes… incredibly sexy!"

Sam laughed. "If you say so."

"Oh I say so, I definitely say so." Jack replied, climbing out of bed and grabbing Sam in a hug. He kissed the top of her head. "And I love you."

Sam grinned into Jack's neck. "I love you too."

Jack leant down and kissed Sam's cheek, then her lips. He then pulled away. "You now have 25 minutes until your briefing." He raised an eyebrow. "Get enough sleep?"

Sam rubbed her eyes. "It'll have to do." She rummaged around for some clean clothes to wear. The she looked over at Jack, who was watching. "You're not going to just… leave… are you?"

"Nope." He replied.

Sam rolled her eyes. "So, you're going to stare at me while I get changed?"

"Well, if you're offering to let me…" Jack gave a suggestive grin.

Sam looked around on the floor until she spotted her bra. She picked it up, laying it on the bed with the shirt she'd pulled from her drawer. Then she went searching for her pants.

"Blue today?" Jack asked. "I miss the green."

Sam chuckled as she pulled the blue pants on. She then paused, trying to decide if she was game enough to take off the tank top in front of Jack.

"Hey." He said. "I'll turn around if you want me too."

Sam smiled at his thoughtfulness. "You don't have too." She said, pulling off the tank top.

Jack's breath hitched as Sam's breasts fell free off the top. This was affecting other parts of his body too, but now was neither the time nor the place.

Sam grinned shyly at Jack's reaction, before sliding the bra straps up her arms and doing the clasp at the back. She then pulled on the black t-shirt she'd retrieved and picked up a hairbrush.

"Man, you've got everything here!" Jack said after he'd stopped staring at Sam.

"Yeah." She replied, braiding her hair. "Everything except contact lenses."

"You wear contacts?" Jack asked.

"Yeah. I hate my glasses, so I wear contacts. Except I don't have any here at the moment." She tied her hair, before picking up her glasses and putting them on. "I'm starting to wish I'd actually bothered to grab my contacts before I left home last night."

"I've never seen you with glasses on before." Jack said. "You look good. Although, you look good no matter what… so…"

Sam punched him lightly on the arm. "Okay. I'm going to see if Jonas is up. Wanna come?"

"Sure, I'd love to see our little alien friend." Jack answered. "And meet this family of his."

"Oh, I forgot! Shaya, that's Jonas' with, and Daniel were both in the infirmary. They were both shot."

"You were attacked?" Jack exclaimed. "And you forgot?"

"I was tired, I needed sleep." Sam replied. "I think it was whoever dropped the bomb."

"That would be a fair guess." Said Jack.

"Shall we go?" Sam asked, crossing the room to the door, and opening it.

They walked down the hall. The airman on duty, the same one whom Jack had tried to get to open Sam's door earlier that morning. He gave them a curious look as they walked past.

Jonas was just leaving his room with Carrisa trailing behind him as Jack and Sam arrived.

"Jonas, I brought you a visitor." Sam said.

Jonas turned, and grinned, just like he used to. "General O'Neill." He stuck out a hand. "It's good to see you again."

Jack shook Jonas' hand. "You too Jonas, sorry about what happened."

Jonas just nodded in reply.

Sam felt something clinging onto her leg, and looked down. "Hello Carrisa." She said to the girl.

Carrisa smiled at her.

"This is Carrisa." Sam said to Jack.

"My daughter." Jonas added.

"So I heard. Congratulations." Jack said.

"Jonas, how's Shaya?" Sam asked as they all began their journey to the briefing room.

"She's doing well." Jonas replied. "Dr Lam is a very good doctor."

"How about Daniel?" Sam asked.

"I'm fine." Daniel suddenly appeared through another door. If her was surprised to see Jack, he didn't show it. "Just a graze."

"You're used to it by now, huh Daniel?" Jack said.

Daniel gave a wry smile, then turned to Sam. "Get much sleep?"

Sam shook her head. "I couldn't shake the image of Kelowna."

"Nor could i." Jonas said.

"Neither." Daniel said.

The rest of the walk was made in sombre silence.