OH, MY GOD!


Thank God!

Chapter 6: Thank God! (Amy, Mark's wife)

Season/episode: season 8 – After the events of "Threads" (episode 18) and "Moebius I and II (episodes 19 and 20).

The events in this chapter occurred soon after Sam and Jack returned from their trip to Jack's cabin.


I've always been a romantic. I can't help it. I love a good romance, and a happy ending. So I'm sure you can imagine how cranky I was with my dear husband when he had the brilliant idea of setting Sam up with that oh, so smart cop friend of his.

Excuse my sarcasm, but I've never seen my husband with such a stupid idea! How can anyone think that a gorgeous and brave genius, like Sam, could be happy with a short, chubby, and stupid cop? Seriously, how did my intelligent husband come up with such a blatantly idiotic idea?

Uhm… Let's leave such a moronic idea in the past, shall we?

As I was saying I'm a hopeless romantic, and I always wished Sam would finally get together with her mysterious Jack. Whoever he was, he apparently was off-limits due to their military careers, but he was smart, sexy, sweet… He sure sounded perfect for Sam! But, no, my husband had to go and screw it up by introducing Sam to his brainless, plain friend the cop!

Anyway, going to the topic at hand, I had a meeting I couldn't avoid or reschedule the day of Jacob's funeral, so Mark went on his own, and came back complaining about… well, pretty much everything.

Sam had apparently broken off her relationship with the obtuse cop much to his chagrin and my pleasure. I really didn't want him as my brother-in-law! Not only was Sam not going to get married to his friend, but Cassie, Sam's honorary niece, kept calling him Potato-Cop. I have to admit I loved the nickname. Mark wasn't amused, though. And on top of that, the wake wasn't being held at General Hammond's house, but at another General's home. Mark complained about this change too, because this mysterious General O'Neill drank Guinness, didn't stop Cassie from using her perfect nickname for the cop, and was constantly checking on Sam to make sure she was okay. I didn't see any problems there… But my curiosity was picked: could this General be Sam's Jack?

I ignored my husband's irritation, and suppressed my need to say 'I told you so' every so often, if only to get him to tell me everything he knew.

Mark told me in great detail how hurt Pete was about the break up. He claimed Sam had left him because he couldn't compete with an opera-fan hero. I took it as Sam finally seeing the light, and ditching the unintelligent cop, to hopefully finally dating her Jack. I was honestly very happy about it. Not that I told my husband, mind you, he would have had a fit!

I tried to talk to Sam as soon as I could, but couldn't reach her. First, she was no longer working in the same base she'd worked for years, but in Nevada which gave me even more hope to see her finally with Jack. Sam had previously explained to me how the frat regs prevented them from having a relationship, so I knew this could be a solution to escape those pesky regs. Later, she was on vacations, and when I tried to talk to her, she wasn't even on the phone for five seconds when someone with a very male, very sexy voice, snatched the phone out of her hands claiming that it wasn't the time to talk about him but to do him, and hung up. The last thing I heard was Sam's happy giggle, and my hope grew so much I made the mistake of telling my stubborn husband about it.

Mark spent a whole week moping and complaining about it, until Sam returned from her vacations and called to tell us she was engaged again. I crossed my fingers so hard I thought I'd broken them. As soon as I saw my husband get furious - and before he could say anything stupid that alienated him from Sam - I took the phone out of his hands. I suppressed a yell of victory if only to keep peace at home and held my breath as my sister-in-law told me she was finally with Jack!

When I hung up the phone, and before I scolded my husband for being mulish, I breathed a sigh of relief, and exclaimed, "Thank God!"


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