I am so sorry about the huge delay, I got caught up in school and family and then I could not write anything that worked and I kept deleting it and I am really sorry.

Please read and review.


Chapter 8

"Sam! Hello! Anyone home?" Daniel called out, as Teal'c and him walked up to the door and knocked. They heard a clash then impressive swearing and then Sam opened the door. She looked flustered and her hair was messed up everywhere.

"Hey guys, sorry, I stubbed my toe. I thought you were coming at 5?" she asked, moving back into the house as Teal'c and Daniel followed her in.

"Yeah, but we didn't have anything else to do and I figured you might need help." Daniel said, shrugging.

"OK." she said, smiling brightly. She led the way through the house to the kitchen where the pair was surprised to see Jack already there, chopping carrot up. "You can help Jack cut the vegetables." she told them, before moving to the stove and stirring the soup that was simmering.

"Here I was thinking that you couldn't cook Sam." Daniel commented casually as Teal'c picked up a knife and copied Jack's actions, chopping the carrots up.

"That's what I wanted you all to think. Then I get out of cooking on missions." Sam told them with a cheeky grin.


Sam, Teal'c and Jack burst into laughter as Daniel turned red. Jack had just finished recounting a moment when Daniel was drunk at his place and he had made a fool out of himself.

There was a comfortable silence while all four ate some of their lunch and Jack nudged Sam with his leg. When she looked up at him, he raised an eyebrow, clearly questioning her. She nodded and swallowed, suddenly nervous. Jack gripped her hand under the table and squeezed it.

"Guys, I have something to tell you." Jack said suddenly.

"What is it, Jack O'Neill?" Teal'c asked in his usual stoic way.

"I'm getting married." Jack said, keeping his face innocent and 'truthful'.

Daniel choked on a mouthful of bread and Teal'c raised an eyebrow. "What?" Daniel forced out in between coughing fits.

"I'm getting married." Jack repeated.

"Sure Jack." Daniel said after taking a long drink of beer to recover from his fit.

"I am! I told you they wouldn't believe me and that you should've told them." Jack said to Sam as she burst into laughter. She wiped her eyes as tears collected in them and both Daniel and Teal'c noticed the ring on her hand.

Sam collected herself and managed a semi serious face while saying, "Daniel, Teal'c. Jack and I are getting married."

The pair stared at them in shock, before Teal'c broke it by saying, "Congratulations. It is about time."

"What do you mean?" Jack demanded, but was ignored.

"Yeah, what took you guys so long? I mean congratulations and all, but seriously." Daniel said.

Sam shook her head before getting up and getting a cake from the kitchen. "Mmm, cake!" Jack said, grinning.

"Jack convinced me that this deserved cake as it was a celebration of sorts." Sam said, grinning as she cut the triple chocolate sponge cake into pieces, moderate for Daniel and herself, slightly bigger for Jack and huge for Teal'c.

"Hey! Teal'c's is bigger!" Jack whined.

"You don't need more sugar or fat. He does have a better metabolism as a Jaffa then you." Sam said, lightly slapping his hand as Jack reached for more cake. Jack pouted at Sam but she shook her head and said firmly, "No."

Daniel laughed and said, "You aren't even married yet and she already has you on a short leash. Good luck Jack."


"Dad!" Sam said, hugging the man once he was in the house.

"Sammy, how are you?" Jacob asked, hugging his daughter back, as Jack brought the luggage in and shut the door behind him.

"I'm good dad, I'm glad you got two weeks off to come visit." Sam said, leading him into the house.

"I heard that you quit?" Jacob asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, I wanted to tell you earlier, but Hammond said they couldn't get a hold of you." Sam explained.

"I'll see you later then?" Jack said, as he placed the bag in the lounge room.

"Yeah, we're still going to O'Malley's for dinner with Teal'c and Daniel?" Sam asked, as Jack shook hands with Jacob.

"At the moment, yeah, see you." Sam said, smiling goodbye.

Jack left, and Sam sighed as she prepared herself to tell her father about her wedding in a week.

"When's the date set for?" Jacob asked, beating her to the punch.

Sam stared at him in shock. "What?"

"Your wedding, with Jack, when is it?"

"How'd you know? I was about to tell you."

"You're practically glowing Sam, and Jack was nervous as hell all the way here. He looked like a kid meeting his girlfriend's father, after making out with her on their last date." Jacob told her.

"It's next week, on Friday. Jack wanted to be here to tell you but I thought it would be better for me to tell you." Sam said, still not knowing if he approved.

"I'll have to give him the whole you hurt my daughter, I'll kill you, but out of all the people you could've picked, I'm pretty confident he'll look after you." Jacob grinned, then said, "Is that the reason he fled this place like it had the black plague? He was worried I wouldn't approve?"

"I don't think he was worried you wouldn't approve, I think he was more worried how much damage you would do before congratulating him." Sam laughed, sending the man a text saying all was good and to return when he could.

"I wouldn't damage him permanently; you still want to marry him." Jacob laughed.

Sam rolled her eyes at her dad, and moved into the kitchen, to get a drink for them both.

"So you moving in with him, or is he moving in here?" Jacob asked, accepting the cup of water.

"I'm moving in with him. I've started packing up, I've accumulated a lot of stuff." Sam grinned sheepishly.

"I keep telling her she's a pack rat but she didn't believe me until now." Jack joked, leaning against the door.

Jacob turned and grinned at Jack, "You ran away from the house pretty damn quick, back already?"

"I drove around the block a few times until Sam texted me." Jack confessed.

"So, where are you getting married?" Jacob asked, as Jack moved to sit at the counter as well.


Jack placed the two boxes in his arms on the floor and Teal'c gently lowered the four boxes balanced in his arms down on the table.

"Is that all of them?" Daniel asked, from where he had placed his load down in the lounge room.

"God I hope so, my house isn't that big." Jack groaned.

"That was the last box, O'Neill." Teal'c confirmed.

"How did Sam get out of moving her stuff?" Daniel asked.

"Cassie took her shopping. For her dress." Jack reminded them.

"Right, she probably wants to be here moving rather than shopping, so she's suffering too." Daniel reasoned.

Jack let him believe that for two reasons, one; it made the man feel better, and two; Sam had sworn him to secrecy when he had discovered her secret glee when shopping.


"Cassie, really? I mean, really?" Sam asked, exiting the dressing room in a mess of frills, lace, white and puffiness.

"Mm, maybe not." Cassie muttered. She flicked through the racks, as the elderly shop attendant kept a smile plastered on her face.

Sam glanced at her, "Sorry about being difficult." Sam apologized, a little embarrassed to have been in the shop for hours and not found anything.

"That's OK dear, I've experienced worse. Some girls take hours upon hours trying to decide a dress, but bitch and moan and complain about it all the way. You're welcome to take your time, perfection can't be rushed and it's your big day, it has to be perfect." The woman, Grace, reassured her. "So you don't like anything girly, so lace, frills, etc are out. You'd prefer straps or something, but your niece would prefer strapless, so perhaps off the shoulder straps? Nothing that sticks out and makes you look like a marshmallow," at this she grinned at Cassie, who had been in hysterics over one dress that had made Sam look like a marshmallow, "so not necessarily the old fashioned dresses with petticoats and under dresses and all. What about colour? I've been showing you all white or cream dresses, but perhaps colour in the beading or something?" Grace suggested.

"Jack's wearing his dress blues, yeah?" Cassie pointed out.

"Is he in the army?" Grace asked.

"Air force. So, maybe blue in the dress?"

"Give me a moment." Grace disappeared into her shop, as Sam retreated to get undressed.

She returned with a dress over her arms. She handed it over to Sam who spent a few minutes slipping it on. When she exited the dressing room, Cassie grinned and Grace clapped her hands a few times. "That's looks perfect, my dear, do you like it?"

Sam spun to look in the mirror. She smoothed the material down her stomach. "I love it."


"Sam never told me, what her ring says." Daniel mentioned to Jack, standing next to him.

"Ego erit tuum aeternum." John recited. Daniel grinned at him. "Don't say a word. I thought it suited us." Jack growled.

"I wouldn't dare." Daniel grinned.

"What does it translate to?" Teal'c asked.

Daniel grinned and said, "I will have your back forever."

Jack wanted to turn to growl at Daniel for saying it loudly, not wanting everyone to know he was a sentimental fool, but the music had started, and Cassie had entered the room.

Jack's breath was caught in his throat as Sam entered the room. Her dress was white with intricate blue beading over the bodice. Her dress had off the shoulder's straps, that were white, and the dress was tight until her hips, from which her dress flowed outwards in large pleats. The blue beading went all over the bodice, and down her sides, but it wasn't overly large, not at all huge or ostentatious. The material hugged her curves and flowed off her body. She smiled at Jack, and as Jacob handed her over, placing her hand in Jack's, she didn't even notice as her father murmured a threat to Jack, then his congratulations. She gripped John's hand and her smile grew as he smiled back and the ceremony started.

She barely paid attention as the necessary words were announced, audience asked for objections and only paid attention as she was asked whether she would take Jack as her husband.

"I do."

"Jack O'Neill, do you take Samantha Carter to be your lawfully wedded wife?"

"I –" Jack was cut off as a bright light filled the room. Everyone shut their eyes against the glare, and when Sam opened hers, Daniel, Jack and Teal'c were gone, along with General Hammond. Sam spun to look at the audience, the small gathering all from the SGC, except for her brother, who had been granted special clearance and told of part of what they do, a few months ago, when Jacob had pulled some favors.

"Are you serious?" Sam growled.


TBC