Jack was surprised when he opened the door. Besides Samantha, stood in front of him, three of his best friends.
"We were wondering if we might come in?" Janet asked of Jack.
"Sure." he said as he stood to the side for them. He watched them as they all walked in and closed the door behind them. He walked through to the living room with them keeping his poker face on "Sam should be back any minute." Jack told them.
"Where is she?" Daniel asked him.
"She found a job, she's lecturing space stuff at the university." Jack informed them.
"Really?" Daniel asked him. "So soon?"
"Well she has a unique set of skills, any place would be lucky to have her."
"Well-Ya." Daniel commented "its just so soon."
"Sam's not the type to sit still."
"No I know-"
"And I seem to remember at least two of you thinking she was crazy for following my lead on this." Jack gave a scolding look to both Daniel and Janet.
"Jack come on-" Daniel started.
"No you come on!" Jack finally snapped. "I take it you're starting to come round-"
"Jack." They heard a calming voice from behind them, all of them turning to see Sam standing there. She looked at her friends and nodded at all but Teal'c, who she physically stood in front of, and looked up into his eyes with a thoughtful expression before she whispered "I thought I'd never get to see you again Teal'c." She told him, before she wrapped her arms around his neck "it's so good to see you."
One arm came up and held her back in a hug "It is good to see you Major Carter." he told her. "We have information we wish to share." he tells her.
"Oh?" she questioned as they pulled away. She looked towards Jack who could see the relief on her face and with that relief he melted enough to be glad, (if a little more guarded than Sam) to see their old team.
"I've had bloodworks from two different worlds and body scans of three different people." Janet told her handing her the file she carried. Sam moved over to Jack and offered their friends the sofa, Jack taking the seat behind him while Sam sat cozily on his thighs, they missed the raised eyebrow from Teal'c (apparently everyone had forgotten to tell him of the change of relationship in his two friends), he was pleasantly surprised. He admired their ability not to pursue their relationship because they were in the military together, but now that didn't stand in their way they seemed settled in their love. "They all had an unidentified cell which emits a small amount of radioactivity. It appears to be shrinking women's ovaries and enlarging veins in men."
"Oh my God!" Sam exclaimed looking at the results.
"I don't know if it's something in their diet, something in the surroundings or some genetic-" Janet started.
"Or something injected." Sam nodded.
"I thought, different worlds would have different bacterias and viruses and stuff like that?" Jack almost asked.
"You're absolutely right," Sam acknowledged "but since the majority of these planets have been terraformed likely all from the Asgard when they built the gate network we're all likely to have a very similar virus and bacteria resistances and immunity, it's why we don't pick up as many viruses as we should."
"Like when we went to the Land of Light." Daniel observed, "We'd never encountered a histaminalytic virus like that before, therefore none of us were immune, except those who use antihistamines for allergies, we were the ones least affected-"
"Until you weren't." Jack said with a grin to Daniel. "You dog!"
"At least I didn't jump my boss." Daniel quipped with a sly look to Sam.
Jack held her tighter and Sam sat straighter "I stand by my choice." she said repressing a smile while Jack looked thrilled.
"Back to the point-"Janet smiled remembering that this felt more like SG-1 then it had in a long time. "There's nothing to stop a very similar virus or bacteria from forming on each planet, it could be a by-product-"
Sam looked at her dubiously
"Then why don't we have it?" Jack asked.
"Alright it's unlikely." Janet admitted. "It's still not conclusive, what we really need is a sample of each vaccine the Aschen offer."
"We're kinda dependent on you guys for it now." Jack observed.
"We're working on it." Daniel chirped.
"We know." Sam told them.
"O'Neill informs us you have new employment Samantha Carter." Teal'c observed.
"Ya, I just finished my first day, it's not long until the end of this semester now, I just have someone else's curriculum to adapt to my style."
"New challenge." Daniel nodded.
"Well-New." Sam said softly. She put the file on the coffee table. "I miss the gate." she said quietly. "It's been my whole career."
"You were there, how long before we were called?" Daniel asked again.
"Two years, almost three." She said quietly. "I was twenty six, just broke up with Jonas before I got interviewed over my thesis." she nodded. "Yeah, then you came back through the wormhole, I spent that year at the Pentagon reading the reports, analysing the dialling system, there was so much information, so much we could learn-" she smiled "it was exciting, fulfilling-" she shrugged, "I guess I better find new ways of of feeling fulfilled."
She gave a marked look to Jack which everyone noticed but didn't yet understand.
"We have something to tell you guys." Jack said to them all. The three of them gave heavy looks to each other before Sam nodded and whispered something to him, he grinned and nodded before saying "We're engaged." Jack informed them.
"We've applied for our marriage licence we're planning on getting married two weeks from now, we were wondering if you'd join us." Sam said softly.
Janet jumped up and made a high pitched squealing sound Jack only supposed was excitement.
Sam stood and smiled at her friend "I take it you're past the idea of Jack and I are just shacking up?" Sam asked her.
Janet came and cuddled Sam and Jack looked to Janet as if she just poked him with one of her needles. "Oh the question was never about if you were perfect for each other, it was a matter of checking your sanity."
"Hey!" Jack objected "A guy could get hurt!" he said, trying to mask his wounded ego.
"Tell me he had a ring?!" Janet asked her friends.
Sam chuckled and showed her the ring.
"Oh Sam it's beautiful! God! That looks like an old ring!"
"It is." Sam confirmed "it's been in Jack's family for generations."
"So where are you planning on having it?" Daniel asked.
"The garden of the gods resort, I have a friend whose manager there and owes me-so-" Jack nodded.
"Bit ironic isn't it?" Daniel said with a smile.
"We were thinking poetic." Jack said he's voice heavy with sarcasm.
"You'll all come won't you?" Sam asked them.