"All things considered, it wasn't bad." Jack sauntered down the alley to his rental truck, Sam Carter walking companionably next to him. He'd thought about taking her arm… but maybe not. Not yet.

"High praise," she answered with a smile.

"Well, you know me and sci fi," he said with a shrug. "Although it was my kind of sci fi, I guess."

"Guns and aliens and shooting things? Yeah…. I actually didn't know there would be quite so much of that," Sam confessed. "Felt a little like work."

Giving her a sideways glance, Jack let his eyes roam from the heels she wore up her bare legs to a perfectly blue dress that hugged all the right places and pressed, "It did not feel like work."

With a laugh, she took his arm, her fingers warm around the crook of his elbow. "Well, good." And then she said, "I bet Teal'c enjoyed it."

He almost missed a step, and annoyance edged into his voice. "Are you really gonna bring that up right now?"

"You're not still mad about that, are you?"

Yes, actually, he was, although the smile she was giving him with lips he'd never seen in that shade of red muted it a bit. "Carter -"

"Gimme your purse."

The two officers froze at the unfamiliar voice, turning their heads slowly to look at each other before they turned to see a kid – eighteen, maybe, and clearly on edge – in the alley behind them. With a gun.

As both of their hands came up, Jack offered dryly, "Buddy, I'm on a date here."

"Gimme your purse!" he said again, shaking the gun in Carter's direction. He was high, maybe, or just obscenely nervous. "And your wallet."

As usual, Sam's eyes slid over to Jack. She would follow his lead wherever it went. "Listen, kid," he said calmly, "snatching purses in a military town is a bad idea. Why don't you go home?"

"I'm not messing with you!" the robber pressed. "Hand it over or I'll shoot her!"

Jack kind of doubted that, but luckily it wasn't a risk he'd have to take.

"I believe you should lower your weapon," a lower voice said. Their assailant only managed to spin halfway around before Teal'c got a hand on the gun and stripped it from his fingers. He tried to fight back… and ended up pinned to the ground for his efforts as Daniel walked up beside the Jaffa, accepted the gun, and tried to clear the chamber.

"It's not even loaded," Daniel said.

"Still mad I let them tag along?" Sam asked innocently, batting her eyelids.

"Yes, Carter, I'm still mad you invited the guys on our first date!"

"She didn't invite us," Daniel defended. "In fact, we chose this movie specifically because we didn't think it was good first date fare."

"Wait, what?" the kid on the ground asked.

Sam nodded a bit. In hindsight, it hadn't been the best choice. But she was pretty sure neither of them wanted to sit through a rom-com.

"We will remain until the police arrive," Teal'c offered. "You may continue your date."

Jack considered that and decided, eyes narrowed, "As much as I appreciate that, you're still not off the hook."

"Jack," Daniel pressed, exasperated. "What is it you were planning to do, exactly, in a public movie theater, that you couldn't do with Teal'c and I sitting all the way across the room and a dozen rows ahead in the dark?"

"I guess we'll never know," Jack snapped back.

"Ew," the robber protested.

"Shut up," three members of SG-1 said.

"Silence," Teal's ordered.

"Come on," Sam invited, wrapping her hand around Jack's arm again. Her warmth and those beautiful blue eyes made him melt a little, and he frowned against it. "I'll buy you dinner to make it up to you."

"You'll – Carter," he protested sharply. "You're not helping."

Her smile spread ear to ear. "I know. But you're cute when you're grumpy."

"God, get a room."

"Shut up," SG-1 told him. With the exception of Teal'c. Again.

"I want steak," Jack told her petulantly, turning back toward his truck. "And dessert. Good dessert."

"I can live with that," she told him. And they headed down the alley, arm in arm, as Daniel pulled out his cell phone. Sam waited until they were well out of earshot to ask, "So, just what were you planning that you couldn't do with them in the room, exactly?"

Jack's eyes flickered over to catch the mischievous grin on her face. He'd come up with something. "If you're lucky, maybe I'll show you later."

"Can't wait."

A grin tugged at the corner of his mouth as he started walking faster.