AN: If you are at all familiar with the plot to Kiss me Kate you know it's a play/movie based on Taming of the Shrew by W. Shakespeare. In Kiss me Kate, a rather ego driven director is trying to direct his ex-wife in a production of the play/movie but while they bicker and fight and they both romance other people, it becomes very clear in the end that they never stopped being in love with each other. Taming of the Shrew can be taken two different ways. Knowing how the play is structured, my bets are on Katherine is screwing with everyone at the end of the story to win a bet her husband placed after discovering she rather likes his crazy behavior as neither really fit in to the society they were born into. This story touches on some of those themes and spins a few of them on their ear but the subtext is quite similar hence the choice of titles. Just a bit of heads up… this one gets steadily more AU as it goes on.
Inventory has started. The holidays have ended and I my DM seems reasonably happy with me. Will wonders never cease.
Kiss Me Sam
Chapter 1
Saturday
"What are you saying, Sam?!" Pete, one of Denver's finest, asked her, his mouth gaping open slightly in confused frustration.
"Well… look, it's just a huge misunderstanding. We had a random mission on a backwater world and the Village Elders wouldn't let us help because I didn't have a husband. So Colonel… er, I mean General O'Neill told them we were married just so they would let the matter drop. But the Elders decided that to prove to their local gods that I wasn't an unmarried woman, they would marry us according to their traditions. It wouldn't have mattered but apparently some POG filling out the reports mistook that for an actual marriage and filed it with our personnel department. It's really just a paperwork thing. I'll fix it tomorrow." She assured him. They were sitting on her couch. A TV show about castaways playing in the background that Sam was ignoring as the plot was predictable and outlandish and not in a fun way like a bad science fiction movie.
"I still don't understand why they filed a marriage license if you were just faking to make the villagers happy." Pete said, his eyes narrows. This has to be O'Neill's doing, he thought.
"You know how pencil pushers are. They probably just filed it by rote." Sam said dismissively, biting her lip in concern when Pete was distracted by a character on TV who was yelling at someone.
"Okay, babe. I doubt the General wants to be married to you anyway. You can probably have this fixed by Monday." He said with a shrug and took a long drink of the budget glass of wine in his hand.
Sam gave him a pinched smile and went back to pretending she cared about castaways.