In Two Months VIII- Memory Lane

by
Kitty S

AUTHOR'S NOTES: this is a challenge response to the 1999 High School challenge. (what if sg1 met in high school) Oh yes, the plot to this story was taken from the 'Gilmore Girls' ep. Double Date. and it was used without permission.
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Jack's House

Jack does love his get-togethers. The whole bunch of them were sitting around the fireplace sharing stories from their childhood. Well, they were just listing to Jacob embarrass Sam. Jack couldn't get enough. He wanted to hear more, about Sam's teenage years, things he didn't get to see while he was taking care of her. When Jacob was telling them a story of when Sam was about three, Jack sat there semi-listening. Having the picture pop into his mind. Little Sam covered in chocolate sitting with her dog.

"There is something I wanted to ask you Jack." Jacob said.

"Huh, what?" He shook the memories out and tried to figure out what Jacob was talking about.

"I said, there has been something I have always wanted to ask you."

Jack gave a look, "Ah, sure."

"Do you remember ever meeting me before?"

"You mean when Sam introduced us in DC?"

"Way before that. When you were something like a brand new spankin Major."

Jack had a look of horror etched in his face. "Dad, what are you talking about?" Sam asked.

"Jack knows."

"He knows what?" Sam was really confused; all she knew was that the first they met was when she herself introduced them.

Hammond was snickering on the couch. Jacob had told him about this a few years ago, when he asked who Sam would be working with.

"Sir, do you know what they are talking about?" Janet asked, cradled in Daniel's arms.

"I believe we are in for a stroll in memory lane, and if I'm not mistaken, you were there. Actually, you all were."

"George, don't kill the bed time story. These kids will have to be patient."

"Dad…" Sam started.

"Shhhh… I'm telling a story." He put up his index finger. "Remember when the three of you were in school? Sam and Janet were just graduating from high school, and Daniel here, was in foster care from one of the officers on base. And a certain Air Force officer who just got his promotion." Jacob was having way too much fun. He gave Hammond a look and said, "A long, long, time ago, in a place called sunny California where we were based…"

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"Sam! Sam! He called! He called!" Janet jumped up and down. Very excited.

"And?" Sam looked up from her studies.

"Well, I did what you said. I had it all worked out and I asked him if he would like to go to Kim's parents restaurant."

"Fancy."

"And he said he would love to."

"Oh, great!"

"He said he would love to but his foster parents said that they needed the house empty so he has to be with his foster brother."

"Aw, well just make it next week."

"Yes, well see, that would have been a good option had I thought of it when I was on the phone, but instead I came up with another option."

"Which is?"

"That we double date, with his foster brother Josh and you."

Sam had a horrific expression. "What!"

"Yeah, okay, not as good as your option, I agree, but it seemed pretty good at the time. Though I wasn't standing here watching your face."

"Jan, no, I HATE blind dates."

"I know, but this isn't a blind date," She tried to convince. "This is you keeping Josh company while I have my first date with Daniel." Sam still didn't look like she wanted to go.

"Sam please, I'll be your best friend." She clamped her hands together and started to beg.

"You are my best friend."

"And you're mine!"

"I know I am."

"What are best friends for…"

"Okay." She surrendered.

"Yes?"

"Yeah, I'll go."

Janet's face lit up. "Thank you, thank you."

"You will not regret this."

"Pick another phrase."

"You will not have to pay."

"Much better." Janet hugged Sam and ran towards her own classroom. "Oh boy." Sam muttered under her breath.


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Janet's House

"What did you tell your dad?" Janet asked while Sam was working on hair.

"That we were at school tutoring some crack heads who can't do addition."

"You?"

"The same."

She put the final pin into Janet's hair. "Done!" She got out of the way so that Janet can view herself in the mirror. "You like?"

"Don't you think it's a bit too much?"

"No, you look great. Though, I think that you should cut it, too long. I think my arms are cramping." She joked and started to massage her arms.

"Yeah, were going to loose it anyway when we enter the academy."

"Eh, I don't think I'm going to cut mine. I'll just put it up." Sam put on some lip gloss.

"I bet you that you are, do you know how much hassle its going to be?"

"Ahh! I don't want to talk about this. I get enough at home. No military talk till we get into the academy. Right now, we are still high school students." She turned around to face Janet. "How do I look?"

"Always the natural look."

"What can I say, I was never the one for red lipstick and dark eye liner." The doorbell rang, and Janet looked like she saw a ghost. Sam grabbed Janet's hands. "Your nervous, it's going to be fun remember. Now lets go, never keep a man waiting unless you have food and T.V"

They ran downstairs and Sam opened the door. "Sam! Hi."

"Hi Daniel." As soon as Daniel caught the sight of Janet, he almost choked. "This is Josh."

"Hi Josh, nice to meet you." Sam extended her hand but Josh just looked away and pulled Daniel to the side. "Can I talk to you for a second."

"If you'll excuse us."

"Sure."

So, Josh wasn't really that bad. He was about a foot shorter than Sam was and she was guessing he didn't like that. They walked only like a few feet away. And talked loud enough for Sam to hear.

"That's Samantha?"

"Yeah, what's wrong with her?"

"What's wrong? Look at her!"

"Josh, Sam is a very pretty girl!"

"She's tall."

"So…"

"Daniel, its bad enough I have be out tonight in general and now you want me to spend my time with her."

"Josh, just do this for me, I really like Janet."

"Fine"

"Well! Ready to go?" Daniel held Janet's hand and they walked to a little French
Restaurant where their friends worked. Rudely as ever, Josh walked ahead of Sam.

"This is so fun!" Sam looked up into the night sky and whispered 'Why me'

They walked into the restaurant and were seated. After looking though the menu the waiter came and asked them for their orders.

"Hey guys. So you finally decided to come huh? What will you have?"

"Hi Kim." Janet greeted and gave her order. Just as everyone else did.

"What?" Sam asked, noticing how Josh wouldn't stop staring at her.

"How old are you?"

"Seventeen."

"When did you have your growth spurt?"

"What?" Sam was really annoyed but when she turned to see Janet's pleading eyes she controlled her self. "When I was twelve." She turned her attention back to Kim and said, "I'll have a martini and keep 'em coming." Knowing Kim, and since her parents owned this restaurant, the drinking age was a no problem for Sam.

The night went on and Janet was babbling on and on to Sam non-stop. And Daniel looked bored, and Josh wouldn't quit asking questions like, what size shoes do you wear. "Janet, I have to go to the bathroom."

Sam dragged Janet and they stopped in from of the door, away from the guy's earshot.

"Honey, no matter how many beers you're buying me tonight, I'm not the one you're on a date with. So I'd concentrate on the one who is."

"What?"

"You haven't said a word to Daniel the whole night."

"I don't know what to say."

"To Daniel." Janet nodded. "Cause to me there hasn't been an 'Off' button."

"I don't know, this is all wrong. My hairs too tight, the restaurants too fancy…"

"OK, OK," She tried to calm her down. "C'mon, lets go to Al's. You can put your hair down, no pressure, no stress, unless I decide to step on Josh, which would be loads of fun."

They went back to the table, grabbed their things. When Sam got there she could see Josh staring at her legs. She rolled her eyes, took a gulp of her third martini and rushed out.

"Hey Kim, thanks, I'll see you at school."

"No prob. You looked like you needed it anyway."

"Tell me about it."


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Al's Hamburgers

The four walked in and sat at a near by table. Janet had put her hair down and seemed to have relaxed a bit.

"This is much better." Daniel commented.

"Grab a seat, I'll get the menus." Sam sat at the counter.

"Hi Sam." She's been here everyday for lunch after school and knew everyone who worked there. Strangely no one there is named Al. Not even the owner.

"Hi Steve."

"Four menus, coffee and a anvil please." Steve chuckled and went into the kitchen.

"What's the anvil for?" The man in the military fatigues asked.

"For Josh."

"Who?"

"Please spare me right now. I'm Sam, mind if I hang around here for a sec?"

"Jack. Why, what's going on over there?" He pointed to the three she came in with.

"Daniel and Janet's first date."

"Who's the shorty?"

"That's my date. Josh."

"Ah," Realizing the anvil joke. "Lucky girl."

"Yes, I thought so. Believe it or not, he's even less thrilled with the match up than I am."

"You're kidding, why?"

"I'm too tall!"

"What?"

"I'm serious."

"Doesn't he understand how great that is? You can get all the stuff from the top shelf."

"Exactly." Just then Josh made a scene.

"OK. I'm bored. The reason I came out here tonight was because I was under the impression I was going to have fun. First, I get stuck with her" He pointed to Sam. "Then I get dragged into a French restaurant, the I get dragged out of a French restaurant. God knows where I am now."

"Oh, you're at Al's" Jack answered for Sam.

"Sorry Josh, you're on your own."

"Fine! I'll see you at home." With that he stormed out. Janet and Daniel has warmed up and started to talk and laugh.

"Steve, why don't you send two of your best cheeseburgers over there, and I'll have mine here."

"Three cheeseburgers, coming up." He gave Sam a mock salute and went into the kitchen.

"First I see a man walk out on you and now I have to see you eat alone. No, too pathetic."

They both laughed.

"Are you stationed here? I think I've seen you around." Jack asked.

"My dad is, I come here after school to eat. Steve is the best cook in the world."

"School? How old are you."

She giggled. "Seventeen."

'Jail Bait' Jack thought. "So who's your dad?"

"General Carter."

"So, the general's daughter, are you going to sign up?"

"Apparently I was signed up before I was born. I'm entering the academy in about a few weeks."

"Following daddy's footsteps."

"If you call it that." Steve came around and gave her some fry's while she waited for the rest of the food. She slowly ate the fries one by one. "So what are you doing here so late?"

"A promotion party."

"For you?"

"Yeah."

She leaned in closer to his collar. "Congrats. Major."

"Thanks."

Right then Jacob Carter came in the dinner and he was furious. "Samantha! What the hell are you doing here at midnight!"

"Dad!" She was startled.

'Dad' Jack thought, 'Shit, I'm dead.'

He turned and faced Janet. "Janet, does your mother know you're out here with a boy?"

She shook her head no. "Get in the car, I'm taking you home." His attention was back to Sam and Jack. "Sam you lied. I called the school when it started getting late, and they tell me that you didn't stay to tutor the kid's today."

"I… err…" Sam didn't know what to say.

Jacob pointed to Jack. "Who's this? Sam, is this who you've been out with?"

Jack opened his mouth to explain but Jacob got there first. "Stand down, Major!"

"Dad! Will you listen! I'm not going out with him! I just met him!" 'OOPS' that didn't come out the way Sam wanted to.

Jacob lost his temper. He didn't mean to be so harsh but Sam being his only baby daughter he just saw red. "Sam I don't want you to have sex at this age!" He didn't know why he had said that, let alone in public. Even though the dinner only occupied himself, Sam, Jack, and Steven. (Daniel was gone like lightning.)

Sam also lost it. She was mortified for what her dad had said in front of Jack. "Well it won't be for the first time then will it!"

"GET IN THE CAR!"

Sam ran out crying. "Major, I don't want to see you near my daughter again. Do you hear me."

"Yes Sir." There was no point for him to argue. He was a general and he had already made up his mind about him.


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Soon after that, Daniel got out of foster care and went to Egypt, Janet went to pre-med., and Sam majored in physics, and Jack was doing his black ops somewhere in the world. (maybe this is the time when he went to Iraq)

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The look on Sam, Janet, and Daniel's face was priceless. Daniel had only known Janet for about a week, and went out that one time, and it was the same with Sam. They all forgot in time.

Janet turned and faced Daniel, "I guess our first date went pretty well, since were together. I didn't even know that it was you."

"Neither did I." He leaned in and kissed her.

There was laughter, from everyone but Sam and Jack. "Dad, you knew that Jack was that Jack?"

"Yeah."

"And you didn't tell me."

"You didn't remember."

"Of course I remember, we had the biggest fight that night."

"You didn't know it was Jack O'Neill."

Hammond laughed. "That was when Jacob told everyone that his baby daughter was entering the academy and if any solider touched her that he'd kill 'em."

"Ah, the tale of the forbidden Air Force officer." Jack said. "I think I remember hearing that before I had to leave for black-ops."

"Did you know about this?" Sam asked Jack, with a serious expression.

"Not till Jacob mentioned it."

Sam sat there, her thoughts trained on the events from a decade ago. "Daniel, whatever happened to Josh?"

"I don't know, when I turned 18 the first thing I did was leave. I didn't even keep in contact."

"Daniel, I think that we better get going, Cassie's coming home from her friends soon." Janet got up.

Sam got up and gave Janet a hug. "Bye, give Cassie a kiss for me."

"I will, General Carter, pleasure, as always." Janet joked and gave Jacob a hug.

As soon as Janet and Daniel left, so did Hammond and Jacob. Teal'c was still in the guest room doing his mediations.

"So…" Jack started.

Sam was cleaning up the beer bottles and emptied bowls. "So, what?"

"When I first saw you, I thought that you were at least in your twenties." He helped Sam clean up the mess.

"I guess."

"What's wrong."

She stopped cleaning and looked a bit annoyed. "I never knew that my dad had labeled me 'hands off'."

He chuckled. "Hey, when did you loose your virginity?"

"What?"

"Remember, you said 'it wouldn't be for the first time then.' So, when was it?"

She giggled. "Ha, lets see, I think it was beginning of my junior year. During the football season. I was going out with the star quarterback and it happened. I think I was sixteen then."

"So what happened when you got home from the date from hell with Josh?"

"We got in to the fight of the century. I vaguely remember slamming the door of my room and hearing my dad yell that I was going on the pill."

"Ouch, I guess you were a wild one."

"Eh, I wouldn't think so, well… I really didn't know what was wild and what wasn't. Not that I blame my dad for keeping a leash on me through my teen years but because of it, it made me want to do what was not allowed. And the 'no boys rule' was cute till I was about ten, who doesn't date when they are about to graduate. I mean, it really was ridicules. If my dad had his way, he wouldn't let me date until I was around thirty."

"That's understandable. You were his baby girl."

"Yeah."

"Let me tell you, if my baby girl is seen with a boy, he's going to be in for it."

Sam smiled. "Your girl?"

"Well, yeah." He came up and put his arm around her.

"Kids?"

"I was thinking, after we get married, we paint the spare rooms, fill them with toys and spoil them rotten."

"Them? Tell me, how much of this have you been 'thinking' about anyway?"

"The way I see it, one older boy and twin girls." He leaned in and whispered in her ear. "We'll need a spy at school for our girls. And the older protective brother will have that job."

"Three kids! You are drunk if you think that I'm going into labor three times."

Jack slowly rocked Sam and himself to the smoothing classical music that was playing in the radio. "Let's see how the first one goes before you put it into the no-no list."

"Great. Sounds like a plan."


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Sam woke in Jacks warm embrace. She untangled her self from Jacks limbs and got up. "Where do you think your going?" She smiled.

"Going for a jog. Wanna join me?"

"What time is it?"

"It's about five in the morning." He grumbled and got himself up.

"You know, you don't have to tag along."

"Everyday is an experience."

Jack got dressed into his sweats and shirt and joined Sam in the bathroom where she was brushing her teeth. He grabbed his, and squeezed out a ribbon onto his toothbrush. "You know how messy you were at that when you were three?"

Sam spit out the bubbles, rinse out her mouth and raised a finger. "Not fair, I never get to comment on something you did when you were a toddler."

Jack put his hand over his heart. "I'm truly sorry."

Sam knew he was joking and that he would do it again. She jabbed him lightly in the ribs. "Liar."


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Jack locked the door and they started to Jog in deeper into the neighborhood. After doing that for about two miles they stopped at a little park. Jack drank water from the fountain and sat beside Sam on the bench.

"Ready?"

"Yeah."

They started to jog again and suddenly Jack came closer to Sam and started to tickle her while she was jogging. She let out a squeal and broke into a run. Jack chased after her the whole time back to their house. He never caught her.

"You sure can run." He panted.

"I was in the track team in highschool." She smiled and gave him a quick kiss. For he was still heavily breathing.

"Oy, I think I'm getting too old for this."

"I think you're just hungry. And so am I. Make me some breakfast please." She begged.

"What will it be?"

"Anything edible. Whatever you make is always better than mine."

"You know Sam, I think that you should take some cooking lessons."

"Over my dead body."

He laughed. "What's wrong with learning to cook?"

"I don't have the time to learn and, trust me, you don't want me to cook."

He started to get curious. "Why?"

"I never bothered to learn after my mom tried to teach me."

"Memories?" He looked sympathetic.

"Huh? No." She smiled. "Don't laugh." She waited for his promise. "I burned my arm and half the kitchen."

He had his best military face, to try to cover up his grin. "Making what?"

She let out a long sigh then cleared her throat. "Grilled cheese sandwiches."

Like his promise he didn't laugh. But his face started to turn into a slightly red hue. Sam let out her breath and told him to let it out and that it was OK.

"I've never seen any scars."

"It's here." She lifted her arm and there was a slight somewhat about a second-degree burn scar on the inside of her upper arm.

He stiffened out a burst of laughter. "How did you get burned there?"

She had a pleading look in her eyes. "I was reaching for the salt when the sandwich caught on fire."

"You put salt in a grilled cheese sandwich?"

"I was learning!"

"OK! OK!" He put his hands up as a sign of surrender. "I guess I'm going to be the cook in this family."

"All right then chief, make me some food. I'm going to take a shower."

"How do you want your eggs?"

"Surprise me."


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End Part 8