STaRGATE FAN FICTION

ACCIDENTS HAPPEN

PAIRING: Jack/Sam Daniel/Janet

RATING: G

DISCLAIMER: I don't own these people, but I own the story

SPOILERS: Window of Opportunity the episode with the Zatarc's Point of View maybe some other ones

SET: Some time just after Window of Opportunity

Colonel Jack O'Neill opened his eyes to find the ceiling of the base infirmary flicker into view. He groaned as he remember what had happened. He'd fallen off a ledge and was probably the laughing stock of the whole SGC (Stargate Command).

"Why do I have to be so stupid?" he asked himself.

"Colonel are you awake?" Janet Frasier, the doctor, asked from the other side of the room.

"Oh I'm awake all right," Jack replied. "My head's making sure I know that."

He rubbed the back of his head where he must've hit the ground. Janet walked over with a thermometer and shoved it into his mouth. He almost choked on it but managed to live through that crises. Janet was the head doctor at the base and the only one that Jack really got along with. None of the other doctors rarely attended to SG-1, Jack had a strange feeling that it had something to do with Janet and Daniel. Jack had always had a suspicion that the two of them had feelings for each other.

"You're temperature is fine, but you might have concussion, I'd prefer it if you stayed here for a couple of hours, maybe got some rest," Janet suggested.

"What time is it?" Jack asked; noticing his watch was missing.

"Eleven PM," Janet replied. "Get some rest Jack."

Just then the door opened slightly and a blonde haired woman poked her head around the corner. Jack smiled. It was Major Samantha Carter, his 2IC. She was a scientist, Jack didn't usually get on very well with scientists…Daniel Jackson was a scientist too. But he'd grown used to them. After being in several life or death situations it wasn't hard not to.

"Hey Colonel, you're awake," Sam smiled. "I was worried when you fell off the ledge."

"Don't remind me," Jack groaned. "I bet the whole base is talking about it."

"Actually we decided it was better not to say anything out loud," Sam reassured him, but there was a twinkle in her eyes, which told him other wise.

Janet looked from Sam to Jack and back to Sam. "Sam you should leave, he needs rest."

"Oh, right," Sam said, suddenly remembering Janet was there. "I'll come in and see you tomorrow Colonel."

With that she turned around and left the room. The door slammed and Janet turned to look at Jack, smiling. Jack raised an eyebrow.

"What?" he asked.

"You should say something to her," Janet said, starting to clean a syringe lying on the table.

"Say what?" Jack asked, looking around. "What do you want me to say?"

"Come of it Jack, if you don't do something you're gonna loose her," Janet said.

"Oh that," Jack said, looking down to his hands. "I can't - "

" – regulations," Janet finished. "You can still tell her. It can't hurt if the General doesn't know. You should do something."

"I have," Jack said, avoiding her gaze.

"You talking about the Zatarc thing?" Janet asked. "Because that's not enough, it wasn't private. You need to tell her in private."

Jack fiddled with his hands. "Not that, in the time loop."

Janet looked around. It suddenly hit her that anything could've happened in the time loop and no one would know. Except Teal'c, if he had been around. She sighed.

"With all due respect sir, Sam can't remember the time loop," Janet replied.

"I know," Jack said. "But it was worth it, just to see the look on the General's face."

"You did something in front of the General? You know how dead you would've been if it hadn't looped?" Janet laughed. "What did you do anyway?"

"I kissed her," Jack said, avoiding her gaze.

Janet's eyebrows shot up and she turned around to face him. "In front of the General?"

"It was funny," Jack replied, still avoiding her gaze.

"I'm sure it was," Janet replied. "What did Sam do?"

"She kissed me back," Jack sighed. "Then the damn loop…oh for crying out loud why am I even telling you this."

"You should get some rest," Janet said. "Goodnight Colonel."

She walked to the door and turned off the light. She opened the door and slammed it shut behind her. Jack could hear her fumble with the keys. He closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep. Thinking that maybe he shouldn't have told Janet some of the stuff he had. But it was over and done and he couldn't do anything about it.

"Morning Sam," Daniel said, looking up from his desk.

"Hey Daniel," Sam replied, sitting down at the desk opposite him.

"Have you seen Jack yet?" Daniel asked.

"Yeah I saw him last night, he seems fine," Sam replied.

"Get any sleep last night?" Daniel asked.

"Yeah, I actually slept quite well," Sam replied, rubbing her eyes. "How about you?"

Daniel nodded at his paperwork and Sam sighed. She'd been up all night too. But not doing work, she'd been thinking. She hadn't been thinking about anything inparticular, but she had been thinking too much. Her mind wandered to how Jack was feeling. Daniel seemed to notice this change in her thoughts.

"What're you thinking about?" he asked, suspiciously.

"Jack," she replied, without thinking, suddenly she jerked into reality. "Colonel O'Neill, I was just wondering how he was feeling."

"Sam this is ridiculous," Daniel spat out. "I know there's those damn regulations, but you shouldn't let them stop you."

"I don't know what you're talking about," Sam said, avoiding Daniel's gaze.

"Sam don't say that, Janet told me about the confessions during the Zatarc incident," Daniel replied. "You don't have to hide it, not from us."

"I know," Sam replied. "I'm going to the infirmary, you coming?"

"I'll remain here," Daniel replied.

Sam stood up and left the room. Daniel sighed. They were going to have to do something about these stupid lovebirds who refused to do anything about it. It wasn't as if Jack ever abided by the rules and regulations anyway; why was this any different?

Because he didn't want to get Sam in trouble. This was the truth, Daniel knew it.

Janet looked up as Sam walked into the infirmary. "Sorry Sam he's gone already."

"Oh," Sam said, seeming disappointed. "That's OK; I'm in need of a check up."

"Alright then, just sit down on the bed, I'll be back in a minute," Janet replied, disappearing into another room.

Sam sat down on the bed and looked around. So many times they'd been in the infirmary. So many times she'd talked to Janet about things, trusted her when she had no one else to turn to. But could she trust her with her feelings for Jack. Everyone knew, they'd all seen the confession, except Daniel who obviously knew about it anyway. Why was it such a bad thing?

Of course she knew why. This was exactly the reason. They'd stop concentrating on their jobs. The least that could happen was that they would be split up, put on different teams. The most likely thing was that at least one of them would be asked politely to leave the military; or else. She couldn't imagine that, not being in the military. She'd met a Dr Samantha Carter from an alternate reality who'd never joined the military and she was so different.

"Here we go," Janet said, returning with all the equipment.

"Janet have you ever done something against regulations?" Sam asked.

"Yes Sam he loves you too," Janet smiled.

Sam was rather taken aback by this comment. How on earth had she known what she was about to ask? Janet obviously noticed the reaction in Sam's face because she smiled as she checked her eyes for a sign of any illness.

"Sam can you keep a secret?" Janet asked.

"Depends who from," Sam replied.

"Well its about you, so I guess it's your choice who you keep it from," Janet replied, switching off the light and sitting on the bed next to her.

"About me?" Sam asked. "So how come I don't know about it?"

"Sam you remember the time loop incident a few months back?" Janet asked, Sam nodded and Janet continued, "Well last night when Jack was in here he accidentally told me something that I don't think he meant to."

"Yes," Sam said. "Keep going."

What had happened? The first thing that ran through her head was that she had probably done something terribly embarrassing and stupid. Then she looked at Janet's face and realised that it was something good, not bad. Janet seemed too happy and she trying to hold it back and not show it.

"What?" Sam asked, becoming curious.

"Well Jack gathered that everything that happened in the time loop would be erased again the next time it looped. So he did something that he could never have done in this life," Janet smiled. "Sam he kissed you."

Sam's mouth felt like it hit the floor. Her heart leapt into her throat and she swallowed deeply. Janet was smiling; she had made someone happy.

"And then what?" Sam asked, trying not to seem too over the world.

"Well he said the look on the General's face was priceless," Janet smiled. "Can't you just imagine Hammond staring at you guys."

"He did it in front of the General?" Sam asked.

She tried to imagine the look on the General's face, but the only face that would come into her mind was Jack's. She smiled.

"Wow, that's one brave man," Sam replied.

"You gotta say that again," Janet said. "The only other thing he told me was that you kissed him back."

Sam looked away and fiddled with her hands. She was starting to feel kind of uncomfortable and she could feel her cheeks turning bright red. She heard footsteps outside the door and looked around, half wanting it to be Jack, the other half praying for it not to be.

She was lucky, it was Daniel. He took one look at Sam and creased his forehead.

"Did I interrupt something?" he asked.

"No, we were just finished," Sam said, jumping off the bed and hurrying to the door. "Thanks doc."

"No problem," Janet replied, smiling.

Sam found herself wandering aimlessly through the hallways of Cheyenne Mountain Base, wondering what to do next. She could say something to Jack, but that would be horribly embarrassing. How could she ever face him again? Knowing that something had happened between them, something that she hadn't been there for.

Suddenly she found herself thinking of the other Samantha Carter she'd met, the one who had never joined the military. Jack hadn't told her that that Samantha had been married to the other Colonel O'Neill, in the other reality. She'd found out in front of the rest of SG-1 from the alternative Kawalsky.

"Hey Carter," Jack said, appearing from what seemed like nowhere.

Oh dammit, Sam thought to herself. Not now.

"Hi Colonel," Sam replied. "What're you doing here?"

"Walking, what about you?" Jack asked.

"Walking," Sam replied.

"The General has some new planet he wants us to go to, briefing in half an hour," Jack replied.

"OK sir," Sam replied. "I'll see you then."

Without wanting to say anything else to him she quickly turned around and walked as fast as she could down the hallway in the opposite direction to him.