Chapter 4: Dan and Sam Get Drunk (Woot!)

"You strike the ball with the stick," Jack explained. He demonstrated, then stood upright to see the blank look on Teal'c's face. Sighing, he turned to Daniel and Sam.

"Daniel, come over here. Come play pool with me so I can show Teal'c how to play."

"Uhm, sorry Jack," Daniel said, sliding his glasses up the bridge of his nose.

"But I can't play pool either." Jack stared at him exasperatedly and turned to Sam.

"Sam, please tell me you can play pool," he asked, and she nodded.

"Yeah, but I'm a little rusty." Jack blew a raspberry.

"Oh, come on, you know what they say about pool; 'once you learn, you never forget'." Everybody stared at him and there was an odd silence.

"Jack, that's riding a bicycle," Daniel pointed out. There was another, shorter silence.

"Whatever," he replied. He turned to Sam and passed her a cue.

"You can go first," he offered, and she gave him a small smile before racking up the balls.

"How kind." She figured out her shot and leant over, cue positioned, and hit the ball. The rest of them scattered all over the place, and she stood back as Jack took his own shot.

"See, the key to this is to measure the distance between the ball and the hole, then calculate how hard you'll have to hit the cue ball. Then…" He hit the ball, and it missed the ball he was supposed to his and went rolling to a stop on the other side of the table instead. Sam snorted.

"Great shot, Jack," she commented, and she walked around to the other side of the table, bent over and managed to get the right ball into the corner-pocket snugly. She looked at Teal'c and Daniel, the smile still on her face.

"See? Nothing to it. I'm going to go get a drink," she added, and gave him the cue before making her way off to the bar. Jack gazed after her for a moment, before offering the cue to Daniel.

"Hey, Dan, I'll teach you how to play while at the same time showing Teal'c?" Daniel smiled as well.

"Not this time, Jack, I'm going to go join Sam and have a drink as well. Good luck," he added to Teal'c, before joining Sam at the bar. Jack sighed and turned to Teal'c.

"Guess it's just you and me, big guy," he said. Teal'c's mouth twitched into what Jack assumed was a smile.

"I would like to learn how to play this 'pool'," he stated, and Jack winked.

"Well, I'm an excellent teacher." They heard a noise, and Jack looked up to see that Sam had snorted again.

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3 hours into the game, and Teal'c had beaten Jack every single time, who was beginning to get frustrated.

"Are you sure you've never played before?" he asked through gritted teeth. Teal'c sunk the 8 ball into the hole and stood upright.

"This is my first time," he said, and he walked around the table and sunk the next ball. Meanwhile, at the bar, both Daniel and Sam had consumed six glasses of beer each-and were steadily drinking more.

"99 bottles of beer on the bar, 99 bottles of beer…" Daniel mumbled thickly, as he began to line up his current glass of beer with a stain on the table. Sam threw her arm around his shoulders.

"You know what, Danny?" she said, completely drunk, her words slurring into each other. He turned to her, swaying slightly.

"What, Sammy?" She closed her eyes for a moment, apparently overcome by emotion, then opened them again.

"I… I think of you… as my brother." Daniel blinked, then slid against his glasses up the bridge of his nose again.

"Older or younger?" There was a pause.

"I don't know," she said slowly.

"Well, it doesn't matter. I've always thought of you as my sister too," he said proudly.

"Really?" Sam asked.

"Yeah," he answered sheepishly. There was a moment's pause as Sam gazed into Daniel's eyes, emotions overcoming her, and she threw her arms around him and began to cry into his shoulder. Jack, who was walking around the table to take his shot, looked up and saw this, and quickly put his cue on the pool table.

"Oh, no," he muttered, and he quickly walked over to them.

"Sam," he called. "Sam." He gently pulled her away from Daniel to see that he also had tears in his eyes.

"Come on, we're going to take you both home so you can snuggle up in your warm beds and have nice big beautiful sleeps… you've both already had a little too much to drink tonight, don't you think?…" He looked at Teal'c, who nodded in agreement. Sam reached out and tried to grab his shoulder, but missed and slid off her chair to the ground, crying at Jack's feet disgracefully. Jack swallowed and looked around, checking to see if anyone was watching them, before turning back to the figure at his feet.

"Major, get up," he ordered, almost disgusted. She continued to sob, and Daniel looked down at her.

"Sammy, don't cry," Daniel said, and he slid off his own stool and fell down beside her. She obviously tried to stop, but choked and continued on sobbing instead. Jack sighed and beckoned to Teal'c, who quickly came over to help somehow.

"Help me get these two back to the car," he muttered to Teal'c, before pulling Sam up from around the waist and trying to drag her to the door.

"Excuse me?" said a voice. Jack looked up to see the barman eyeing him, making a sign with his fingers that unmistakably meant money.

"Oh, yeah, sorry," Jack mumbled, and he dropped Sam down onto the ground gently before pulling out his wallet and walking back over.

"So how much do I owe you?" he asked.

"Seventy dollars." Jack choked.

"What?" he croaked out. The barman shrugged.

"Seventy dollars. Hey, that's not too bad, considering how much they've drunk." Jack turned round to see Teal'c trying to refrain Sam from singing. Daniel seemed to have passed out. Seeing that he was needed elsewhere, Jack decided that it was best to get this done as soon as possible, and that meant there was no time for haggling or arguments.

"Okay, okay, here." Jack quickly pulled out the money and handed it over, before making his way back over to Teal'c and the others.

"You get Daniel, I'll handle Sam," Jack stated in little more than a whisper, and Teal'c nodded curtly before going over to Daniel and picking him up easily. Jack turned to Sam. It seemed she was studying something intently on the ground.

"Come on, Sam," Jack said quietly, and he lifted her up into his arms and carried her outside to the car, followed by Teal'c. Sam seemed to come out of her daze as Jack was opening the front door to the car. Jack glanced up at her as he was opening the door.

"Hello, Sam," he said through gritted teeth. She saw Teal'c pushing Daniel onto the backseat and immediately sat up straight.

"I want to go in the back with Danny," she protested. Jack and Teal'c shared a look.

"What do you suggest we do?" Teal'c asked. Jack paused for a moment as he took some time to think.

"Ahhh, just let her sit in the back with him. Maybe they'll be less rowdy." As Jack went around to the other side of the car to the driver's side, Teal'c made out to sit in the passenger's seat, and Jack instantly stopped him.

"No, no," Jack said, shaking his head. "If they do get rowdy, I'll feel safe in knowing that someone's back there with them to shut them up." Teal'c nodded and went to sit in the back with the other two. Jack got in after him, started the car and drove off. He looked around at the backseat to see that both Sam and Daniel were awake, even though Daniel was looking as if he hadn't slept in days.

"Mmm… what time is it?" He turned to see Sam staring off into the distance, her mouth slightly open, and beamed.

"Sammy!" Sam blinked and turned to him, and a smile seemed to crack her own face.

"Danny!"

"Sammy!" Daniel threw his arms around her and they shared a huge hug, and Sam pulled away, her eyes lit up with a kind of wild, childish excitement.

"Danny, let's play a game," she said. Daniel clapped his hands together.

"Yay! I know a good game; let's play Stargate!"

"Teal'c, do not ask. This is what drinking alcohol does to you," Jack said from the front seat.

"Okay, I'll be Major Carter," Sam said.

"Oh, no fair, you always get to be Major Carter," Daniel complained.

"Are you sure they did not consume some sort of youth serum?" Teal'c asked.

"Well, you can be Colonel O'Neill," Sam offered, and Jack coughed.

"No, but I think they might be poisoned."

"Okay," Daniel agreed enthusiastically. He cleared his throat.

"Carter, what's wrong with the Stargate?" Jack was slightly surprised. Daniel's voice did sound a *lot* like his.

"I don't know, Sir, I think the DHD's malfunctioning."

"Fix it, Godammit!" Daniel shouted, and Jack turned just in time to see Sam flinch. He turned back to the road, a swoop of guilt suddenly filling him. Is that how he always made her feel? Scared?

"I don't know how, Sir."

"Well, then, we're going to die."

"Oh, God, Sir, I'm so scared." Daniel turned to her melodramatically and put his hands on her shoulders.

"So am I. Samantha, there's something I need to tell you."

"What?" Sam breathed out, and her voice was barely more than a whisper.

"I love you, Samantha." Jack cleared his throat, blinking profusely, while Teal'c looked on, deeply amused.

"I love you too, Jack." Jack choked and almost drove the car off of the road. Daniel swept Sam up into his arms and was about to kiss her when she stopped him.

"Daniel, we're brother and sister! We can't kiss!" Daniel shrugged.

"Why not?" They kissed, and Jack flinched slightly when he heard Sam begin to make weird, satisfied noises. Teal'c showed a true rare smile.

"This alcohol seems to be doing amazing things for them…"

"Shut up," Jack snapped, and Teal'c's smile quickly disappeared before he glared at him threateningly. Jack swallowed.

"Just joking, Teal'c," he said nervously. Jack glanced around at the backseat to see the pair gazing at each other meaningfully, and was oddly satisfied to notice that Daniel was slowly falling asleep. Sam kept on licking her lips and after awhile, Jack heard her say

"Danny, can we play Stargate again?"

"Mmm," he mumbled in reply. "Danny go sleep-sleep now." Sam grumbled, then turned to Teal'c and poked him in the shoulder.

"Poke," she said. "Poke." Teal'c stared at the spot where she poked him, then looked up at her.

"Colonel O'Neill, what is Major Carter doing?"

"You can call us Jack and Sam out of work, Teal'c and… well, she's drunk. She's gonna do a lot of things she wouldn't normally do."

"Poke, Teal'c. Poke," she continued on, a huge silly grin on her face. Teal'c blinked, before slowly poking her back. There was a pause as Sam stared at him dazedly through her blue eyes.

"You poked me!" she announced suddenly, and she fell backwards onto Daniel, laughing madly.

"Don't touch the face," he mumbled thickly.

"Sorry, Danny," Sam whispered, and she turned back to Teal'c, still grinning.

"Teal'cy funny," she said.

"I think she likes you, Teal'c," Jack said with a smile on his face.

"I will never understand some human emotions."

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A/N: I love this chapter : D