Sam swiped at her eyes when the doorbell rang. Her eyes were puffy from where she'd been crying for the last hour or more. She'd tried ice-cream and chocolate, her normal comfort food but nothing had helped. So she'd let herself cry. The doorbell rang again. She threw the blanket she been covering herself with on the couch and went to open the door.

"Ja..Colonel?" She said stunned to see him stood on her doorstep.

"Hey Carter. Are you okay it looks like you've been." He was the typical male who didn't know what to say when a woman had been crying.

"Sad movie." She said trying to account for the tears. "So what can I do for you sir?"

"I just wanted to check you were okay? It's not like you to leave early or say you're not coming in until 0900."

"I'm fine sir. Just need an early night, but I got to watching a movie, I was just about to go to bed."

"I'd better go and let you get to bed then. I just want to make sure you were okay and not bothered about today?"

"I'm fine sir. I'll see you in the morning." She closed the door, before leaning back against it and the tears began to fall again.

Her doorbell rang again; Sam wiped her eyes again and took a deep breath before standing to open the door again.

"Colonel?" She said realising he'd not actually gone.

"I couldn't leave." He stepped in and placed his hands on her face before gently placing his lips on hers. Sam let her hands rise to the back of his neck before pushing the open further with her foot so he could come in while still kissing her. He back up against the wall, his arms now around her waist holding her close to him. He broke the kiss for a breath. The realisation of what had just happened hit Sam. She pulled away.

"Colonel. Jack we can't do this." She back away until she hit the wall.

"Why not?" Jack asked.

"We can't, as much as I want to. It's against regulations."

"Screw the regs." He said stepping towards her; she put her hand on his chest to stop him from getting closer.

"Jack, I like being in the Air Force and I like working at the SGC. I've worked too hard to get where I am, to give it up now. I'm sorry. I think you should leave." She said with difficulty.

"Sam." Jack started.

"Don't please, you'll only make this harder. Just go."

"I'll go but."

"I'll see you tomorrow Colonel. You know the way out." She walked into bedroom and flung herself on the bed as she heard the door close. Twenty minutes later she had collected herself enough to pick up the phone and dial.

"Fraiser." Janet answered.

"Janet, its Sam. Do you think you could come over?"

"Sam is everything okay?" Janet quickly asked.

"No, I think I need to talk to someone."

"I'm on my way."

~ ~ ~

When Janet arrived she let herself in, she found Sam curled up on the couch crying.

"Oh Sam." Janet said as wrapped her arms around her. "Let it all out." Sam continued to cry until she couldn't cry anymore. "Sam, what happened?" Sam managed to spit out the whole story. "Oh Sam, I think Daniel needs to explain something to you."

"What does Daniel have to do with this?" Sam asked.

"I'll call him and get him to come over and explain it to you. You need to hear it from him."

"Janet what's going on?" Sam insisted.

"Wait until Daniel gets here." Janet got up and went and got the phone from the kitchen and dialled Daniel's number and waited him to answer. "Daniel, its Janet. I'm at Sam's, I need you to come over we need to tell her everything. Thanks." Janet turned back to Sam. "He'll be here in ten minutes."

~ ~ ~

When Daniel arrived Janet let him in and quickly explained what had happened.

"Daniel, can you explain what the hell is going on?" Sam demanded.

"Sit down Sam and I'll explain." Sam sat down and looked at him.

"Spit out Daniel."

"Where to start." Daniel pushed his glasses up his nose. "We've all know that you were in each other for years. We were fed up with you trying to realise it so we started to give you a little push in the right direction."

"Who is we?" Sam inquired.

"Well, me, Janet, Teal'c, Ferretti, Cass. We want you both to be happy and you usually are when you're together."

"Daniel, you can't interfere in other people's lives like that. Besides which there are regulations against that sort of thing."

"I know. But General Hammond and the President don't have a problem with it as long as it stays off base and doesn't affect your working relationship. It'll fall under don't ask don't tell."

"And no one thought to tell us this so we could make the decision for ourselves like grown adults?"

"We didn't think you were ready to admit it yet and Hammond would have told you if anything happened because he knew you'd respect him enough to go and tell him and face the consequences." Janet added.

"I'm tired, I'm going to bed. See yourselves out."

"Sam, you need to talk to him." Janet said after her.

"Right now I have no idea what's going on in my head, talking to the Colonel is the last thing I need to do right now."

"Sam, take tomorrow off, you're not in any state to go to work. I'll sign you off for a mental health day."

"Thanks. I'll take you up on that. Goodnight." She walked into the bedroom and closed the door.

"Daniel, I think you need to go and talk to Jack. I'd say he'd be pretty drunk by now."

"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow."

TBC