Epilogue – Part 1

Summary:  When it all settles down, they have a campfire and stargaze.

A/N:  I threw in the ship... what's life without the ship.  Got some Jack/Sam, Daniel/Janet, Cassie/Jonas, Teal'c/Thor....  I take that back... there's only Jack and Sam, but it did make you go wide-eyed for a second, didn't it?  If you want to skip over the ship then don't read between the single asterisk (*).  Nothing really happens in this chapter, except a recap of what happened in the story so far.

A/N:  Thanks to GSister for beta-ing.  Thanks for the reviews from everybody.  Sorry it took so long.  (but it worked!)

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Later on in the evening...

"Look at the sunset.  It's so beautiful," Sam said.  A few minutes later and the sun would sink into the horizon.

"The colors in the sky are so cool," Cassie said.

"Sam, don't explain how we get the colors in the sky.  I don't wanna know," Jack said.  They all laughed.

"I gotta go around the side of the house and get my purse.  I have my camera in there."  Cassie left the campfire in the backyard to retrieve her purse.  She came back to the fire and took out the camera.

"I have one picture left to take.  Everybody get together."

*flash*

"Mom, do you have any film you need taken up to the store tomorrow?" she said as she wound the film in the camera.

"Yeah, we have two rolls." 

"We only took a few pictures on the second one."

Janet went up to the pool deck and got the film in the canister and the other camera, which had the second roll of film.

"That's weird.  Both rolls are filled."

"Well, since it appears that all the pictures are taken, take them up to the store, see what develops," Sam said.

"So what exactly happened today?" Cassie asked.

Sam said and glared at Jack, "I'll start.  Jack made up this game called 'let's gang up on Carter and throw her in the pool'--"

"—But it seems like nobody except Daniel wanted to join me--"

"—And I was calling Janet to help me--"

"--But I was planning a counter-attack with one of your super soakers."

"--They threw me in the pool.  They tried to escape and Janet attacked.  We cornered them on the deck.  They went after us and took us in the pool with them."

"--I took pictures of it all and Teal'c told me how to operate it."

"--and it all unraveled after that."

By then Cassie had a huge grin on her face.  "I can't wait to see the pictures."

"Do you guys want to go stargaze?" Daniel asked.

"I'll go get blankets so we can lie out on the lawn," Janet said.

"This is the most fun I've had in a long time."

"Really Carter?  I thought you've never had what we would consider 'fun'."

"I know what fun is outside of fiddling with gizmos and gadgets.  Now I've actually experienced it full blown."

"No... really?" Daniel said in the most sarcastic voice.  They all looked at him wide-eyed.

"What'd I do?"

"Learned from me," Jack said.

"Proud?"

"Absolutely."

"I got blankets... a little help here."  Janet balanced seven big blankets in her arms.

"I want the fluffy one," Cassie yelled as she ran over to lighten the load.

"No, I wanted it!" Sam called in a childish tone and ran after Cassie.  The guys laughed at them as they ran to get a blanket.

"There are two of them, you can both have one."

"Yay!" they both shouted in unison as they ran back and place their blankets over in an empty area of the backyard.  After they all got their blankets and placed them fairly close to each other, another blanket called silence swept over the group.  They all sat in the same direction in this order:  Jack, Sam, Cassie, Janet, Daniel, Jonas, Teal'c.

*

Jack had his hand behind his head.  With his other hand he reached over to Sam and touched her on the shoulder.

"Sam," he whispered very softly.  He nodded for her to come to him.  She scooted over and cuddled close to him, still in view of the sky.

Cassie turned her head to her mom and whispered, "Out of the corner of your eye, look at Sam and Jack."

"Leave them alone.  They're in peace, let's keep it that way.  You don't mention this at all."

"Mom, I already know about it all.  Sam's already told me about it."

"Ohh, so she has..." Janet said as they dropped the subject.

*

"Look at that fireball!" Janet exclaimed as she pointed to the blaze that lit up the sky.  Cassie burst out laughing at the rapid change of subject.

"Wanna guess what it is?" Jack said.

"Goa'uld ship took a wrong turn," Daniel said.

"Another meteor," Cassie said.

"Another SG team crashed an enemy ship," Teal'c said. 

"No, we're the only one allowed to do that," Jack said.

Silence swept over the group once again.  The only sound was the crickets chirping.

*criggie, criggie*

"Look!  There's a shooting star," Sam said.

"Thor's dropped by to say hi!"

"No Jack, I think it's actually a shooting star this time," Daniel said.

"Everyone make a wish," Cassie said.

Silence swept over them once again.  This time it lasted the rest of the night.

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A/N:  Last chapter coming soon.