I Need to Know5
By: the female apophis
Yes, the little gnome people will come to hurt you. Yes, they own me...what's your point?
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"Shit! I completely forgot."
"What?"
"Janet and I were supposed to have a girl's night in. Which makes me wonder why she brought Daniel along."
"Hey. Don't start. The two of us are probably the only one's that can comfort you...err...could comfort in your...time of...need."
"So, are you gonna tell us what the hell we just saw?"
"You guys may want to sit down for this. Jack, can you get us all some wine? I think we're gonna need it."
"Be back in a second. Don't start without me."
Daniel and Janet took the seats offered to them, but both were sitting up very straight in their chairs.
When Jack returned a moment later with the wine, both relaxed slightly, much to Sam's relief. She was hoping it wouldn't come to this, but it had. There was nothing she could now but tell the truth.
"Okay, why don't I just start at the beginning?"
"Fine by us."
"As you know, Jack and I have had 'feelings' for one another for quite sometime now. Janet, you were there when we actually admitted those feelings. Daniel, you probably knew before we did."
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I did too."
"About two months ago, the whole thing with 'Mini-Jack', as he came to be known, happened. I started to realize that maybe it was time something was done about previously stated feelings. One night I was out for a jog, when it started raining. I wasn't far from Jack's house, so I ran the couple of blocks to his place."
"It's eight o'clock in the evening, storming outside, and there's a knock on my door," Jack picked up the story from here, much to Sam's relief. "So, I open the door, and there's Sam, soaked to the bone, hair plastered to her scalp. Well, I couldn't let her get sick, cause I just knew that you would have my hide. So I let her in, and ran her a bath."
"By the time I got out, Jack had already made some hot coffee and had made up the guest bedroom. He'd even laid out a T-shirt and sweat pants for me. Anyway, when I finally made it back down to the living room, he's got a cup of coffee ready for me with some nice warm blankets."
"As I motioned for her to sit down, I was already working out a plan in my head."
"It didn't take him long to execute the plan either. When I was under the blankets, he crawled in behind me and held me to his chest, warming me further."
"Okay, I'm getting confused here. You two are throwing everything away because she ended up on your doorway one night?"
"Will you let us finish Daniel?"
"Sorry. Continue."
"Well, Jack and I just kinda stayed like that for a while, reveling in the warmth of each other. Before long though, things started to get a bit more...intimate."
"Let's not go into details on that."
Sam smiled warmly at his comment. This was something that she had discovered in the past few weeks about him. He was a private man, she had always known that, but she had no idea how uncomfortable he was about relationships still. Sarah had made him a different man, a man that was hers now.
"Anyway, the next morning, we started working on a way to be together. We considered asking the general, but we figured he would go nuts and move us to different teams. Neither of us wanted that to happen."
"Luckily we had downtime that day."
"So that was the reason neither of you were to be found that day. How many messages did I end up sending you Sam?"
"Three on my answering machine, and four on my cell-phone."
"It was almost double that amount on mine from Danny-boy here."
"Yeah, well, we were concerned."
"Can I go on now?"
"Sure, sorry we interrupted you Sam."
"That's okay. We spent the entire day together working on the plan. We decided that we probably needed to have a huge public blowout, and one of us resigns. We could keep it hidden for a few months and then get together publicly. We had planned on going on about how we realized how big of a mistake we had made, yadda yadda yadda."
"It wasn't long until we had all the details worked out. We waited until the appropriate time, and it happened."
"So was that an actual fight on P7C-992 or just a part of the act?"
"Just a part of the act. Everything was going according to plan until now. We actually rehearsed lines and everything."
"Except for the thing I said in the 'gate room today. And of course her punching me for it, but hey, it looked good."
"And incredibly convincing."
"Well, my Sammie has this amazing right hook."
"I've been working on it with Teal'c."
"Go figure."
"So, what now? What are you gonna do if Hammond finds out?"
"Well, he technically can't do anything to us. I'm no longer under Jack's command, and since I've left the Air Force, they can't court martial me for hitting or fraternizing with a superior officer."
"But you were still in the Air Force when you hit Jack this afternoon."
"But Hammond believes that it was a matter of protecting my honor. He saw the whole thing, and if he wanted to he could also court martial Jack for insulting a fellow officer."
"But we knew that he liked us both too much to do that. At least, that was what we were hoping for."
"Well, I'm pretty damn sure that you fooled every single person in the SGC. If you didn't fool them, then they're pretty damn dense."
"Thanks for the support Janet. You too Daniel. You don't know how much this means to us."
"Well, we both know that you two are destined to be together. We were actually gonna start betting on who cracked first. Thank god we didn't. It could have ended ugly."
Sam smiled briefly, as did Jack.
Both were extremely grateful that they had such great friends right now.
"Well, Daniel and I should probably leave. I need to get home to Cassie."
"Yeah, I've gotta go into work early tomorrow. There's lots of stuff that needs to be translated."
With that, the two of them left.
Jack and Sam sat back in their seats for a moment, neither of them daring to speak.
Sam was the first to break the silence.
"So, you think they'll say anything?"
"Daniel won't, I've got too much dirt on him for him to be blabbin' to anyone. My only concern is Janet."
"Janet won't say anything for the same reason Daniel won't. I just don't know how much longer we can keep this up."
"Well, what do you say we take a nice relaxing shower, and then we hit the sac?"
"Sounds like a plan to me."
Sam rose slowly and took Jack's hand in her own, and led him down to the bathroom.
Thank god their shower was big enough.
~fin~
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