Notes: Wow.. I was blown away when I opened my email this morning.. I have never received so many reviews in just a few hours!! Thank you so much!!

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chapter 2

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Sam sat in her lab, working on a piece of metal and wiring under a bright desk light. She struggled in dissecting the technology as her thoughts drifted to a certain Air Force colonel.

"What was he thinking?" She mumbled to herself.

"What was who thinking, ma'am?" The reply came from the non-descript lieutenant that was in the lab with her.

"Oh, nothing, lieutenant. I'm just thinking out loud again. You can get back to work now." She explained. *I guess I should keep my ramblings confined to the area inside my head. I don't want anyone else to know what, or rather who, is consuming my thoughts right now.*

She finished her analysis, jotted a few things down about it on the nearby computer, and told the eager lieutenant that she was done with it. Seeing that it was lunch time, she headed toward the commissary in effort to calm her sounding stomach.

*Hmm.. blue jello today. That's exciting!* Reading the sign above the delicious dessert produced a smile.

Jack was watching her from a nearby table. He loved to see her smile. He was dreaming again. He hadn't been able to focus on his paperwork because his mind kept going back to that kiss.

Sam approached the table at which he sat and observedhis expression.

"Sir, do you mind if I sit with you?"

He slowly came out of his daze and obliged. Why would he mind her sitting with him. That would make his day. Actually, his day had already been made. It was only a matter of time before his life would be made and he might actually get to experience all that happily ever after crap..er, maybe it wasn't crap. It used to be. Until things changed between the two of them.

"Sir?" Sam stopped him from continuing his train of thought.

"What?" He resurfaced from his thoughts and joined her in the present.

"Are you ok?"

"Why? I've never been better, Carter. Why do you ask?"

"You look a little out of it, sir. Are you feeling well?" She smirked at the look of horror that crossed his face as she asked.

"Feeling well? I feel fine, Carter. I don't need ol' doc to check me out again. That was painful, every time. Every time. I've been there enough to last me a life time." Jack shook his head in disgust.

"What else did you get to do while looping, sir?" She asked innocently. She was dying to know what happened between the two of them. Although by the way he kept looking at her, she could probably make a fairly accurate guess.

"Oh, you kno, Carter. Golf through the Stargate with T, riding my bike down the halls of the SGC, learning latin phrases to aid Daniel in the translations. All the things I normally do around here."

"Golf through the Stargate, sir? How did General Hammond take that?" He was smiling broadly now.

"Oh, you know ol' Hammond. He was great with it. He thought it was a splendid idea and he encouraged us."

Sam rolled her eyes and looked down at her plate of almost gone Jello.

"Anything else, sir?" She asked, knowing that wasn't the cause of his boyish grinning that was so common as of late.

"I taught Teal'c how to juggle." That earned a bit of a luagh from both of them.

She was just going to have to ask him directly if she was going to get any kind of an answer pertaining to the information she was after.

"Although that sounds like a lot of fun, I was actually wondering, sir, if anything happened between u--"

"UNSCHEDULED OFFWORLD ACTIVATION!!" Came the loud previously recorded voice as the red lights near the ceiling started to flash.

*Great. Now I'm going to have to ask him again.*

They rose and jogged toward the gate room to check out the situation.

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Heh.. I know I'm mean.. I just though of that and it made me laugh!! Plus it buys Jack more time! Well.. I would love your feedback, you know I would. Otherwise I won't write more.. :)