Teal'c was one of the players that made it to the final game, which made the China boys preen and whoop. Jack grinned from where he stood against the wall, watching his boys as they rooted Teal'c on. He was still holding Gina, who was cheering as loudly as any of the boys, and even better, Carter had looped an arm around his waist, holding him. Since they were in the back of the group, no one really noticed, but Jack did, and he liked the way her hand was almost possessive on him.

Shawn noticed, too, but the boy hid his triumphant smile. He'd done everything he could to get the two of them together as much as possible, and his plan had worked even better than he thought it would. Sam had seemed a little distant from jack before, not unfriendly, just ... well... something Shawn didn't understand. It wasn't there now, though. Confident that he was the reason they were standing like they were, Shawn was able to focus his entire attention on other things; like rooting for Murray to show the other cabins just how great China was.

Teal'c didn't win. He could have won, but a wrong move by one of the kids had made him fall, and Teal'c had automatically reached out and cushioned what would have been a nasty bump to the head, since the boy hadn't had any hands free to stop his head from hitting the floor. The action had unbalanced the Jaffa and Teal'c had fallen as well, but he didn't mind. Winning was not everything. Honor was. His honor was intact, as it would not have been if the boy had been injured when Teal'c could have avoided it.

"Yay!"

"You almost got it, Murray!"

"Didja see him?"

Obviously, the boys didn't really care if Teal'c won, either. They just wanted to be better than the France girls. Jack let go of Gina, and Sam let go of Jack, and they went over to congratulate him as well.

"You were great, Murray," Sam said, smiling at Teal'c.

"Thank you, MajorCarter."

"Hey! Sam's a Major! Did you know that, Jack?" The boys turned to look up at Jack, who nodded.

"Wow!"

She was even cooler than she'd been ten seconds before. At least to the boys.

Daniel came over with Sally and Jean, and the girls from France crowded around their counselor. They, of course, had known Sam was a Major. They'd interrogated her thoroughly the first night they'd met. They were pretty certain they knew all there was to know about her, including that her dad lived somewhere out of the country, and her brother lived in California.

"She works in deep space telemetry." One of the girls said, taking Sam's hand possessively. "It's very complicated, though, so you wouldn't understand it."

"Yeah? So what? Murray's a Air Force Seal!"

"Sam's smart."

"Daniel's a Arconolobist."

"Sam is pretty."

"Jack's got a gun."

"So does Sam."

"Jack has more than one."

"Enough!" Jack held up his hands to stop the arguing. Both sets of campers looked at him, and he scowled. "Sam is wonderful, Daniel is wonderful and everyone else is wonderful, too. Now..." he looked at his boys. "Stop yelling. Okay?"

"Sorry, Jack."

Sam looked at her girls, and they knew the look well. They sniffed, but they also apologized, although it was to Jack, and not to the boys.

"Sorry."

"Just for that, we're going to do something together. Just France and China."

"What?"

"No!"

"Really?"

"Awww... do we have to?"

"Daniel, too?"

"Daniel, too."

"Oh. Well... okay, then."

"Awww..."

Jack looked at Sam helplessly; trying to figure out what in the world he was going to make them do to make them stop bickering. He was also aware that Gary Hines had come up beside him, grinning at the way O'Neill had put a sudden end to what could have become very annoying.

"Why not divide them into teams, Jack? Split them up, boys and girls together?"

"No!"

"No!"

"I get to be on Daniel's team!"

"No you don't."

Daniel sighed. Sam grinned. Sally gave Daniel a sympathetic pat on the shoulder. Teal'c just stood there, wondering what was going on. Humans were so complicated.