Title: A Major and her Mother-in-Law Part 2
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Season: 6 (only because of Jonas)
Summary: Sam soon-to-be mother-in-law continues her visit.
Disclaimer: Okay I don't own Stargate SG-1 or anything to do with it's universe, you know that and I know that so lets not bring it up. Also there are small references to the soft drinks "Pepsi" and "Coke", I don't own them either. I do own the plot and Lauren O'Neill though.
Author's Note: Here is chapter six! (Or part two) It gets pretty dramatic and there's minor language exchanged.
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'I may need to injure Janet by the end of this...' Sam thought as she closed the front door. Thankfully Lauren was gone, as were her bags, but so was Jack. 'We've been though everything imaginable in the last six years, maybe his mother is the last test.' Sam grinned at herself as she headed into the kitchen.
"Hey baby," Jack said walking towards Sam and kissing her quickly before grabbing the bags of food from her and walking back to the counter.
"'Hey Baby'? That's all you have to say to me?" Sam asked as she put her hands on her hips.
"Did you remember my fortune cookies?" Jack asked looking at Sam, his voice sounded serious enough even though he was being sarcastic. Sam glared at him for a moment before he walked over and hugged her, a motion that she did not return, "Aww, come on Sammie, don't let her bother you, I'm going to marry you regardless."
Sam grumbled something into Jack's chest that he was quite sure was obscene when his mother walked in, "I just spent two hours on a plane with nothing to eat, do you mind?"
Sam grumbled something else that Jack was positive was something inappropriate and completely unlike her, "Sure Mom, just go into the dining room and we'll be in a minute."
"I'll get it myself or else it may be cold by the time you two are done." Lauren replied walking over to the food.
'I'm going to kill her,' Sam thought to herself before pulling herself out of Jack's arms. "What can I get you to drink Lauren?"
"Do you have any Coke?" Lauren asked as she topped her plate off with a spoonful of rice.
"No only Pepsi." Sam replied as she looked through the refrigerator.
"Oh, well I'll just have some water then." Lauren said walking out of the room but managing to call behind her, "Jack get that for me."
Sam shot her fiancé a look but didn't say a word, she didn't need too, with a look like hers, Jack understood her loud and clear, he was going to get it sometime or the other.
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Sam and Jack arrived in the dining room only several minutes later. The room settled in a heavy, uncomfortable silence. Finally Jack, being himself, needed some action, "So Mom, what do you think of the house?"
Sam glanced across the table at Jack, that wasn't his original question, after six years of watching him in all kinds of situations; she could tell when he was holding back.
"Nice." Lauren answered and went back to chewing.
"And your flight?" Jack continually asked, not missing a beat.
"Good." Lauren replied, it seemed to Sam like she was hearing the same drummer.
"And of Sam?" He asked.
Lauren made a choking noise and quickly gulped down some of her water, "Jonathan! Are you trying to kill me?"
"Well damn Mom, maybe you would talk more to her that way, at least you wouldn't be as rude." Jack said so suddenly that Sam nearly choked.
"Jonathan!" Lauren croaked as she looked over at her son. "How could you say something like that!?"
"Hell Mom it's true! You haven't said one kind thing to Sam since we've arrived!" Jack said, not breaking eye contact with his mother.
"Well did you expect me to be Mrs. Brady about it? Jack you've talked about your friends so vaguely over the past few years that when you finally said "Sam" I figured it was a man! So now after six years of thinking that Sam was a man to suddenly discover that not only is Sam a *Samantha* but the two of you are engaged! How do you think I feel? Now if you two excuse will me I'm going to get some sleep, I suddenly lost my appetite." Lauren said suddenly as she walked away from the table, disappearing down the hall.
"Well, that went well." Jack said as he sipped his beer. He glanced at Sam from across the table to find her looking slightly pale, "Don't worry Sam, Mom has a tendency to be dramatic."
"You mean she's an O'Neill." Sam asked with a minor grin, her face still slack with unhappiness.
"I'm sorry Sam, I know this isn't what you were planning." Jack said, reaching out and grabbing her hand.
"It's not your fault Jack." Sam said before turning back to her food, neither spoke for the rest of the meal.
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"Hi sweetheart," Sam said with a grin as she balanced the phone between her shoulder and her ear the next morning. Trying to escape the horror that had befallen the O'Neill household the night before, Sam decided to call her favorite Goddaughter, "I wanted to catch you before you went to school."
"So the meeting didn't go well, did it?" Cassandra Fraiser asked from her side of the phone.
"You are too smart for your own good." Sam laughed as she picked up her coffee cup.
Just then Jack walked into the kitchen, "Who?" Jack mouthed to his smiling fiancée.
"It's Cassie." Sam said out-loud to Jack as he went about making his own cup of coffee.
He waved her over and Sam held the phone to his ear, "Hey there sweetheart, gossiping with Sam?"
"You got it Uncle Jack." Cassie laughed.
"Well save some Jonas gossip for me." Jack grinned, "See you this weekend."
"You got it. Bye." Cassie said as Sam took the phone back.
Just then Lauren walked into the room, all she had to do was give her son an odd look for him to understand.
"It's our Goddaughter." Jack said as he moved away from the coffee pot for his mom.
"Ah, another thing I didn't know." Lauren said as she grabbed herself a mug.
"Okay Cass, we'll see you this weekend, bye." Sam said hanging up the phone.
"Everything okay?" Jack asked Sam's grinning face.
"Yeah Jonas just beeped in to talk to Janet." Sam answered taking a sip of her coffee.
"Really?" Jack laughed.
Lauren glanced between the two smiling people, feeling completely out of the loop when, surprisingly, Sam explained, "Janet Fraiser and Jonas Quinn work with us. Janet adopted Cassandra a few years ago. Anyway the three of us are trying our best to hook Janet and Jonas up."
"Ah, and that's how you two pass your time?" Lauren asked, her attitude evident once more.
"Naw, we work too." Jack answered.
"Oh yes on, what's the term, um...deep space telescopes correct?" Lauren asked sarcastically.
"That's right." Jack answered. "Sam here is an astrophysicist."
Lauren left her face slack as she asked, "So what is it that you do?"
"I count the screws." Jack answered just as blank faced and Sam muffled a laugh. "Now aren't you happy that all of those years of school amounted to something worth while?"
Suddenly the doorbell rang and Sam excused herself to get it, 'Saved by the doorbell. I don't know how much more I could have taken.' Even as it was, Sam's cheeks were flushed red with the attempt of not laughing. "Hello?" Sam asked as she pulled open the door.
"Morning Major Carter, I hear congratulations are in order." Major Paul Davis said as he held out a bouquet of daisies.
"Thank you..." Sam began but wasn't sure where to go with it, 'Paul...Major...Davis, too many choices, not enough coffee in my system.'
"Call me Paul, we're off duty." Davis grinned.
"Thank you Paul, they're beautiful." Sam said, "Do you want to come in?"
"Oh no, I can't, I just wanted to drop off these folders, General Hammond said that the two of you had taken the day off but my orders were to deliver the folders so here I am." Davis explained. "And here are the folders. So you and Colonel O'Neill have a good day off, if anyone deserves it, it's you two."
"Thank you again Paul, oh...um...are you coming to the barbeque?" Sam asked as Davis placed his uniform hat onto his head.
"Well is that an invitation?" Davis asked with a half grin.
"Yes." Sam grinned back.
"Well then I'll see you tomorrow." Davis grinned.
"Okay, see you tomorrow." Sam waved as Davis walked down the small path. She closed the door to find both Jack and his mother standing down the hall, watching her. "Um that was Major Davis, he wanted to drop off some things."
"And the flowers?" Jack asked, his eyebrow rose in an entertained fashion.
"Our, well my engagement gift." Sam answered, remembering the bright yellow flowers in her hands.
"Wow a plaque from the General and flowers from Davis, you seem to be on a roll." Jack grinned.
Sam grinned back and shrugged, a look Jack recognized as her being embarrassed.
"What is all this business of a barbeque?" Lauren asked, hands on her hips.
"It's not a big deal Mom, just a little get together with people from work." Jack answered.
"So is that my un-invitation?" Lauren asked, glancing at her son.
"Actually Lauren," Sam interrupted to prevent another clash, "I need some help shopping, Jack never likes to do the shopping, so I was hoping that you would help me."
Jack shot a stunned look to Sam, obviously shocked at her latest offer.
'I can have the greatest ideas in the universe, save numerous races from annihilation but nothing good comes to mind when dealing with one woman.' Sam thought to herself.
"Okay let's go." Lauren grinned. Jack made a motion to grab his jacket when Lauren threw her arm out, "No Jack, you heard Sam, you don't like to go shopping, so stay here, it will be a girls day out."
Sam sent Jack a mixed look as she and Lauren headed to the door. His 'girls' disappeared as the doors closed, leaving Jack alone. "May the force be with you Sam."
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The girls returned by nightfall, and much to Jack's dismay things hadn't seemed to improve between the two women. In fact, Sam seemed to be one nag away from becoming homicidal. He helped them bring in all of the food and accessories into the garage before he cornered Sam, "Why don't you go and draw a bath?"
"No, I'm okay." Sam sighed; taking a deep breath and inhaling Jack's sent immediately calmed her. 'The scent of home and safety.' Sam thought.
"No Sam, you're not. Besides my mother and I need to have a chat." Jack said, he took a moment to look deep into Sam's blue eyes before he leaned in and planted a kiss on the top of her head. And with that he walked towards the back porch, where his mother had disappeared too.
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"Mom, we need to have ourselves a talk." Jack said as he strolled onto the back deck.
"Come now Jack, I've had a long day, can't this wait?" Lauren asked from her place on a chair.
"No Mom, it can't. What is it about Sam that you hate so much?" Jack asked, strolling over.
"Who said I hate her?" Lauren asked.
"Well geez Mom, I could be blind, dumb and deaf and still realize that you hate Sam." Jack said sitting down across the table, like an interrogation was about to take place.
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Sam quietly crept up to the bottom of the stairs from her new hiding place she could see Jack and Lauren at the opposite side of the deck. 'This isn't spying.' Sam thought to herself. 'It's reconnaissance.'
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"Don't you think that I may just have some reservations about you getting married again?" Lauren asked, sipping her drink.
"What? You don't like Sam because you don't want me to get married again?" Jack asked.
"Sam is young Jack, no doubt she wants a family of her own, and after I saw what you went though with Sara and Charlie," Lauren explained.
"Oh come on!" Jack yelled as he pushed away from the table.
"Don't think I didn't notice what you went though Jack," Lauren said.
"Mom, Sam is different. She is a great woman. She's smart and funny and not to mention smart. She's wonderful and sexy and I love her with every fiber of my being. Deal with it." And with that Jack stormed back into the house.
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From her hiding spot, Sam could feel her cheeks redden, her heart race and her eyes water, 'I am the luckiest woman on the planet.'
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"He's so cute when he's angry, have you noticed that Sam?" Lauren asked suddenly.
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Sam jumped ever so slightly by Lauren's words; she didn't expect to be caught by a civilian, especially a seventy-two year old. She walked up the deck stairs to join Lauren, "I thought you were supposed to hate me."
Lauren grinned a playful grin, "Oh now come on sweetheart, you don't honesty think that I hate you do you?"
Sam raised an eyebrow and grinned herself, "Well I apologize for having gotten that confused, that was so stupid of me."
"Okay I deserved that and much more but come now, Jack is my only son and besides I wasn't sure if I liked you." Lauren admitted.
"Don't worry, the feeling was mutual." Sam said, shifting her weight from on hip to the other.
Lauren smiled a small smile, "I needed to make sure that you weren't like Sara."
"Really?" Sam asked, not completely convinced.
"Sara was just not the right woman for Jack but they were young and in love. I'm not even one hundred percent positive that they would have stayed married, even if Charlie's accident hadn't happened. But you Sam, you're beautiful but you're probably the smartest person I've ever met, so for you to be attracted to my son *is* a bit stunning but most importantly you can handle yourself with my son, the only other person I've ever seen do that is myself." Lauren grinned at the last part.
"So you like me?" Sam made it a question to humor Lauren.
"What I'm saying is I can't wait to have you as a daughter. And I'm not going to make you call me 'Mom' or anything like that, Jack told me about your mother." Lauren said watching Sam. "And I apologize that I've put you through Hell the past two days."
Taking a moment Sam smiled, "Thank you."
"No problem." Lauren grinned as she and Sam linked arms and headed for the house. "I love your haircut, where did you get it done?"
'Why do I get the feeling that this ride is going to be crazier than the last?' Sam asked herself as she grinned at Lauren and closed the door behind them.
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After Thought: What do you think? Has Lauren redeemed herself? And as I work on part seven so far everyone wants Lauren to attend the BBQ, any other ideas either pro her attending or against?
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Season: 6 (only because of Jonas)
Summary: Sam soon-to-be mother-in-law continues her visit.
Disclaimer: Okay I don't own Stargate SG-1 or anything to do with it's universe, you know that and I know that so lets not bring it up. Also there are small references to the soft drinks "Pepsi" and "Coke", I don't own them either. I do own the plot and Lauren O'Neill though.
Author's Note: Here is chapter six! (Or part two) It gets pretty dramatic and there's minor language exchanged.
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'I may need to injure Janet by the end of this...' Sam thought as she closed the front door. Thankfully Lauren was gone, as were her bags, but so was Jack. 'We've been though everything imaginable in the last six years, maybe his mother is the last test.' Sam grinned at herself as she headed into the kitchen.
"Hey baby," Jack said walking towards Sam and kissing her quickly before grabbing the bags of food from her and walking back to the counter.
"'Hey Baby'? That's all you have to say to me?" Sam asked as she put her hands on her hips.
"Did you remember my fortune cookies?" Jack asked looking at Sam, his voice sounded serious enough even though he was being sarcastic. Sam glared at him for a moment before he walked over and hugged her, a motion that she did not return, "Aww, come on Sammie, don't let her bother you, I'm going to marry you regardless."
Sam grumbled something into Jack's chest that he was quite sure was obscene when his mother walked in, "I just spent two hours on a plane with nothing to eat, do you mind?"
Sam grumbled something else that Jack was positive was something inappropriate and completely unlike her, "Sure Mom, just go into the dining room and we'll be in a minute."
"I'll get it myself or else it may be cold by the time you two are done." Lauren replied walking over to the food.
'I'm going to kill her,' Sam thought to herself before pulling herself out of Jack's arms. "What can I get you to drink Lauren?"
"Do you have any Coke?" Lauren asked as she topped her plate off with a spoonful of rice.
"No only Pepsi." Sam replied as she looked through the refrigerator.
"Oh, well I'll just have some water then." Lauren said walking out of the room but managing to call behind her, "Jack get that for me."
Sam shot her fiancé a look but didn't say a word, she didn't need too, with a look like hers, Jack understood her loud and clear, he was going to get it sometime or the other.
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Sam and Jack arrived in the dining room only several minutes later. The room settled in a heavy, uncomfortable silence. Finally Jack, being himself, needed some action, "So Mom, what do you think of the house?"
Sam glanced across the table at Jack, that wasn't his original question, after six years of watching him in all kinds of situations; she could tell when he was holding back.
"Nice." Lauren answered and went back to chewing.
"And your flight?" Jack continually asked, not missing a beat.
"Good." Lauren replied, it seemed to Sam like she was hearing the same drummer.
"And of Sam?" He asked.
Lauren made a choking noise and quickly gulped down some of her water, "Jonathan! Are you trying to kill me?"
"Well damn Mom, maybe you would talk more to her that way, at least you wouldn't be as rude." Jack said so suddenly that Sam nearly choked.
"Jonathan!" Lauren croaked as she looked over at her son. "How could you say something like that!?"
"Hell Mom it's true! You haven't said one kind thing to Sam since we've arrived!" Jack said, not breaking eye contact with his mother.
"Well did you expect me to be Mrs. Brady about it? Jack you've talked about your friends so vaguely over the past few years that when you finally said "Sam" I figured it was a man! So now after six years of thinking that Sam was a man to suddenly discover that not only is Sam a *Samantha* but the two of you are engaged! How do you think I feel? Now if you two excuse will me I'm going to get some sleep, I suddenly lost my appetite." Lauren said suddenly as she walked away from the table, disappearing down the hall.
"Well, that went well." Jack said as he sipped his beer. He glanced at Sam from across the table to find her looking slightly pale, "Don't worry Sam, Mom has a tendency to be dramatic."
"You mean she's an O'Neill." Sam asked with a minor grin, her face still slack with unhappiness.
"I'm sorry Sam, I know this isn't what you were planning." Jack said, reaching out and grabbing her hand.
"It's not your fault Jack." Sam said before turning back to her food, neither spoke for the rest of the meal.
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"Hi sweetheart," Sam said with a grin as she balanced the phone between her shoulder and her ear the next morning. Trying to escape the horror that had befallen the O'Neill household the night before, Sam decided to call her favorite Goddaughter, "I wanted to catch you before you went to school."
"So the meeting didn't go well, did it?" Cassandra Fraiser asked from her side of the phone.
"You are too smart for your own good." Sam laughed as she picked up her coffee cup.
Just then Jack walked into the kitchen, "Who?" Jack mouthed to his smiling fiancée.
"It's Cassie." Sam said out-loud to Jack as he went about making his own cup of coffee.
He waved her over and Sam held the phone to his ear, "Hey there sweetheart, gossiping with Sam?"
"You got it Uncle Jack." Cassie laughed.
"Well save some Jonas gossip for me." Jack grinned, "See you this weekend."
"You got it. Bye." Cassie said as Sam took the phone back.
Just then Lauren walked into the room, all she had to do was give her son an odd look for him to understand.
"It's our Goddaughter." Jack said as he moved away from the coffee pot for his mom.
"Ah, another thing I didn't know." Lauren said as she grabbed herself a mug.
"Okay Cass, we'll see you this weekend, bye." Sam said hanging up the phone.
"Everything okay?" Jack asked Sam's grinning face.
"Yeah Jonas just beeped in to talk to Janet." Sam answered taking a sip of her coffee.
"Really?" Jack laughed.
Lauren glanced between the two smiling people, feeling completely out of the loop when, surprisingly, Sam explained, "Janet Fraiser and Jonas Quinn work with us. Janet adopted Cassandra a few years ago. Anyway the three of us are trying our best to hook Janet and Jonas up."
"Ah, and that's how you two pass your time?" Lauren asked, her attitude evident once more.
"Naw, we work too." Jack answered.
"Oh yes on, what's the term, um...deep space telescopes correct?" Lauren asked sarcastically.
"That's right." Jack answered. "Sam here is an astrophysicist."
Lauren left her face slack as she asked, "So what is it that you do?"
"I count the screws." Jack answered just as blank faced and Sam muffled a laugh. "Now aren't you happy that all of those years of school amounted to something worth while?"
Suddenly the doorbell rang and Sam excused herself to get it, 'Saved by the doorbell. I don't know how much more I could have taken.' Even as it was, Sam's cheeks were flushed red with the attempt of not laughing. "Hello?" Sam asked as she pulled open the door.
"Morning Major Carter, I hear congratulations are in order." Major Paul Davis said as he held out a bouquet of daisies.
"Thank you..." Sam began but wasn't sure where to go with it, 'Paul...Major...Davis, too many choices, not enough coffee in my system.'
"Call me Paul, we're off duty." Davis grinned.
"Thank you Paul, they're beautiful." Sam said, "Do you want to come in?"
"Oh no, I can't, I just wanted to drop off these folders, General Hammond said that the two of you had taken the day off but my orders were to deliver the folders so here I am." Davis explained. "And here are the folders. So you and Colonel O'Neill have a good day off, if anyone deserves it, it's you two."
"Thank you again Paul, oh...um...are you coming to the barbeque?" Sam asked as Davis placed his uniform hat onto his head.
"Well is that an invitation?" Davis asked with a half grin.
"Yes." Sam grinned back.
"Well then I'll see you tomorrow." Davis grinned.
"Okay, see you tomorrow." Sam waved as Davis walked down the small path. She closed the door to find both Jack and his mother standing down the hall, watching her. "Um that was Major Davis, he wanted to drop off some things."
"And the flowers?" Jack asked, his eyebrow rose in an entertained fashion.
"Our, well my engagement gift." Sam answered, remembering the bright yellow flowers in her hands.
"Wow a plaque from the General and flowers from Davis, you seem to be on a roll." Jack grinned.
Sam grinned back and shrugged, a look Jack recognized as her being embarrassed.
"What is all this business of a barbeque?" Lauren asked, hands on her hips.
"It's not a big deal Mom, just a little get together with people from work." Jack answered.
"So is that my un-invitation?" Lauren asked, glancing at her son.
"Actually Lauren," Sam interrupted to prevent another clash, "I need some help shopping, Jack never likes to do the shopping, so I was hoping that you would help me."
Jack shot a stunned look to Sam, obviously shocked at her latest offer.
'I can have the greatest ideas in the universe, save numerous races from annihilation but nothing good comes to mind when dealing with one woman.' Sam thought to herself.
"Okay let's go." Lauren grinned. Jack made a motion to grab his jacket when Lauren threw her arm out, "No Jack, you heard Sam, you don't like to go shopping, so stay here, it will be a girls day out."
Sam sent Jack a mixed look as she and Lauren headed to the door. His 'girls' disappeared as the doors closed, leaving Jack alone. "May the force be with you Sam."
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The girls returned by nightfall, and much to Jack's dismay things hadn't seemed to improve between the two women. In fact, Sam seemed to be one nag away from becoming homicidal. He helped them bring in all of the food and accessories into the garage before he cornered Sam, "Why don't you go and draw a bath?"
"No, I'm okay." Sam sighed; taking a deep breath and inhaling Jack's sent immediately calmed her. 'The scent of home and safety.' Sam thought.
"No Sam, you're not. Besides my mother and I need to have a chat." Jack said, he took a moment to look deep into Sam's blue eyes before he leaned in and planted a kiss on the top of her head. And with that he walked towards the back porch, where his mother had disappeared too.
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"Mom, we need to have ourselves a talk." Jack said as he strolled onto the back deck.
"Come now Jack, I've had a long day, can't this wait?" Lauren asked from her place on a chair.
"No Mom, it can't. What is it about Sam that you hate so much?" Jack asked, strolling over.
"Who said I hate her?" Lauren asked.
"Well geez Mom, I could be blind, dumb and deaf and still realize that you hate Sam." Jack said sitting down across the table, like an interrogation was about to take place.
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Sam quietly crept up to the bottom of the stairs from her new hiding place she could see Jack and Lauren at the opposite side of the deck. 'This isn't spying.' Sam thought to herself. 'It's reconnaissance.'
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"Don't you think that I may just have some reservations about you getting married again?" Lauren asked, sipping her drink.
"What? You don't like Sam because you don't want me to get married again?" Jack asked.
"Sam is young Jack, no doubt she wants a family of her own, and after I saw what you went though with Sara and Charlie," Lauren explained.
"Oh come on!" Jack yelled as he pushed away from the table.
"Don't think I didn't notice what you went though Jack," Lauren said.
"Mom, Sam is different. She is a great woman. She's smart and funny and not to mention smart. She's wonderful and sexy and I love her with every fiber of my being. Deal with it." And with that Jack stormed back into the house.
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From her hiding spot, Sam could feel her cheeks redden, her heart race and her eyes water, 'I am the luckiest woman on the planet.'
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"He's so cute when he's angry, have you noticed that Sam?" Lauren asked suddenly.
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Sam jumped ever so slightly by Lauren's words; she didn't expect to be caught by a civilian, especially a seventy-two year old. She walked up the deck stairs to join Lauren, "I thought you were supposed to hate me."
Lauren grinned a playful grin, "Oh now come on sweetheart, you don't honesty think that I hate you do you?"
Sam raised an eyebrow and grinned herself, "Well I apologize for having gotten that confused, that was so stupid of me."
"Okay I deserved that and much more but come now, Jack is my only son and besides I wasn't sure if I liked you." Lauren admitted.
"Don't worry, the feeling was mutual." Sam said, shifting her weight from on hip to the other.
Lauren smiled a small smile, "I needed to make sure that you weren't like Sara."
"Really?" Sam asked, not completely convinced.
"Sara was just not the right woman for Jack but they were young and in love. I'm not even one hundred percent positive that they would have stayed married, even if Charlie's accident hadn't happened. But you Sam, you're beautiful but you're probably the smartest person I've ever met, so for you to be attracted to my son *is* a bit stunning but most importantly you can handle yourself with my son, the only other person I've ever seen do that is myself." Lauren grinned at the last part.
"So you like me?" Sam made it a question to humor Lauren.
"What I'm saying is I can't wait to have you as a daughter. And I'm not going to make you call me 'Mom' or anything like that, Jack told me about your mother." Lauren said watching Sam. "And I apologize that I've put you through Hell the past two days."
Taking a moment Sam smiled, "Thank you."
"No problem." Lauren grinned as she and Sam linked arms and headed for the house. "I love your haircut, where did you get it done?"
'Why do I get the feeling that this ride is going to be crazier than the last?' Sam asked herself as she grinned at Lauren and closed the door behind them.
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After Thought: What do you think? Has Lauren redeemed herself? And as I work on part seven so far everyone wants Lauren to attend the BBQ, any other ideas either pro her attending or against?