Category: Romance, Smarm
Season: future Season
Pairing: Jack/Sam
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: sexual situations
Disclaimer: Stargate SG-1 and its characters are the property of Showtime/Viacom, MGM/UA,
Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Productions. I have written this story for entertainment
purposes only and no money whatsoever has exchanged hands. No copyright infringement is
intended. The original characters, situations, and story are the property of the author(s).
Author's notes:
I need to say thanks to everybody who's dropped a review!! clearing my throat...THANK YOU!!!
I hope the third part pleases you all and I maybe you find the time to give me a piece of your mind!!
Hugs go also to my sis Maren! You go girl!
And now make sure you're not allergic against loads of shippyness!
/()/()/()/()/
It was slowly freaking her out!
Why the hell was he watching her? Why couldn't he just wait until they were in her lab or his office? Was it necessary that he kept on staring at her back even during a briefing?
Sam bit the inside of her cheek and flexed the muscles in her shoulders to get the strain out of them. She could really need a massage right now... this whole briefing seemed to go on forever!
Well, it would at least last another twenty minutes, considering the fact that Daniel was frowning
a lot while talking about that ruin-thingy-whatever. She normally listened to what her friend was
rambling... uhm, talking about, but today she just couldn't concentrate on anything other than the
unnerving feeling that somebody -very special- was watching her!
Deliberately!
Shifting uncomfortably in her seat, Sam desperately tried to draw her full attention to the screen
with the large, golden, with ornaments covered... ARGH!
"Major Carter... anything you'd like to add?" At hearing her name leaving General Hammond's
mouth, Sam averted her eyes from Daniel's cheeky grin (when the hell had that appeared?) and
concentrated instead on her superior officer.
"No, Sir. I was merely trying to take a better look at the statue."
He nodded and turned back to the waiting archaeologist... who was indeed grinning cheekily! A
pointed glare and he re-assumed his position beside the screen and shoved his glasses back up his nose.
Good boy... though she may have to wipe that grin off of his face after the briefing...
Sam could still feel his piercing brown eyes on the back of her neck, watching her, probably
seeing the slight red patch just below her hairline and smiling -unseen to her- one of his boyish,
barely visible grins... the ones she was officially addicted to.
"Alright people, if there's nothing to add then you're dismissed."
The word 'dismissed' functioned as some sort of bell, forcing Sam out of her dream world and
bringing her mind back to the situation around her. She rose to her full height and waited until the
General had left the room.
"This was 'so' interesting, Daniel! And I think Carter could help ya with that problem... what was it called, Carter?" He frowned as if he really tried hard to remember whatever it was... she was fairly sure he knew she could kill with her bare hands.
"You wanne grab something to eat, Sam?"
Thanks Daniel! Maybe she wouldn't punish him for that stunt earlier in the briefing at all.
"Yeah, I'll see you there. Just have to finish an experiment in my lab."
"Alright."
Turning to the door, Daniel left with Teal'c in tow, heading to the commissary. Sam decided that
the best way to make Jack O'Neill suffer for what he'd done to her, was to ignore him and just
walked away.
"Cart... Sam?"
He'd called her by her first name in public! No she would not grin, she would not...
Jack really loved her grin... it was so damn intoxicating and made him react likewise.He took her hand and threaded his fingers through hers. For a second he saw shock on her face, but before she could say anything, Jack's hand left hers and fell beside his leg.
Sam kept on staring at his hand, before she lifted her gaze and looked in his eyes...
they were gleaming with mischief.
"You wanne get something to eat tonight? We could order Chinese or Italian or..."
"Yeah... that'd be great."
One corner of his mouth lifted to a lopsided grin and he walked over to the door, waiting for her to follow him outside. Sam shook her head slightly... she still couldn't believe what was happening here... it was still too dream-like to make her realize that it was all real, that the last two days hadn't been an illusion or some weird version of an alternate reality...
They walked down the corridor mostly in silence. Sam kept her eyes on the floor and Jack decided that the wall ahead was just too damn interesting to just look away.
Yes, the floor was grey, and there was this red line that would now lead around the corner and
then...
There!... Alright, Sam... take a deep breath and relax... in and out...
There it was again and it made her shiver every time it happened... every time his hand 'accidently' brushed against hers. The contact was barely there and nobody would have attributed a deeper meaning to it, but well, Sam wasn't 'nobody' and so a jolt of... something ran through her entire body with every touch...
Finally the couple reached the elevators and Sam pressed the button. The red light flickered to
life and now all they had to do was wait for the thingy to arrive, pick them up and get them to the floor where her lab was.
He did it again, but this time Sam caught his eyes and watched him intently. But he was just staring back... merely returning the gaze!
"Hey Sam!... Colonel..."
Hey! There was no reason why Doc Fraiser had to call him with that disdainful tone of voice!
"You having some time for me, Sam? There's something I should really talk about with you... " A frown appeared on Jack's forehead as he watched the petite Doctot grab Sam's arm and turn her around so that the Major was facing away from him.
Janet's eyes found his and challenged him to say anything... he could swear the word 'needle'
flashed through her eyes... very scary!
"Uhm, yes. Let's say I come over to your office in two hours? I already promised Daniel to eat
something with him."
"That's OK with me... see ya then Sam... Colonel."
Jack watched the other woman walk away from them, heading in the direction of the General's
office... very strange indeed! And as he turned back to Sam, he found her staring at him!
"What?"
"Nothin'."
The elevator doors opened and a young man left the cubicle, walking past the two officers and
running down the corridor full speed.
Sam entered first and pressed the button to the floor of her lab, while Jack followed just
behind her. And while he headed to the back of the elevator, his hand brushed against hers and as he waited for the shiver to run down Sam's body, a smile covered his lips.
/()/()/()/()/
"Janet, I have a big huge honkin' problem."
'What a way to greet your best friend!' Janet thought as she saw Sam enter her office and close
the door behind her. Her blue eyes seemed troubled as she held eye contact with the Doc.
"Just one?"
"Haha... I mean it... what am I supposed to do now? I guess I dreaded this moment as soon as we first... ya know, when we... " Janet nodded enthusiastically to encourage Sam to continue.
"This... thing is going to a whole new plane!"
"You know that there aren't that many possibilities, Sam... you have taken the first step, now take the next."
Sam sighed and shook her head... as if she hadn't already realized that! The problem was to decide which one to take!
When she'd kissed him or the other way round, hell, when they'd kissed, Sam had already played every possible scenarios through her mind, had drawn up a list with pros and cons for them all and had come to the conclusion that she didn't know what to do now!
Kissing your CO was one thing, but retiring because you love him was something, Sam had to think about more seriously and clearly. And not only she...
Sam was pretty sure that she wasn't the only one who had such thoughts! Jack sure as hell had the same train rushing through his head and giving him one hell of a headache as well! He was a very reasonable man and very intelligent... not that he'd ever admit that!
"I'll have to discuss it with him."
"Yeah, you have... and do it soon, Sam. You're not the only one who noticed the increasing number of looks he gives you." Janet smiled gently and returned her attention to the sheets of paper on her desk.
The last thing she heard before Sam left was a loud sigh.
/()/()/()/()/
Sam loved his house.
It was so nice. Not just the design, but also the furniture, the plants, the garden and especially
the scent.
His scent...
Closing her eyes, Sam inhaled deeply and smiled into the silence of the room. Did she mention that she loved his house... well she may love the person living here more, but that came with it.
"Sam... just feel free to do whatever you want to... my home is all yours." The voice of Jack
O'Neill echoed through the rooms, and Sam followed his orders and walked over to the large
window of his living room. She liked the garden behind his house... a lot of good old memories were connected to them.
Casually her gaze wandered to a shelf beside the window. Some books and photos stood
on top of it and being the nosy woman Sam has always been, she made her way to the shelf.
Unfolding her arms from around her chest, Sam took one of the photos and allowed her thumb to gently rub over the face of her CO... he was smiling while Daniel tried in vain to set up a folding chair on his veranda.
Sam remembered that day and chuckled.
"I love this one the most."
Sam turned at hearing his voice.
He was holding a photo in a silver frame in his right hand out to her and she took it, never stopping to look at his face.
It was a picture of her.
She couldn't recall the day it had been taken, but she'd obviously had quite some fun. It seemed as if she hadn't known that somebody had taken it in the first place.
"You were so beautiful... not that you're now not, but then you just seemed to glow in the sun and I just had to, ya know..." He trailed off, apparently not able to continue as he didn't know what to say.
Sam shook her head and walked back to the door where he was now standing. Her arms came
around his neck and she kissed him lightly on his cheek then wandered lower to his neck and
nibbled it carefully.
Jack sighed in contentment and brought his hands around her body, pulling her against him and
burrowing his face in the crotch of her neck. He inhaled deeply... he loved her scent.
"Jack..."
"Hmm?"
Sam took a deep breath and squeezed him tightly against her chest.
"I love you."
It seemed as if he'd stopped breathing... or better had ceased to live! They stayed unmoving for
another moment, before Sam thought she couldn't take it any longer. She needed to see his face!
Right now!
Carefully Sam pulled away from his embrace. Her hands held onto his forearms and she tried to
catch the blank expression on his face.
For a moment Sam had the feeling to run away, crying her eyes out and hiding in a deep, black hole somewhere on another planet... why wasn't he saying something?
Anything!
That Jack had a huge problem restraining his first instinct of jumping up and down and yelling
incoherent things, Sam couldn't know by the looks of his slumped head. Jack was neither smiling
nor glaring... not even the slightest indication of shock was visible.
"You don't know for how long I've been waiting to hear you say those words."
And suddenly she was back in his arms and was fighting back the tears. Jack held her so tightly
against him that she feared to suffocate. But Sam just ignored the lack of oxygen and squeezed
him right back.
"Thanks Sam..."
Jack kissed her tenderly on her quivering lips and rested his forehead against hers, his nose
bumping against her slightly red one.
"I love you, too, Sam... I'll never leave you again." He merely whispered the words.
Jack gazed deeply into her bright eyes and couldn't tear them away from the sparkling blue, even
if a Goa'uld had entered his house at that moment with his staff weapon aimed at him.
Sam smiled, one of her mega watt ones and watched as Jack's features transformed into a
face-splitting smile and his eyes appeared to be even browner than before. Still smiling, Sam
brought her lips up to his and kissed him passionately.
Jack reacted immediately, not missing a heartbeat and wound his arms around her body, bringing her closer to him. Her hands roamed over his back and chest as both tried desperately to get more and more of each other.
/()/()/()/()/
'He loves me'... 'He really loves me'... 'Jack O'Neill loves Sam Carter'...
Her eyes were still closed, but she was really tempted to open them and watch his sleeping body
laying nearly motionless beside her.
His chest heaved and the light grey hair tickled her cheek, which made Sam smile lazily... she really needed to see him.
Slowly she opened her eyes, heavy lids revealing the gloomy bedroom of the man beside her. Again his chest rose... and fell. In and out... in and out. Did he realize how soothing his breathing was?
Sam moved her head slightly so that she was able to see his face from where she was resting her
cheek on his chest. A bright smile appeared on her lips as she saw his peaceful face just above
her. His eyes were closed, but she knew that in a few moments he would be wide awake... a soldier never slept long when somebody was watching him!
"Sam... "
"Yes?" His arm tightened around her waist.
"Sam, I've been thinking... about us and our... situtaion." Slowly his eyes opened and he gazed
down at her. Sam in return lifted her head from its resting place and leaned on her elbows to get a better view of his still sleepy features.
God, she adored his face!
"I know it happens not that often that I'm really thinking about something... but my brain
considered the circumstances worthwhile and used some of the stored energy..."
Sam chuckled, waiting patiently for him to continue.
"And I came to the conclusion that the only possible solution for our situation is that I retire." He paused, waiting for any sign that Sam wanted say somethig regarding this matter. But the blond
woman kept silent and only gazed into his eyes.
"And so... I prepared the papers yesterday and sent them to Hammond's office five sec before I
left the base..."
"Wait a second! You did that yesterday? And why do you think it was necessary to leave this tiny detail out when I came here last night?"
Jack couldn't tell whether she was angry or just shocked at his sudden decision... so he frowned to make it clear that he didn't know how to react.
"I knew that we would need some more time to you know...", his hand gestured between him and her,"... and so I first wanted to talk about it with you... but Sam, I really had to do this! For you and me!
I'm quite... aged, elderly, call it whatever you want to, but please not 'old'... that makes me feel... old and unworthy for you, and I think that time is slowly running out for me. I have allowed so many chances to just pass by, but this love I feel for you is just to precious to ignore it!"
Sam smiled gracefully in response and placed a small kiss on his lips to stop him from babbling.
"I mean it Sam... I retired because it was time... and the right time I may add! I love you and
couldn't stand it to see you leave SG1 just because of me."
Sam nodded, her eyes casted downwards as she contemplated the meaning of what Jack had said.
A new path had opened up in front of them... a new possible future offered its secrets behind a
closed door. And Sam had the handle in her hand.
"Did I mention that I'm in love with you, Jack O'Neill?" His hand toyed with a strand of her hair.
"Yeah, but I really need to hear that more often from now on."
Sam kissed him and Jack could feel her smile against his lips.
"I love you."
"Love you, too."
/()/()/()/()/
FINIS !!!
Did 'I' mention that I love feedback? And maybe, but just maybe, there'll be a fourth part...
haven't decided yet though
hinthint
Season: future Season
Pairing: Jack/Sam
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: sexual situations
Disclaimer: Stargate SG-1 and its characters are the property of Showtime/Viacom, MGM/UA,
Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Productions. I have written this story for entertainment
purposes only and no money whatsoever has exchanged hands. No copyright infringement is
intended. The original characters, situations, and story are the property of the author(s).
Author's notes:
I need to say thanks to everybody who's dropped a review!! clearing my throat...THANK YOU!!!
I hope the third part pleases you all and I maybe you find the time to give me a piece of your mind!!
Hugs go also to my sis Maren! You go girl!
And now make sure you're not allergic against loads of shippyness!
/()/()/()/()/
It was slowly freaking her out!
Why the hell was he watching her? Why couldn't he just wait until they were in her lab or his office? Was it necessary that he kept on staring at her back even during a briefing?
Sam bit the inside of her cheek and flexed the muscles in her shoulders to get the strain out of them. She could really need a massage right now... this whole briefing seemed to go on forever!
Well, it would at least last another twenty minutes, considering the fact that Daniel was frowning
a lot while talking about that ruin-thingy-whatever. She normally listened to what her friend was
rambling... uhm, talking about, but today she just couldn't concentrate on anything other than the
unnerving feeling that somebody -very special- was watching her!
Deliberately!
Shifting uncomfortably in her seat, Sam desperately tried to draw her full attention to the screen
with the large, golden, with ornaments covered... ARGH!
"Major Carter... anything you'd like to add?" At hearing her name leaving General Hammond's
mouth, Sam averted her eyes from Daniel's cheeky grin (when the hell had that appeared?) and
concentrated instead on her superior officer.
"No, Sir. I was merely trying to take a better look at the statue."
He nodded and turned back to the waiting archaeologist... who was indeed grinning cheekily! A
pointed glare and he re-assumed his position beside the screen and shoved his glasses back up his nose.
Good boy... though she may have to wipe that grin off of his face after the briefing...
Sam could still feel his piercing brown eyes on the back of her neck, watching her, probably
seeing the slight red patch just below her hairline and smiling -unseen to her- one of his boyish,
barely visible grins... the ones she was officially addicted to.
"Alright people, if there's nothing to add then you're dismissed."
The word 'dismissed' functioned as some sort of bell, forcing Sam out of her dream world and
bringing her mind back to the situation around her. She rose to her full height and waited until the
General had left the room.
"This was 'so' interesting, Daniel! And I think Carter could help ya with that problem... what was it called, Carter?" He frowned as if he really tried hard to remember whatever it was... she was fairly sure he knew she could kill with her bare hands.
"You wanne grab something to eat, Sam?"
Thanks Daniel! Maybe she wouldn't punish him for that stunt earlier in the briefing at all.
"Yeah, I'll see you there. Just have to finish an experiment in my lab."
"Alright."
Turning to the door, Daniel left with Teal'c in tow, heading to the commissary. Sam decided that
the best way to make Jack O'Neill suffer for what he'd done to her, was to ignore him and just
walked away.
"Cart... Sam?"
He'd called her by her first name in public! No she would not grin, she would not...
Jack really loved her grin... it was so damn intoxicating and made him react likewise.He took her hand and threaded his fingers through hers. For a second he saw shock on her face, but before she could say anything, Jack's hand left hers and fell beside his leg.
Sam kept on staring at his hand, before she lifted her gaze and looked in his eyes...
they were gleaming with mischief.
"You wanne get something to eat tonight? We could order Chinese or Italian or..."
"Yeah... that'd be great."
One corner of his mouth lifted to a lopsided grin and he walked over to the door, waiting for her to follow him outside. Sam shook her head slightly... she still couldn't believe what was happening here... it was still too dream-like to make her realize that it was all real, that the last two days hadn't been an illusion or some weird version of an alternate reality...
They walked down the corridor mostly in silence. Sam kept her eyes on the floor and Jack decided that the wall ahead was just too damn interesting to just look away.
Yes, the floor was grey, and there was this red line that would now lead around the corner and
then...
There!... Alright, Sam... take a deep breath and relax... in and out...
There it was again and it made her shiver every time it happened... every time his hand 'accidently' brushed against hers. The contact was barely there and nobody would have attributed a deeper meaning to it, but well, Sam wasn't 'nobody' and so a jolt of... something ran through her entire body with every touch...
Finally the couple reached the elevators and Sam pressed the button. The red light flickered to
life and now all they had to do was wait for the thingy to arrive, pick them up and get them to the floor where her lab was.
He did it again, but this time Sam caught his eyes and watched him intently. But he was just staring back... merely returning the gaze!
"Hey Sam!... Colonel..."
Hey! There was no reason why Doc Fraiser had to call him with that disdainful tone of voice!
"You having some time for me, Sam? There's something I should really talk about with you... " A frown appeared on Jack's forehead as he watched the petite Doctot grab Sam's arm and turn her around so that the Major was facing away from him.
Janet's eyes found his and challenged him to say anything... he could swear the word 'needle'
flashed through her eyes... very scary!
"Uhm, yes. Let's say I come over to your office in two hours? I already promised Daniel to eat
something with him."
"That's OK with me... see ya then Sam... Colonel."
Jack watched the other woman walk away from them, heading in the direction of the General's
office... very strange indeed! And as he turned back to Sam, he found her staring at him!
"What?"
"Nothin'."
The elevator doors opened and a young man left the cubicle, walking past the two officers and
running down the corridor full speed.
Sam entered first and pressed the button to the floor of her lab, while Jack followed just
behind her. And while he headed to the back of the elevator, his hand brushed against hers and as he waited for the shiver to run down Sam's body, a smile covered his lips.
/()/()/()/()/
"Janet, I have a big huge honkin' problem."
'What a way to greet your best friend!' Janet thought as she saw Sam enter her office and close
the door behind her. Her blue eyes seemed troubled as she held eye contact with the Doc.
"Just one?"
"Haha... I mean it... what am I supposed to do now? I guess I dreaded this moment as soon as we first... ya know, when we... " Janet nodded enthusiastically to encourage Sam to continue.
"This... thing is going to a whole new plane!"
"You know that there aren't that many possibilities, Sam... you have taken the first step, now take the next."
Sam sighed and shook her head... as if she hadn't already realized that! The problem was to decide which one to take!
When she'd kissed him or the other way round, hell, when they'd kissed, Sam had already played every possible scenarios through her mind, had drawn up a list with pros and cons for them all and had come to the conclusion that she didn't know what to do now!
Kissing your CO was one thing, but retiring because you love him was something, Sam had to think about more seriously and clearly. And not only she...
Sam was pretty sure that she wasn't the only one who had such thoughts! Jack sure as hell had the same train rushing through his head and giving him one hell of a headache as well! He was a very reasonable man and very intelligent... not that he'd ever admit that!
"I'll have to discuss it with him."
"Yeah, you have... and do it soon, Sam. You're not the only one who noticed the increasing number of looks he gives you." Janet smiled gently and returned her attention to the sheets of paper on her desk.
The last thing she heard before Sam left was a loud sigh.
/()/()/()/()/
Sam loved his house.
It was so nice. Not just the design, but also the furniture, the plants, the garden and especially
the scent.
His scent...
Closing her eyes, Sam inhaled deeply and smiled into the silence of the room. Did she mention that she loved his house... well she may love the person living here more, but that came with it.
"Sam... just feel free to do whatever you want to... my home is all yours." The voice of Jack
O'Neill echoed through the rooms, and Sam followed his orders and walked over to the large
window of his living room. She liked the garden behind his house... a lot of good old memories were connected to them.
Casually her gaze wandered to a shelf beside the window. Some books and photos stood
on top of it and being the nosy woman Sam has always been, she made her way to the shelf.
Unfolding her arms from around her chest, Sam took one of the photos and allowed her thumb to gently rub over the face of her CO... he was smiling while Daniel tried in vain to set up a folding chair on his veranda.
Sam remembered that day and chuckled.
"I love this one the most."
Sam turned at hearing his voice.
He was holding a photo in a silver frame in his right hand out to her and she took it, never stopping to look at his face.
It was a picture of her.
She couldn't recall the day it had been taken, but she'd obviously had quite some fun. It seemed as if she hadn't known that somebody had taken it in the first place.
"You were so beautiful... not that you're now not, but then you just seemed to glow in the sun and I just had to, ya know..." He trailed off, apparently not able to continue as he didn't know what to say.
Sam shook her head and walked back to the door where he was now standing. Her arms came
around his neck and she kissed him lightly on his cheek then wandered lower to his neck and
nibbled it carefully.
Jack sighed in contentment and brought his hands around her body, pulling her against him and
burrowing his face in the crotch of her neck. He inhaled deeply... he loved her scent.
"Jack..."
"Hmm?"
Sam took a deep breath and squeezed him tightly against her chest.
"I love you."
It seemed as if he'd stopped breathing... or better had ceased to live! They stayed unmoving for
another moment, before Sam thought she couldn't take it any longer. She needed to see his face!
Right now!
Carefully Sam pulled away from his embrace. Her hands held onto his forearms and she tried to
catch the blank expression on his face.
For a moment Sam had the feeling to run away, crying her eyes out and hiding in a deep, black hole somewhere on another planet... why wasn't he saying something?
Anything!
That Jack had a huge problem restraining his first instinct of jumping up and down and yelling
incoherent things, Sam couldn't know by the looks of his slumped head. Jack was neither smiling
nor glaring... not even the slightest indication of shock was visible.
"You don't know for how long I've been waiting to hear you say those words."
And suddenly she was back in his arms and was fighting back the tears. Jack held her so tightly
against him that she feared to suffocate. But Sam just ignored the lack of oxygen and squeezed
him right back.
"Thanks Sam..."
Jack kissed her tenderly on her quivering lips and rested his forehead against hers, his nose
bumping against her slightly red one.
"I love you, too, Sam... I'll never leave you again." He merely whispered the words.
Jack gazed deeply into her bright eyes and couldn't tear them away from the sparkling blue, even
if a Goa'uld had entered his house at that moment with his staff weapon aimed at him.
Sam smiled, one of her mega watt ones and watched as Jack's features transformed into a
face-splitting smile and his eyes appeared to be even browner than before. Still smiling, Sam
brought her lips up to his and kissed him passionately.
Jack reacted immediately, not missing a heartbeat and wound his arms around her body, bringing her closer to him. Her hands roamed over his back and chest as both tried desperately to get more and more of each other.
/()/()/()/()/
'He loves me'... 'He really loves me'... 'Jack O'Neill loves Sam Carter'...
Her eyes were still closed, but she was really tempted to open them and watch his sleeping body
laying nearly motionless beside her.
His chest heaved and the light grey hair tickled her cheek, which made Sam smile lazily... she really needed to see him.
Slowly she opened her eyes, heavy lids revealing the gloomy bedroom of the man beside her. Again his chest rose... and fell. In and out... in and out. Did he realize how soothing his breathing was?
Sam moved her head slightly so that she was able to see his face from where she was resting her
cheek on his chest. A bright smile appeared on her lips as she saw his peaceful face just above
her. His eyes were closed, but she knew that in a few moments he would be wide awake... a soldier never slept long when somebody was watching him!
"Sam... "
"Yes?" His arm tightened around her waist.
"Sam, I've been thinking... about us and our... situtaion." Slowly his eyes opened and he gazed
down at her. Sam in return lifted her head from its resting place and leaned on her elbows to get a better view of his still sleepy features.
God, she adored his face!
"I know it happens not that often that I'm really thinking about something... but my brain
considered the circumstances worthwhile and used some of the stored energy..."
Sam chuckled, waiting patiently for him to continue.
"And I came to the conclusion that the only possible solution for our situation is that I retire." He paused, waiting for any sign that Sam wanted say somethig regarding this matter. But the blond
woman kept silent and only gazed into his eyes.
"And so... I prepared the papers yesterday and sent them to Hammond's office five sec before I
left the base..."
"Wait a second! You did that yesterday? And why do you think it was necessary to leave this tiny detail out when I came here last night?"
Jack couldn't tell whether she was angry or just shocked at his sudden decision... so he frowned to make it clear that he didn't know how to react.
"I knew that we would need some more time to you know...", his hand gestured between him and her,"... and so I first wanted to talk about it with you... but Sam, I really had to do this! For you and me!
I'm quite... aged, elderly, call it whatever you want to, but please not 'old'... that makes me feel... old and unworthy for you, and I think that time is slowly running out for me. I have allowed so many chances to just pass by, but this love I feel for you is just to precious to ignore it!"
Sam smiled gracefully in response and placed a small kiss on his lips to stop him from babbling.
"I mean it Sam... I retired because it was time... and the right time I may add! I love you and
couldn't stand it to see you leave SG1 just because of me."
Sam nodded, her eyes casted downwards as she contemplated the meaning of what Jack had said.
A new path had opened up in front of them... a new possible future offered its secrets behind a
closed door. And Sam had the handle in her hand.
"Did I mention that I'm in love with you, Jack O'Neill?" His hand toyed with a strand of her hair.
"Yeah, but I really need to hear that more often from now on."
Sam kissed him and Jack could feel her smile against his lips.
"I love you."
"Love you, too."
/()/()/()/()/
FINIS !!!
Did 'I' mention that I love feedback? And maybe, but just maybe, there'll be a fourth part...
haven't decided yet though
hinthint