3 After Zero Hour: Part Two
'Corona Moment'(After Zero Hour, which was where the plant took over the base and Gilmore reviews Jack and after part one, but before Icon, which was where Daniel was wounded when the Grand Protectorate was over run by rebels and the Calcoonians were going to attack.)
Somewhere, Not Telling Yet
Jack leaned back, "5."
Daniel squinted at the General, "You mean 4 don't you?"
"Five! I said five. Don't you know were it's at?" Jack appeared to be serious.
"Four."
"Five."
Daniel was amused, "Well, lets stop be-4 this becomes a problem."
"Oh, it will be-5 minutes from now." He leaned toward Daniel.
"It's supposed to be 4."
"Well, it should be 5."
"B-4." Daniel stated matter of fact.
"B-5." The General growled quickly.
Samantha turned with a phone in her hand, "Battleship? No Pete, they're playing golf. Jack was about to hit a ball toward the fifth hole, and he insists on yelling 5."
Four Hours EarlierAfter having picked the leader of SG-3, Reynolds, up at a family member's house, they proceeded to the nearest Air Force Base and left on a jet.
Two and a Half Hours After Getting on the Jet
After the jet landed, a boat picked them up. It proceeded to take them to an island near by.
"Sir, if you let us vote for the one we liked the best, I would have chosen the St. Thomas Ritz-Charlton. It has more of a Mediterranean feeling with an Infinity pool." Sam was looking off into the distance while the boat skimmed across the water.
"What?" Jack acted shocked.
"We could have chartered the Lady Lyndsey, I think its called, and gone out snorkeling. Haven't you ever at least seen pictures of the Infinity pool at the Ritz? The pool has a center island with trees growing and the water line of the pool blends with the ocean and the mountains. That makes it feel like you are out in the middle of the ocean, but you have the tranquility of a pool with servants. The only down side is the rooms I would want start out at 2,100 a day." Sam partially closed her eyes and imagined swimming there alone with the whole place to herself. Then her thoughts were shattered, Sam's mind sent in an image of Jack doing a cannon ball into the pool yelling 'Five'.
Daniel folded his glasses and put them into an aqua pack, "If were are voting, then I want to go to the Little Dix Bay. Christopher Columbus discovered it in 1493. He reported that the island had the shape of a woman lying down and that was what gave him the idea for the name. Sam, you could do your snorkeling there, and I hear they have wonderful hiking as well. Now the staff ratio is three staff members per visitor. The rooms are the Classic Caribbean bungalows with balconies."
Daniel would have continued, but Jack had wanted a different place himself. "There was no voting and besides if there was a vote we would all be in caves. Well, kind of. There are these houses for rent that are made of rock. There are hills of solid rock and they chisel out rooms and put in furniture. They kind of make me think of Lord of The Rings with round doors and windows."
"That kind of house sounds a little to much like a Hobbit village to me." Reynolds smirked.
The boat docked and unloaded their entire luggage. They were finally there, the Four Seasons Resort, Nevis with a five diamond restaurant. They were escorted from the dock around a lovely garden that had music playing. The plantation style building was exquisite and blended in with the surroundings. Each of them had their own room, which included its own living room, enormous bathroom and kitchen pantry. The bedrooms were decorated in tan and brownish colors along with dark woods.
After showers and a little rest with a snack, all five of them wanted to venture one activity together before the sun went down. Sam and Reynolds voted for horseback riding on the beach while Jack convinced Daniel and Teal'c they wanted to golf. Golfing it was, with lots of beer. He took an extra remote control golf club carrier and filled it with beer.
Sam received a phone call from Pete, and they spoke for a few minutes. Apparently, he had wanted to go also, but the President had only offered the resort stay to these five people only.
"Oh, I turned in my clubs. I told the guys that I did not feel like finishing the golf game." When Sam seen Jack yell down the course that was at the mountains, she waved them off and took the phone as she left. Sam knew the golf course ended at the beach, so she walked there to wait for them after hanging up with Pete.
The Caribbean sun was starting to go down behind the horizon of the soft sandy beach. After a while, Sam could hear the guys at the last hole of their golf game. She was reclining under an umbrella and sitting in a lounge chair. The server had brought her a Bahama Mamma, rum drink of which she only took one sip. When she heard someone approaching, she slipped her journal into her beach bag and made sure her blue bikini was on straight and the long button up shirt she wore over it.
Jack seen Carter on the beach and did not follow the guys back to the buildings. Is she just wearing a shirt? It looks like one of mine! He walked up beside her, "Is this one of those Corona beer moments?"
"Actually, they filmed one of them about a mile up the beach. Who won the golf game?" Sam took off her sunglasses that were not needed, as the sun would be set in about fifteen minutes.
"Who do you think?" Jack sat next to her in another lounge chair and fidgeted with it to get comfortable.
"Teal'c!" Sam spouted out in laughter.
"Yea, but who came in second?" Jack had a bemused expression painted on his face.
"Let me see, could have been Daniel. Ok, I bet it was you." She turned to see that Jack had already removed his shoes and his shirt.
"Yea, I won second. You want to take a swim or something?" Jack could only hope. Second all right and Pete is number one right now.
"Sure, I was just thinking about the same thing." Sam stood up and took off her watch. She started undoing the buttons of her shirt. Once they were all unbuttoned, she turned her back to Jack as she slowly let the shirt float its way down over her shoulders as the ocean breeze started to carry it away.
Jack could not believe what he was seeing. He pinched his right arm. Yep, pain aright, not a dream. There's no halter-top or shoulder straps, topless...naked?
"Hey, This might be a bad idea." Jack picked up his things as Sam started to turn around to face him. She is turning around! She's with Pete not me, she's with Pete not me...No she is with me on this beach not Pete. He returned to his pervious thought he found himself repeating with more frequency these days. Sam is with Pete, not me.
As she turned, it became apparent that she had something on under the shirt, "What are you talking about? Oh, the Infinity pool. Would you rather swim there instead of the beach, is that what you meant?" She noticed the look on his face as his eyes kept bobbing toward her midsection. What? Did he think I was naked? Surly not. This is the first time he has seen me in one of my bikinis. I guess that means he likes them. Stupid, he already seen me in a thong!
"Uh, indeed." He said making his voice sound like Teal'c that made them both laugh.
A few moments earlier, Reynolds was instructing Teal'c in how to use binoculars to find the ideal part of the beach, "Ok, now scan over the beach. Tomorrow we will do the same and scout for the place the most women are at that are good-looking. Now do you understand the plan for tomorrow? We look for the best place with the best odds then we go to that area and hang out."
Teal'c stood motionless not moving the binoculars, "I believe I understand."
"What ya looking at?" Reynolds said causing Daniel to hold up his binoculars for a look at the beach, as the sun was almost set. "Whoa! Looks like a couple on the beach is ready for some action."
"Indeed." Teal'c put his binoculars down and turned around wondering where Jack was.
"Ahh, no I don't think so. Is that who I think that is?" Daniel spied who he thought was Sam with some guy. "Is that Sam on the beach with a guy, that's not Pete is it?"
Teal'c knew exactly who it was and told them he was going to his room for rest. Daniel and Reynolds stared at her and a guy for a minute and gave up at seeing the guys face as it looked like Sam was taking her clothing off. Both of them felt embarrassed and went to the bar for a drink. It wasn't ten minutes before two beautiful tanned redhead twins bought them drinks, and they went dancing. Daniel thought that the twins looked similar to Hathor and told Jack about it later that week.
Sam and Jack finally made it back to the resort's buildings and crossed the garden to the Infinity pool. When they got there, they seen it was scarcely lighted. They jumped in the serene pool in unison. The palm trees were swaying in a slight breeze that caused them to produce a kind of music with the sounds from the beach.
Jack smiled as they did circular laps in the pool then paused for a moment, "I guess this is a Corona moment." His mind started to race again. Hot blond in a bikini floating in a pool, Sam has one of the most brilliant minds ever...Dam what a combination to find. Pete's a nice guy, but I was planning on retiring in about five years. I should have told her some how. Why do woman always have to be told, why can't they just know it. Well, she may be brilliant with a killer body, but she's no physic. She is the only woman I could find myself married to after every thing that have happened.
They spent the next two hours talking and just enjoying each other's company. Sam tried to remember to keep it light, and Jack tried to relax and be himself. And in the end, words were not needed to express the enjoyment of sharing each other's presence. They got out of the pool and relaxed in the Jacuzzi for twenty minutes then lounged around the gardens in robes as others walked by. Sam rested her head on Jack's shoulder as she did in her apartment after that horrible Fifth nightmare and on the ice world when they thought themselves only mutual workers. They were the people within themselves unashamed and undaunted by who they were in the world. Knowing they had done nothing inappropriate, they completely relaxed in the Caribbean moment...and there was peace.
The next morning at breakfast Daniel began to wonder, "Sam, who were you with on the beach?"
Everyone turned to find out who the mystery-man was on the beach.
"Uh, Jack. He came and got me for a swim in the Infinity pool. We thought you guys were all there, and when we got there you were no where to be found."
"Yea, who was the other guy?" Reynolds still wanted to know who the guy was she took her shirt off in front of.
Teal'c and Daniel simultaneously remembered the dark closet incident and knew it was Jack.
Teal'c sputtered, "Was there a server who brought you anything to drink, because we sent you a rum drink?"
"Oh, yea a guy came over and gave me a drink." Sam was turning red knowing that they suspected something that did not happen.
"So that's who it was, then Jack intruded in?" Reynolds acted as if he had finally put a puzzle together.
Daniel took a sip of orange juice, "The Soap opera continues."
A/N: I still say its 5, what do you think?
As always, please Review, and big thanks for the correct spelling of Anise.
Feel free to look over the other short stories of what happens between the episodes in Season 8.
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Leia