After Zero Hour: Part 5

"The Cove"

A/N: Lets see where were we. Oh, Jack and Sam are in bed with their swimming outfits on and Sam says, "Pete."

On the Yacht

Jack froze, as his fingers were about to untie her bikini top. "What did you call me?"

"No, I said Pete." Sam looked into his eyes and started releasing the death grip her nails had on his body.

"That's what I thought you said." Jack tried not to look hurt, but he could not help it. He leaned up on his elbows and peered with squinted eyes at the woman straddling his hips.

"I'm sorry." Sam put one hand to her lips.

"You should be cause the name is Jack or General if you want." Jack was beside himself with confusion. Did she even know who was in the bed with her? This did not happen when Teal'c and I were having that day that repeated. The first time I kissed her after turning in my paperwork to Hammond. It was fun the second rotation of repeating the days after Daniel brought up the no consequences thing. Sam and I locked ourselves in unoccupied quarters. She was a wild animal.

"No, I was not calling you Pete. I just remembered Pete and our careers." With that, she climbed off of him and sat with her face in her hands on the side of the bed. "I'm sorry, I never meant for this to happen. Sure, I thought about it, but that's different from doing it."

Jack climbed over to her and she leaned back into his arms. "Hey, look, don't blame yourself. I was the one who took you down here. Just think of it as an extended hug. It's not like we did anything serious although I think I have some bite marks."

Sam took her hands from her flushed face, and Jack thought he had never seen her more beautiful. Sam laughed. "Well, I was certainly thinking of more than a hug. Can we just forget this happened?"

Jack pulled her back into the bed. He positioned her so she laid her head on his shoulder as he lay on his back. "You might be able to, but I don't see how I can."

She thumbed him on the chest once.

He tipped his head toward her. "Ok, consider this the reality and that other stuff was just in our minds."

"Deal."

An hour later, they awoke to the sound of a whistle. It was time to anchor and go to shore. Jack and Sam changed into climbing outfits to explore the island.

On the Beach at a Tropical Island

After several hours exploring the island, the crew had laid blankets and sultan pillows on the beach for them to dine on. When they ate, Sam had to resist leaning over and feeding Jack his shrimp he had spoke about earlier.

Jack on the other hand could not get the feeling of her wiggling on top of him out of his immediate thoughts. He wanted to send the crew back to the yacht and claim her for his own on the soft blankets and billows that were on the beach. No, she does not want me. She wants Pete, she said as much when she stopped things in the room. I will have to find a way to except that fact and live with her decision.

Sam became aware that the enticing distracted look on Jack's face dissipated to one of sadness. What was he thinking about? Is he thinking about what happened in the room? The feelings she had when she gave into his persuasion flooded her again. She wanted to rip off his evil shirt that stood in her way of viewing his chest that she knew was muscled in the way she liked. She met his eyes and wondered if he was trying to read her thoughts.

Jack trailed her eyes down to his shirt. With almost no movement, his hand moved over the buttons of his shirt. He had opened his shirt completely and seen the glair in Sam's eyes as her tongue moistened her lips. Maybe, all hope is not lost.

Cove

An hour after eating, they decided swim in the little cove they found. Jack first went back to the Yacht and did a few things first then met her on the beach.

The put their flippers and snorkeling masks back on before submerging into the crystal water. She was having a fun time looking at all the coral and tropical fish that floated by with bright neon colors. The thing that gave her pause was the spiked urchins on some of the rock formations.

She thought something might be wrong with Jack when he was in front of her in the water. Jack looked back at Sam from under the water when they were about a yard away from each other.

The expression on is face through the mask was sheer terror as he looked off behind her. He put is hands out to stop himself swimming. He turned away from her and swam as fast as he could as if he was drawing a sea monster away from her. Sam started to get a little paranoid as she remembered the shark advisory. She felt a little daunted and turned to see what horror was behind her. She could hear her heart pounding in her veins. At that moment as she turned, she felt like the stupid women in the horror movies who have to stop and turn to look at what was about to kill her.

Before she could completely turn around, she felt something grip her leg and pull her a few feet in its directions. She let out a yell under water as bubbles of air escaped from her lips. The last thing she seen was Jack swimming back for her as the force of the tug caused her hands to fly out in front of her as she was pulled backwards.

Her training kicked in even with her ever fear of sharks since she was a child. She kicked violently with her other foot at what had a hold of her and it let go to her surprise.

She fought to surface and stand to her feet, as one flipper was already off. In the process, she had swallowed some water and started choking as her face emerged into the air.

Here ears were assaulted with laughs from two different locations. She looked up to see Jack in front of her out of the water laughing as he took off his facemask. She looked behind her and seen Reynolds with his arms slapping his legs as he laughed. That was the moment when she knew it was just a joke.

She got angry and grabbed the flipper that was floating and threw it at Jack. The flipper hit him square in the chest, as he looked shocked at what she did then laughed again.

Reynolds on the other hand was about to fall over in the water with his belly laughing. She took off the other flipper and started whacking him with it.

"Hey, it was just a joke. Stop, that hurts." He stumbled back into the water and Sam kept hitting him in the head with the flipper then stopped.

Jack started laughing louder as he seen Daniel and Teal'c approach the shore with shocked expressions of Sam's behavior.

Sam walked out of the water after hitting Reynolds as he tried to avoid her while still laughing. "Jack acted like something was coming for us and Reynolds pulled my leg. I swallowed lots of water from their joke, but it was funny."

Sam laughed for a second till Reynolds spoke again, "Yea, I grabbed her leg and pulled. For all she knew it was a shark. She kicked the he out of me too. I know that will leave bruises." He tried to look stern.

Sam started laughing again as did Teal'c.

Jack walked up behind her to join the group on the beach. "My favorite part was hearing Sam yell under the water like a girl on a horror movie."

The group laughed then Sam thumped him in the chest. They locked eyes and remembered hours earlier when she had done it before.

Jack took the supplies and beamed at Teal'c. "Well, maybe that was not my favorite part."

Teal'c raised his eyebrow as Daniel turned to look at Sam's embarrassed face. "Yea, Jack you did know that Sam has a fear of sharks."

Jack spoke barely audible, "She's a smart girl. She can handle herself better then I can handle her."

Daniel thought to himself, What is going on here? Maybe I don't need to know.

A/N: I think that went well. Sorry, I just can't let the characters go at it cause that might not click with Season 8. Ha, ha, Ha.

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