Short, but I was thinking about this for awhile so I need something until I could watch the Next episode. I did. So the next chapter will be a little longer. Forgot to edit. Enjoy.

Chapter 15

Daniel sips his beer, his feet rest on Jack's coffee table. He's listening to Jack talk but he can't help being distracted by the giggling in the Kitchen. "So your Saying She had a thing for Robert?"

Jack nods. "No doubt about it." He smiles.

"Poor Robert, I guess you'll be glad to have me back next week." Daniel smiles at the thought of going back to work.

"Yes, finally someone who doesn't sound as skeptical as me!" He states rather boldly.

Daniel shakes his head. "Robert just needs a little losing up Jack. Eventually, he'll adjust." He sets down his beer. "Aren't you the slightest bit curious as to what is going on in your kitchen?"

"Yes, but I'm afraid to go look." Jack says he leans up to catch a glimpse.

Sha're steps into the living room. "Do you need something Jack?" She's covered in white flour.

Daniel cracks a wide smile. "We just wanted to know what you two were doing in there."

Jack grins wide, he sets his beer down. "Does Maria look like that too?"

"It is because of her that I look so." She nods her head gently.

"Sha're?" Daniel looks at her his eyes confused.

Her face cracks a grin. "Maria did not know how to need the dough."

"Oh!" Jack looks surprised by that fact.

Maria's voice calls out from the kitchen. "Sha're! HELP ME!"

Sha're turns and runs back into the kitchen. Jack and Daniel both follow her. Inside the kitchen Maria has her hands up and dough is stuck to her hands hanging there. Her flower dress is covered in floor. Her hair is white with clumps of dough stuck in it. Sha're rushes over sticks her hands in the flour and helps Maria with the dough. "Now you used too little flour."

Jack bends over laughing. "What have you done to my kitchen!"

Tears form in Maria's eyes. "I'm sorry! I'll clean it." She turns to help Sha're.

Daniel turns to Jack. "Don't hell at them!"

Sha're turns and throws flour at Daniel. "He was kidding!"

"Yeah Daniel I was kidding." Jack walks up behind Maria and wraps his arms around her. "I love you. Can I help?"

Maria turns and kisses him on the cheek getting flour on his face. "Sure you can peal the potatoes."

"Um, I'm a Colonel pealing potatoes is a little beneath me." He speaks sarcastically.

Daniel walks over and picks up the bowl of potatoes that sits on a counter. He grabs the knife lying beside it. "Well it's not beneath me." He carries them over to the kitchen table and sits them there. He pulls out a chair and sits down.

Maria puffs out at breath. "Okay Colonel, what isn't beneath you?" Jack whispers softly in her ear. Her eyes widen. "Jack!" He continues. "We have Guests. Be serious."

Jack shakes his head. "I am being serious. Now what can I do?"

Sha're points to a bowl of fruit. "You can prepare the fruit for the fruit salad."

"Alright." Jack kisses Maria on the cheek again. He lets go and hugs Sha're. He drags his feet over to the bowl; he grabs it, opens a cabinet door, reaches in grabs a cutting board and then closes the door. He grabs another knife out of the block and then walks over and sits next to Daniel. "You know Daniel."

"What Jack?" Daniel puts down a pealed potato on the table.

"Curiosity Killed the cat." Jack says cutting an apple into slices.