"Care to go for a walk?"
Jack looked at her as she came out of her bedroom wearing warmer and more comfortable clothes with a blanket tucked under her arm. "Whatever you want," he told her as he took the blankets from her.
And for the first time that night, they publicly displayed their affection for one another as Sam reached for his hand and intertwined her fingers with his. "Come on… There's something I want to show you," she told him as she led him out of her house
Jack happily looked down at their hands and walked beside her into the park across from her house. "So where we going?"
"To one of my favorite places in Colorado Springs… It's a few miles from here, so I hope you have on comfortable shoes."
"I always come prepared," he reminded her.
As they walked side by side Jack realized that he liked their current setup. He liked not having to be around her only while on missions where one of them had to walk before the other to stay prepared for any type of ambush or unexpected circumstance. He enjoyed just being in her company and not having the fate of the free world (literally) depending on them. For the first time in their relationship, they could just be.
Sam's thoughts were running along the same lines. Despite only being transferred from Jack's chain of command only six hours ago, she could already sense that her life was taking a new and brighter direction.
After an hour of walking through the park and then the woods, they finally came up to the top of a hill.
"Not that I'm not enjoying this walk, but are we almost there?" he asked her impatiently.
"Yeah, it's just over there," she told him as she pointed to a barely discernable path off to the side.
They traveled that path for five minutes before they reached their destination.
Jack looked around him and soaked in the beauty of his surroundings. They were on a forested hillside that had several rock ledges leading down the hill. From the ledge nearest to them they could walk out and look down into a small lake that quietly reflected the sight on the other side of the lake – one of the lesser known mountains of the Rocky Mountain Range.
"It's beautiful," he quietly commented as he set the blankets down.
Sam walked up behind him and snaked her arms around his waist, "Wait til you see this in a half hour!"
He turned around in her arms and wrapped his own arms around her waist. "How'd you find this place?"
"My dad told me about this place… This was where he proposed to my mom…" she offered.
He looked into her eyes and saw that she didn't share this place with many people. This was a treat, she was choosing him to see this place.
"Thank you," he told her as he bent his head down and gently laid his lips on her lips. They slowly and gently shared their first passionate kiss with each other.
When they stopped their foreheads were still resting against each other's as they looked deeply into each other's eyes.
"Why do you smile?"
"It's beautiful," he quietly told her, as if his words would disturb the couple standing before them.
"A kiss is always-"
She was cut off though, "No Oma Desala. Not like this…" Orlin paused as he looked for the words to describe what he saw.
"Why is it any different?" she asked him.
He smiled slightly, "Because of their love."
"Again, why is it so different?"
"I shared my essence with Samantha. It was a beautiful experience for us both, she has such a beautiful soul. I did not know the depth of her beauty until that moment… But these two… They do not require our abilities…
"Their love transcends this world and allows them to see into each other's souls… They know the depth of one another just staring into each other's eyes… Their love is so strong and so deep that it spreads to the people around them…" he revealed with a smile.
"I thought you loved her," she gently stated.
He shook his head, "Not as he loves her."
"You knew?" she asked him shocked by his admiration for their love.
He smiled, "I saw it when I shared myself with her."
Oma Desala looked at the couple and noticed Orlin's smile out of the corner of her eye. She turned to study him. "You did it again?" she accused him.
"Did what?" he asked her innocently.
"You interfered."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"It is against the way of the Ancients to interfere-"
"In the development of a civilization!" he finished for her as he stared at her. He turned to Sam and Jack, "I did what I did for them… I merely cracked open the walls around her heart… She did the rest," he stated proudly.
"But this will change their future," she pointed out.
"No…" he quietly pondered. "Their future is only now just beginning."
The End
A/N: I hope you enjoyed this story, I had a good time writing it. Thank you to everyone who reviewed and stuck with this story despite its inactivity for over a month! Also thank you SG1-Fanfic for beta-ing most of these chapters and sharing your ideas with me!
I'm ending this story here because this story was mainly just about them getting to the point where they can reveal their feeling for one another. I feel I have completed that, so please don't hate me if you wanted to see more to this story!