He set the bear down on the bed next to him, leaning it against his pillow, and watched as Cassie settled herself on the edge of the bed, her leg tucked up under her.
"How was school?"
"It was okay. I'm glad it's Friday, though."
He was, too.
"Is your mom going to let you stick around?"
She nodded.
"For a while, anyways."
"Good."
"Where did you get the legos?"
"Daniel and Teal'c."
"Is that a spaceship?"
He nodded.
"It's just a-"
"Hey, Cass?" Jack had come up behind her and they both looked up at him. "Can I borrow you for a second?"
She smiled.
"Sure, Jack." She turned to Ian. "I'll be right back."
OOOOOOOOOO
Jack led Cassie back over to Sam's bed. She was sitting up; lounging above the blankets while Jacob was soundly sleeping in his basinet. She smiled when Cassie joined them and Jack closed the curtain behind them.
"What's up, Sam?"
"We were hoping you could give us some advice."
"Yeah? About what?"
It wasn't very often that Sam and Jack came to her for advice.
"Ian."
"Ian?"
"The dark-haired kid you're dating?" Jack said.
Cassie smiled.
"Oh... that Ian. What about him?"
Jack came over and sat down next to Sam, his arm automatically sliding around her waist. "We think he needs a vacation."
"A vacation?"
Sam nodded.
"We're worried that he's been working too hard, and we thought that since SG-1's going to be on stand down starting on Monday, we could send him off on a vacation somewhere. We were hoping you might have some suggestions…"
Cassie frowned.
"Does he know you're planning on sending him somewhere?"
"We haven't talked about it, no…"
"Why do you ask?"
"Because Ian won't like it."
Jack frowned.
"What?"
"I don't think he would, anyways…" Cassie said, correcting herself.
"Why not?" Sam asked.
"Because he doesn't like to travel… not really."
"What if we sent him to Hawaii?" Jack asked. "It's sunny and warm and-"
"And an airplane flight away…"
The fact that Ian didn't like to fly was hardly a huge secret. Jack frowned.
"Good point. Well, what if we-"
"Just let him have the time off," Cassie said, shrugging. "He'd probably like that better."
Sam frowned, too, because that didn't seem like much of a vacation, but she supposed that if she were tired, she wouldn't really want to go to all the hassle of going anywhere on vacation, either. However, she and Jack had been hoping for a chance to do something for him, and letting him alone just didn't seem like the best thank you in the world. Not for what he'd done for them. And Jake.
"Are you sure?" Jack asked. He didn't look like he liked that idea any more than Sam did, but Cassie simply shrugged again.
"He'd relax more if he wasn't surrounded by a lot of people."
She didn't elaborate on that, but she didn't have to. Everyone who knew him knew that people annoyed Ian. At least strangers did. And sometimes people he knew did, too.
"Huh…"
Sam looked over at Jack, who shrugged.
"Thanks Cass," he said, finally. "I guess we'll have to give it more thought."
She smiled.
"Sure thing. Did you need anything else?"
"Nope. That was it."
"Then I'm going to go put his brains to work and get my homework done early."
So then she could have the rest of the weekend to hang out with him – mother and military base permitting.
Sam smiled, understanding exactly what she was thinking, and shooed the girl off, and looked at Jack again when she had left.
"Well?"
He scowled, and rested his chin on her shoulder – he did that a lot when he was thinking and happened to be close to her.
"We'll have to think of something else, then…"
"Like what?"
"Something big…"
"Like what?" Sam repeated.
Yeah… that was the question, wasn't it?
"You're the genius, remember?" He told her, tilting his head sideways and brushing a kiss against her neck – a kiss that made her shiver in delight. "Think of something."
OOOOOOOO
Ian looked up when Cassie returned. He'd pushed the table with the lego creation off to the side and had pulled the one that was stacked with his homework close so he could at least take a look at it and see how much time it'd take to get it done. It didn't look too complicated from what he had seen – although he might need to ask Sam about a couple of formulas if she had the time later.
"Everything okay?"
She nodded, and plopped down on his bed again, careful of the leg, but getting close, otherwise.
"Everything's fine."
She looked at the homework he'd been studying.
"Are you going to do that now?"
"Nah, I was just looking at it."
"Good. Would you mind helping me with mine?"
He smiled, reaching out and taking her hand.
"You just love me for my mind, don't you?"
"Well…" she pretended to think about it, and shook her head. "You do have a cute butt, too… but your butt can't help me get an A in Chemistry, and your mind has."