Title: Someone To Watch Over Me – Part Eight
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Season: Any
Summary: Sam and Jack deal with a bedroom problem as well as a new neighbor.
Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate SG-1, it's universe or characters, so please don't sue. I only own the plot.
Author's Note: I know! I know! This has taken me a lot longer than I hoped! I swear I'm trying to find time! Please review.
"For crying out loud do you have to be so good at math?" Jack cried, as he pulled Sam up the stairs.
"I'm sorry sir!" Sam whispered as she looked around – making sure no one heard them.
"Why would Davis do this?" Jack asked as he finally stopped pulling and looked Sam in her eyes.
"I don't know – maybe he and Barrett were worried we'd be discovered. I mean the NID are pretty double handed, we probably shouldn't even be calling ourselves by our real names, what if this place is bugged?" Sam asked.
Jack's face showed he contemplated the thought for a few seconds before he shook his head, "It wouldn't be bugged, just trust me on that. But that doesn't solve our problems now does it?"
"I say we just get everything unpacked, who knows maybe Major Davis and Agent Barrett packed something that will give us a better clue." Sam said and got Jack to nod in agreement.
"Okay." Jack sighed as he motioned Sam down the hall, "Lets put these in the right rooms."
"Okay." Sam nodded as she headed off to Jack's new office.
Sam stood knee deep in boxes as she moved around in the back of the moving van, she had decided to take a break from carrying so she was really just sliding the boxes towards the front when suddenly a crisp voice broke her concentration, "Hello there."
Sam turned around quickly to find a woman about her age standing behind the truck smiling at her. She had short auburn hair that sort of bobbed around her triangular face. Her eyes were an intense sea green. "Hi." Sam called back.
"I couldn't help but notice the truck." The woman smiled, "My name is Meredith Beel, I'm one of your new neighbors."
"Oh." Sam said smiling as she began to wade towards the woman, "Sorry – nice to meet you Meredith, my name's Anita Scott."
"Oh please call me Merry." The woman grinned as she shook Sam's hand.
"Then please call me Annie." Sam smiled as Jack appeared in the walkway and began heading towards the truck. "Oh Dominic! This is Meredith – Merry – Beel. She's one of our neighbors. Merry this is my husband Dominic."
Merry turned around and held her hand out to Jack who shook it, "Nice to meet you Merry."
"Nice to meet you too. I was just telling Annie that I noticed the truck and decided to come over and introduce myself."
"Wow, a few hours here and we've already met two neighbors, I think it took us three months to meet two neighbors at our old place – huh honey?" Jack asked Sam.
Sam nodded, "That sounds about right."
"Well we're a very tight knit community. Where are you two coming from?" Merry asked as she looked between Sam and Jack's faces.
"Denver." Jack answered as he picked up a box.
"Wow – that's a big change." Merry said as she looked towards Sam.
"Yep. Nick and I want to start a family so we decided we should settle down, get out of the city…same old thing." Sam smiled and couldn't keep a small twinkle out of her eye at the comment of children with Jack.
Merry smiled before suddenly piping up again, "Do you two need any help?"
"Well we've got two movers around here somewhere." Jack said as he looked over his shoulder but still found no sight of the moving men.
"But I can still help." Merry smiled as she picked up a box. Jack smiled at her before he headed back into the house and Sam jumped down to grab her own box.
"Come on Merry – our boxes go up to my study." Sam smiled as she led the way into the house.
"Where do you want this?" Merry asked as they finally arrived in Sam's office.
"Anywhere at this point." Sam laughed as she put her box down on another.
"Wow – you sure have a lot of stuff." Merry commented as she found a small piece of floor to put down her own box.
"Yeah – most of it is work stuff though." Sam smiled when suddenly a faint ringing filled the room.
Sam and Merry exchanged confused looks when suddenly Jack appeared in the doorway holding a small cell phone to his ear. He walked into the room and around in circles a few times before finally finding a box of his liking – he ripped the tape off and scrounged through it and suddenly pulled out another small cell phone. He turned back to the girls and smiled as he handed Sam the phone that a moment before had been on his ear, "I found my cell."
Sam grinned as she took her phone and Jack pocketed the one he had just found. Their reports said that they would find new cell phones amongst their stuff that they would use while undercover. "Thanks sweetheart."
"No problem – I just hope I don't find my underwear in a kitchen box." Jack joked before he left the room.
Sam laughed and turned back to Merry, who had a slightly bemused look on her face, "Nick packed most of the stuff before we left – I had a few odds and ends to finish up with at work before the move so he was in charge."
It was Merry's turn to laugh now as if she knew what that meant, "Husbands."
Sam nodded and they continued to laugh. "You've got that right. Nick's pretty good at those things but when he really gets packing, well…"
Sam smiled as she waved her cell phone in the air and Merry smiled, "That's nothing, when my husband, Vince, moved us into our house I found his power tools packed with my fine china."
Sam smiled back and nodded as if she knew exactly what Merry meant, it was true that Jack had helped her move things out of the dining room when she painted, but they had had help from Daniel and Teal'c, and besides that she had packed all of the little things, she just used the boys as lifters.
"Oh, that reminds me – you and Nick should come over to our place for dinner tonight, my guess is you won't be able to find any of your kitchen utensils right away, I know I couldn't when Vince and I moved, besides it will give us a chance to get to know each other." Merry smiled, her eyes twinkling in sincerity.
Sam watched the other woman's mannerisms, including the sparkle of sincerity and immediately questioned it, one of the families in this cul-de-sac were NID agents – that meant Merry and her husband too. She allowed a twinkle of kindness seep into her own eyes before responding, "That sounds great, thank you."
"Hey!" Jack huffed from down the hall as he moved into the doorway again, a large box in his arms, "Are you trying to kill me?"
Sam smiled as she crossed the room and took the box from Jack, "Sorry hun, we got caught up in girl talk. Merry asked us to come over to her place tonight for dinner."
"Wow, that's really sweet of you, I mean we're new and all." Jack smiled but Sam could tell that he had his own suspicions.
"Well we take care of each other here." Merry smiled and Sam and Jack exchanged glances before they too forced a smile.
"This sounds like a really wonderful place." Jack said as he put his arm around Sam.
"Oh, it is." Merry said with a smile. "I'm going to go down and get another box."
Sam smiled and Jack nodded as Merry left the room, when she was safely out of hearing range Sam looked into Jack's chocolate eyes and exchanged her distrust of the woman before he sighed, "This job is gonna kill me one of these days."
Sam chuckled as Jack let go of her shoulders and slugged himself back towards the stairs. She took a moment to look around her office and found herself grinning, sure she and Jack where there to prevent the destruction of the world but the thought didn't keep her heart from doing a little dance – if they were going to die, going out as Jack's wife wouldn't be such a bad way to go.
After Thought: Please review, everyone and anyone, I really want to hear what people are thinking of this story thus far!
