Author's Note: Okay, since you all pushed my reviews up to 50 (yay!) and seemed to want the epilogue, here you go!

Again, all love to Sam and Jill for challenging me to write this (and Kashoku for checking it over)! Oh, and everyone send love to Sam - she hurt her knee...


The grin was like super-glue; stuck to his face and for the moment impossible to wipe off. If Teal'C were still in the lab (he had excused himself to retrieve some food from the commissary before the ever-hungry SG-12 – who had just returned a couple of hours ago – took all of his preferred jello) then the burly Jaffa would most likely have had a small smirk on his face.

The plan had been simple. As soon as Teal'C had shown Daniel the photo, the bookish archaeologist had devised a prank for the General to fall victim to. Knowing the history of the Colonel and General's tentative and unresolved relationship, he hoped it would give them a push in the right direction. Teal'C had been charged in placing the copy of the photo he had given Sam in her lab in full sight of Jack O'Neill when he headed towards her lab, and Daniel had requested a favour from the security team – he would have his photo taken with the majority of the women on the team if they patched through the feed from her lab to see Jack's reaction when his curiosity won over and he took a peek.

Sam hadn't favoured the idea at all – in fact she had protested quite a lot, but after Daniel had convinced her it would sway things in the way that she wanted them to (he could read her like a book, whether or not she liked to admit it), she reluctantly allowed them to go ahead. Not without a lot of embarrassment on her part, of course. Made worse by the fact that the day they decided to pull the prank, she was heading home and the only civvies she had left was the outfit.

Daniel bounced to his coffee percolator and grabbed another mug of his black, liquid lifeline, and picked up his phone. "Sergeant? Yeah, it's me. Could you possibly patch through the feed from the elevators?"


The doors opened, and Sam reluctantly moved away from her position next to the General. She never realised how warm it could get it the elevators, but now it caused her to shiver as she stepped out into the cool corridor, the chilly air snaking round her and leaving her feeling slightly bereft of her previous position and what had been snaking around her only minutes before.

"See you in a week, sir," she threw him a look over her shoulder. He was holding the door open, an enigmatic smirk on his face, which she had only seen once before – after he had been through three months of time looping. She hadn't understood it then, but it spoke volumes now, and a small thrill ran through her as she realised that she was the cause of it.

She tugged on her top, trying to get it back into place, and smoothed down her slightly mussed hair.

"Have a nice time, Carter..." He was grinning openly now. "Oh, and if I were you...I'd warm your hands up before you try that again."

She blushed again. "Yours weren't exactly warm, general." Composing herself, she couldn't resist one last jab. "You have lipstick right there..." she pointed delicately to the corner of her own mouth, and grinned triumphantly when he rubbed quickly at that spot on his own face with his hand and checked it, before realising she hadn't actually been wearing lipstick. He scowled at her.

"Low blow."

"Goodbye, sir." She turned on her heel and walked – no, floated (at least, it certainly felt like her feet weren't touching the ground) – down the corridor to the first security checkpoint.

He shook his head, watching her as the doors shut and the elevator started moving downwards, taking him to Level 28. General Jack O'Neill would never be able to look at Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter in the same way again.

She was a damn good kisser.


Author's Note: I've really enjoyed writing this and certainly surprised myself, since I can never usually write humour and romance. But thanks for the amazing reviews, and a big thanks to the 17 people who added me to their watch list! I've never had that amount of people add me in such a small time span! Keep checking back...I have a few ideas for another S/J fic, but I just have to get my AS exams out the way first. Love you all!