Moments Two – Evolution Two, Part Two

She hurt. All over. But the moment she was through the gate, and could see the Colonel standing at the base of the ramp, waiting for her, she felt better, much better. Even if she did have her arm in a sling, but then again, Daniel was on crutches, so she didn't think she had it that bad, after all.

And the grin he was giving her, well, she thought that that made it all worth it. Besides this time, it did reach his eyes.

"So… miss me?" She wanted to throw her arms around his neck and say, yes, yes she did miss him, and that he should never, ever leave her again. Not like she could, of course.

"Of course, Sir." And she could feel the odd look her Dad was giving her, but it didn't matter, Jack was smiling at her, she was smiling back, and right now, nothing else mattered, for the moment.

"Well it couldn't have been that bad, you're all still alive." She wanted to jump up and down now, and perhaps do a little jig. He was worried, she knew it. Of course, SG1 had the best luck out of all the teams there, but that didn't mean anything to her. As long as Jack and herself were alive, that was all that mattered, scarily enough, to her. Well, and her Dad, but he wasn't normally on the team, after all.

"As are you and DanielJackson." Yeah, thanks Teal'c for stating the obvious. She wanted to roll her eyes now, she really did.

"Daniel?" Stupid fraternization regulations, not allowing her to say 'Jack?', who's heath was more of a concern to her than accident prone Daniel.

"I'm fine. We got the device from Tel'chak." Oh, hey, that was nice. She could go to work again on something, and try and forget her feelings for her CO. Work always was a nice distraction, but then again, he always seemed to want to be her distraction from her work. Not that she minded, of course.

"Good." Dad now, how thoughtful of him. Could the world just disappear for a moment so she could talk to Jack in private? Oh, and while she is at it, could the regulations cease to exist, or was that asking to much? "Hopefully we can engineer a weapon from it." Yes, that would be nice, then they could save the world, and Jack could retire, and she could jump him. Sounded all nice to her drug addled state. She was so going to put this all down to Advil and other pain killers once she got grounded again.

"You must." Bray'tac stating the obvious as well. But yes, they must, so she could jump Jack. "Or we will be helpless to combat these new solders." Kull warriors, where they not? Oh, yeah, that reminds her…

"We have some bad news, Sir." We didn't defeat them yet so you can't retire and I can't jump you and the regulations have of yet not ceased to exist. "Anubis has an entire army of these super solders." Yeah, that really sucks, she things. It just, does. "There are thousands of them." That number can be applied to how long it would take for her two main wishes to come true at the moment. "The best we were able to do was delay his ability to manufacture more." Well, it is a start.

"We will debrief fully in one hour." She blinked, just realizing that General Hammond was in the room, and didn't that just put a damper on her plans. Yes, yes it did. "Welcome home." Yessir, it was great to be home, as always.

And they began to filter our, she following her father casting one look at Jack.

"Hey." Hey there sexy. Oh, if only she could reply in that way, then life would be nice, very nice. Fluffy, even.

And smiles, his smile most importantly. Did he know what it did to her insides? Most likely not, but it was the smile he gave to her most often, and she cherished each one she got. "So nice command." Wasn't it though?

"We did manage to make it out alive, Sir." Yes, yes she did, and so did he.

Did she happen to mention how much Advil affects her brain? No? Well, it might have been the amount of very, very, very sexy grins he was throwing at her. "There's that." A pause, a nice one though, soft and warm, the type where most people could kiss their hero and live happily ever after. "Lunch?"

Hey, a distraction. So she turns away with him, and as they walk out the door together, she smiles. He says something witty, and she laughs.

Yes, perhaps it wasn't what she wanted, but she has something, that's for sure.

AN: I swear I can hear Amanda laugh at the end. You listen, right as they fade out. Oh, and everyone who can should listen to any audio commentary. It is the Fact book for Stargate, I swear. Did you know that it was "Into the Fire" that sparked the Sexual Tension and Romance? No? Well, now you do, and if you don't believe me, I think it was during "The Lost City"'s commentary. Oh well. And there will be no definite order to these. I'll just write what comes to mind watching the episode. And I hope some of these will put a romantic edge to some episodes that wouldn't normally be considered romantic at all because I love projecting.