Jack entered the house and walking straight into the living room he dropped heavily on to the sofa in relief at finally finishing his investigations of the young lady in question.
He was slouched there with his eyes closed, just grateful for the moments silence after his hard day's work of observing Louise's friends. He hadn't found any possible reason why they shouldn't invite her to work for Stargate Command.
Just then there was a sound from the doorway as something heavy but well padded was dropped at the side of the doorway. Without opening his eyes certain that it was either Carter or Janet he continued to relax thinking how a nice shower would be great to ease his tired muscles.
"Errr… Hi" A strange female voice intruded his quite time and in response Jack's eyes sprung open.
"Wh… what the hell… who are you?" Jack found himself jumping to his feet facing a girl who looked like she was about twenty five years old looking uncertain about being here facing a stranger.
"Errr… Louise… you must be Colonel O'Neill…"
"Okay… Louise who?"
"Robinson"
"And you're here because…?"
"Sir… She's come here to help out…" Sam spoke as she entered the living room.
"You mean this… this is her?" Jack asked almost shocked.
Sam had the decency to look ashamed as she looked at Jack's shocked and angry face. "For crying out loud Carter… this is not what we agreed on…"
"Jack… I would appreciate it if you wouldn't raise your voice at Sam while she's carrying my child… and it was my idea to bring her here, not Sam's" Adam entered the room with Janet and Duncan on his heals.
"Adam what the hell are you doing here… What is this… a god damm field trip…"
"Sir… Adam was already here on information from a friend… that friend is also a friend of Louise's father… he was informed that there was a threat to Louise's life… Adam was here making sure nothing happened to her… it's just a coincidence that we're both here regarding the same person at the same time."
"Fine… so now what… what does she know… or should I say, what does Adam and Duncan over there know," Jack pointed at Adam and Duncan his face never loosing any of the anger that had been showing since being disturbed from his quite time.
"Sir they just know that we've come to check out Louise as there was a possibility that she could be an asset to our project." Sam was now rubbing her lower back trying to alleviate the pain that had settled itself there.
"Ok… but I think I'll return to my first question… what is she doing 'here'" Jack emphasised the last word wanting to get the point over loud and clear.
"Well as this is Janet's house… I thought we could stay here rather than littering our hotel rooms up with our stuff investigating who's after Louise… Also Louise thought it would be safer if she stayed with us until this is all over," Adam had moved over to Sam edging her to the sofa while answering Jack's question.
"Fine but where's everyone meant to be staying."
"Sir if you haven't noticed this is a five bedroom house."
"And who's going to be sleeping in the bedroom that we're using as an office?"
"Sir I'll move into the office bedroom," Janet offered knowing Jack had a point about leaving someone without clearance in a room filled with TOP SECRET documents.
Jack sighed knowing he wasn't going to win this discussion no matter how much he protested so he just turned around and dropped himself back onto the sofa and closed his eyes again willing himself to relax. Even though knowing he wouldn't be able to, especially now with the added tension.
As the day was turning to evening which soon became night they were all gathered around in the living room doing their own things. Sam was typing away on her laptop running through the entire information that Thor had given them on Louise. Jack was playing on the Playstation, which he'd been surprised to find. Duncan and Adam were gathered on the floor with all the information they'd been able to find on who could have threatened Louise's life. Janet was in the corner on a comfy chair reading a book and Louise was sleeping on the sofa, taking up the whole of the three seater.
The completed game credits came on the game Jack was playing on and Jack turned around looking extremely smug with himself only to find nobody was paying attention to his gaming. "Oh… well isn't this a happy bunch of people?"
At that Sam looked up from her laptop to Jack with still a slightly distracted look in her eyes, "Sir with all due respect there's a good reason for us to be a little bit… up tight… there's a young woman's life at stake."
"I know that Carter… but she's here and 'safe', speaking of which now that we have her with us why don't we just go back to the states and let Hammond offer her the job like we planned to do anyway."
"That would be something we'd have to discuss with her sir… but as you may be able to tell she's sleeping at the moment so we can't arrange anything until we've at least discussed it with her."
"I think it's a good idea to get her out of the country… the person that's looking for her knows where she is all the time until she turned around and decided to help us that is… If we leave now it'll throw them off, giving us more time to work out who they are." Adam was now standing up stretching his legs trying to get the cramp out that had set in from sitting on the hard floor.
"You agree with him," Sam asked trying to hide the disbelief that she knew was plaguing her voice.
"Why is that so unbelievable, Carter?"
"It's not that sir… it's just… well… nothing sir…" Carter was for once at a loss for words and she could feel her face slowly turning scarlet.
Jack just shook his head knowing what she meant, trying to hide a smile that was trying to spring to his face. "Don't worry about it… Anyway it's getting late and I've got to get up early tomorrow morning so I'm going to get myself to bed," Jack said standing, his knees protested after been stuck in the same position for the past few hours.
"I think I'm going to get myself to bed as well, I think the jet lag is catching up with me," Janet said pulling herself to her feet, marking her place in the book with a well worn book mark then she placed it on the coffee table.
Everyone bid them good night then went back to what they were doing before hand. Jack decided to carry Louise to her room where she'd be able to get some sleep in a comfortable place so he went over to the sofa and gently picked her up.
Janet held the door open for him and let him pass through before heading out of the room herself. They made their way up the stairs then made their way down the hallway until they came to Louise's room. Janet once again opened the door for Jack letting him enter the room. She quickly entered after him and just as quickly making her way over to the bed, she pulled back the covers so that Jack would be able to lower her to the bed easily.
Once that was done they silently made there way out of the room and Janet who was the last one out closed the door giving Louise some privacy even though she was already sleeping.
Turning around from the door she came face to face with Jack and although that wouldn't usually be a problem, at this time there seemed to be a complication, their faces were barely ten centimetres away from each other despite the height difference. The warmth of his breath contacted with her skin and she felt the hairs on the nape of her neck stand on end in anticipation.
She could feel her heart beat increase not knowing if Jack knew how much this was making her just want to move forward bridging the gap between them and passionately kissing him until he didn't know what had hit him.
The seconds seemed to be lasting for centuries neither of them speaking as they seemed to be lost in each other's eyes. Jack found his mind racing not sure if he should advance more, to take Janet's mouth in a kiss he knew she wanted as much as he did, he could see it all there laying under the surface of her brilliant green eyes. At the same time though there was also the nagging thoughts that she didn't want this really. He found it rather laughable really, what would a god knows how old, kind and generous person see in him, a cynical old Colonel in the United States Air Force on the verge of being forced to retire.
With that terrible thought Jack seemed to pull himself free of Janet's eyes and moved back feeling his face redden as the feeling of being a school boy with his first crush came racing back to the front of his mind.
Janet noticed the second it happened, he was losing his nerve and that if she ever wanted anything to happen she had to act. No matter what she'd told Sam yesterday, she had to do something and she had to do it now before he moved any further and bolted for his room.
She took hold of his arm shocking him for a second causing him to still but then the shock wore off and he continued to try and pull away afraid that he was still stepping over the line that she didn't want him to step over.
Although she was a short woman Janet was in fact stronger then she actually looked thanks to centuries of practising in different forms of self-defence. She managed to stop him from pulling any further away then she stepped back into his personal space slightly shocking Jack.
"Janet you don't…" Jack was cut off from continuing his protest as she captured his lips.
At first it was just a gentle kiss enabling Janet to let him know that she knew what she was doing and this was exactly the thing that she wanted to be doing at this very moment. After the first few moments the kiss started to intensify and they soon found themselves unaware of anything that was happening around them. Even when Sam and Adam stepped off the top step and looked down the hallway spotting the couple in what only could be described as an intimate embrace.
A/N: - Thanks for the reviews people keep them coming as you all know how much i love reviews :D
Kahless21: - thanks for the review i also i have a 'winner' here i like writing these secret stories and lets hope theres a number 3 in the works soon :D.
Sophiedb: - You'll just have to wait and see if Adam 'freaks' when he finds out how her biological parents are:D (But another thing you sould be wondering about is what other surprises i have in store for you readers, now that's when the twilight zone music comes in :D)
Bitterbrigitte: - hope you continue to like it and hopfully when i get round to writting number 3 you'll enjoy that just as much. :D.
Lauren: - Thanks for the review i hope you enjoy the rest of the story too. Keep letting me know what you think and i'll keep writting them.
