Response to a challenge at The Sam and Jack Fan Fic Challenge Archive
A/N: Wow—I'm updating... A million and a half years later!! Sorry about that by the way, but I've been so busy with school (which ends tomorrow! Woo hoo!) that I forgot to update, but here it is— le grand fromage! (Sorry I just felt like saying that)!!!
CHAPTER FOUR
a day at the beach
Daniel and Teal'c made their way to the port-o-potties to wash their hands and, in Daniel's case, face ("These devices are a great disappointment in Tau'ri technology. The stench is putrid..."); and later they found their way back to their other teammates, all enjoying the sun.
"'bout time, ladies!"
"I do not under--"
"Just... never mind!"
"But--"
"It's okay Teal'c; it'll all be okay..."
Teal'c cocked his head to one side and gave a blank, yet utterly confused look.
"What happened to you guys? Was the vendor closed or something?" Sam questioned.
"Well let's just say we had a little run-in with some football players," Daniel explained. "They were just running along, pushing people out of their way when they knocked the food out of Teal'c's and my hands. Then we went to those terrible portable bathrooms... they weren't fun."
"Oh," Sam, Jack, and Jonas gave them a sympathetic look... who likes those things?!
"So if you want food, the vendors are over there" he motioned his arm behind him.
Jack groaned and grabbed a bottle of water from the cooler. "Well we'll stay here for a while and later, if you guys want, there is a bunch of tennis and basketball courts fifteen minutes away from here."
"Tennis? Oh I love tennis," said Sam.
"Tennis...?" Jonas spoke up while Teal'c just gave another blank and mildly confused look.
"Who wants to go to the pool?!" Sam jumped up from her chair and dusted some sand off.
Teal'c stood up; Jonas followed suit and then shrieked in excitement.
"Okay we're going over to the pool (since it's jelly fish season). We'll be back in an hour."
They said good-bye as Jonas, Teal'c, and Sam headed in the direction of the pool near the boardwalk. It was a little bit strange that there was a pool right beside a beach but Sam was grateful— The ocean was nice and all but there were little jelly fish in it at this time of the year that were harmless but terribly gross, and they got everywhere.
Jonas was so very excited about going to the pool that as soon as they got near enough to it, he ran ahead and jumped in... apparently forgetting that he couldn't swim.
"AAAAAAAAAH!!!!" He struggled to get air as Sam jumped in ("Oh for cryin' out—!") and rescued him.
"Jonas! How could you jump right into the deep end of a pool when you've never been in one before?!"
"Well... it looks easy on TV..."
"Hello there!" some random guys were walking bye, cat-calling and whistling at Sam as she had gotten out of the pool, dripping wet.
"Hi!" Jonas responded cheerfully. Sam rolled her eyes and walked Jonas and Teal'c to the shallow end of the pool (where all the babies were learning how to swim).
"Okay, guys. This is the shallow end of the pool. It's only 3 feet deep. We'll walk along the floor and when you start becoming uncomfortable with the depth, let me know."
"Major Carter," Teal'c started. "I already know how to swim."
"Really? Great! You can teach Jonas!" she giggled evilly and swam off to the other end then got out and went to the diving board. Those stupid cat- calling men were still there, too.
"Hey, sex-ay!" they called.
Sam turned to face them and gave them a look. "Hi!" She walked down to where her stuff was and fished around in her beach bag. When she found what she was looking for, she walked back over to the diving board. This time she'd be prepared. She jumped off the board and sure enough, when she reached the surface the guys were calling after her again. "All right, that's it," she mumbled quietly to herself. She took her dog tags from her pocket, removed the ring which hung in them, put it on her finger and the tags around her neck.
"Hey, fellas," she said in a falsely nice yet dismissive tone, "I hate to burst your bubble but I, uh, well" she fiddled with the ring. "I'm attached." When the comments (and now gestures) persisted she added (dropping the nice tone), "I'm also in the Air Force so I could just kick your asses and get it over with. Oh, and by the way, so're they." She motioned towards Teal'c (now demonstrating the doggy-paddle to Jonas) and Jonas.
The smiles faded from the guys' faces. They looked at each other and started stammering.
"I—I'm terribly s—sorry!" one was saying.
"Permission to apologize, ma'am?" barked another in a military fashion.
"Well—um—I'm sorry I don't know what we were thinking—you're probably much too young for us anyway!" charmed a third, smoothly. Seeing as the statement was terribly untrue (the guys were about 25), it worked perfectly.
"I guess it's okay," Sam forgave them and walked to join Teal'c and Jonas before they could see the color now flooding to her cheeks.
Meanwhile
Jack and Daniel decided that the bottles of water from the cooler simply weren't enough to sustain them so they made their way to the concession stand. The long line of people waiting to purchase hot dogs and ice cream seemed much longer than before when Daniel had been there with Teal'c. Finally, after a good 25 minutes of waiting on the line, Jack and Daniel got their hot dogs, ice creams, and sodas. Naturally all of this was quite difficult to carry so they found a vacant picnic table a few minutes from the boardwalk and fewer from the Kiddie Park.
When they had finished eating, it was quickly approaching 1 in the afternoon, and the hot July sun was ablaze.
"Urgh! I am so hot!" Daniel complained.
"Wow, you're conceited!!" Jack teased.
"Huh?" Daniel gave him a confused look.
Jack laughed, "Forget— ..." he stopped for a second and motioned for Daniel to be quiet. "You know, I just got a great idea!!"
"But how am I...?"
"Honestly Daniel, sometimes I wonder... this is the man who figured out the Stargate?" Jack picked up his trash, threw it away, and making sure Daniel was following him, walked to the entrance of the Kiddie Park.
"Oooh!" exclaimed Daniel with the look of Homer Simpson eyeing a giant glazed Donut. "Look at that thing!"
"I know I've seen it before!" said Jack in an obvious tone.
"THE LOG FLUME!!!!" The two whispered as if speaking the name of a greatly revered king.
The two adults paid their admission into the park (after proving to the manager of the park that they indeed were not drunk) and set off to ride the log flume.
This log flume (in comparison to big and famous places like Dorney Park, Hurricane Harbor, and Legoland) was no big thing. It was like the ones by beaches, you know (A/N: even though this is an imaginary beach—did you honestly think there was a beach within driving distance of Jack's cabin?... because apparently I did ::rolls eyes at own stupidity:: and now, back to our show).
Jack and Daniel waited on the line for about ten minutes before they finally reached their nirvana of getting inside that plastic log. They screamed like little kids and put their hands up when the drop came. Soon enough they'd managed to waste an entire hour and a half at the park.
"Uh-oh!" exclaimed Daniel when he replaced his wristwatch. "It's two- thirty! We've got to get back soon because the others will be wondering where we've run off to." So Jack and Daniel started walking back to the beach but when they reached the boardwalk they ran into Jonas, Teal'c, and Sam.
"Hey guys!" Sam greeted, as they made their way back to the beach. "What've you two been up to?"
"We went on the log flume" said Daniel dreamily. "Yeah it was really— Hey, where's our stuff?" Jack was very confused. They had made it back to where Jack's Simpson's beach chairs and towels had been, but the stuff wasn't there.
"Do you think it could have been those... foot—ball players?" questioned Teal'c, putting the wrong emphasis on "football."
"It's 'football,' Teal'c, 'football'..." Jonas informed him.
"Oh no... I think I know what happened."
Jack was beginning to hyperventilate now, "tell me!!"
Sam sighed, "High tide was a half an hour ago..."
"Oh no! That means—" Jack's face fell. "MY STUFF!!!!!" He ran off madly to the edge of the water. "DON'T WORRY, BELOVED SIMPSONS MEMORABILIA! I'LL SAVE YOU!!!"
A/N: This chapter wasn't as funny as I'd planned but never fear—for next chapter is the blackout chapter!!! Heh heh heh!!! What can go wrong when everyone's in dun-dun-dun THE DARK!!!! You can rest assured there will be even more ::suggestion:: mwahahahaha! However there'll probably be some Jack/Sam fluff. Just a warning. PLEASE R/R! ;-)
