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Here's the final part!
SLEEPING BEAUTY.
by LetitiaRichards
Previously:
"We are you servants your Majesty, what is it that you command us do?" spoke the elder of the small quartet of flunkies present.
The four team-members gasped in surprise.
She ordered them to find Sam's clothes and all their equipment at once. They bowed low and hurried off on their errand.
"You...you're...a...a Queen?" Daniel stuttered.
Chapter 10
"We are the rulers over our lands here, yes. Please do not worry. We are humbled by your visit to our world, I only wish it had been a more pleasant stay for you."
"That's okay! No harm done!" Jack said quickly. The sooner they were out of there the better. He was half expecting Balazah to re-appear and tell them they were still asleep and only dreaming about their release.
Seeing Sam still dressed in that blue gown was still making him sigh with longing, even though the machine had stopped affecting them long ago. Supposedly; though he had his doubts.
The Queen ordered some refreshments and they ate while they waited for the servants to return.
It was only an hour later when they were heading back to the Stargate with a wave goodbye from the Queen and her King, while Balazah looked on with a king sized pout. He'd apologised to them and rather ungraciously promised not to play with any others who came through the great circle there after.
Daniel and Teal'c walked in front, leading the way whilst Sam and Jack followed behind.
"So, sleeping Beauty eh?" Jack snorted.
Sam blushed, dipping her head.
"I've been trying to recall who it was that Balazah reminded me of," she sighed. "Now I remember..."
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The child-like Baron Bomburst. I know. I thought that too. So what does that make you? Truly Scrumptious?"
"Caractacus Potts?" she retaliated with a sly grin.
He laughed outright then, making Daniel turn round and frown at them.
"I'll leave all that inventing stuff for you.
Jack waved Daniel and Teal'c onwards while he turned back to Sam with a smirk, thinking she really was truly scrumptious. As for himself, maybe he really was eccentric but he knew he loved her, just like the Caractacus character in the film loved Truly. And she'd made a beautiful Sleeping Beauty.
"What?" she asked, seeing his goofy smile. The one that melted her insides to goo whenever she saw it; and he only smiled like that at her too which made her feel wonderful.
"Jus' thinkin'," he shrugged.
"About?"
"That machine." He stopped then, and caught her arm, preventing her from walking on. "Daniel, Teal'c," he called out to his friends. "We'll meet you at the Stargate. Give us a few minutes!"
"Okay Jack," Daniel smirked at Teal'c, knowing what they wanted to discuss. He still didn't know if anything happened in that chamber, but he was determined to find out one way or another.
"Carter...Sam...you know that I... I have real feelings for you..."
"I have for you too Si...Jack. I wanted it so badly, I couldn't think straight," she confessed.
"Me too! So, where does that leave us? It sure as hell hasn't made it any easier."
Sam hung her head then, shame and embarrassment filling her alongside the need to be with him. Tears stung her eyes and she sniffed them back, unwilling to let him see her crying.
He did anyway. He knew.
"C'mere," he whispered softly.
She stepped into his arms and he held her tight against him, and kissed the top of her blonde head tenderly, while she clung to him.
"You gonna be okay with all this?" he asked after a moment or two, giving her a little time to compose herself.
She shrugged, blinking back the tears and wiping the residue on her sleeve. He wordlessly handed her a clean handkerchief and she blew her nose on it.
"Better?" he asked smiling lovingly at her. Unlike a lot of women he knew, when she cried at least she looked even more adorable.
"Yes sir," she sniffed.
"I don't know what you want Sam, but I don't know if I can stuff all this back in that room to wither and die away. I don't want that to happen to what we want. You must know how much I... I... 'care' about you."
Sam felt the same about him but she noted he'd carefully left out the 'L' word.
"Me too Jack. I do love you!" she said feeling bolder than he at expressing her feelings."
"I love you too Truly or Sleeping Beauty, whoever you are?" he admitted grinning. "My Sam," he finished, placing a warm palm against her cheek.
Sam sniggered.
"Caractacus," she laughed, feeling awed by his confession and closed her hand over his, bringing it to her lips to kiss. "My Prince! My knight in shining armour, or at least in BDUs."
He laughed with her, thinking how wonderful she was away from the strict rules and regulations of the Air Force. He loved her all the more for showing him the real Sam Carter, if only for a short while until they returned to the SGC.
"So that leaves us exactly where?" he asked with a sigh, coming back to the problem.
"I don't know, but what I do know is, that I couldn't do this without you by my side."
"Really?"
She shook her head.
"I don't want to go out there and face countless dangers without you there too. If I were to leave this and you got hurt or worse, killed, I'd never be able to live with myself again. I couldn't live without you Jack."
"I feel the same about you Sam," he sighed, tenderly brushing a wayward strand of her hair from her brow. "So, we just gonna forget it? Forget what we mean to each other?"
"No. I'm willing to take that risk Jack. Are you? We can do this; have both I mean. You should be able to do this, you were black ops; top secret is your middle name. You can teach me to do covert, you're an expert."
"I don't know Sam. I couldn't lie to Hammond if he were to ask. He's been good to me, and a lot more patient with me than I have a right to. He's given me a lot of latitude over the last few years. He could have kicked me out of the Air Force many times over."
"Don't ask, Don't tell, isn't that the rule? General Hammond knows you Jack. Heknows darn well thatyou're a damn fine officer and he won't do or say or do anything to lose you from the SGC. The worst he'll do is separate us without explaining to anyone else why."
He stayed silent while his thoughts ran amok.
Could they? he wondered.
"So what difference would breaking one more rule make to your record?" she continued.
"Because it would involve you. Your record is clean and I'll not be responsible for messing up your career. You have everything going for you," he stated emphatically. "So please don't ask me to do that!"
"I'm not asking you. I'm telling you. And it's my career so it's my decision!"
He thought about her statement for a moment then gave a lop-sided grin.
"You wearing the pants in this relationship?"
"What relationship?"
"Ours. Us!" he said, waving his hand between the two of them.
"There's gonna be an us?"
"Sure there is! So, dinner tomorrow night?"
"Only if it's Italian," she stated emphatically with a wide smile full of white teeth.
He smiled down at her and pulled her into a powerful kiss which she returned with a burning fervour. When he pulled away he couldn't hold back the beam of delight on his own face.
"Now that was just what the doctor ordered," he puffed breathlessly from the connection. "Guess we'd better be headin' back then?"
She smiled up at him and nodded, her head still full of his scent and taste.
For a moment she walked along side him with her hand in his until they left the trees behind and could see Daniel and Teal'c waiting patiently, at least Teal'c was, beside the DHD.
"You guys okay?" Daniel asked, then grinned. "Okay, stupid question," he laughed, seeing the wide smiles and the twinkling eyes full of love on both their faces.
"We're fine. Dial it up Daniel," Jack ordered. "Don't keep the General a waitin'."
Daniel dialled up, happy in the knowledge that his friends would be together at last. He knew it would happen one day, just not when. Well the fairy-tale setting was just right for a romantic get away. Maybe he should bring a certain someone here and get Balazah to play with them. His smile lit up as he thought of a certain red-head back at the SGC and actually looked forward to his medical examination with the CMO.
Jack waved the others through the open wormhole and turned once more to Sam. Cupping her cheeks in his palms he proceeded to kiss her deep and passionately.
She was breathless when he'd finished, wanting more, but he just smiled and ran his thumb gently over her kiss-swollen lips.
"I love you Sam. This isn't a fairy-tale ending for us, only the beginning."
"I love you Jack. You'll always be my hero."
He released her and stood back, putting some space between them.
"This is just for now Sam. Tomorrow we get to do it all over again, and maybe the day after, yadda yadda…for ever."
"Like all good fairy-stories? Happy ever after!" she added with a grin.
At his nod they both stepped through the giant ring to go home; home to create their own fairy-tale.
That's all folks!
Thanks for reading my story, and for all your reviews.
For those of you that haven't seen the movie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Caractacus Potts was the eccentric inventor who built a flying car, and Truly Scrumptious was his love interest. The evil Baron Bomburst was an overgrown spoiled child and imprisoned all the children in the land so that he could have all the toys. He stole the car, and Caractacus and his friends had to find a way of getting it back but also freeing the children from captivity. Okay this is only a rough outline, but I think it explains the references. My kids love it anyway!