A/N: I know this took a long time to post, but that's because I don't really think it's up to par. I was writing this story on my laptop so I could be all comfortable in bed as I wrote, but I fell asleep one night with the laptop on the bed and accidentally knocked it to the ground... it survived but it is damaged and we're waiting for a new power cord to be delivered, so I had to try to remember what I had already started on this chapter and commandeered our other computer to finish it up. This chapter has been hard for me to write and it was driving me crazy, so I finally just decided to post it and move on to the next one. Anyway, at the end of this chapter everyone sort of splits off into smaller groups, which will make the rest of it much easier to write (that's my plan, at any rate.) My weekend is going to be filled with grading papers, which always fills me with the urge to go write something else to entertain myself, so I'll probably finish this one up over the weekend. Thanks so much for reading.

Ch 5: Meet Me at Pooh Corner

Sam really didn't want to have to explain what Daniel had just seen. Mainly because she had no idea what was going on herself, and she needed to be alone to try to figure it out; she really, really didn't want to stay up all night recounting the previous six years with Daniel.

"Sam... you guys do that every year," Daniel said quietly, as though he were just now realizing it was true even as he said it.

"Wh... how did you know that?" Sam asked sharply.

"I don't know, I just... knew it. It's like... I can see you, last year. Like a picture. You and Jack were in your bed, Quarks and Maggie were there too, asleep. You were about to fall asleep, Jack kissed you, you said 'thank you,' and went to sleep."

"I said thank you when he kissed me?" Sam asked, embarrassed. Jack had never brought that up.

"Yeah... wait, you didn't even know that?"

"I was so tired, Daniel..."

"I know. I was... I was there, watching. That sounds really creepy, doesn't it?"

"Yes. If it was anyone else. I can't believe you were there and you didn't let me see you. That's just mean."

"Hey, maybe I just didn't want to interrupt you and Jack making out!"

"We didn't make out," Sam said firmly, crossing her arms.

"But you have," Daniel said in a detached sort of voice. Sam's eyes got even wider. "I can't see the other years but it's like... when I saw you last year I got... kind of got a flood of memories... or feelings or whatever... from the other years... you do, don't you? You kiss each other every year at the end of our birthday party. Sam, why didn't you tell me!"

"I... I don't know. We never even talk about it. The Colonel and I, I mean. We started to one year but then we... didn't. Not really, at least."

"So nobody else knows?"

"Well... don't get mad, Daniel, but... Cassie and Teal'c both know already."

"WHAT?"

"It's not like we were excluding you intentionally," Sam said hastily. "Cassie walked in on us the third year, when we were at O'Malley's, and Teal'c... well, I don't know when he first found out but he walked in one us after the big party at Jack's and was not surprised at all."

"Does Janet know?"

"No."

"Well... at least I'm not the last person to know," Daniel grumped, sitting down on the foot of his bed. "So... what was with the peck on the cheek in the hall? Judging by your reaction and what I can remember, or have a sense of or whatever, that was the tamest one yet."

"By far," Sam mumbled. "I don't know... he was talking about how the celebration is going on all weekend, so maybe he wants to wait till the end of the weekend..."

"Or maybe that was all you get this year because of Pete," Daniel said matter-of-factly.

Sam's mouth actually dropped open in surprise. "Daniel, are you serious?"

"Well... Sam, come on, even before I remembered I sort of knew about all those other kisses, I was surprised about the whole Pete thing... and Jack's reaction to the whole Pete thing..."

"He hasn't HAD a reaction to Pete, Daniel. That's why I can't believe that's the reason. Only everyone else is making a big deal out of it. And anyway, if we've been disregarding the rules and regulations of the United States Air Force once a year for seven years, I really think that would be a bit of a stronger obstacle than me dating a guy that doesn't even live in the area!"

"Maybe that's not what Jack is thinking," Daniel pointed out. "I think you need to talk to him. Soon."

"But... maybe he just wants to wait until the end of the trip or something, I mean, it's not like the hallway between all three of our rooms is the most discreet place, maybe he was worried about someone seeing..."

"Yeah, maybe," Daniel interrupted, yawning loudly and stretching. "But you still should talk to him."

Sam made a noncommital noise and threw herself face down on her bad quite dramatically. "Or I could just see what kind of a mood he's in tomorrow and go from there," she said, speaking directly into her pillow.

Daniel couldn't understand her but she seemed to be speaking to herself anyway, so he just turned the lamp by his bed off and carefully removed his glasses.

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Sam felt like she had just fallen asleep when their wake-up call came the next morning. "Sam, get up," Daniel called cheerfully on his way to the bathroom.

Sam groaned into her pillow but couldn't bring herself to get out of bed. She had slept terribly the night before. At first she couldn't fall asleep at all, and then she kept waking up. She must have talked herself out of going over to the guys' room to talk to Colonel O'Neill about fifty times.

Daniel came out of the bathroom and said, "Sam! Get up, everyone's meeting here for breakfast in an hour."

"Rrmmrmph, Dnnnl," she said, her voice muffled by the pillow.

"What?"

"I'm up, Daniel!"

"You don't look up."

"I am. Go take your shower."

"Okay. We've got about a million things to do today."

"Then what are you wasting time bugging me for?"

"Well I love you too," Daniel commented dryly as he went back into the bathroom.

Sam dozed off again while Daniel took his shower, and the next thing she knew he had jumped on the bed next to her and was trying to pull the pillow off of her face. "Sam!"

"Daniel go bug somebody else, I'm so tired..."

Someone knocked on the door. "See, now everyone's ready for breakfast and you're not even up yet," Daniel admonished as he hurried to get the door.

"It hasn't been an hour," Sam objected.

Daniel let Teal'c and Jack into the room. They were wearing the hats Daniel and Sam had given them, which meant Teal'c had to duck to enter the room, as his large purple Mad Hatter top hat made him about eight and a half feet tall.

"Sam's refusing to get up," Daniel said unnecessarily as Teal'c and Jack spotted their sleeping teammate.

"Now come on, Sleeping Beauty, there's embracing the Disney spirit and there's taking things too far," Jack said mildly, plopping himself down on Daniel's unmade bed, making himself comfortable.

"Aren't you a little early, sir?" Carter asked. He seemed to be in a perfectly amicable mood, which wasn't what she had been expecting after what happened last night.

"We wanted to make sure you kids were up, and looks like we were right. Come on, Daniel looks like he's about to start flying in circles around the room if we don't let him loose soon."

Sam rolled out of bed and went into the bathroom without saying anything else. She needed coffee. Lots of it. Maybe Janet could hook up an IV.

"Why don't you go see if Janet and Cassie are up?" Sam called after brushing her teeth.

"Already did!" Jack called back cheerfully. "They're up and in the process of getting ready, but you'll probably still beat them both. Hurry up, we have to be there at eight."

"Be where?"

"Breakfast! Cassie's pick!"

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Cassie's pick turned out to be a character breakfast: Winnie-the-Pooh. Sam looked over at Jack as they entered the "Hundred Acre Woods," wondering if he was remembering last year, when he had sent her a balloon for breakfast with a Winnie-the-Pooh quote attached.

He obviously was. He winked and said, "Maybe you can get a picture with the bear. I bet he'll let you sit on his lap."

If the Disney people were surprised at having such a large party of only adults they covered it well. Before leaving the room, Teal'c and Jack had made Sam and Daniel put their Mouseketeer ears back on, so as soon as they sat down, Jack told the waiter they were celebrating "The Mouseketeers' birthdays."

Sam did get her picture taken with Winnie-the-Pooh, but would only do it if everyone else did as well. Teal'c looked like he wanted to hurt someone, but he stood stoically in between Tigger and Daniel for the photo.

At the end of breakfast, the entire "cast" of Winnie-the-Pooh came out and sang to Sam and Daniel and brought out chocolate muffins that tasted suspiciously like cake. Janet frowned at the unhealthy breakfast but decided once a year wouldn't hurt.

After breakfast, they spent a long time zipping around the Magic Kingdom, doing as many rides and things as possible. Everyone was having a wonderful time. Whatever was wrong with Cassie seemed to have lifted. Sam still wondered what was going on with her, and Jack as well, but since they didn't have much time to begin with she just decided to forget about it for the time being.

Jack seemed quite happy and relaxed towards her, and while he was pretending to be embarrassed at the way Teal'c and Cassie were approaching all the characters for autographs and pictures, she could tell he was secretly pleased that everyone, even Teal'c, was having a good time. Apparently while Teal'c didn't really embrace the world of Winnie-the-Pooh, he was quite the Disney afficianado in every other area. Sam had even seen him smiling twice already.

They rode all the classic rides together. Space Mountain was first, which was just stupid after eating such a huge sugary breakfast; Sam was left feeling remarkably like she had just taken her first trip through the Stargate. At least she wasn't cold this time.

"Guess you shouldn't have had that big breakfast, huh," Jack said as he saw her looking nauseous, patting her on the shoulder exactly as he had done after shoving her through her first wormhole. Instead of thinking horrible thoughts about him as she had on that momentous occasion, she just laughed and waved off Janet's attempt to check her pulse and temperature.

All three women expressed their disappointment that the Pirates of the Caribbean ride was noticeably devoid of both Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, and Jack flat-out refused to go to 'it's a small world after all,' insisting he'd never get the song out of his head if he did. "Now you know how the rest of us, including General Jumper, feel," Daniel commented as they moved on to the Haunted Mansion.

At the Haunted Mansion, they all were surprised to learn that Dr. Fraiser was quite jumpy. She got spooked several times, which always made everyone, especially Jack, laugh. When a ghost startled him and he jumped behind Teal'c, grabbing the large man's shoulders instinctively, everyone laughed even harder.

"I will not let any harm befall you at the Magic Kingdom, O'Neill," Teal'c assured him in that tone that said, 'yes, I am in fact making fun of you, O'Neill.'

On Splash Mountain, they all managed to squeeze into one log, despite the fact that it forced Jack to be squashed much more intimately between Teal'c and Daniel than hehad any desire to be. Ever. Apparently there was some rule that the smallest person had to be in front and the biggest in back. So Janet got splashed the most and Jack, in the middle of a Daniel/Teal'c sandwich, spent most of the ride trying to figure out where to put his hands. Jack rather thought Daniel got the best deal on that ride, but he resisted the urge to demand a hand check to see where exactly his 2IC was being mauled by the Spacemonkey.

After lunch, they decided to split into smaller groups based on what they preferred to do, and meet up at MGM for dinner and "something else" – Daniel and Sam refused to say what, even when Jack and Teal'c pinned their arms to their sides while Cassie and Janet tried to tickle it out of them. After lunch, Cassie and Teal'c wanted to stay at the Magic Kingdom because they were still hunting down Ariel and two dwarves.

Jack was a little bit hesitant about letting those two go off alone together; neither had been to Disney World before and both tended to find trouble easily. But they were insistent, and when a hundred and some-odd year-old Jaffa tells you he wants to go ride the teacups, you let him ride the damn teacups.

Janet really wanted to see Epcot, so Daniel offered to go with her, despite the fact that he had already seen most of it. "You can never have too much Epcot," he said with a shrug. They turned to go but Daniel suddenly felt guilty at the way everyone had just sort of left Jack and Sam standing alone together in the middle of Main Street.

Normally, Daniel wouldn't have been surprised if Jack had arranged for them to split up like this, but now... after what he had remembered last night and everything, Daniel wasn't sure. He really did think they needed to talk, but he also wanted them both to have fun today as well. "Hang on I have to ask Sam something," Daniel said quickly, trotting back over to Jack and Sam, who were studying a map of the park.

"Forget something, Danny?" Jack asked.

"Er, yeah, Sam..." She nodded at the look on his face and followed him a few feet away from Jack and Janet.

"What's up, Daniel?"

"Are you two going to be okay today?"

"Of course. He seems perfectly happy today. When we were looking at the map just now he was humming zip-a-dee-do-dah."

"What about you?"

"I still don't know what last night was about but I'm not going to bring it up if he's not. That would ruin our day."

"All right... well, have a good time then."

"You too." She glanced at Janet and then back at Daniel. "Don't do anything I wouldn't do," she said suggestively.

"Well, that gives me lots of options then, doesn't it?" Daniel countered.

Sam narrowed her eyes at him and shoved him lightly as they went back to Jack and Janet. "Ready?" Daniel asked with a smile.

"Yeah... see you guys later," Janet said, looking at Sam for an explanation.

Sam shrugged innocently and turned to her CO with a bright smile. "So, what do you want to do first, sir?"