A/N: I think there's one more short chapter after this one. To answer a couple of inquiries: yes, sadly, this did happen to me, in a hotel, when I was an undergrad student at a conference to present a paper. In my case, it was just a regular Jacuzzi tub and a little bit of gel that got knocked in. That tiny bit made so many bubbles, I'm sure an entire bottle could easily flood the SGC locker room!

Thanks for reading.

Ch 4: Sam's Splash

When Sam returned to the locker room after remembering she had left her things sitting on the bench, she had naturally expected it to be just as quiet, dark, and deserted as she had left it an hour ago.

Instead, she was met with... bubbles. The entire locker room was rapidly filling up with bubbles, which were pouring out of the spot where she knew the Whirlpool to be, in copious amounts.

"Whoa, what the hell is going on in here?" she called. Surely there was someone in here, perhaps amidst all the bubbles.

"Carter!" The voice was familiar. The slight yelping tone of it was not.

"Colonel?"

"Maybe... turn this damn thing off, will you?"

"Yes, sir," Sam said quickly, hurrying over to the control panel for the Whirlpool. She slipped on the foamy water and slid into the wall lightly, quickly switching the Whirlpool off.

The room got instantly quieter, which made the crackle-popping sound of the bubbles seem suddenly much louder.

"Sir, what happened?" Sam demanded, making her way over to the mass of bubbles that was now, at least, no longer continuing to grow exponentially. Even as she spoke, her brain registered that those bubbles smelled an awful lot like her own shower gel... which she had left out on the bench.

"I uh... had a little... accident..." Her CO's arms, bare and covered with bubbles, suddenly came into view amidst all the foam, as he was apparently trying to wave the bubbles out of his way. She slipped and slid over towards his arms, unable to tell how close she was getting to the edge of the tub.

"Sir, you're not supposed to use any type of soap in the Whirlpool," she called.

"Ya think!" he called back. "Help me outta here!"

"I'm trying!"

"I didn't do it on purpose, by the way! I'm not that dumb!"

"I didn't say you were dumb, sir!"

"Well... the Doc told me to come have a soak and I dozed off and... accidentally dropped... something... in the water."

"Would that 'something' happen to be the shower gel I just came back to put away?" Sam asked.

Silence. Then, finally, "Sorry, Carter."

She sighed and figured she'd really rather not have an explanation for why he had her shower gel close enough to the Whirlpool to drop it in there with himself.

Finally, she broke through the bubbles and burst into giggles. She couldn't help it. The sight of Colonel Jack O'Neill sitting in a tub surrounded by mountains of bubbles and covered with them (and looking absolutely panicked by his situation) was just too much.

"I still haven't found the bottle," he explained, feeling around in the tub.

"It'll be a lot easier to find after we get rid of all these bubbles."

"Good point. Give me a hand?"

"You're not... naked, are you?"

"No!"

She took his soapy hand with her own equally soapy hand and tried to help him up. It was just a recipe for disaster, and sure enough, rather than pulling him up, he pulled her down. She splashed, face first, into the tub on top of him, getting a mouthful of soapy bubbles in the process.

Now, perhaps, under extreme duress of torture or extreme amounts of wine on a girl's night with Janet, Sam might have possibly admitted to imagining what such a scenario might be like. Joining her sexy CO in a hot bath... maybe. It might have crossed her mind. Once. Or twice. Maybe.

The reality was nothing like anything she may or may not have imagined. In reality, falling into the tub on top of her CO just plain hurt.

The hot water hurt her face, her lungs were filled with soapy water, she whacked arms and legs on the hard metal sides of the Whirlpool on the way in, then collided with knees, feet, and who knew what else under water. And judging by the strangled yelp she only dimly registered (as she was much more concerned with more important matters like getting oxygen into her body in addition to all the soap and water she had just inhaled), there was a very real possibility that her left knee had just dealt him a very personal injury.

She finally managed to sit up, too worried with breathing at the moment, as she coughed up bubbles, to do anything about the fact that she was sitting on her CO in the Whirlpool in the locker room in the middle of the night.

While Sam coughed up soapy water and gasped for air, Jack patted her on the back and wiped the bubbles off her face and away from her eyes, not knowing what else to do. Finally, she could breathe somewhat normally. Then she started giggling again.

"What?" he asked, harsher than he meant to.

"I found the bottle," she said in between laughs, holding it up. It was completely empty.

Biting his lip and getting ready to apologize and offer to replace it, he realized she was definitely laughing too much to be really angry, so he gave in and finally started laughing as well.

They were still sitting in the Whirlpool, Jack reclined back as he had been all along, Sam perched awkwardly on his legs just below his knees, laughing like a couple of hyenas on helium, when they heard Teal'c ask, "Major Carter? O'Neill? What has transpired?"

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Teal'c's large form quickly appeared amidst the very slowly dissipating bubbles. If he was surprised to find the locker room overrun with bubbles and Jack and Sam in a tub together, he hid it predictably well.

"Teal'c, this isn't what it looks like," Jack said quickly.

Sam looked at him and snorted. "What exactly is this supposed to look like, anyway?"

"I don't know," he admitted, laughing.

Sam got to her feet carefully in the tub, water pouring loudly off of her as she was still completely dressed. "Welcome to the party, Teal'c. Can you give me a hand?"

"Of course." Teal'c practically lifted her right out of the tub and set her on her feet next to him, keeping a hand firmly on her shoulder to steady her. "O'Neill, give me your hand, I will assist you as well," he instructed.

"All right, but don't even think about picking me up," Jack warned, gripping Teal'c's forearm for balance as he got to his feet and out of the tub carefully. "What are you doing in here in the middle of the night anyway?" he asked curiously.

"I ran out of matches to light the candles in my room and keep a spare box here in my locker."

"Oh. Guess you want to know what happened now, huh?"

"Indeed."

"Right, well see..."

As Jack and Sam explained the situation to Teal'c, they made their slippery way over to their lockers and wiped off as many of the bubbles as they could. Once they were away from Ground Zero (Jack's new name for the Whirlpool,) he was able to see just how far the bubbles had spread.

They completely filled the shower area, the Whirlpool area, and the sinks as well. Even the first two rows of lockers were bubbly. Luckily Sam had shut the jets off before the bubbles spread further, but this was going to take forever to clean up. Speaking of cleaning up...

"Er, Carter? How exactly does one go about cleaning up all these bubbles?"

"I don't know, sir... I mean with enough water we could get rid of them fast, but we'd just be flooding the locker room, which would just be creating a bigger problem... since we're so far underground there's really just nowhere for them to go... it's not like we can open a window or something... I guess we'll just have to let them dissipate on their own. They should all be gone by morning."

"Even if they are, Hammond will still find out about this."

"Yes, sir, I'm sure he will."

"Great," Jack muttered. "The one time I take the Doc up on her suggestion I use the Whirlpool... I should have known something like this would happen."

"It's not that bad, sir," Sam tried to console him as they all headed back towards their quarters, not noticing the wet and soapy trail they were leaving behind.

"Indeed, O'Neill. At least you smell most pleasant," Teal'c added.