Author's note: on the first chapter I said that the ride to jack's place had been done in silence therefore they had to be in the same car. So let's say it was Daniel's car. Jack had his car in the workshop.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, so don't sue.

Chapter 2: The talk

- Did you notice that we talked for hours? - After a long talk Daniel had finally noticed that it was night.

- What time is it?

Daniel looked at his watch. It said 22:00.

- Ten o'clock.

- We didn't even get dinner. Do ya want somethin' to eat?

- Nop. I'll just go home. I'm tired. - Daniel remembered what Sam had said about showing up later at Jack's house for a proper goodbye. – Guess Sam isn't coming anymore.

- What do you mean?

- She told me that she would stop by your house later. I'm guessing she got distracted analyzing that device from 23X-769. Well I've got to go.

- Hey, how about some fishing Saturday? It would be great, SG-1 together again.

- What? Miss us already? - Daniel laughed and gave his friend a handshake – ok I'll let Teal'c and Sam know about your plan. But I tell you right away we have a mission planed for Thursday so I don't know if we can come and with the new CO… well you know things can get complicated. I'll call you after I have a chance to talk to the others.

- I know you guys can't resist a whole day of fishing. A couple of beers, maybe some simpsons, definitely pizza.

- Sure Jack, we loved the last time we came here for fishing. – Yeah right! We almost died of boredom.

Of course that none of the guys said to Jack that they had hated to be sitting for 4 hours just trying to catch some fish. They knew that he loved fishing so they put up with it. The rest of the afternoon hadn't gone so bad, they had talked, laughed and after a long argument about what to watch they end up watching Star Wars, but come on who would argue with Teal'c? It had been fun.

Jack knew that his friends didn't enjoy fishing but the simple fact that they would put up with it because of him meant a lot. Also he still had some hope of tricking his friends in to enjoy fishing.

- Bye Space monkey.

- You know you could just call me Daniel.

- What would be the fun in that?

- Bye.

Daniel left.

Home sweet home. Boy this is weird I almost didn't spend any time in this house for the past eight years. This is gonna take some time to get used to.

Knock Knock

Who can be knocking at my door at this time of night?

Jack opened the door. It was Sam.

- Hy. May I come in?

- Whoa. From all the people in the world you would probably be the last one I thought would be knocking at my door this late at night.

Sam smiled. - So what does that mean? I can't come in?

- Oh, sorry. Come in. – Jack stepped aside for Sam to enter his house and then he closed the door.

- I've been waiting for Daniel to leave. I wanted to talk to you alone. Come on Samantha Carter you can do it, you've come this far. Just Say it! Just say it! – I… - Before she could say anything Jack intervened.

- So you came to pay a visit to an old, retired air force general? Boy that's pathetic. I would think that you'd have something better to do on a Tuesday night. Like, let's say going out with that Pete guy.

Jack didn't mean to hurt her and he could see that he had done just that, but he hadn't been able to hang on to that anger that he had felt since he found out about Pete. He knew that that was over but it still hurt him a lot to know that Pete had had Sam and he hasn't.

- You know I broke up with him. Why did you say that? – Sam couldn't believe that Jack had hurt her intentionally. That wasn't the Jack O'Neill she knew. That wasn't the man she loved more then life. What was going on?

- Sorry. I didn't mean to say that.

He looked really sorry. And he felt really sorry too.

- It's ok. I want to know something. Why did you do it?

- What? Say those things? Well, I…- Sam interrupted him.

- You know what I mean, Jack.

- Yes I know what you mean. Look I did it because I had to.

- What? Why? Were you forced to retire? By whom?

-Whoa. Easy. That wasn't what I meant. Look I love you .ok? See you everyday and not being able to touch you is torture. – There I said it, after eight years of hiding, yes eight years who am I kidding I fell in love with her since the moment I saw her, it's finally out. – I love you Samantha Carter.

Jack couldn't stand looking at her right now. What if she said that she didn't love him? What if Daniel was right and she would fell guilty? So he started looking outside. It was a beautiful full moon night.

He was waiting for her to speak, but she didn't.

- I only said that thing about Pete because I'm jealous of the guy. It's over I know but he had you and I didn't. Ya know? That hurts.

He couldn't take it anymore. He turned around to face her. He needed to see her reaction to his words. She had tears in her eyes.

- Are you ok? Sorry, I shouldn't have said anything. Great now I made you cry.

- No. it's just that I never thought I would ever hear you say that.

- What? That I love you?

- Yes. I had already given up on us. Well the possibility of an us. So I tried to get a life. The way I found for that was Pete. I liked him a lot and I even started thinking that maybe I could learn to love him with time. That was just an attempt to get over what I was feeling for you. Of course it didn't work; I seem to love you more every day. And then I found out about you and that FBI girl. It was like been stabbed in the hearth. It really hurt.

- You were with Pete. You were going to marry him. My intension wasn't hurting you. I just wanted to move on with my life and Kerry is really a nice person. We seemed to be getting a long just fine until she realized that I loved you and break up with me. I'm glad she did that, because I wasn't completely happy I would never be completely happy with her, I would just make her miserable and she deserves to be happy. So do the two o us. That is why I quit; I wanted to give us a chance.

Sam was smiling, only in her deepest dreams had she heard Jack say that he loved her and now there he was showing himself to her, trusting her with his hearth.

Jack was nervous again. Why doesn't she say something? I just exposed my deepest feelings to her and she says nothing? Come on say something.

- I love you too. I'm sorry about Pete. I didn't even realize how much I was hurting you. I just didn't end up alone and I thought that we could never be together.

- Well we can now. Wanna give it a try?

Sam just smiled. One of those smiles that Jack just loved, those that she gave when she was truly happy, those that made Jack forget were he was, made him get lost in her happiness. He really loved those smiles. And those eyes of hers, the most beautiful blue eyes that he had ever seen. She was getting closer; he could smell her perfume now. He also loved the way she smiled. Did he have it bad? He couldn't remember ever loving a woman like he loved Sam.

- Ok. Let's give it a try. – with this Sam gave him a kiss. Not just a simple kiss, a kiss that was being "cooked" for eight years. A kiss that translated all of their feelings for each other.

After the kiss ended they staid hugging each other for what seemed like an eternity. They didn't want to let go.

- Stay with me tonight. – Jack kissed her after saying those words.

- Sure. I have nothing better to do. Well that's not entirely true. I still have some work to do on the device from 23X-769.

Jack's mouth just opened with surprise. She prefers a device over me? Then he looked at her. She was laughing. It was just a joke.

- Very funny. But you know, you'll have to pay for that.

- So how am I going to pay?

- Well, now you'll have to put up with me for the rest of my life.

- Is that a promise?

- You betcha.

They kissed each other with passion. They couldn't be sure that their relationship would work, but nothing seemed to bother them now. All the worries and pain that they were feeling early disappeared as they lost themselves on each other arms.

No matter what might happen in the morning, tonight they belonged together and that was all that mattered.

Authors note: I have nothing against fishing and I hope I didn't offend anyone with my remarks about it.