A/N: Sorry that it took me so long to post another chapter. Thank you to everyone that has read my story. Only three or four chapter till the end. I promise.
Chapter 7: life is good
Sam and Jack had been in bed all morning.
- We need to get up.
- Why?
- Because Daniel and Teal'c are coming.
- It's still 13:00
- Yes, but I would like to get some lunch first. And by what you told me your refrigerator is empty.
- So?
- What you're not going to feed us? What kind of host are you?
- The kind that likes to kiss my guests.
- I'm sure Teal'c is going to love your kisses. I know I do.
- I'm sure he will. – With this he started kissing her. Gently at first and then passionately.
It was obvious that they weren't going to get out of bed anytime soon.
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13:55
They finally got out of bed and were now eating the omelet that Jack made.
- This is actually pretty good.
- Of course it is. What did I tell you?
- Sorry I didn't believe you.
- It's ok – Jack looked at his watch. It was 14:00 and the guys would be arriving in an hour. He really needed to go shopping, there was noting in the refrigerator. – Do you want to come shopping with me?
- What?
- Or you could stay here. Whatever you wish.
- Sure. OK. Let's go shopping. – Sam remembered that Jack would probably only buy junk food and beer so she decided to do something about that. She wanted to take good care of him and that meant that she was going to make him live a healthy life. Starting with the food. – With one condition.
- Whatever you say ma'am.
- I get to pick the food.
- What? Come on. You're going to pick healthy food.
- So? You need more than beer on your refrigerator. Maybe some vegetables and some fruit.
Jack was somehow touched that Sam was worrying about what he ate. He knew that she was trying to take care of him and he actually liked it. He didn't spend much time at home for the past eight years. He wasn't used to having much food around the house because he never knew when he was coming home from a mission or even if he would return at all. Now that he had retired he just didn't know what to do. It seemed weird to spend so much time at home. But she was right: he needed to live on something other than beer.
- Ok. But I'm still buying beer. That's not up for argument.
- Ok. Let me just finish my lunch and we can go.
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14:35- Jack's place
They were back at the house after doing some shopping. It was amazing: they functioned perfectly as a couple. They looked and acted like a normal couple and that surprised them both. Sam had always thought that if they ever had anything together that they would be too caught up on work, she thought that they had zero chances of ever being normal. But they were. And that was wonderful.
Jack was pretty amazed too. They walked around the supermarket holding hands, having trivial conversations about what to buy and about fishing, about ordinary things that ordinary people did. Not even once the SGC topic popped up. They were normal.
He had food to last for a whole month. Boy, how did she convince me to buy all this? Jack was looking at the five bags of grocery that he had in the trunk of his car.
- I warned you this was too much. Now where am I going to put this? I'm sure this won't all fit in my fridge.
- Well, we could eat some of things today. And there is stuff that doesn't need to go to the refrigerator. Still I think we bought too much food.
- Ya think? I could have a party for twenty persons and it would still be leftovers.
- Don't exaggerate. I just want to make sure you're eating well.
- That's not what you're trying to do.
- It's not?
- No. You're trying to make me useless. You're making all my shopping and you even made my bed. You're trying to make me see that I can't function without you.
- What?
- But that isn't going to work.
- It isn't?
- No. Because I already know that I can't live without you.
Sam could do noting else other than smile and give Jack a big kiss. Tears were starting to drip across her cheek. She felt like she was the luckiest girl in the entire world. No in the entire universe.
- Hey, guys.
Daniel and Teal'c had just arrived. Jack looked at his watch it showed 14:38.
- You're early.
- We know. We decided to come early and catch up on the conversation.
- We thought you would be alone O'Neill. If we had known…
- It's ok guys. And it's a good thing you're here.
- Why? – There was something in Jack's face that Daniel didn't like.
- You can get those bags and put them inside while me and Sam make out in my backyard.
- What?
- What Sam? Don't tell me you'd rater stay here with these two instead of going with me and my amazing kisses.
Sam smirked and shock her head. Then she turned to Daniel and Teal'c.
- Come on I'll help you guys with that.
- It is not necessary. You can go with O'Neill, Colonel Carter.
- I insist. I have some explanations to give you.
- Come on Sam. You really think I believed that you had called him. I already knew. And so did Teal'c. This was… Oh let's say predictable.
- If this was so predictable why did you come early?
- Well, that's a good question. I guess we wanted to make sure our suspicions were correct.
- You guys really don't exist. – Jack hugged them. First Daniel then Teal'c.
The four friends spent the rest of the day talking with each other. They didn't exactly caught much fish, actually the caught none, But still it was the best fishing trip that any of then had ever had. Including Jack.
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Three months had pasted since the fishing trip. Sam and Jack had spent every time off she had together. Jack had even rented a house in Colorado Springs to stay closer to her. They had also gone out with Daniel and Teal'c several times. Everything was great; there had been no problems at the SGC either (except that problem with those herbs that had transformed SG-4 into birds, literally. They started growing feathers and a beak. Fortunately they found a cure before the transformation was complete. It would have been a little difficult too explain to the soldier's families that they had been transformed into birds.).
SGC- Sam's lab
Sam was standing in her lab thinking about the last few months: they had been wonderful. She and Jack were getting along better than she ever expected. Her work was also fine: she had been working on a device brought back from O4S-954. She had already figured out what the device did and how to turn it on, now the only thing she needed was for SG-8 to bring back some naquadda to power the device. So one thought was going on in her mind: life is good.
Colorado Sprigs – Jack's rented house
As he was laying there on his couch watching The Simpsons, he replayed in his mind the past months events. He remembered their first date and how she looked sexy as hell. He could almost taste her in his dreams. She was most defiantly intoxicating. He knew it: there was no return, he was addicted to her. Without her there would simply be no life worth living. There was only one little sentence that summarized all that he was feeling and thinking at that moment: life is good.