"Getting some work done Sir?" she asked in her most innocent tone.

Jack just looked up at her and gave a dumbfounded grin.

"Oh, Good morning Daniel, you know I had the best night sleep last night. It was like I had not a care in the world." Said Sam as reached over and took a sip from Jack's coffee cup.

Jack just stood their like a deer in headlights. It was all he could do to keep himself from picturing her at the pool again.

"Nope, too late, DAMN!" he thought to himself. "Thank God, for baggy BDU's."

Daniel watched the exchange. He was really starting to feel like a third wheel. Jack just stood there with a stupid grin on his face and Sam looked like the cat that ate the canary. He was dying to know exactly what happened between them. Then again, too much information was sometimes a very bad thing.

"Well, I don't want to interrupt you then. I know you have a lot on your mind." She said with an increasingly huge smile. With that, Sam winked at Jack and left his office. Humming as she went to her lab.

"There Back!" Daniel thought to himself. He didn't realize just how much he missed their, well, whatever it was you would call it. He was just glad things were getting back to normal.

Pete was as dumb as a post in compared to Sam. How could she have an intelligent conversation with that guy? Anyone who asks their future father-in-law, "Do you really have one of those things in your head?" Well, Pete was definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed.

We all know Jack puts on an "I'm a big moron" act anyway. Daniel had "accidentally" come across Jack's service record. Call it archeological research. He was shocked to see that Jack's I.Q. was not too far below his own. Hey, 10 points is 10 points.

Sam's well, hers literally went off the chart. The paper might have well of said "We have no freakin' idea how smart she is, let's just say Einstein's score plus 100 or so." Daniel had fun reading the reports of top level scientists who were pissed off because she was smarter than them.

"SEE!" Jack said to Daniel snapping him out of his own thought.

"See what?" asked Daniel. He loved to see Jack squirm. He was always so proud of himself for being one up on people. Bravo for Sam if she could shut him up.

Teal'c was definitely going to get a big Jaffa chuckle out of this. He didn't like Pete either. "That man is not a suitable mate for Colonial Carter. She could easily defeat him in battle. He is an insufficient warier." Teal'c's way of calling Pete a woos. Gotta love Jaffa bluntless.

"She's… she's just different, that's all" said Jack in a huff.

"Looks like the Sam I remember from yesterday, though she is a bit happier. Why do you think she's a clone? Maybe Replicator Carter survived the explosion. Wait, better yet, maybe it's Anise in disguise." Said Daniel, he was definitely having fun with this.

"Just get out of my office!" yelled Jack as he pointed to his door.

"Hey, you wanted to talk to me remember" said Daniel as he grabbed his coffee maker and headed back to his lab.

Jack could hear Daniel laughing as he left.

"So, that's the way it's going to be. Well two can play that game Ms. Carter, all's fair in love and war and I've just enlisted for battle."

Jack leaned back in his chair plotting what he could do to repay Sam for her little show last night.

Things were quiet for a few days. It was starting to worry Daniel. Neither one of them was making a move. He was starting to lose hope when….

He was looking down reading a report and walking into Sam's lab ready to talk to her about their next off world mission. He looked up and saw Sam day dreaming at her laptop. She had a very dreamy look on face.

"You O.K?" asked Daniel, snapping Sam out of her thoughts.

"Oh, I'm fine. Just thinking, that's all," she said with a sigh.

Sam was certainly happy about something. Daniel then remembered seeing Jack a few minutes earlier, literally strutting down the hallway from Sam's lab, whistling!

"Round 2," thought Daniel. He couldn't wait to tell Teal'c.

Ten minutes earlier…..

Sam was sitting at her laptop working on a mission report that was due the next day. Things were going well. She and Jack were back to their innocent flirting, but that was it. Her bravery must not have lasted too long because she couldn't get up the nerve to do anything else. She was expecting him to do something… anything.

Just then she heard her door shut. She didn't think anything of it because she was expecting Daniel a few minutes ago, he was always late.

Suddenly, her stool was spun around and she was pulled into the most passionate kiss of her life. It only took her about 2 seconds to realize who it was and get over the shock. She melted right into his arms.

The kiss seemed to go on forever, but then ended way too soon. Jack then leaned into her ear and whispered tenderly "All's fair in love and war" then left the room. Whistling!

Once the world stopped spinning and her body stopped tingling she put her elbows on her desk and just stared out into space. She didn't want to think about anything but just bask in the glow of it.

She would think of a way to get him back tomorrow.