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.

The next week went on as before. Shameless flirting while they were alone or with just SG1, then standard behavior at all other times.

Until ……

SG1 was sitting in the briefing room listening to Daniel babble on about some new ancient dialect that was discovered on one of their last missions. He was giving a slide presentation of the actual ruins and carvings so the room was fairly dark.

As usual Jack was fiddling with his pencil half listening while Teal'c and Sam were diligently paying attention.

Jack hated Daniels slide shows, with the room this dark it was too tempting to put his head down and take a quick power nap. Jack chuckled thinking back to his Academy days when he was known to actually do just that.

Every once in a while Jack and Sam would exchange glances and coy smiles. Daniel was accustomed to this so it never bothered him. He knew Sam was still paying attention and she would at least fill Jack in on the "important" details later on.

Jack was content to stare off into space until… he felt something rub up against the side of his leg then go underneath his pant leg. Sam must have slipped her boot off (how did she do that so quietly?) and was letting Jack know that she wasn't exactly paying as close attention to Daniel as it appeared.

Jack was enjoying the attention and was pleasantly surprised when her foot started to venture higher up his leg. She was sitting directly across from him and being as tall as she was, her reach was pretty decent. "Now this was getting interesting," Jack thought. He was definitely starting to enjoy this way too much for his own good. Then when her crafty foot had found its target, well, he found it nearly impossible to focus on what was going on.

Suddenly in an unexpected change of events Daniel asked Jack a question. When he didn't respond (Daniel didn't notice what was going on because his back was to the group) he asked it again. When he had to ask it a third time he got annoyed and turned around to face them.

What he saw was Jack leaning back in his chair, eyes closed, with quite the smile on his face. Sam was looking quite focused on something, and it wasn't his presentation.

Teal'c was just lifting his eyebrow in his usual questioning manner, lookingamused at what was going on.

Daniel's patience had worn out. He did the old "Eh Hem, Eh Hem!" When he still got no response he burst out "Would you two just go get a room and come back when you feel like paying attention!"

Jack's eyes flew open and Sam tried to stifle her laugh and look as innocent as possible.

"What?" said Jack, trying to recover he started shuffling the papers in from of him, "Now Daniel I am finding this quite interesting. You know how fascinating I find your rock research."

Jack looked over at Sam who then just mouthed the word "BUSTED!" and gave him her special smile.

After the meeting Daniel pulled Jack aside. "Will you two just get it over with, you're driving the rest of us crazy."

"Now Danny boy," said Jack," you know it is still another two weeks until my retirement goes through and my replacement arrives. Then I get to hang around for another month or so to show him the ropes. Trust me, as soon as I am officially retired and our actions won't land us both in Levenworth, all bets are off."

"Speaking of bets Jack," asked Daniel, "the base pool is over 2000.00. I even hear that Hammond has a stake in it. Any clues that could help a guy win some cash?"

"Danny I have no idea what you are talking about" said Jack with a smile.

"Oh, I get it," said Daniel, "you can't acknowledge the pool because it would mean that something was actually going on."

Jack just smiled again and placed a finger to his nose. "Bingo, Danny boy."

Really, most of the base knew. Everyone just liked Jack and Sam too much to risk hurting them. Everyone was routing for them. Though, somejust wanted to make the money back that they had lost on the previous pools concerning the two.

The next day Jack was determined to even the score. He figured he would go with a kiss again. Hell, he just enjoyed it so much that it was worth being repetitive. So he was being monotonous, who cared, he was having too much fun.

Sam was in the locker room taking a shower after a pretty long day. It was late, around 2300 hours so not many people were around. She thought a sauna would feel great so she kept just her towel on and headed into the little room. She was leaning against the bench with her eyes closed when the door opened and shut. She had put the "Occupied by a Female Officer" sign on the door so she didn't bother opening her eyes.

Suddenly she was scooped up and passionately kissed. As Jack lowered her feet to the floor Sam started to pull him back down onto the bench with her. She was going to enjoy this for all that it was worth. Suddenly, she felt her towel being pulled away and Jacks wonderful hands beginning to explore her body. "My God how I could get used to this" she thought to herself.

Just as Sam was thinking of bucking the regulations all together and convincing Jack to join her amongst the undressed, he stopped kissing her. He leaned over and whispered into her ear "To be continued" wrapped her towel back around her and sat her back on the bench.

As he was leaving the room Sam stood back up, stamped her bare foot against the floor and pouted "Jack, that's just not fair!"

Jack turned around and winked at her. "Who said life was fair" and left the room.

Sam sat back down and put her head against the wall, "only 14 more days girl, only 14 more days."

Things continued this way over the next two weeks.

Pretty much, those who knew of the "Battle of the Sexes" were on full alert when opening any closets or darkened rooms, especially late in the evening. That was when the battle usually began.

Walter had the unfortunate pleasure of walking in on them in Jack's office.

He had knocked first then swung the door open to find them "engaged." Sam was sat on Jack's desk and he was leaning into her with his back was toward the door so Sam was hidden from view.

Jack didn't move but just raised his hand up in the air and said "Walter, just turn around and come back later."

A quick, "Yes Sir" was Walter's only capable response as he backed out of the room and shut the door.

He hit his head with the back of his hand and said "Damn, it's after 2100 hours and the blinds were closed. I should have known."

Back in his office Jack and Sam just looked at each other and started to laugh.

"Now who was responsible for this one?" asked Sam.

Jack looked deep into her crystal blue eyes and said with a smile. "To tell you the truth, I can't remember. I've actually lost track of whose turn it was."

Sam leaned her head against his and said "I don't care as long as the end result is the same, don't you?"

Jack smiled down at her and kissed her gently on the nose. "Yahsureyoubetcha."

They then continued on with what they were doing before they were "so rudely" interrupted.