Janet quickly located the pair of them, when she stumbled across the pencil box tipped over outside the women's locker room. She knocked first so she didn't walk in on the act but when she heard no reply she eased the door open.
"Sam? Jack?" she called and heard a soft moan come from the showers
"Sam?" she called again
"Janet?" Sam mumbled waking up. Sam tried to push the sleeping Jack off of her but he refused to budge.
"Sam, I think Hammond is on his way" Janet warned
"Jack get up" she pushed
"Eh, leave me alone" Jack muttered
"Jack! Hammond will catch us" she panicked
"Let him" he groaned
"Sloth" Janet muttered as she slipped a discarded pair of pants under the locked door. A moment later Jack cried out in agony. Wrath took hold of Jack momentarily: his fist swung.
"What happened" Janet panicked
"Damn it Sam, what did you do that for?" Jack cursed as he dressed
"You wouldn't get up, it worked" she explained rubbing her shoulder "you have one hell of a temper"
"Yeah well you're a bitch"
By the time Hammond reached the locker room they were dressed but still fighting. He opened the door to find Janet holding Sam back.
"You've been calling Daniel by his first name pretty much since day one but it takes you this long to drop the formality on my name! Hell you addressed Janet informally before me" Sam snapped
"You can't talk; I seem to remember me calling you Sam before you called me Jack!"
"SHUT UP!" Janet screamed
"Dr Fraiser?" Hammond queried
"Sorry sir" Janet bowed her head briefly and then turned to Sam "your shoulders bruised quite rapidly" she told her as she attended to the injury
"See what you did!" Sam sneered at him
"You need to keep your hands to yourself" he retaliated
"God you're so childish"
"Major! Colonel!" Hammond snapped at them
"She pinched me!" Jack wined
"YOU PUNCHED HER!" the anger in Janet's tone gave Jack goose bumps
"Colonel!" Hammond looked shocked yet showed his disappointment in Jack
"uh I didn't mean to do it, I have had virtually no control over my actions for a while now and what happened here previously is a direct result of that loss of control" Jack sounded mechanical "no that's a load of crap sir, some of it may be true but what happened between me and… no I have a better idea" he feuded and marched out of the room.
"Where is he going?" Hammond asked puzzled. They followed until Jack stopped at the control room and snatched up the PA system.
"Attention. This is Colonel Jack O'Neill speaking. Sir you can go ahead and have me discharged, I don't care. Right now the only thing I really do care about is my second in command, Major Samantha Carter; and the fact that…" he hesitated thinking to himself 'Jack your going to regret this' he thought "ah fuck it, I love her." He admitted to the loud speaker and the entire base. Immediately afterwards, there was a roar of applause throughout Cheyenne Mountain. Even Daniel grinned at the speaker box inside his cell saying "go Jack"
Sam smiled blushing at Jacks announcement and walked up to him; he placed his arms around her as she kissed him zealously in front of the ever increasing audience. Somewhere in the crowd a flash went off sealing the moment in a photograph.
"I discharge wont be necessary Colonel, if you read your memo's you would know that because of the strike many of the regulations have been altered" Hammond grinned
"Sir the air force yielded to a strike?" Carter asked stunned
"That's what I've been told major" he nodded "your relationship is perfectly within the law"
"Sam went to hug Jack but her shoulder ached and she hissed at the pain
"Oh for crying out loud. What have I done to you?" he asked sliding her sleeve off the shoulder to see the bruise "Argh, how bad does it hurt?"
"Don't worry about it, I'll be fine" she shrugged
"I'll see to that" Janet dragged her off to the infirmary.