Title: Senseless

Author: Tu

Rating: G

Disclaimer: I don't own Sg1..Grrrr!

Author's Notes: The song "Smoke" is from the band Exit to Knowhere. Indicates song lyrics. Comments welcome.

Jack and Sam sat in the dinner with Daniel, Teal'c, Janet, and General Hammond. They had been 'drafted' into this dinner by the President. The President believed that their presences at this state dinner would pacify certain members of the Senate and look good to others.

It was a tense outing for Sam and Jack, who had not spoken to each other for almost three days.

Smoke rises over the water

Bodies lay together on the beach

Pressed as close as they can

Knowing they shouldn't be there

General Hammond pulled Sam away from the table for a dance. She had been so sad lately. He was worried about her. She wasn't the only member of Sg1 that had been looking sad lately. Jack looked as if someone had just run over his dog. He looked across the dance floor at Jack. Jack was dancing with Janet, but look as if he was a hundred planets away from here.

Smoke rises higher

They move together in a dance

As old as time

A dance that the body knows

Sliding up and down

Janet tried to look into Jack's eyes as they danced but couldn't. He looked as if someone had ripped his heart out and stomped all over it. She looked across the floor at the General and Sam. She watched as Sam whispered something to the General and slipped out the doors onto the balcony.

Sam stood at the railing of the balcony, looking out upon the garden below. Her life was so confusing right now. She didn't know if she was coming or going. She felt lost, as if a piece of herself was missing. She had to know how Jack felt.

Jack spied the General sitting down, alone. He looked around the room for Sam. She was nowhere to be seen. His heart seemed to stop.

The world still sleeps

Unaware of what is going on

Water laps the lovers

As they reach

Higher and higher

Sam walked down the stairs into the garden. The music softly drifted down to her. The words the singer was singing, cut her heart to shreds. What she wouldn't give to be loved that way.

Jack dropped Janet off at their table and made his way outside. He looked down into the garden. Movement from it caught his eye. A beam of moonlight slowly shown on Sam. He caught his breath at the beauty before him.

"Go" a voice said beside him.

Jack turned to see who was speaking to him. General Hammond stood beside him looking down at Sam.

"Sir?" Jack asked nervously.

"Go, Colonel," Hammond said sighing," Jack, you love her. You know it, I know it, and hell the whole base knows it. But Sam, she doesn't know it."

He gave Jack a gentle push in the direction of the stairs.

The world slowly awakes

Still unaware of what is going on

Beside the water

The lovers lay beside each other

Jack quickly made his way to Sam. She was sitting in the center of the garden on the edge of a fountain. Jack watched as she ran her hand threw the water. She was beautiful. His heart leapt at the sight of her. He knew that he couldn't live with out her. Not now. Not ever. He needed her. More than he needed anything in this or any other world.

Looking deep in each other's eyes

Seeing the love in the others eyes

Birds begin to sing in the trees

Animals begin to

Sture in the forest

Jack pulled Sam into his arms and began to dance with her. He looked into her eyes. He could see the pain he had caused in them.

"Sam…I…I love you. I always have. I always will." He said looking into her eyes.

Sam burst into tears and pulled him down into a kiss.

"I love, you Jack." She said as tears streamed down her face.

And the lovers leave the water

The smoke slowly drifts away

To come again one day

Jack and Sam danced in the center of the garden to music only they could hear. Blissfully unaware of anyone or anything else in this world. From the balcony, their friends watched them. And from high above them, their love ones watched.