Jack stared at the colors for minutes before he finally came up with his color preferences. He grabbed blue, pink, and black. He then went over to Janet and asked how to make one of the weird double braids. After a 10 minute lesson on how to do it and not get the strings all tangled, Jack went into a corner of the lodge and started braiding.
The good the about only doing bracelets is that they don't take very long to make. After stopping to add a few small beads, Jack tied off the other end, and then went on a search for Sam. Sam was sitting with Cassie and some other girls, all of whom were making much more complex bracelets.
When Sam saw him, she smiled and stuck out her left wrist. Jack tied the bracelet, doing it up in a good strong knot so it wouldn't come undone. He happened to notice the bracelet that Sam was making for him. There was blue, green, purple and white, all the shades looking decent together. Every half inch on the top, there was large beads, each with a letter on it. He smiled when he realized that the letters spelled 'Jack'. Not colonel, not sir, but Jack.
Jack sat down across from Sam, and listened to the girls talk, something about a boy band named My Chemical Romance. Jack snorted when he heard where that went; talking about Gerard, and his 'amazingly hot' look.
Sam finished off the bracelet, and Jack stuck his arm out. Once it was tied to his left wrist, he thanked her, and escaped outside. He walked around the building, and finding a staircase that looked well used and sturdy, he went up 4 flights of stairs. His knees were complaining the whole time, but once he arrived at the top platform, what he saw took his breath away.
It was a perfect view of the surrounding area. You could see the entire valley, with mountains that surrounded it. You could see all across the lake. Apart from the building they were in, there were no signs of human habitat. Dark clouds were coming; a storm on it's way.
Jack heard footsteps coming up the ladder. Jack turned, and saw Daniel with a red, orange and yellow bracelet tied to his wrist. Daniel's jaw dropped when he saw the view.
"Amazing, isn't it?" Jack said with awe in his voice.
"All the times that we've been off world, I have never seen a view as incredible as this."
"I'm actually looking forward to the up the mountainside hike to watch the sunset. It's going to worth the walk."
"Jack...I thought that you didn't like trees."
"I don't like finding normal looking trees. Remember that purple place? Those trees I liked."
Daniel chose not to comment. As it started to rain, Jack and Daniel escaped down into the lodge.
The crew had started a fire in the fireplace. They had took off their soaked sweaters and left them on the drying rack over the fire. When Daniel was taking is off, his t-shirt came with it.
They girls started giggling and staring. Giving them a strange look, Daniel put his t-shirt back on then joined Jack and Sam on the couch. The girls started talking to each other in hushed whispers.
Jack hit Daniel lightly on the arm. "Daniel, you've gotten buffed up , and now you choose to give innocent eyes a show?"
Daniel blushed. Sam came to his rescue. "Sir, just so you know, when you were taking your sweater off, the girls weren't looking quite so high up."
Jack looked at her. She had been acting so out of character this weekend. He figured that it had something to do with the fact that she was at an all-girls camp, and that he'd already told her the day before that none of this weekend would ever be repeated to Hammond. She had made him promise, so he did. He figured that she wasn't worrying about her base reputation.
"Just remember that time at the '595 bar, you drank the stuff that made you take off your—" Jack stopped when he received a sharp elbow in his side, then continued. "You sure gave those guys quite a show--" Jack shut up when the elbow came harder.
Women. So easy to understand some days, other days it was just impossible.
So what do y'all think is going to happen next?