Title: Did You Do Your Dance Homework?

Rating: PG

Spoilers: "Chimera" Season Seven

Season: Post "Chimera"

Summary: Sam and Jack juggle homework, Felger, a mission and a very nosy Daniel.

Disclaimer: Okay I don't own Stargate SG-1 or anything to do with it's universe, you know that and I know that so lets not bring it up. I own no rights to Michael Buble's music or Dirty Dancing either.I do own the plot and all of the original characters in it.

Author's Note: Sorry for the delay! My series are proving harder to write for than normal! Please read and review!

Sam suppressed a yawn as Jay Felger continued with his ramblings – he'd been at it for hours now and Sam suddenly knew how Jack felt during her briefings. Sam eyed the clock and noticed that it was nearing six in the evening and Jay didn't show any signs of slowing down.

Suddenly the door to Sam's office opened and revealed a stern looking Jack who glanced over at Jay before walking into the lab. Jay jumped off of his stool as Jack walked in, "Colonel O'Neill!"

"Felger." Jack nodded, "Am I interrupting?"

"I was just explaining to Major Carter the new threshold properties of the decay rate of the Naquadah in a closed environment with positively charged…" Jay rattled on before Jack quickly raised a hand.

"Ah! No!" he pointed a finger at Felger, "Well I hope you don't mind but I need to cut this meeting short, I need to talk with Carter about tomorrow's mission."

"Oh, no not at all Colonel…I'm happy to give you guys time I mean you guys are the leaders of the flagship team here…I wouldn't want to impose…" Jay rambled as Jack ushered him from Sam's office and closed the door, locking it.

"Thank you so much sir." Sam sighed as she put her head on her desk, "I'm in your debt."

"How long has he been in here?" Jack asked.

"Since two." Sam muttered into her desk as her hands rubbed the back of her head. "Really sir, I owe you."

"Call us even if you give me your hand." Jack said and Sam immediately sat up.

"What?"

"Your hand Carter…" Jack said, holding his arm out and shaking it impatiently.

Sam furrowed her brow but gave her hand to Jack, in one swift, deft movement he pulled her from her chair and into his arms, leaning back he hit a button on the portable CD player he had brought in with him and salsa music began to play through the speakers.

Jack started with the basic steps that they had learned during their first lesson, Sam falling into step slightly behind him as her brain tried to catch up with her body, "Sir?"

"We need practice – I, for one, am not going up in front of the class and planning to make a fool of myself. Unless you want to risk it off world?" Jack replied.

"No sir." Sam said a little too quickly – off world would be very, very bad, Daniel always had the luck of showing up at times he shouldn't.

"Good than it's agreed." Jack said as he threw Sam out for a spin, "Besides your lab doesn't have cameras in it – does it?"

Sam laughed as Jack pulled her back into his arms, "No sir."

"Good." Jack nodded as he and Sam fell into some of the more complicated moves they'd learned. Sam pressed her back against Jack's chest, he placed his hands on her hips and they did several moves with their hips, it reminded Sam of something out of Dirty Dancing or one of those movies Cassie liked to watch. Sam crossed her arms into an X fashion, placing her hands on Jack's. His right hand grasped her left before he spun her out again and back to him, to which they began the simpler steps.

"I think we're doing good sir." Sam nodded; she couldn't believe how free she felt.

"Yeah, but the music has to change – we need lyrics." Jack said.

Sam nodded, "I agree, hey I might just have the perfect song, it's called "Sway" have you heard it?" Jack shook his head as they continued their dance. "Then I'll bring it in tomorrow, you can listen to it before we go off world okay?"

Jack dipped Sam, "Sounds good to me."

Jack brought Sam back up to him, so close their noses brushed each other's, Sam smiled slightly, "Me too."

Just then the music stopped but it took several moments longer for Sam and Jack to realize it. "Well it doesn't look like we need to do that again – I'd say that was pretty damn good."

Sam nodded as she and Jack slowly parted, "Yeah I agree. Hey I can always stop by your place on Friday night after your meeting and we can get in some more practice."

Jack nodded, "Sounds terrific to me."

Silence fell over the room before Jack finally cleared his throat, "Do you have any dinner plans tonight?"

"Uh, I asked Daniel to come over, to talk about his trip and all, you should come too sir." Sam replied, adding in the sir to remind herself who the man she was standing before was.

An unnamable emotion ran across Jack's face before he asked, "What are we having?"

"Pasta." Sam replied.

Jack shrugged, "Sounds good."

"Okay, give me an hour to get changed, topside and home okay?" Sam asked.

"Yeah." Jack nodded. "See you in an hour."

As Sam cooked dinner she put on her mixed CD of Michael Buble that Cassie had made her, it had several versions of "Sway" on it, so Sam found herself dancing around the kitchen getting ready. It had taken her awhile to get ready, longer than she meant to take. She was currently wearing a long black skirt and fitted white blouse. It was for Daniel, she told herself, that's why, no other reason.

She continued her dancing as she moved about the kitchen; she didn't even hear Daniel come in until he announced his presence, "I see those dance classes are paying off."

Sam jumped and turned around, "Daniel – you shouldn't do that!"

"Sorry I thought you could hear my knocking, now I know why you couldn't." Daniel smirked as he moved across the kitchen and handed Sam the bottle of wine he was holding.

"Thanks." She grinned as she took the gift.

Suddenly the phone rang and Sam walked over to pick it up, "It might be the Colonel."

"He's coming?" Daniel asked as he stuck his finger in the sauce on the stove.

"Yeah, I hope you don't mind." Sam answered as she reached the phone.

"Not at all." Daniel mumbled as he moved over to finish cutting the bread that Sam had started.

"Hello?" Sam asked cheerfully.

"Sam? Thank God, I've been trying to get a hold of you for weeks!"

Sam's heart sank as she sat in a chair, "Hi Pete."

"Didn't you get my messages?" Pete asked.

"Uh…" Sam looked over at her answering machine, it was blinking yet again but she'd just been deleting the messages as they came, "No I didn't, my answering machine is acting up but I keep forgetting to get a new one."

"What about your cell? Sam I've been calling you for nearly two weeks." Pete probed.

"Sorry I haven't been answering the cell, I've been really busy." Sam lied.

"What about the messages?" Pete asked.

"I haven't checked them. Like I said I've been swamped Pete." Sam continued to lie.

"Well I'm just saying it would have been great to know that something hadn't happened to you." Pete continued.

"Pete…" Sam said through clenched teeth, "What can I say? I've already said sorry."

"Well at least your safe." Pete sighed into his end of the phone, "So how is everything going? Having fun with the dance class?"

Sam let out a long sigh, "Everything's been really busy but the dance classes have been fun."

"Yeah?" Pete asked, Sam could hear his grin, "So is my baby learning all sorts of things that she'll show me when I get home?"

Flashes of dancing with Jack, their bodies pressed against one another, ran through her mind, "I'm learning a lot."

She smiled; she'd avoided his direct question and yet answered truthfully. She had been learning a lot, a lot about her relationship and feelings about Jack.

"So everything worked out? You got yourself a partner and everything?" Pete asked.

Sam's bright blue eyes moved nervously around the room until they landed on Daniel, "Yeah, Daniel had to go out of town but he set me up with a friend of his. Things have been going great."

"He's treating you okay right?" Pete asked, his voice moving over to "concerned" mode.

Sam's mind flooded from her time with Jack, his demeanor over the past few weeks had been completely charming, he'd saved her from a nasty fall during the last dance lesson for goodness sake. He'd taken her out to dinner and insisted he'd pay…hell he got rid of Fleger for her! "He's treating me like a perfect lady. Everything is fantastic."

"Glad to hear it…" Pete said when suddenly several voices in the background picked up. "Hey Sam I gotta go. Talk with you soon. Love you."

"Yeah, talk to you later." Sam said, leaving the 'love you' out of her vocabulary but it didn't matter he had hung up.

"Pete?" Daniel asked pulling Sam from her thoughts.

"Uh? Yeah." Sam nodded as she hung up the phone.

"Did I understand the conversation correctly when it seemed you were apologizing for not talking to him?" Daniel asked, as he tasted the sauce cooking on the stove again.

"I've been busy." Sam said as she hung up the phone and deleted the messages on her answering machine.

"And don't forget your machine is acting up too." Daniel added with a cheeky smile.

Sam was about to retort to Daniel's statement when someone knocked on the door and she went to answer it, "Hello?"

Jack stood proudly on the front porch dressed in khakis and a button down shirt complete with his leather jacket. "Hey there Carter."

Sam smiled, "Hi Sir, come on in."

Jack walked inside and surrendered his jacket when Sam asked for it. "Here you go, I stopped by your friend's place on my way here and picked us up some dessert."

Sam took the offered box and peeked inside to find three pieces of the chocolate, cranberry cake they'd enjoyed a few days before, "Well thank you. Come on in, Daniel is already here."

Jack grinned and followed Sam into the house, "Hiya Daniel."

Daniel turned around from watching the sauce simmer, "Hi Jack."

"I'm not interrupting something am I?" Jack grinned since Sam's "Sway" CD was still playing.

"Not at all, actually this is the CD I was talking about." Sam said as she managed not to blush.

Jack took a moment and listened to the beat, "Good choice Carter, I like it."

Sam grinned and Daniel looked at the pair puzzled, Sam smiled towards him as she walked back to the stove, "Jack and I need to do a demonstration for the dance class this Saturday."

"Really?" Daniel asked as he raised his brow and grinned slightly.

"Yep." Jack nodded as he walked over and poured the wine Sam had left out.

"So you guys must be pretty good than huh?" Daniel asked as his grin grew.

Jack looked over at Sam and they both shrugged, "We're okay."

Daniel looked at the pair in disbelief…he had a feeling something more was going on but every time he tried to investigate on his feelings they came to a crashing halt. What in the name of all things Asgard was going on?

Jack and Sam exchanged looks before Jack grinned and changed the subject, "So…when's dinner?"

"Any time now." Sam grinned, "Why don't you set the table sir?"

"Sure thing Carter." Jack grinned as he grabbed the plates and utensils and headed out to the dining room.

Sam just grinned at Daniel as she finished dinner.

"Well Sam that was amazing." Daniel grinned as he finished the last bit of his cake. Sam grinned as she played with her half piece of remaining cake, pushing it through the cranberry sauce.

"I'm in total agreement Carter." Jack smiled as he took a sip of his wine.

"Well," Sam smiled, "Thank you both."

Suddenly Daniel's pager went off, pulling Sam and Jack's attention to him. "It's Cassie, I told her I'd bring her back something."

Sam smiled and took a sip of her wine, "Why don't you go and say hi Daniel?"

"What about the mess?" Daniel asked.

"Don't worry about it Daniel," Jack said, "Go on and say hello to the girl. I'll help Carter."

Daniel eyed his friends suspiciously before his pager went off again, "Are you sure?"

"Positive." Jack nodded.

After saying his goodbyes Sam walked Daniel to the door. She returned to find the table cleared of everything but the half piece of cake that she'd been unable to finish and two forks.

Jack walked into the room holding Sam's portable CD player and grinned, "I figured we could get some practice in while using your cake for energy."

"Sounds like a good idea to me sir." Sam smiled.

"Hey," Jack feigned a hurt look, "What's up with the "sir" stuff?"

Sam smiled and shook her head, "Habit."

"I know the feeling." Jack smiled as he started the CD and held his hand out to the woman.

Sam raised an eyebrow as 'Put Your Head On My Shoulder' came on but she took Jack's hand anyway. Jack pulled her into him and they began to move to the slow sounds of the song.

As the song ended Sam looked at the clock to find it to be a quarter after eight. Still early enough Sam thought and she and Jack continued to dance.

Sam's well-trained ears caught the sounds of "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" and her eyes moved to the clock, which showed the current time to be a quarter after nine. "Oh my God, Jack we've been dancing for an hour."

Jack looked over at the clock and smiled, "I guess we have."

"Sir – I mean Jack, we've got a mission tomorrow morning…" Sam said.

"But we haven't even gotten any practice in yet." Jack said, "Not to mention we haven't touched your cake."

Sam looked at the cake then back to her CO, who's warm smiled dissipated her panic, "What do you say we share the cake then get a little practice in too?"

Jack smiled, "Sounds good to me Sam."

The next morning Jack stood in the Gateroom with Sam, Teal'c and Daniel as the dialing sequence began.

"Thank you again for dinner last night." Daniel smiled.

"No problem Daniel. We'll have to do it again soon." Sam smiled.

Daniel noticed the glance Jack gave Sam and raised an eyebrow, why did all of the good stuff happen while he was gone?

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