7 After Covenant

C2: Movie

Sam's Office

Sam jumped and minimized the photo. She turned directly into the gaze of the silver wolf's amber gleam. "Nothing, why what are you doing?"

The wolf entered the room and staked her in an imposing manner. Sam gasped in slightly as his strength claimed her chair. He pulled a chair over, but didn't sit in it. Instead, he leaned over mere inches from her face to look her straight in the eye then at her screen seeing a report. "What you're doing. So, what ya doing?"

He thought for a moment there that he was going to kiss her, but he caught himself and moved back.

Sam froze in a state of panic then she relaxed, "I'm working." She thought to herself as if she were speaking to him, What am I doing? Falling in love with my superior. I am dying inside every time Anise the Tok'ra comes calling for you. She does not love you as I do. I love you Jack.

At the moment of Sam's last thought, she tried to have the courage to speak the words aloud.

Jack's piercing stare transfixed her own as she could feel the warmth of his masculine body in close proximity to her as he sat down letting his leg bump into hers. A sound muted the intensity as they looked to the door.

Daniel walked in oblivious to the fact that Sam was not alone. "Yeah, I left a folder in here." He caught the wicked glair in Jack's eyes within a few seconds. "Right, never mind. I'll… I can, ok, yeaaaahhh." He turned like a toy top and started back out the door.

Jack stopped him, "Hey Daniel, what ya need? And, I thought you were going back to that planet."

Daniel leaned around the corner to find them standing on opposite sides of the room. He saw the frustrated expression on Jack's face and the depressed one on Carter's even though she was trying to hide it. "I'm getting a few things together then I'll be back tomorrow for movie night."

Sam reached for a folder. "Well, I think I will go with Daniel after all back to the planet. With your permission that is General, because I know you have that Presidential report and all."

Jack turned and resumed the oblivious expression he used to ward off anyone who might be trying to see what he was feeling. "Yea, whatever you want Carter." I'll love you till the day I die.

The Next Day at Jack's House

Sam knew that Janet had told her it was a very good movie, but Sam had only remembered her saying that it was a four out of fice star rated movie with Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart called Possession. When the movie opened, she recognized parts of it. She had been watching clips of it on YouTube, but didn't know what movie it was from. There were several parts she had watched over and over.

She looked around to see that Daniel was enjoying the couple looking into the history of well known writers of the past. Teal'c seemed to be interested when the movie showed the confrontations of two worlds clashing. Jack kept looking down at his Heineken beer. What is he thinking?

Jack peered down at his beer again and took a swig as he thought about the movie Sam said had been Janet's. He had watched it a dozen times himself. It had a place in his heart because it made him think of Sam. This sexy mystery movie could be Sam and me. An intellectual woman and an adventurous man work together on something. Why is Sam looking at me like that? She drives me crazy.

They both looked to the screen as the two characters from the past appeared at a train station walking toward one another.

Jack mused in his mind that he was the character Randolph and Sam was Christabel. Jack spoke the words in his heart as Randolph said them out loud:

"I shan't forget the first glimpse of your form…illuminated as it was by flashes of sunlight. I have dreamt nightly of your face. To walk to the landscape of my life with the rhythm of your writing…ringing in my ears."

Sam sat across the room with the same reflection that Jack was thinking as she felt the pull in her heart. She imagined herself as Christabel as the character spoke:

"I shall never forget our shining progress…towards one another. Never have I felt such a concentration of my entire being. I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed."

Both Teal'c and Daniel paused and thought they heard Jack and Sam reciting the words from the movie. Teal'c and Daniel looked at each other. Teal'c raised an imposing eyebrow as Daniel squinted his eyes knowing it was so.

A/N: This is not the end…