Season 8
Disclaimers- Let me check...no still not mine
A/N Thanks again for all the reviews. Sorry this chapter has taken so long( I've been really busy) Hopefully I will get one or two more chapters out this week
Sam was speechless. General O'Neill has been the one to switch her clothes, and Daniel had known about it. How could they do that? Why? When? Standing in the gate room, where Daniel had left her just a few minutes ago, Sam tried on vain to figure out what had possessed the General to do something like this. It wasn't like this was the first time he had done something like this, except he usually pranked Daniel, or some of the officers in the Science Dept.
Finally, after trying to understand what had possessed the General to do this, Sam realized that she was supposed to be at the negotiations with the Rithomians, and the meeting started in 3 minutes. Pulling herself out of her daydreaming, Sam exited the gate room and headed for the meeting.
As Sam entered the meeting, both of the ambassadors for the Rithomians rose simultaneously to greet her. They had been talking with General O'Neill, who stayed seated. After bowing sightly and touching foreheads with each of them, yet another strange custom, the shorter one started to speak. " I am Disebek, and it is an honor to meet O'Neill's women. He had not told us he was bonded. Although the women do not normally wear there partners name on their person," the man stated serenely after looking strangely at Sam's shirt. ' He has a interesting accent' Sam thought absently, before Disebek's words sank in.
"Wait...what ...you think the General and me... we're not...," Sam stuttered as she tried not to have a panic attack Could her day get any worse?
"What she means to say, Disebek," Jack cut in neatly as he stood up, " Is that women on our planet don't normally wear their partners name on their shirts, either. Sam is just wearing it as a joke."
As Disebek stood their, obviously trying to figure out what Jack had meant, the other representative stepped forward. After introducing himself as Khahor , the man smiled slightly asa he started to speak, "Now that we have introduced ourselves, shall we continue with the negotiations? I have no doubt that they will proceed infinitely more smoothly now that we are aware that you are bonded."
Jack rolled his eyes as he tried not to say something he, or rather Daniel, would regret later. Then something the man had said clicked in his mind.
"Wait just a second. Are you saying that because I'm married, the negotiations will go better?"
Khahor nodded slightly before explaining, " On our planet, the bonded are revered as the wisest among us. The more years someone has been bonded, the wiser they become." Disebek continued explaining after Khahor stopped. "Once we have agreed to reasonable terms, and I'm sure that will take no time at all, we will all go back to our planet and present our decision to the High council."
Sam, who had been standing in the doorway, slowly made her way over to the table and sat down.
"And by all you mean I'm coming too," Sam confirmed with a sigh. This day was getting worse by the second.
"Yes, because you are bonded to O'Neill." Khahor confirmed with a smile.
Sam paused. Did these people still not understand that she wasn't bonded to the General. As she opened her mouth to explain again that she wasn't married, General O'Neill cut in.
"Yes, because you are bonded to me," Jack announced with a smile. Glancing over at Sam, he made it quite clear that she wasn't allowed to protest. If the negotiations would go better because the Rithomians thought they were married, then they were going to have to pretend to be married.
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