Chapter 10

'WHAT?'

Silence once again descended upon the room, the sound of distant thudding boots running down the corridor echoed from the walls.

Jack and Sam stared at the people before them, so called educated people with the title of doctor each, in mild shock couple with a vague look of abject horror.

'We're not breaking the Frat. Regulations!' shouted Sam, 'But we wonder if you are! For…' she paused her screaming momentarily to re-think her words. '…god's sake! We heard you two in the infirmary!'

'You were going to say 'For crying out loud' weren't you?' replied Daniel quietly, as if he had just found the very proof he needed to convince him of his theories.

'And what of it? I've known him for six years and it's not as if you haven't picked up a sense of humour in these last few years, Daniel.' she challenged.

'Right, this is kind of off topic.' said Jack trying to break up the beginnings of a fight, 'You know we did hear you in the infirmary.'

Daniel and Janet looked at each other with slight guilt at being overheard speculating about the relationship of their best friends but confusion was the primary emotion visible in their eyes. Neither of them knew what Sam or Jack where talking about.

'You said something about the combat academy,' Jack continued, 'about what you learned, and frankly I'm shocked Doc.' His eyebrows rising high, a mischievous smirk now present.

'SAM!' Janet screeched in indignation and embarrassment, colour flooding her cheeks.

'What? I was just surprised that you'd put it to use!' answered Sam.

'I didn't do that! I took a radio apart and put it back together!'

'Yeah right, you guys have been waiting to jump each other for the past two years!' said Jack adding to the conversation.

'She did take the radio apart! And what ever sexual tension you think we've got it isn't even in the same league as you two.' shouted Daniel, fully having lost his temper, ' and what ever you thought we were doing can't be half as bad as what you were doing in your truck this morning!'

'We were doing nothing of the sort you gutter-minded archaeologist!' replied Sam.

'What were you doing then?' he asked with confidence.

The military officers shrunk away a little Sam more so than the colonel. To say the least Sam was embarrassed about the whole situation but it didn't make her confession any easier. With a quick glance in each other's direction Sam spoke.