When Sam got to the briefing room, she found everyone who'd been at the last meeting was there again. These were the people who made up SG-1 and SG-2. She sat down next to Jack and the briefing began.
"I've called you all here because it's come to my attention that one of the assignments given out in the last briefing won't be able to work effectively. Since the re-assignment will concern only your two teams, I've only called back your two teams.
"Captain Carter will be transferred to SG-2 under the command of Major Kowalski and in return Captain Warren will be transferred to SG-1. Is that understood?"
A round of 'yes, sir's was heard from everyone around the table. Kowalski was all but glaring at his female team member while it was all Jack could do not to jump Sam right then and there. Sam met Kowalski's stare with one of her own.
"Good, dismissed." Hammond stood up, followed by everyone else. After he had left, the rest of the teams sat down again, minus Daniel. It was Jack and Sam against a very angry SG-2 and the new member of SG-1.
"What the hell was that about?" Kowalski asked Jack without taking his eyes off of Sam.
"That was about a problem Carter had with being under my command. If you can't handle having a woman on your team, Major, say so now."
Charles Kowalski just glared at Sam, remaining silent.
"Good. Now steak and beer over at my house tonight for a little team bonding – for both teams." Jack looked at everyone in turn. "Be there or be on the wrong side of a staff weapon when we go through the Stargate the day after tomorrow."
A few hours later everyone on SG-1 and –2 arrived at Jack's house, ready for a 'team bonding experience' as he had put it. Sam was already there and helping Jack set up when they arrived. He was out back cooking the steaks on the barbeque while she manned the door and let everyone in.
"Hey, Sam!" Jack said as he came back into the house after lighting the barbeque. She jumped slightly at the sound of his voice as he wrapped his arms around her waist from behind and put his chin on her shoulder. "Wha'cha doin'?"
She turned around and wrapped her arms around his neck, "Nothin'." They kissed for a long while before he pulled back. Sam pouted prettily.
"I have to ask you something," Jack said with his eyes closed so he wouldn't see the pout that he always wanted to kiss off her face.
Sam sighed, resigned to no making out in the kitchen just then. "What?"
"Where are you going to live now that Sarah moved out?"
Because his eyes were still closed, Sam risked a smirk. "I don't know. I'm probably just going to buy a house somewhere. Why?"
He opened his eyes slowly and stared intently at her. "Why don't you just move in here? With me." The kiss she gave him was enough answer for both of them.
Kowalski was the first to arrive after Sam, albeit a few hours later. When she opened the door, he got a pretty good idea why the change was made in her assignment and in Warren's.
"Major," she said with a polite but stiff nod, "Won't you come in?"
Charlie nodded and was about to come in but Sam stopped him again. "Wipe your shoes off first," she said in a tone that was eerily similar to his mother.
"Yes, ma'am," he said mockingly.
Sam put her hands on her hips in a move that screamed "house wife" and raised her eyebrows silently. If he had been anyone but her new CO she'd have reamed his ass for a comment like that. Chauvinistic, sexist bastard, she thought with finality. That's what she'd tell the other women in regards to what Kowalski was like.
"Sam, who's here?" Jack asked as he walked into the house having heard a car pull up.
"Hey, Jack," Kowalski said as he and Sam walked further into the house.
Jack evaluated the situation in a second's time; Sam's face was burning with controlled anger – barely - and Charlie seemed to have this arrogant, chauvinistic air about him that Jack could tell had Sam on edge.
"Charlie? What the hell did you say to my girlfriend to have her looking at you like that?" Jack demanded hotly.
Kowalski looked from Jack to Sam then back to Jack. Both were silently fuming. "Ohh! That's why there was the transfer."
Jack rolled his eyes, "Yeah, that's why she asked for the transfer."
Sam was getting rather uncomfortable with the conversation and looked down at where Jack's boots were leaving marks from the wet ground outside on the floor. She looked back up at him and glared, "You're dripping."
Jack looked down at his shoes, "Ah, so I am. Sorry," and obediently backtracked to the rug right inside the sliding glass door and wiped off the bottom of his boots. Charlie watched the proceedings with mirth. Jack was so whipped.
The doorbell rang again, this time it was Jack that answered it. Sam and Charlie looked at each other nervously before she motioned with her head for him to follow her into the living room.
"Can I get you something to drink, sir?" she asked as he sat down on the sofa.
Kowalski shook his head, "No, that's okay, Carter."
Sam nodded before scrunching up her nose in confusion, as she smelt burning meat. Her eyes widened as she realized what it was and she jumped out of her seat to go save dinner. When she came back into the house holding a steaming plate of steaks, she heard laughter from the living room.
Taking the portable phone from its place in the kitchen, she went back into the living room and tossed it at Jack. "Ow!" he whined as it hit him in the side. "What was that for?" he asked like a little boy who didn't know why he was in trouble.
"For burning dinner. Now we'll have to order out – or go out." Sam had her hands on her hips again in a stance that screamed 'mom'.
Jack looked down meekly and said, "Sorry," like a child caught with his hands in the cookie jar and was trying to get out of a punishment.
It was only then that Sam noticed the new arrivals: Daniel, Ferretti, Warren and the fourth member of SG-2, Lieutenant Frank Carlson. The whole party was there – and all of them saw Jack's reaction to Sam throwing the phone at him.
Ferretti started it, but soon the entire room erupted in laughter – the start of the bonding that was to take place that night.
The team bonding night went well, Sam was a little uncomfortable at the beginning because she was the only woman there, but those feelings vanished after the first few rounds of 'Something No One Knows About Me…" in which it was revealed that Warren slept with his son's teddy bear when he was away from home; Kowalski had never gotten over the desire to pull off practical jokes; Carlson liked to watch romantic comedies with his girlfriend; Ferretti was a gambler and better (to which Kowalski called a technical foul because that was common knowledge and Ferretti said that so were the practical jokes. Kowalski shut up); Daniel was a Jew; and Jack had an intense desire to beat the crap out of Samuels whenever he saw him.
Sam was very wise when it was her turn and revealed she liked to watch action movies that had a lot of scientific stuff in it so she could make a list of everything they did wrong in them. Jack mumbled that he already knew that which resulted in a pillow fight after Sam threw the throw pillow she was hugging at his head.
Over all the seven of them had fun. After Kowalski and Carlson were sufficiently drunk, Jack started asking them really random questions that they answered truthfully.
"Do you think Sam is hot?"
"Who doesn't?" Kowalski replied.
"Why do you think she's hot?" Jack prodded.
Carlson shrugged, "Don't know. She's hella smart, her ass is so hot – and she's blonde! Perfect combination."
Jack and Sam exchanged looks that clearly said that Frank would be getting his ass kicked into next Thursday if he wasn't so drunk.
A/N: So? What do you think? I personally think it's crap. Care to change my opinion? Oh, did I mention that if I think a story is crap I tend to stop updating?