Chapter fifty four
When Jack arrived at the Alpha site he was greeted by most of the personnel there. They were all standing at attention and saluted, which he returned.
"At ease boys and girls. So, where are my quarters so I can get settled in?"
"This way sir" One of the lieutenants answered.
"Ok, after you Lieutenant; you others get back to what you were doing before, dismissed."
They all went back to work while Jack followed the young Lieutenant to his private quarters. When they reached them,
"These are your quarter's sir."
"Thank you, Lieutenant, dismissed."
"Yes sir" then he saluted and Jack did the same and he left.
Jack walked in and put his duffle bag and backpacks on the bed and looked around the room. It was bigger than his old base quarters. There was a table and four chairs and a counter with a jug and a couple of coffee mugs, with a small fridge underneath it.
He walked over to a door and opened it to find it was the bathroom. He started sorting out his back pack and duffle bag.
He unpacked his duffle bag first. The first thing he pulled out was a picture of him and Sam at their engagement party; they had their arms around each other and smiling for the camera. Cassie was the one who took the photo and Jack got a copy of it and had it blown up and framed.
He put that on the bed and he got the second one out and looked at it. It was taken after their promotion few days before; they were still in their dress blues. He smiled at the memory of that day; it was just after he proposed to her in front of every one.
He put that one on the nightstand, and then carried on unpacking. He opened up his duffle bag and a wrapped parcel fell out of the top of the bag and he saw the note attached to it.
'Jack, I'll miss you. This Care Bear I hope will bring you/us luck. Love you always Sam'
He smiled at the note and opened the package up to reveal a ten centimetre green care bear with a four leaf clover on its front. He put it on the nightstand next to the photo and carried on unpacking. Once done, he went to find out what had been going on and what had been done.
The first weekend Jack was on earth, he and Sam bought the six bedroom, six-bathroom house, even though it only had a two car garage. They knew that they could add another one on to it for their motorcycles. They could put in a barbecue area and swimming pool out back, since there was plenty of room. They put their homes up for sale on the same day that they signed the papers for the new house. That evening they went out to celebrate their new home.
They even managed to look over the different wedding invitation's there were and choose a set with hearts on them with the bride and groom names on the stickers that they could use as a seal.
Once that was sorted out, they started making a list of who they would like to invite and who they were going to do the catering for their wedding. Two weeks later it was Thanksgiving and SG1 was at the Alpha site that weekend. Jack had placed an order for turkeys, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, the works including sodas for all the personnel who couldn't make it home for the holidays. Jacob showed up for dinner when he found out that SG1 was at the Alpha site.
A week later, when Jack returned to earth, Daniel, Teal'c, Janet and Cassie helped Jack and Sam move everything into their new home. A couple of the SG teams also volunteered to help with the move. On Sunday night Jack ordered pizza for everyone and Sam and Cassie went to the store for drinks. Later that evening, once everyone was gone, they talked more about the wedding while in his bed, since Sam's bed was only a double.
Three days later Sam took the day off because the new furniture was arriving at the house. She was very happy when it arrived. Once the delivery men were gone she finished sorting out the rooms. The new, king size bed was put into the master bedroom; while Jack's old bed went into one of the other bedrooms.
Sam finished putting everything into place before having a late dinner and heading to bed, since she had a mission the next day.
When she arrived at the SGC, she found out that the mission was postponed and she was needed at the Alpha site, since they were having problems with one of the reactors. She left half an hour later to find out what was going on. When she stepped through the gate there was a Lieutenant Colonel waiting for her.
"Major Carter?"
"It's Lieutenant Colonel now, not Major, Colonel."
"Sorry, let me take you to your quarters."
"No need, just take me to General O'Neill."
"He is busy Colonel."
"Is he now?" she walked right past him to one of the buildings.
"Colonel, what are you doing?"
"Reporting in, before I go and play with my toy," she said smiling.
When she reached the door, he put his hand on the door, holding it closed. Sam put her pack on the ground and then she noticed how close to her the guy was, even though she had never met him before.
"If you don't move you hand away from the door, I'll move it for you"
"Let me take you to your quarters Colonel" he said, with a smile.
"Later, now move Colonel!" Sam was starting to get really pissed off.