Chapter Fifty Six
"Sorry" Daniel said
"Watch where you are going four eyes."
"That's enough from you Colonel" Sam said, in Colonel tone.
"Sorry, what are you going to do? Tell your General husband?"
"Husband? He is not my husband yet. Now I want you to apologise to Dr Jackson here."
"Yeah right, he is not Air Force" Sam took a couple of steps forward and looked into the man's green eyes.
"Daniel Jackson is ten times the man you will ever be Colonel. He has seen more battles than you have or ever will, if you keep this up. Now are you going to apologise to him?"
"No, you can't tell me what to do."
"No but I can" Jack walked around the corner.
"Sir" he stood at attention
"I heard everything that just went on. I have warned you Colonel about your behaviour and attitude before. So, from now on you are on cleaning duties for two week; any more problems from you I'll boot your ass back to Hammond and he can deal with you. Do I make myself clear?" Jack said in his best General mode, which would have scared any airmen and other personnel.
"Yes sir, sorry Dr Jackson"
"That's ok Colonel, it was an accident."
"There, that wasn't so hard, was it?"
"No sir"
"Good, dismissed" they both saluted and then the Colonel left.
"Where did you guys go?"
"I showed them where the Tok'ra tunnels are just in case of any attack happening to the base."
"Ah, good idea Sam, so what do you guys want to do now?"
"I was going to start on the report before lunch" Sam said.
"Ok, what about you guys?"
"Teal'c and I are going to do some self defence training sir" Elliott said.
"I was going to do some translating"
"Ok well have fun kids, see ya at lunch."
They went in different directions of the camp to do their thing until lunch. Sam went to Jack's quarters to work on her report on her laptop.
A few days' later SG1 returned back to earth after Jack and Sam hugged and kissed before she left.
SG1 went on a few more missions before the Christmas holidays. It was three days before Christmas when they returned to the SGC from their last mission.
Sam smiled when she saw who was waiting down at the bottom of the ramp. When she reached the bottom and after she passed her P90 over to the waiting airman, she gave her father a hug.
"Hi dad, it's good to see you."
"Hi kiddo, it good to see you, too."
"You are here for the holidays?"
"Yep, the Tok'ra council gave me three weeks off after I promised them that I'll bring back your world famous Christmas cake again this year" Sam laughed.
"So, you bribed them. Dad you have been hanging around Jack too long" Jacob laughed.
"Yeah, I guess so."
"Ok, I will make them a couple of cakes" as General Hammond arrived in the gate room.
"Colonel, how did the mission go?" Sam smiled.
"Piece of cake sir"
"
Now, who has been hanging around Jack too long?" Hammond looked confused
"I'll tell you after George."
"Ok, SG1 you know the drill, briefing in one hour"
"Yes sir" then they all walked out of the gate room.
"Talk to you later Sam."
"Ok dad."
SG1 headed to the elevators while Jacob and Hammond went into his office. Jacob told him about what happened before he showed up.
The next day Jack and some of the Alpha site personnel returned for the holidays and Sam was waiting for him at the bottom of the ramp.
They hugged and kissed before Jacob and Hammond arrived. They talked for few minutes before parting ways for an hour. Four hours later Jack, Sam and Jacob left to head home for the last minute shopping.
When they arrived home, Jack was shocked to see a twelve-foot Christmas tree in the lounge.
"I decided to wait until you got home so we can decorate the house together. Daniel, Elliott and Teal'c did the outside for me."
"I can't wait, so where are the decorations?"
"Well you haven't got many and I didn't have many either we might at well go and buy some new ones together."
"Oh goodie" He clapped his hands together and rubbed them like a little kid.
They went up to their bedroom so Jack could unpack his bags then they went to the mall for some lunch. After lunch they shopped for the rest of the afternoon. After they finished getting the last of the gifts and boxes of decorations and lights sorted out, they went to the super market to stock up on groceries for the house since Mark and his family were coming for Christmas and New Year, for two weeks. After they bought everything Sam called and ordered Chinese for the three of them before going for the groceries.
They arrived back at the house just after seven. Once all the groceries were away and the gas fire going, they sat down to enjoy their meal and talked.
The next morning Daniel, Teal'c, Cassie and Elliott showed up to help with the decoctions in the house. Sam invited Elliott for Christmas since his family had gone to Canada for Christmas. They all had a good time putting the decorations up in the morning.
After lunch Jack and Jacob went to the airport to collect Mark and the family in Sam's new Ford Explorer, while the others helped put the boxes away and then they played pool until the other's returned.
An hour and half later they returned and the family were shown to their rooms. Once everyone was settled in, they sat around, talking and playing a few games until dinner time.
They had lasagne for dinner. Janet had arrived just in time for dinner so she joined them. After dinner they all had hot chocolate with marshmallows, in the lounge. They watched a movie with the lights out and only the Christmas lights on.
After the movie finished, they bundled up warm and left for the Air Force Academy Chapel for the Christmas service. Half an hour later they arrived and went inside. They all held a lit candle and the chapel was packed but they were lucky to find seats before the service began. When the bell rang at midnight, Jack leaned over and gave Sam a kiss
"Merry Christmas Sam"