Ok, ok, I know it looks like I've forgotten about this story but I swear I haven't. Here's the next chap, I just wanted to get the gang to the cabin before I ended the chap. Good news is that I finally had some time to write this up this weekend in between family coming around (it was my 19th birthday on Sunday) and opening pressies so its all good he he he. I have only two more exams and then I have two whole weeks of nothing but my part time job until I go on holiday to Florida, woo hoo Disney world here I come, (yeah I did say I was 19 on Sunday ;)) so I should be able to get at least one more chap out before I go and then you can pretty much guarantee I'll be writing the whole time I'm over there, when I'm not at the amusement parks, which means I will have at least one more when I come back to post (I kinda wish I could take my laptop with me but ah well) Anyways enough with my little rant and on wit the chap!
Chapter Seven – Even more surprises!
An hour later they were opening Sam's front door, laughing loudly, however all thoughts of laughter were thrown from their minds at the state of her house. Someone had broken in through the back door and had completely ransacked the place.
"Oh God!" Sam whispered, shocked at the sight before her, "Who would do something like this?"
Jack suddenly snapped into his military mode.
"Ok, Carter lets get the base security over here. Where do you keep the SGC files you bring home?"
"Upstairs in the safe in my study" Sam replied distractedly, picking up a smashed picture frame with the picture her, her dad, SG1, Jack, Jonas, Janet and Hammond. It was her favourite picture because it had all of them in it. It had been taken by Siler just after they had returned from Kelowna after the Gou'ald had died in Jonas' friend. Jack softened at the lost look on her face.
"Sam, it's gonna be ok" he offered.
"Yeah I know, its just …"
"A shock"
"Honestly Jack who would do this, I hate the thought that someone would hate me this much" Sam said, completely vulnerable for one of the few times in her life.
"Well, I don't know Sam, we have made some of them snake heads mad you know" Jack got a watery smile in reward for his effort at humour. He pulled her into a tender hug which she gladly accepted, burying her face into his shoulder.
A couple of hours later, the SGC forensics team had been to secure the house and search for clues and had then taken their leave, giving exemplary salutes to the senior officers on the way.
"You know Sam, I've been thinking" Sam did a mock double take.
"Thinking? You Jack?" she smiled and Jack suddenly pounced on her and started tickling her relentlessly.
"Ok, ok" she giggled wrapping her arms around his neck as he stopped tickling her and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Hey no giggling remember?"
"Yes Sir" she responded with mock seriousness, he really did have a way with helping her feel better no matter what happened, she thought to the herself, "So what were you thinking about?"
"What about you moving in … with me I mean, seriously though we are engaged so if ya want we could move into mine or find a new place together, I'm gathering you don't wanna live here now"
Sam stared at him for a few minutes until he again started to feel uncomfortable. Sam gave herself yet another mental shake, it seemed like he was doing nothing but surprising her recently she realised.
"Sorry Jack, I zoned out again huh? I really only have one thing to say, stop being so unsure of yourself, we both want this. I would love to move in with you. Its not we could really be married without me living with you" she kissed him softly, "Come on honey lets get my stuff"
Jack couldn't help it, he kissed her passionately, picked her up and twirled around with her arms still around her neck.
"God, I love you woman, have I told you today?"
"Once or twice, but I don't think I'm gonna get tired of it"
"So do ya wanna get a new place or stay at mine" he grinned.
"I think getting a new house, a fresh start for both of us would be a great idea"
They walked around Sam's house pulling all her clothes into suitcases and grabbing all her valuables such jewellery and then all her electric stuff like her TV and her laptop. They also picked up all her pictures and grabbed Cassie's stuff to take with them. They made two trips in Jacks truck and had packed the truck up again as well as Sam's car for one final trip, Sam stood looking around her living room.
"Are you ok Sam?" he asked wrapping his arms around her waist from behind.
"Yes, I am" she sighed contentedly "I thought this was all happening too fast until I realised what you said morning was right, we do know each other inside out and we have a life time to figure everything else out" she eased out of his embrace and took his hand, "Lets go home Jack"
Meanwhile Daniel had snuck back into his lab after Jack had herded him out. He had to think and the best way for him to do so was to start the interpretation of the data he had been brought back from P6X-839, the planet where they had found Janet. Janet, God, he'd missed saying her name. 'No Daniel' he mentally slapped himself, 'those thoughts will not help, I should focus on this language, ok, it's a variation of …' he slammed the book shut. 'ok I'm gonna have to give these feelings some thought, I have no choice right now. I'm obviously not gonna allow myself to use my usual distraction techniques'. Daniel drove to his flat and after several hours of staring into space he came up with one conclusion.
"I love Janet and I'm gonna tell her!"
He fell into a deep sleep for the first time since Janet had come back.
When Jack and Sam got home that night, they talked as they unpacked Sam's stuff.
"You know I've just realised we haven't talked about what we want for the wedding" Jack said suddenly.
"Well … what do you want?"
"I don't really mind, my wedding to Sara was the huge white wedding deal because that was what she wanted but all I wanted was a small ceremony with my family and friends." Jack explained.
"That's all I want, I mean yeah sure when I was little I imagined a big wedding but I was never the kind of girl who would put a pillow case on my head and pretend it was a veil. I just wanted the right guy and as cheesy as it sounds … I got him" Jack grinned and pulled her into a hug.
"And you do realise that you're stuck with me, right?"
"Yup"
"Good" he places a quick kiss on her lips before getting back to the unpacking. Sam's cell phone rang and she sighed before she answered it.
"It had better not be the base" she smiled at Jack, "Carter" she answered, "Oh hey Janet … what? They're saying what? … God no, relax … yes someone broke in but … what? … no I'm staying at Jack's and besides we're gonna be at his cabin for a while … its been boarded up and locked up … I didn't see anything gone … God you're such a drama queen, I'd been wondering where Cassie got it from … ok Janet … yes I swear … what? … why do you need to speak to … ok, ok … ok, one second" Sam held the phone out to Jack who was smirking at her, he instantly stopped as she gestured he was to speak to Janet. "She wants to talk to you and I swear its worse than having your own mother yell at you" Jack took the phone from Sam.
"Hey Doc what's up?"
"First of all General, tell Sam I heard that and she'll pay later" Jack relayed the message and Sam rolled her eyes. "Secondly you better be taking good care of her, as the best friend I reserve the right to take revenge if she gets upset from anything you do or say" there was a slight pause and as an after thought she added, "Sir". Jack couldn't help but smile, this was really … sweet. Janet was protecting Sam (not that she needed protecting from him, if he did anything to upset him, Sam would kick his ass herself) as if they were back in high school.
"I promise she'll be ok Janet and as we're officially on leave, you can drop the sir" Jack eventually calmed Janet and said his goodbyes. He hung up and passed the phone back to Sam.
"What did she say?" Sam asked.
"Oh nothing, just that I'd better take care of you" he looked around and suddenly grinned mischievously. "You know Sam, all of your stuff is inside now, and it is quite late, maybe we should get some sleep"
Sam looked at him and mirrored his mischievous expression.
"Like anything you're thinking right now actually involves rest!" she smiled.
"Well look at it this way, we're gonna spend the next few weeks in a cabin with a nosy archaeologist, a gossiping teenager and your best friend not to mention Teal'c " he wrapped his arms around her waist again and whispered into her ear, "This is our last chance for a while to be as … noisy as we like"
Sam bit her lower lip as a shiver of excitement shot through her body like electricity. She pulled his lips down to meet hers and they kissed passionately for several minutes until Jack suddenly pulled away and took her hands in his from their place around his neck.
"What?..." Sam began.
"I just realised that something wasn't quite right" he took her engagement ring from her right hand finger and placed it back on her ring finger on her left hand. "That's better" he pulled Sam back against him and started to kiss her collar bone which was exposed at the top of her t-shirt.
"Come on Jack, lets go to bed" Sam said when she was finally able to string a coherent sentence together. She started to pull him towards his room until Jack picked her up … again.
"Jack!"
"What?" he asked walking into his room and placing her on his bed.
"I could really get used to being taken to bed like that" she grinned seductively at him as he crawled up the bed towards her.
"I'm gonna have to start taking notes of some of these things so I don't forget" he smirked.
The next morning Sam woke up spooned into Jacks arms with Jack gently kissing her neck to wake her up.
"Come on baby, time to get up we need to pack" he said softly between his kisses. Sam groaned and pulled his arms tighter around he waist.
"Can't we have 10 more minutes?" Jack chuckled against her neck causing yet another shiver to go down her spine.
"Nope, you can relax all you want when we get to the cabin but for now …" he started tickling Sam. He knew she would give in and do as he asked if he tickled her.
"Ok, ok, I give in, but I need coffee before I can even think about packing"
"No problem, I'll make breakfast, you can get in the shower. You want an omelette or pancakes?"
"Ooh pancakes please" he kissed her one last time before jumping out of bed. Sam smiled and walked over to his dresser. She pulled out an old Air Force t-shirt of his that would hang down easily to her knees and a fresh towel from the cupboard he kept them in. 15 minutes later she walked into the kitchen. He looked up and raised his eyebrow Teal'c style.
"You look really good in my clothes you know"
"Really?" she smirked playfully.
"Really, really" Sam walked over to lean against the counter. She took the cup of coffee that Jack offered her and closed her eyes.
"God I hope we have an uninterrupted vaca…"
"Ah!" Jack interrupted her, "Don't say that, its like in horror movies, the person who doesn't believe that there's a crazy stalker and says so is always the next to die"
Sam looked at Jack and then burst out laughing.
"God, you looked so serious when you said that!" she giggled agin.
"Ok, ok, now we've had a joke at my expense, lets get packing" he grinned at her to show his own amusement.
Jack was the happiest he had been in a long time. He whistled the Simpson's theme tune as he threw his bag into the back of the truck and strapped it down.
"Come on Sam, let's go!" he yelled towards the house and smirked as she tripped over the doorstep in a very unmilitary fashion. She looked up in time to see him try and hide the smirk.
"Laugh it up Jack, I'll get my own back" she promised.
"Ok, I've been warned, come on sweetheart, we really have to go." They drove to the base where Teal'c, Cassie and Janet were waiting.
"Hey guys, did you remind Daniel what time we were meeting?" Cassie asked the moment they got out of the truck.
"Erm … no" Sam admitted, uncharacteristically using the word erm.
"Sam, you said you would" Cassie whined.
"Yeah I know, I'm sorry, we just got a little …"
"Busy?" Janet asked innocently.
"Sidetracked" Sam completed and glared at her friend.
"I am sure that Daniel Jackson will join us shortly" Teal'c said.
"That's right T, now come on, you can give me a hand with the bags whilst these ladies chat" They grabbed the bags and moved to Jacks truck leaving Sam, Janet and Cassie alone.
"So any idea who broke in?" Cassie asked.
"Nope, oh by the way … well … Jack and I have moved in to Jacks so …"
"OHMYGOD Sam that's amazing!" Cassie rushed out.
"Yeah, Cass honey, can you give me and Sam a second alone?"
"Aww come on mum, I'm 18 now!"
"Yeah I know, I just need to ask her a private question"
"Ok, sure, I'll go help tweedle dum and tweedle dee put the bags in the truck" Sam snorted in laughter and she said,
"Anyway before you do I just wanted to let you know that the stuff of yours that was at mine is now at Jacks, its just basically the furniture that's left"
"Ok Sam" and with that she ran over to the truck. As Sam and Janet turned to talk to each other Cassie's voice drifted over to them. "Boys, brute force isn't always the answer ya know!"
"So Sam?" Janet asked.
"What?"
"Is there something else you'd like to tell me whilst you're at it?"
"Err … no, I don't think so" she said, she nervously put her hair behind her ear.
"Ok then, what's this?" she grabbed her left hand and pointed to the engagement ring. Sam stared at it for a second, cursing herself inwardly that she had forgotten to put it on the other hand that morning. 'It had felt so right thought' she thought to herself, 'With Pete's ring it had always felt like some kind of ball and chain, I hadn't like to wear it because it got in the way and caught on my clothes but with Jacks ring, it's like I've been wearing it for years, its so comfortable' she pulled herself from her musings to give a quick glance towards the others.
"Ok yes, Jack proposed and yes you know I accepted, its just we wanted to tell you all at the cabin, so please just keep it quiet for today, please, the you can gossip with Cassie all you want"
"Ok Sam, just 'til we get up there. I can't believe this, its great, you guys are just made for each other, I knew it way before you guys admitted it in the Za'tarc thing" she looks at the ring, "That's a beautiful ring Sam" she finished, almost in awe.
"Like I told Jack, it's the kind of ring I always wanted, it was so sweet Janet, he was all unsure as to whether I'd say yes and then whether I'd like the ring" and then she added as an after thought, "Probably not the best idea to tell him I described him as sweet"
"You're probably right" she smiled again. Sam put the ring onto her right hand. Suddenly they heard a cars horn and turned around to see Daniel entering the car park. He pulled up next to Jacks truck and jumped over to Jack, Teal'c and Cassie as Sam and Janet walked up as well.
"Sorry I'm late, we ready?" Daniel gasped.
"Yup Danny boy, who do you want to take in your car?" he asked as he slipped his arms around Sam's waist from behind and put his head on her shoulder as she leaned back into him.
"Don't mind Jack, but I think we all know that Sam going with you" They all just smiled, Jack and Sam both knew that this teasing would go on for some time yet.
"I will accompany you Daniel Jackson" Teal'c said, nodding his head in Daniel's direction.
"That's good, I actually need to ask you something Teal'c" Daniel agreed.
"Did you bring the supplies I asked for Danny?" Jack asked.
"Yes JACKIE, I did"
"Good well lets go then, the sooner we leave the sooner we get there"
They all got into their vehicles and started the long drive to Minnesota. In Daniels car, Daniel was very nervous.
"Err Teal'c, you see I want to ask Janet if she'd like to well … go on a date with me and I wanted to know what you thought" he asked very nervously.
"I am unsure as to why you need my opinion?" Teal'c asked.
"Well I wondered if you thought she felt the same … if you had noticed anything that I hadn't. I'm really just nervous Teal'c"
"Daniel Jackson I believe that Dr Fraser has similar feelings towards you however I believe it would be wise to ask her whilst we are at O'Neill's cabin, before the next Gou'ald threat emerges"
Daniel gave a very choked laugh at this and they continued on in silence, both in very deep thought.
Meanwhile in Jacks truck, the ladies were in a very girly talking mood whilst Jack was completely bored.
"Ladies, please can we talk about something else … PLEASE?" he begged as the conversation turned to period pains. Janet and Cassie laughed as Sam put her hand on his knee and apologised.
"Sorry Jack, what else should we talk about?"
They started up a game of eye spy until it was abruptly brought to an end by Cassie accidentally spilling her drink over as she leaned over the front to change the radio station. As Cassie apologies profusely, they pulled into a service station and Cassie suddenly smiled.
"Ooh I can give you your present now" she pulled out a plastic carrier bag and got out of the car dragging Sam to the rest room. Jack turned to Janet and said.
"Why do I get an ominous feeling about what's in that bag?"
"Don't worry General, its tasteful" Janet smirked.
"Uh huh" he said slowly and they waited for Cassie and Sam to emerge.
In the rest room, Sam was staring speechlessly at the t-shirt Cassie had thrust at her and she had changed into it.
"Cassandra Fraser! I can't wear this!" she cried disbelievingly.
"Sure you can"
"Cassie I have my f … boyfriends name plastered across my chest!" Cassie had bought her a bright blue t-shirt with a silver O'Neill on the front. (A/N at this point I just wanna acknowledge the genius of Kate McCave in her story "Birthday Traditions 4" that's where I got the idea for the O'Neill top)
"And…" she prompted.
"Well … can you imagine what Jacks reaction will be?"
"Duh! Why do ya think I got it ya, of course I bought it before you started dating and then what I played out in my head was much funnier but if you ask me …" she paused and looked up to the ceiling, "Yep … yep … still funny" she grinned evilly. Sam sighed, she could see there was no way she was gonna convince Cassie to run to the truck and grab one of her plain long sleeve t-shirts that she loved so much from her bag because Sam knew that Cassie wanted to embarrass her greatly.
"Right I give, you win, lets go" Sam smiled and went to grab her jacket but Cassie picked up everything and ran to the door.
"Come on" she encouraged and walked out outside to the truck. Daniel and Teal'c had gone for more coffee whilst Jack and Janet had filled the cars with more fuel. The four of them were stood basking in the early morning sun, drinking their coffee's. Cassie ran out to them and dumped Sam's stuff on her seat and winked at her mum. Sam slowly emerged from the rest room and Daniel was laughing as he looked at Sam and then he laughed some more as did Cassie and Janet, and well Teal'c was well Teal'c. Jack decided that something was going on so he turned around to look at Sam as he took another swig of coffee … and then promptly choked as he saw her.
"S…Sam" he cleared his voice, "Nice top!"
"I only have the best!" she smirked at him.
Daniel and Teal'c went back to their car and as Jack walked around the truck to get in the drivers side, Sam hissed at the evil giggling mother and daughter pair, "I'm soo gonna get even with you two" as they also climbed into the truck.
They drove the rest of the way with no further incident. They arrived at the cabin just after midnight and Jack and Cassie were the only ones who still had energy left. Jack practically jumped out of the truck and Sam found herself being dragged from the vehicle for the second time that day. He stood her in front of his cabin and gestured towards his cabin.
"Well what d'ya think?" he asked hopefully.
A/N. So there we go, they're finally at the cabin. I have started the next chapter but I can't even pretend how long it will be before I have it written and uploaded but it will definitely be before the 27th of May (the day I go on holiday). Anyways please please review, thanx for reading guys, luv Nicki.
