A/N. Here's chapter nine, woo hoo, this must be the quickest I've updated … ever! He he he. See what the power of people reviewing does! Hint hint.

Chapter Nine – New … Beginnings?

The door burst open and Cassie came in with two cups of coffee. She stopped short at the sight of Jack on top of Sam. Thankfullly the covers were strategically placed but as you can imagine it was still fairly embarrassing for all parties involved. Cassie quickly turned around. She cleared her voice and then spoke.

"Err good morning guys, sleep well?" she asked slyly. Jack looked at Sam and they lay motionless for a second before they both burst out laughing and then they managed to get themselves suitably dressed.

"You can give us the coffee now Cass" Sam told her, still giggling slightly. Cassie cautiously turned around as if she didn't believe her and then let out an exaggerated sigh of relief.

"There you go guys," she gave them the coffee and then continued, "Jack, you're missing the Simpson's episode where Bart draws Homer in a comic and calls it Angry Dad, it's awesome!" Jack looks at Sam and then back to Cassie.

"Yeah it's cool, that one it's … well … ya know, seen it" he said not very tactfully. Sam turned to face Cassie as well and spoke as well, cutting off Jack's sentence.

"We'll be out soon Cassie, promise" she smiled at the younger woman who smiled back and then walked out of the room, whistling the Simpson's theme tune at which Jack looked quite impressed and then she shut the door behind her.

"I swear her timings getting to be as bad as Daniel's" he took another swig of coffee and put his cup on the bedside table and took Sam's cup from her and did the same. "So where were we?" he smiled. Sam kissed him gently and moved to get up from the bed.

"I'd love to but we have an announcement to make, remember?" Jack pulled Sam next to him again to stop her from getting up.

"Just two more minutes?" he asked.

"Jack"

"Ok, ok lets get in the shower," he smirked, Sam rolled her eyes at this but couldn't help but smile and didn't protest.

Janet was starting to get a little nervous at Daniels continued staring after they had walked out on the deck to talk but Daniel hadn't said anything.

"Daniel, are you ok?" she finally asked.

"Huh, yeah of course!" he stuttered.

"It's just that you haven't stopped staring at me since I got back, I mean, I realise that seeing me again is … a shock but …"

"Janet it's not you … well it is but it's not"

"Ok now I'm confused"

"Right, well I guess I should start from the beginning. When I thought you had been killed when I saw you get shot by the staff blast, I was screaming inside, I didn't even realise how much you meant to me and then when I saw you alive, the first thing I thought was I could finally tell you the truth."

"What truth Daniel?"

"That I am in love with you, completely." He admitted sincerely. Janet hadn't actually been expecting that total admittance of his feelings so she was unprepared to answer him. She stood staring at him, their role reversal only apparent when Daniel continued.

"Ok, so now you're the one that's staring and with good reason I mean what was I thinking. I'm just me and you're so … fantastic … I'm sorry Janet, please don't hate …" he was cut off mid sentence as Janet gently kissed him. "Wow" was all he could say when they pulled apart. Janet smiled shyly and whispered to him.

"I love you too, you accident prone, dumb, space monkey!" she smiled warmly as he grinned sheepishly. "Come on lets go back inside and maybe you'll be able to stop staring now"

"Not likely," he grinned back at her, this time mischievously, "Now I have reason to stare!"

Daniel and Janet went back inside and sat on the couch as Teal'c and Cassie were busy watching another episode of the Simpson's, (this was an older episode where Bart and Lisa realised that their babysitter was the babysitter bandit) and just as the episode was about to end Jack and Sam walked in holding hands. Jack picked up the remote and switched it off only to hear two indignant replies.

"Jack!" Cassie yelled.

"O'Neill!" Teal's bellowed.

"Sorry guys, but we have something to tell ya" Jack smiled.

"Oh God, you're not pregnant already are you?" Cassie gasped and Sam blushed as she quickly rushed to assure Cassie that they were not pregnant.

"No Cass, it's not that"

"I'm sure you're all wondering what's happening so I … no we need to tell you. I proposed to Sam the other day and she accepted".

"What!" came Daniel and Cassie's response.

"Well we figured that we've pretty much been dating for 8 years and we really didn't want to waste any more time so why not" Sam explained and then Jack put his arm around her waist to pull her closer to him.

"Besides now that I have Sam I'm definitely not letting her get away that easily" he winked at her before brushing her lips slightly against his.

"Can I see the ring?" Cassie asked, excitedly. Sam held out her left hand and Cassie sighed, "God that's just so you guys, Mum have you seen this ring?"

"Yeah actually, I have"

"What! You knew?" Daniel asked, incredulously, "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because Sam begged me not too, she wanted to tell you all herself, don't be upset" she answered as she put her hand on his face completely forgetting everyone else in the room.

"I'm not, honestly, I just wish you'd told me but I completely understand why you didn't"

"When did this happen?" Sam and Cassie screamed. Janet realised what she'd done and removed her hand.

"When what happened?" she asked innocently.

"JANET!" Sam screamed at the same time that Cassie screamed.

"MUM!" Cassie screamed.

"Look, I'm sorry, I really meant to wait a few days before we even considered talking about telling people. Today should be about you and Jack getting engaged not about Daniel and I getting together" she explained gently.

"You mean finally getting together!" Sam exclaimed.

"Totally!" Cassie agreed.

"Janet's right, today's about you guys" Daniel said.

"Oh please, like Jack and I mind" Sam dismissed.

"Yeah we get to do double the celebratory drinking" Jack noted.

"Indeed" Teal'c joined in, "this is a very joyous occasion"

"Well out T" Cassie agreed, "Now I think we should discuss these celebratory drinks" she said enthusiastically at which Janet's head shot up.

"You will strictly be drinking soda young lady" she said sternly at which Cassie started sulking.

"Aww come on mum, if you guys are drinking champagne, I know you bought some with, then I should be able to drink at least one glass, you know there are kids in European countries that can drink at the age of 18, even England has an 18 year drinking age" she tried to reason.

"Yeah well, we're in the U.S. not the U.K. Cass but I'll let you have one glass, a small one mind you as this is a special occasion"

"Yeah! Gimme five Jack" they both enthusiastically smacked their hands together in celebration and then Jack and Daniel went to get the Champagne that Janet bought and the glasses. As they did Janet and Cassie cornered Sam into telling them how Jack proposed.

"Well you know Jack, he loves to catch people off guard! When we woke up the other day we were just talking and he comes out with 'Marry me' I thought it was just a spur of the moment thing until he pulls out his ring and tells me the story behind it and when I was still worried and asked him lots of questions that a boyfriend would know the answer to and he well … even I was surprised how well he knew me, it was just so Jack" she sighed happily.

"I can't believe you're so …" Cassie started.

"I know! I never had myself as a gusher but I guess you just need the right guy huh!"

For the next week everything was fine at Cabin O'Neill. Cassie learned to knock before entering Jack and Sam's room, Daniel has swapped rooms with Cassie and none of them were called back to the SGC for an emergency. However this all changed half way through the their second week …

A/N yeah I know I'm back to my evil little semi cliff hangers but ah well, anyways, please review I really did love reading them, Thanx guys, luv Nicki.