A/N: HERE IT IS! The chapter you've all been waiting for - enjoy! Oh, and I'm sorry it's a little shorter than usual - that's just the way the scene wrote itself.

After the … humorous event that was dinner was over, William made the executive decision that it was time to open presents. No one argued.

Since it would have taken way too long to open every gift that night, Helen and William told their children that they could choose two to open, but they'd have to save the rest for the morning. Jacob thought it was a very sensible idea and reaffirmed it with his group.

Sam handed her gift to Jack and watched with anticipation as he opened it to discover a biography on one of his favorite hockey players: Yvon Cournoyer, the captain of the Montreal hockey team. He sent a thankful smile to Sam and she told him one simple command, "Open it."

Jack did as he was told and was rather interested to discover that the biography was a whopping one hundred and fifty pages long followed by a secret compartment that was constructed to make the book appear to be twice the size of the biography. He loved it almost as much as he loved Sam.

"Thank you, Sam," he said caringly. "It's great."

Sam smiled back, happy with the praise. "You're welcome, Jack."

"Now you have to open my present for you," he said, motioning for his mother to hand it to him. When he gave it to her, all the noise in the room stopped, everyone wanting to see what Sam got.

She opened it up to find a book she'd been after for months on theoretical astrophysics. There was a bookmark in the book and when she opened up the hard cover book to where the bookmark was, she saw writing there.

With a look up at Jack to see if he was serious about the question posed on the page she asked, "Can I have a pen, please?" soon one was in her hand and she was writing back a response. She handed it to Jack, who read it, wrote something then handed it back. This time Sam wrote one word before handing it back to him.

He looked at the word, not sure his mind wasn't playing a trick on him, rose from his seat with Sam's hand in his causing her to rise with him, before kissing her with such passion Dee was covering Belle's eyes and Jacob was reminded of when he'd proposed to his wife all those years ago.

It was Mark who picked up the book from where it lay on the floor and opened it to see what was written inside. He smiled as he read the written conversation, then passed the book to his father to read.

What Jacob read was this:

Will you marry me?

Would I have to be a housewife?

You can be whatever you want to, Sam. I won't hold you back from anything.

Okay.

He looked back up to see the love radiating between his daughter and her new fiancé. It was such a lovely sight, and one rarely seen.

William caught Jacob's eye and silently asked what was going on. The other man just passed him the book. Helen leaned over to her husband to see what was written there and in a few moments both of Jack's parents were smiling along with Jacob, Mark and Dee at the couple.

"Mommy!" Belle cried, trying to wiggle away from her mother's hand as Dee tried to protect her innocence, "Mr. Jack and Aunty Sam are going to get married, why can't I see them? Mommy!"

Dee took her hand away from Belle's face and the little girl ran to her aunt and hugged Sam and Jack's legs happily.

Priscilla was next to join the group hug surrounding Sam and Jack. Micah, Luke, Adam and Andrew closely followed her. The five adults glanced at each other nervously, wondering if anyone would hold it against them if they joined in. Helen finally couldn't take it anymore. Not caring what anyone else said, she got up from her seat and threw her arms around the couple as best she could with six children already hugging the pair. Helen's willingness to join in prompted the joining of both Air Force Generals followed by Mark and Dee.

No one could exactly tell how long they stayed in that hugging state, but it wasn't very long before Priscilla started squirming and said loudly, "I WANNA SEE THE RING!"

The laughter the exclamation caused Priscilla's cheeks to burn crimson, but it did allow her the room to maneuver out of the chock hold from her brothers' arms around her in the form of a hug.

As they dispersed back to their previous seated positions, Jack fished out the ring from his pocket and slipped it onto Sam's finger. She looked down at the simple, elegant ring and smiled before looking back up into Jack's eyes. Sam held out her hand to Priscilla and let the young girl look at the ring to gain her approval.

"That's Grandma's ring," she said pointedly.

Jack nodded, "Yeah, it was. Now it's Sam's."

Sam's eyes suddenly filled with tears. It was just so sweet, she couldn't express how she felt about what Jack had just done. Deciding silence was better than words she just grinned like a fool who'd just won a million dollars. In the hearts of both Sam and Jack, they had.

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