Email: Romance, other? Sam/Jack, humor. Spoilers: hmm, season four window of opportunity, any ep relating to S/j Ship Season: 4
Sequel: Another window of oportunity p6 Rating: g
Content Warnings: mild bad language
Summary: Sam and Jack are stuck in a loop, and decide to have fun
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, names, titles, they belong to mgm, gekko, etc.
Archive: Fitr,
Author's Note: no full fledged flames please, but I do like criticism.
And of course I love praise. hope you enjoy.
note: not beta-d except by me. I hope that everyone is still alive by the time I get
this posted ;), Kc. I hope you all love this part, it even had my sister cracking up,
and awing. Uncle Dirty Toes is the name of the band that one of my best friends is in,
they play Celtic music.
"Think about it rationally sir, what went wrong last time?"
"I hope you're not referring to when I kissed you."
Daniel coughed on his coffee, "WHAT!"
Sam went beet red, " Uh, no."
"Wait, Sam he kissed you!" Daniel asked freaking out, " uh guys, isn't that, um I don't know, illegal!"
"Sir, I think this is where we went wrong, " Sam said pointing at Daniel.
"I agree, so let's do something about that." Jack said suspiciously.
"Uh Jack?" Daniel said, scared of the look present in Jack's eyes.
Gen. Hammond came into Sam's lab looking for the missing members of Sg1, he thought maybe they had just forgot what time the briefing was. Poor Hammond gasped when he entered.
There in front of him, Daniel was tied up, with a gag in his mouth. "Dr. Jackson!"
Gen. Hammond quickly removed the gag, and untied Daniel's hands.
"They're insane they're absolutely insane sir," Daniel said hurriedly.
"Who, who's insane?"
"Sam and Jack. He kissed her, and they left the mountain in a rush."
"What? Jack kissed Sam after they tied you up!" Asked General Hammond shocked at his officer's behavior.
"No, before, I didn't see it, but they were talking about it." Daniel said trying to explain.
"This is too much," Hammond said angrily picking up the nearest phone, "Get Major Carter and Col. O'Neill here immediately, they've left the mountain."
Sam and Jack laughed, they were already quite a distance from the base when Daniel was found.
Jack flipped on the radio. 'Will ye no come back again', by Uncle Dirty Toes, came on. Sam and Jack laughed some more.
"So where are we going sir?"
"It's a surprise."
"I'm not guessing." Sam said resolutely.
"Oh really? Well I'm not asking you to guess." He said before singing the lyrics to the song they were listening to.
"Will ye no come back again
Will ye no come back again
Better lo'ed ye canna be
Will ye no come back again"
Jack pulled into a drive way in the middle of no where.
"Jack, that you?" Some one called coming out of the house.
"Yep, that's me. How's farming Tim?"
"Allot better than war, I'll tell you that." Said Tim kicking a rock, and limping over to Sam and Jack. "Howdy miss, I'm Colonel Tim Planche, retired." He said offering his hand.
She shook it, " Nice to meet you, Major Samantha Carter."
"Samantha, eh?" Tim asked squinting in the sun.
"Call her Sam, " said Jack.
"Well, Sam might I say you don't look like any Major I've ever seen." Jack came over and put his arm around Sam.
"Don't listen to him, Sam, he says that to all the girls." Jack said looking Tim squarely in the eyes.
"You know I think you're right about that Jack, but enough chit chat, why don't you two come inside?" He said leading them into a nice little home. He gestured for them to sit on a sunny couch, and offered them ice tea.
"Ya' know Tim, I never drink Tea in the daytime." Jack said matter of factly.
"Right Jack, want a beer?"
"I'd love one." Jack said comfortably.
Sam sat in peace with her tea.
"So Jack, what brings you to my neck of the woods?" He said throwing Jack a beer. "Wouldn't be trouble for dating a subordinate would it?"
"First of all Sam and I aren't dating, and second of all, why do assume that I'm in trouble? Can't I visit my old friends?"
"Well Jack, first of all you're awfully protective of her, and second I ain't never known you to visit others out of the kindness of your heart if they aren't in a hospital bed."
Jack nodded in agreement, "but when my friends are in the hospital, I visit them allot. Like you I visited you 3 times a week."
"Once a week, and only when you had nothing better to do on Saturday night." Tim corrected.
Sam smiled, "Sir, if I got hurt you would visit me more than that wouldn't you?" She batted her lashes.
"You've got a feisty one, Jack." Tim complimented.
Jack rolled his eyes, "Sam you're too smart to get yourself hurt."
"And she's smart, hmm, this isn't one of your usually dates Jack, what happened?"
"Is it too early for me to hit him?" Jack asked towards Sam.
"So, seriously Jack, what's up?" Tim said a bit more serious.
"Well, we're just looking for a place to hide out and have a little fun for the next"
Jack checked his watch, "oh 7 and a half hours or so."
"Fun eh? I'm fine with that, but you know I've got kids now, so keep your 'fun' pg."
Sam went beet red.
"Timothy! Sam and I are not a couple!" Jack said emphatically.
"Calm down, I was just kidding. So what did you guys have in mind?"
"Not getting captured would be nice."
"We're looking to de-stress," added Sam.
"I think I have just the game, some call it California Poker, others call it Frustration. Absolutely no thought process required." He said pulling out a card deck. "Divide the deck in half, place face up the top card of your deck in front of the other person's card. Try to do it at the same time, do it until there are five cards of each persons on the table, and if two of the cards match, cover them as fast as possible with cards from your deck. The first person with no cards picks up the side they want, and the game continues like before. It ends when one person has six cards or below." he sat down and played a practice round with Sam to show them.
"Seems simple enough." Jack said taking Tim's spot.
"Yep it is, I'm gonna go do farmer stuff. Have fun." Tim said leaving them in the living room.
Jack took a swig of his beer, " Ok, Carter let's play."
"Alright, sir, but I warn you I can be very fast."
An hour later Tim came back in to see how everything was going.
"Tim, how is that possible, she's beat me 6 times already! I can't even see the cards"
Jack said stupefied.
"I told you I'm very quick." Sam said, ending that round. "If you'd like to play something else, I'd be ok with that."
"Yeah, good idea, hey Tim want to join us?"
"Nope, the missus just called I gotta go shopping for dinner tonight."
"Hey how is Jane anyway?" Jack asked.
"She's doing great, she's at one of her clubs right now, she couldn't be happier. Now that our youngest is finally in school she gets most of the day off, of course she misses the little Gregory terribly, but she's pretty stress free right now. I'm telling you if you ever retire from the airforce you've gotta live in the country away from city hustle and bustle. Well I'd best be going." Tim said waving for them to continue, and walking out the door.
"Hey Sam, what about it?" He asked, dealing a hand of Gin Rummy.
"What about what?" she asked arranging her hand.
"Well, a nice home in the country like this, or even my cabin up in Minnesota." Jack said discarding an ace, which Sam hastily picked up, it matched a king and queen already in her hand.
"I think you'd live well in an environment like that. You won't always be young, and the stress free lifestyle would do wonders for your health."
"I'm already old, and I'm talking about you joining me, Sam." She froze.
"Uh, well, sir. . . Jack, isn't it a bit early to be making those kind of plans?" She said continuing the game.
"Yeah, I guess, I'm not due for retirement for quite a while yet, and I guess it's unfair for me to make you wait so long. I mean you've got your entire life a head of you, and I'm just finishing mine up." Jack said looking down and picking up another card. It was the Jack that matched the ace he had first put down. He had a feeling it was the card she was waiting for. He decided he would end the game and continue their chat with out distraction.
Sam picked up the card, and won the game. "I don't mind waiting for you, sir, but we both know that retirement for either of us is not going to happen. The Sgc needs your strategic mind, and they need my brain. Neither of us can just leave, sir."
"I know, but that doesn't keep these thoughts from floating through my mind. We could have a great life together, granted we wouldn't be saving the world any more, but we could raise a family, and be normal people, taking our kids to soccer practice, and baking cookies for fundraisers."
"Jack, who else would save the world? Mckay? And who would take your spot?"
"I would not trust the fate of any world in the hands of Mckay."
"At least not unsupervised by another scientist," Sam agreed.
"Like you." Jack said fatefully.
"Jack we can't just leave our lives," Sam shook her head.
"And I can't make you promise to wait for me, we both know the cold truth of our work.
Either of us could be dead at anytime."
"And what would Daniel do with out us?"
"Hmm go to a galaxy far far away?"
"Sir, you've got to admit you guys get along allot better than you used to."
"Yeah, Space monkey is ok. I would miss him, and Teal'c."
"I don't know about you, but saving the world, it kind of gives me a nice buzz." Sam said sitting on the couch again.
"I don't know, I think the thrill has kind of gone out of it for me, now if we were
saving the galaxy, I might get the old thrill back." he said sitting next to her.
Sam smiled, "But Sam, someday I will be at the retiring age, or I'll get myself
hurt in battle, and I'll give it all up. Then there will be no rules keeping us
apart." He said sincerely.
"Jack?" Sam said solemnly, "Why do you tell me to get a life, if you don't really want me to?"
"I want you to be happy, granted I'd prefer you be happy with me, but happiness is happiness, and if you can find it with some one else, than do so, and enjoy it."
"I wouldn't want to. I'd be lying if I said that I could find some one who could make me happy other than you."
"That's awfully pessimistic."
"No, it's not. I have hope, hope for the future. Things will work out. Who knows maybe
we'll find alien tech that will let me have children way into my nineties, that could
keep us young for hundreds of years. It's possible Jack. We can still have a future,
where neither of us have to give up our lives for one another, and we'll both be able
to be happy."
"That's quite a dream, Sam. I think I'm inclined to agree with you."
"Jack, I love you." Sam said turning toward him, "I'm willing to wait for you, don't worry, we can still have this life." she caressed his cheek.
He moved closer to her, " Don't tell Daniel this time, " he said just before kissing her.
"I promise," she said when they broke, and she kissed him again.
The door opened and Tim walked in with a bag of groceries. "Pg." he said walking into the kitchen. Sam cleared her throat, while Jack picked up the cards on the coffee table, and put them back into their box.
Tim came back into the living room, "Do you two need to be separated?" He asked, then added, " Need I remind you that this is illegal."
"I think that's what Daniel said this morning." Sam said.
"Yeah right before we tied him up." Jack added.
"Now Jack, don't get any ideas!" Tim said quickly.
"No I wouldn't do that to you, Daniel is an annoying geek whom we work with."
"Like Lieutenant Carley back in the days."
"Yeah Frank Carley, he was one annoying guy, but Daniel's not that bad. We call him Space monkey."
"Good name, does he fix things?"
"Nah, he just figured a puzzle out on our first mission together 6 years ago."
"So have you been working with Sam for six years too then?"
"No, Jack and I have only been working together for four years."
"So what's your expertise then? Bombs?" Tim asked her.
Sam smiled, "No, theoretical astrophysics."
"And that is. . . .?" Tim asked.
"worm holes, and alternate realities." Sam said simply.
"Fun, so what brings you two together? In your work I mean." Tim clarified, Jack shot him a dirty work.
"Deep space telemetry." Sam answered quickly.
"Hmm, so it's classified." Tim said completely not believing the cover story.
"Yes, but not for old friends." Jack said slyly.
"Jack how many rules are you going to break today, I think I can already list five"
Said Tim.
"Awe, but don't you want to know?" Jack asked playfully.
"Fine, what is it?"
"We found this device called a Stargate. Daniel figured out how to use it, and it creates a worm hole and sends us to other planets." Jack said truthfully.
"I see, why it's classified." Said Tim more convinced.
"Yeah, plus there's these really bad guys. They're called the Goa'uld, and they hate our guts, they've even tried to destroy our planet, but ever time they try anything Sg1 kicks their butts."
"Hmm, I can't tell if your completely insane or telling me the truth." Tim remarked.
"Well, amazingly Jack is telling the truth, he's just not doing a very good job of it." Sam replied.
"I think Jane should be home anytime now, you'll get to meet her Sam, she's something,
I'll tell you that."
Sam and Jack spent the rest of the day in relative peace. Jane came home and asked about them, she bought the cover story of deep space telemetry, told them they were the cutest couple she'd ever seen and wished them a happy future. When the three kids came home from School they argued and played, and listened to stories from Jack about majestic planets, and overwhelming bad odds, and all sorts of things they would usually never be told.
"Then Hathor chooses Col. O'Neill to be the host, and she lets the goa'uld go so that he can take over O'Neill's mind, but out of nowhere a zat shot is fired-" There was a bright flash. . . . . . . . . . . .
"I'm sorry Jack, that's just how I feel about it. What do you think?"