Sam woke to the sunlight streaming through her window Sunday morning. She smiled, thinking back to the previous night. After the kiss, they had dinner, then shared a very nice goodnight kiss before she went home. They had agreed that even though they had been waiting for each other for years, they would still take it slowly. The phone rang while Sam was still thinking.
"Hello?" she answered. She smiled when Jack's voice replied.
"Sorry if I woke you, Sam. I just wanted to say goo morning." He said cheerfully.
"I was already awake." Sam said.
"Do you want to do anything today?" Jack asked.
"Depends on what you had in mind." Sam teased.
"Well, I thought we should try to enjoy the day, before we have to go back to work Monday." Jack said. Sam frowned. She had been trying to ignore the fact that they had to go to work and hide the fact that they were dating.
"How about I come pick you up at 11, and we can have lunch and then decide if we want to do anything or not?" Jack suggested.
"Sounds like a plan." Sam said. Right at eleven, Jack pulled into Sam's driveway.
"You look nice." Jack commented as Sam climbed into Jack's pick-up. She snorted. The blue shorts and white T-shirt were the only things that had escaped the black hole that was her laundry room clean. Jack did look nice though, in white pants and a blue polo shirt.
"So where are we going for lunch?" Sam asked as Jack pulled out of her driveway.
"That's a surprise. You're going to have to wait and see when we get there." He told her. Se looked at him suspiciously, but she didn't say anything. She smiled when Jack pulled into a French restaurant.
"I've wanted to take you here for forever." Jack commented. Sam smiled at the implication that Jack had wanted to take her out for forever. They walked into the restaurant arm-in-arm.
"Bonjour. Welcome. Please enjoy your meal." The waiter told them, leading them to a table and giving them a menu.
"Yum, escargo." Jack said sarcastically.
"Do you come here often?" Sam asked him, opening her menu.
"This is my first time." Jack told her. After ordering food, two orders of blanc de poulet avec vin blanc, Sam tried to think of something to pass the time before the food came.
"Don't look now, but General Hammond just walked in." Jack whispered suddenly, looking a little panicked.
"Does he see us?" Sam whispered back. Jack grimaced.
"Yup. He's walking this way." He whispered.
"Colonel, Major! It's a bit of a suprise to see you two here." Hammond said, coming over to stand next to their table.
"We've been wanting to try out this restaurant for a while now. We were all going to go, but French really isn't Teal'c and Daniel's thing." Jack said quickly. "Do you want to join us?" he asked before Hammond could consider Jack's story.
"Well, my daughter should be here soon with my granddaughters, but I'll join you till then." Hammond said, pulling up a chair. They hadn't even gotten their food yet when Daniel walked in. He spotted the other three instantly.
"Hey guys!" he said, maneuvering his way through the tables. This time both Sam and Jack grimaced. Hammond raised an eyebrow in a very Teal'cish manner.
"I guess Daniel changed his mind about French food." Hammond said so only Jack and Sam could hear.
"What are you guys doing here?" Daniel asked casually. Hammond looked at them expectantly.
"We're here on a date." Sam blurted out, momentarily feeling brave, and also cuttings off Jack's sarcastic 'eating'. At any other time Jack might have found Hammond's shocked look amusing. Sam and
Jack risked a glance at each other, each expecting the worst from this. Both were shocked to see a grin spread across Hammond's face.
"In that case I think I'll go save a table for my daughter." Hammond said, standing up. Jack let out a sigh of relief.
"Yeah. I better go save a table too." Daniel said, also walking off.
"That went a lot better than I thought it would." Jack said, watching Hammond's retreating form.
"Yeah." Sam responded, watching an approaching waiter.
"Here is your food," their waiter said, placing their food in front of them and bowing before leaving.
"Hey, isn't that the doc?" Jack said suddenly. Sam followed where Jack was looking to where Janet was walking to Daniel's table. She sat down and picked up a menu.
"Way to go Danny-boy." Jack said, returning to his plate. Sam smiled and returned to her plate s well.