The long awaited picnic

Ch.4

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Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Warnings: some physical violence in the form of Pete Shanahan. Aka: Stalker Boy or The Asshole

THE PICNIC:

The day was sunny as could be, and there were approximately 240 personnel attending, not counting their families. Jack had had to post 85 SFs to make sure no one went wandering out of the enclosure.

It had taken him, Daniel, Teal'c, Carter, Jacob, and Jonas to put up all of the inflatable stuff. Well, the others more than him, as he had appointed himself 'the great and wondrous appointer of duties' (Sam had had a hard time keeping a straight face when he announced it. Daniel and Jacob had laughed in his face).Vala, Tayla, Elizabeth, George, Cassie, Hank, and Ishta were in charge of setting up the tables with food. Thor and Loki were in charge of keeping the peace.

The Stargate started powering up at approximately 1030 hours. By 1200 hours everyone was there that had gotten clearance and the adults were amazed at the Stargate, and the kids were amazed at how much food there was. The food was set in a Tok'ra shield with air conditioning to keep from spoiling.

There was inflatable boxing ring, obstacle course, giant slide (Jack had gotten that because Hammond was sick of him whining how everyone else got what they wanted but he didn't. Although he got that set up, Jack had had no time to go down it), and bouncy thing. don't know what the real name is There was even a dance area where there were some speakers and they were playing some music that Sam and Jack had picked out the other day.

So far the winners for the events were:

-Sg-1 won the paintball fight

-Sg-3 had won the tug-of-war for personal

-the officer's wives had won the ultimate tug-of-war

-Jack had won the cake eating contest go figure

-Sg-1 had won capture the flag

-Sam, Janet, Cassie, Ishta, Neissa, and Tayla won the water balloon fight since they had teamed up

-and Sam had kicked Jack's ass in the obstacle course the second time around since Sam had let Jack beat her and Janet was teasing her about how she had landed on top of Jack when he had grabbed her arm in an attempt to win

The only thing that was spoiling Jack's day was Pete had gotten clearance and was here. He was currently talking with Sam about 10 feet away, not that he had looked.

Sam wasn't looking very happy right now though and Jack was betting that soon she would hit him, cause he could hear them, not that he was trying,

"Sam, why won't you quit?"

"Dammit Pete! I LIKE working at the SGC and I WON'T quit. Why do you have such a big problem with me working here?"

"Because of him!"

"Who?"

"Your boss. That General guy."

"General O'Neill?"

"Ya, that's him. He's been looking at you oddly."

That is NOT very smart, she is SO gonna kick your ass, Jack started singing in his head.

"He has been looking at me? That's why you're asking me to quit?"

"Well, ya."

You are one STUPID cop. More singing.

"Pete, I don't think that you should have come. I was having a good time until you started pushing the idea that I should stop working with people I like, and doing work that I love. I think that you should leave." Sam started walking away.

A/N: Sorry but I should warn you that Pete is soon going to be somewhat violent. Not that that surprises any of us SG fanatics

Pete grabbed her arm and yanked her back too him, when she struggled he slapped her across the face. Hard. "You do not tell me what I should do."

Sam whimpered quietly, "You hurt me." Sam was rubbing her arm where he had held it none to softly, and her face was pink where he had hit her.

"Ya, well get used to it. If you don't want that to happen again I suggest you go over to that O'Neill fellow and tell him we're leaving and you are quitting. If you don't I will find ways to make your life hell. Don't even think about breaking off the engagement either because I will have a background check done on that Cassandra Fraiser chick and I will make sure that the public knows exactly what she is." Pete did not even try to make sure he wasn't overheard, since he obviously thought that he was far enough away to not be heard.

Not far enough, buddy. Jack thought as he walked over to Sam and her awful fiancé,

"Carter, you all right?" Jack indicated her arm.

"Yes sir." Sam took a deep breath, "I'm leaving."

"Oh. Well, hope you had fun." Jack was playing along perfectly. He was even smiling slightly.

"No, Jack. I'm leaving the SGC." Sam had tears in her eyes now.

"Oh. Why?" Jack's smile stayed in place, even if it slipped a little.

"Well, I have, uh, decided that there are more important things that I should be doing." Sam was being deliberately vague.

"Such as?" Jack was acting like he wasn't getting the picture.

"She doesn't have to give you an explanation. Why don't you just get out of our way and let us get home!" Pete was not masking the contempt for Jack in his voice.

"Oh, I highly doubt that you will be going anywhere right now." Jack said with the smile still on his face.

"Oh really. And why would that be?" Pete was furious now.

"Because you threatened Carter and I really don't think any of her friends or her father would like to know what you said about 5 min ago." Jack indicated a camouflaged camera attached to the light post that Sam was leaning on right now.

The color quickly left Pete's face, "I can say that you faked the tape."

"That would be your word against a General, a Colonel, and a higher ranking General." Jack was SO happy right now.

"The courts won't take testimony from her father." Pete's voice was full of fear.

"I was talking about General Hammond who is VERY good friends with the president, and we have very many allies whom care for Sam very much who would be happy to find you the most god-forsaken planet in the galaxy that you can inhabit for the rest of your natural life." Jack's smile was getting wider and wider.

Sam spoke for the first time since Jack started arguing with Pete, "Pete, the engagement is off." Then she turned to Jack, "Jack, I'm retiring." Then she kissed Jack right in front of Pete.

When they broke apart Jack was grinning and Sam felt her mouth go into a smile as well. When she turned to Pete his face was gaining color so fast that Sam was afraid that he was going to pop a blood vessel.

Jack wiped his face of all emotion before calling four SF's over, "Please lock Mr. Shanahan in one of the confinement cells until I have a chance to talk to him."

"Yes sir." The SF's grabbed Pete and took him through the Stargate.

Jacob came over, "Sam, why's Pete being escorted by four SF's?"

Sam smiled slightly, "Pete hit me and threatened me. Jack came over and informed him that he would be taken to the SGC until he could call the President and inform him what just happened. The engagement is off as well."

"I should hope so. I'm glad though. Never really did like him. Selmak didn't either." Jacob walked away to go tell Hammond and looked happier than when he came over.

Sam turned to Jack, "Thank you Jack."

Jack smiled slightly, "You're welcome Cart- Sam. What is up with you retiring though? Isn't that something I should do?"

"Jack, come here." Sam indicated a clearing a good way from the rest of the group.

Jack fallowed, confused. When Sam sat down on the grass he sat facing her, "Sam, what's wrong?"

Sam looked into his eyes and Jack saw that she looked like she was about to cry, "I don't want to do this anymore."

"What?" Jack had no idea what she was talking about.

"What is one deep dark secret of Jack O'Neill?" Sam said softly.

"One deep dark secret is that I am currently madly in love with my beautiful and wonderfully intelligent 2IC." Jack said just as softly, "Your turn."

Sam smiled softly, "I am in love with my extremely good looking commanding officer."

Jack pretended like he was hurt, "I think that Hammond's taken."

Sam was so surprised that she laughed through the tears that were making their way down her face, "I mean you Jack."

"I know. I just wanted to make you laugh." Jack pulled Sam into his lap.

"I want to quit so that we can be together." Sam said after a couple of min like that.

"No." Jack said quietly.

"I want to." Sam insisted.

"I'll retire. I'll ask Hammond if he can talk the President into letting me command the SGC as a civilian, like spacemonkey." Jack said.

"I don't want you to give up your career for me." Sam said.

"Sam, in a few years I'm going to have to retire from active duty anyway. Can you see me doing a desk job? The one job where I would die from boredom just by looking at the paperwork." Jack said, looking deep into Sam's eyes.

"I think that we should get back." Sam said, forcing herself getting up.

"Ya, as much as I hate to admit it, I think that Hammond might be looking for me." Jack said with a slight smile on his face.

"Come on. I'll have to explain to Daniel, Janet, AND Teal'c that I'm not getting married to Pete anymore." Sam said as she started walking.

"Something that I am VERY happy about." Jack said, not masking the joy in his voice.

"So am I, but you also need to go talk to Hammond." Sam reminded him.

"I know, but this is going to lead to a lot of paperwork, I just KNOW it." Jack said mock wincing.

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"Sir." Jack said coming over to Jacob and Hammond.

"Jack, you can call us by our names now that we are of similar rank." Hammond said good-naturedly.

"Sorry. I was just wondering if I could talk to you about my retirement." Jack said with his patented 'Jack wants something' smile on his face.

"Sure, what about it?" Jacob had a sinking feeling that this was somehow tied to Sam. Why can't life be simpler? Why does it have to be so damn complicated?

"I want to retire." Jack looked at Hammond.

"As in?"

"Now, but I would like to have a civilian job like Daniel." Hammond gave him a look, "Well, not exactly like Daniel's but you get the meaning."

"I know what you're talking about. May I ask why you want to retire?" Hammond looked briefly at Jacob.

"I want to be with Sam. I love her and, with Jake's permission, want to marry her." Jack looked expectantly at Jacob.

"I won't stand in your way. If Sammie wants to marry you than you have my permission." Jacob looked directly into Jack's eyes, "If you hurt her though, there is nowhere in this universe that you can hide where I won't find you."

"Don't worry. I would die before hurting Sam." Jack said with a smile.

"Good luck son." Hammond said before going over to the President with Jack's offer.

"JACK!" Daniel came running over.

"What Daniel?" Jack said exasperated.

"Tell Vala to stop bugging Janet and me." Daniel said, sounding like a five year-old.

"Daniel, you sound like you're five. Go tell her yourself." Jack said going to find Sam.

"BUT SHE WON'T LISTEN!" Daniel yelled.

Sam was talking with Teal'c when Jack found her, "What's up with Daniel?"

"I do believe that Vala Malderan is currently annoying Daniel Jackson." Teal'c replied in his Jaffa manner.

"DANIEL! I know you want me!" Vala was chasing Daniel around with a squirt gun.

Janet was running after Vala with a Zat gun firing wildly, "GET BACK HERE YOU SLUT!"

Everyone was laughing at their antics, at least until some people got hit. After Vala went down Janet went over to Daniel and started making out. Many whistles and calls came from all the personal since their families didn't get what was so interesting.

Then Jack cut the music and went up on the stage to announce the winners of all the contests and give them their prizes.

"Testing, Testing, one, two, one, two, testing, is this thing on?"

"Jack, the mikes on." Janet yelled from the crowd.

"Thank you Dr. Fraiser." Jack yelled back at her, ignoring the laughs from the SG-3 marines.

"I want to congratulate everyone who took time away from their busy schedules to help out with making this thing great." Jack paused, "I want to personally thank General Hammond and General Carter for talking the president into coming as well."

Heads snapped around to look at the President of the United States.

Jack continued, "The winners for the Ultimate Tug of War are…… the wives of Sg's 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 12, and 15. Ladies you each get $200!" everyone applauded as 32 women collected their prize, "Now all the team's who won a game will get 1 week of downtime for every game won. That means that Sg-1 gets 2 weeks, although Carter you and me get 4 weeks off, Sg-3 gets 1 week, and Fraiser gets one as well!" Jack set down the microphone and tried to walk off the stage when Walter motioned for him to announce the next one, when Jack didn't get it he came up,

"General O'Neill, you have one more prize to collect."

Jack came back up looking skeptical, "Really Walter?"

"Of coarse, but first I would like for all of you to let me explain what he is winning." Everyone got comfortable then Walter continued, "Now the General let the Science and Tech. Departments create a……contest if you will, if they could get at least 9 people to volunteer to help cook all this wonderful food. We got 23 volunteers. When I was drafted to create the contest I had a hard time finding one that suited everyone, so I did one that would suit only two. The contest was if Jack would get Sam to break up with her fiancé Pete." Some of the scientists were furious, "And since most everyone has some amount of money in the SGC betting pool, this is fair. So the General and the Colonel now get to choose a date for their prize."

During Walter's speech Jack had gotten Sam up on the stage, taking the microphone, "I have made up my mind on who I want to go on the date with." Pausing dramatically Jack could see many personal crossing their fingers and visually praying, "Sam, would you go out with me?"

Sam walked up to Jack and kissed him. When they parted Jack had dropped the microphone, "I guess that's a yes."

Sam started giggling.

"No giggling Colonel." Jack whispered. Sam just giggled harder. Jack grabbed the microphone again, "General Hammond, I'm retiring. Effective immediately."

Many of the officers were cheering because their favorite couple had finally found happiness. Daniel was forking over some money to Jacob who had a smug look on his face, which diminished when he handed Teal'c the money. Hammond was handing money over to Walter and Siler looking like he had never been so happy to get rid of money. All over the crowd people were losing money, gaining money, and laughing at the expressions of the people losing money.

Jack and Sam couldn't care less because Daniel had turned the music back on and they were dancing in each others arms. Life was good, and for right now, nothing could ruin this moment.

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I want to thank all of my loyal reviewers, your opinions matter to me a lot. School is starting up for me so that means I can't update as often as I have been, which is not that quickly I know. So if you could all tell me if I should write the date for Sam and Jack or just memo it to Janet, I would appreciate your voices on this matter. Also, who should Daniel marry, Janet or Vala.

This is not over yet so don't worry.

-Amelia (yes this is my real name)

Note: Also I would like to point out some things that have been making me think:

- how do we know that Jack likes the Simpsons

- how do we know that Sam hates the Simpsons

- Jack was actually spouting Latin when he had the Ancient's knowledge downloaded into his brain (I have a Latin dictionary)

- does Vala really like Daniel and does he like her

- why won't they make a episode where Duplicate O'Neill comes back and we all see how he had fit in as a 15 year-old (but he'd actually be 18 in season 10)

Thank you and if you could please explain to me why so many people are filling in the blanks (my opinion) with things that are not really in the show. Also please don't review just so that you can criticize my writing my email address is: . Write me that way and speak your mind, although it doesn't mean that I will reply, since I don't have that kind of time. Now I have a hyperdrive to fix and a reactor to build, have fun and don't kill me for writing how I have. Good night and good luck.

Thanks again,

Amelia