Chapter Five: O'Malley's

Making their way over to where Sam had parked the car Janet walked up to the driver's side. "Keys Please!" She said to Sam, who rolled her eyes, then threw them over to her and walked over to the passenger side. They both got in and Sam looked over at Janet as she tried to get the key in the ignition.

"What are you doing?" She said as she raised an eyebrow.

"I hate the way I can never get these key in" She said annoyed.

"Be gentle" Sam said as Janet had another go. "You've just got to have the knack with it, Janet" Sam said as she leaned over to help.

"Ah, got it" Janet said as the key went in and she gently pushed Sam's hand away.

"Good" Sam said smiling and Janet started up the car and they took off in the direction of their next location. The radio humming away in the background.

Sam sat in the passenger seat and looked out the side window as Janet drove along.

"Something wrong?" Janet asked her friend.

"No, I was just thinking" Sam said as she turned around to face her friend.

"What about?" Janet asked.

"Nothing really, just how good it felt to be doing something different" She smiled and looked back to where they were heading.

"Told you, you need to get out of the mountain more often" Janet said and laughed.

"I know, and this is good, great actually, but you know me and my work" Sam said and Janet smiled.

"I do… And you work way too hard!" Janet replied.

"I know, but…" And she just shrugged. "Always have Janet" She added and Janet sighed.

"Yep, you have…" She replied. "You know these last past weeks have been hard on SG-1, especially you… With the incident on the Prometheus and then the Alpha site…" Sam sighed inwardly at Janet's words, that had been the last time she had seen her Dad and the last time she was going to be in a while too. "Hey… sorry" Janet said more friendly concerned tone.

"No, it's okay… I was just thinking about Dad" She replied.

"Yeah, you know it'll all be okay" Janet said as she gentle reached over and gave Sam's shoulder a light squeeze.

"Thanks Janet!" Sam said and they continued on in silence.

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About ten minutes later and Janet pulled into a car park spot and stopped the car. "Okay, we're here" She said and Sam turned to have a look and immediately started laughing.

"Janet we can't go in there" She said in between laughter.

"And why not?" Janet asked.

"Ah, because last time I was in there SG-1 got thrown out and told to never come back."

Janet sighed and shook her head. "Yeah, so…?" She said sarcastically.

"So I'm not supposed to go back in there" Sam argued.

"Well let's just take a chance and see if you're recognised!" Janet replied and Sam sighed. "What? I bet it was the Colonel and Daniel who started that fight anyway, and from what I heard, I wouldn't be far wrong" Janet continued. "Besides your hairs all different now they wouldn't recognise you"

Sam just looked over at her. "Fine!" She said as she started to get out of the car. "If we must" She added, Janet shook her head and got out too.

"Hey, we're here to have a little fun!" She said as she looked across at Sam.

"Whatever" Sam responded with a grin and they started up the stairs. "O'Malley's Bar and Grill it is!" Sam said as they made their way to the entrance and Janet just smiled.

"I said it was a surprise" She said quietly.

They walked through the door and up to the desk where a lady was standing.

"Hi, I'd like a table for two thanks!" Janet said and the lady looked down at the book in front of her and scanned the page. She stopped at a certain spot and ticked the page with her pen.

"Right this way, ladies?" She said as she walked out from behind the desk and showed them over to a table, right near the bar. The each sat down across from each other at the table and Janet carefully leant over.

"See? Wasn't that hard after all" She whispered. Sam just rolled her eyes and Janet leant back. "Besides, that was almost four years ago Sam" She added and Sam laughed slightly.

"You're right, it'll be alright… I hope" Sam replied.

"It will" Janet said back as she grabbed the menu. "And after that nice game at the Bowling Alley I am famished, could do with a nice juicy steak" Janet said as her eyes caught the Steak part of the menu.

Sam smiled at the memory of her, Daniel and the Colonel when they had snuck out of base for some steak, all thanks to those damn armbands. She remembered that encounter vividly and it embarrassed her, although she often wondered whether she could ever fluke a game of pool like that again. She laughed again and Janet looked across at her. "Sorry, was just reminiscing" She explained at Janet's confused look, Janet just nodded and went back to reading the menu.

"Seems like you guys had an eventful night!" She said and Sam laughed again.

"You could say that!" She replied and picked up the other menu on the table.

They both sat and read through the menus, the waiter had brought them over two glasses and a bottle of water, so they could drink while decided on what to eat. "I can't believe I had three steaks last time" Sam said and laughed and Janet almost choked.

"What?" She said and Sam blushed. "Last time we were here, we each had three steaks"

Janet looked at her. "You're kidding me right?" She asked and Sam shook her head.

"Nope" She said calmly.

"Wow, those armbands were definitely doing something to your system" She said and shook her head.

Focusing back on the menu, Sam just laughed again and looked back at her menu. A few minutes later and the waiter came over to their table.

"Good Evening ladies, may I take your order?" He asked politely, Janet looked over at Sam and winked and then took one last quick look at the menu and then turned to the waiter whilst placing the menu back on the table.

"I'll have a Steak with vegetables please…" She said then turned to Sam. "And my friend here will have…?" And Sam took another quick look at the menu before placing it on top of the other one.

"Just a salad for me, not that hungry tonight" Sam said to the waiter and smiled as he nodded and jotted it down on his pad.

"Sam!" Janet said sternly and she turned to look at her, Janet just shook her head and turned back to the waiter. "She'll have the same as me, thanks" Janet said and he crossed what he had previously written out and added the new one.

"Okay, so that's two steaks with vegetables?" He half asked and they each nodded. "May I interest you in anything to drink?" He asked them and handed Janet a drink menu, as he picked the other two off the table. Janet browsed over it quickly then looked back up.

"Ah, yes, we will have a bottle of Chiraz too, thanks" She said and smiled at him as she handed him back the menu.

"Okay then I'll be back in a few minutes with that bottle for you" He said and turned and walked off.

Janet then turned back to Sam and smiled; Sam just shook her head and smiled back.

"What?" Janet asked.

"Nothing…" Sam said and grinned. "You're funny to watch Janet!" Sam added and grinned wider.

"What?" Janet said grinning back. "You and your flirting attempts, it's so entertaining" Sam said and grinned again, Janet just laughed and shook her head.

"Oh that… I can try can't I?" She said and they both laughed.

"You're unbelievable" Sam said and turned to take a quick glance around the room, seeing who else occupied the restaurant. There was a big table set up further down the back and there were what seemed to be a few families, they were celebrating a birthday, as the waiter had just brought out a cake and they were all singing 'Happy Birthday'.

There were other tables occupied too, at one table there was a family sitting there having a meal. Mum, Dad and what seemed to be identical twin boys, they were only young and Sam could see that there parents were teaching them the appropriate way to eat while they were out, she smiled as she watched.

"What?" Janet asked noticing Sam's smile.

"Nothing, I was just watching…" Sam said and Janet raised an eyebrow. "The family over there" She said as she nodded in their direction. Janet subtly turned to look and then turned back a grin on her face.

"What gorgeous little boys" She said still grinning.

"Yeah" Sam replied.

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A few moments later and the waiter returned with a bottle of wine. "Here we go ma'am" He said politely and Janet smiled at him as he began to pour the red wine into her glass.

"Thank-you" Janet said as he finished pouring hers and started on Sam's. Sam looked across at Janet and grinned and Janet just subtly shrugged.

"Thanks" Sam said as he finished pouring hers, Janet was already sipping away at her glass and Sam picked her own one up as well.

"This is very nice wine" Janet complimented as she took another dip and the waiter turned back to face her.

"Yes, it is a new one to our collection; so far we have been getting very positive responses from our customers" He informed them as Sam took a sip of her own glass, she honestly wasn't much of a wine drinker.

"Well, you should definitely keep it on your list as it is very enjoyable" Janet replied with a smile and the waiter nicely placed the bottle on the table and nodded as he walked off. Janet turned back to Sam a grin on her face. "So how was that?" She asked and Sam rolled her eyes.

"I thought it was quite… superb" Janet said and they both laughed.

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They had been sitting there for well over twenty minutes before their meals arrived, delivered to them by a young waitress.

"Two steaks?" The lady half asked as she held up the plates.

"Yep, that's us" Janet replied as she moved her hands out of the way for the lady to put the plate down.

"Thanks" Janet said and picked up her knife and fork as the lady went and put down Sam's plate too.

"Thanks" Sam repeated Janet's previous acknowledgement.

"Now, can I get you anything else, whilst I'm here?" The waitress asked.

"No thanks" Janet replied and the waitress nodded and then walked off. Janet looked down at her plate, the steaks were huge and took up almost half of the plate.

"Wow… Big Steak!" She said and Sam nodded.

"I know!" She said smiling, Janet looked back over at her and shook her head.

"Still can't believe you had three of these" She said and Sam just shrugged and picked up her knife and fork.

"I was hungry at the time" She said before she took her first bite.

Janet finished eating first and as she looked up from her plate and over at Sam's she could see that half of it was left and Sam was fiddling with the rest with her fork.

"Sam!" Janet said slightly concerned and Sam looked up.

"I said I wasn't that hungry" She replied.

"Sam, that's probably all you've eaten all day… Am I right?" Janet asked accusingly and Sam had to actually think about it, which Janet noticed.

"See? You can't even remember the last time you ate!" She said as her voice raised slightly, although was still quiet enough as to not arouse any unwanted attention. Sam just looked down and shook her head slightly. "Come on Sam, you gotta start eating properly or you're going to make yourself sick" Janet said and Sam looked back at her looking slightly embarrassed. "And I'm saying this as a friend as well as your doctor!"

Sam just nodded slightly. "I know, I'm just really not that hungry, Janet!" Sam replied as she dropped her fork onto the plate.

"Just finish what you've got… Or at least the steak… Then we can go if that's what you want" Janet said.

"Fine" Sam said slightly sarcastic and picked her fork back up and continued eating, Janet just shook her head as she watched.

While waiting for Sam to finish eating Janet had decided to order herself some desert, a nice piece of cheese cake, which went down superbly with the wine they were drinking, that being Janet's second glass.

"Finished" Sam said as she shoved the last bit of Steak into her mouth.

"Good, now that wasn't too bad was it?" Janet asked and Sam rolled her eyes.

"No Janet, it wasn't" She replied sarcastically.

"So you ready to go now?" Janet asked.

"I suppose" Sam replied.

"Good where to now?" Janet asked as she called for the waiter to bring them their bill and then turned back to Sam who smiled.

"I was thinking of home actually" She said and Janet frowned.

"Home? Already?" She asked slightly disappointed.

"Yep… But not of course before we have a visit to the Video Store" Sam said with a smile and Janet grinned.

"Good plan!" She said and took one last sip of her drink.