This vignette takes place shortly after Jack and Sam finally get engaged.

VISITING SAM

Jack's Pentagon meeting had ended at 2100 hours leaving him frustrated and ready to take someone's head off. He'd started to head home and realized how empty the house was. A better idea quickly occurred to him and he'd headed out to the airfield.

At 0300, Major General Jack O'Neill arrived at Cheyenne Mountain, startling a sleep deprived twenty-three year old airman with his sudden appearance. The General had arrived on the spur of the moment, chauffeured, all too formally for his liking, by a young lady from the motor pool, who had met him at Peterson.

He knew he'd arrive in the Springs pretty late but was sure Sam wouldn't mind. They'd been engaged all of forty-eight hours and separated all of twenty-four since he'd returned to Washington from their marvelous weekend together. For Jack, that was way too long a separation.

Jack headed immediately for Sam's lab. She'd called him about 2030 hours – she was lonely too—and let him know she'd be working all night. She'd added that she'd be thinking of him all the time she was working. She just hoped she'd be able to concentrate on the naquadah reactor and not blow something up because she was so distracted!

On his way, Jack ran head on into Daniel who had also stayed on base, working on a translation.

"Daniel, what are you doing here? It's the middle of the night. Ever hear of the phrase, 'Get a life'?"

"Pretty strange coming from you whose home is, what, a few hundred miles from here."

"Not so strange. See, I got a life… she happens to be here in this mountain at the moment. She works too damn hard. Therefore…"

"Jack?" queried a surprised voice rounding the corner.

"Hey, there she is." Conscious of the security cameras, Jack broke into a huge grin and suppressed his natural inclination to pick Sam up and twirl her around in his arms.

"Hi. How did you…?"

"I've got two stars now, remember. That goes a long way on getting emergency transportation in the middle of the night. Besides, where there's a will there's a way."

"I thought you hated clichés?"

Wrapping his arm loosely around his fiancée's waist, Jack quipped, "For you, I'll make an exception, in fact just about any exception you want. Now how about we go get some cake and then I'll help you fix that reactor."

"Sounds like a plan." Sam beamed back at him.

With that, Jack and Sam headed off, arm in arm, to the cafeteria; Daniel and Teal'c returned to their respective projects chuckling at the twist of fate that had finally smiled on their friends.