"Have you talked to Jack?" Vala asked Sam as they were spending their last night together as strictly friends.

"Vala…"

"Did you talk to him?"

"What do I say?"

"How about 'I love you?' That should at least get him to open the door for you." Vala smiled at Sam.

-o-o-o-

Jack answered the knock at the door. It had only been two weeks since he had given up the desk, and stress of Washington. Only a few people knew where he was.

It was Sam. He invited her in and asked her if she wanted something to drink. She followed him into the kitchen. She leaned against the counter, slowly sipping on a glass of water.

Jack stood there looking at her.

"I feel like I should say something." Sam started. "But I don't know what."

"Okay. Why are you here?" Jack asked; his voice had an edge to it.

"I don't know." She looked everywhere but at him.

"Drove out all this way to say hi?"

"Something like that." She looked at him. "Jack." Her voice trailed off.

"What Carter?"

"You have every right to be upset with me."

"Oh, I'm not upset. I'm just done trying."

She closed her eyes to hold back the tears that were starting to form in her eyes. "I'm too late."

"Listen Sam," he started taking a step closer to her, "I love you. I have loved you for a long time. And you know that."

She opened her eyes and looked at him as he continued.

"But I don't know how to make things right with you. I don't understand how I am supposed to fix it."

"Jack… I love you too."

They stood there, sharing a very uncomfortable silence.

"This has been hard for me too." She whispered. "What if you decide you're not worth it again? What if you decide I'm not worth it?"

"Sam, you have always been worth it."

"Have I? Really? Because if I was… you wouldn't have pushed me away."

"Sam… I told you. I told you why I did that."

"And what if something else comes up? Are you going to do that same thing?"

"I did what was best."

"Best for whom, Jack?"

"You think that was easy for me? Do you?" His shouted the questions at her. "Sam, I had gotten you. Finally gotten you, and I had to let you go!"

"You didn't have too!" She yelled back at him. "I didn't have to go anywhere. You talk about how hard it was for you, how much it hurt you, but damn it Jack…" she looked away from him, her voice becoming barely audible. "You broke my heart."

She turned back and looked at him. And that is how minutes passed, the two of them just looking at each other.

"Jack…" she started, her voice choked with emotion, "I love you..."

"But."

"But." Sam said.

"I can promise you, with everything I have in me Samantha, I won't do it again. But you have to give me the chance to prove that to you. If you can't…" Jack's voice trailed off. He took a step closer to her. Her breath caught in her throat. He reached up and drew his finger down her cheek.

"I don't want to imagine a life without you." She whispered.

Jack pulled Sam into him and held her close. She clung to him, as if she let go of him he would disappear.

He leaned down and kissed her. It was soft. She was cautious at first, but she gave in. After all, this was Jack.

Her Jack…

And his Sam…

A/N: Ta Da!

Don't hold back… tell me how you really feel!

Again… I want to thank my Beta Slidell one more time. She rocks!