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Jack drove them to a quiet place away from any major roads or towns where they could just sit for a while and think, he took a blanket from the back of his truck and spread it on the ground inviting her to sit beside him.

She took his hand and leant back against him.

I was completely out of order Sir, I am sorry.

Don't be we were both as bad as one another

But Sir that's really not the point, I have no right to question a single word that you say, your my CO if you tell me to do something that should be it no questions asked. There's CO's who would have given me a court-martial for a fraction of the things I said to you before, and over the last few years, I must have earned myself hundreds.

Hey, Sam aren't you forgetting something, i'm your best friend as well as your CO, it doesn't work like it would if I was a different CO or you were a different 2IC, the whole of SG-1 even though we don't go on missions any more we're still family, so you really think for a second that I would give you a court martial for...anything, anything at all? I'm serious Sam, unless you really went AWOL, I know that you respect me and the chain of command and that's enough for me.

Why just me though sir, you wouldn't treat anyone else like that, give them a thousand chances, allow them to yell at you, hell sir you don't even let Daniel yell at you.

Sam, do you really have to ask that? You deserve to me my superior several times over and you earn every little piece of leeway which I give you, you work harder than any other person on that base and you've saved the world more times than any of us can count. Now can you deal with the fact that I give you a little preferential treatment?

I suppose Jack.

Oh, Sam, I want you to know that within reason I don't want you to follow an order from me unless you one hundred percent agree with it, I don't mean question me in front of everyone but always feel able to take me to the side and discuss something with me, and never ever let me give you order when it comes to our friendship, ok?

Yes sir. Sam thought with a smile on her face, Jack smiled too and they turned to embrace one another, glad that the air had been cleared.

Maybe this mind thing isn't too bad after all. Thought Jack, Sam just grinned happy to have things resolved with her best friend.

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