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sorry it's been a while since the last update, but here you go :)

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Sam was so excited by the time she made it back to her room that night she could hardly stand it. She couldn't think of a better day in her whole life. She got to spend nearly the whole day with Jack, lucky enough to have had him pretty much to herself and she was sure now, by the way he had treated her today that he most definitely didn't think of her as a kid anymore. She flopped back on her bed and grinned stupidly up at the ceiling remembering the best parts.

She didn't think it could get any better than going up in the air with him, and even now she admitted that the thrill of flying, especially with him was hard to beat. She couldn't believe it when he had actually let her take the controls for a little while.

Then they had landed and she had expected him to shoo her from the cockpit so that the next person could have their go, but to both their surprise the other guys that were supposed to go up today were on a punishment duty because they'd been caught with a bottle of vodka behind the hanger.

Jack rolled his eyes when the duty sergeant told him the news.

"Dumbasses!" He exclaimed shaking his head.

The sergeant laughed. "Yeah they could at least have had the good sense not to get caught."

Sam snorted. "That lot wouldn't have enough sense between them to make change for a dollar!"

The sergeant raised his eyebrows and Jack burst out laughing.

"Well it looks like you've got the rest of the day off anyway Captain," the sergeant said after a moment.

"What? You mean all of them..."

The sergeant nodded. "All of them," he confirmed. "At least all the ones that you were scheduled to take up today that is."

Jack sighed as he watched the sergeant walk away to tend his duties before he turned to look down at Sam. "So what are you up to for the rest of the day?"

"They only really scheduled the flight with you today," she replied.

"So?" He asked again.

Sam shrugged a little self consciously. "I was going to go over the theory stuff about aeronautics and astrophysics they gave us."

Jack threw back his head. "Boring!" He intoned.

"Hey I'm interested in all that boring stuff!" Sam replied a little sharper than she'd intended. When Jack gave her a look she hastily added "Sir..."

"Well if you'd rather spend the rest of this glorious day," he motioned at their surroundings with outstretched arms. "...with your nose stuck in a book down here..." he then pointed skyward. "Than spend the day with your head in the clouds up there...there's not much I can do about it," he finished sadly.

Sam's eyes widened as she realised what he was saying. "You mean..."

"That I was going to take you flying again?" He asked. "Yep! But since you don't want to go..." He threw his hands in the air and started to walk off towards the hangers.

Sam thought for only a moment before she followed hot on his heels. "But that was just what I was planning on doing when I didn't think I'd have anything else to do!" She explained.

Jack shook his head as he kept walking. "Hey Carter," he replied. "Whatever floats your boat..."

"Jack, please," she pleaded running so she could move in front of him.

Jack came to a stop and pretended to consider her plea, never having any intention of not taking her flying again today. "Well I'm not sure how I feel about being categorised as 'anything else'..."

At the almost desperate look on her face he couldn't continue teasing her any longer.

He sighed dramatically. "Oh alright then..."

Sam squealed and flung her arms around his neck. Oh my goodness! I just squealed like a girl! I've never squealed before...

Jack cleared his throat. "Ah Carter?"

At Jacks words Sam suddenly realised what she was doing and who she was doing it to. Hastily she jumped back away from him. "Sorry Sir," she replied, unable to keep the smile from her face for long.

As she stepped away from him Jack hated to admit that he missed the contact. Get a grip here Jack...

"So we're going back up?" Sam asked breaking into Jacks thoughts.

"Yep!"

She started walking back towards the old fighter they had just landed.

"Hey Carter," Jack called after her. When she turned back to look at him he continued. "Go get something to eat and I'll come find you."

"But..."

"Ah!" He interrupted. "I need to take care of something first and I also need pie before I get back into a plane!"

Sam smiled at that remembering how when she was younger Jack had saved extra pie for her at space camp. "Okay," she replied as she headed off towards the mess hall.

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"I didn't think you were ever coming," Sam complained when Jack finally sat down with her to eat his pie.

He looked at his watch. "Jeez Carter! It's only been thirty minutes..."

Sam looked suitably abashed knowing that he was doing her a favour by taking her up again today.

When they finally left the mess after Jack had finished his third piece of pie Sam started walking towards where they had left the old fighter plane only to notice it was gone. "Hey someone's put it away!"

Jack smiled as he walked off in the other direction.

Sam followed him after a moment. "Where are we going?"

Jack just turned and look back at her not answering,

After a few more minutes walking Jack stopped and beamed down at his young friend.

Sam looked up to him and shrugged. "What? I don't get it."

Jack rolled his eyes and gestured towards the jet sitting on the Tarmac about 100 feet from them.

Sam was quiet for a moment as she digested what this meant. "You mean we're going up in that?"

"Yep," Jack couldn't help but grin at the completely astonished look on her face. Though he well knew that this specially designed F15 that was fitted out for training purposes was not usually...well ever...used to take up kids that were attending this camp.

She turned her eyes to him. "But how did you..."

Jack shrugged. "Ah you know how it goes...I know a guy who knows a guy..." He made it sound as if it were no big deal when it fact it had been an extremely big deal for him to get permission to do this. He actually thought they were on the verge of saying no when they asked who he wanted to take up. After that they made a relatively quick phone call and he was given the all clear to take Carter flying in a real fighter jet.

"Thank you Jack," she said looking almost reverently at the plane.

"You're welcome Carter," he replied softly, thinking the look on her face when she realised she was going up in the jet was worth ten times the trouble he had gone to.

Jack repeated the process of strapping Sam in to her harness before putting the helmet on her head.

"You won't need the mask for oxygen but you will need to place it near your mouth for Comms so we can talk."

Sam nodded listening earnestly to everything Jack said. Even his close proximity to her when he'd been fastening her harness had taken a back seat compared to the thrill she was feeling at the anticipation of this flight.

"All good?" He asked then.

Sam grinned at him and nodded. "Yep."

Jack climbed into the cockpit behind her as he'd done earlier in the older plane, though they were sitting closer as there wasn't as much room in this retrofitted cockpit. He fastened his harness and fitted his own helmet to his head. Pulling the mask around to his mouth he keyed the Comms. "You ready for this?"

"Oh yeah!" Sam replied.

Jack laughed before getting on with business. He started the engine and ran through all his preflight checks saying them in to the mic for Carters benefit. Then he contacted the control tower and when they told him he was clear for takeoff the jet started to move. He grinned stupidly when he heard a "woo hoo" issue loudly from the front seat.

"Just wait until you get up there Carter," Jack said to her.

"This is so awesome Jack I can't believe it! I know all the specs of an actual F15, but how does this one compare?" She asked him as they taxied along the runway.

"This my dear Carter started life on the assembly line as an actual combat spec plane," Jack smiled when he heard Sam's gasp. "Then the Air Force retrofitted it for training. So it pretty much has all the bells and whistles."

"Woo hoo!" Sam hollered again as Jack pushed forward on the throttle and they were forced back in their seats.

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hope you enjoyed. Thanks for the reviews I appreciate them all :) won't be too long before the next chapter