Interruptions

Chapter Two

Sam sat back comfortably in her chair at the restaurant that Jack had taken her too. She was having fun, however it had not all gone how she'd expected. Sam had been expecting a romantic dinner, just her and Jack. But somehow the rest of SG1 had managed to get themselves invited too. Sure, she was enjoying herself, but she had hoped for some time alone with Jack.

"What do you think, Sam?" Daniel Jackson's voice cut through Sam's thoughts.

"Sorry, what?"

Daniel chuckled. "I said, there are some advantages to working at an air-force base. What do you think?"

"Well, I've had more experience than you with working on an air-force base. I think it depends on what base you work at. The one where we are is the best I've ever been at." Sam answered.

"I agree." Said Cameron Mitchell. "I've had some dodgy bases, and some even dodgier CO's." He grinned. "General Landry's pretty cool."

"General Hammond was the best CO I've ever served under." Sam said.

"Agreed." Said Jack.

"Mmm hmm." Daniel said as he took a drink from his glass.

Teal'c inclined his head, a gesture of agreement.

"Though, General O'Neill… now there was a CO who was hard to please." Sam said, a twinkle in her eye.

Daniel nodded. "Very hard to please."

"General O'Neill? Wait, isn't that…?" Vala looked from Sam, to Jack, who smiled, to Daniel, who was grinning. "Oh… oh I get it! Good one!" Vala laughed.

Everyone else at the table chuckle, except Teal'c, who smiled in his own way.

Sam stood up. "Excuse me." She said, then she walked to the bathroom.

She looked at herself in the mirror and sighed, before exiting and walking into someone.

"Oh I'm sorry." She looked up. "Sir!"

"Carter." Jack replied. He made no move to stand out of Sam's way. "Are you okay?"

"What do you mean?" Sam asked in reply.

"You seem a bit out of it." Jack replied.

"Oh, well." Sam sighed. "When you invited me to dinner, I kinda expected it to be just you and me. I didn't realise you were inviting everyone else."

Jack smiled. "When I invited you to dinner, I intended for it to be just you and me."

"You did?" Sam blinked up at him in surprised.

"Yeah. I haven't spent any time with you in ages. I wanted to spend some quality time with just you."

Sam felt like she was melting. "I missed you."

Jack's hand came up to brush a strand of hair from Sam's face. "I missed you too." He smiled sweetly at her.

"So why did they come?" Sam asked, curious.

"Oh you know. Danny-boy found out we were going to dinner. So suggested he and Teal'c should come along. Sort of like old times." Jack chuckled. "Then when Vala found out that Daniel was coming, she just had to come along too. So I figured it would be nicer to invite Mitchell as well, so he didn't feel left out."

They looked over at the group. Vala had somehow managed to convince Daniel to let her feed him. She was now alternating between spooning mouthfuls of Tiramisu into her mouth and spooning mouthfuls into Daniel's mouth. Cameron was laughing at the two of them and Teal'c was being his stoic self.

"I love this." Sam said quietly.

"Love what?" Jack asked.

"We're a family. A big, crazy, dysfunctional family." Sam replied. "And I love it."

Jack surveyed her closely. "So do I. But you know what I love more?" He asked.

Sam looked up into his eyes. "What?"

Jack leant down and gave Sam a gentle kiss.

"You." He said simply.

After a short pause, Sam drew in a shaky breath. "Really?"

"Oh yeah." Jack replied.

Sam grinned shyly. "I love you too, Jack."

Jack grinned too. "I promise, tomorrow night I am taking you to dinner, just you and me. No interruptions."

Sam smiled. "I'm looking forward to it already."

Then they walked back to the table, hand in hand.