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"Hey you, are you ready?" Jack said coming into her room.

"Yeah there wasn't anything I have to bring right?" She asked scared that she forgot something.

"Well yeah of course you have to bring something." He said with a grin on his face. How could she be so stupid to forget something. "You have to bring your crutches remember, otherwise I have to carry you again."

"Of course don't worry. Lets go" She said grabbing her crutches and walking out of her quarters. "So what is in the bag?" she asked.

Jack looked down at the bag and just said: "Breakfast, lunch and other food."

"Thank God, I'm starving. Did you bring cake?"she asked walking into the teleporter.

"Of course I brought cake, it's me your talking to!" Jack said.

"Hahah, just checking if Washington has changed you much Sir." Sam said.

"Washington can't change me there is only one person who changed me in my life, and she always wants cake. Jack said with a huge grin on his face. Sam started blushing again. "Well we're almost there, at least if we didn't get lost."

When the door to the pier opened Sam saw what Jack had put together for them, there was a small bench for them with some comfy pillows, a wind screen for the cold wind and maybe some shade for the afternoon, two fishing rods and everything else you need to fish and two rod holders so they didn't had to hold their rods all the time. "Wow Sir at what time did you get up, it must have taken you a few trips to get everything here." Sam said slowly sitting down on the bench looking out on the water. It was still dark, sunrise would probably be in about fifteen minutes.

"4 AM. Normally Teal'c would have given me a hand but this time it was all me." Jack said and he grabbed some foot support for Sam's leg. "There you go."

"Thanks. Tell me what did you bring for breakfast?" Sam asked smiling when Jack sat down beside her.

"Well I brought some sandwiches, some fruit and some milk. The rest is for lunch." Jack said while getting the stuff out of the bag.

When they had finished their breakfast and had their rods in their hands, Jack asked: "So how are you holding up?"

Sam didn't know what to say. She missed the SGC and SG-1 of course, and her home and calls to her brother. Her long talks to Jack every now and then. Since her arrive in Atlantis they only had about ten minutes on the phone that was patched trough by the SGC to Washington and a three minute conversation when he was at the SGC. But she was having such a good time because she had learned so much. "I'm doing okay I guess" She said.

"I wasn't talking about right now Carter, I mean here in Atlantis away from the SGC?" Jack said.

"I know what you meant but it's really hard to answer." Jack looked at her waiting for her to continue. " It's just so different, Daniel isn't here to help me translate something or to talk to when I'm doubting a decision. When I'm off world I don't have Cam or Teal'c to back me up in the field, Vala isn't here to annoy me when I need her to. And I don't have you just a phone call away. But I've made a lot of new discoveries. Made some new friends. Jennifer is great Sheppard and Lorne are great officers and I think I earned the trust of Teyla and Ronon, and McKay isn't half that bad here." Sam sighed not nowing what to say next.

Jack grabbed Sam's hand and said: "Daniel, Teal'c, Cam and Vala aren't going to walk away just because you're here. SG-1 is always there at the dial-in from Atlantis. So if you want to talk to them let Sheppard talk to Hank and ask if you can have a private talk to SG-1. And also your friends here aren't going to care if you want to talk to them. If it comes to me, I'm still just a phone call away, it just costs a little bit more. When you call and need me I'll be there. How did you think Jennifer got me here?"

"Well I don't know, how did she?" she asked curious, she immediately knew it was Jennifer that had gotten Jack here but when she toughed about it, how did she? She was far from mad at Jennifer because she got JACK HERE, and he was holding HER hand.

"She called me during the check in, that there was something wrong with you. If it's about you I would have walked out of any meeting. So I picked up the phone and she said that you wouldn't rest. Next thing I did was letting chief Hoven cancel al my appointments and called the SGC that I was going to do a surprise check-up in Atlantis. The rest you know." He said focussing on his rod but not letting go of her hand.

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After a long comfortable silence Jack asked: "Since I'm here on a check-up, is there any complains about any of the members, or are there people I can do a favor and transfer them back to the SGC, Area 51 or some other secret lab?"

Sam smiled and answerd: "Well there are a few who would like a transfer because they have children and a husband or wife at home. Some would like to be able to tell there family what they were doing here. You know what the most amazing thing is over here?" Jack just shook his head. "We got military teams from all over the world: America, Russia, France, England, China, the Netherlands, Canada, Kenia, Venezuela and more science teams from even more countries picked because they were smart, dedicated and not afraid to take a chance. Best of all they all work together of course there is an altercation once every while but still."

"You're really having fun over here isn't it?" he asked seeing the smile on Sam's face while she was thinking of the members of Atlantis.

"Yeah everyday something funny happens. About three weeks ago Sheppard made a comment to McKay about not having a good shot because he was too scared to look at what he was shooting. McKay said that it was that if he looked back he would probably trip. But the next day when I was on my way to my quarters I saw McKay all dressed up as a clown in front of Sheppard's door, When he opened his door all McKay said was "boo" and he walked back to his quarters but it scared the hell out of Sheppard since he is scared of clowns" Sam said and she started to laugh. Jack soon followed imagining Sheppard's face when he opened that door. Sam tried to stop laughing so she buried her face in to Jack's shoulder. When she finally stopped laughing she said: "The next day McKay opened his door and there was one lemon lying in front of his door." She started laughing again and kept her head on Jack's shoulder.