"Hey, Sam!" Jennifer said when she entered Sam's quarters holding a bag in her hand.
"Hey Jennifer, I hope you don't mind but Teyla is coming too.
"Oh that's fine of course, does that mean that Col. Sheppard asked her out?" Jennifer asked?
" Honestly, I don't know. So what's in the bag?" Sam asked and a second later the door chimed.
"Three different dresses. I needed to make sure that I'm wearing the best dress for tonight. I also have a dress for you that will definitely knock the socks off that general of yours."
Sam opened the door and said "For the last time he's not my general! Hey Teyla."
"Hey Sam, I have to agree with Jennifer, he does seem to spend a lot of time with you." Teyla said while she entered the room.
"Hey Teyla." Jennifer greeted her. "Two against one means he is your general." Jennifer added with a smug grin on her face.
"Well just shut up about it." Sam said blushing. She felt like a high school girl getting ready for prom. "By the way, how exactly did Rodney ask you out? Where was he babbling about?" She quickly changed the subject.
"Well I went to see him in his office because he was supposed to have updated the MRI-scan program and then he just started rambling on about if I had nothing to do, and not that he thought I had nothing to do. So I just asked him to get to the point." Sam and Teyla just started giggling as Jennifer turned red. "I hope he'll be himself again tonight."
"I'm certain he will be himself, that will probably mean talking about his many science projects." Teyla said.
"Hey, science is an interesting subject." Sam said.
"Yeah but you have the luck that Jack listens to it because he thinks it's cute!" Jennifer said.
"What? No way! He usually zips or ahs me and snaps with his fingers to make me stop." Sam said while blushing.
"That is probably because he can't stop his eyes from fixating entirely on you." Teyla said.
"That would be inappropriate and John told me that there are certain rules and that if anyone noticed his behaviour that you both could get serious problems."
"Well yeah, that's why you two have to stop calling Jack my general, we could get in trouble for it, and speaking of John, did he ask you out or what?" Sam asked.
"Yeah spill it!" Jennifer said.
"Well I don't really know if it means anything" Teyla said.
"What do you mean, what exactly did he say?" Jennifer asked quickly.
You're really enjoying this aren't you?" Sam asked?
"Well, I was done with high school when I was 15 and I put all my time after that into studying to get my doctorate… So I kind of missed out on this." Jennifer said to Sam and she turned her head back to Teyla.
"Well, we were on our way back from training, and we stood in front off his office. He asked me if I had someone to go to the party with. So I said no and that I would just go and meet people there. He asked if he could swing by and pick me up so we could go together. I do not know what that means, I mean Athosian customs are so different. Are his intentions purely friendly?" Teyla asked looking from Sam to Jennifer and back.
"Jeez, John has had a crush on you since first time he met you. Ronon told me about it. Last year when you almost got killed by that explosion. It really hit him." Jennifer said.
"I get that. When someone you love gets hurt you finally notice how much you care about that person." Sam said with a sad face.
"Wow, where did that come from, how often did that happen to you?" Jennifer asked when she saw Sam's face.
"You guys are both alive, so that's a good thing." She said hoping to keep the conversation from becoming too depressive.
"Well, he actually died once. And a second after that I died too. In the eight years that we worked together it happened too often. He was stuck at a planet, was transported to another planet, shot by the Jaffa, got the ancient knowledge downloaded into his mind. The Tok'ra once thought that we were Za'tarcs and so forth. But he kept coming back. We kept coming back." Sam said.
"Look Teyla I've known John for eight months now, he feels more than just respect for you."
"Teyla you saw Sam and Jack this morning at breakfast right?" Jennifer asked. "You remember where we talked about, how they looked at each other?"
"Yes, of course." Teyla said.
"Wait, you guys spend your breakfast spying on us, was that why half off the Atlantis staff that's transferred from the SGC was there?" Sam asked.
"Duh! Come on Sam, like you said, you've worked for eight years together and Jack left the SGC three years ago. That didn't change you feelings and everybody is hoping that something is finally going to happen. But Teyla the way Jack looks at Sam is the same way John looks at you!"
"Oh." Was all Teyla could say blushing.
"Jennifer, nothing can happen between us, because of the regulations. One of us has to retire if something could happen and neither of us is going to let the other to that." Sam said.
"Hey, you guys are going to the party together. It's a date, maybe not officially but it is. Now it's already seven, so show me the dresses that you have in that closet of yours and I'll show you mine." Jennifer said. "Maybe I'll pick one of yours." She added.
Sam looked at Jennifer with a big grin on her face. She turned her face to Teyla next and she saw that she was still blushing and all three just started to laugh. Sam moved to her closet and grabbed the dresses she had in there and threw them on her bed. They all started to choose a dress.
Jack sat down on his bed when he came back from his conversation with John. He was thinking about what to wear. He didn't expect to have a party so he didn't have that much clothing with him. He would just have to do with what he had. When he stood up to get a shower first he heard laughter coming from Sam's quarter.