"Yeah, sure." She said curiously. She took her crutches and followed him.
"Where're we going?" She asked.
"Oh just outside." Jack said while he walked up to the balcony. They stopped at the outer edge of the balcony with a smashing view of the southern pier.
"So, what's going on you said it was important is everything all right?" Sam asked.
"No, everything is just fine, I promise. Everything is more than fine. I wanted to talk to you about some stuff. Since it's past eleven I can finally tell you." Jack said.
"What the are you talking about?" Sam was really confused now.
"Well, the call I made to the president this morning, wasn't really about the check-up." Jack said looking over his shoulder to the party for a few seconds before he started talking again.
"I asked for my retirement and.." but Jack couldn't say anymore because Sam interrupted him.
A jolt of happiness went trough Sam. He retired! Wait. No they needed him he can't retire.
"Jack no, Earth needs you. You can't retire. Why the hell would you do that. Your a great general, you tactics are needed when some Goa'uld or the Ori or other alien comes to take over Earth!"
"Yeah, well apparently the presidents agrees with you for some kind of weird reason." He said.
"I just wanted to stay here with you, I know it took us so long to get here, but the Jaffa are free, the Ori are gone. There is no reason for us to be apart. But the president wouldn't let me retire." Jack continued.
"Oh" was all Sam said. 'Why is he telling me this? To make me feel better? Well great, now he's willing to retire and then they won't let him.'
"Yeah well, he had about the same arguments that you had for not letting me retire and he said that my meetings were kind of a relieve every now and then from all the paper pushing politics. So, I told him that he could start making the preparations for my court-martial because I kind of had with the regulations and..." Again Jack couldn't finish what he was going to say.
"What, no! You can't go to jail for this that is stupid! It's not worth it." Sam said. She couldn't let him get to jail, that wasn't worth it, She wasn't worth it.
"I'm not worth it."
"Ah for crying out loud, of course your worth it, your the smartest most beautiful woman I ever met, you are amazing, but could you please just let me finish what I was going to say."
"No, no, don't..." Sam said but she couldn't finish because Jack had enough. He wanted her to shut up so he bent his head down and kissed her for just a second. Sam was so confused she just looked up at him, her eyes wide in shock.
"Now Sam, let me finish. The president figured that with a court-martial he would lose me anyway. So instead of pushing the paperwork for a court-martial he decided that he would make an exception for us, with a presidential pardon. He told me that the papers would be done by eleven tonight, and since that was ten minutes ago I can do this again." Jack said lowering his lips to hers. This time the kiss lasted a little bit longer, well a whole lot longer.
Okay so this is it, I'm planning to write an epilogue, Is there anything you guys want to see in it?