She knocked on the door, taking out her frustrations on it. "Janet! Open the door!"
Nobody answered. Finally, Sam sank down and sat on the front step. The tears continued to stream down her cheeks. Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill. United States Air Force Colonel. Commanding officer. The Fates had certainly conspired against her.
Janet Fraiser's car pulled into the driveway, but Sam didn't react. "Sam? What's wrong? Is Colonel O'Neill okay?"
She simply nodded.
Janet opened the door. "Come in." She hung up her jacket and started a pot of coffee. "What happened?"
"I found Jonathan today." She said, sinking onto the couch.
"I thought that would be a good thing. Is he married?" She asked, sympathetically.
Sam shook her head. "Nope."
"Then what's your problem?"
"He's unattainable!" She said, burying her head into her hands.
Janet just looked at her. "You can't be serious."
"Does this look like a joke to you?"
"Colonel O'Neill?"
She nodded. "Yes, Colonel O'Neill."
Janet closed her eyes in sympathetic anguish. "As if things couldn't get any more complicated between you two."
"Janet, it wouldn't have been complicated if I'd only known who he was. I would have requested reassignment, and that would have been the end of that."
"Do you really think he could have ever let you do that?" Janet asked, surprised.
"I don't know what to think anymore." Sam said, despondently. "All I know is that I know Jack O'Neill better than I ever thought I would."
Janet's curiosity was piqued, but she didn't say anything, afraid that any attempts at needling information from her forlorn friend would be sabotaged.
"I know that he prefers hand-pressed orange juice to coffee in the morning. I know that he likes to sleep with the window open. I know that he reads poetry in the morning to stimulate his mind." She choked on her tears. "I know that underneath his 'bravado,' he's a man who delights to romance a woman as much as she delights in him romancing her."
Janet just watched the sobbing woman still shocked with the news she had brought with her. Surely Colonel O'Neill was not the same man…
