Chapter nine
Sam opened the door like she normally does every time, but she didn't close it right up, just in case her father came through the door in a hurry. She walked down the small hallway that led to her kitchen. She put her purse and keys down on the counter, then turned the answer phone on. There was only one message and it was from Mark. She then went to the fridge to get a drink out when she heard him.
"Hello Sam!" Sam stood up and tried to look shocked.
"Pete, what the hell are you doing in my house?"
"I was waiting for you. After what you did to me earlier, I thought I'll wait for you here."
"I'm calling the police!"
Sam tried to get to her phone, but Pete grabbed it out of her hands and threw it against the wall, making Sam jump.
"How many times have I told you the answer is no, I will not go out with you?"
"Why not, your brother talks about you all the time, and when I finally meet you, you are more!"
"Stop it right there Detective. I am not interested in you, I never have been and never will be!"
"There's someone else isn't there?" Then he reached for her, grabbing her left hand.
"Let go of me!"
"Who is he?"
"It is none of your damn business!" Then he saw a gold band on her finger.
"What is this, you're married?"
Pete was in shock. Sam managed to get away from him, rubbing her wrist from where he grabbed it.
"Get out of my house right now, Pete, and don't you ever come back here ever again!" Sam said, yelling at him. Then she managed to get the ring off her finger and slip it in to her pocket, without him knowing about it.
"Why didn't you tell me that you were married?"
"Because, as I said before, it is none of your damn business. Now get out, or I will call the police!" Then there was a knock at the door.
"Sam, are you home?" Jacob said, knowing what was going on.
"I'm in the kitchen." Jacob walked in to the kitchen area.
"Is everything ok? I heard you yelling from outside."
"Yeah, the Detective was just leaving."
"You… you were the one from in town, who are you, her husband?"
Sam bit her lip, trying not to laugh, but thinking about the reaction on Jack's face when he heard that one. Selmac would have been laughing inside Jacob's head with what just happened.
"Excuse me, Detective, do I look like her husband?"
Sam could see that her father was trying not to laugh.
"Well if you're not her husband, then who the hell are you?"
"That is none of your business, now, get out of my house!" Sam said, walking towards Pete with an angry look on her face. Pete just stood there.
Then Sam grabbed his arm the way he grabbed her earlier, pulling him to the door. He managed to lose Sam's grip soon as they reached the door.
Sam opened it to notice that Daniel and Teal'c were walking towards her house.
"Now, get out of my house right now! If you ever step foot on this property, I'll have you up on charges so fast, hopefully you will lose your job, now get out!" Sam said again, yelling.
She managed to push him out the door, when Daniel and Teal'c were walking up to her door.
"Hi Sam, we thought we'd come around to see if you were home," Daniel said.
"Oh hi, guys. Yeah come on in, how have things been?"
"Good, thanks. Is Jack here? We need to go over a few things we need for the trip tomorrow."
"Yeah, he is inside, come on in."
Pete just stood there looking at the two men as they walked inside her house, Sam looked at Pete.
"Now, if you will excuse me, I have guests waiting for me that I invited into the house, not broken into."
Then Sam slammed the door in his face. She moved down the small hall into her kitchen area. Teal'c waited in the room next to the door. He looked out the window behind the curtain to make sure that Pete left, which he did after a minute. Then Teal'c walked out to the kitchen area.
"He is gone, Major Carter."
"Thanks Teal'c, Daniel anything?"
Daniel used a device to locate any listening bugs and cameras in her house, just in case Pete planted any. While he was doing that, Sam went and opened the door to the laundry room where Jack was hiding out. She took one look in. to his brown eyes then started to cry, Jack wrapped his arms around her and hugged her, rubbing her back.
"Shh, it's ok, Sam, you did great out there," Jack said whispering into her ear.
Jacob walked in and saw them hugging and he could hear Sam crying. Jack saw Jacob and gave him a small nod, and then Jacob left them alone. Sam pulled back, wiping her tears away with back of her hand.
"Are you ok now?"
"Yeah I will be."
"Come on, let's go and see Dad."
Jack put his arm around Sam's shoulder as they both walked out to the kitchen area. Jack was just about to say something when Jacob put his finger to his lips, when that happened; they knew that Daniel has found some bugs. After about twenty minutes, both Daniel and Teal'c found twelve of them.
Sam got a container out and filled it with water, then grabbed the bugs and put them into the container and then into her freezer. When that was done, she went and sat down on the couch. The others followed her and all sat down. Jack sat next to Sam and held on to her hand.
" Thanks guys!"
"Hey, no problem, Jacob asked us to check it out just in case," Daniel said.
"Oh, ok thanks Dad."
"That's alright," then he started to laugh, everyone looked at him.
"Sorry kiddo, it's Selmac, she's reminding me about with the detective said, that's made her laugh!"
"What happened Sam?" Daniel asked.
"Pete thought that Dad was my husband!" They all started laughing, even Teal'c.
"You're joking Sam!"
"Nope, he still doesn't know who he is."
"God, I wish I was here to see that!"
"Daniel, you would have given it away ," Sam said. Then Sam 's cell phone rang, Jacob looked at it.
"It's George, would you like for me to answer it?"
"Yes ok, thanks."
"Ok, I'll go in to another room." Then Jacob answered the call while walking into another part of the house.
"Sam were you wearing the ring when he grabbed your hand?" Jack asked.
"Yeah, I was just trying it on, just before we arrived. I was just about to take it off when I was distracted when we were walking up the path, sorry."
"Hey, it's ok Sam, at least it was a shock for him anyway."
"Yeah, one thing though, I have to buy a new phone since he broke my cordless phone."
"You know, I was thinking when we get back, since I have a huge back yard, why don't we come back to this time and go to see the cops say at 17:20 hours, then we can make the complaint about him breaking into your house." Sam thought about it and smiled.
"Jack, that is a great idea, after all, we will be younger then. Then, when they talk to him, they will think he is nuts when he describes me."
"Yep, then they can send him to the nut house !"
"Ah Sam, what about the marriage?" Daniel asked.
"Well, about the time Jack here was retired, I was in a car accident, which left me in a coma for two weeks. When I came out of it, I didn't have any memories for the six months before then, even today I still get some flashes of memories just like with Jolinar."
"Is that true or are you making it up?" Jack asked.
"It is true, I was with her everyday sitting next to her bed till she came out of it." Jacob said as he walked into the lounge.
"What about you Jack?" Daniel asked.
"Well, I got myself drunk while I was in Washington after the first Abydos mission. I don't remember much about being there."
"When was that Jack?" Sam asked.
"September, why?" Sam smiled.
"Were you drunk, say about February the fourteenth?"
"Ah, yes, why?"
"You see I had a week off at that time, I went away somewhere, but I can't remember where. Just before I started back to work I had the accident."
"I see where you are going Sam, since you both don't remember what happened at that time, it would be a good idea to get married then," Daniel said.
"Yep, but we need to quickly change something while we are back in our past. We should get a safety deposit box in Las Vegas and leave the key where Dad can find it. Then when Dad finds the key but doesn't know what it is, he will have to speak to a friend who might know something about the key. then since he would have been on the move back then, you would of lost contact with him, right?" Sam said, looking at her father.
"Yeah, I know a guy who would have had contacts back then, but I don't know if he is still around or not."
"Jacob, give Hammond a call, he might be able to find out where the guy is today, that is if he is still alive."
"Good Idea Jack! While I'm talking to George, Sam, why don't you start packing?"
"Ok, Dad!"
Sam got up from the couch and headed to her bedroom to start packing for the next few days that they would be away. Jacob walked into the spare bedroom, Jack followed him in there. Jacob turned around to see Jack closing the door.
"Jacob, can I talk to you for a minute?"
"Sure, what is it Jack?"
"Well, for one, I would like your blessing for Sam's hand in marriage. You see, I do love her a lot, and I want to do the right thing by really asking her to marry me."
"I know you do love her Jack, I can see it in your eyes every time she is around, I also have seen it in her eyes as well, Jack. I know you are a good man and you will do anything for her. I have seen it time and time again, not just as her CO, but as Jack O'Neill. Selmac and I have little chats about you and Sam. She has seen it thousands of times before in lots of couples, and the hosts before me. She says that you two are different. She's not too sure what it is about you two. We see the way you love and care about one another as you have shown in the past couple of days. Even when we come to visit, we see Sam glowing every time, and we know that you have something to do with it. Selmac says go for it, but if you hurt her in anyway!"
"Hey, Jacob, Selmac, you two should know me by now. If I hurt Sam in any way, think about who would come after me and kick my ass and don't forget Doc's needles as well. Anyway, you know I won't hurt Sam, I love her too much."
"Ok, Jack, you have my blessing. I know that you will look after her."
"Thanks Jacob, anyway what do you think of this?"
Jack pulled out the ring box from his jacket pocket and opened it up for Jacob to have a look at it.
"Wow, Jack, it's beautiful, what stone is it, a sapphire?"
"Nope, blue topaz. It reminds me of the Stargate for one and remember when I first meet Sam, it was in December."
"Gee, I know Sam would love it."
"I know, when we were looking for wedding rings, I saw it there. After we had finally chosen our wedding rings, she had to pick up few things across the road. So, while she was there, I had another look at the ring and well, now you see it."
"Go on Jack, go and see her now while she is packing. I'll contact George, after all when we get back to the base, we all are going to be busy, that's including Sam."
"Ok, thanks Jacob, Selmac."
Jack closed the box with a smile on his face, before leaving the room. Even Jacob had a smile on his face.
Jack poked his head behind Sam's bedroom door, she had her back to him. Jack walked in and closed her door. When she heard her door close, she quickly spun around to see Jack standing there.
"Jack, are you ok? What's wrong?"
"Nothing, well, there is something. Sam can you please sit down for a minute?"
Sam moved her bag over so both she and Jack could sit down on the bed. Sam sat down looking at Jack.
"Sam, I want to do this marriage thing right."
Jack moved forward and he got one of her pillows and put it on the floor in front of her. Then he got down on his good knee and pulled out the box and opened it. At the same time he did that, he said, "Sam, you know that I love you and I won't hurt you. Would you do the honours of becoming my wife for real?"
"Oh Jack, it's beautiful. Yes I love you too. I would love to be your wife," Sam said with tears in her eyes and a smile on her face. Jack pulled the ring out of its box and slipped it on to her finger. When that was done, they both kissed then pulled apart to look at each other.
"Ah Sam, my knees."
Sam got up and then helped Jack get up from the floor, then they both lost their balance and landed on the bed still holding onto one another, laughing. When they stopped laughing, they looked into one another's eyes.
Jack noticed that Sam was getting a sore neck, so he grabbed a couple of pillows with his free hand and slipped them under her head. Once her head was on them and she was comfortable, he leaned over and kissed her. Sam wrapped her arms around Jack's neck to pull him closer. Jack put his free arm around Sam's waist to hold on to her. Then there was a knock on Sam's door; they broke apart but were still holding on to one another.
"Jack, Sam are you guys ok in there?" Jacob asked.
"Yeah, we are ok, come on in," Jack said, and then he gave Sam another quick kiss as the door opened and Jacob walked in.
"Oh, ah, I just got off the phone with George, he is going to make some calls for me so by the time we get back to the base, we will know then."
"Ok, well I better let you finish packing, then head to my place."
They both got up from the bed together. Jacob looked at them both, and then he saw Sam's left hand. Jacob smiled and walked over to Sam and gave her a hug. Sam looked confused as they broke apart.
"Dad, is everything alright?"
"Yes, everything is alright Sam." As he lifted her left hand, Sam looked from her father to Jack and then back again.
"You knew, didn't you, Dad?"
"Jack asked me just before while you were packing. We gave him our blessing, Sam, and I am proud of you," Jacob said with a grin on his face, which made both Sam and Jack smile as well.
"Well Dad, I do need to finish packing before we leave, so why don't you two go out to the lounge to see what Daniel and Teal'c are up to. I won't be long."
"Ok, yell out if you need any help!"
"I know, so go!"
Sam shooed them away with her hands. Jacob walked out of the room then Jack wrapped his arms around Sam then gave her a kiss before leaving the room. A few minutes later, Sam walked out with two bags full of clothes. She put them next to the front door. She was just about to turn around when she noticed a black SUV just across the road. She moved the curtain back to find out who it was. When she saw who it was, she wasn't happy.
"Jack, he's back!" Jack came up behind her.
"Who, Sam?"
"Pete. He's just across the road there!" Jack pulled the curtain back a bit to have a look.
"Just great! Now what? Any ideas Sam?"
"Yep, I'll be right back," Sam said, before going out the back door.
Jacob walked over to the front door to find out what was going on. Jack told him who was outside watching the house, and then they noticed Sam sneaking up behind Pete's SUV.
Jack chuckled when he saw what she was doing. Then Jacob noticed it also, he started laughing. Then Daniel and Teal'c showed up, so Jack told them who was across the road and what Sam was doing to the wagon.
Sam was slowly letting down his tyres and turning his licence plate's number upside down as well as putting popping corn up the exhaust pipe and a potato up it as well and she also tied some tin cans under the car with strings attached to them. Then she got some sort of marker out and wrote something on the back door of his wagon, she noticed that his side windows were down.
Then she disappeared till Jack saw her again pulling something from one of the trees. Jacob knew what it was and started laughing again. He told them what it was and they all burst out with laughter.
It was old seeds from a tree that makes stink bombs when you crush the old seeds. They watched as Sam held her breath, while crushing some of them and then saw her put them in the back seat through the window.
Pete got out of his truck to get some air, he went for a walk about three houses down from where his truck was. When he did that, Sam got in and removed the seeds that she had put in his truck. They saw her disappear under the dashboard. A few seconds later, they all saw her heading back towards the house. They all waited for her to come back inside. When she did, she had a big grin on her face. Jack wrapped his arms around her as they all looked outside. By that time Pete was back in his truck.
"Sam, what did you do inside of his wagon?" Jacob asked.
"Oh, I just played around with some wires. In about three minutes, the neighbours sprinklers will start up, so he will have to wind up the windows. They will all wind up at once, so we can leave once that happens. Oh, another thing I did was glue some seeds to his peddles as well." They all laughed, Jack gave Sam a kiss.
"Sam, you can be dangerous sometimes!" Jack said.
"Hey Sam, what did you write on the back of his wagon?" Daniel asked.
"Oh that, I put 'Come close at your own risk', so if any one goes near his wagon and opens the door, they will get stunk out" they all laughed.
"Sam, how could you? That is so cruel, but funny!" Jacob said.
"Well, I got some of the seeds and crushed them to get the juices and I put small drops of it on the steering wheel and on his seat belt and on the seat as well!"
"Woo, man is he going to be high!"
"Yep, well not just that, but the juices will get into his hands, and it will take about a week for the smell to disappear, cause the juices will get into his pores of his fingers."
"Well, how come you don't stink?" Daniel asked.
"I used gloves, so there will be no finger prints for them to find and no smell. Lucky they are disposable gloves!" They all laughed. They all could see Pete had his head out the window.
"Ok guys, it's time to move. The sprinklers will start any second now." Then it happened, the sprinklers turned on and all the windows went up.
"Ok guys, we meet up at my place, and please try to hold a straight face when you walk outside" Jack said, laughing.
They all left Sam's place together, Jacob used Sam's car, while Sam went with Jack. On the way there they all laughed thinking about what Sam had just done.