Team night moved quickly to Jacks place when Cassie pointed out the logistics of trying to fit eight people into Sam's tiny apartment. Nine after Sam had called Pete to say she'd be off the base for a bit.
As soon as they all got there Elizabeth announced her desire for a real coffee and Jack went to see if he had some followed by Torin, as everyone else headed for the living room.
As they reached the kitchen Jack started to look around the cupboards. Torin immediately took off the back pack he had insisted on bringing and pulled out some good Java coffee grounds, vanilla, a bottle of cream and a tea strainer.
"I have coffee somewhere you know" Jack told him.
"Ellie likes this one." Torin's answer irritated Jack briefly but then he just shrugged and got down some mugs before pulling seven beers out of the fridge.
Torin used a sauce pan to heat the milk and prepared three glasses and the tea strainer to make three cups of coffee.
"What's the vanilla for?" Jack asked him.
"Ellie's a coffee snob, she likes a shot of vanilla instead of sugar." Torin answered.
"Ah." Jack nodded "You know you never told me why you don't tell Elizabeth you're in love with her."
"I'm her doctor." Torin said "It's inappropriate.
"You're not" Said Cassie from the door announcing her arrival. She took four beers from Jack. "Jen's her doctor. You only got med training because you're one of the few people who can get near her when she's actually hurt, not that that happens very often."
"My point stands, I have a duty of care for her." Torin replied "Besides, she will never feel as I do."
"I wouldn't bet on that if I were you." Cassie smiled at him "She treats you like you're family. She won't do that with anyone else. And you can calm her, even Jack has trouble with that. I think she cares about you more than she lets on."
Finished with the three coffee's Torin took the mugs by the handles and carefully walked with them into the living room, thinking over Cassie's words.
The conversation Jack, Cassie and Torin walked into in the living room was apparently a fascinating one. Daniel was just telling the smiling, laughing group around him about when he had found Jack stitched but naked into one of the young lieutenant's bunks as a practical joke.
"What did you do?" Pete asked.
"Well what could I do?" Daniel answered "I took photos and then got security to help me carry him into the locker room so he could get out." Everyone laughed.
"Funny." Jack smiled "Did he tell you how even though he'd taken pictures of me, the pictures he had printed and put on the notice board somehow turned into pictures of him in his naughty Cinderella costume?"
Daniels smile dropped at once as the others laughed. "It was photo shopped." He muttered.
"Sure it was Danny boy, sure it was." Jack replied. "What movie are we gonna watch?"
"Actually." Elizabeth smiled "I was thinking we could play a game."
"Truth or dare?" Cassie smiled wickedly.
"No!" Elizabeth, Torin, Jack and Sam all said at once.
"I was thinking maybe something like Pictionary." Elizabeth said.
"Or Charades?" Rya'c suggested.
"I have trivial pursuit." Jack offered.
"Ok, sounds fun, trivial pursuit." Elizabeth looked around the room as everyone nodded Jack went to get the game.