She carries the weight of her pack as if she were used to carrying far heavier things. He is surprised how well she handles it since she never went to any military training. Her face is full of cold determination.
He wonders if she won the arm wrestling. I mean, the game is all physics, and Kowalski is probably dumb enough to be overconfident.
"Doctor…" he begins.
"Don't worry. I won't disappoint you," she says, and he wonders how her psychology got so twisted up that she would be worried about that right now. All he can manage to worry about is whether or not there is still something between them.
Although to be fair, she does already know the answer to that question a whole lot more than he does.
"I was going to say ladies first," he smirks at the blatant attempt to bate her into a feminist rant.
She sees what he is doing quite clearly, and doesn't take the bait. "You really will like me when you get to know me," she says playfully.
A strange promise, especially considering all the of the deep dark secrets that the who of them shared last night.
"Oh I adore you already, Doctor," he says with a voice he struggles to keep terse enough to sound like the words are nothing but teasing.
A few steps more bring them to the edge of the even horizon.
"My god," she says and for a second he thinks he has cracked her, and they are going to talk about the thing that may or may not be between them right there in the gate room in front of everyone. Then she continues, "Look at this." Of course, he should have known that reverend tone was not directed at him, "The energy the gate must release to create a stable wormhole. It's astronomical to use exactly the right word," she reaches out and touches the gate with enough force that it shimmers away from her as if wounded. "You can actually see the fluctuations in the event horizon."
Jack figures a scientist like her could probably spend a lifetime looking at the event horizon before she actually went through, so he gives her a shove. Then he shakes his head before heading through the event horizon himself.
When he gets to the other side of the event horizon he finds the amazing Samantha Carter losing her lunch.
"You probably shouldn't have had that big breakfast then," he teases her knowing that she didn't have breakfast.