AN: Here comes the 2nd chapter! Thanks for your review dpdp! Didn't thouht there would be one...
And I promise there will be longer chapters as well...
Sam Carter lay on her couch and stared at the ceiling. Last week she had a lot of pondering. And she was sad. Sad about the loss of Martouf. She was not sure whether it was her feelings or the remnants of Jolinar inside her. But it didn't really matter at all. She mourned. To a friend, a very good friend. But not to a lover. It was probably rather her feelings.
And then there was another sadness that always came over her when she thought of him. Of the man she loved. Jack. Her friend. Her colleague. Her commanding officer. Damn!
It had been a week since she had seen him the last time. Since she had confessed to him that she has feelings for him, strong feelings. Very strong feelings. She would never have told him voluntarily, but she had no choice. He either. When she heard that he also had feelings for her, her heart had made a little hop. How often she had wished to hear such words from him. But the situation was extremely unfavorable. They were forced to talk about feelings they had never admitted under normal circumstances. Feelings that were forbidden. Feelings they were not allowed to have. And even in front of witnesses. It couldn't have come worse.
She had been thinking all week about how they now should go on. She had told him that they would thus get along. She had to say it. But at the same time she knew it was a lie. She now could not just go on as if nothing had happened. Or could she? She sighed and ran with her hands through her hair – it was frustrating!
"Oh, that brings everything but nothing" she sighed and got up to go to the kitchen and make a cup of tea.
She had just tipped the hot water over the tea bag, when the phone rang. She could think of where the call came from when she ran to the phone with the teacup in her hand.
"Hello" she said.
"Hello, Major Carter" said the voice at the other end.
"Hello Teal'c, what is it?"
"The Tok'ra have come forward. They need our help. Therefore, General Hammond has scheduled a meeting for tomorrow 13 o'clock", Teal'c stated bluntly.
"Do you know what it is?"
"No, unfortunately not."
"Okay I'm coming. Does Colonel O'Neill already know?"
"Yes, Daniel Jackson is calling him. Did you talk to O'Neill?" Teal'c wanted to know.
She sighed audibly "No ..."
"You should talk to him."
"I know ..." she said softly and closed her eyes briefly. "I'll be off then, Teal'c. See you later."
"See you later, Major Carter."
With that she hung up. Sam drank her tea and then drove off to the SGC. Because of the fact she did not live far away from the base, it would not take her long to go there and she would spend the night at the base.
After about 25 minutes Sam Carter arrived at Cheyenne Mountain. She passed through security and took the elevator down. First, she went to her quarters and put her things away. Then she made her way to the dressing room in order to put on her uniform. When that was done, she looked over at her lab. She switched on the devices and made sure that, after a one week stop, everything worked properly. She waited that her laptop was booted up and checked her emails. But it was nothing important there. Suddenly she noticed that someone was standing in the doorway, watching her. She winced and an unpleasant feeling spread in her stomach. There was really only one person who came to her lab unannounced and without knocking.
She took herself a heart and looked up. She froze and then she felt arise some sort of relief. There was not the person standing in the doorway that she had expected. In the doorway stood Teal'c.
"Hello, Major Carter."
"Hey, Teal'c. How are you?"
"I'm fine, thanks for asking. And how are you?"
"Also good." She tried to smile.
"Would you like to go with me to eat something?"
"Yeah, why not ..." He then nodded and let her go first to go towards the canteen.
However, in the canteen she poked at her food rather than that she really ate anything. Not even her dearly beloved blue jelly tasted her. She brooded again, but Teal'cs voice snapped her out of her thoughts.
"What did you say?" She had not listened to him.
"I asked you, what you've done in the last week" he repeated. What to say to that?
"Not much. And you?"
"I have helped Daniel Jackson in the negotiations with the Tok'ra."
Right, there was something… She had completely forgotten. "And how did it go?"
"It went very well. A beneficial agreement could have been received for both sides", said Teal'c in his usual calm way.
"Well, that sounds good." With that she stood up and took the tray with the nearly untouched food away again.
"Are you going, Major Carter?" Teal 'c watched with a raised eyebrow.
"Hmm… yes. I'm tired and go to bed. See you tomorrow, Teal'c and sleep well", she said goodbye and left.
"You too, Major Carter." He watched her as she left the canteen and thought back to the last thirty minutes. He was curious to see how the meeting would proceed tomorrow.
Sam went to her quarters, made herself ready for bed and lay down. But she couldn't sleep. She brooded again. How would that be tomorrow? The meeting? The reunion with him? With Jack? She did not know and that made her nervous.
After about a six hours drive Jack O'Neill arrived at the SGC. When he got out of the car he did not know exactly how he got there. Hasn't he just been going down? He had been thinking all the time while driving, how to confront Sam. And he had made a decision. He would mention the zatarc test with no word. He would behave normally. And he would keep her at distance. There was nothing to talk about. Everything would be as always. He just had to stay on distance. He was sure Carter would feel the same way.
He passed through security and took the elevator directly to the level at which his quarters was. It was shortly after midnight and the corridors of the base had been abandoned. When he went to bed he stared briefly at the ceiling and confirmed again his plan to himself. It was a good plan. Effective and easy to implement. With the thought that tomorrow would be like every other day he fell asleep faster than expected.