So here's another chapter, hope you like it. Just another idea that came to me a while ago, wasn't sure about writing it but I couldn't get it out of my head and I actually quite like it.

You might thinks a little out of character but Pete strikes me as someone who would get very jealous, and the rest of SG1 do mean a lot to Sam so I doubt she's stand for it.

Sam had taken the weekend off and had gone to Denver with Pete, to meet his parents. To begin with it had been fine. They'd arrived at the house and Sam had quickly been introduced and Pete's parents had asked how he was and had been brought up to speed with their son's life. After that however things had begun to go wrong.

"So Sam," Pete's dad, Andrew, began, "Pete tells us you're in the Air Force. What's that like?"

"Interesting," Sam answered, "And there's always something to do." She kept her answer short, to the point, and didn't add anything about what she actually did, she didn't want to lie to her future parents-in-law and tell them she worked in deep space radar telemetry, or at least not until they asked out right what it was she did.

Milly, Pete's mom, then said, in a voice that made it sound like there was no doubt in her mind that it would happen, "But of course you'll be leaving when you and Pete start having children."

Sam inhaled sharply, and started coughing while she turned her incredulous eyes to Pete, who took an awkward sip from his cup before saying, "We haven't really talked about it mom."

Milly didn't look pleased but didn't say anything more, just poured Andrew some more tea. Sam watched them closely for a moment and realised that this was a very traditional family, who expected the woman of the house to be just that, they weren't expected to have a job or carer, and Milly obviously expected the same from Sam. To see if her theory was correct Sam asked, "What about you Andrew? Pete never said."

"I'm a car salesman," Andrew answered, "And a good one at that."

Sam nodded and then looked at Milly. "I don't work," she answered in a voice that Sam felt was incredibly patronising. "I stay here and keep the house in order."

Sam nodded again, that was exactly the answer she was expecting.

"So what do you do in the Air Force Sam?" Andrew questioned.

Sam internally winced, he had just asked exactly the question she had hoped wouldn't come up, but had known deep down there was no avoiding.

"I'm a scientist," she began, but before she could say anything more the phone rang and Milly stood to go and answer it, taking the attention off Sam for a few moments.

"Shanahan residence, how can I help you?" she said into the hand piece.

A frown appeared on her face as she listened to the person on the other end. After a few seconds she turned to Sam and said, "It's for you, a Sergeant Walter Harriman."

She frowned, she was off for the weekend so what could Walter possibly want; he knew she wasn't in town. Pete was obviously thinking along the same lines because he said, "Why are they calling you Sam? You took the weekend off."

Sam shook her head and stood. "They'd only call me if it was important, you know that."

Pete scowled as Sam took the phone from his mother. "Carter," she said, turning her back to the room so they couldn't see the relief on her face for not having to answer Andrew's question.

"Colonel," came Walter's voice into her ear, "We've got a bit of a problem that we need your help with."

Behind her she could hear Andrew saying in a low voice, "Who is Sergeant Walter Harriman son?"

"Someone she works with," Pete answered in an equally low voice.

"What's happened?" Sam questioned, dreading the reply, they would only have called her on her first weekend off in couple of months if it was serious.

"This line isn't secure enough for that conversation Colonel," Walter reminded her gently.

"Of course it's not," Sam replied sarcastically. The she realised how mean that sounded and quickly carried on to say, "Sorry Walter. Why didn't you ring my mobile, that's a secure line, or at least as secure as I can make it."

"We tried Colonel, but you weren't answering."

Sam started going through her pockets and realised that she didn't have her phone on her. "Give me a few minutes to find my mobile and call you back Walter," she said.

"Of course Colonel," came the reply before she heard the dialling tone as he hung up.

She placed the phone back in its cradle and turned back to the room. Pete saw the look on her face and said, "Everything ok babe?"

"Do you know where my mobile went? I need a secure line she they can tell me what the problem is," Sam asked instead of answering his question.

Pete nodded, "I think you left it in the car."

"Thanks," Sam said as he passed her the keys. Turning to Milly and Andrew she said, "If you'll excuse me, this hopefully won't take too long and I'll be able to help over the phone."

She left the room and everyone heard the door open and then the sound of the car door shutting a few moments later.

Pete struck up a conversation with his parent's, knowing that Sam wouldn't come back in until she was done on the phone.

Ten minutes later a flustered looking Sam came back into the room and handed Pete back the keys, even as she did something on her phone. "What's up Sam?" Pete asked his fiancée. "Are you ok?"

"Um," Sam said, looking up from her phone for a few seconds to catch his eye before her phone retook her attention again, "No, not really." She looked at Milly and Andrew and said, "I'm sorry, but I've got to go back to work."

"Sam," Pete exclaimed, standing, "It's going to take you an hour to get back, what happened that they need you so badly?"

"They're sending a helicopter to come and get me," Sam muttered. She looked up again and caught Pete's eye once more, he didn't look happy. "There's been an incident and they need me back soon." Pete continued to stare at her so she continued in an even quieter voice, "The General, Daniel and Teal'c are missing."

Pete's face darkened immediately, he didn't like the three men, General Jack O'Neill least of all. Sam spent more time with them than she did with him. "Oh I should have guessed that General O'Neill had something to do with this," he said in a scathing voice.

"What the hell is that meant to mean Pete?" Sam asked, feeling anger beginning to rise.

"Whenever he calls you go running, no matter what time it is or what we're doing, you drop everything and go running to him," Pete said, his voice rising.

Sam glared at him before saying in a low voice, "He's my boss Pete, you know that, and he's missing, he didn't call me the SG bloody C did. And we're military, and he's my CO, when he says jump I say how high, same as every other member of the Air Force in the mountain."

"That's not all it is Sam and you know it," Pete yelled at her. Milly and Andrew looked at each other shocked; they could tell that this had obviously been brewing for a while.

That annoyed Sam. She knew that Pete didn't like Jack; he never made a secret of that, which is why she tried her hardest to keep the two of them apart. "If you think that something has happened between the two of us then you don't know me at all Pete."

There was a knock at the door and Sam began to move towards it but at the doorway to the sitting room she turned back and said, "That's my ride to the helipad." There was another knock at the door and Sam looked at Pete's parents and said, "Thank you, Andrew, Milly, for your hospitality and I'm sorry it ended this way." She slipped the ring that had taken her two weeks to accept off her finger and placed it on the table before she walked to the front door and left, leaving a silent room behind her.

She grabbed the bag she had left by Pete's car and got into the waiting Air Force car. As she watched the house and then the block vanish from view she felt a weight lift from her shoulders. This hadn't been right in the first place and now she was sure, she could never marry someone who expected her to give up her career and become a housewife.

Even though Jack, Daniel and Teal'c were missing, for the first time in a year she felt like she wasn't running anymore.

So obviously Jack, Daniel and Teal'c all come home fine.