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Sam swiped her access card at her lab door and walked inside. Sitting down on the stool, she jabbed at her mouse to wake the computer, sighing when it took a moment. She needed to do some computer maintenance to get things running faster again. But, she’d been too busy.
She was still dealing with the fallout from the Avenger virus that Jay Felger had unwittingly unleashed upon the galaxy stranding everyone off world. While they had gotten it fixed and everyone was safely back at the SGC now, she was still trying to clean up the mess he had left behind. Just today alone, she had to attend multiple meetings discussing what happened with the modified version that had actually caused the issues. And explaining the repercussions for all of the teams that had been stranded, including the rest of SG-1. Then there were all of the meetings walking various scientists through the fix that Felger had implemented. It had consumed her entire week.
Sighing again, she opened her calendar first, making sure she didn’t have anything else scheduled for the day. She had just attended a separate briefing from one of the science teams about an artifact that was found on a recent mission. It wasn’t anything exciting, but she was able to easily help them determine their next steps. Scrolling through the rest of the day on the calendar, it was clear so far. Barring any new intergalactic emergencies, that is.
Next she opened her email, running a quick program to sort through the list and categorize everything. She read through a couple of the emails from other teams briefing them on some of their recent missions.
Opening the memo category, she skimmed through the subjects before one in particular caught her eye. She read the memo. Then she read it again. Reading it a third time, she eventually sat back and whispered, “Woah.” Was this for real? She hadn’t heard any rumors of this coming down the pipeline and surely this would be a thing that people would be talking about. It was a big, massive change for the military. One that she almost didn’t believe was truly going to change. At least in her lifetime.
Leaning forward again, she read it through once more, making sure that she was absorbing every single word and checked for any loopholes. Checking the date and time on the memo, she realized it had just come in 30 minutes previously. She had to find the Colonel. Now.
First things first though, she needed to make sure this wasn’t actually some cruel joke. Because if she was going to do this, she knew it damn well had better be real. She opened a command line window and dug into the details of the email first. She made sure there wasn’t anything weird going on. It was sent from an IP address belonging to the Pentagon, the email address details matched the usual, and there was no forwarding or modifications done as far as she could tell. Any hacker worth their salt would cover all of those tracks, so she went deeper. After a few more minutes of digging she felt reasonably satisfied that it was real. But, still she needed to confirm it to be 100% sure.
Jumping up from her desk, she felt energized all of a sudden for the first time since the whole Avenger disaster started. She locked down her computer once more and stepped out to the hallway closing her lab door behind her.
Knowing she didn’t want to go straight to the Colonel first, if this really was a joke, she instead walked promptly to Daniel’s lab. Nodding hello to several people along the way, she did overhear one group of people that seemed to be talking about the memo. But she didn’t stick around long enough to confirm that she was overhearing what she thought, nor did she want to ask them about it.
Rounding the corner, she shouted out Daniel’s name, causing him to jump in surprise and drop the book he was flipping through.
“Sam! You scared me. This book is rather old and I can’t believe you made me drop it,” he complained while bending over to retrieve it.
“I’m sorry, Daniel. But this is potentially very important.”
“I didn’t miss an alarm, did I? Is everyone ok?” He gently set the book back on the table in front of him while looking at her with worried eyes.
“No, no, nothing like that. We’re safe. Have you read through your emails today yet?”
Shaking his head immediately he said, “Not since earlier this morning. Why?”
“Do you mind looking? I want to make sure you got the same one I did. And if you are interpreting it the same way too.”
“Okay,” Daniel drew out the word in confusion.
When he didn’t move fast enough for her, she moved closer saying, “Well, come on now, hurry up.”
“Geez, alright, alright. What is so important?” Waking up his computer, he brought up his email as swiftly as the poor thing would move.
“You’ll see,” Sam replied cryptically.
“Ok, what am I looking for?”
“It came in about 35 minutes ago.” Looking over his shoulder she pointed, “There, that one.”
Well, the subject line undoubtedly caught his eye, so he read through it as rapidly as he could. Then he leaned even closer and read it a second time. Leaning back and looking over his shoulder at Sam he said, “Uh, wow.”
“Yeah, I can’t believe it.”
“Well, it makes sense. The SGC is different, which is clearly what they’ve cited for their reasoning.”
“Well, yeah, we always have been though. For 7 years now. It just seems weird with the timing, right? Kinsey has been on our ass for years about all the rules we break, and now this?”
“Maybe you’re making a bigger deal out of this. Have you asked the General?”
“No, I came here first wanting to make sure I wasn’t getting tricked. And how can I not make a big deal out of this? You know what this means.”
Daniel nodded his head in agreement, knowing what it meant for his two military teammates. “I know. On the other hand, anyone that would go to this level of effort would probably know we might be one of your first stops.”
“That’s true. I think I need to ask the General. But, if this is for real, you don’t see any weird loopholes in it, do you?”
Looking back over to his computer, Daniel read it again for the third time making sure to pay special attention to the wording and the grammatical structure of each sentence. Once he was through, he looked back at Sam shaking his head. “It’s clearly worded and not open to interpretation as far as I’m concerned.”
“Ok, that’s what I thought. And the details in the email itself checks out. All indications are that this is legit.”
“So, next stop, General Hammond?”
Sam hesitated before answering. She really didn’t want to ask her commanding officer about this. Well, her direct commanding officer was certainly going to hear about it very soon. But the CO of her CO was not the one she wanted to have this conversation with, at all. Steeling herself she answered, “Yep, I don’t see a way around it.”
“Ok then.” Daniel stood up and moved to put his arm around her shoulders. “Let’s go figure this out.”
Putting an arm around his waist and squeezing for a second before letting go she said, “Thanks, Daniel.” Together they made their way to the elevator and to the level for the General’s office. As they got closer, they could hear a lot of people talking. Normally, this area was quiet and only the essential staff were allowed here.
Glancing at each other questioning what was going on, they rounded the corner and found about 20 various people standing around inside the briefing room and in the hallway outside. Daniel spotted an airman and asked what was going on.
The airman replied, “We’re all trying to figure out if this memo is legitimate.”
Raising an eyebrow at Sam, they shouldered their way through into the briefing room. They could see the General standing in his office on the phone. He hung up and made his way into the briefing room as every military member in the room, including Sam, came to attention.
“At ease, everyone. I suspect I know what has drawn each of you here. I just got off the phone with the chief of staff and he assures me that this is legitimate. I’ve been aware that it has been in the works for years now, but I never thought I’d see the day that it would become reality. Congratulations, everyone.” A loud cheer went through the crowd at the General’s words. Holding up his hands though to quiet the murmurs running through the crowd he continued, “However, I fully expect everyone on this base to respect your fellow soldiers and still continue to be the professionals that I know you all are.”
A chorus of ‘yes, sirs’ were uttered from the crowd, before the General dismissed them to get back to their duties.
Sam could hardly believe her luck. She knew she had a lot of luck in her work life. She considered it the best of luck when she came back from every mission alive and every time every single one of her teammates came back alive alongside her. It was sheer luck that the Colonel and Teal’c had ridden to their rescue in the borrowed Al’kesh saving Felger and herself just in the nick of time. However, she knew in the back of her mind that she was never this lucky. Making her way to front of the room, with Daniel right behind her, she called out to the General before he could enter his office.
“Major, what can I do for you?”
“Sir, I was wondering if I could take off a little early this afternoon?”
Incredulously, Hammond chuckled at her question. “I assume you’re as tired as I am of these meetings discussing Doctor Felger’s virus?”
“Yes, sir.”
“And there aren’t any more meetings about it scheduled?”
“No, sir. We just had the last one earlier this morning and nothing more has come up so far.”
“Very well, permission granted. In fact, take the rest of the week. And the same goes for all of SG-1. I think you guys have all earned it. And there are no missions planned for the rest of this week.”
“Really? Thank you, sir.” Sam was ecstatic and more than ready to get out of here and find Colonel Jack O’Neill as fast as humanly possible. She knew he was home today taking some time off to relax. After hand-delivering the Al’kesh to Area 51 to play with and tear apart, he had earned it.
Again, Sam hesitated though. Sensing the hesitation she was exhibiting the General questioned, “Everything ok, Major?”
Nodding her head, she stated emphatically, “Oh, yes, sir. I was just thinking that the memo seems too good to be true.”
“I know. But, I can assure you that this is real.”
“Right. Thank you, sir.”
Turning to grab Daniel’s arm she practically dragged him out to the corridor back to the elevators again. Once inside, she turned to look at him and couldn’t stop the grin from forming. “I’m excited, but I’m so nervous. Why am I so nervous?”
“Sam, it’s a big deal. But you know that Jack is going to be ecstatic, right?”
“Yeah, I hope so, Daniel. I’m not sure I’ll survive it if he isn’t.”
“Trust me, he will be.”
As they stopped at the level for the locker rooms, Sam turned back around to wave goodbye once she stepped off the elevator. The grin was firmly in place now.
Running back inside, she gave him a quick hug. Before he could even react and the doors started to close again she stepped back off the elevator.
He called out, “Good luck, you got this!”
Still smiling like a crazy person she muttered to herself as she walked down the corridor, “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
*****
Thirty minutes later, Sam pulled up into the Colonel’s driveway next to his truck. She knew he was home, at least. Taking a deep breath, she relaxed her hold on the steering wheel that she had been gripping tightly the entire drive. It was still early afternoon, so she couldn’t really tell where he was in the house.
She rubbed her palms down her jeans a few times to try and get rid of the sweat that had accumulated. She was still nervous. How would he react? Would he even care about the memo? It had been so long since they’d even semi-broached the topic. Taking another deep breath, she finally dragged herself out of the car and walked up to the front door. She knocked and stepped back.
Before she could even figure out how she was going to start the conversation, the door was opening. She couldn’t control her reaction, because she was confronted with the sexy image of the Colonel in casual clothes. They were baggy as they always were, but the dark green of his shirt accentuated his skin and made his silver hair stand out even more. Her eyes made their way down his slim hips and over the dark jeans over his legs. All the way down to his bare feet. ‘Holy Hannah,’ she thought. Bringing her eyes back up, she met his eyes. His scarred eyebrow was raised in a question.
“Carter, what’s going on?”
She couldn’t reply with words yet. Instead she took a step forward and silently asked to enter. Jack opened the door wider and let her into the entryway. She turned back to him as he was pushing the door closed. She couldn’t take the anticipation anymore, so she stepped forward into his personal space.
Lifting her hands she rested one on his shoulder and the other gently cupped his cheek. She watched as his eyebrows drew together in confusion. Bringing her thumb up, she smoothed over his eyebrow until his expression relaxed. Taking a deep breath in and exhaling it slowly, she moved even closer. She knew she should probably say something, but words were still escaping her. Sliding her hand back from his cheek and into his hair. She wrapped her fingers around the back of his neck and stepped in even closer until there was barely any room between them. Her eyes flitted between his own eyes and his lips. Then she lifted her face and tugged on the back of his head to bring their lips together softly.
Even though he hadn’t even done anything to participate yet, she moaned lightly at the small amount of contact. Other than her hands, their only contact was their lips. She moved hers across his lips, bringing her tongue out to lick at his lower lip. She then brought it between her two lips and sucked on it. Something triggered in Jack at long last and he moved abruptly. She shivered as he brought his arms around her lower back and drew her close. They were now touching from chest to thighs. He deepened the kiss and started a battle of tongues where there was no loser. He explored everything with his own tongue and she did the same. After a moment, they needed air and broke apart. They rested their foreheads together and breathed heavily. After another moment, Jack pulled back and loosened his grip moving his hands to her hips.
Clearing his throat he questioned, “Not that I’m complaining, and as much as I want to continue, who are you and what have you done with Samantha Carter?”
Sam started giggling and shook her head. “Nothing. Have you checked your email today?”
At the abrupt change of subject, Jack pulled away even further and let his hands drop to his sides. Sam kept one of her hands on his shoulder still, not willing to let the contact drop completely.
“It’s my day off, what do you think?”
“Well, there was a very important memo that went out today.”
“Carter, you know I never read the memos.”
“You’ll want to read this one.”
“And what the hell does a memo have to do with you being here and you just doing —” Jack waved his hands idly between them. “Wait, don’t tell me. Is this another Neanderthal thing again? Did you break out of some quarantine?” Jack took another small step back breaking the contact Sam had tried to keep between them.
“No, Jack. I’m not sick, and I didn’t break any quarantine. There are no problems at the base.”
“You’re not some alternative Carter from another reality?”
Sam shook her head again, “Nope, this is my reality.”
“Are we in a time loop where there might be no consequences?”
Sam had to raise an eyebrow at that question, “Not that I’m aware of.”
“Okay,” he drew out the word. “Wait, you called me ‘Jack’? Seriously, Carter, what is wrong with you?” Not waiting for an answer he made a move to grab her elbow and steered her back to the door. “How about we just make our way back to the base and have a chat with the good doctor, ok?”
Sam chuckled again. She had imagined a million different ways this had gone ranging from complete rejection and humiliation to wanton, uncontrollable desire. And a lot of ways in between. But she never could have guessed he would think she was crazy or sick. “Look, I promise I’m completely fine.” She paused trying to figure out how to make him believe her. “There was a memo that went out earlier.”
“You mentioned that already.”
“Right, well, that memo has effectively removed the fraternization regulations. Specifically for the military members stationed at the SGC, that is.”
“What?”
“Believe me, I thought it was a hoax too. But General Hammond confirmed it, before he told me to take the rest of the week off.”
“Seriously? There is no way. Those rules have been in place since the inception of the military.”
“Believe me, I thought someone was playing a cruel joke on me, but this is real. I promise.” Sam paused, “If you don’t believe me though, you can call General Hammond.”
Jack looked at her like she was crazy again, “You want me to call up the General and ask if it’s ok that you kissed me?”
“Jack, I don’t really want to stop at just one kiss. That is if you’re interested. I mean, it’s ok if you’re not.” It really wasn’t, but she would live, probably. Even though he had reacted to the kiss, maybe that was just down to biology rather than lingering attraction or feelings. She started to ramble then letting loose a barrage of thoughts, “Look, I know we haven’t exactly talked about things in a long time, or really never actually, but I hope I haven’t been imagining things. And I guess maybe I have. I mean, I knew this was too good to be true. This is so embarrassing. I should go.” She leaned over to grab the door handle letting the humiliation wash over her.
Jack reached out to grab her hand before it reached the door handle, but let it go immediately. “No, don’t go. You haven’t been imagining things, Sam. I honestly wasn’t sure if you still felt anything either. This is the stuff dreams are made of. Specifically my dreams, for years. I just never dreamed it would happen like this.” Jack was shaking his head as though he thought he was going crazy now. “I thought of a lot of different ways that this might happen one day, but the removal of the frat regs wasn’t even on the bingo card.”
Sam grinned as she felt the humiliation dissipate and asked, “A lot of different ways, huh? Care to share?”
Jack stepped closer this time bringing his hands back to her hips. “Maybe later?”
Sam brought her hands up to rest on his chest. “And what do you propose we do instead?”
“Oh, I’m sure we can come up with something.”
Moving closer he wrapped his arms around her lower back and brought his lips back down to hers. He wasted no time in deepening the kiss. This time he backed her up against the door quickly insinuating his leg between hers to bring them closer. Turnabout play was fair after all, so he brought her lower lip in between his to suck at it and run his tongue across it. Sam couldn’t help but moan again and grind her hips against his thigh feeling his burgeoning erection against her hip.
Letting go of her lip, Jack moved down her jawline placing kisses every spot he could reach down her neck. His hands found the hem of her shirt and delved underneath to find the silky smooth skin of her sides.
Sam could only groan out, “Bedroom.”
Jack loosened his hold slightly and directed her to walk backwards while he guided them down the hallway. His lips never left her neck finding her pulse point and sucking. Her hands went on a mission and found the bottom of his shirt. She got held up when he wouldn’t release her to let her lift the shirt off his torso. Grunting a little, she momentarily got him to separate from her neck so she could get his shirt over his head. She didn’t think he could get any sexier than he had when he opened his front door, but looking him over standing bare chested with a slight smirk on his face and his hair standing up in all different directions, she found she had been wrong. So wrong.
Gently Jack pushed on her hips to get her moving again backwards and into his bedroom. His eyes never left hers, even when the back of her knees hit his mattress and she flopped backwards on the bed. He immediately followed her down forcing her to lay back and sought out her lips once again. Sam ran her hands down his chest over his stomach and up his sides. He couldn’t stop his own shiver this time and the groan as he released her lips to let it loose.
Sliding his hands once again under her top, it bunched up under her breasts. Moving down, he took full advantage of all the creamy skin he had exposed kissing the skin over her ribs and licking under one of her breasts. He dipped his tongue into her belly button and brought one of his hands up to cup her breast. Squeezing, he heard the sexiest moan and she had to take a sharp intake of air as he trailed his tongue along the border of her pants.
His free hand moved to pop the button open on her jeans and lowered the zipper revealing a small peek at a pair of black silk panties. He moved his other hand down to tug on her pants moving them down. Before he went too far, he dipped to kiss the jut of her hips causing another intake of breath. He almost couldn’t stop the grin at her reactions. Glancing up at her, he found she had leaned up partially on her elbows watching him. Her pupils were large with arousal and he could tell she was almost at her breaking point with his slow pace. But that was exactly where Jack wanted her.
Backing up a bit more, he continued to move her jeans down her long legs as she lifted her hips to assist. He stopped to pull the obstruction of her shoes and socks off, then removed her pants and threw them behind him.
He softly trailed his fingers from her ankle, up her shin, and over her kneecap to her upper thigh leaning back down over her. She was still leaning back on her elbows watching him. Before he pursued her lips for more kisses, he dragged her shirt off, leaving her in just a bra and panties. It was a sight to behold. Before he could follow through on seeking out her lips and perhaps divesting herself of one more article of clothing, she wrapped one leg around his and flipped them over. Her hands landed on his stomach to help stabilize her.
Jack felt like he had to give a token resistance to his plan being foiled, so he loudly stated, “Hey! That wasn’t very fair.”
“You’ve had your time and now it’s my turn,” Sam purred while smirking at him.
“But I wasn’t done yet,” he whined. He couldn’t believe he was whining about anything when here she was almost naked straddling him.
She promptly ground her hips onto his erection tenting his pants, which shut him up rather quickly as his jaw snapped shut before he could complain some more. “Uh huh. That’s what I thought.”
“Fine, you can have your way with me. For now,” Jack stated as he brought his hands up to rest on her thighs.
Sam moved her hands across his stomach and up to his chest landing on his pectorals. Bending down, she ran her tongue up the side of his neck kissing his jaw. She brought her lips to his earlobe and sucked it into her mouth. He apparently liked that and groaned as he thrust his hips up.
He moved his hands up and around to her back, back on his mission of popping the closure of her bra open. He tried to get her to disconnect from his neck long enough to get the material out of his way, but much like he wouldn’t let her go in the hallway for his shirt to come off, she wasn’t budging. Grunting in frustration he twisted his head her way to persuade her lips to let go. Once she leaned up, he was finally able to slip the bra straps down her arms and remove the offending garment, tossing it over the side of the bed.
While he was distracted taking in the new skin that had been uncovered, she moved to unbutton and lower the zipper on his pants. She palmed his sizable erection over his boxer shorts and he groaned when she squeezed his cock.
His hands palmed her breasts toying with her nipples as she rooted around and exposed his cock. She wrapped her hand around him and squeezed gently starting to stroke him. One hand reluctantly let go of her breast to hastily stop her movement.
“Mmm, as good as that feels, I won’t last.”
Sam looked up at him and smiled evilly. “I believe you were the one who started this whole slow seduction thing we have going on.”
He brought his thumb out to seek out the wet piece of underwear still covering her and pushed against her mound finding her clit. “I don’t see you complaining.”
She threw her head back moaning at the contact and ground into this hand seeking more. Instead of giving in though, he brought his hands back up to her hips and lifted her off directing her body to lay beside him. She twisted her upper body and leaned up on an elbow supporting her head with her hand as she watched him stand up next to the bed. He pulled off his pants and boxers and stepped out of them. He sighed as his erection was ultimately free from the confines as he took her in lying on his bed.
“You are so sexy.”
Jack couldn’t stop the chuckle from releasing, “Pretty sure that’s my line. You are beautiful, Sam.”
Even though her hand had just been on his cock a minute ago, and don’t think he didn’t notice her eyeing him while he had taken his pants off, he still watched as a blush spread across her cheeks. Before he got back on the bed to divest her of the last piece of clothing between them, he had to ask if they needed protection. As he asked, he was trying to remember if he even had any and if they weren’t going to be horribly expired.
He continued to watch the blush deepen as she shook her head saying, “We’re good. Now get back over here.”
“Yes, ma’am.” But first, he had a priority item on his to do list. Leaning over he moved to bring her panties down and off her legs finally baring the last piece of skin to him. He couldn’t stop the groan and the accompanying, “Jesus.”
His eyes swept up and down her body a few times, taking in her blushing cheeks, her full breasts with erect rose-colored nipples, and at long last the space between her legs covered by damp blonde curls.
Sam took the opportunity to look Jack over too. Starting with his silver hair still sticking up in all directions down to his hard chest where she could see a small tuft of the same colored hair. Further down below his tight stomach, she saw his erection standing proud from his body and watched it twitch as if it knew she was looking. She would have been content to stare at his naked body some more too, but she was too turned on.
He found her blue eyes again as she spoke up, “Less staring and more action, O’Neill.”
Jack never would have guessed she would be so demanding in bed, but he clearly wasn’t disappointed. He was so turned on, he wasn’t sure if he was going to come on the first stroke. He watched her eyes widen and realized he had said that out loud.
“That’s ok, because I’m the same way right now. But, that’s to be expected after 7 years of foreplay.” She leaned up to grab his hand and swiftly pulled him down on the bed to land next to her. She reached up and palmed his cheek as she continued, “Make love to me, Jack. Then, we can look forward to the next time. And the next time after that. Ok?”
Jack didn’t answer, because he knew that she was right. And he was more than looking forward to having a lifetime with her, if she would have him. He pulled her close sighing as he felt all of her skin against his for the first time and kissed her thoroughly.
His hand sauntered down her side to ultimately slide a finger between her legs to test her wetness and found her more than ready. He clutched her thigh and brought it up to wrap around his hip bringing her center against his. His hand moved his erection to push against her entrance as she tilted her hips towards him. He entered her slowly letting her adjust to him. They both let out a long moan at the sensation of being together for the first time. Sam finally felt complete.
He started a pace of slowly pulling out until only his head was still inside and then pushing inside quickly. After just a few of these strokes he was steadily pumping in and out. She arched back and gasped as the sensations overwhelmed her. Bending awkwardly, Jack licked at one of her nipples drawing it into a peak before sucking it. Letting it go with a pop, he kissed her neck before finding her lips once again.
He drew back, swallowing hard and gulped out, “I’m gonna come soon.”
Jack brought his hand around to grip her butt cheek as Sam moved her own hand to swipe at her clit. After just a few times she was pulsing around him. He watched as her breath hitched as she moaned constantly when her orgasm overtook her. A flush spread across her whole chest as she yelled out his name while continuing to swipe at her clit prolonging her pleasure.
Jack couldn’t take the pressure anymore from holding himself back and gave into the sensations, pumping even quicker towards his own release. He lost his rhythm and jerked against her as he came inside her moaning her name.
Collapsing against her unwilling to let go of the contact quite yet, he shakily reached up to grasp her chin between his thumb and forefinger tilting her head so he could kiss her.
She finally opened her eyes to take him in and couldn’t stop the grin from taking over her face. “God, I love you, Jack.” She had an astonished look on her face having surprised herself by saying the words.
Jack couldn’t help his own astonishment reflecting back at her, but before she could say anything else he spoke up, “That’s good, because I love you too, Sam. I don’t know how to not love you.”
Sam let the grin take precedence again as she leaned in to kiss him again. After a moment, he separated their hips a little bit and felt his softened cock slip out of her. He sighed a little at the loss, but rolled her on top of him as he maneuvered them away from the wet spot on the bed.
She snuggled up to him wrapping an arm around his torso and kissed the place over his heart before she laid her head on his chest. His arm went around her back and rested on her butt cheek once again. After a minute of listening to his heartbeat, she leaned up to look at him. He had a peaceful expression on his face that she hadn’t seen before. It looked good on him.
“So…” she drew out the word a little, wondering how to ask the question.
Jack raised his scarred eyebrow questioning, “So?”
“What do we do now?”
“You mean like right this second or in general?”
“Right this second is covered. I’m content to just lay here and do that over and over again for the next several days.” Jack had to smirk at her plan because he was pretty content to do that same thing as well. “But, I’m asking about when we go back to work.”
“Ah. Maybe I should have asked before we just did that, but can you explain exactly what this memo said?”
Sam explained it to him about how it completely removed the frat regs that had held them back from having this for so many years. While it clearly allowed personal relationships to form between teammates and even across multiple ranks, there were still guidelines that had to be followed. They would need to fill out official paperwork detailing the nature of their relationship to avoid any kind of favoritism when it came to promotions and other career moves. But past that, they were free to continue to work together unless it was something that either their teammates or they themselves didn’t want.
Once she got done explaining she asked the question again, “So? What do you think we should do?”
“Well, I’d like to definitely keep working together. Unless you don’t want to?”
“No, I definitely want that too. That’s good.” She leaned over to give him a small peck on the corner of his lips glad that he agreed. She couldn’t imagine either one of them giving up SG-1, which was yet another reason why they never pursued this.
“As for Daniel and Teal’c, I can’t imagine they would have a problem.”
“I agree. Considering how much we’ve all gone through, I think they are probably bound to be pretty happy that we’ve finally gotten our act together.” Taking a breath in she continued, “Besides, Daniel kind of already knows, sort of.”
Jack raised an eyebrow at her again asking, “Yeah?”
“Yeah, I went to him first to verify that the memo was legit and that it wasn’t just some cruel joke someone sent to me.”
“Sam, I’m so sorry that was the first thing that went through your mind. But I have to say, I am so glad it was real.”
“Me too. What did you say earlier? “The stuff dreams are made of?”
“Yeah, for once that is a memo I’m actually happy about.”
“It is a memorable one, because it lets me do this…” Sam smiled and brought her head up to kiss him softly, but pulled back before he could deepen it. “So, we’ll fill out the paperwork when we get back to the mountain. Should we maybe have Daniel and Teal’c over one night beforehand to let them know? Daniel knows I was coming over here but he obviously doesn’t know how it worked out.”
“I’m not giving him the blow by blow report of how we just made love, Sam.” Jack couldn’t stop the small smile forming when she started to giggle.
“I didn’t mean that. And you know exactly what I meant,” Sam stated while rolling her eyes.
“Fine, we’ll have the boys over tomorrow. But, it damn well is not going to be tonight. I’ve got plans.”
“Oh yeah, and what are those plans?”
“Well, I believe there is going to be a hot shower, perhaps a hot toddy, and definitely a hot blonde.”
“In that order?” Sam questioned while giggling again.
“You gotta plan B?”
“Yeah, I was thinking we start with that hot blonde part first.”
“I’m nothing if not adaptable,” Jack quipped as he leaned towards her to capture her lips. This time he was able to deepen the kiss. He finagled his way above her before he had to stop to take a breath. “After all, there were a lot of spots on this hot blonde I didn’t get to explore.”
Sam moved her hands down his side before one of them veered off to grip a butt cheek. “Me too,” she said while starting to giggle again.
Jack took in her dilated pupils and the flush starting to take over her chest again and knew without a doubt that he loved this woman. If this is what he got to do for the rest of his life, he would be the happiest man alive. He could feel his erection already starting to grow again seeing how happy she looked. Grinning down at her he felt like his heart was going to burst out his chest with happiness, and he couldn’t stop himself from saying the words once again, “I love you so much.”
“I love you too, Jack. So much.”
Sam’s last thoughts before she let her arousal take over were that she really was lucky in her personal life as well. She’d never been so happy at finally being able to openly love Jack O’Neill and be loved in return.