For Sam [TR]

[has_2ls]

Island life meant a lot of fishing and sitting around twiddling his thumbs but at least the ITF provided him with something to work toward, even if it was Special Forces reserves or something. Something was better than nothing, after all, and it gave him the motivation to do the intense PT that he hadn't really done since showing up on the island.

PT was easy when you were in the field; running for your life didn't really seem like work so much as...running for your life. Jack tried to keep that in mind while he swam and ran and hiked until his lungs burned and his knees twinged. He'd still run with Sam later but he...he'd been having a hard time sleeping since the night she'd stayed with him and he refused to acknowledge that might be because she wasn't sleeping next to him.

He knew Sam would probably be awake; it was first light now and she had always been an early riser. Still damp from the shower, he brought her coffee just the way she liked it and some fruit from the compound and knocked on her door, hoping he'd catch her before she went to go fiddle with whatever she was fiddling with these days.

"Sam? You up yet?"

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[gate_expert]

"Shh." Sam hadn't initially thought either of them were doing any of this, so she knew the feeling, and she smiled a little. Her hand found a pressure and a rhythm that he seemed to like, judging from the way he pressed into her hand, and she realized that this was in some ways even more intimate than their having sex a month ago had been. She was glad for it.

[has_2ls]

"Close," Jack whispered, shifting his gaze to try to meet hers. Male orgasms weren't nearly as pretty as female ones, at least in his opinion, but he didn't figure Sam was thinking about that. Hell, he didn't know why he was thinking about that.

"Love you."

[gate_expert]

"You too," she murmured, and her hand quickened a little, changing the angle just a bit. Not quite frantic or desperate, because she didn't think either one of them were feeling that right now, but intense enough.

[has_2ls]

No, it wasn't frantic or desperate. Mostly lazy, if he was honest, and Jack arched his hips up finally, her name on his lips as he came. It was nice to call out her name and have her right there and Jack wouldn't change it for anything in the world.

He smiled at her when it was done.

"You are, without a doubt, the best girlfriend I've ever had. Hands down."

[gate_expert]

"I try," she said, and kissed him softly. She did try, despite what it probably looked like to him; and she wished there weren't so many things complicating this so she could be easy with him the way she wanted to be. And she was well aware that that translated into her being pretty standoffish sometimes and not giving him much to work with... but she was working on it.

[has_2ls]

Jack slid his hand along the back of her neck, dragging her down for a little deeper of a kiss than she'd given him before.

"You succeed. You don't try anything, Carter, and you know that."

[gate_expert]

Well, not always, Sam thought, but she didn't say it. She was too busy kissing him, and enjoying the fact that she felt a little closer to him than she had before and, maybe more importantly, the fact that she wasn't getting anxious about it.

[has_2ls]

Jack slid his hand down to cup her breast as he kissed, pretty damn impressed with his good luck today. He was still tired and close to probably calling it quits to take a nap but for right now, he had his lips on the woman he loved most in the universe and she wasn't bolting on him.

He brushed a thumb lightly against her nipple as he kissed, still delicately toeing their line to see how far he was allowed to go.

[gate_expert]

Sam made a contented sound low in her throat and deepened the kiss, her hand resting at his hip. Her fingers snagged a belt loop and it gave her a little leverage to slide closer. There were a couple possible directions she could see them going from here, and she wasn't sure that they weren't too far for her for right now--why did she have to think about this so much?--and she didn't want this to end with either of them getting too worked up.

"Think you might be able to sleep now?" she asked him, her lips still soft against his mouth.

[has_2ls]

"Yeah," Jack mumbled, capturing her mouth in another soft kiss as he contemplated it. "But I want you to stay with me, Sam. Just until I fall asleep? Then you can go fiddle with anything you want but I just...I want that."