Should I Stay Or Should I Go? [Sam; TR]

[has_2ls]

Good sex. Best sex of his life. Really great sex. Only twice since that first time, counting this time, but Jack wasn't really counting. Sometimes, Sam even slept over if they hadn't had sex and oddly that just made him happier. But she didn't stay every night and she didn't grant him access to her hut every night either and that was...while not a problem, not ideal. Jack would prefer to have 24/7 access to Carter.

Probably because he was a sap and he'd never really been wired to get up and leave after sex but he tried not to hold it against her. She'd taken some big steps, after all, and while the initial leap had been big for him it'd been easy to wait in the middle while she came to him.

Once he'd caught his breath he rolled over a little, lightly tracing a hand down the curve of her waist.

"Staying tonight?"

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[has_2ls]

Jack carefully peeled her fingers off the sheet, kissing each one, before pushing it down around her hips.

"Now. You're beautiful, Samantha Carter, and I'm a lucky man."

[gate_expert]

"You're such an exaggerator," Sam said, blushing, but she didn't grab at the sheet again, just letting him look. She felt a little self-conscious, with Jack just looking at her like that, but slightly smug, too, that she could get his attention.

[has_2ls]

"Nope. Just the truth," Jack said softly, tugging the sheet back up when he was done looking. "I just have a way with words."

[gate_expert]

"Mmhmm." She dragged her toe lazily along his leg. "And here you tried to tell us all this time you weren't a man of words, that Daniel was the one that should do all the talking."

[has_2ls]

"Well, he's got a hell of a lot more of them than I do," Jack said, shrugging. "But I can get inspired sometimes. When it counts, anyway, and you always count."

[gate_expert]

Sam would have said aww, but it sounded a little sappy, so she settled for snuggling against him instead. "I love you, you know," she said, not that she hadn't said it a few hundred times by now, but it was something worth repeating.

[has_2ls]

"I know. You've always been a smart woman," Jack said cockily, pressing a kiss against her temple. "I love you, too."

[gate_expert]

"Don't get cocky," she warned him, laughing against his mouth. "I'll put my clothes back on." It was an idle threat and she was sure he knew it.

[has_2ls]

"Not a chance," Jack said easily, nuzzling against her neck.

[gate_expert]

"Try it and see if I don't," Sam replied, and stuck her tongue out at him. "I can be up and dressed in thirty seconds, watch and see."

[has_2ls]

"Too comfortable," Jack argued. "I don't think you will. Besides, you like being in here with me even when I'm being an ass, right?"

[gate_expert]

"Yes, I do," she said, with a long-suffering sigh. "I like it a lot."

[has_2ls]

"Good thing I'm usually charming," Jack murmured, catching her lips in a kiss. "Right? Charming Jack O'Neill?"

[gate_expert]

Sam just laughed and kissed him back. "Yes, you're charming when you want to be," she allowed, sliding her hands down his back. God, if he kept this up he was going to get her going again, and it was late. "You're incorrigible."

[has_2ls]

"So, Jane's having a ball," Jack said, twirling a strand of her hair around his finger idly. "And I was wondering if maybe you wanted to go with me? Get dolled up and be a couple?"

[gate_expert]

Sam had seen the note on the bulletin board, but hadn't said anything to Jack; she was waiting to see if he'd even be interested in going (though she suspected he might, since it was Jane's party) and if he'd ask her. "A ball?" she said, the corner of her mouth turning up in a smile. "Will you dance?" she teased. "Or will you stand by the drink table and make faces at everyone?"

[has_2ls]

"I've got a date, of course I'll dance," Jack scoffed. "Sheesh, Carter. Give me some credit."

He gave her his best puppy dog eyes. "I mean, I'll have a date if you wanna go with me."

[gate_expert]

"If you'll dance, I'll go with you," she promised. "As your date and everything. I'll even dress up." Not that any of that was a stretch for her.

[has_2ls]

"Then we've got a date to the dance," Jack said, grinning. He poked her shoulder a little. "Want me to come over early and meet your dad?"

[gate_expert]

She poked him back, her smile softening slightly. "I think he would have approved of you, you know," she told him. "Even when I was engaged... he liked Pete all right, but he kept asking me if marrying him was really what I wanted, if I was really happy, and right up until he died he kept reminding me that I could still have everything I wanted, if I just didn't let rules stand in my way."

[has_2ls]

"Your dad's a smart man," Jack said fondly. "Loved him every time I met him, though I think he thinks I'm too much of an ass to be an Air Force officer."

[gate_expert]

"He was an ass, himself, before Selmak came along," Sam said. "Not so much when I was very young, but there was a long time there that it was easier to pretend I just didn't have a dad. Selmak softened him up a little, gave me some time with him I didn't think I'd ever have." She laughed a little. "So yes, if you came by to ask him if you could take me to a dance, I think he'd approve."

[has_2ls]

Jack stroked her cheek lightly. "Good, cause I would have snuck you out anyway. You're a hot little ticket, Samantha Carter."

[gate_expert]

"Oh my God," Sam said, laughing. "'Hot little ticket'? Seriously? You've got more little phrases like that where that one came from, don't you?"

[has_2ls]

"You bet," Jack said, leering a little and coming off as goofy rather than sexy. "You are young enough to be my little midlife crisis."

He laughed and slid a hand up her waist. "If we were in Colorado still, I'd take you to Vail and call you my ski bunny. You'd kill me, wouldn't you?"