Characters: Jack O’Neill, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, Teal’c
Pairing: Sam/Jack UST
ESRB Rating: Everyone 15+
Themes: Classic Team, UST

Written for LiveJournal’s Comment_Fic Community. Based on kirsty841’s prompt, ‘getting caught in the rain’.

Written: February 25th, 2009

They’re already walking back to the gate when the rain catches them out. Teal’c takes it stoicly, the water sluicing off his bald pate to run down into the collar of his jacket. Daniel just hunches his shoulders further, already grumpy at having to leave his precious ruins earlier then he wanted.

Not that any amount of time would have been enough, Jack muses.

Carter is point, and Jack watches her sunny-bright hair slowly dissolve into a wet honey colour as it molds itself to her head. He knows she’s got a hat in her pack somewhere, but like himself, she’s decided to skip it. So instead it curls against her neck, little tendrils that catch against her ears and make Jack want to brush them behind.

When they get to the gate, Daniel takes the DHD and starts to punch in Earth. Carter is readying the GDO and Jack has the chance to catch her in profile.

It’s really coming down now, the chill in the air making her cheeks pink and lips shiny. Water is dripping from her long eyelashes and Jack can’t stop himself from wondering what it would be like to kiss them away.

She must feel the attention because she turns to catch him watching her. There’s a quick moment where Jack feels caught and is startled by the leap his heart makes. He tries to smile at her laconically, but she knows. She always knows, even when they’re both denying it. Her own return smile is brilliant, that upturn at the corner of her mouth she saves just for him.

The moment hangs between them and Jack wants to take her in his arms and kiss her, right here on an alien world in an alien rain. Screw the regulations, screw the mission. Screw it all. His fingers actually twitch in their fingerless gloves as the idea flashes itself across his mind.

Maybe she sees that and that’s why she looks away, tapping out the IDC that tells Stargate Command they’re friend and not foe. When she looks back, Carter’s smile is more demure and her blue eyes are bright with the unspoken.

Jack clears his throat. She’s right, of course, even if she hasn’t said a word. She’s always right.

Jack lets the moment pass reluctantly.

“C’mon,” he says, looping an arm around Daniel’s shoulder to escort the man up the gate’s step.

The four of them pass through the event horizon.

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