"Just One Look" By Siobhan Gormley

Title: Just One Look

Rating: PG

Classification: missing scene

Spoilers: "Out of Mind", "Tin Man"

Feedback: Love it, as long as it's not pointless flames.

Summary: Jack makes a discovery after finding Sam.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but this story. Everything else belongs to Gekko, Double Secret, and MGM. I intend no infringement in writing this and I make no money off of it either.

Author's note: This is my answer to the challenge put out on the SAMANDJACK list that asked writers to come up with a story where Jack finds out where Sam's mole is (as was mentioned in "Tin Man").

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['Trade clothes with that guy'. Real brilliant O'Neill considering she's wearing nothing but a sheet,] Jack chastised himself as he walked over to the door to keep watch. [You just had to look, didn't you. Couldn't keep your eyes on her face like a good soldier, could you.]

He had just found Sam and knocked out her guard. He had been happy to see her, and she him. O'Neill was eager though to get going and find the others. He had urged her to get moving, but, as usual, had forgotten one little thing about her. Sam was a she, and that had been made painfully obvious when she had sat up, holding the sheet to her chest. Jack had tried not to look at her bare skin, but there was just so much of it there right before him, and he had given in. Sam had seen him looking, but fortunately, hadn't commented about his indiscretion. She had actually grinned cheekily at him before he had turned away from her.

And now he stood at the door playing sentry as Sam put on the other man's clothes. [A much safer place to be,] he thought. [No more looking where I shouldn't, because one was certainly more than I should have had, especially considering our positions.]

After a minute Jack thought he heard a noise, so, without thinking, he turned to tell Sam that they should either hide or get going. As he faced the inside of the room, his words and all else was forgotten as he was given yet another view of Sam's naked back, but this time he saw much more than before. She was leaning over the guard, removing his clothes. Jack couldn't help but allow his gaze to travel down her bare back to her well rounded behind, following her long legs. He returned to her thighs and lingered as she stretched across the man, her legs spreading open slightly. He caught sight of a mark of some sort on her right inner thigh. A mole? O'Neill grinned as a remembrance of a past mission returned to him, then he closed his eyes and winced as the device implanted in his temple began working.

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"... We are identical, right down to the mole on our..." Sam's clone started.

"Hey, hey, shut up," Sam had interjected, stopping the other woman from finishing, and peaking Jack's interest briefly before he had decided to go after his clone. He could find out about that at another time.

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[And now it seems that time has come,] he thought, returning to the present.

"Colonel?" Jack opened his eyes to see the worried, yet curious, expression on Sam's face. She had put the guard's shirt and pants on and was now standing in front of him, holding the jacket in her hand.

"We'd better get going. Who knows how long until someone finds out I'm gone," he told her, avoiding her questioning gaze. Sam seemed like she was going to say something, but then decided otherwise as she simply nodded in agreement, following O'Neill out as they left to find Daniel and Teal'c.

The End

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