"Military Bravado vs Teen Spunk" by Aftyn Victoria

Title: Military Bravado Vs. Teen Spunk

Author: Aftyn Victoria and a bit of help from my friend G-Dawg (AKA, Babette)

Status: Complete

Category: I really have no idea.

Spoilers: None

Season/Sequel info: None

Rating: PG *(A bit of minor swearing… Would that make it PG-13?)

Content Warnings: Minor swearing

Summary: Answer to High school challenge. Sam and Jack have to meet in HS.

Disclaimer: Stargate Sg-1 and its characters are the property of Stargate (II) Productions, Showtime/Viacom, MGM/UA, Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Productions. This story is for amusement only and I didn’t get any money for it. No copyright infringement is intended. The original characters, situations, and story are the property of the author.

Feedback: Yeah... That's just a dumb question... Of course I want feed back!

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Samantha Carter slammed her locker door shut, then turned to Lucifer Tobardack who was patiently waiting for her to put her books away. Before she was able to greet him, Celine Davis clamped her hands down on Sam’s shoulders. The bewildered teenager turned to face her best friend who was smiling devilishly. Celine directed Sam’s attention to the Airman walking down the crowded hallway.

"Man, that guy has one fine ass!"

"Celine!" Sam astonished that her friend had said such a comment aloud. Although, Celine had always been the ‘boy-crazy’ one out of the group. Lucifer was watching his friends with an amused expression. He was a senior, while they were Juniors in the Aviano American High School. Sam had only recently transferred in with her father to the Air Base in Italy. She had a brother, but he was in the USA, going to college. Celine and Lucifer were both expecting to move soon, since they had both been there for over two years. Celine was usually the one that would make the odd comments about the latest heart throbs physique, while Sam would be discussing the most recent physics lesson with him.

"What? I’m only stating the obvious!"

"You know why he’s here, don’t you?" Lucifer had experienced the pep talk his previous year; it was a standard Junior tradition. The Air Force would send a low ranking Airman out to the school to urge the students to ‘make the most of their futures’.

"Yeah, he’s here to talk to us about joining the military, or something." Celine’s voice was laced with disgust; she hated the military and she hated the fact that her mother was in it. "At least it gets us out of Calculus." Celine was barely able to finish her sentence when the warning bell sounded and the students began to file towards their classes. Celine drug Sam by her arm down the hallway toward the auditorium, all the while having a one-sided conversation about the Airman’s posterior and abs.

Lieutenant Jack O’Neill was seated on a metal stool that was placed in front of several rows of tiered seats. High School students were quickly filling the room. Many of the boys were wearing exceedingly baggy jeans and oversized sweatshirts. Some of the girl’s were dressed similarly. The only difference being the low cut, skin tight shirts they wore instead. Why were they allowed to wear such sloppy apparel? Although, he wasn’t much better when he went to high school.

Then he noticed a girl with light blonde hair and pale, flawless skin. Her hair hung straight, and fell just below her shoulders. Her large eyes were striking; deep blue pools that one could get lost in quite easily. She was dressed in a green hooded sweatshirt that had a picture of a dragon on the back. Under the sweatshirt, she had on a plain yellow tee-shirt; she wore a pair of flare legged pants that showed off her curves quite nicely in Jack’s opinion.

Jack realized he had been staring when the girl glared at him. She obviously didn’t appreciate being ogled. Her friend giggled and leaned in to whisper something. No doubt about the attention she was getting from him. The two girls took a seat in the front row, next to a few boys who were shamelessly flirting with the blonde. He figured she was the girl all of the guys wanted.

"Okay, Juniors! Settle down!" The school’s vice principal stood in front of Jack and addressed the group of misbehaving students. They obviously felt that the assembly was only good for getting out of class; Jack would have felt the same way. "We have a member of the United States Air Force here today. He’s going to speak to you about the benefits of joining the U.S. military."

"Go shove it up your anal crevasse, retard!" It had been one of the boys sitting next to the blonde who had had the nerve to shout at the principal. The remark elicited roaring laughter from the other students and a smile from Jack.

"That’s it Luke! You’ve got detention after school, in my office!" The kid scowled at the principal, then leaned back in his seat and received praise from all of his friends and the two girls. "If no one else has any further *comments*, we’ll proceed." He paused, waiting to see if anyone would dare to speak. "Good. Lieutenant O’Neill, if you’ll please take over." The older man then walked down the aisle towards the door and left the students in Jack’s care.

Jack stood up and took a few steps toward the group of teenagers. He continued to tell the students about basic training, the requirements and rewards of joining the Air Force and military in general. Most pretended to listen politely, but Jack knew they were probably daydreaming. It didn’t really bother him, since he wasn’t listening either, he had the speech memorized perfectly. Besides, none of these pansies would probably join. He was about to ask if anyone had any questions, when he noticed that the blonde was giggling at something one of the boys had whispered in her ear.

"Blonde in the green sweatshirt, do you have something you and your boyfriend want to add?" The girl glowered at Jack. Instead of the girl answering, one of the boys decided they needed to add something to the conversation.

"Yeah, I’ve got something to add, why don’t you shove all this military crap up your ass, where it belongs!" The blonde girl’s eyes opened wide and she whispered the boy’s name in admonishment, but he wasn’t finished. "Why don’t you put that in your pipe and smoke it!" The boy reminded Jack of himself at that age, only a little bolder. The girl was looking horrified; evidently worried about how the lieutenant was going to react.

"Is that what you wanted to say, miss?"

"The name’s Sam and I was raised a little better than Luke was. My father would kill me if he found out I ever said that… Especially to an Airman." Jack nodded, but then he realized that the girl wasn’t finished. "I would’ve said that this little *pep talk* is a sorry excuse to get out of Calculus." The girl’s expression was arrogant and Jack decided that he was going to wipe that egotistical look off of her face.

"So, I suppose you’re the popularity queen or something, huh?"

"No, not really. I do however, have the highest GPA."

"So, you’re one of those geeks that spend all their time reading encyclopedias and junk?"

"No, actually I enjoy reading books like ‘What is life?’ by Erwin Schrodinger, or ‘On the Origin of the Species’ by Charles Darwin."

"So you spend all your time reading about how we evolved from Apes!"

"No! I'll have you know I play volley ball, soccer and I run track. I’m the vice president of the student council, I’m in JROTC and French club!" She paused taking a breath, then continued. "Contrary to popular belief, Darwin’s theory didn’t only consist of the *ape thing*. But Why am I even wasting my time trying to explain this to you… I know things that you have no hope at understanding! So why don’t you take your military bravado and shove it!" Jack could almost hear the chins hitting the floor. Obviously, Sam was not normally a back talker. The look she was giving Jack, would have killed a lesser man.

"Are you one of those Air Force brats that resents the military because it takes your daddy away all the time?"

"I’ll have you know that my father is colonel Jacob Carter and I like the Air Force just fine! What I don’t like are the flippant pigs like yourself that give the military a bad name!"

"Samantha Carter! You’ll be joining Luke after school!" The principal had just entered the auditorium and only caught the last part of the conversation.

After the assembly was finally over, Sam and Celine had convened at Celine’s locker while she pulled her physics book from the top shelf. Sam still wore an infuriated expression, the conversation she had had with the Airman was running through her mind.

"I can’t believe you said that to him, you wasted your spotless record on a military speaker!"

"The smart-ass deserved it!"

"So I’m not only a flippant pig, but I’m also a smart-ass?!" Sam turned around to face the lieutenant who was standing behind her.

"Yes, as a matter of fact! You are!" The man threw his hands up in the air and mocked fright.

"I surrender, throw down your weapons!" Celine laughed flirtatiously at the lieutenant’s joke. "I just wanted to say I didn’t mean to get you in trouble in there."

"Is that an apology? An actual apology coming from a lieutenant in the Air Force! Celine find a camera, we’ll be rich if we catch this on tape! It’s an apology from a flyboy!" Sam’s voice was flooded with sarcasm.

"Yeah, I guess it is. Just don’t tell my superiors, they’ll think I’m going soft or something." Sam wasn’t about to let her defenses down. She remained stoic and stared at the man, waiting for him to get to his point. "So if you’re family is military, I’ll probably see you around the base sometime."

"Probably." The word came out harsher than Sam had originally intended, but she wasn’t about to apologize. The warning bell rang, and Celine motioned for Sam to finish the conversation. "See you around, smart-ass." With that, Sam turned around and followed her friend down the hallway; allowing Jack a good look at her ‘back pockets’.

The End

*~*Okay, so it’s not that great… but my friend and I had been drinking soda with caffeine, eating a lot of junk food and it was late, late at night. Thus we were in really weird moods. She doesn’t actually watch SG, but she knows what HS life is like. (She actually went to school with someone as bold as Luke.) Feedback would be greatly appreciated… Greatly, greatly, profusely, abundantly, extremely, intensely, severely appreciated. *~*