TITLE: Heavenly Smiles

AUTHOR: Divine Joker

EMAIL: souls_darkangel@yahoo.com

RATING: G

SPOILERS: No eps… Third in the "Wordsworth Says…" series. Previous stories ("Strange Fits" and "Character of the Happy Warrior") can be found on list or at my site.

SUMMARY: Sam and Jack's news is broken to the group.

ARCHIVE: SJD, my site.

DISCLAIMER: Psha. If they were mine, they'd be doing this on national television. Nope, MGM and all those other one's lucky enough to own a piece.

A/N: Any respectable author knows when to cave to the masses. This is the second time in as many weeks. Pressure does wonderful things for the muses. Here you go.

DEDICATION: To Venom, to bring a smile to you on a day that might not be so sunny. Love you hun, and wish that I didn't live half a world away.

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What heavenly smiles! O Lady mine,
Through my very heart they shine;
And, if my brow gives back their light,
Do thou look gladly on the sight;
As the clear Moon with modest pride
Beholds her own bright beams
Reflected from the mountain's side
And from the headlong streams.
~~ Poem 18 from The Brothers, William Wordsworth (1800's)

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It really wasn't all the different from any other mission that they had conducted in the last seven years. They were lucky in rotation, that was all. It wasn't as if they had chosen the cushy, `explore- the-terrain' mission because it was their first mission as a… *gasp*… couple.

A couple. That statement was almost a farce. They hadn't even kissed. They barely held hands. In fact, the only difference in their situation was that they had both acknowledged the desire to make it go further. Nothing that they did was different from two days ago. They bantered; he ordered, she followed; he made lame-ass jokes and she smiled.

Sam couldn't help the grin that was cracking her stoically straight face.

Why the hell did it make her feel so good then?

Her ears perked at the leaves crunching under her feet and the small birds that twittered frantically in the trees with their passing. She found herself highly focused on everything around her: the smell of the pines and moss, the brush of the breeze, the sound of companionable voices from her three other team mates and the feel of her own freedom.

"Sam?"

Daniel's voice brought her back to the planet, her eyes drifting from looking at the trees to his questioning gaze.

"You okay?"

Sam paused, looking up again at the darkening sky and then back to her friend. "You know, Daniel, it's funny you should ask that."

"Yeah, Daniel, funny."

Sam met the Colonel's amused gaze and cocked her head to the side, her mouth tipping in a lopsided smile. He held her gaze for a moment longer and then moved passed them, motioning Teal'c to join him in looking for a spot for the night like he had mentioned some time ago.

Sam turned back to Daniel, tugging on his elbow to get him to move along with her.

"I'm good, Daniel."

His brow furrowed and he almost stumbled on a root, reaching out to Sam's shoulder to steady himself before he spoke. "Cause you're awfully quiet. I was wondering if you and Jack had had a fight… or something." He added swiftly, apparently aware that he had just passed some invisible line in the untouchable Sam and Jack relationship.

Her mouth snapped shut and the turned startled eyes to the archaeologist.

"A fight?" A bubble of laughter threatened to escape but she corralled it, turning her eyes back to the path before them. "No, not a fight."

Suddenly, the irresistible urge to play with the gullible man overwhelmed her and Sam closed her mouth. She knew without a doubt that his curiosity would sooner get the best of his conscience and he would begin prodding her to tell him what it was that was keeping her silent.

Both the Colonel and herself had discussed this event in detail. They didn't know if they should tell Teal'c and Daniel, but in the end they decided that if they should ask they wouldn't lie to their best friends. So here was the perfect opportunity to drag Daniel into a conversation that in the end would make him decidedly uncomfortable, just through it's nature.

"But something?" He egged, following doggedly in her footsteps and out into the open clearing. "Come on, Sam. If it wasn't a fight what…" his voice trailed off as if some great epiphany had just struck. He pursed his lips and looked at her suspiciously. Then, much to Sam's amusement his jaw literally dropped. "No!"

Sam just smiled haughtily and sauntered over to talk with the Colonel who was pulling his tent from his pack.

Daniel stood alone in the middle of the clearing, hands hanging limply at his sides.

"Samantha Carter!"

She sighed in resignation, her eyes touching with the Colonel's briefly before she turned once more to the lone figure still standing twenty feet away.

"Daniel Jackson?" The urge to play with his enthusiasm was more than she could bear, and the light-heartedness of the last couple of hours was only adding to her playfulness. She wondered if she would soon have her smile permanently plastered to her face.

Not that that would be an overly BAD thing, seeing as the Colonel seemed to be in a much better mood than normal.

Daniel's face furrowed in frustration. His voice carried, kept within the grassy area by the surrounding wall of trees, something Sam wished she had thought of by the end of Daniel's next sentence.

"You and Jack slept together?" His voice almost cracked on the last two words, but his discomfort at voicing his thoughts was quickly overridden by the plain embarrassment that she felt at his assumption.

This time it was her mouth that fell open.

A soft touch to her chin snapped it shut and she turned to look into the laughing eyes of her superior officer. Slowly a grin cracked his face and she huffed in amusement. At her or at the reality of Daniel's statement, she didn't know, but the visual of his genuine amusement was enough to make her not care.

"Why, Danny-boy, how did you guess?"

Her heart thudded mercilessly in her chest at his statement, until she realized that they had indeed slept together, if not in the way that Daniel was suggesting. Her head fell forward in resignation, her emotions in turmoil until the smile that threatened overwhelmed the rest and burst out onto her face. She looked up into the Colonel's face.

She was smiling way too much over this entire situation.

Sam blinked slowly and turned to the stunned man. She cleared her throat and shot the man beside her a warning glance before moving over to Daniel's side. "We didn't sleep together *sleep together*, Daniel. We just had a talk a couple of days ago…" she shrugged. She knew that Daniel would understand what she was saying almost better than the Colonel would.

Daniel's mouth snapped shut and his eyes flickered between the two officers. Sam knew that he was reading them, looking for the differences and sighed again.

"Daniel…"

It wasn't until it was out that Sam realized that it was a pitiful whine. She had known that as soon as people knew that there was really a change in the status quo, they would immediately go to looking for the differences in command structure, the favouritism and the unfair treatment.

He shook his head to apparently clear it. "Sam." He blinked. "Holy crap, but it… it looks good on you."

A hot flush rushed into her cheeks and Sam ducked her head, avoiding his scrutinizing gaze. Her fingers struck up and irritated staccato on the butt of her P-90 as she looked to the drying grass at her feet.

Leave it to Daniel to make some completely unexpected remark and throw her entire assessment of the situation for a loop.

Finally, she squashed her embarrassment and flashed her friend a grateful smile.

A deep rumble of approval sounded from behind the Colonel and they both turned to see Teal'c, the silent observer with a tent hanging from his furled fingers.

"Indeed, Major Carter. It appears that this is definitely a change for the better." He tipped his head to the side in his typical respectful way and Jack turned a little redder at the acceptance of their relationship.

"So," he cleared his throat and clapped his hand to his thigh, breaking the surrounding silence. "How're the sleeping arrangements working?" With a final wink in her direction, he headed over to help Teal'c with his tent.

And as she watched him work with the big Jaffa, her mouth moved to respond to the smile that was lurking on his own features.

Yeah, she hoped that this smile was permanent.

~~FIN~~

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