RATING: PG SIZE: 69k SERIES: No GENRE: Gen PAIRING: n/a CATEGORY 1: Angst CATEGORY 2: Humor CATEGORY 3: Romance WARNINGS: Language SPOILERS: Ascension, Children of the Gods, First Commandment, The Devil You Know, Holiday, Legacy, Maternal Instinct, The Light, Divide and Conquer, Entity URL: This story is a tale of "the morning after the night before" and is told from the point of view of a very hung over Sam Carter. As she lies in bed, she recalls exactly what happened at a very jolly going away party for a member of the SGC. I liked how the story tackled Sam in a social situation. It mentions her desire to put "Major Carter" away for a while and let "Samantha" come out and play. This is something we see very rarely on the show: Sam outside the SGC, and acting like a "real" person. Of course, this  is also a problem with the story as "Minor Indiscretions" might just take her too far out of character. The Sam in this story acts with a sense of abandonment that I just can't see as typical of canon Sam. The story is written in an omniscient style that hops from the present,  to flashback, to inner thoughts, with little warning to the reader. Several times I found myself going back and re-reading the text, to find out exactly where the action was taking place. The readability could also have been helped by a run through the spell-checker and a quick proof-read. The story is written in British English, and while that isn't really a problem, several misspellings and the swapping of  sound alike words does tend to jar the reader out of the story:   "Forth bottle of wine"; "Airforce"; and "Goaul'd", for example. If a  misspelling is deliberate, such as slurring a character's speech to suggest intoxication, I have no problem with it. However, this doesn't seem to be the case here. The author sets up a situation where the unresolved sexual tension between O'Neill and Carter has a chance to take effect and become the story, yet that chance is never explored. When I reached the end, I was left with a feeling that there could have been so much more. It was like buying a chocolate bunny only to discover that it was hollow and lacking substance. Even though the story is labeled "Sam & Jack", there is very little interaction between these two characters, and I found the ending rather unsatisfactory. It feels more like a set up for another fic, or a series, rather than a stand-alone story in its own right.