TITLE : Partners in Crime - 06 - Back To Normal
AUTHOR: Blue Topaz
EMAIL: blue-topaz@lycos.com
RATING: PG
CATEGORY: Humor, Romance
SUMMARY: General Hammond is back
PAIRING: Sam/Jack
SPOILERS: none, but it was set in Season 6.
STATUS : Finished
ARCHIVE: SJD yes.
DISCLAIMER: Stargate SG-1 and its characters are the property of MGM, World Gekko Corp and Double Secret productions. No copyright infringement is intended. Please do not post or distribute this story without the author's permission. Copyright by Blue Topaz, 2002
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PART 6: BACK TO NORMAL
It had been a week since
Dr.McKay's trial, six days since the party at the commissary to celebrate
the fact that McKay wouldn't be joining the SGC, five days since Dr. Fraiser
announced that McKay could leave the infirmary, four days since McKenzie
had the most interesting case ever, three days since Dr. McKenzie gave
up on the case, two days since the SG-1 had to ship McKay back to Moscow
accompanied by a nurse (the Russian wanted their gate-expert back and was
willing to pay the cost), one day since Hammond was back to the SGC. Long
story short, it was a normal SGC's week.
"Lt. Jennings, did something
happen on the 3rd and 4th of November?" The General asked his personal
aide. He was looking at the signing sheet, the one that all SGC's personnel
had to sign every time they passed the check point. Now, apparently the
paper showed that most of his men were at the base on those days, even
when most of them were on their downtime.
Lt. Brian Jennings was
informing the General with all the events for the past 9 days (the flu
was quite bad), he was quite enjoying his job because the General was such
a great man to work with, until the General popped out the question. The
trial was very entertaining, despite the fact that only the SG-1 knew what
really happened, but it was still fun to watch yellow McKay. And McKay
in McKenzie's office, also the way McKay lost his dignity, so was when
McKay suddenly developing a claustrophobia, and when McKay...
"Lt. Jennings." Hammond
called his aide once more, he was concerned, Lt. Jennings is a good officer,
and he was rarely zoned out like that.
Jennings snapped out
from his daydream, "Ah, yes Sir. The 3rd and the 4th of November..." Jennings
pretended to searched for something from a pile of Colonel O'Neill's reports,
" the 3rd was the day Major Carter came back from visiting the Tok'ra and
the 4th was..." he knew what happened on the 4th, but to maintain his professionalism,
he once again flicking through the paper, " Dr. McKay's recruitment test
day." Jennings then closed the reports and put it back on the table and
took another file, "Now, Sir. SG-11 found some unusual mineral in P75 T6G
and Major Carter..."
"Wait, did I hear it
right? Dr. McKay had a recruitment test?" The General is a General for
a reason, he could smell a fish when there was a fish. And something was
very fishy here.
Lt. Jennings shifted
uncomfortably, he had a big responsibility to make the General 'unaware'
about the trial, "Yes, Sir."
So much for making him
'unaware' there.
"Where's the report
about that?"
Jennings sighed under
his breath, he took a file from another pile of files, "Here it is, General."
He handed Hammond the file.
Hammond took it and
was reading through it when the phone on his desk ringing. He picked up
the phone.
"This is Hammond."
Lt. Jennings tried to
listen to the conversation.
"Ah, Colonel Chekov,
how are you?"
Whops, the Russian.
"Is that true?"
"How is Dr. McKay now?"
Uh oh. Seemed like McKay
hadn't recovered from the whole thing.
"I see."
"Don't worry, Colonel.
I promise you I'll take a look at this matter."
"Yes, Colonel."
"I'll see you."
General Hammond put
the phone down.
"Jennings, tell Colonel
O'Neill and Major Carter that I want to see them now. We'll resume this
later on."
The General could feel
a big headache coming.
"Yes, Sir."
Lt. Jennings was grateful,
he wouldn't want to be at the end of all the General's questions about
McKay. He quickly got out from the General office and went to find the
Colonel and the Major.
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The Colonel and the
Major were standing in front of Hammond's office now, she looked tense
while he was ... untroubled. Lt. Jennings had told them that the General
want to talk about their 'little fun' last week.
"Relax Carter." He said
to her before he knocked at the door. She glared at him accusingly.
"Come in." The General
called.
"We didn't actually
break the rule, don't worry." He opened the door and stepped inside. He
was right, they didn't break any rule, but it was so close, too close in
fact. She shook her head and followed him, at least she was not alone.
"You're looking for
us, General?" the Colonel asked.
"Yes, Colonel, Major,
please take a seat."
After they were seated,
the General gave them a stern look.
"I've just been on the
phone with a certain Russian General."
"Yes?" the Colonel played
innocent.
"They voiced their concern
about the Doctor's condition after he came back from Colorado Springs."
"What about it?"
"Don't play dumb, Colonel.
I know what you were doing. McKay is a brilliant scientist, if the test
was not conducted under SG-1 supervision, he would be joining us right
now." Hammond was not a stranger when dealing with Colonel O'Neill.
"Well, Sir. He just
has to live with the fact that he could not." The Colonel was smiling.
"Major, do you want
to say something?" Hammond turned to the Major.
"No Sir. He failed the
test and there's nothing I can do about it." She was well trained by the
Colonel.
"I see." The General
conceded, besides he didn't like McKay either. If the Russian wanted to
continue the matter, there was no evidence anyway, he could just hand them
the security camera tape. From what he heard, McKay was more shaken mentally
than physically.
"Anything else, Sir?"
"I'm going to overlook
this once, Colonel. But next time you're going to do anything this again,
please give me a warning first."
"Will do, General."
The Colonel knew the General well; he was only doing his job by questioning
them.
"Okay. You're dismissed.
I believe I have lots of paperwork to read."
"Yes, Sir." The two
officers then left the room, leaving the General alone in his office.
After the door was closed
and they were outside, the Colonel looked at his Major.
"Hey, want to celebrate?"
he asked.
"Celebrate what?" She
was confused.
"The fact that McKay
won't be joining us."
"We did have the party,
Sir." They walked side by side down the corridor.
"Well, yeah. But that
was a communal party. I'm talking about a private party."
"Private, Sir? How private?"
"Oh, let's see. I'm
thinking about 'Ligna', the new Italian restaurant. There's me obviously,
and then you, if you want to join the party. And ... that's it."
"Just you and me?" she
was interested, but then again, there was always something between them.
"Yeah, me and you. What
do you say?" he was trying to make it sound casual.
If she could get away
with her contribution in McKay's trial maybe she could get away with this
one as well. The Colonel had shown her that there were things that worth
taking risks for, "I'd love to."
"Great, I'll see you
at 19.00 topside?"
"See you there."
"Bye."
And then they were separated
to their own destination. Unknown to them, Lt. Keller, the base's grapevine
queen was walking behind them and had been listening to their conversation.
Private party, huh? Her brain worked quickly, maybe she could ask Sgt.
Ford to put bugs on every table at 'Ligna', and she was not taking any
chances now. Experience had shown that you could not be too careful when
dealing with SG-1. She quickly located one of the base's phones. She picked
up the phone and dialled some numbers.
"Guys, we got another
major situation."
<Finished>
AN: Thanks for Minda who beta-read the whole story for me, and for all of you who had send me your reviews and feedback. Keep it coming ... :)